When the Green Line inevitably rolls through the South Hill area of Calgary, there will be significant changes. For the residents of the South Hill trailer park that could mean losing their homes, but there's nothing concrete on the books.

If you look at a map delineating what can be built where in this corner of the southeast abutting Glenmore Trail and Riverbend, everything has a future use.

The trailer park, however, is marked "Future Comprehensive Plan Area." In effect, the city will decide later what to do with it and needs land use amendments prior to any development occurring.

"At such time that this land is redeveloped, an amendment to this [Station Area Plan] will be required," reads the city document.

All around it, however, there are big plans for commercial developments and higher-density housing where fields and a industry now sit.

The South Hill trailer park is located in southeast Calgary, next to the community of Riverbend. (Google Maps/screenshot)

'I'd be bankrupt in a year'

Residents are concerned about those redevelopment plans and the future of their homes.

Owen Lindsay has lived in the mobile park since 1981 and said he's in favour of the Green Line, but he doesn't want to be uprooted so that a new community can be built in the area.

"Without that long-term security our investments will go down the drain, our homes will go down the drain, the people that live here won't have any places to go," he said.

Lindsay said there are no mobile home spaces for people to relocate to, and that's all most residents can afford.

Another resident, Lil Whiteside, said the city is doing this without any regard for the people living in the community.

"I'd be bankrupt in a year," she said of being forced to move from her home of 23 years.

"Already...you know previous to this Green Line going in and all this stuff going on, if there was a for sale sign put on any unit in this park it sold within a week. Now they're sitting idle for three months. You go figure."

Lil Whiteside says she'd be 'bankrupt in a year' if forced to leave her home of 23 years. (Natasha Frakes/CBC)

'We'll figure it out'

Whiteside and Lindsay would like to purchase their properties from the city, but area councillor Gian-Carlo Carra said that's not an option and that the park will eventually have to move.

"I don't actually think that a mobile home at ultra-low densities is good use of space right next to a multi-billion dollar transit infrastructure," he said.

City documents point to future changes for the trailer park site, but note "it is not anticipated that this site will be redeveloped in the short or medium term."

Carra thinks there will be more mobile home parks built by the time South Hill residents need to relocate — citing 10 years as a likely timeline.

"We've got lots of time," he said. "We'll figure it out."

The city is also coming up with plans for how to build the line — possibly in sections — due to high costs and no funding promises from the Alberta government.

The city is hosting a session on the Ogden-Millican Area Redevelopment Plan and the South Hill Station Area Plan on November 15 at Banting and Best School from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.