Calgary residents fight blanket rezoning with ‘restrictive covenants’ [Video]

A group of residents in the southeast Calgary community of Lake Bonavista are hoping their latest attempt to stop the city from ushering in blanket rezoning will fend off developers from looking to pave change in their community.

Karen Robinson has lived in the community since she was a child. She spearheaded a campaign called the Restrictive Covenants Initiative for Lake Bonavista.

A restrictive covenant is a restriction that land owners can add to their land titles to prevent the use of a land change, to preserve it, unless legally agreed upon by all parties involved to make a change, which has proved difficult.

“The more of those that we can have on any given street, the more reassurance we have as homeowners of what will and won’t be built on our individual streets,” said Robinson.

She says it gives residents a legal way to protect their property from any …