Expanding Housing Options Survey

What Should Guide Housing in St. Albert?

The City of St. Albert is advancing work to support future housing growth and expand housing options in alignment with existing policy direction.

This includes preparing draft updates to the Land Use Bylaw and completing a Housing Needs Assessment to better understand current and future housing needs in the community.

This work builds on:

• The approved Municipal Development Plan
• Council direction on housing choice and growth
• The federal Housing Accelerator Fund, administered by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC), which supports increasing housing supply and reducing barriers to development
• The City's Housing Accelerator Fund Initiatives: Transit Corridor Intensification Strategy & Neighbourhood Intensification Strategy
• Ongoing infrastructure and growth planning

Before Land Use Bylaw updates are prepared, the City sought input through a survey (now closed) on four proposed guiding principles that will shape how housing-related regulations are drafted.

City staff and the project consultant and currently reviewing these survey results alongside technical studies and infrastructure analyses. To view the survey's "What We Learned Report", click HERE. Additional details will be shared publicly at a “drop-in” style open house on June 18, 2026 (click HERE), and provided to Council when draft Land Use Bylaw updates are introduced at the July 7, 2026 Standing Committee of the Whole meeting, and subsequently at the September 15, 2026 Council meeting. The survey had also included questions about residents’ housing experiences and priorities to help inform the Housing Needs Assessment and support future housing planning decisions. A separate link to that Housing Needs Assessment and its tailored "What We Learned Report" will be made availble via this page in the near future.