Planning Applications

curl "https://api.northaxiumdata.ca/api/v1/planning-applications?municipality=calgary&application_category=rezoning&applied_after=2025-01-01&limit=25" \
  -H "X-API-Key: <your-api-key>"

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.northaxiumdata.ca/api/v1/planning-applications",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "<your-api-key>"},
    params={
        "municipality": "calgary",
        "application_category": "rezoning",
        "applied_after": "2025-01-01",
        "limit": 25,
    },
)
print(response.json())

{
  "data": [
    {
      "record_id": "calgary:LOC2025-0012",
      "municipality": "calgary",
      "province": "AB",
      "application_number": "LOC2025-0012",
      "source_reference": "LOC2025-0012",
      "application_type_raw": "Land Use Amendment",
      "application_category": "rezoning",
      "status_raw": "Application in Progress",
      "status": "under_review",
      "description": "Land use redesignation application",
      "address": "500 4 Street SW, Calgary, AB",
      "neighbourhood": "Downtown Commercial Core",
      "ward": "7",
      "from_zoning": "CC-X",
      "proposed_zoning": "DC",
      "applied_date": "2025-01-10",
      "decision_date": null,
      "status_date": "2025-01-10",
      "lat": 51.0482,
      "lng": -114.0703,
      "source_updated_at": "2025-01-13T15:30:00",
      "last_updated": "2026-07-13T06:20:00",
      "distance_km": null
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "total": 1,
    "limit": 25,
    "offset": 0,
    "municipality": "calgary",
    "sort_by": "applied_date",
    "sort_order": "desc",
    "proximity": null
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "BAD_REQUEST",
    "message": "application_category must be one of: development_permit, official_plan_amendment, other, outline_plan, rezoning, road_closure, site_plan, subdivision, variance."
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "UNAUTHORIZED",
    "message": "Missing API key. Pass your key in the X-API-Key header."
  }
}

GET

api

planning-applications

curl "https://api.northaxiumdata.ca/api/v1/planning-applications?municipality=calgary&application_category=rezoning&applied_after=2025-01-01&limit=25" \
  -H "X-API-Key: <your-api-key>"

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.northaxiumdata.ca/api/v1/planning-applications",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "<your-api-key>"},
    params={
        "municipality": "calgary",
        "application_category": "rezoning",
        "applied_after": "2025-01-01",
        "limit": 25,
    },
)
print(response.json())

{
  "data": [
    {
      "record_id": "calgary:LOC2025-0012",
      "municipality": "calgary",
      "province": "AB",
      "application_number": "LOC2025-0012",
      "source_reference": "LOC2025-0012",
      "application_type_raw": "Land Use Amendment",
      "application_category": "rezoning",
      "status_raw": "Application in Progress",
      "status": "under_review",
      "description": "Land use redesignation application",
      "address": "500 4 Street SW, Calgary, AB",
      "neighbourhood": "Downtown Commercial Core",
      "ward": "7",
      "from_zoning": "CC-X",
      "proposed_zoning": "DC",
      "applied_date": "2025-01-10",
      "decision_date": null,
      "status_date": "2025-01-10",
      "lat": 51.0482,
      "lng": -114.0703,
      "source_updated_at": "2025-01-13T15:30:00",
      "last_updated": "2026-07-13T06:20:00",
      "distance_km": null
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "total": 1,
    "limit": 25,
    "offset": 0,
    "municipality": "calgary",
    "sort_by": "applied_date",
    "sort_order": "desc",
    "proximity": null
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "BAD_REQUEST",
    "message": "application_category must be one of: development_permit, official_plan_amendment, other, outline_plan, rezoning, road_closure, site_plan, subdivision, variance."
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "UNAUTHORIZED",
    "message": "Missing API key. Pass your key in the X-API-Key header."
  }
}

Planning applications cover discretionary land-use decisions that require municipal review. They include rezonings, variances, subdivisions, and related applications. These records provide an early signal of major land-use change before building permits are issued. The dataset contains more than 11,800 records from Calgary, Ottawa, and Victoria. It refreshes automatically from official municipal sources.

List planning applications

GET /api/v1/planning-applications

Query parameters

integer

default:"100"

Maximum records to return. The upper bound is 500.

integer

default:"0"

Number of records to skip for pagination.

string

One or more comma-separated city slugs: calgary, ottawa, or victoria.

string

Partial match across application number, address, description, neighbourhood, ward, and zoning text.

string

Partial match on the municipality’s application number. application is accepted as an alias.

string

One of rezoning, official_plan_amendment, variance, subdivision, site_plan, development_permit, outline_plan, road_closure, or other. category is accepted as an alias.

string

One of submitted, under_review, approved, refused, withdrawn, appealed, completed, or unknown.

string

Inclusive ISO 8601 application-date start. Example: 2025-01-01.

string

Inclusive ISO 8601 application-date end. Example: 2025-12-31.

string

Inclusive ISO 8601 decision-date start.

string

Inclusive ISO 8601 decision-date end.

number

Latitude for proximity search. Provide with lng and radius_km.

number

Longitude for proximity search. Provide with lat and radius_km.

number

Search radius in kilometres, from 0.1 to 100.

string

default:"applied_date"

One of applied, applied_date, decision, decision_date, status_date, updated, last_updated, or distance. distance requires a complete proximity query.

string

default:"desc"

Either asc or desc.

curl "https://api.northaxiumdata.ca/api/v1/planning-applications?municipality=calgary&application_category=rezoning&applied_after=2025-01-01&limit=25" \
  -H "X-API-Key: <your-api-key>"

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.northaxiumdata.ca/api/v1/planning-applications",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "<your-api-key>"},
    params={
        "municipality": "calgary",
        "application_category": "rezoning",
        "applied_after": "2025-01-01",
        "limit": 25,
    },
)
print(response.json())

{
  "data": [
    {
      "record_id": "calgary:LOC2025-0012",
      "municipality": "calgary",
      "province": "AB",
      "application_number": "LOC2025-0012",
      "source_reference": "LOC2025-0012",
      "application_type_raw": "Land Use Amendment",
      "application_category": "rezoning",
      "status_raw": "Application in Progress",
      "status": "under_review",
      "description": "Land use redesignation application",
      "address": "500 4 Street SW, Calgary, AB",
      "neighbourhood": "Downtown Commercial Core",
      "ward": "7",
      "from_zoning": "CC-X",
      "proposed_zoning": "DC",
      "applied_date": "2025-01-10",
      "decision_date": null,
      "status_date": "2025-01-10",
      "lat": 51.0482,
      "lng": -114.0703,
      "source_updated_at": "2025-01-13T15:30:00",
      "last_updated": "2026-07-13T06:20:00",
      "distance_km": null
    }
  ],
  "meta": {
    "total": 1,
    "limit": 25,
    "offset": 0,
    "municipality": "calgary",
    "sort_by": "applied_date",
    "sort_order": "desc",
    "proximity": null
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "BAD_REQUEST",
    "message": "application_category must be one of: development_permit, official_plan_amendment, other, outline_plan, rezoning, road_closure, site_plan, subdivision, variance."
  }
}

{
  "error": {
    "code": "UNAUTHORIZED",
    "message": "Missing API key. Pass your key in the X-API-Key header."
  }
}

Response fields

Field	Type	Description
`record_id`	string	Stable NorthAxium record identifier
`municipality`	string	City slug
`province`	string	Province abbreviation
`application_number`	string	Municipality application number where published
`application_type_raw`	string	Source application type text
`application_category`	string	Normalized land-use category
`status_raw`	string	Source status text
`status`	string	Normalized application status
`address`	string	Site address where published
`description`	string	Application description where published
`neighbourhood` / `ward`	string	Location context where published
`from_zoning` / `proposed_zoning`	string	Existing and proposed zoning where published
`applied_date`	date	Date the application was filed
`decision_date`	date	Decision date where published
`status_date`	date	Status effective date where published
`lat` / `lng`	number	Application location coordinates where published
`source_updated_at`	timestamp	Publisher update timestamp where available
`last_updated`	timestamp	NorthAxium record update timestamp

Detail and statistics

Retrieve one record by record_id:

GET /api/v1/planning-applications/{record_id}

The detail endpoint adds property_identifier and source_url when the municipality publishes them. Get grouped record counts:

GET /api/v1/planning-applications/stats?group_by=municipality

The group_by parameter accepts municipality, province, application_category, status, applied_year, or decision_year. List filters such as municipality, application_category, and date ranges also apply to statistics. For a city-by-city availability table, see Municipal Intelligence Coverage.

Overview

Property Intelligence

Building Permits

Zoning

Building Inspections

Business Licences

Development Permits

Planning Applications

List planning applications

Query parameters

Response fields

Detail and statistics

​List planning applications

​Query parameters

​Response fields

​Detail and statistics

List planning applications

Query parameters

Response fields

Detail and statistics