Eye on Calgary Video 4 - Background to Climate Emergency Declaration
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In this episode, we take a look at how many of the plans we are seeing now in regard to the city s climate agenda have actually been in place for quite some time, and we look at some of the evidence there. We also look more in depth at the theme within the climate document entitled Zero Carbon Neighborhoods, and in particular the land use planning under Pathway H. We will also take a quick look at the freedom of information that we learned from the city, as well as taking a brief look at smart technologies that are already in place within the city of Calgary and that have been there for a long time.
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Welcome to part 4 in the series entitled Eye on Calgary. In this video we will take a look at how
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many of the plans we are seeing now in regard to the climate agenda have actually been in place
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for quite some time and we will look at some of the evidence there. We will also look more
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in depth at the theme within the climate document entitled Zero Carbon Neighborhoods
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and in particular the land use planning under pathway H. We will also take a quick look at
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the freedom of information that we learned from the city as well as taking a brief look at some
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of the smart technologies that are already in place within the city of Calgary and that have
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actually been there for quite some time. All right let's begin. And before I jump into some of the
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other things that I want to show you here is that this is not new my friends. When we start to
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take a deep dive there are many many documents such as the the 2020 transportation plan and please
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remember transportation city planning go hand in hand and way back in 2008 they had some directives
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that they wanted to to for land use and mobility and we can see some of these words that we're familiar
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with now complete strengths link land use decisions to transit that all is related to
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our environment in ways to reduce our emissions and again over here talking about parking this came
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from the same document you can read for yourself but basically saying that by providing more parking it
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just encourages vehicle use and it consumes useful land when you have to make a parking lot or a parking
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garage and it's expensive to maintain so let's just solve this problem and because let's just make it
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harder to park because if you put more parking options out there people are just gonna drive more and
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that's not what we want right so it's been around for quite some time and when we talk about complete streets
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well I had this all set up pretty but we'll just bring it all out here for you one was just supposed to
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magically appear after the other complete streets so this is very familiar to me and I'm guessing it is
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to you as well so they talk about complete streets and notice so many changes but notice how
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that streets are made smaller so that we got lots of room for bicycles uh harder to drive down now just one lane
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uh lovely yes they're putting up lots more trees i don't think anybody would complain about that
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and the streets are going pardon me the buildings are going up as you've probably noticed the buildings
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are going up it feels sort of a little tighter more sort of confined and we have all these businesses now
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along the base of many of these apartments slash condo buildings that is by design notice here public
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transport i will show you in the municipal development goal that is the plan to have
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honestly we'll look at the numbers but almost as many people
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people close to that are living in calgary right now to be living within not too far from a transit
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a main transit um area so yeah so this is what they're going for and they were going for a long
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time ago and i think many of you would agree it is here it has arrived so another one that i'll show you
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quickly um again state of the city and again i've highlighted as i went through these savings were due to
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the reduced amount of linear and spatial infrastructure that would be required from a smaller city footprint
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so they do not want to expand the city urban sprawl it's called no we don't want urban sprawl because
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that's bad for the environment we're going to be deg degregate our environment that's not good we need
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instead to stay within the parameters we have and let's just go up or reconvert existing buildings
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so that was in the plans all along and here again more highlighting um oh yes so when it comes to
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this whole bylaw change right long time before this became a big issue accommodating some population
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growth through redevelopment of wide land parcels with single family homes so are you an owner of
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a single family home on a nice piece of land here in calgary well they could turn that into a multi-family
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home like duplexes townhomes and multi-stored buildings and it can help to make it more affordable
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for people to live in established communities it also enables people to find different types of homes in
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the neighborhoods they live in as their needs change well doesn't that sound lovely but it doesn't get
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into all of the things that would make life much more difficult which the people of calgary brought
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forward to the attention of our city council and shaping a more compact urban form is one of the primary
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goals of the municipal development plan and is supported by encouraging density and growth in the
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developed areas activity centers and main streets well isn't that interesting how this was talked about
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in a 2019 document much much before the housing issue became um came to the forefront uh and another little
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screen grab for you and this came from and i showed it here uh transportation mobility use within the city
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talking about a compact city um a good urban design uh sustainability so it's all there all the words
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are there the greening the city it's all there you can pause uh to to read so it's been going on for quite
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some time the development that's happening is based on a global cabals a perspective of what we the people
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should be doing so with that said i'm going to pull up this one ah so again i was going to i wanted to show
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here that some people might say oh well she's just making it up it's not necessarily the case well the odd
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odd odd time it just pops up and it is right there so under program pathway i i just grabbed a screenshot of this
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that um yeah they made it black and white for us right here which was lovely uh developed 20 30 and
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2050 milestones for waste reduction aligned with the united nations sustainable development goals
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on the development of a calgary consumption-based ghg inventory so there it is right in black and white for
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us so with that said i i think i'm going to grab our document again and i want to show you just a couple
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things now that you have um spent a little bit of time getting to know what the goals are understanding
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what the doc or the goals of the sdgs the un's sustainable development goals now you know what the document looks
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like a little bit more i am going to take us to uh let's go here page 40 so on page 40 um again this was part of
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the i'm going to go back up here just to show you it's part of this theme on page 35 the zero carbon
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neighborhoods so there was the theme uh pardon me program pathway f and then that was we shared that
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so within and this is the area that i focused on a lot when i was going to speak to council on
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saying no to the new zoning bylaws and basically i was bringing up to them that
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within your 2050 document it is all there that you were planning this all along
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not because at the time there was a housing crisis it's because uh of you our city you know following
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the global cabal and wanting to go green but within it so you see i've highlighted all uh but i've double
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highlighted our communities will transition to compact mixed use neighborhoods with abundant natural
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infrastructure and where transit and active mode of transportation walking cycling are the preferred
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mobility choice so there you see their mobility shift right or pardon me mode shift trying to get
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people to drive less take public transportation more um land use planning is a key function of
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municipal governments and the city of calgary has significant authority to influence the type and
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quality of the urban form in calgary well isn't that interesting this i believe is a flip isn't it i think
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they've forgotten that they work for us not the other way around and we certainly um do not uh follow uh
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some united nations global cabal um telling us what to do in our own backyards um and again as the
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calgary moves towards a denser urban form so a denser urban form what is that that's a compact city
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right that is essentially a smart city and we'll talk a little bit more about the technology that they
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have been using for quite some time so i just wanted to point out right local area plans that must align
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with the climate strategy it's all there um development develop and implement net zero emissions and
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climate resilient design guidelines for new and established communities so again these guidelines
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being that your house has to be green or you need to retrofit your house uh any new buildings that go
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up have to be done green and with green quote unquote green materials um and we must prioritize transit
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orientated development in all phases of development mitigation adaptation all falls in there again as well
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as well and let me move on to this next one so it's a little slow um incentivize and prioritize energy
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efficient developments in all areas to these land use bylaw rules again the rules through land use bylaw
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update enable increased housing types and support uses in residential areas to facilitate complete
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communities and reduce dependency on private vehicles there it is laid out couldn't be more black and white
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but it's also 41 pages into 42 pages deep into a document not easy to find consider viable options for
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removing and or reducing motor vehicle parking minimums in residential areas to allow for more compact
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development more efficient use of land and encourage alternate modes of transportation so it's all there my friends
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all there their quote unquote green agenda it sounds very very similar to smart compact cities so it's all there
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and that brings me to the end of that area on page 35 that was the start of it um right here the zero carbon neighborhoods
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that is the big the big one there but there's so much more to explore within this document and as you can see
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let's take them out a little while just to get to this point
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so we're getting close to the end here i have a few more things that i want to share with you
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and i'm going to get rid of this and so one of the things that i stumbled across in my research
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and i want you to remember back when i showed you the uh sdgs on the united nations website
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so what i stumbled across and this is um i'm i'm i'm ahead of the game here this is where i got it from
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and the page that is from so if you wanted to search it up so they're using what they call core
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indicators so the city of calgary is using these core indicators in regard to their plans
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for the future of calgary and this means municipal development plan mdp and the calgary transportation
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plan so those two are like tied at the hip so any development that occurs has to go hand in hand
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with the transportation plan and all makes sense once you start to realize that ah this is what
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the united nations goals are this is how they create a more compact city that has less impact
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on the environment so we can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions um and all very much related to things
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like um esg as well for any of you out there which um i probably shouldn't go down that rabbit hole at the
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moment but um let's just take a quick look at this so these are a little bit out of order because
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within the document you know they number that one i think it's two what is it one two
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seven no ten maybe highest number eleven so but they're these these ones here are bunched together
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because they're core community indicators they're saying so it's kind of broke them apart and then
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put them together in this um this chart so notice here everything that they're doing so i'll explain
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just what i know and there's bet you first i'm certain out there that there are people who
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understand this much better than i do but they're urban expansion so they don't want expansion
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and what they were looking for percentage of population growth from 06 accommodated inside
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the balance growth boundary so i'm curious what that is which is their balance growth boundary
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i have a map that we can maybe pull up and and just at least share with you and then you can you
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know kind of make your own um uh thoughts from it so 2018 as they were monitoring the progress their
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target would be 50 percent but how things are trending right now like everything they're seeing and
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studying about what's going on right now by 2039 they're only going to be at 18 percent
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within inside the boundary growth i believe and even by 2076
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only going to be 23 so basically they're not going to make the target at the moment
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i will bring up that map is what i think they're looking at um density so do you remember what i showed
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you that was 11 point um down here like i think 11.8 no so 11.3 was our proportion on the stg goals
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people per hectare so what's our density right so they want to increase the density so um
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um baseline we're kind of where they were in 2018 where they want to be 27 uh people per hectare
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but they're trending right now for 30 so looks like they're on target for that and i think we
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would probably all agree with how dense things have gotten in regard to um the condos going up you know
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those tiny tiny row houses like just fitting people into this as many people as possible
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into the smallest areas i think we could agree that that's definitely going on and then there's more
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here um accessibility to needs residential mix mixed land use um this one i haven't studied a lot but
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they're looking at all of that um i'll just go back to this so urban expansion
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they don't want when i say they i'd say city planners um developers i'm not talking about them
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i'm talking about the the city folk probably administration who you know they follow what
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is happening at things like cop 26 and what the united nations wants um that you know cities are
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a plight on the environment and they're taking up more and more land so a way to stay green is to not
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expand no urban expansion would be what they would want um rodent infrastructure so looks like they're on
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target for that and and this is the ratio and again i'm not up on all of that but i know for a fact
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that the united nations right they want less less roads less less ease of mobility with with um
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internal combustion vehicles right they want evs they want more uh they want to dictate you know
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make people walk more make make people bike more that's okay really to to do that that's a healthy
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thing but when we are following a global entity that is telling us to enforce telling our leaders
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our elected officials to enforce it on the population um interesting here percent of population within 400
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meters of a primary transit network do you know how close 400 meters is so primary transit here would be
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like to a bus or to uh the the train so the their baseline was zero at one time in 2018 14 percent
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um their target what they would like would be like 45 percent of the population uh 60 year target so
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uh if we just run some numbers in 60 years they thought some of the projections are that two there
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be two million two million people living within calgary so if we do 45 percent of two million people
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that's 900 000 people living within 400 meters of some kind of primary transit network
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that's a lot of people isn't it that calgary right now is 1.3 million so 900 000 getting close to a
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million so almost not not the full population of calgary right now under that but living within 400
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meters of a primary transit network on trend for 30 percent how many jobs within that 400 meters
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they would like to have 67 of the jobs within this primary network so i'm just going to pop back here
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train bus and the businesses along the base of the buildings getting people living there people working
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there right close to transit that's the goal so that's the plan there and they are definitely achieving
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it not necessarily a bad thing but when we're taking a direction again from the united nations and then we
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actually have a process supposedly a democratic process where the people have their say whether or not they
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want the housing um rezoning to happen and 80 plus percent people say no and then they still go forward
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with it that is where we have a problem because we're not listening to the people not taking into account
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what the people want that's where we have a problem and again so i won't get into a whole bunch
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but the auto mode split for example how many people are using a percentage uh what's the percentage of
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people that are using the automobile baseline it's gone down a little bit in 2018 and um they would like
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it to be i would suspect on the low end 55 percent people using an automobile and i'm guessing that is an
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internal combustion one there uh on trend for 71 which is in my opinion a good thing uh okay and then up
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here i just put a few of the goals but anything related to transit um anything development of the city
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though that is um for sure um goal 11 stg 11 and let's take one more look here
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um population job balance well interesting i think they've achieved all of it and then more
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um population to job balance so is that good is that bad that i'm not sure of they've achieved that
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and then again seeing that um goods access your goods should be really close right because then
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there's not a lot of greenhouse gas emissions that happen and transporting those goods to where they
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need to be so 1.6 kilometers um the warehousing facility should be within to the primary network
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um so they were like 95 percent to in as a six-year target but on goal for 77 percent so very interesting
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there um i i just thought everyone would find that very interesting uh for the municipal development
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goals indicators oh and i'm sorry i'm not done yet um water urban district energy so district energy i'm not
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as familiar with except i understand that it is something that's underground and you can actually search
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this up and read it that would provide enough energy for surrounding buildings um i'm not quite
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versed on that and i haven't researched this one quite enough um trees trees are never a bad thing
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right in my opinion um that is part of a plan to make uh the cities so you know because trees consume
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carbon dioxide and apparently carbon dioxide is supposed to be so bad but nonetheless trees are great for
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us um i don't have a big problem with trees um i think is actually probably a good thing ah and here
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impervious surfaces the percent of the city area covered by impervious services surfaces so what that means
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is how much of the city is covered by cement or uh would asphalt also fall in that category where the water
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can't go through and it has to run off so anything about water running off in the opinion of uh the green
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movement it's a bad thing because it also affects possible flooding which um we can all agree is a bad
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thing um so it relates back to um the urban expansion right that's bad because then there's more
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impervious surfaces like cement that have to go into place so not necessarily a bad thing either
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i've seen um different types of materials that could be used where you know we could have more
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of the water be absorbed in directly into the ground so there's not so much runoff and so it's not such a
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flooding uh hazard and a concern like that um so when they talk about impervious surfaces
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they want to up you know reduce that and look how much they would like to reduce it by 10 to 20 percent
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and the target what they're on track for is 70 percent because we just keep on trucking right with our
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development but if they have their way it's not going to happen okay so i am now at approximately
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an hour and a half and i'm not quite done i'm almost there i'm almost there um there's a couple things
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that i wanted to share because i do think that it's very very important um maybe before i jump into this
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one last area i i want to show one more thing that i have for you so what i did is it's it's a little
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um it's the right word here um primal is that is that what the word i should use um because it's just
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me making a little shirt on my own actually i'm gonna maybe have to make it a touch smaller just so we
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can see it all see if it'll let me okay so here's my chart it's not fancy but what i did is i put
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down all the sdg goals along the side and then across the top the calgary climate plan and obviously
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i haven't got into the adaptation part very much but you can imagine um maybe there'll be another
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video on that but and what i decided to do is to go through every single theme and then the pathway
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within the theme and if they happen to fall even just one time within the sdg goal then i
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put a little dot there so let's see you can see that that's what i did i'm getting to come up and
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i got to make it a little smaller so here you can see just it's just like to tuck into your back pocket
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um these areas of no poverty zero hunger good health well-being that actually occurred the city has kind of
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got that covered um in actually maybe i'll just go grab it for you do you remember when i showed
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you this one um let me just i'm going to minimize this okay do you remember this if i can get it to come
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up just takes a moment this so some of these others like quality education gender equality those sorts of
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things no poverty zero hunger those are kind of covered by some of the other areas just just that's
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just a little fyi for you to throw into your back pocket is all there so they don't it doesn't show up
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a whole lot uh in in my opinion um when it comes to the calgary climate plan but notice um if you run
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across right climate action falls into all of those for sure and if i may even do a little something
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different where depending on the number of points that they have within each theme um show where the
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most dots fall but even if it happened to be mentioned one time where yep that definitely falls into the
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sdg of say life on land boom then it got it got a dot so there you have that there and i thought this
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would be very very good to share with you and i thought people would really appreciate seeing this
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so i'm going to get rid of this and sorry it takes a moment and i'm going to pop down here so i did a
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freedom of information and we may not get a chance to get to the technology we'll see here
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we can run through this pretty quickly but i did a freedom of information to the city of calgary
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and i was actually at the time well i will just say i did not receive what i'd hoped to get from the
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city i have to do another one and maybe what i'm looking for will show up but they did share
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an area of climate because that's what i was most interested in so here you can see a bunch of numbers
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and what's nice about the next one here is that they take climate and then they break it down even more
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so in this document that i received and this was for the 2022 year and these are all the areas that
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were covered in climate and then this is all of the money that was used so i remember this was 2022
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in gondek she called the climate emergency in november of 21 and then the 2050 agenda came out climate
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agenda in june of 2022 so this will cover it right so notice here to accelerate the climate strategy and
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action plans that they had to hire 18 full-time employees now we don't know for certain if those
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were new hires or just people moved in from different areas to work in this and one person came on board
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for the energy efficiency retrofit so if that means retrofitting the city of calgary assets or just working
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on that topic because they're definitely looking to have our buildings uh retrofitted to be energy
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efficient because buildings emit so many greenhouse gas emissions so we must reduce we must reduce so
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it works out to 19 full-time staff and you might be wondering well renee your map doesn't really quite
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add up well i tell you what i added it all up but what i did was the hail storm tree replacement
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uh they spent 1.2 million on that i thought okay i'm gonna give them that because hail storm tree
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replacement trees are important for beautifying our city i have i don't have much of an issue with that
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seems like a lot of money but anyway i've subtracted it and so in 2022 the city spent 8.9 million
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dollars of your taxpayer dollars on the climate agenda that is absolutely insane
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particularly when you look at what's happening with our water infrastructure for example
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and that's a whole nother rabbit hole to go down for sure so here they're spending all of our money
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on this pie in the sky green agenda and this is just one year of it we should be absolutely outraged
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particularly when we look at this we put out 1.5 1.5 percent of the world's global
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emissions infuriating to say the least okay so that's just something you can tuck in your back
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pocket additionally i thought this would be of interest so hopefully people i know we're getting
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on in time but you can you know watch this at 1.5 speed or something like that in addition to
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the budget that i received um in the FOIP the freedom of information was this document so you can see
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it's from the mayor to christia freeland there's many topics here but i thought it would be really
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important for people to to see um a few things that i've highlighted i'll just go slow here because then
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you can maybe go back and read some of the things that are interest to you but this i thought would be
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of interest to people particularly with just what occurred um in the spring with the housing plan
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so here they're talking about affordable housing they think they should get more money for it
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etc etc etc and then the city is eager to see detailed program requirements for the housing
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accelerator fund and would urge the government of canada to release the funding as quickly as possible
00:36:25.040
so if those if there's a few who are not sure the housing accelerator fund was that
00:36:32.320
carrot that the federal government was dangling out in front of city councils and municipalities so
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basically saying um if you want this money to accelerate the housing within your cities and towns
00:36:50.960
then you have to agree to our uh green agenda um with regard to your housing
00:36:59.840
so it was a carrot stick that they were putting out in front and so it was believed that perhaps the city
00:37:10.480
had already accepted this housing fund and thus the push to have the zoning bylaws changed because that is what
00:37:22.640
the um federal government was saying um i should explain that a little bit better actually they were saying that
00:37:34.720
because i was saying green their green agenda well essentially it is because they're saying
00:37:40.480
in order to get this money then you need to change your zoning bylaws so where you have single family homes right now
00:37:47.200
you need to change it so that um a house you know a duplex uh a building that might have four
00:37:57.040
some of you remember better than myself four units within it actually could be no up to eight units in
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it could be built on that parcel of land that right now has a single family detached home
00:38:07.360
so again that is green talk right um probably under the guise of you know this housing um
00:38:18.720
that that the housing problem not enough house as well it kind of works out really well that um the
00:38:24.720
city's been wanting to do this for uh years and years now and boom um all of a sudden they're getting a dangly carrot
00:38:32.400
that's saying ah well you know if you change the zoning bylaws you'll get all this money
00:38:36.640
for the housing so i think this is important to point out that they knew about this housing accelerator funds
00:38:42.880
now whether or not there was stipulations attached to it back in the day so that was sorry that was on page four
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i'm just going to go back up in november of 2022 a year after the climate emergency was called
00:38:57.680
um they're sending a letter to the federal government saying hey yeah we know about this money could you uh
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yeah send it our way please so there's that and then just a little something else that i thought people
00:39:11.040
would um be interested in they're looking for money to have the zero uh emissions um charging infrastructure
00:39:21.840
happening um their ambitious strategy aligns with the federal goals to achieve net zero by 2050
00:39:33.120
and they're looking please please would you put in place mandatory retrofit codes by 2029
00:39:41.040
because oh we just want it so much uh and again we know from our plan 2050 plan
00:39:48.640
that this is what they want they want green codes they want them put into place because they want
00:39:53.280
people to have to retrofit their homes because it's going to help uh bring down the greenhouse gas emissions
00:40:00.000
and when they uh go to their you know the big boy club and um they can show that they're reducing
00:40:09.360
their emissions because um everybody's going to have to retrofit their homes so they're asking like
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please can you make it mandatory so they're working on it my friends they are working on it so there is
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that whole um document right there and hopefully you could get it all in and take you know a peek at it
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stop you know rewind sort of thing to see it all there okay my friends boy oh boy i know it's um
00:40:44.240
i'm going to actually go out of this now and it's getting on in time so i'm not sure if i should be
00:40:52.320
including the technology section in here i'm thinking that i'm going to hold off we'll maybe make it a part
00:41:01.040
three it's not very long though so hmm you know what you can stop you can start you can come back at
00:41:10.800
any time right to watch and finish the video let me just grab this for you let's just let me see i am
00:41:18.800
going to pull up which i think i think i did that wrong so
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i'm gonna have to maybe get rid of that okay there you go so thankfully um a good friend had sent this to me
00:41:40.320
me and so here this is where we can go down the rabbit hole so our dear mr pootmans was sending out
00:41:49.600
his letter newsletter to the ward and you can scroll down you can read and you can read and then we get
00:41:59.920
near the bottom he starts to share about the vehicle noise and enhancing community safety
00:42:10.080
so apparently vehicles are noisy and so they're going to be starting uh you know watching using some
00:42:20.480
technology to listen watch and listen uh to the city and they're using it people to do it uh acoustic
00:42:30.720
monitoring devices are going to be deployed particularly on 17th ab so if you want to know more about this
00:42:40.560
you can go check out the web page so let's just see let's just hope it all works for us here
00:42:45.520
um okay there we go and so interesting notice how smart city comes up when i was researching
00:42:55.840
it's hard to know what year some of this stuff occurs because they're people who can do a lot of
00:43:03.680
behind the scenes maybe could go in the back door somehow and figure out you know when was this made but
00:43:09.520
uh from what i could figure out the living labs uh anything with regard to a lot of the smart city stuff
00:43:17.200
is not real recent and i'll show you that here so i wanted just to share this with you so just doing
00:43:26.080
some clicking around going down the rabbit hole trying to find out about this technology
00:43:30.880
technology the internet of things yep and so we can actually go let me just see yeah we can go i might
00:43:44.720
come back oh yeah here we go here we go there are videos discover the smart city calgary video playlist
00:43:57.280
and yes so smart city the city of calgary so they're not uh calling themselves smart city we know that
00:44:10.160
but i thought i'd point this out to you because we're all a little hmm what's the word shall we say
00:44:17.200
hesitant when it comes to technology well i thought it might be important for us to realize that this
00:44:26.560
is not new technology and it's been around for a little while here so here's a little playlist of
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some of the things so there's the acoustic monitoring that he's talking about that we can look but it all
00:44:41.680
uses the same technology so i thought you might be curious to see shaganapi golf course golfing one
00:45:01.440
i work with the golf and sport development team at the city of calgary and recreation
00:45:05.760
i am working on the site optimization and pace of play projects for the city of calgary we're doing
00:45:13.920
a pilot project to analyze how fast people come through the golf course and how frequently they
00:45:19.840
stop this is one of our lower end sensors that we're using it's located right underneath the seat of
00:45:25.520
all of the golf carts and we can sense where the golf cart is anywhere within the golf course area
00:45:31.920
and how fast it travels from spot to spot one of the benefits of the technology is helping steer our
00:45:38.640
marshals to the areas on the course where they're needed most in real time if our customers are not
00:45:44.880
in the right area or need some support through one of our marshals we can send one over to help assist them
00:45:52.160
one of the benefits of the technology in the golf carts will be setting up the tee times to be more
00:45:57.280
accurate so there's less waiting at each station or to get going nobody likes to be waiting around
00:46:02.720
at a hole for minutes on end while other people are playing through this will help improve our
00:46:07.440
guest experience through being able to keep the pace of play we can also set our team okay so that
00:46:16.240
technology has been around for quite some time obviously and so interesting isn't it we have to
00:46:24.240
really be careful in terms of technology is really kind of handy isn't it um versus you know maybe
00:46:35.680
it's not such a bad thing maybe yeah it's it can be used for good right so we have to be find that balance
00:46:44.240
but here is the acoustic monitoring let's see if we can get this one today this is what
00:46:51.120
dear mr pootman what's talking about measuring noise is important to everyone's quality of life
00:47:02.880
it's something that's difficult and has been traditionally expensive with laura and laurawan
00:47:08.880
technology we have the ability to cost effectively characterize it and have a better understanding of
00:47:15.280
how it impacts citizens in all kinds of situations and events the acoustic sensor has a capability to
00:47:22.480
characterize noise based on edge analytics we've prototyped this solution and tested it to characterize
00:47:30.480
noise levels for our bylaw partners to be able to understand how concerts and events attenuate within the
00:47:38.400
city environment by proactively understanding how noise propagates given a situation we'll be able
00:47:45.760
to actually reduce the number of complaints and proactively solve the problem before it becomes a
00:47:50.880
problem saving us time and money laura and laurawan is an exciting technology because we have the
00:47:57.920
opportunity to provide data visibility to processes and services that we traditionally haven't we're able to
00:48:06.640
analyze and make our work more efficient and have a better return on investment we believe that it is
00:48:13.600
something that can improve the lives of citizens in the smart city ecosystem
00:48:23.680
okay so there you have it now you can move around you can go and check out
00:48:31.840
in the news for example and i clicked on a lot of these links and then it might take you to
00:48:37.840
uh a website of um some technology company and there it's an article that you can read about the
00:48:45.520
technology for example most of them that i found were 2018 2019 but you yourself can go and you know
00:48:52.720
click around and see uh see what you find there so this technology has been around for a little while
00:49:01.120
and so when it comes to technology um again we need to find a balance between boy that makes life a lot
00:49:08.000
easier handier etc etc versus the uh you know people being monitored um you know against their wishes so
00:49:23.200
those are things um that have been around for a little while and i'm just going to throw this in
00:49:30.000
here for everyone to think about um this is what jan bradley she was um the chief information technology
00:49:39.040
officer actually i think she still is and you know talking about oh it's so great etc right um can solve
00:49:46.960
community problems all these sorts of things which we just heard this individual say in the video
00:49:52.960
but less than lewis who i talked about in video one she said um in order for technology to be smart
00:50:00.720
it needs data the greater the data collected the greater the risk to privacy so finding that balance
00:50:10.000
between the convenience the handiness of it uh moving um society forward rather than perhaps backwards when
00:50:20.160
we think of authoritarian uh uses for that technology so there we go just a little bit just a little
00:50:29.680
bit on technology but i thought was really important for you to see so in closing just to summarize everything
00:50:35.840
here um because we're pretty much at two hours so thanks for hanging in there thank you if you went out
00:50:41.680
came in stop start that's the great thing about video um know that the city of calgary's 2050 climate plan
00:50:50.320
is most definitely the localization of the united nations social development goals
00:50:57.680
the city of calgary is accountable to the un and its subsidiaries for such things as reporting emissions
00:51:07.200
all planning revolves around emissions reduction activities such as the green city fleet green
00:51:14.480
building requirements the city growing up instead of out right the city of calgary is becoming accountable
00:51:22.640
not to we the people whom they should be but rather to the global cabal uh according to the united nations
00:51:31.360
from what i've read on their websites there is no one blueprint for implementing
00:51:36.320
the 2030 agenda that's why it makes this so very difficult because what the city of calgary is doing
00:51:44.960
may look very different from let's say what airdrie is doing for example um or strathmore down the
00:51:52.800
highway right everybody's interpretation of how to incorporate the sdgs is going to look a little bit different
00:52:00.960
so that's what makes this tricky um also just summarizing that vehicles are considered to be i should put that
00:52:10.640
word in there a massive contributor to the ghg therefore must be minimized and public transportation must be
00:52:18.160
maximized that is their goal cities are a huge contributor to ghg such as the carbon footprint of buildings
00:52:27.760
particularly the cement which is impermeable land degradation via urban sprawl thus the land use
00:52:35.600
bylaw changes city planning goes hand in hand with transportation planning or mobility more people in
00:52:42.480
area equals less driving businesses for example at the base of buildings complete streets which we've seen
00:52:49.280
cities are going up versus out that's the densification my friends the rabbit hole is very very very deep
00:53:03.520
i know i had to just finally say okay no more i have what i have i'm not going to go looking anymore
00:53:10.640
i believe i have enough information these initiatives have been in the work for years and years actually and
00:53:17.680
are everywhere and i made a note here about ducks unlimited story which i'll share
00:53:25.440
this is an authoritarianism disguised as eco-friendly policy without a doubt and i'll close with this story
00:53:37.120
i'm not going to give any names or anything away
00:53:39.600
but this past summer of 2024 i was speaking with a person whose family member works for
00:53:54.400
ducks unlimited in manitoba i pretended that i didn't know too much about ducks unlimited
00:54:04.240
and i asked what do they do actually and she said well they actually go around and they talk to farmers and
00:54:16.560
they ask farmers not to destroy wetlands that may be on their land so that there is environment wetlands
00:54:29.840
environment for ducks uh for example which would be one an example one animal that would be in a wetland
00:54:40.480
and i replied oh well that's interesting so then they pay the farmers then and the reply was yes
00:54:52.800
yes they do and i said oh interesting so that is what they're doing then when they have for example
00:55:01.680
a ducks unlimited supper slash fundraising event so that money would basically raise would go into the
00:55:10.480
the the you know the quote unquote bank to pay farmers for their land and she said said yes
00:55:18.720
yes but there has not been a lot of fundraising lately because there's this thing what's it called like the
00:55:30.880
paris agreement thing the climate thing and the money is just flying in
00:55:38.160
and i just pretended to be surprised i said oh wow interesting and i left it at that so
00:55:52.720
the money is flying in to ducks unlimited in manitoba because of the paris climate agreement
00:56:02.800
so that ducks unlimited can pay farmers to not till under or destroy the wetlands on their farmland
00:56:17.200
and the money is flying in very very interesting isn't it so when i say the initiatives have been in the
00:56:27.600
works for years in the works for years and years and it's deep deep deeply embedded in many and almost all
00:56:35.760
aspects of society it definitely is and i thought that story exemplified it perfectly so my friends thank you
00:56:46.880
so very very much please use this information re-watch it share and use what you've learned to
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empower you to speak to people who may think that you're wearing a tin hat when really you're not
00:57:09.840
a tin hat thank you so much for your time and your attention we appreciate it so very much god bless you