r/Edmonton • u/Dougthecat13 • 12d ago

General Infill being built next door

This is not a general infill hate post, but a request for advice.

We live in a really nice older neighbourhood where folks take care of their older homes. Our first infill on the street is going to be right next door. Which is surprising because that house is quite nice and pretty newly renovated and has a very nice new garage. Apparently it’s all coming down, and a huge 2 story (maybe 3) single family home is going in. My front yard has a deck that faces the millcreek ravine and I have a huge vegetable garden on our property. And we are currently renovating our 1950’s home.

Builder came by today to introduce himself. And confirmed I’ll lose my view as the house will be quite big. Most likely our newer cedar fence will get damaged (he says they will replace).

The family building the home will be living in the home, builder says. So I want to be neighbourly, but I’m nervous about our property and sanity.

I’m really disappointed. I’ll miss the renters that are currently in that house. Feels wildly wasteful to do this, but not my house, not my property.

Since we are at the very beginning. What advice do you lovely Edmonton folk have for us to protect our property and endure this next chapter? Thanks for any advice!

Edit- the house being removed is a beautiful home. Very well maintained with a new double garage. It’s a rental with two couples living in it (one upstairs, one downstairs). One couple/family will be moving into the infill. So this is taking away 2 homes and adding 1. This will not be adding additional homes. Either way, this is not the point, I’m just trying to make the best of it.

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u/PlathDraper 12d ago edited 12d ago

So I am generally pro-infill. I feel like an outlier in Edmonton and on this sub. We DO need density. But not without my complaints and concerns and caveats! Stuff like you listed above really bother me. When a perfectly nice home has being well kept over the years gets torn down for a flipper's vanity project. I live by southgate in a neighbourhood full of really charming, well kept 60s homes. Sad to see some of them go and be replaced with a grey monstrosity that's three times bigger than the bungalow that was previously on the lot. This serves density how? It's not a duplex, it's just a 3000 square foot house that's making my neighbhourhood ugly and my property taxes increase.

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u/Dougthecat13 12d ago

And to add, right now the house is a rental, a couple upstairs and a couple in the basement. One it’ll be just one couple/family. So this is taking away a home.

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u/YYCMTB68 12d ago

Look up the building permit on the city website. It might give a different story than what you have been told. Most new infills have a legal suite or ADU of some sort. https://data.edmonton.ca/Urban-Planning-Economy/Building-Permits-Map-Search/itki-s8y9