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#21 maniac78

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 08:28 AM

inability to envision a way of life different from the car-dependent one popular 50 years ago.


Oh has the car become unpopular in the last 50 years?

#22 Mike K.

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 09:34 AM

Let's stave off the sprawl debate and keep it to its appropriate thread, please :)

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#23 Mike K.

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 09:37 AM

It will have 18,750 homes per square mile, vs. 5,200 in Victoria.


Will is decades away. Besides, what's up with comparing an entire municipality to a single development? I could today point to far denser square miles within the City of Victoria than Westhills will ever be.

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#24 J Douglas

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 09:42 AM

It is amazing how fixed some can become in their thinking. In the scheme of things, the idea of suburbia and complete car dependence is relatively short-lived, perhaps 50 years at the most from its acceptance to the point of significant back peddling. Even Cow Town is now re-thinking urban life and embracing density, the cultural equivalent of bad mouthing God in those parts.

http://www.theglobea...article2292771/

Living arrangements other than what is visible today are possible, and history will no doubt continue its course, plodding for the most part, with the odd surprise thrown in here and there. A surprise for us may take the form of the discovery that conventional oil reserves begin to look plaltry in the face of a new middle class in China and India in the next few years. No doubt then the scramble will be on to mine the Arctic sea bed, liquify coal, or make some other shift that will confirm that energy is not cheap anymore. Or, it may be a set of weather events that shift the idea of global warming from prediction to emergency management. If any of these things do come about, they will have an effect on the price of suburban houses. Of course, they may not, at least not in our lifetimes. But even the folks on Wall Street indulge in hedging their bets. It would be wise for us to do the same, and think about LRT, and plan beyond the standard Langford style sprawl.

#25 Bernard

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 10:26 AM

It will have 18,750 homes per square mile, vs. 5,200 in Victoria.


That number does not seem right, 18,750 home per square mile is 29.3 homes per acre. That is an average of 1490 square feet per house. Given that at least 35% of the land is taken up with roads, parks, schools, etc, this only leaves an average of 970 sq feet per house. This is a lot this is 30 feet by 32.33 feet.

This can only work if it has a lot of condos, it would have to be mainly condos in my opinion. Something seems wrong in that number

#26 Langford Rat

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 01:47 PM

Gotta agree, those numbers just don't add up. Source? At first I was thinking the poster must have meant people per square mile (not homes per) but if it is supposed to mean people, then the Victoria numbers don't seem right either. Maybe 5,200 per squared klik.

#27 Mike K.

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 01:59 PM

Yeah, I thought people per square mile as well. Homes would mean that virtually the entire development is comprised of high rise, high density condos.

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#28 Bernard

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 06:20 PM

According to the Westhills site, the property is 517 acres @ 5000 homes in that area, this is 6189 per square mile. At three people per home, this is 18,568 people per square mile

For comparison, westhills is an area 33% larger than James Bay.

#29 LJ

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 06:34 PM

And what is the population of James Bay?
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#30 phx

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 08:16 PM

lol, maybe my math was a bit off. I blame the metric system.

My point about Westhills being reasonably dense still stands.

#31 phx

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Posted 09 January 2012 - 08:21 PM

And what is the population of James Bay?


10,760 in 2006.

#32 ressen

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Posted 26 February 2012 - 03:37 PM

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#33 D.L.

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Posted 26 February 2012 - 04:03 PM

damn that's a bib pipe

#34 Sparky

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Posted 26 February 2012 - 04:07 PM

damn that's a bib pipe


....and you give G-Man heck for not proof reading :)

#35 D.L.

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Posted 26 February 2012 - 04:40 PM

You are correct my sir, there are no clear shots of bib pipes in that photo set. I must go now and reconsider my earlier observation.

#36 D.L.

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Posted 26 February 2012 - 04:48 PM

love the lookie loos in this one



#37 Mike K.

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Posted 26 February 2012 - 08:35 PM

Thanks for the photos, ressen!

I had no idea that the project was this far in. And what's the story behind that walkway visible in the second photo?

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#38 maniac78

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Posted 27 February 2012 - 07:56 AM

Thanks for the photos, ressen!

I had no idea that the project was this far in. And what's the story behind that walkway visible in the second photo?


It's part of the Ed Nixon trail that goes around langford lake.

#39 Mike K.

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Posted 27 February 2012 - 08:19 AM

Interesting. Thanks.

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#40 Nparker

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Posted 27 February 2012 - 09:24 AM

Farewell nature, hello suburban sprawl. :(

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