Calgary City Council
800 MacLeod Trail SE,
Calgary, Alberta, T2P 2M5
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RE: Calgary Chamber 2025 mid-cycle adjustment submission to City Council
Mayor and Council,
On behalf of the Calgary Chamber of Commerce and our member businesses, I am writing to provide you with our formal submission regarding the 2023-2026 Service Plans and Budgets mid-cycle adjustments.
The City of Calgary’s 2023-2026 Service Plans and Budgets have, in many ways, proven successful in fostering economic growth across all sectors and sizes of business. With noticeable improvements and key investments moving forward across the city – including the recent opening of the new BMO center, the rise in LRT ridership and a moderate improvement in perceptions of downtown safety – it’s apparent the City’s budgetary planning is yielding positive results. Moreover, City Council’s commitment to shifting the non-residential to residential tax split by one percent annually between 2024 and 2027 continues to support businesses by providing much-needed cost pressure relief.
Moreover, while data released as part of the
