Lot in Edmonton’s Crestwood neighbourhood rezoned for infill despite residents’ concerns
Posted December 16, 2025 9:26 am.
Edmonton city councillors voted to rezone a lot in the city’s Crestwood neighbourhood on Monday afternoon, despite an outpouring of opposition.
The lot on the corner of 146 Street and 95 Avenue was the site of Edmonton’s latest infill debate.
Developers needed to go to Edmonton City Hall for permission because the row houses would be larger and taller than the current blanket rezoning. The plan is for an 11-unit apartment complex: five row houses, five secondary suites and one garden suite.
Crestwood resident Wade Fenner says he’s not against infill, but he feels these 11 new units – along with a 16-unit infill built blocks away this summer – is too much density at once.
“Where the hell are you going to put 24 cars on a beautiful tree lined mature street of $1.5 million homes, right? It’s ridiculous.”
“That means the neighbour that’s got a 1,600 square foot bungalow worth about $1.5-$1.7 (million) just lost $400,000 worth of value. So have a ‘skinny,’ have a basement suite and have a garage suite, potentially on each split lot, but make it mandatory one of those units is owner occupied.”
Reed Clarke, the councillor for the area – ward Nakota Isga – put forward a motion to delay the vote until the new year, noting that with more than 100 people officially opposing the project, city leaders should engage more with those nearby.
“And then I also received emails and messages myself, which were another 100 plus,” Clarke said. “And I don’t think, if you look at all the other ones around the rezoning docket today, it was noted nowhere else was even near that number. So it’s a significant number. So I have to make sure that that context is being listened to.
That motion did not pass, but the city heard from more than 100 homeowners opposed to the rezoning.
“As somebody living in an infill, we don’t want our streets to be crowded with cars either,” said Crestwood’s Callie Lissinna, who lives in a nearby infill townhome.
Lissinna says she understands neighbours’ concerns and frustrations with parking, but says multi-unit infill housing is inevitable in Edmonton, adding it’s on city council to hold developers accountable.
“We understand that concern, and we want somewhere to park our car. So we have one on the street and one in a garage right now, which isn’t ideal, so I’d love to see like that taken more into account in the designs of infill homes.”
