The City of Calgary collects data on the status of current and historic applications along the approvals continuum — land-use redesignation, development permit, and building permit applications. These datasets are published on the City of Calgary Open Data Portal under the Open Government License.
The datasets are found below — they are updated frequently, and collect historical data to 1982, 1979, and 1999 respectively.
The data can be queried, aggregated, or visualized within the portal, or downloaded in a variety of filetypes for analysis in an external application.
Datasets
Land Use Redesignation Applications
Development Permits
Building Permits
Example Questions
The following can be answered and substantiated through querying and analysis of the datasets (some in collaboration with other relevant datasets):
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What communities are seeing the highest/lowest rates of land-use redesignation?
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Has the average time to receive a Development Permit increased/decreased?
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What types of uses have the fastest/slowest permitting timeline?
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How near to rapid transit are new developments occurring, and has this changed over time?