Everything the City of Calgary has on its public record for our community, in one place and updated automatically. What is being built right now, and what somebody has applied to build next.
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This stays in your browser. It is not sent to us, not stored, and not attached to anything. It is only used to put a pin on the map and work out how far each entry is from you.
Road and lane closures, dig permits, sidewalk and curb repairs, pathway work and repaving, pulled from the City's own mapping services and filtered to Signal Hill. If a crew is working on your street and it is on the City's record, it is here.
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Applications the City has received and not yet decided. Built straight from the City's open data, so it reflects the public record rather than anything we have typed in by hand. You can comment on these, and there is a deadline.
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Point at anything in the list and its pin lights up. Click to open it.
Spray paint and little flags along a street almost always mean the same thing: somebody is planning to dig, and has asked for the buried utilities to be located and marked first. That is a legal requirement in Alberta before any excavation, and it usually happens days or weeks ahead of the work. The colours are a national code, so you can read what is down there.
Marks are not a schedule. They stay on the road until they weather off, so paint with no crew behind it is normal and often means the job was done, deferred, or handed to a utility that never needed to dig after all. Locates are also requested by private contractors and by utility companies, which is why marks can appear on a street with nothing at all on the City's list below.
Potholes, a broken streetlight, a sunken sidewalk, water where there should not be water, a crew that has left a hazard behind. 311 raises a service request against a real work order, which is the only route that reaches the crew who can act. Call 311, use the Calgary 311 app, or file it online.
One pothole is a 311 call. Six months of a closure nobody explained, an intersection that keeps failing, or work that keeps coming back to the same block is something we can raise with the City and with our Councillor on behalf of the whole community. That is worth an email to [email protected].
Sources, all City of Calgary and all public: the construction and detours map, the roadway activities map (dig and street use permits, concrete repairs, the paving plan), the mobility programmes map, pathway closures, and the water main break record. This page re-reads all of them every hour, so something that started this morning is normally here by lunchtime. We publish what the City publishes and add no opinion of our own. Dates are the City's, and on a construction site dates move. Private utility work on private land does not appear on any of these, so an empty list is not a promise that nothing is happening. If something here looks wrong, tell us at [email protected].
When someone applies to build, renovate, change the use of a property, or rezone a parcel in Signal Hill, the City circulates that application to us as the community association and asks for comment. We pass on what neighbours tell us. That is the whole job, and it is worth being clear about its limits.
Collect what residents think and put it in front of the City file manager as organised community feedback, in time for it to be read. On some files that genuinely changes the conditions attached to an approval.
Approve, refuse, delay, or veto anything. The decision belongs to the City's development authority, and for rezonings, to City Council. We have no vote and no standing beyond commenting.
The window is short. The City normally allows 7 to 21 days to comment on a circulated application, and once a decision is posted there are a further 21 days in which it can be appealed. After that it is closed.
The City's Development Map carries the drawings, the file manager's name, and the comment box. Search the address or the file number from the list above.
Anyone can comment, member or not, and comments go to the file manager who is actually assessing the application. Be specific about the effect on you: sightlines, drainage, parking, shadow, traffic. Specifics get read and weighed. General objection does not carry much.
It takes a minute and it goes straight to our Development Director, not onto a public page. When the City asks the association for a formal response, what residents have told us is all we have to work with. If nobody tells us anything, we have nothing to say on your behalf.
Ten neighbours each writing to the City separately is ten comments. Ten neighbours who also told us is ten comments and one association response that shows a pattern. The second part is the bit only we can do.
John Lamacchia holds the development file for the association. If something near you is proposed and you are not sure what it means, or you want your view carried into our response to the City, this is the address.
Email [email protected] →Source: City of Calgary Open Data, development permits and land use redesignation applications, refreshed automatically. We publish what the City publishes and add no opinion of our own. For the drawings, the file manager, and the official status, always go to the City's Development Map. If something here looks wrong, tell us at [email protected] and we will look into it.
Tell the association