rejected a revised December proposal<\/a>, Pantazopoulos said at that time he would work with all parties to find a resolution.<\/p>\nThe most recent proposal dropped the number of units down to 35, however, that still wasn\u2019t ideal for residents, who have largely remained steadfast that it should be 19 units, as per the current Springbank Hill Area Structure Plan (ASP). Though, recently, they\u2019d been willing to accept 30 units.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis community has been willing from day one to make compromises. You\u2019ve heard my fellow residents say we didn\u2019t want to go above the ASP, but we were willing to do so. We proposed a 25 per cent increase, we presented a 50 per cent increase, but those requests were not adhered to,\u201d said area resident Sara Austin, who has been leading the advocacy against the development.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s why you\u2019re hearing today such strong opposition. We have tried time and time again to fight, to work with them, to find compromises, and they have been unwilling to make meaningful compromises on the singular issue that is most important, which is density.\u201d<\/p>\n
The developer had also agreed to only include single units and semi-detached homes, eliminating townhomes from the development.<\/p>\n
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Long collaboration: Coun. Pantazopoulos<\/p>\n
Marshall Naruzny, who had, until recently, sat as the planning coordinator on the Springbank Hill Community Association. He said that the ASP had been approved back in 2017, and amendments along the way just continue to pick it apart. It\u2019s something that he, and many others, spent three years working on.<\/p>\n
\u201cA year after, so 2017, 2018 amendments came in; higher, denser, different areas. So it\u2019s like, why did we waste our time?\u201d Naruzny said.<\/p>\n
\u201c(We) Went through three planners till the ASP got created, and then it\u2019s just ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ward 10 Coun. Andre Chabot empathized with the work that had been done by community members over the years. He said this is a substantial change for residents who had put together a different plan less than a decade ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cCommunity associations are being tasked with doing so much work, and the fact that they went through this process recently and took three years, roughly, to do this, and that was only eight and a half years ago, and then expecting them to continue to be gatekeepers on an ongoing basis to make sure that it sort of aligns with the rest of the concepts of the plan, I think, is an unrealistic expectation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Coun. Pantazopoulos, who was chairing the meeting due to a declared conflict of interest by Mayor Jeromy Farkas, faced considerable pressure during the meeting from participants in the public hearing. Many suggested that he\u2019d campaigned at the doors to do things differently from a planning perspective, and that democracy should take hold, and he should represent the will of residents.<\/p>\n
For his part, Pantazopoulos said that there was significant movement by both the community and the developer. He said this collaboration raises the expectations of how development should be done in Calgary and sets the benchmark for future engagement.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe regularly hear from Calgarians they feel unheard and their concerns are not meaningfully addressed,\u201d he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThis project demonstrates the opposite.\u201d<\/p>\n
Coun. Pantazopoulos said he was satisfied that appropriate engagement and compromise had occurred during the past few months. There are still some outstanding issues, such as traffic and mobility infrastructure in the area that need attention, he noted.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe majority of the community\u2019s key concerns have been sufficiently addressed, and I\u2019m confident the remaining matters can be appropriately resolved at the development permit stage,\u201d he said. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI also, and more importantly, commit to remaining actively involved in this file to ensure no critical issues are missed.\u201d<\/p>\n
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