Nimbus
Active Member
How soon until Banker Daddy takes the funding away?
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Infill Development Discussion
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CalgaryTiger
Senior Member
I also wonder how many developers buy and apply between now and August. You don't have to build once you get a land use so why not take advantage of it?
trtcttc
Senior Member
Maybe I'm misreading the comment but isn't that every property that a resident is just living in and not being actively re-developed? Which is most of the housing stock in the city.
If they do that it's just bureaucracy run amuck. Judge cities on their results. We hit the target a year in advance, are one of the top performing communities in building housing, and now based on some rules people in Ottawa wrote, places that built less housing will be rewarded more than the city that built more housing. Rezoning is one aspect of it, but so is our speed of DP approval, availability of trades, heritage/design guidelines, all have an effect.
Government of Canada awards $74 million to top-performing Housing Accelerator Fund communities
Top-performing Housing Accelerator Fund communities will receive additional funding as part of the first round of the program.
I also find the entire program doesn't align incentives properly. if you look at the city website on HAF, there's 9 initiatives, with only 1 that has any material benefit to residents, the community investment piece. I'm in favour of redevelopment, but if we want people to get onboard, shouldn't the answer be, if we build more housing, we'll get funds to invest in the community so services will keep up with population? Imagine a new pool with a big sign that it's built with HAF funding. Instead, we ask residents to rezone their property for more residents, so the city gets more money to build more housing? Affordable housing is good, but the way the program works, the incentives just doesn't make sense.
Housing Accelerator Fund (HAF)
The Government of Canada announced details about the new Housing Accelerator Fund on 17 March 2023. This $4 billion fund is meant to support municipalities with transformational change. It will help build 100,000 new homes in Canada by September 2026.
www.calgary.ca
lemongrab
Active Member
I think as of August the only RCG properties in the city will be ones that:
- successfully applied for land-use redesignation to RCG before May 2024
- applied for a DP between May 2024 and Aug 2026
Everything else (that isn't new enough to be R-G) is reverting back to the various forms of R-1 and R-2. So presumably the previous RCG rules will remain in effect for any DPs already approved between now and the effective date. New RCG rules would only apply to anyone who did land-use before May 2024 and hasn't yet redeveloped (or for properties who will now go though the land-use redesignation public hearing process. Not sure what happens for active DPs that don't get fully approved before August?
It was a little funny to see council immediately run into the complexity and confusion of having like a dozen zoning categories for SFH/duplexes, with many councillors struggling to understand discretionary vs. permitted uses.
trtcttc
Senior Member
Right, I misread your comment as talking about current housing, but you mean once the rezoning is fully repealed. I agree there's not many R-CG and I'd think all in-progress DP will be grandfathered with zoning when they applied. It's going to be pretty complicated to revert, taking into account all the applications that's happened since rezoning.
That's the problem when you have lots of first term councilors, that probably don't fully understand the bylaws they're passing.