More local permit checklists for Alberta projects

More choices, with the scope kept visible

Calgary coverage now extends beyond the original basement, secondary-suite and detached-garage checklists. The expanded list includes defined scopes for new homes built on site, decks, backyard suites, rear additions, sheds and carports, along with selected office renovations, demolition, fence-relaxation applications, outdoor hot tubs and rooftop solar documents.

Airdrie’s nine checklists include a new detached home built on site, basement development without a suite or structural changes, a detached garage, an uncovered deck, a wooden storage shed, a rear addition and three suite development-application scopes.

Rocky View County’s eleven checklists include separate new-home scopes for construction on site and factory-built homes, plus defined basement, deck, garage, shed, interior-renovation, addition and suite scopes, and an existing-office renovation scope. The same County coverage includes Langdon.

See the current PermitLane project coverage

Start with the location and the work

The project flow starts with your location and type of work, then asks the relevant scope questions before offering a published checklist. For a contractor moving between jobs, that makes the starting point explicit: the checklist belongs to a particular jurisdiction and a particular kind of work.

Applying a published checklist adds its requirements and recorded source references to the project. Your team can then prepare the documents and organize the next steps. A populated checklist still contains work to do; it is not evidence that documents have been accepted or a permit has been issued.

Read the limits before choosing a checklist

The expanded catalogue is not blanket coverage for every project in these communities. These distinctions are part of the release:

1. Airdrie suite checklists cover development-application documents only. Building-permit documents and site eligibility are outside those scopes.
2. Calgary rooftop-solar coverage includes electrical and planning documents. Building and structural review remain separate.
3. Rocky View County new-home checklists cover one house per lot and exclude used homes moved onto a site. Subdivision and shared infrastructure are outside these checklists.
4. A ground-level garden-suite checklist for Rocky View County is not part of this release. A similarly named checklist from another jurisdiction does not fill that gap.

A checklist and a permit decision do different jobs

Choosing a checklist does not establish whether a permit is needed or whether a site is eligible. PermitLane’s AI separately determines permit applicability from the exact official-source revision recorded in the project’s applied checklist snapshot. A usable machine determination is applied automatically; an authorized person can override it, and that override is recorded.

If no usable answer is available, applicability stays unconfirmed. That never means no permit is needed. These software determinations are not municipal decisions or professional advice. Applications, municipal review and approval happen outside PermitLane; the app does not submit to municipal portals or guarantee approval.

Find the starting point for your next project

Open the project coverage list, expand your location and compare the listed scope with the work you are planning. Read its limits before applying a checklist to a project. The larger catalogue gives your team more starting points while keeping the source, the outstanding work and the next action in view.