Media and Public Engagement: Get Involved

Ideas around land use and concepts like housing, open space, mobility, shared by the many students who participated in the Zoning Bylaw Renewal Initiative youth engagement activities, have been compiled into a new report. Read the Zoning Bylaw Renewal Youth Engagement Report (3.38 MB)

Your feedback, insights, and experiences are important to us, and will help us shape the new Zoning Bylaw. Get involved with upcoming engagement activities — or read up on previous input and how that has set the direction for this initiative.

Current Public Engagement Opportunities

A diverse demographic of people and organizations will be invited over the course of the year to identify issues, solutions and approaches to collaboratively advance the Zoning Bylaw Renewal Initiative. To ensure Edmontonians and stakeholders are prepared to participate and their needs are accommodated, Administration will be tailoring engagement activities based on audience. Visit Projects and Timeline for the engagement schedule. Please use this short survey to indicate if you have any questions about upcoming engagement, or want to share your thoughts on how we could engage with you. Sign up for our newsletter to be notified of future engagement opportunities. 

Engagement Reports

These reports capture the details from previous engagement activities with residents, businesses, industry, community organizations and more.

• What We Heard Report: Public Engagement June-July 2021:  Engagement activities focused on 3 specific topics: Approach to Zones, Approach to Uses and Approach to Residential Areas; each with a range of ideas to explore.
• Community Conversations (2020):  Conversations with community members were facilitated to explore and understand how zoning impacts Edmontonians’ daily lives. Explicit attention was given to ensuring people, specifically Black, Indigenous, and racialized, underrepresented, and marginalized communities, were invited to participate.
• What We Heard Report: Discussion Papers (2020):  This report summarizes the feedback received through the Discussion Paper engagement that occurred between July-November 2020. 
• What We Heard Report: Public Engagement Events (2018-2019):  This report summarizes the engagement activities that led to the direction and philosophy of the new Zoning Bylaw.
• ​ ​City Plan Engagement​ Data Analysis: Zoning: This report summarizes how previous City Plan engagement data were reviewed through a zoning lens, to confirm and validate the direction and philosophy of the new Zoning Bylaw.

Visit Technical Studies and Guiding Reports for a full list of reports.