Building permits in Humber Heights-Westmount

Permits issued per year

Zoning

Most common zone

RD83.5% of permits · by-law 10.20

In detached-house zones

83.5%45.5% above the city’s 38.0%

Permits with a zone

2,348of 2,486 on record

• Residential2,059 · 88%
• Residential Apartment181 · 8%
• Institutional47 · 2%
• Commercial44 · 2%
• Open Space17 · 1%

The zoning categories the permits in Humber Heights-Westmount fall in, under Zoning By-law 569-2013. These are the City's own category names. This counts permits, not land: it says where the building work happened under which rules, not how the area is carved up. What each zone allows, and what gets built in it.

Minor variances at the Committee of Adjustment

Applications on record

160since 2016

Approved

93.4%2.6% above the city · 136 decided

Median time to a decision

100 days20 days faster than the city

Some projects in Humber Heights-Westmount need the Committee of Adjustment to approve a minor variance from the zoning by-law before a building permit can be applied for at all. Where that applies, the committee’s clock runs first and the permit wait above starts only once it has stopped. Back to back, that is about 129 days, not the 29 days the permit figure alone suggests. How variances work, and the approval rates.

Most recent permits

The 40 most recent of 2,486 permits on record. Figures come from the City’s active and cleared permit datasets, refreshed daily — what that covers, and what it misses.