Missing middle housing set to change the city's landscape

Developers and individuals can develop missing middle properties in established communities, expanding low density home offerings.

The missing middle — it’s a relatively recent buzz term in the urban planning and development world and, with Calgary’s new zoning bylaws in place, it’s generating plenty of interest.

“It’s about people connecting to their environment — the way of living that we used to have and, of course, some cities still do have,” says Alkarim Devani, co-founder of the development company RNDSQR and more recently, MDDL (the company name is a play on the word middle). He’s also a PhD candidate at the University of Calgary, studying the missing middle housing type and a guest lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley.