Crestwood residents fear 8-plex ‘sandwiches’ being fast-tracked before provincial deadline

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Crestwood residents fear builders and the City of Edmonton are racing the clock, trying to approve infill developments before a January deadline to roll back housing bylaws.

People living in Edmonton’s Crestwood neighbourhood fear a huge infill development may be coming to their community.

It comes after numerous permits were submitted to the City of Edmonton to build new eightplexes in the established, desirable west-end neighbourhood near the North Saskatchewan River Valley.

It’s become a conversation some Crestwood residents say they’re having all too often: the prospect of another infill development near their single-family homes.

“This is something that is destroying neighbourhoods. It’s pitting neighbours against each other, creating a horrible cause-and-effect,” said Crestwood resident Terry Paranych, who is real estate agent and developer.

Paranych has experience with redeveloping properties in established neighbourhoods — he’s developing single-family residential infill for 20 years and says respecting the existing look and feel of an area is important to him.

Earlier this year, he bought a lot slated to become an eightplex in the McQueen neighbourhood and instead is putting up a new, single-family home.

“This style of infill does not fit in the middle of residential neighbourhood,” he said of large eightplexes.

“These kinds of developments — sure, on a corner lot on a busy road, an arterial road, leading into a community — to put four or six units, that makes sense. But to put them in the middle of the block… this is just an ideological play by a very undisciplined and poor city council.”

2023 zoning bylaw changes paved the way for housing redevelopment across much of Edmonton, in an effort to increase density, affordability, and manage population growth.

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