Pages tagged "Downtown Community Revitalization Levy"
CBC News: Edmonton city council approves contentious agreement on Ice District event park
"With respect to this notion of competing space for trade shows and exhibitions and conventions looking to Calgary as maybe the primary example. They have added monumental amounts of space and contemporary space to their city," Ward pihesiwin Coun. Tim Cartmell told council.
"There seems to be almost a presumption that these spaces will be competing. Is there an opportunity that these spaces are complementary and that they're working together?" said Cartmell who is also running for mayor and supported the motion.
CBC News: Edmonton city council extends downtown revitalization levy to 2044
Before Friday's vote, Ward pihêsiwin Coun. Tim Cartmell expressed that he finds the notion that OEG unduly benefits from the levy to be misplaced.
"Everything we do, in terms of the CRL, benefits a private landowner in some way, in some form. So it's really a matter of scale, and we happen to have one landowner who's a public figure," said Cartmell, who is also a mayoral candidate in the upcoming civic election.