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and deerfoot trail interchange traffic on westbound memorial backing up because of that construction on the 4th avenue flyover. The may showers the city's been seeing is paying off when it comes to drought concerns, at least in the short term. >> Mason depatie joins us now. Mason talk about the impacts out. Jefferson. It was just a month ago, the city was saying calgarians could see water restrictions as early as may. >> With all this rain, that's no longer the case with the city notes it is still early on in the season. Moderate to extreme drought conditions are predicted for southern alberta. And while precipitation is helping tone down those levels right now, more moisture will still be need to get the province through the summer. Environment canada says these may showers may improve the situation by a category o louis up to normally dry. But we're still looking at significant potential for drought. As of right now, the rain is creating high soil moisture. That's good news for dryland farmers, river water use for cities in irrigation is approved as well since the mountains have also been getting precipitation too. That's taking concerningly low snowpack levels up to about average. So overall, we're not nearly out of the woods yet, but moisture levels are trending in the right direction. >> We've seen measurable precipitation 16 of those 22 days so far this month, which is astounding, really when you consider how to why it was earlier in the year. It's helping to move us in a good direction. >> And jefferson as the snow begins to melt in the mountains. The city is monitoring the river conditions. It's not high risk for flooding right now, but it really comes down to large rain storms that can happen over the next month or so. Those are hard to predict. Okay. Thanks mason. >> Police are asking for help to identify a suspect in a hit and run. 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About a quarter of the growth was from people moving from other provinces, calgary's housing situation continues to get worse as the city starts to implement dozens of actions from its housing strategy update revealed the uphill battle the city is facing as housing costs climb. Here's jordan kanygin. The city of calgary says 80% of its efforts to combat the housing crisis will be started by the end of this year. But the housing situation. >> Isn't getting any better. Costs are up since the city passed its plan to tackle affordability councillors say a fix takes time. >> Have to always be self-aware about the time it takes to create a problem is almost the equivalent of time it will take to solve it. So it's going to it's going to take some time to get their. According to an update wednesday, home prices in calgary are up 11% since september. >> Average rent has jumped 12%. Some councillors question whether the right strategy is being prioritized. Lake the blanket upstart, you seem to be. >> Accelerating growth and building. Multiplexes in their established communities was the same time slow walking, maybe more affordable homes that we could building in our outlying communities. >> A new way to city is trying to increase supply was endorsed by committee wednesday. If passed by council, the secondary suite incentive program, but allow people to be reimbursed up to $10,000 for safety items, including separate heat or air conditioning units or connected smoke alarms, missing middle housing and secondary streets are part of the equation. And the people off to say, well. >> Okay, that goes, I may be needed. The mortgage shoppers a secondary street. The program will be capped at 3,000 suites in the first 12 months. >> It could be launched as early as next month. 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