Geodemographics: the locational analysis of social, economic, and demographic information for urban and regional planning.
The Geodemographics section monitors growth and change on a city-wide basis to provide a context to manage Calgary's growth and corresponding quality of life. Our work includes:
Tracking the planned land supply, including the location of new residential and non-residential (commercial, industrial) areas.
Spatial allocation of economic and demographic projections (population and jobs forecast distributions).
Analysis of City infrastructure, facility and service needs in relation to the planned land supply and projected development patterns.
Supporting the planning activities of Land Use Planning & Policy in both new and established areas by providing custom population and job distributions with related analyses.
Monitoring Growth & Change Series:
Strategic Growth & Capital Investment - Updated for 2011
Strategic Growth and Capital Investment 2009-2011 is a Council mandated report to assist business units and planners with coordinating municipal capital investment priorities in new growth areas. It maps the growth-related capital projects from the corporate 10-Year Capital Plan in relation to the planned land supply and projected development pattern (in both new and developed areas) to identify long-term infrastructure and servicing needs. Strategic Growth and Capital Investment provides a common information base for decision-making and establishes an operational framework to undertake growth-related capital investment analysis (timing and sequencing). In addition, it establishes a forum to align growth-related projects toward the coordinated provision of services.
Suburban Residential Growth
Geodemographics conducts an inventory of suburban development activity each year to determine where and how fast Calgary is growing. The existing supply of residential land is then compared to the anticipated demand over a five year period. The
Suburban Residential Growth 2012-2016 report also identifies the infrastructure needs over the five-year period as a result of this growth. The intent of the SRG is to ensure that a sufficient supply of readily developable land is available, in a variety of locations, to facilitate competitive land and housing markets, while avoiding premature municipal investment in infrastructure. This report is updated annually.
Employment Areas Growth and Change
information for The City of Calgary, as a landowner, to monitor whether serviced (3-5 year supply), planned (15 year supply) and annexed (30 year supply) land is available for industrial growth.
a comprehensive mapped inventory of industrial growth from 2007 through the end of 2009.
an inventory of industrial land available to accommodate future growth based on municipal infrastructure plans.
New for 2010, the document also includes a mapped inventory of all Business Assessment Information System (BAIS) data. The inventory illustrates business assessed space in primary use categories for the Municipal Development Plan (MDP) retail sector areas. This information will be useful in developing more detailed city-wide and sub-area job density indicators.
Developed Areas Growth and Change
Calgary's Developed Areas house 80 per cent of the city's population, and include 176 different communities. Taken together, these areas are incredibly diverse, ranging from the office and residential towers of downtown to the school yards and homes in the suburbs.
For the first time,
Developed Areas Growth & Change 2010 is organized around the urban structure typologies (areas of similar form and function) identified by the Municipal Development Plan. The document is divided into two main sections. Part 1 provides summaries on demographic, housing and development activity data for each of the Developed Area typologies, and Part 2 contains several brief analyses on intensification potential. The Appendices contain pertinent statistical data, by typology and by community.
Despite a stable population, substantive changes are occurring in household makeup, in the demographics, and in development trends of the Developed Areas. Using a variety of data sources, this document seeks to draw attention to these trends.
Calgary Snapshots - Updates Available - June 2011
The
Calgary Snapshots provides an overview of the various reports and activities that Geodemographics undertakes to assist Council and the Administration in planning for growth and change.
Calgary Snapshots includes sections dealing with the Greenfield Development Picture, the Population Picture, the Employment Picture and Factors Influencing Development. Geodemographics updates these sections as new information becomes available. The Population Picture, The Employment Picture and The Greenfield Development Picture contain the most recent updates, with new content as of June 2011.
For ease of printing the
Calgary Snapshots bookmarks have been used in the main document. Go to the section you need and print the appropriate pages.
Contact
P.O. Box 2100, Stn M #8117
Calgary, Alberta
T2P 2M5
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