🏫 Council to vote on new sprawl communities that would cost Calgarians hundreds of millions of dollars in future budget cycles

Have you heard the news? As reported by The Sprawl, Calgary city council will be voting on three new proposed sprawl communities this Tuesday, October 27th that, if approved, would cost Calgary taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars in future budget cycles. That's hundreds of millions of dollars not spent on fixing infrastructure, improving transit service, maintaining parks, making streets safer, building public libraries or community centres, or even offsetting the UCP's record-smashing 21% increase on the provincial education property tax in 2026.

A further four new sprawl communities with an upfront price tag of $377 million will be up for consideration during the November budget talks.

🤓 Read the full story in The Sprawl: More And More Bread: Calgary City Council To Decide On 7 New Neighbourhoods

Map showing already approved new communities in Calgary with proposed new communities in red. (Source: City of Calgary Suburban Residential Growth report, 2025-2029)

🏘️Calgary already has an excess of land supply serviced with infrastructure

Calgary already has 39 new communities in development around the city. Approving even more new communities is unnecessary and fiscally irresponsible when Calgary already has an excess of serviced land supply beyond what is required by city policy. When more new communities are under development at the same time, their build out is prolonged, which results in inefficient and more costly delivery of city services over a longer period of time. As it stands, Calgary has seven to nine years worth of serviced land supply - well above the five years required by the city's Municipal Development Plan.

🔨 Calgary already has $54 billion in unfunded infrastructure needs over the next 10 years

The recent water main crisis was a wake up call that Calgary simply cannot afford to cover the cost of more new infrastructure for sprawl communities. In July, the city identified $54 billion in unfunded infrastructure required over the next decade, 35% of which is just for maintenance.

🤑The UCP is preventing municipalities from recovering the costs of new sprawl communities from developers 

New restrictions from the provincial UCP government will prevent cities like Calgary from making new sprawl communities pay for themselves. Calgary cannot afford to approve new communities while these regulations are in place.

⚡️ Take Action: Tell City Council to vote against approving more new communities

✉️ Email Calgary city council and demand fiscal responsibility against approving costly new sprawl communities

Tell City Council that they must reject the proposed tax grab for the three new sprawl communities on Tuesday, October 17th and focus instead on funding existing neighbourhoods.

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