NearbyBuilds maps 12,094 major development projects across five Canadian cities — 277,367 housing units in all — pulled from 657,958 municipal records: planning-committee minutes, development applications and issued building permits. Every project links back to the official record it came from.
Every record here is public municipal data, re-published in one searchable place. Gatineau comes from the comité consultatif d'urbanisme minutes — PDFs of what the planning committee reviewed. Ottawa comes from the city's open development applications feed. Calgary, Edmonton and Montréal publish issued building permits, so those cities show what is actually being built rather than what has been proposed, with unit counts and project values where the city states them. Search any address to see the permits and applications filed near it.
Refreshed weekly; data last refreshed . Full methodology, the honest gap in each city's source, and how to send a correction: About NearbyBuilds. Coverage statistics, source licences, the suggested citation and the open JSON API: The data.
Independent site. Not affiliated with any municipality. Records are extracted automatically and can lag or misread the source — always check the linked original before relying on it.