From The Calgary Herald — Mayor Nenshi To Developers: "Don't Bring Us Crap"

JASON MARKUSOFF, CALGARY HERALD
If developers want the city to cut red tape, they should cut the “crap” from their projects, Mayor Naheed Nenshi said Tuesday.

In his annual Chamber of Commerce speech, the mayor lauded the city planning department’s efforts to ease some of the bureaucratic hurdles that home builders and commercial developers routinely complain about — but the city shouldn’t settle for low-quality developments.

“You cannot come as the industry to say to us, ‘It takes too long for me to get my approvals’ if you’re bringing us crap,” Nenshi told the luncheon crowd.

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