2024 Annual Report-web FINAL

Strategic Priority Goals • Facilitate expanded housing diversity and supply, to promote attainability. • Improve mobility with safe, sustainable, and effective transportation options. • Develop infrastructure that positions the City to provide accessible and sustainable services while accommodating growth. Strategic Priority Liveable Community

2024 Activities

2025 Goals

Housing • Processed permits totalling $254.5 million in construction value and projects delivering 724 “net new” housing units (new units that received occupancy in 2024 minus number of demolitions). • Updated the City’s Housing Strategy and related plans, bylaws, and policies to include more housing types, define future growth areas, and reflect new provincial housing legislation and targets. • Launched Development Services Optimization program to streamline permits, modernize policies, and enhance infrastructure coordination, providing a seamless and future-ready system, enabling more homes to be built. • Secured up to $16 million in Housing Accelerator funding to support transformation of city development and building processes and implement major infrastructure projects. • Completed a Housing Needs Assessment to inform policy. Mobility and Infrastructure • Implemented 10 new bike lockers in the civic centre, and secured capital to support an east-to-west AAA bike route from 240 Street to Maple Meadows station, to promote active transportation. • Aligned regulations and policies with the Homes for People Provincial strategy. • Created new servicing plans for the Lougheed Transit Corridor Area Plan to support renewal of infrastructure.

Housing • Encourage new housing that meets community needs with new developer incentives, further development services optimization through digital applications, and pre-approved site plans. • Continue to facilitate more affordable housing by exploring the use of City-owned lands for housing and updating regulations to facilitate creation of additional secondary and detached garden suites. • Create a pathway for owners of existing secondary and detached suites that are unpermitted to bring these into compliance as another important housing solution. • Implement Housing Accelerator funded infrastructure and operational improvements to increase the number of housing units of all types with building permits. • Implement improvements to meet the Provincial Housing Target Order for new occupied housing units. • Launch the City’s Development Concierge Service and Certified Professional Program to enhance the development approvals process and encourage more homes that meet community needs. Infrastructure • Complete the review of Development Cost Charges to ensure fees are adequate to fund growth-related infrastructure and services. • Finalize and implement the draft Asset Management Strategy.

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