Community

Varsity building permits

Varsity is listed in the City of Calgary open data as VARSITY (community code VAR). The sections below are calculated from the permit rows stored under that name.

Stored permits
367
With an issued date
265
Without an issued date
102

Varsity has 367 building permit records in CalgaryPermit's copy of the City of Calgary Building Permits open data. 265 have an issued date and 102 do not. These figures describe the rows stored on this site, not an official citywide total. The earliest applied date stored for this community is 1999-08-24 and the latest is 2026-11-02.

In the stored rows, the most common permit type label is Residential Improvement Project (203 records), and the most common work class is Alteration (219 records). Permit type is the City's project category. Work class says whether the job is new construction, an alteration, an addition, a repair, a demolition, or another label the feed uses. Read both with the permit class and the description on each record. A type label alone does not say whether the City has issued the permit.

An estimated project cost is filled in on 270 of 367 stored permits. The average of those reported estimates is $295,328.56 and the sum is $79,738,710.35. The City publishes estprojectcost as an estimate attached to the application. It is not a contract price, a final invoice, or a City assessment, and permits with a blank estimate are left out of both numbers.

Applications with an applied date in the last 12 months: 117. Applications with an applied date in the 12 months before that: 158. If the older window is small, the usual reason is that this site's copy does not go back that far for the community, not that the neighbourhood had no construction.

The contractor name published most often in this community's stored permits is EZEE DECK AND RAIL, on 7 permits. A repeated name is a clue that the company appears in the open data. It is not a City ranking, a licence check, or a count of crews on site. The same firm can be spelled more than one way, and a blank contractor name means the City did not publish one on that row.

Source: City of Calgary Open Data — Building Permits (dataset c2es-76ed). CalgaryPermit stores a copy of that feed and calculates the figures on this page from that copy. The City of Calgary is the publisher of the original file.

Permit type
Label in the stored copyPermits
Residential Improvement Project203
Commercial / Multi Family Project122
Demolition23
Single Construction Permit19
Work class
Label in the stored copyPermits
Alteration219
New66
Addition43
Demolition23
Repair8
Fire/ Security Alarm6
Temporary2
Mapped permit class
Label in the stored copyPermits
Residential243
Non-Residential98
Unspecified26
Current status
Label in the stored copyPermits
Completed143
Issued Permit103
Cancelled67
Hold16
Pre Backfill Phase11
In Review5
Application Received4
Expired4
New4
Pending Plans Review Assignment3
Refused3
Pre Board Phase2
Pending Plans Review1
Pending Prescreen Review1

Reported cost estimates

270 of 367 stored permits include an estimated project cost. The average of those estimates is $295,328.56 and the sum is $79,738,710.35. Permits with a blank estimate are not in either figure.

Applications by month

Each row is the number of stored permits whose applied date falls in that month, for the last 24 months present in the copy. Applied in the last 12 months: 117. Applied in the previous 12 months: 158.

MonthApplications
2024-1211
2025-0113
2025-0210
2025-0316
2025-0413
2025-0517
2025-0617
2025-0712
2025-0819
2025-0915
2025-109
2025-119
2025-128
2026-0112
2026-028
2026-037
2026-048
2026-052
2026-0613
2026-0717
2026-0810
2026-099
2026-1012
2026-112

Contractor names published in this community

Name in the open dataPermitsLatest applied date
EZEE DECK AND RAIL7September 9, 2026
DELNOR CONSTRUCTION6February 12, 2026
DELTA EXCAVATING AND TRUCKING6October 7, 2026
STANLEY SIGNATURE HOMES4July 24, 2026
TAMSON DEVELOPMENTS4January 29, 2026
CLOVERHILL CONSTRUCTION3July 21, 2026
CONCRETE CUTTING GEEKS3September 14, 2026
GROUNDWORKS3August 13, 2025

Recent permits

PermitAddressWorkAppliedIssued
BP2026-20970
Hold
4215 VARMOOR RD NWAlteration · Residential Improvement Project
Improvements
November 2, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-20960
Application Received
#Z12 3625 SHAGANAPPI TR NWAlteration · Commercial / Multi Family ProjectNovember 1, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-20928
Application Received
3104 34 AV NWAlteration · Commercial / Multi Family ProjectOctober 30, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-20173
In Review
32 VARCREST PL NWAddition · Residential Improvement Project
Addition
October 21, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-19978
Hold
2 VARSCONNA PL NWAddition · Residential Improvement Project
Porch
October 19, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-19998
Application Received
#300 3553 31 ST NWAlteration · Commercial / Multi Family ProjectOctober 19, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-19689
New
5015 VANDOOS RD NWAddition · Residential Improvement Project
Addition, Basement Dev, Porch, Improvements
October 14, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-19483
New
1257 VARSITY ESTATES RD NWNew · Single Construction Permit
SFD,BSMT-DEV,FIREPLACE,GARAGE,
October 9, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-19293
Issued Permit
4539 VANDERGRIFT CR NWDemolition · DemolitionOctober 7, 2026October 8, 2026
BP2026-19134
Hold
5004 VARSITY DR NWNew · Residential Improvement Project
Garage
October 5, 2026No issued date stored
BP2026-19033
Issued Permit
4215 VILLA CR NWAlteration · Residential Improvement Project
Improvements
October 5, 2026October 20, 2026
BP2026-19010
Issued Permit
5135 VICEROY DR NWAlteration · Residential Improvement Project
Improvements
October 4, 2026October 30, 2026

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