The Million Dollar Parking Lot

05/31/22 • 28 min

What is the cost of regulating the number of parking spaces for every development? And — more importantly — who pays for it?
Case study: Ambrose Place, featuring: Carola Cunningham, CEO, Niginan Housing Ventures; Lyla Peter, Director, Development Approvals and Inspections, City of Edmonton

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Cities are a collection of spaces — and we’re all trying to find a place within them.

In this podcast series, The City of Edmonton explores what land uses people engage with, seeking to better understand how our plans and policies shape their experiences. It’ll take the conversation out of the recording studio and into the streets and neighbourhoods where the rubber of policy meets the road.

The episodes are stories of actual people and communities whose lives have been impacted by how we plan our cities, and the hard-won lessons of how we can make Edmonton more equitable for everyone.

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Why do we need to prove we’re good neighbours? How can policy and people shift towards providing housing for all?
Case study: Westmount supportive living, featuring: Susan McGee, CEO, Homeward Trust; Colton Kirsop, former Manager for Project Development, Housing and Homelessness, City of Edmonton

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[Narrator] So, this is a story about zoning and city planning in Edmonton... but I think it’s worth starting by going back about 100 years... to the year 1922 to Cleveland, Ohio, the setting of a court case called Euclid v. Ambler.
It’s 1922 and a real estate development company called Ambler owns 62 acres of land in Euclid, Ohio, a suburb just outside of Cleveland. And one day they get word that the village of Euclid has decided to adopt this new rule... You see, Euclid was this quaint