Infill sites in Crestview and Porter Creek are one step closer to becoming residences.

City council received reports on three proposed sites at a standing committee meeting held Monday evening.

The report proposes a Crestview site at Rainbow Road and Klukshu Avenue with five lots, each big enough for a single-family dwelling.

The proposed zoning would allow for the houses to have living suites as secondary use, but the lots would be too small to accommodate duplexes.

Things are slightly different at the site at 12th Avenue and Centennial Street, where two lots are being proposed.

One lot is big enough to accommodate a duplex, if the builder so chooses, and both would allow for suites.

Addressing concerns from community members regarding the impact the Centennial site could have on the adjacent toboggan hill, the report limits the depth of the lots to 38 metres. It also suggests a six-metre strip along Centennial Street to help prevent access to the street.

The Guild Hall site on 14th Avenue would zone four lots as restricted residential, meaning they would not allow for suites or duplexes.

"These are the largest lots proposed. They range from almost 1,200 square metres down to 960 square metres,” explained Mike Gau, the city's planning manager.

"It's a bit of a more expensive, exclusive type of zoning for larger homes.”

Each of the proposed lots would require the installation of new water, sewer and electrical services by the city. However, Gau said, the city may sell the lots without the services installed.

"There's advantages to that,” Gau explained in an interview today.

"For example, if somebody buys one of the properties, we'll ask them if they intend to build a duplex, and that requires two services. But if they tell us right off the bat, ‘No, I'm building a single-family,' we'll just put in one. So then we're not wasting services or digging up the road twice or anything like that.”

Gau doesn't anticipate installation services holding up the land lottery, which he hopes will take place in August.

"We do want to have lots to the market in 2011 for either the construction industry or private individuals to a build a house on,” he said.

There are two other proposed infill sites — one on Boxwood Crescent and one on Elm Street — which need more information before the subdivision process can advance.

Gau said a preliminary review has been done on the sites, but that a full terrain assesment is required to determine property lines. He anticipates the report coming to council in June.

Council will vote on the proposals for the Crestview, Centennial and Guild Hall sites at its next meeting on May 9 before developing the bylaws needed before the land lottery can occur.