2010 Election Candidate Survey
The following questions were submitted and selected by members of the public participating in CivicCamp’s online Candidate Question Survey. Answers received to date are linked below the final list of questions. We’ll continue to update as we receive completed questionaires and as time allows.
- Do you support a long-term lease for Race City as a track and advanced driving facility in Calgary?
- Does the City have a responsibility to play a role in preserving heritage sites? If so, what role?
- What strategies do you have to create more pedestrian and bicycle oriented infrastructure?
- Do you support urban farming, including urban chickens?
- What have you done to address homelessness and urban poverty in Calgary? What will you do?
- Is urban sprawl a problem for Calgary? If so, what have you done? What will you do about it?
- How will you make developers of new subdivisions pay the full, life-cycle costs of their projects?
- Would you extend the city’s recycling plan to include apartment buildings and/or organics?
- What will you do to help the province and city work together on the current SE Ring Road plan?
- Do you support legalization of secondary suites in all existing neighbourhoods?
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4. Do you support urban farming, including urban chickens?
6. Is urban sprawl a problem for Calgary? If so, what have you done? What will you do about it?
7. How will you make developers of new subdivisions pay the full, life-cycle costs of their projects?
These are completely ridiculous questions.
Chickens? Who actually cares?
Urban sprawl? Go to Toronto or a major American city. We don’t have a sprawl problem. With the ring road it takes 20 minutes to go from side to side. Try Vancouver or Toronto or Dallas. 2 hours or more. Please people, we already have some of the smallest lots in North America.
How will you make developers of new subdivisions pay the full,…
How much do you want a new house to cost? Things age and need replacing. Do you want a 50 year guarantee on your neighbourhood? 100 years? How do you cross the street without worrying?
Did you come up with these questions so they would be easy for Latte Lifter ruh Farrell to answer?
Al and Gerry – These questions were generated using an online survey located here: https://civiccamp.uservoice.com/
It has been available to the public for four months and we’ve worked hard to attract questions on a diverse range of subjects.
Al: CivicCamp is a non-partisan organization – members of the public were asked to write, submit and vote on questions to ask candidates in the upcoming Calgary Municipal Election. Neither candidates or incumbents were approached for their views in the development of these questions.
If either of you feel that the questions aren’t reflective of the most important issues, the survey remains open for submissions and voting. As the rankings change, we will change the questions we bring to the aldermanic and mayoral forums.
We would encourage you to vote on issues that are important to you and to spread the word about the survey among your friends and colleagues. We feel this is the one of the most constructive way voters can prepare for the upcoming election.
Okay here is my suggestion for a question.
Do you support building the $25 million dollar Peace Bridge.?
Do You support increasing snow removal on residential streets?
Do you think the city should be spending money building more bike and walking paths?
Do you think the city is doing enough to address traffic congestion issues?
Al – These are important questions, so why don’t you take the next step? You have a couple of options.
The bike & pedestrian path question is on the top ten of the question survey, but it sounds like you’re concerned about the associated cost. So use the comments tool on the question survey to share your concerns about that. Snow removal is buried (no pun intended) – get some friends together and vote it up the list like the Race City guys did. The Peace Bridge and traffic congestion aren’t mentioned, so submit them.
The other option is asking these questions at the forums. The Ward 7 Citizens’ Forum is Thursday, September 23rd at 7:00pm at the Triwood Community Association. You could suggest these questions by writing them on a card and sticking them in the Community Questions box that we have at every event. The key here is the quality and tone – if they’re important to the community and respectful in their wording, they’ll get play.
Peace Bridge isn’t even on the online survey – it would be great if you register and submit it.