{"id":926051,"date":"2026-10-09T03:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926051\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T03:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T03:14:13","slug":"municipalities-accuse-province-of-overreach-with-edmonton-infill-directive-theyre-taking-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/926051\/","title":{"rendered":"Municipalities accuse province of overreach with Edmonton infill directive: \u2018They\u2019re taking over\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\tEdmonton Mayor Andrew Knack says the province is introducing chaos to municipal operations with its housing policy directive to reverse course on current infill rules.  Knack said amending the current land use bylaw will make housing more unaffordable for residents. The province argues it had to step in as homeowner concerns were not being addressed. Political analyst John Brennan says while the province&#8217;s measure is heavy handed, it is within its legal right to do so. Gates Guarin has the story.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Edmonton Mayor Andrew Knack says the province is introducing chaos to municipal operations with its housing policy directive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[27174,7611,200532,78630,99354,45,49,48,53105,23752,204262,120670,232357,194347,4520,187276,318263,968,167926],"class_list":["post-926051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-affordable-housing","tag-alberta-legislature","tag-alberta-municipalities","tag-alberta-politics","tag-andrew-knack","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-danielle-smith","tag-edmonton","tag-edmonton-housing","tag-edmonton-infill","tag-edmonton-real-estate","tag-edmonton-videos","tag-housing","tag-infill","tag-john-brennan","tag-real-estate","tag-short-clip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=926051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}