Edmonton city council to vote on rezoning bylaw for priority growth areas

CBC News

· Posted: May 20, 2025 8:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 4 hours ago

Edmonton metropolis assembly is acceptable to perceive from the nationalist connected a projected rezoning bylaw that would interaction sections of the Wîhkwêntôwin and Garneau areas, 124th and 156th streets and Stony Plain Road.

City medication is proposing a rezoning impacting prime precedence maturation areas — certain nodes and corridors successful the redeveloping country that are expected to spot the astir maturation abbreviated term, a metropolis study said. 

"The Priority Growth Area (PGA) rezoning volition assistance instrumentality the semipermanent imaginativeness of some the City Plan and District Plans and promote much lodging and concern improvement successful these important areas," the study said.

The precedence maturation area rezoning bylaw would impact antithetic rezonings, including a operation of mixed-use, large- and medium-scale residential, and small-medium standard transition residential zones. That would allow for medium- to large-scale lodging and mixed-use development.

The metropolis chose 5 areas, which were identified arsenic being connecting sections that would spot immoderate of the largest developments successful Edmonton.

Other factors scope from entree to transit, beardown marketplace demand, and the quality to research proactive rezoning.

The metropolis said the last connection was refined galore times through two rounds of nationalist engagement, which included in-person workshops, "chat with a planner" meetings, unfastened houses and a city-wide survey.

The nationalist proceeding astatine metropolis hallway is scheduled to commencement astatine 9:30 a.m. MT Tuesday and is expected to proceed until 9 p.m.