Ottawa development intelligence
Getting a decision takes about 14 months. The paperwork AFTER the decision takes 21. That is the slowest step in the whole city, and almost nobody prices it in.
How to read it
One dot per live application. The bigger the dot, the more homes or floorspace behind it. The darker the dot, the further through the process it has got.
The five biggest right now
Numbered on the map.
The read — computed from 433 live files
Files sit at “Agreement / legal clearance” a median of 21 months — against 14 at the decision itself.
61 land in July, 20 in January. A quarterly look flattens it away.
280 of 433 live files are residential. The form says what was filed; the text says what is being built.
Median months at each stage
The age of what is sitting at each stage today, not a cohort followed from filing to approval — that arrives as the fortnightly snapshots accumulate.
Three findings is the shallow end. The same register carries the filing season, the portfolios behind each name, the use mix read from the prose rather than the form. The rest of what it says →
What was filed, what moved forward, what is now ready to build. One page.
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