Calgary city council remains part of new community approval process amid changes
Calgary city council has made several changes to the way new neighbourhoods are approved, but removing city councillors entirely from the process wasn’t one of them.floated the idea in July as part of a proposal to “depoliticize” the process of approving new communities by allowing administration to take on that work and judge the business cases on a set of criteria.
However, some councillors were opposed to the idea of removing council from the decision-making process around new communities.‘Working hard to maintain affordability’: Calgary city council gets first look at 4-year budget “Any attempt to pretend that these are not difficult political choices, but are in fact some sort of technical decision, I think is problematic.”
But city council doesn’t necessarily have to follow those recommendations and could approve more community developments than administration recommended.