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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.)
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