Building permits in West Hill

Permits issued per year

Zoning

Most common zone

RD73.5% of permits · by-law 10.20

In detached-house zones

73.5%35.5% above the city’s 38.0%

Permits with a zone

3,752of 6,077 on record

• Residential3,203 · 85%
• Employment Industrial126 · 3%
• Utility and Transportation121 · 3%
• Residential Apartment116 · 3%
• Institutional102 · 3%
• Open Space35 · 1%
• Commercial Residential30 · 1%
• Commercial19 · 1%

The zoning categories the permits in West Hill 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

234since 2016

Approved

90.2%0.6% below the city · 174 decided

Median time to a decision

117 days3 days faster than the city

Some projects in West Hill 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 186 days, not the 69 days the permit figure alone suggests. How variances work, and the approval rates.

Most recent permits

The 40 most recent of 6,077 permits on record. Figures come from the City’s active and cleared permit datasets, refreshed daily — what that covers, and what it misses.