Leduc: ‘Hands off our land!’ Edmonton City Council: ‘om nom nom’

Edmonton is hungering after more land, and gazes gluttonously at the land in Leduc county that surrounds the airport - future home to Port Alberta.

Above: Edmonton goes ‘Om Nom Nom’.

From the Edmonton Journal:

A confidential staff report on the proposed annexation claims the city is running out of developable land and must extend its boundaries to allow for future population growth. Edmonton, says the report, is also in the best position to not only service the International Airport, but deliver rapid transit to its terminals.

This is not the first time city hall has plotted to annex the airport and lands in between. The last bid came during Bill Smith’s final term as mayor. Annexation caused a huge flap then and will cause a huge flap again, for good reason.

When Stephen Mandel replaced Smith as mayor, the city adopted a new strategy on the decades-old regional turf war.