City of Edmonton offers incentives to encourage transit-oriented development
The proposed Infill Infrastructure Program would incentivize building residential units along priority growth areas identified by the city.
Edmonton city council discussed measures to encourage more housing development around mass transit hubs on Tuesday at the Urban Planning Committee. The city administration proposed the Infill Infrastructure Program, which aims to incentivize the construction of residential units in priority growth areas identified by the city. These areas are located near LRT stations and transit centers.
Committee Chair Anne Stevenson expressed her hope that the new incentives would lead to increased transit-oriented development in the future. "We have trains that are running, we have buses that are running," Stevenson stated. "By putting more people on those lines, we get higher ridership, we have more people using that infrastructure that we’ve already invested in."
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