ABout IDEA

The Infill Development in Edmonton Association (IDEA) is a non-profit organization made up of passionate Edmontonians working together to drive change towards people-centered communities.

What is Infill?

Infill is the process of developing vacant or under-used land within existing urban areas that are already developed. Infill can consist of demolishing a building and replacing it with something new. It also includes the development of residential, commercial, mixed-use or institutional on vacant lots in existing neighbourhoods.

Thank you for more than a decade of Driving change towards

people-centured communities!

IDEA HAS A PODCAST: IN DEVELOPMENT

Welcome! To the In Development podcast.

This is the podcast for all you city-builders, city-shapers and city-dwellers out there that care about driving change towards people-centred communities. On In-Development we talk about how Canadian cities develop in and up.

The Hosts:
Stephen Raitz is a former Urban Planner and current Student-at-Law with a keen interest in municipal and planning law practice.

Allison Rosland is an urban planner with six years of planning consulting experience in urban and rural contexts.

INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING OUR PODCAST?

Sponsorship of the podcast helps IDEA achieve our mission of building people-centered communities and advocacy for infill. It also provides valuable exposure of your company to the hundreds of listeners that subscribe to the series.

If you or your organization is interested in supporting In Development, please download the “Sponsorship Form” below and email it to info@infilledmonton.com.

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IDEA Research

Site Specific Development Control Provision Assessment Report (2019 -2020)
IDEA Research

Over 2019 and 2020 IDEA's Data and Analytics Committee review and analyzed public DC2 data to find similarities, discrepancies and adjustments that need to be made in the zoning bylaw renewal to make for the update to be successful.

A high level review of the research is below, read the full report here: IDEA Research - Direct Control 2 Assessment Report

Most of the DC2s analyzed in this study could be adopted under conventional zones provided more flexibility in the Regulations of the Zoning Bylaw, especially in the following cases:

Allowing mixed uses along main corridors regardless of the zone.
Providing for more supportive community services in residential districts.
Provide for higher densities and a more pedestrian and transit-oriented design in existing medium and high-density zones.