IFTP Call for designs

Infill Fast Track Program 1.0 Call for designs

Submitting a design

Designs can be submitted starting on April 1, 2025 at midnight, and must be received not later than April 15, 2025, 11:59 pm.

Before submitting a design, please ensure that you comply to the following:

Minimum building design criteria

Applicant eligibility

  • This call out is open to anyone who submits a design that meets the minimum design criteria. This application is not a procurement or a design competition.

The designs that you submit must meet the following requirements: 

Permits

  • The design must have been approved and released at least once within a developed community in the City of Calgary boundary. The relevant Development Permit (DP) and Building Permit (BP) numbers and address must be provided. It is beneficial if Development Completion Permit and Building Permit occupancy is issued on your example development.
  • Development Permit meets all rules of the R-CG district of the Land Use Bylaw 1P2007 with no Bylaw discrepancies and have no issues with field inspections (if DCP is issued).
  • The building permit meets the prescriptive requirements of the National Building Code, Alberta Edition, has no alternative solutions, and had minimal issues on plans examination and field inspections.
  • Must include two (2)-unit semi-detached (with two (2) secondary suites) and two (2) backyard suites, four (4)-unit townhouse (with a minimum of two (2) secondary suites), and four (4)-unit corner rowhouse (with  a minimum of two (2) secondary suites
  • The site design will require to have on one side, adjacent from the property line, a 1.2m walkway width minimum. The material for the walkway is to the discretion of the designer, with pavers being an option if preferred.

*Please note the DP and BP plans must be the same, only with the addition of site-specific details and colour and comparable material changes that do not require any new Land Use Bylaw check or Building Code review may be permitted.  

 

Lot and slope requirements

Infill Fast Track Program 1.0 Typologies

The Catalogue will be for infill Residential Contextual Grade Oriented R-CG zoned sites.  Typologies that will be displayed in the first Catalogue publication will be: two (2)-unit semi-detached (with two (2) secondary suites) and two (2) backyard suites, four (4)-unit townhouse (with a minimum of two (2) secondary suites), and four (4)-unit corner rowhouse (with a minimum of two (2) secondary suites). After determining the success of this program, we hope to explore ways to include more typologies to the program in the future.

Two-unit semi-detached (with two (2) secondary suites and two (2) backyard suites)

4-unit townhouse (with a minimum of 2 secondary suites)

Four-unit townhouse (with a minimum of two (2) secondary suites)

See Townhouse - Land Use Bylaw 1P2007 - Part 4, ,Division 2, Section 319.

4-unit townhouse (with a minimum of 2 secondary suites)

Four-unit rowhouse (with a minimum of two (2) secondary suites)

See Rowhouse - Land Use Bylaw 1P2007 - Part 4, Division 2, Section 287.

4-unit townhouse (with a minimum of 2 secondary suites)

Contact us

For more information, please email InfillFastTrack@calgary.ca.

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