Building permits in Humber Summit

Permits issued per year

Zoning

Most common zone

EH49.4% of permits · by-law 60.30

In detached-house zones

16.2%21.8% below the city’s 38.0%

Permits with a zone

2,619of 3,385 on record

• Employment Industrial1,471 · 56%
• Residential857 · 33%
• Commercial Residential195 · 7%
• Residential Apartment73 · 3%
• Open Space23 · 1%

The zoning categories the permits in Humber Summit 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

99since 2016

Approved

93.8%2.9% above the city · 80 decided

Median time to a decision

97 days23 days faster than the city

Some projects in Humber Summit 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 140 days, not the 43 days the permit figure alone suggests. How variances work, and the approval rates.

Most recent permits

The 40 most recent of 3,385 permits on record. Figures come from the City’s active and cleared permit datasets, refreshed daily — what that covers, and what it misses.