In an effort to better understand ward 4, I created the following map to show the various community associations. Ward 4’s current councillor is Sean Chu and it borders on a number of other wards including:
- Ward 2 – Joe Magliocca
- Ward 3 – Jim Stevenson
- Ward 5 – Ray Jones
- Ward 7 – Druh Farrell and
- Ward 9 – Gian-Carlo Carra
Ward 4 has several unique feature. One of the unique features is that many of the community associations border a large park space called Nose Hill. Nose Hill Park is the 2nd largest urban park in Canada. Nose Hill Park briefly gained infamy and sparked the social media hashtag #NoseHillGentleman when an American police officer wrote a letter to the Calgary Herald lamenting that Canadian gun laws prevented him from carrying a gun in the park where he felt threatened by two men promoting the Calgary Stampede
Another unique feature of the ward is that style of housing changes as the City of Calgary was built out. From Highland Park that was built on a grid-style street pattern in the 1950’s to Hidden Valley that was a built on a curvilinear style street pattern in the 1990’s.
One of my realizations after creating this social media map is that each community association may only have 2 links to directly offsetting neighbourhoods in the ward.
I believe these links are important and desire to strengthen them. Please connect via Twitter to the respective community associations!
Ward 4 Calgary 