Building permits in Oakridge

Permits issued per year

Zoning

Most common zone

RS49.2% of permits · by-law 10.40

In detached-house zones

17.1%20.9% below the city’s 38.0%

Permits with a zone

2,701of 3,113 on record

• Residential1,798 · 67%
• Residential Apartment532 · 20%
• Commercial Residential274 · 10%
• Utility and Transportation40 · 1%
• Employment Industrial34 · 1%
• Institutional12 · 0%
• Commercial7 · 0%
• Open Space4 · 0%

The zoning categories the permits in Oakridge 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

309since 2016

Approved

95.7%4.9% above the city · 231 decided

Median time to a decision

140 days20 days slower than the city

Some projects in Oakridge 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 199 days, not the 59 days the permit figure alone suggests. How variances work, and the approval rates.

Most recent permits

The 40 most recent of 3,113 permits on record. Figures come from the City’s active and cleared permit datasets, refreshed daily — what that covers, and what it misses.