Cathy Ellis

“Seemingly, Parks Canada has taken the position that the new management plan has created a new policy framework for the commercial cap, which we vehemently disagree,” said Darren Enns, the director of planning and development for the Town of Banff.

“Community art has become more expensive to deliver, more challenging to deliver and the frequency of what I call three-dimensional art has become more infrequent,” said Darren Enns, the director of planning and development for the Town of Banff.

“When we pull over vehicles for infractions that video documentation that the RCMP also use is invaluable in supporting the ‘I said, they said’ argument that we predominantly see when things are challenged in traffic court.”

“This is a common sense situation and we can’t signage our way out of common sense situations.”

“There seems like a really strong sentiment for voluntary action from the business sector.”

“A big focus this year is staff and making sure our organization is sustainable into the future. We have relied heavily on staff and we have not been compensating them appropriately and that’s a big part of the increase, but a very important part.”

“This increase is warranted for some practical reasons of trying to work towards decreasing congestion as well as being able to generate that sustainable revenue for projects.”

“In residential zones for example, the primary purposes of those zones are for residences, and we all know that there is a housing challenge in Banff… we don’t want this commercial creep into those zones taking away from the primary purpose of those places.”

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“There’s a crisis of sexual violence across the province,” said Reave MacLeod, director of advocacy and community programs at YWCA Banff.