{"id":112,"date":"2011-02-14T15:46:36","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T20:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/?p=112"},"modified":"2011-02-19T15:03:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-19T20:03:15","slug":"birdsafe-design-proposal-in-calgary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/birdsafe-design-proposal-in-calgary\/","title":{"rendered":"Birdsafe Design Proposal in Calgary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/calgary1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/calgary1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"calgary\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/calgary1.jpg 742w, https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/calgary1-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/a>The Planning Commission in Calgary, Alberta is set to vote this week on a Bird-safe design proposal to reduce the number of birds killed by colliding with buildings and glass in the downtown area.  A local news headline is terrible, and the article is slanted in the negative, but here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgarysun.com\/news\/columnists\/michael_platt\/2011\/02\/14\/17264776.html#\/news\/columnists\/michael_platt\/2011\/02\/14\/pf-17264776.html\">story about the proposal<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a copy of the actual Calgary Planning Commission <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgary.ca\/docgallery\/BU\/dba\/calgary_planning_commission\/agenda\/2011\/m_2010_030_and_m_2010_031.pdf\">Birdsafe Guidelines agenda item<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a copy of the proposed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgary.ca\/docgallery\/bu\/planning\/pdf\/urban_design_guidelines\/bird_friendly_design_guideli nes.pd\">Bird-Friendly Urban Design Guidelines<\/a> (45 pp).  Lots of great photos of birdsafe design elements.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: These voluntary guidelines were approved by the Calgary Planning Commission, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calgaryherald.com\/Calgary+planners+take+steps+limit+bird+deaths+downtown+towers\/4305280\/story.html\">news story here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Planning Commission in Calgary, Alberta is set to vote this week on a Bird-safe design proposal to reduce the number of birds killed by colliding with buildings and glass in the downtown area. A local news headline is terrible, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/birdsafe-design-proposal-in-calgary\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Wavc-1O","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/urbanbirdscapes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}