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  "city": "Prince Albert",
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  "thesis": "Prince Albert's housing policies create two distinct development routes. Four-unit zoning flexibility and a tax incentive starting at five units can favour different projects, a distinction that matters as the hospital expansion approaches its 2028 completion target.",
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      "name": "Four-unit proposal and infrastructure funding",
      "url": "https://www.citypa.ca/building-business-and-development/four-units-as-of-right/",
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      "name": "Prince Albert development tax incentive",
      "url": "https://www.citypa.ca/news/posts/new-development-incentive-aims-to-spark-commercial-and-residential-growth-in-prince-albert/",
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      "observationPeriod": "July 23, 2025 release; council approval July 21, 2025",
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      "name": "Council adoption report",
      "url": "https://paherald.sk.ca/council-approves-four-unit-zoning-change-after-quiet-hearing/",
      "publisher": "Prince Albert Daily Herald",
      "publicationDate": "2025-11-18",
      "observationPeriod": "November 17, 2025 council meeting",
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      "sourceLocator": "Council vote and Bylaw 26 of 2025"
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      "publisher": "Government of Saskatchewan",
      "publicationDate": "2026-06-01",
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      "dateNote": "Published June 1, 2026. Completion remains a forecast.",
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      "sourceLocator": "50% construction milestone and spring 2028 completion"
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      "name": "Bank of Canada September decision",
      "url": "https://www.bankofcanada.ca/2026/09/fad-press-release-2026-09-02/",
      "publisher": "Bank of Canada",
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        "additionalFinding": "The retained rules reveal a one-unit eligibility gap: four-unit zoning flexibility does not itself reach the five-unit minimum for the named development tax abatement. Project scale changes both the approval route and support available.",
        "archiveContribution": "The July incentive announcement and later zoning/needs packet expose a threshold mismatch that neither document alone frames as a project choice.",
        "localConsequence": "A fourplex feasibility study should not include the five-plus-unit incentive; a larger project needs its own zoning and servicing review.",
        "counterEvidence": "Other assistance may exist, and individual zones already permit larger buildings; this is not proof that five units always requires rezoning.",
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      "timeHorizon": "Late 2026 through spring 2028",
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