Municipal Planning
Municipal planning is the systematic process of designing, managing, and organizing the physical, social, environmental and economic aspects of cities and communities to ensure sustainable development and improve quality of life for inhabitants.
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Return-On-Investment Urban Modelling Pilot Project
The City of Airdrie has held the title of the fastest growing city in Alberta for over a decade. The city has flourished with new construction, business development and large infrastructure projects to support growth but, with exponential growth, also comes a unique set of challenges.
News2022-2025 Strategic Plan
We’re excited to share our 2022-2025 Strategic Plan with you. This plan is informed by What We Heard from you during our 30th Anniversary Stakeholder Engagement Sessions in the Spring of 2021, and an extensive internal review of the Foundation. We look forward to undertaking this work, guided by our Strategic Priorities and Goals, and by our continued engagement with you.
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Legal Characterization of Property-Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) in Alberta
Clarifies whether municipal debt is required to develop and grow PACE programs in Alberta.
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Drinking Water Source Area Characterization for the City of Medicine Hat and the Town of Redcliff
Produces a comprehensive decision-making tool as part of the municipalities’ Source Water Protection Plan, to assist planners, developers, landowners, and consumers to determine what levels of development are supportable on the land.
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Enabling Housing Choice through Policy Refinement, Integration & Collaboration
Many rural Alberta communities have a critical shortage of housing options but building housing in these communities is a huge challenge. Without adequate housing of all types, many small communities cannot retain youth, attract new businesses, workers, and residents, or prevent homelessness. This negatively impacts communities’ ability to grow and prosper. Yet new housing development is continually hampered by inadequate, outdated, or just plain poor municipal policies. This happens in part because small municipalities usually rely on outside contractors to create their policies, and in part because councils lack the capacity and knowledge to accurately understand the big picture for their community. This creates a confusing, fractured policy system, and huge delays for development which severely limit the growth and availability of local housing stock.
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Online Open Data Centre of Alberta Urban Real Estate
Created with and for real estate industry professionals, researchers, policymakers and Albertans who need access to high-quality deep real estate data, the Online Open Data Centre for Alberta Urban Real Estate is a free public online data portal designed with the potential to be integrated with Alberta real estate industry databases, that informs on urban real estate, local economy, and quality of life. Unlike library collections directing users to databases or their providers, the Online Open Data Centre for Alberta Urban Real Estate develops and integrates neighbourhood-level data from different sources in one place that can be accessed by anyone anywhere, anytime.
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Take the Initiative: Exploring Innovations and Resiliency In Community Planning
Connects planners, elected officials and related professionals to enable better land use planning and decision-making in all municipalities across the province of Alberta.
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APPI 2021 Virtual Conference Evolution
Furthers member education in policy that supports community development while providing diversified housing options that support all demographics.
NewsImproving Water Quality to Sustainable Communities and Ecosystems
By Olds College Centre for Innovation
NewsThe Guide to the Planning Process: Next Generation Planning
The City of Calgary likes to engage residents and get them involved in its planning process. To that end, the City ensures every single community association in Calgary is given the relevant development applications and is asked for feedback but to be able to take part and provide that feedback, community associations need the right tools, education, and support to navigate the city’s “complex planning system.”
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Value of Heritage Districts
The Calgary Heritage Initiative will create educational resources for real estate professionals, residents, and municipal leader on the impacts of heritage policies and bylaws to protect Calgary’s heritage districts. Heritage districts and heritage places of interest can create niche markets for shopping, living and eating in “differentiated” heritage environments that contribute to urban liveability and the attraction of talent.
ResourceCivic Commons Catalyst 2021: Strategic Interventions Briefing Report
In 2020, the Center for Civilization at the University of Calgary School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape (SAPL) and Evergreen laid the foundations of the Civic Commons Catalyst (i.e. “The Catalyst”)—an interdisciplinary research and innovation platform embedded with SAPL’s City Building Design Lab (CBDLab).