- Application for development permit (updated Feb. 2025)
- Application for zoning certificate (updated Feb. 2025)
- City centre commercial and industrial development permit application checklist (updated March 2025)
- Compliance certificate application (updated March 2025)
- Demolition development permit application checklist (updated March 2025)
- Development completion inspection application (updated April 2025)
- How to draw a site plan
- Landscape inspection application (updated June 2025)
- Landscape security release
- Municipal addressing application (updated June 2025)
- Noise exemption application (updated June 2025)
- Notice of appeal application (updated June 2025)
- Pre-application requirements for development permit applications (updated March 2025)
- Rural commercial and industrial development permit application checklist (updated June 2025)
- Special event (municipal land/green space) permit application and checklist (updated June 2025)
- Special event (private land) application and checklist (updated March 2025)
- Variance application form (updated April 2025)
Permits and Resources
Before you start your next project, it’s important to be informed about the types of permits required to help ensure your project is completed safely and on time. There are two main categories of permits:
- Development permits address issues related to community planning, bylaws, land use, image and compatibility. They are required for new builds, changes in property use, or additions to existing structures.
- Safety codes permits ensure that the necessary legislation, regulations and policies are followed for construction and renovation projects.
Apply for a permit
Apply for permits easily online through E-Permitting or by visiting 9099 Franklin Ave. during regular business hours.
Change of Use Exemptions for Permitted Uses
Land Use Bylaw Amendment 21/015 exempts some permitted uses in prescribed commercial districts from a Change of Use Development Permit. Apply for an exemption online via the E-Permitting portal.
Once you've signed in, navigate to the Planning section and select Change of Use Exemption for Permitted Uses.
Checklist and application library
- New oil sands development permit application checklist (updated April 2025)
- Project accommodation development permit application checklist (updated March 2025)
- Project accommodation is a residential complex used to house workers on a temporary basis. Camps are usually made up of mobile units and used for sleeping, eating, and other basic needs. These units can be taken apart and moved as needed.
- Rural area new oil sands or pilot plants development permit
- This applies to the development of oil, gas, gas facilities, sand and gravel, and logging operations.
- Sand and gravel extraction development permit (updated June 2025)
- Taiga Nova commercial and industrial development permit application checklist (updated June 2025)
- Urban commercial, industrial, or institutional development permit application checklist (updated June 2025)
- Development permit for cannabis retail store application checklist and form (updated June 2025)
- This permit is for a development that is used exclusively for retail sales of cannabis, products that contain cannabis, and cannabis accessories.
- First use or change of use development permit application checklist and form (updated March 2025)
- A permit to change the use of land or a building
- Home business development permit application checklist and form (updated April 2025)
- Apply for a permit for a business based out of your home.
- Home occupation declaration (updated June 2025)
- Municipal addressing application (updated June 2025)
- Sign development permit application checklist and form (updated June 2025)
- Urban, commercial, industrial, or institutional development permit application checklist (updated June 2025)
- Accessory structure or use development permit application checklist and form (updated March 2025)
- Addition to single family residential development permit application checklist and form (updated March 2025)
- Basement or secondary suite development permit application checklist and form (updated March 2025)
- Boarding house development permit application checklist and form (updated March 2025)
- Deck development permit application checklist and form (residential) (updated March 2025)
- Manufactured home development permit application checklist and form (updated March 2025)
- Multi-family development permit application checklist and form (updated March 2025)
- Rural area single family residential development permit application checklist and form (updated June 2025)
- Single family residential development permit application checklist and form (updated March 2025)
Engineering and infrastructure development
- Boulevard crossing permit
- Clearing and grading permit
- Traffic accommodation plan
- Utility installation/street occupation permit
- Utility line assignment permit
- Effective April 1, 2025, an updated $125 fee will be introduced for Utility Line Assignment (ULA) permit applications, as outlined in the 2025 Fees, Rates and Charges Bylaw 24.026.
- Application form and checklist (updated June 2025)
- Discharge of caveat application (updated April 2025)
Development Permit Process
The development permit process is based on the Municipal Government Act and the Land Use Bylaw.
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