Edmonton city council discussed ways to help attract more housing development centred around mass transit hubs.
City administration proposed the Infill Infrastructure Program at Tuesday’s Urban Planning Committee. The program would incentivize building residential units along priority growth areas identified by the city, which would include areas close to LRT stations and transit centres.
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Committee Chair Anne Stevenson said she hopes these incentives will mean more transit-oriented development in the future.
“We have trains that are running, we have buses that are running.” Stevenson said.
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“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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Whenever you have to give incentives is because people don’t want something and you are trying to force people to do it.
I wish that the government would quit trying to control us and just go back to building roads and sidewalks.