How many homes are in Oakville’s pipeline

The figures are computed from the Town of Oakville’s planning-applications layer, the same records behind the development applications database. One proposal usually files several applications that each carry the same unit count, so OakvilleIQ groups the folders into projects and takes the largest figure a project has filed. Summing the raw folders would roughly double the total. Only significant projects are counted, the same ones that have a page in the directory: any project with an official plan amendment, a zoning by-law amendment or a plan of subdivision, or a site plan of ten or more homes or 1,000 m² or more of floor area. Smaller site plans are left out of every figure on this page.

What this cannot tell you: how many homes were actually built. The Town’s planning system records approvals, not occupancy, and building permits are a separate dataset OakvilleIQ does not yet hold. Nor does it include homes that need no planning application, such as additional residential units in existing houses. The figures are the Town’s at the date checked; a resubmission can change a project’s count.

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