Oakville Street Occupation Permits

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The Town of Oakville requires a building permit for most renovation, construction or demolition projects. A permit is needed to make sure the project follows the requirements of the Ontario Building Code, the Town of Oakville Zoning By-law and any other approvals. A Street Occupation Permit may be needed prior to starting a demolition, renovation and/or construction project if the project temporarily occupies the area beyond the property line, such as the boulevard, sidewalk, roadway or public lane, with any of the following equipment or material: disposal bin and drop chutes; storage of materials and equipment, such as trailer; moving containers; walk-through/staging scaffold; plywood hoarding or covered-walkway; operation of cherry picker, backhoe, fork lift, scissor lift, zoom boom; hoisting with mobile crane or boom truck; swinging of boom and counterweight of tower crane including flying of forms; pumping of concrete and concrete mixer; and others; etc.

This dataset includes over 2600 street occupation permits issued by Oakville Building Services since 2018. The data fields of permits include permit number, permit date, current status of the permit, property address, permit description, etc. A permit may by initiated by owner, contractor, architect, hydro or communication companies. Each permit data is linked to its property address point data, and also other data such as site alteration permits, driveway entrance permits, excavation permits, ServiceOakville service requests, etc.

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