Mayor Jeromy Farkas has the rare gift of squeezing results out of other governments without grovelling.

It’s a simple strategy, but not so easy to implement.

Fight on issues, not politics. Give credit where due, even to a government you blasted yesterday.

Stay as far away from partisan bias as you possibly can.

That’s how Farkas operates. It’s working for the city.

His approach brought a sizable win Wednesday when he announced a deal with Ottawa to secure housing accelerator funding.

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A new payment of $64 million is in the bank, he says, along with $128 million already received.

A further $64 million will depend on the new zoning bylaw, but Farkas doesn’t expect Ottawa will have any trouble with that.

Former prime minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals had tied this cash to blanket rezoning. They bribed cities to remake themselves in an image invented by federal bureaucrats.

Ex-mayor Jyoti Gondek and her council happily approved.

But the great majority of Calgarians didn’t like it.

In the civic election, Farkas promised to get rid of the plan that approved multiplex dwellings........

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