'Can Ugly Be Outlawed?'

28 March 2006 - 10:00am

In Calgary, the Planning Commission wants to ban stucco, but a condo developer objects.

"The case in question brings the developer of four proposed East Village condominium towers into direct conflict with the Calgary Planning Commission, which approved the 721-unit project, but not before ordering a few design changes."

"One of the Planning Commissions stipulations is that no stucco be used on the outside of the towers -- and that's the issue that has the condo developer demanding a ruling on whether the city can dictate which materials a builder may use."

Source: Calgary Sun, March 26, 2006
Bookmark and Share
At a much larger economic scale, however, one mustn’t avoid calculating the tremendous and exceptional externalities of automobile dependency.