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Development permit
Residential development
- Backyard suite
- Change of use - contextual to discretionary
- Discretionary dwelling - new single, semi or duplex
- Duplex conversion (No additions to exterior building)
- Manufactured home
- New contextual detached dwelling (single or semi-detached dwelling in developed area)
- Power generation facility-small (updated)
- Recreational vehicle in front yard
- Riverbank erosion protection (updated)
- Relaxation for new single detached/semi-detached and duplex dwellings
- Relaxation of existing structure
- Residential grades
- Rowhouse, new or addition in the developed communities (updated)
- Rowhouse, new or addition in the developing communities
- Secondary suite (Existing)
- Secondary suite (Proposed)
- Show home (updated)
- Special function/event Class 1 or Class 2
- Tract single detached dwelling
Home business
Commercial, industrial and multi-family development
- Addition and new building in a commercial, industrial or special land use district (updated)
- Addition and new building in multi residential land use district (updated)
- Changes outside a building
- Condominium certificate
- Development site servicing plan (updated)
- Downtown temporary surface parking lots (updated)
- Green roof renovations (updated)
- Minor addition to multi-dwelling residential (updated)
- Mezzanine addition/interior 2nd floor addition/changes inside a building
- Outdoor café/patio (updated)
- Special function/event
- Stripping and grading (updated)
- Temporary structure (updated)
Change of use
Change of use and tenancy applications
Additional information forms
- Agriculture and animal - use
- Automotive use
- Care facility information form
- Child care service information form
- Commercial multi-residential uses
- Commercial use
- Eating and drinking use
- Health care services information form
- Instructional facility information form
- Industrial use
- Payday loan /pawn shop information form
- Public school information form
- Residential, care and health use
Signs and antennas
Sign applications
- Basic sign
- Canopy or projecting
- Digital message sign
- Digital third party advertising
- Fascia
- Freestanding
- Freestanding community signs and entry features
- Freestanding, fascia and gas bar signage for gasoline retailers
- Temporary sign marker
- Third party advertising
Antenna applications
Additional information forms
- Amateur radio antenna support structure information form
- Canopy and projecting signs information form
- Digital message sign information form
- Digital third party advertising information form
- Sign project application form
- Third party advertising sign guidelines
- Third party advertising sign information form
Revised plans
General development forms
General forms related to development applications
- Abandoned well declaration form
- Climate resilience inventory for development permits (new)
- Climate resilience inventory user guide - development permit (new)
- Concurrent submission declaration/land use and development
- Digital intake information (new)
- Extension of commencement
- Mechanical equipment screening guide (new)
- New driveway information form
- Off-site levy calculation form
- Public tree disclosure statement
- Site contamination statement
- Standard authorization form
- Use questionnaire
Building permit
Residential
Residential building applications
- Demolish or move a building
- Duplex conversion
- New home - single construction permit application
- Repairs after fire
- Semi-detached dwelling
- Single family or duplex dwelling
- Special functions/temporary use
- Temporary sales centre
Related applications to trade permit requirements
Home improvement
- Addition to existing house, porch and balcony
- Backyard suite
- Deck
- Driveway
- Fence
- Garage
- Home improvement application form (For all home renovation projects)
- Home renovation and basement development
- Pool, hot tub, and pond
- Retaining wall
- Secondary suite (Existing)
- Secondary suite (Proposed)
- Solar panel
- Wood burning fire place
Commercial, industrial and multi-family
- Building permit application prescreen requirement list – CMF alterations
- Building permit revision
- Commercial: fire alarm repair/upgrading
- Commercial: demising walls
- Commercial interior partitioning
- Commercial: interior partition removal
- Commercial new projects and additions
- Commercial: office interior renovation
- Commercial: parkade repairs
- Commercial partial permit requirements
- Demolition permits
- Outdoor café/patio (new)
- Repairs after fire
- Retaining wall - (Spanning two or more lots)
- Special functions/temporary use
- Tenant improvements for restaurants and food establishments
- Temporary sales centre
- Guide to a complete application – commercial, multi-family alterations: D & E occupancy (new)
- Middle Courtyard Semi-Detached Dwellings (new)
- Buildings With Stacked Dwelling Units (new)
National Building Code – Alberta Edition Professional Schedules
Building advisories and bulletins
General building forms
- Asbestos abatement form
- Access design standard - is required to be applied ONLY on City of Calgary owned / operated facilities – please speak with the project manager for the City owned project you are working on for details
- Commercial building permit information form
- Environmental restoration
- Environmental restoration pre-screening form
- Existing secondary suite information sheet
- NECB project summary
- Occupancy application form
- Request for specific variance
- Secondary suite declaration
- Sustainable development inventory form
- Universal design checklist
Construction drawings - development
- Construction drawings - Complete application requirement list (CARL)
- Landscape construction drawings CARL
- Viewing authorization form
For more information about construction drawings please visit calgary.ca/constructiondrawings.
Growth applications
Land use redesignations, outline plan, subdivision and road closure
Land use redesignation and outline plans
Subdivision and bareland condominium
Road closures
General forms
General forms related to land use redesignations, outline plan, subdivision and road closure
- Abandoned well declaration form
- Climate resilience inventory for outline plan and land use (new)
- Climate resilience inventory user guide - land use and outline plan (new)
- Concurrent submission declaration/land use and development
- Land use redesignation applicant's submission form
- Standard authorization form
- Site contamination statement
Pre-application requirement meeting
Trade permits
- Automatic fire extinguisher mechanical permit CARL
- Contractor's private sewage treatment system plumbing permit CARL
- Electrical permit checklist
- Electrical permit application
- Contractor's gas permit application
- Contractor's gas fireplace permit application
- HVAC mechanical permit CARL
- Hydronic plumbing permit CARL
- Solar air mechanical permit CARL PL
- Solar thermal plumbing permit CARL PL
- Geoexchange project CARL
- Solar photovoltaic electric permit CARL
On this page
- Residential
- Home business
- Short Term Rental Business Licence Application Requirement List
- Commercial, industrial and multi-family (updated documents)
- Change of use
- Signs and antennas
- Revised plans
- General forms
- Residential
- Home improvement
- Commercial, industrial and multi-family
- Alberta building code schedules
- Building advisories and bulletins
- General forms
Land use redesignations, outline plan, subdivision and road closure
- Land use redesignation and outline plans
- Subdivision and bareland condominium
- Road closures
- General forms
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