🥾 Proposed partial rezoning offers pathway to solving the $1-billion housing impasse
Mayor Farkas successfully campaigned in the October election to repeal and replace rezoning with gentle density, but to date he has not provided Calgarians with a proposed path forward for “replacement” or how he intends to “support gentle density while building a variety of homes at a more affordable price point” as he promised in his platform.
With just over two weeks to go before the March 23 public hearing on the proposed repeal of the Rezoning for Housing Bylaw, a full repeal of rezoning risks:
🔥 Lighting on fire $861-million in federal funding for housing and infrastructure;
💰 Doubling down on Calgary's reliance on costly sprawl that paves over farmland and natural ecosystems around Calgary;
🚰 Burdening Calgary taxpayers with the cost of replacing aging infrastructure in low density neighbourhoods adding to Calgary's $7.7-billion infrastructure gap to replace aging roads, public transit, wastewater infrastructure and more.
Meanwhile, at the request of City Council, City Administration has prepared a solution that would, in effect, partially repeal the least popular components of rezoning for housing while still maintaining citywide gentle density, preserving federal funding, addressing the aging infrastructure crisis, addressing the lack of housing options, all while incorporating community-focused feedback on the current R-CG rezoning.
The table below outlines three options for City Council after the March 23 public hearing:
- Full Repeal of Rezoning
- No Repeal of Current Rezoning (R-CG)
- Partial Repeal of Rezoning
Markup of City of Calgary table comparing options for full repeal, no repeal, or partial repeal of rezoning. Yellow rows and red text added by Project Calgary. (Source table: City of Calgary)
Citywide, community-focused, gentle density is needed to increase housing options.
⚡️ TAKE ACTION: Help us ask City Council to show leadership with community-focused gentle density
📨 Email City Council
Email City Council and ask them to support citywide rezoning for community-focused gentle density (partial repeal or no repeal) so we can preserve the billion dollars in federal funding for infrastructure and housing, address Calgary's aging infrastructure crisis and provide more affordable housing options citywide to address the housing crisis.
🎤 Sign up to speak at the March 23 public hearing
You can participate in the public hearing and/or make a written submission to City Council on the proposed repeal of the Rezoning for Housing Bylaw using the City Clerk's Office online form before March 23, 2026.
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