Hate having to drive long distances to get to work, shop, get your errands done etc.? With infill development, and the city’s work on encouraging mixed-use development – neighbourhoods are moving towards being complete. “Complete” meaning having everything to meet daily needs and access jobs, education and health care. Complete neighbourhoods are more walkable, healthy and enjoyable to live in. If you’ve heard the word “infill” and think it is a buzz word that just happens to be popular in Calgary real estate, let us help you understand the meaning and importance of infills. Infill homes are a way of revitalizing a city’s downtown and inner city communities. When integrated with city planning, infills can improve transportation systems, protect the environment, improve public health and revitalize a dead inner city. Calgary is just one city of many that is prioritizing re-energizing the inner city – with commitments toward increased public transit, infill development and mixed use communities. Infill homes are built on vacant or underutilized land within urban centres and rural hubs. Often, older, smaller and inefficient homes are demolished – and newer, more efficient (and often larger) homes are built in their place. These new homes use the space more effectively and have all the current safety and environmental uprgades. Infill homes also bring style and modernity back into a neighbourhood – and bringing that “new” feeling back into a neighbourhood. Not only do infills provide gorgeous new homes in desirable inner city communities – they are also part of healthy development. It’s no wonder that cities like Fresno California are using infill development...
