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Originally Posted by joe498
Chestermere is 5 minutes to NE Stoney Trail which is closer than Legacy in SE Calgary to SE Stoney Trail. I think it is time to annex Chestermere.
If you look at Calgary, the east is by far the least developed. We can't really build farther west due to Tsuu T'ina.
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The east was constrained for a very long time by active sour gas wells. The area is beginning to open up now but the legacy of that barrier to development is a lack of transportation infrastructure compared to other sectors (the west is in a similar place for infrastructure but the constraint there had to do with acreages making large subdivisions complicated). For the east to really develop it would need new infrastructure. An International Ave LRT could really let the area build out and turn Calgary into more of a circle instead of a stretched out, lop sided, oval. It would also help the ever present problem of housing in the west and jobs in the east that has plagued our transportation planning.
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