November 17, 2025
RED FM News Desk
Calgary city council will revisit its contentious blanket rezoning policy next week as a new motion calling for the bylaw’s repeal heads to an executive committee meeting.
The proposal, signed by Mayor Jeromy Farkas and six councillors, argues the citywide rezoning plan “cut thousands of Calgarians out of having a direct say on the future redevelopment of their communities.”
The motion criticizes the public engagement process, noting the bylaw’s hearings lasted 15 days and involved input from more than 1,000 residents — a process supporters of the repeal say was insufficient for a change of this scale.
It also claims the rezoning has strained aging infrastructure, increased traffic in established neighbourhoods, overlooked the impacts of density on transit and amenities, and “harmed the character” of communities. One line even attributes “traffic congestion created due to excessive blue, black and green carts in alleys and roads” to the policy.
Ward 10 Coun. Andre Chabot is among the councillors backing the motion, which will be debated by the executive committee next week.
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