Paid edition · sample
What a paid FSA edition looks like.
Public pages stay at the city level. The paid edition is built for the reader's own forward sortation areas: the stock-versus-current-activity divergence line, plus the planning applications still in the forward pipeline. Three Toronto FSAs below show the anatomy. Every figure is an aggregate — no street address, no application number.
Free stays city-level
The open Toronto pages publish city-wide counts: 195,945 issued permits on file across 99 postal areas, broken down by month, work class and type. That layer is free and stays free.
The paid edition does not republish those tables under a different heading. It answers a different question: for the FSAs a reader actually works, where does current activity depart from the accumulated stock — and what is still in the planning pipeline before a building permit appears.
The divergence spine
For every FSA, two ranks are computed from the same issued-permit file: rank by total permits on file (stock), and rank by permits issued in the past 365 days (current activity). The claim is the gap between them. An area can sit mid-pack in stock and lead the city in current activity — or the reverse.
Three examples from the current snapshot — each line is computed from the two ranks, never written by hand: M6N: 16th in total stock, 1st in current activity. M3C: 54th in total stock, 10th in current activity. M1W: 55th in total stock, 78th in current activity.
| FSA | Stock rank | Current-activity rank | Permits on file | Issued past 365 days | Claim line |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M6N | 16 | 1 | 3,133 | 865 | M6N: 16th in total stock, 1st in current activity |
| M3C | 54 | 10 | 1,551 | 511 | M3C: 54th in total stock, 10th in current activity |
| M1W | 55 | 78 | 1,473 | 131 | M1W: 55th in total stock, 78th in current activity |
Forward pipeline on the same three FSAs
Building permits lag planning. The forward pipeline is read from the City of Toronto Development Applications file — Official Plan and zoning amendments, site plans, condominium and subdivision applications — collapsed to one row per application number and counted by the FSAs each application touches.
Open applications are those whose status is not Closed, Refused, Final Approval Completed or OMB Refused. City-wide the file holds 8,575 applications, of which 2,504 are still open. The table below is only the three sample FSAs.
| FSA | Open applications | All applications (on file) |
|---|---|---|
| M6N | 53 | 109 |
| M3C | 56 | 97 |
| M1W | 18 | 53 |
What stays off this page
Street addresses, application numbers, permit numbers and contact names do not appear on any public page. They are available only inside a paid FSA edition for the areas the subscriber selected.
Committee of Adjustment applications and Preliminary Zoning Reviews are documented in the edition specification as related open sources; they are not part of this sample's pipeline counts.
The method, in plain terms
Issued permits come from Building Permits – Active Permits. Ranks use the full on-file stock and a rolling 365-day window; no month is compared to another month. Development Applications are keyed on APPLICATION# (verified unique at application grain; CKAN _id is never used). An application that spans several FSAs contributes one count to each.
Every published line keeps its reference to the official dataset, so a reader can always return to the origin.
Source
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Derived from the Building Permits – Active Permits dataset published by the City of Toronto under the Open Government Licence – Toronto. Last refreshed 30 July 2026; most recent permit issued 28 July 2026; coverage captured 31 July 2026.