CTV News: August 20, 2025

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.”

City News July 2, 2025

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: July 2, 2025 

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: July 1, 2025 

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: June 30, 2025

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.

CBC News: June 26, 2025

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: June 25, 2025

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: June 25, 2025

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.

CTV News: Tim Cartmell calling for pause on new infill development

Councillor and mayoral candidate Tim Cartmell is calling for a moratorium on all new infill development in Edmonton.