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If you're interested in critical city building conversations around housing, zoning, and affordability in , consider checking out Infill Edmonton: IDEA's second annual infill symposium on Oct. 12th. More info here: www.shorturl.at/cdgt1

Today is International Women's Day, a day to celebrate the achievement of women, raise awareness regarding discrimination, and take action to drive gender parity.

We believe that urban planning and real estate (re)development play a huge role in creating cities that work for women, and it's part of the reason that we do the work we do.

Food for thought: according to a 2022 report, 'Cities Alive: Designing Cities that Work for Women’, only 2-3% of statues worldwide represent women🗽(!)

What are your ideas on how we can make cities more livable and lovable for women? More representation in urban art and place naming? Wider sidewalks, more transportation options? Share in the comments; we'd love to know.

Thanks to for the shout out on our rezoning collabs in Avonmore and Strathearn 🏘️! These are great neigbourhoods that are going to get great new buildings just steps from the new LRT line. Win-win-win!

NOTE: Edmonton is on track to have a brand new zoning bylaw in 2024. If you want to keep tabs on what's coming (and our opinionated thoughts on it), sign up for our newsletter by popping over to our website and signing up here: https://situateinc.ca/zone-in/

We feel VERY lucky to be able to work on so many fantastic projects, and the Ritchie Mill expansion project is definitely one of the coolest.

DID YOU KNOW:

Built in 1892, Ritchie Mill is the oldest fully operational office building in both Edmonton and the Province of Alberta. Founder Robert Ritchie introduced steam assisted rollers in the mill to crush wheat into flour, and as a result, Ritchie Mill served as a major catalyst for farmers to start growing wheat in the Edmonton area 🥖 🥨 🥯.

Now a thriving commercial building housing over 40 businesses, in 2021 our team worked with Ritchie Mill and City heritage planners to get Council rezoning approval for a modern office expansion that will complement the historic structure and add more office space.

To learn more about Ritchie Mill and other Situate projects, check out our webpage: https://situateinc.ca/project/ritchiemill/

Another super cool project coming our way! Designed to look like a large single family dwelling (or what urban planners sometimes call a "manor house"), this building actually contains eight units—four on the upper level and four basement suites.

Shout out to and the amazing team at for the vision behind this beautiful project, coming to life in the mature Edmonton neighbourhood of Glenora!

One of our most interesting projects of 2022 was bringing infill to the newly developed neighbourhood of Chappelle, where we managed an RF3 (small scale infill) rezoning on behalf of a homeowner—the first of its kind in the area 🥇⚡.

This was a VERY unique file because most infill takes place in older communities— the purpose here was to allow for adaptive reuse with the home so it could be repurposed into a small multifamily rental. We were stoked to take on the project and so excited to see how it would turn out (it turned out well).

NOTE: In 2024 the zoning bylaw will be changing! Sign up for our newsletter to stay up to date (link in bio).

In our (opinionated) view, Edmonton's CB3 commercial mixed business zone is a terribly underrated gem of a zone. We enjoyed pulling it off the shelf and dusting it off for use in the rezoning of the St. John's Institute on Whyte Avenue, where it will be put to good use to foster purpose-built academic accommodations for students 🏢 🏗️ 🌳.

NOTE: there's going to be a new zoning bylaw in Edmonton in 2024 and the CB3 zone is changing! Keep tabs on what's happening by signing up for our newsletter. . . Find it on our website at the link in bio!

Over the years we've handled the RF3 rezoning for many cool clients, and is one of our faves.

We worked with Daniel to maximize the unit count on his lot with an awesome arrangement of townhouses, basements suites and garden suites that we can't WAIT to see come to life 🏗️ 🏘️.

NOTE: In Edmonton, the RF1 and RF3 zones are expected to be rolled into one zone in 2024, making RF1 to RF3 rezoning applications obsolete.

We think that's a really good thing for infill, because it will make building row housing in mature neighbourhoods so, so much easier.

If you want to keep tabs on changes to the zoning bylaw and more, sign up for our newsletter by popping over to our website at our link in bio!

We LOVE the projects we get to work on, but more than anything we love the humans behind those projects!

Shout out to , and the amazing team at for the vision behind this beautiful project, coming to life in the mature Edmonton neighbourhood of Idylwylde. Keep up the great work!

Here's why we love 😍 helping folks doing infill and urban redevelopment.

1. They're resilient: they know infill and urban redevelopment is challenging, and they do it anyway 💪.
2. They care: they value relationships and care about the people living in their buildings and shopping in their commercial spaces 👪.
3. They have purpose: they know they're helping to build a climate-resilient, people-friendly city 🛴 🌍.

As urban planning consultants, knowing that we contribute to the mission of our clients is the thing that gets us out of bed on wintry mornings ❄️🤩.

We want our clients to know that they have people on their team who are JUST as pumped and passionate about their mission as they are.

Do you want to FEEL like someone else is on your side in 2023?! Share this with someone who needs to hear this ♥️.