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CTV News: Mayoral candidates lay out plans to address Edmonton infill woes if elected this fall
Cartmell is calling for reduced units and mandatory parking stalls. He believes mistakes have been made by the current council.
“Frankly, I think that there was more of a focus on policy than there was on people,” Cartmell, who currently represents the southwestern Ward pihêsiwin and who was first elected to city council in 2017, told media on Wednesday.
“A lot of this work was crafted during (the COVID-19 pandemic), when there was not a lot of opportunity for face-to-face engagement, and I think we left people behind.”
Building It Better—A Smarter Path for Infill in Edmonton
Edmonton is a city on the rise. More people are choosing to build their lives here, and we need to make room for that growth. But we also need to make sure it’s done right.
Over the past few years, infill has become one of the most contentious issues at City Hall. Residents have seen major changes in their neighbourhoods—without warning, without the infrastructure to support them, and without being part of the conversation.
That’s not smart growth. And it’s not the Edmonton way.
My plan is simple: smart growth, strong neighbourhoods.
What does that mean?
It means putting people at the centre—by launching neighbourhood-based action groups that give residents a real seat at the table in shaping their communities. Engagement that listens and responds.
It means regulatory clarity— that incorporates community feedback; scaling back mid-block row housing, applying temporary holding zones where needed, and ensuring zoning reflects a community’s actual capacity to grow.
It means focusing growth where it makes the most sense—downtown, Blatchford, along transit, and around our universities and colleges.
It means designing with care—setting strong architectural expectations, protecting privacy, and expanding the role of the Edmonton Design Committee to ensure infill enhances neighbourhood character.
And it means finally aligning our plans—integrating the City Plan, District Plans, and a new Infill Infrastructure Strategy to guide smarter investments and responsible development.
We’ll also require every infill application in mature neighbourhoods to include a cumulative impact statement—outlining how much development has already occurred in the area and what that means for population, housing units and property values.
This is a plan that works for communities, for builders, and for a better Edmonton.
Let’s not pit neighbours against neighbours. Let’s come together and build something we can be proud of.
Read the full policy here: https://www.timcartmell.ca/smart_growth_strong_neighbourhoods
Let’s build it better.
— Tim
Edmonton Journal: What Edmonton is getting wrong with infill housing
Earlier this week, a motion put forward by councillor and mayoral candidate Tim Cartmell to halt infill development until there’s more consultation was ruled “out of order” by fellow councillors.
Cartmell said he feels it’s needed.
“It’s the neighbourhoods with the highest property values that are seeing this, as opposed to other neighbourhoods. Something is going on, and we should stop and figure out what all those details are. That’s what I’m hearing from community, and I’m trying to convey that at council, and I’m not getting support from my other councillors to acknowledge that concern,” Cartmell explained.
CBC News: Councillor's motion to slow down infill development in Edmonton crushed at meeting
City coun.Tim Cartmell proposed an idea to pause some infill development temporarily. But Edmonton's legal team shut down his motion at a public hearing. CBC's Tristan Mottershead reports.
CBC News: Edmonton city councillor's infill moratorium attempt fails for legal reasons
Edmonton city council won't be putting a moratorium on infill, after the city's legal team advised that doing so would contravene provincial legislation.
Ward pihêsiwin Coun. Tim Cartmell, who's also a mayoral candidate in the upcoming election, put forward a motion Monday evening to pause development approvals for mid-block properties, in the small scale residential zone, until the city re-examines plans for groups of neighbourhoods.
CTV News: Frustration, confusion over city hall hearing on Edmonton infill
City councillor Tim Cartmell, who’s running for mayor this fall, called the hearing “an absolute mess.”
“We’ve split this thing into a discussion at the beginning of the meeting, and a discussion at the end of the meeting, and the meeting is two 12-hour-days long, and people don’t know if they should be here at the beginning, or here at the end,” Cartmell, who represents Ward pihêsiwin on Edmonton’s south side, told media on Monday.
Edmonton Journal: 'Absolute mess': Public put on hold as city council wades through marathon zoning session
Edmonton Journal: June 30, 2025
Coun. Tim Cartmell put his thoughts in very simple terms.
“It’s an absolute mess,” the mayoral candidate said of city council’s Monday public hearing into proposed changes to the zoning bylaw.
CBC News: Should Edmonton put a pause on infill?
Mayoral candidate and Ward pihêsiwin Coun. Tim Cartmell is calling for a moratorium on infill development. He said it's not the smaller infill developments — like duplexes and skinny homes — that are angering people in older neighbourhoods, but the large, monolithic multi-unit buildings that have been popping up between single-family homes.
MSN: Cartmell to call for a moratorium on new infill in Edmonton
At a public hearing scheduled for next week, where Edmonton city council will discuss a motion to potentially put new limits on some infill development, one city councillor says he plans to suggest putting a moratorium on new infill development entirely.
City News: ‘Too much, too fast’: Edmonton mayoral candidate pushes for moratorium on some infill development
An Edmonton mayoral candidate wants a pause on infill development. Tim Cartmell says residents are concerned with multi-units being built on a lot previously meant for one.