Why vacant green spaces in your neighbourhood could turn into housing — or not

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Part of the City of Calgary's approved upzoning bylaw passed earlier this week, was a unanimous amendment to review the current zoning on vacant green spaces.Calgary city council approved its new upzoning bylaw earlier this week. It also passed an amendment to look at the current zoning on all parks and green spaces. The City of Calgary's upzoning bylaw passed earlier this week including a provision to review the current zoning on vacant green spaces.

"It takes properties that are currently green space or park space but zoned as residential and ask that administration go back and rezone them properly to their proper land-use district," Wong said when presenting the amendment. " said this is a park, but really it's just been an undeveloped piece of land for 30 years," he said.Calgary city council passes amended rezoning bylaw after longest meeting ever held

"We know things that are permissible in certain land-use districts and so we take it for granted that everybody does."

 

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