New Homes and Red Tape in Alberta: Residential Land-Use Regulation in the Calgary-Edmonton Corridor finds that the City of Calgary is stifling new home builds with burdensome red tape, compared to more development-friendly suburbs. Permit approval times in Calgary for residential developments average a staggering 13.5 months, compared to an average of 7.5 months for five of the city’s suburbs. Edmonton ranked sixth out of 12 municipalities in this updated survey of developers in terms of homebuilding regulations, and Calgary ranked tenth.
Professor Emeritus, School of Public Administration, University of Victoria
Associate Professor of Geography, University of Toronto
Professor of Economics, Lakehead University
Senior Policy Analyst, Fraser Institute
Senior Director, Center for Natural Resource Studies, Fraser Institute
Senior Policy Analyst, Fraser Institute
Director, Fiscal Studies, Fraser Institute
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Windsor