A 1990s master-planned community coming due for work
Tuscany was started in 1994 on a roughly 1,000-acre site at the western edge of the city, hemmed in by Crowchild Trail to the north, Stoney Trail and Nose Hill Drive to the east, Two Toed Pond to the south and Twelve Mile Coulee Road to the west, with the Bearspaw acreages beyond that. It is one of Calgary's largest single communities — 19,884 residents in 6,672 dwellings at the 2019 municipal census — and only 7.6 per cent of that housing is condo or apartment. The bulk of it went up between 1994 and the 2010s in curving crescents, which puts most of the neighbourhood at the age where basements get finished, kitchens and bathrooms get gutted, roofs get torn off and decks and fences get rebuilt. A 10- to 14-yard bin handles that kind of job; a 20-yard is the one to book for a whole-house redo or a big clearance.
Where the bin goes
Double attached garages and private driveways are the default lot design across the detached stock, so the large majority of Tuscany deliveries never touch City land and never need a permit. The exception is the smaller cluster of townhomes and condos around Tuscany Market and the LRT station, where there is often no private driveway to work with and the bin has to sit on the street instead. Tuscany station itself opened on 23 August 2014 as the then-northern end of the Red Line, and that pocket around it is exactly where placement gets fiddly. For self-haul, the Spyhill Landfill and Eco Centre at 11808 69 Street NW is the closer of the City's two eco centres by a wide margin.