Oakville Street Occupation Permits

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.

Statistics

This dataset includs 2660 street occupation permits issued by the Building Services of the Town of Oakville since 2018. The number of permits decreased slightly in 2019 comparing with 2018, but then grows significantly year over year. It increases 195% in 2020, 116% in 2021 and 30% in 2022. In each year, there are ususally more permits issued in Feburary to April than other months, especially winter months.

The street with the most number of permits is Robinson St, followed by Lakeshore Rd E and Lakeshore Rd W. The other prominent street names include Rebecca St, Bridge Rd, Sixth Line, Speers Rd, Hixon St, Trafalgar Rd, and Third Line.

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Dataset

This dataset includes over 2600 street occupation permits issued by the Building Services of the Town of Oakville since 2018. Each permit information contains permit number, permit date, status, description, initiated source, and the address location of the property. This street occupation permit dataset is linked to Oakville address point dataset, and other datasets such as various bulding permits, ServiceOakville requests, etc.

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