Edmonton's Infill Bylaws Were Overturned — Calgary's Mayor Sees a Precedent
After ordering Edmonton to overturn its bylaws to scale back infill, Calgary Mayor Jeromy Farkas said there's nothing stopping the province from imposing its will on Calgary over other matters. That's the shape of the argument: not whether Edmonton's rules were right, but what one province-level intervention implies for every other municipality watching. Municipal land-use authority is normally the boring local layer of politics; here it is the test case for how far provincial power reaches.
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Farkas is arguing from precedent rather than from Edmonton's land-use merits. That's the more durable objection, because it survives even if you dislike infill.
Precedent arguments cut both ways. If the province has the legal authority to act, invoking Calgary's future as a reason not to doesn't tell us whether the Edmonton order was justified.