Griesbach
First, the City approves the demolition of 500 affordable rental units on federal land. The City's plan is to allow developers to build a mix of new single-family and multi-residential homes mostly for private sale which will result in the neighbourhood’s current residents losing their affordable rental homes. This was followed by the Federal Government's announcement of Edmonton being given $175 million to spur the construction of thousands more homes in the next three years. Of the homes to be built just over one-third, are expected to be “affordable housing,” another city website states without citing a definition for “affordability.”
There are many neighbourhhoods that have windrows like those in Griesbach but will have to contend with them until the spring thaw reduces them to run off. Picking up windrows on all city streets would increase the snow removal budget drastically. Hopefully the Griesbach pilot project will provide an accurate estimate for city planners to ascertain if it may be feasible next winter to pick up windrows in the neighbourhoods where windrows make parking and passing a huge problem.