Smart Choices

The Smart Choices Program was inspired by and takes its name from the “smart growth” trend in urban planning. The program supports and develops projects and policies that will result in a more compact, walkable, and transit-oriented City, with well designed, pedestrian-friendly communities.

Program initiatives

  • Commercial redevelopment
  • Neighbourhood re-investment
  • Planning education and consultation
  • Planning for growth
  • Residential infill
  • Transit oriented development
  • Urban design
  • Walkability

Current projects supported by the program

Corner Store Project

Large Site Redevelopment

Stadium Station Transit Oriented Development

Residential Infill

Transit Oriented Development Guidelines

Previous projects supported by the program

Planning Academy

Walkable Edmonton

(Draft) Design Guidelines for New Neighbourhoods
Grovenor Glenora Planning Project
Smart Choices Check Lists

Program history

City Council approved the Smart Choices Program in 2004 to address some of the city's key development challenges and improve the way the city evolves and grows.

The goals for Smart Choices have been re-affirmed in the City’s Strategic Plan (2009-2018), the Municipal Development Plan (2010), and the Transportation Master Plan (2009). Together they call for transforming Edmonton’s urban form, improving Edmonton’s livability, shifting Edmonton’s transportation mode, as well as preserving and sustaining Edmonton’s environment.

 

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