Transit-Oriented Communities

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We want to hear from you, Shawnee Slopes, Evergreen, Millrise, Midnapore and Shawnessy.

What makes your community great? What would make your community an even better place to live, work and play? How could the development of new homes at your community LRT station support your community’s priorities?

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We want to hear from you, Dalhousie and Varsity.

What makes your community great? What would make your community an even better place to live, work and play? How could the development of new homes at your community LRT station support your community’s priorities?

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We want to hear from you, Southwood, Canyon Meadows, Willow Park and Lake Bonavista.

What makes your community great? What would make your community an even better place to live, work and play? How could the development of new homes at your community LRT station support your community’s priorities?

We are now building on our community-building experience by partnering with The City of Calgary to support their housing strategy (called Home is Here), which identifies an urgent need for new housing in response to the city’s growing population.

One of the priorities outlined in the strategy is to develop new housing on under-used City-owned land adjacent to Red Line LRT stations. Communities of this kind located adjacent to transit hubs, are called Transit Oriented Communities (TOC), and this is where CMLC is focusing our work.

Our portfolio approach to TOC is designed to enable CMLC to create a long-term pipeline of TOC development in Calgary, and to manage that pipeline in alignment with market demand.

CMLC’s role in the development of TOCs in Calgary is to:

• Conduct community engagement to understand what is most important and most needed for each site
• Build a community-informed master plan for each site that reflects a balance of housing, commercial space and community amenities

Engage private developers to understand what market interest and demand, and to design and build the housing, guided by the master plan.

We are in the very early stages of exploring future TOC sites. Fish Creek-Lacombe, Dalhousie and Anderson LRT Station Park & Rides are the first three sites we are beginning to explore. These sites have been identified as a potential TOC site because they are all under-used City-owned land along the Red Line LRT and near major transportation corridors, which gives them great potential to become well-connected and vibrant parts of their communities with a range of housing options, commercial and retail spaces, and new community amenities and public spaces.

The first steps of our due diligence on the three initial TOC sites at Fish Creek-Lacombe, Anderson and Dalhousie will involve geo-technical analysis on each site and community surveys. This first phase of engagement will inform subsequent phases of engagement, which will include focused workshops, open houses and other opportunities for the community to inform the master plan for this new community. We are also working through the early stages of procurement for community planning consultants.