Council Decisions: Special Council Meeting, July 9, 2025
Thursday, July 10, 2025
Here is a summary of the decisions of Rocky View County Council at the July 9, 2025 Special Council Meeting. This is a general overview of the meeting. Details of the agenda, specifics of the meeting, and any decisions can be found in the minutes of the meeting on the Meetings & Hearings page. Details are also available by contacting Legislative Services.
Public Hearing
The purpose of the Special Council Meeting was to hold a Public Hearing to consider Bylaw C-8569-2024, to amend the Conrich Area Structure Plan (ASP) and facilitate development within the Future Policy Area (FPA).
Council voted to refer Bylaw C-8569-2024 to Administration to consider the following amendments to the draft bylaw:
- Extend the hamlet boundary to include Cambridge Developments Cell ‘D’.
- Remove policies allowing Work/Live in the Highway Transition and Industrial Transition areas.
- Include policy to allow limited scope subdivision and development to proceed within the neighborhood areas.
- Consider mixed-use development densities in overall densities for the neighborhood areas.
- Amend the definition of Master Site Development Plans to clarify that these documents are statutory in nature.
- Administrative and clerical amendments, including correction of the average density requirements.
Council also directed Administration to return with Bylaw C-8569-2024 and Council’s proposed amendments, for consideration at a Public Hearing on July 15, 2025.
Previous Information
The existing Conrich ASP was adopted in December 2015, and the area currently contains a mix of residential, industrial, and agricultural uses. The ASP provides a comprehensive planning and technical framework for a development area identified in the County Plan as a Full-Service Hamlet and Regional Business Centre.
The FPA contemplated an expanded hamlet boundary, a Community Core, and residential areas, to be planned at a future time. Amendments have been prepared that achieve this vision, so that a complete community can be developed within the expanded hamlet area.
On October 16, 2024, Administration presented the proposed FPA policies and associated revisions to the ASP at a Public Hearing. At that meeting, Council referred the document back to complete additional revisions with consideration for Council’s direction and comments received from the public. Highlights of the revisions made to the draft since the last public hearing include:
- Setting a lower average density target of 5 units per acre for the new planned development areas.
- Limiting the scale and location of multi-family development within the ASP area.
- Additional policies guiding architectural controls, including building heights and transitions between building forms.
- Revised Neighbourhood Area boundaries and consolidating the Community Core within the Northwest Neighbourhood Area.
- Revision to the phasing of the Hamlet area now focuses development sequence based on servicing availability.
- Removing references to the Calgary Metropolitan Growth Board.
- Providing an effective date of Bylaw C-8569-2024.
- Minor clerical amendments to the documents to update and align with recent approvals and terminology.
The proposed plan continues to identify a Long-Term Development Area that protects lands east of the Hamlet Policy Area from interim uses or fragmentation to ensure future efficient development pattern.
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