The Nose Creek Area Structure Plan
In June 2024, the City of Calgary’s Local Area Planning Team began the process of creating a revised Area Structure Plan (ASP) for the lands currently known as the “Nose Creek Lands.”
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The Nose Creek Area Structure Plan (ASP) Review will provide for the local area planning of 679 hectares (1,678 acres) in Calgary's northeast. This policy document will provide the vision, goals and core principles that will shape the future stages of development. It will guide land use patterns, transportation and utility networks and implement the broad planning objectives of the Municipal Development Plan, Calgary Transportation Plan and other relevant regional and city-wide policies and strategies.
This process will include the scoping and review of numerous technical reports and analysis evaluating everything from population and employment forecasts to archeology and biophysical inventory. It will identify lands of environmental significance and demonstrate through the location of pathways, parks and streets how its future residents and employees will be able to move, relax and play.
The outcome of all of this work will inform future growth strategies, identify the need for any Capital investments and provide for a sequencing of development.
A Land Use Concept will be developed that will show where all the higher ordered elements of a complete community should locate. It will contain the approximate location and type of facilities and amenities such as schools, neighbourhood activity centres, and industrial hubs.
FAQs
Frequently-Asked Questions
A reduction of the Noise Exposure Forecast (NEF) contours around the Calgary International Airport allows the potential for more land to be developed for residential purposes. As such the revisions to the Nose Creek ASP will explore a mix of uses without compromising the industrial importance of the area.
We are at the beginning of the ASP development process, which we call the “Envision Phase” and no Land Use Concept has been developed yet. The Land Use Concept will set the general land use typologies.
The Project Plan Area borders Rocky View County. Following higher-order Intermunicipal policy, we will collaborate with Rocky View County Administration during ASP development. Working with all interested parties, including Rocky View County, is good planning practice.
Yes. The City of Calgary has a long-established framework for the creation of Area Structure Plans. Commonly referred to as the ‘Developer-Funded Model’, this framework allows developer or landowner to apply to The City to create a new development plan for greenfield sites. All costs for the plan development are charged back to the developer or landowner. They are often the sole or majority landowner within the area being considered for plan development.
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GET INVOLVED
Feedback provided by participants helps shape the ASP as it is created.
Input provided by participants helps the project team understand perspectives, opinions and concerns throughout all phases of the project. Input collected in each phase of the project helps influence and inform the concepts and policies that are created and refined throughout the process. Throughout the project, the project team will share what was heard, highlight the key themes raised, and provide responses for how key themes are addressed and considered.
Participant input is an important part of the ASP process, but is one of many areas of consideration. Other areas include: City policies, professional expertise, current context and trends, and equity which all factor into the ultimate decision-making process and concept development.
