The 2017 Mayor’s Urban Design Award winners were announced at the National Music Centre in Calgary. The bi-annual awards recognize designers and architects.

A bylaw amendment is now in effect requiring Calgary-based facilities to separate yard and food waste from the garbage to encourage diversion.

A biosolids facility in Calgary is now substantially complete.

The City of Calgary will be selling seven city-owned sites to non-profit affordable housing providers.

As of Feb. 1, 2016, Calgary multi-family building residents will have access to more robust on-site recycling services under the region’s new council-approved Waste & Recycling Bylaw. Apartments, condominiums, townhouses and other multi-family complexes will be required to accept paper and cardboard, food cans, glass jars, plastic containers and bags. The City of Calgary will not collect multi-family recycling, but builder owners and managers will be tasked with determining which private company best serves the needs of their building.