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accommodating growth 2007 – 2026 monitoring growth and change series ii the city of calgary
accommodating growth 2007 – 2026 monitoring growth and change series executive summary Executive Summary Accommodating Growth is a Council-mandated document. This document is intended to be used by Administration, Council and the development industry to better coordinate municipal capital investment priorities in new suburban growth areas, and to make better informed decisions on sustainable longterm residential growth. Accommodating Growth is not a policy document, but is intended to inform decision making. Sustainable growth, informed by a Triple Bottom Line perspective, is an important focus for the City of Calgary. Coordinating the infrastructure and service needs related to growth is part of the sustainability equation. The information contained in Accommodating Growth is used to provide a greater level of assurance that the City has the ability to deliver the necessary infrastructure and services to new areas at key Council decision-making points in the land use planning and implementation cycle. • Business Units across the Corporation are responding to growth pressures and adjusting their capital budgets accordingly and where approved by Council. • Over the next decade (2007-2016), business units (both self and tax supported) have identified growth related capital projects worth 7.37 billion that are necessary to the address growth needs of Calgary. Of this total 4.75 billion are unfunded. During the same time period (2007-2016) business units also identified, within the Capital Budget, the need for 4.43 billion to address maintenance, upgrade and service projects. • The Operational Framework was revised, in collaboration with UDI-Calgary, to better reflect existing administrative processes. A sub-committee of the Infrastructure Coordinating Committee will now be responsible for making recommendations and proposing solutions on Outline Plan and Land Use Applications where the required municipal infrastructure has not been identified in the Capital Budget Plan. Accommodating Growth maps the growth related capital projects in conjunction with the long range population growth forecasts. This information is presented by Business Unit and by geographic sector of the city. The following is a summary of some of the key findings contained in Accommodating Growth 2007-2026: • The City of Calgary has experienced significant population growth over the past ten years, resulting in a high demand for residential development. • The City of Calgary recorded the highest year to year (2005-2006) population gain (35,681) with record levels of in-migration (25,794) and natural increase (9,887). • By 2011 the population of the City of Calgary is forecast to be approximately 1.1 million people. In 20 years (2026) the population is forecast to rise by 28% to almost 1.4 million people. • The total land absorption forecast over the next 20 years (2007-2026) is anticipated to be 90 square kilometers. (Approximately 159,000 residential units.) the city of calgary iii
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