A growth management strategy that relies on extensive urban infill requires major changes from past industry and regulatory practice. For the strategy to succeed, builders and local governments must change the way they operate and work more closely together to further each others’ goals.
Key insights:
This report from the Housing Partnership discusses ten essentials for advancing gentle density infill development, including:
- Building political will
- Making infill attractive and profitable to developers
- Planning development based on market demand
- Ensuring new housing preserves existing neighbourhood character
- Promoting livable designs
- Providing a supportive regulatory process.
For each essential, a section is provided to discuss the topic’s importance, highlight the changes that must be made, and denote the roles that developers, local organizations, municipalities, and provincial governments must uptake to successfully deliver each initiative.
An emphasis is placed on municipalities working closely with developers to ensure that regulatory environments work to support development and vice versa.
This publication was prepared by The Housing Partnership, through a contribution from
the Washington Association of Realtors.