Council approves high-rise project for Strathearn

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Edmonton city council gave the go ahead Thursday night to a controversial 1,750-unit housing development in the long-established community of Strathearn, overlooking the River Valley.

* _: t: h; {) s, |3 j, yBy a vote of 12-1, councillors supported the mix of high-rises towers, ranging from 20 to 24 storeys, combined with townhouses and retail space, to be developed on a nine-hectare site.
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" c* W: F" d4 L3 a" PIt will replace a two-storey complex of low-cost apartments that have been in the south-Edmonton community for 60 years.
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Strathearn resident Allan Tchida has fought the high-rise project for three years.
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Residents have fought the project for more than three years, complaining the development will forever change the single-family community.

"There's many reasons why we lived there for such a long time," said Allan Tchida, who has lived in Strathearn since 1980.


# }- K; z2 s) ?. O: a' x"Those reasons are going to be gone once this project reaches its full potential. We'll have to see whether or not we're going to stay," he said.

4 a. x+ q' u1 RJohn Logan, with the neighbouring Bonnie Doon Community League, was also dismayed by the city council vote.

. ~4 P6 {5 q7 A( R7 c, r% DThe developer's vision of the Strathearn project.
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"I am appalled. I think that from the beginning the wishes from the community and of the people most directly affected have been ignored in a way that I've never seen before in the 30 odd years that I've been involved in community affairs," Logan said.

New life to area: developer
The developer insists the project will breathe new life into an aging community, turning it into a modern, mixed-use neighbourhood on the edge of the city's downtown.
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"We feel now we can present the city with a leading-edge design development that integrates within the community, and we can hardly wait to get started," said Guy St. Germaine with the Nearctic Group.

6 M5 o1 S! ^1 e# r+ lEdmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel was among those who voted in favour of the project. He said the developer's promise to help build 400 units of affordable housing was a major factor for him.
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; g' [/ s9 ~* E! Q3 |"We are having a tremendous challenge in meeting the housing needs of people who are moving to this city and if we don't do something about that we will be in trouble," Mandel said.

& ~7 x, Z* d/ x5 `2 }6 RConstruction is expected to start in the summer of 2009, with the full project taking about 10 years to complete, the developer said.

  h( A1 J6 X% ^  r' k; @This is the second major project approved for a mature neighbourhood in Edmonton as many months.
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5 [9 A# ?+ @; |In January, council gave the go-ahead for a high-rise development in the west end community of Glenora, which will see four towers as high as 21 storeys built.

9 k7 }% w* p. U. H) o4 x' p: \( ~It's part of a push by the city to slow urban sprawl by encouraging more development in older areas of the city.

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