The suspension of the Canadian Home Builders' Association on city advisory committees has been lifted after a series of meetings with Calgary's mayor.

A dispute erupted between Naheed Nenshi's office and the home builders' group after association president Charron Ungar suggested the city had put a freeze on suburban development.

Nenshi retaliated by suspending the group from participating on two committees until he got a written apology, but both sides emerged from a closed-door meeting Wednesday after agreeing to a statement of facts that there is no development freeze.

There was no apology, but Nenshi says he is OK with that.

"I am not particularly interested in smacking people around in public," he said. "I think the fact that we have a statement of facts that ... clearly shows that the statement they made in January was wrong — that's what I needed."

Nenshi says six communities have already been serviced and are sitting vacant waiting to be developed.

• To hear the Homestretch interview with Ungar about the suspension lift, click on the "Listen" button above.