Rocky View Council passed the new Langdon Area Structure Plan (ASP) on May 10, 2016. After a lengthy process of public open houses, presentations to council and a public hearing, that was held twice, council has approved this new plan for Langdon.
Rocky View County states, “the Area Structure Plan is intended to update the existing Hamlet of Langdon Area Structure Plan adopted in 1999. The revised area structure plan will be in alignment with the community vision and County policy for hamlet growth and development. It is anticipated that the Hamlet of Langdon Area Structure Plan will take about one year to complete”.
Now that Rocky View County Council has approved this ASP, we reached out to Rolly Ashdown for his opinion this plan. “It is reasonably well written by some very good people in the Planning Department at the County”, explains Councillor Ashdown.
With Area Structure Plans being a very general and fairly large plan, it isn’t expected that there would be a huge change anytime soon, but Ashdown says that he does expect to see applications from developers soon.
Ashdown also states that through this entire lengthy process, he heard a number of varying opinions. “From development people I heard that the area should be very large and the County should be able to consider applications on their individual merit as they come in. From acreage Residents, mainly East of Langdon I heard don’t include anything near them since the area is wet and shouldn’t be considered, there has been flooding problems and any consideration would make it worse. From some Residents I heard keep Langdon small, they moved here for the small town feel and didn’t want to lose that. From other Residents I heard to allow Langdon to grow as it will, unfettered, so that Business and Recreation opportunities can be realized. I watched arguments form for population limits based on land mass within the ASP borders and the County Plan. I heard a few different storm water concerns along with very different solutions as well as arguments that the ASP is not a storm water management tool. Surprisingly, I heard very little about transportation concerns or plans”.
Although the ASP was passed, Ashdown did state that he put forth a few amendments that would have impacted the boundaries of this ASP, but without enough support from other council members, his suggestions were defeated.
Now that the ASP has been approved, the next steps will the development proposals that start to come in from interested developers. As those begin to come before Rocky View Council, Councillor Ashdown recommends that residents attend those hearings to stay up to date on what could be coming to Langdon.
