Plan It supporters fear council members are slowly sabotaging the city’s proposed 60-year growth plan.
A motion by Diane Colley-Urquhart, Andre Chabot, Joe Connolley and Ric McIver calls for delaying the vote on the plan until September, instead of the original June date. The aldermen say stakeholders and the public need more time to digest a revised version, but Byron Miller, director of urban studies at the University of Calgary, says six weeks to study the plan before the public hearings is plenty.
“This is part of a strategy to kill Plan It,” he says. “There is no reason to delay it, it has probably been one of the most thorough consultation processes the city has ever undergone.”
Colley-Urquhart maintains this is not a delay tactic. “We need to take a deep breath here and see what this new document is going to reflect.”
Council is scheduled to deal with the motion to postpone on May 11.
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