Building permits in Parkwoods-O'Connor Hills

Permits issued per year

Zoning

Most common zone

RD75.4% of permits · by-law 10.20

In detached-house zones

75.4%37.4% above the city’s 38.0%

Permits with a zone

2,916of 3,151 on record

• Residential2,400 · 82%
• Commercial Residential359 · 12%
• Residential Apartment98 · 3%
• Open Space34 · 1%
• Employment Industrial25 · 1%

The zoning categories the permits in Parkwoods-O'Connor Hills 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

137since 2016

Approved

95.9%5.1% above the city · 123 decided

Median time to a decision

98 days22 days faster than the city

Some projects in Parkwoods-O'Connor Hills 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 121 days, not the 23 days the permit figure alone suggests. How variances work, and the approval rates.

Most recent permits

The 40 most recent of 3,151 permits on record. Figures come from the City’s active and cleared permit datasets, refreshed daily — what that covers, and what it misses.