This is roughly the area the land use is for. Looks to be your typical new subdivision. A healthy chunk of SFHs and a large about of rowhomes and 6 storey wood frame apartments. The most positive thing from the land use is they aren't touching the treed coulee, though it looks like they may have already taken out some trees in the NE corner of the parcel.

  • approximately 589 low density homes that may include suites (R-G, R-Gm);
  • approximately 1408 multi-residential units in grade-oriented, medium profile, and mixed use forms;

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Is there a corridor study or some sort of functional plan that actually describes what 85th Street south of 17th Ave is supposed to look like once it's all done?

The current state - 20+ years of incremental, block-by-block construction of what used to be a rural side road has created one of the more surprisingly dangerous roads I have ever personally witnessed in Calgary.

It seems like there's few traffic controls, no sidewalks for stretches, blind corners all compounded by development fronting onto the road and a shocking high traffic volume of high-speed SUVs (at least at the time of day I was visiting the area). I assume traffic is inordinately high due to cutting through to Springbank Blvd in the lower Springbank Hill and I assume the ring road connection?

It would be good to "complete" the corridor with this latest development - but this whole area is a really a good example where we probably should have done some stronger planning up-front to organize things and strengthen the construction rules so we don't let roads be dangerous and incomplete for decades until development triggers the final build out.

I think the end result is shaping up okay in the area, just the interaction between developments and endless construction coordination is really messy.
 
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It's a very weird situation. They've partially twinned some of it, but I think that section is still just like a side residential road. In guess they won't do the blocks from 19th to 17th until that building is done?

The sketchiest section has a parcel with an approved DP for excavation/grading and another parcel with a land use application. i think it will probably remain a 2 lane road for that stretch, but hopefully this at least means curbs and sidewalk(s)

There are awesome pathways in the area, but several dead ends - I'm pretty sure leaving no easy alternative to riding/walking directly on that stretch of 85th
 
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