Building Permits - Green Roofs
The Green Roof By-law was adopted by Toronto City Council May 2009 under the authority of section 108 of the City of Toronto Act. Toronto is the first city in North America to have a by-law requiring and governing the construction of green roofs. The bylaw applies to new commercial, institutional and many residential development applications and to certain developments not completed before the bylaw came into effect on Jan 31, 2010
The Eco-Roof Incentive Program provides incentives to support the installation of green roofs and cool roofs on Toronto homes and buildings. Known collectively as eco-roofs, these technologies along with other City strategies help to make Toronto more resilient and better adapted to climate change. To learn more and access funding to support your project please visit Eco-Roof Incentive Program.
Data for Eco-Roof Incentive Program are updated quarterly while all green roofs are updated weekly. Because of this, there may be some Green Roofs that have gone through the Eco-Roof Incentive Program that won’t be marked as such for a few weeks after their data has been entered
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| Last Updated | December 17, 2025, 18:39 (UTC) |
| Created | December 17, 2025, 18:39 (UTC) |
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Domain / Topic
Domain or topic of the dataset being cataloged.
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Permits and licenses, Development and infrastructure |
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Title
Title for the Dataset.
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Building Permits - Green Roofs |
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Description
A description of the dataset.
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The Green Roof By-law was adopted by Toronto City Council May 2009 under the authority of section 108 of the City of Toronto Act. Toronto is the first city in North America to have a by-law requiring and governing the construction of green roofs. The bylaw applies to new commercial, institutional and many residential development applications and to certain developments not completed before the bylaw came into effect on Jan 31, 2010 The Eco-Roof Incentive Program provides incentives to support the installation of green roofs and cool roofs on Toronto homes and buildings. Known collectively as eco-roofs, these technologies along with other City strategies help to make Toronto more resilient and better adapted to climate change. To learn more and access funding to support your project please visit Eco-Roof Incentive Program. Data for Eco-Roof Incentive Program are updated quarterly while all green roofs are updated weekly. Because of this, there may be some Green Roofs that have gone through the Eco-Roof Incentive Program that won’t be marked as such for a few weeks after their data has been entered |
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Format (CSV, XLS, TXT, PDF, etc)
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Metadata Identifier
Metadata identifier – can be used as the unique identifier for catalogue entry
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Published Date
Published date of the dataset.
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2019-07-23 |
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Time Period Data Span (start date)
Start date of the data in the dataset.
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Time Period Data Span (end date)
End date of time data in the dataset.
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GeoSpatial Area Data Span
A spatial region or named place the dataset covers.
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Access category
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License
License used to access the dataset.
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License not specified |
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Limits on use
Limits on use of data.
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Location
Location of the dataset.
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https://open.toronto.ca/dataset/building-permits-green-roofs |
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Data Service
Data service for accessing a dataset.
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Owner
Owner of the dataset.
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Toronto Building, [email protected] |
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Contact Point
Who to contact regarding access?
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Contact Point Email
The email to contact regarding access?
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Publisher
Publisher of the dataset.
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Publisher Email
Email of the publisher.
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[email protected] |
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Author
Author of the dataset.
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[email protected] |
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Author Email
Email of the author.
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[email protected] |
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Accessed At
Date the data and metadata was accessed.
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Identifier
Unique identifier for the dataset.
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Language
Language(s) of the dataset
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Link to dataset description
A URL to an external document describing the dataset.
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Persistent Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent identifier.
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Globally Unique Identifier
Data is identified by a persistent and globally unique identifier.
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Contains data about individuals
Does the data hold data about individuals?
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Contains data about identifiable individuals
Does the data hold identifiable data about individual?
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Contains Indigenous Data
Does the data hold data about Indigenous communities?
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Portal Type
Platform type of the source portal.
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Version
Version of the datatset
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Source
Source of the dataset.
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https://www.toronto.ca/city-government/planning-development/official-plan-guidelines/green-roofs/ |
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Version notes
Version notes about the dataset.
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Is version of another dataset
Link to dataset that it is a version of.
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Other versions
Link to datasets that are versions of it.
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Provenance Text
Provenance Text of the data.
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Provenance URL
Provenance URL of the data.
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Temporal resolution
Describes how granular the date/time data in the dataset is.
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GeoSpatial resolution in meters
Describes how granular (in meters) geospatial data is in the dataset.
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GeoSpatial resolution (in regions)
Describes how granular (in regions) geospatial data is in the dataset.
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Indigenous Community Permission
Who holds the Indigenous Community Permission. Who to contact regarding access to a dataset that has data about Indigenous communities.
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Community Permission
Community permission (who gave permission).
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The Indigenous communities the dataset is about
Indigenous communities from which data is derived.
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Number of data rows
If tabular dataset, total number of rows.
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Number of data columns
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Number of data cells
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Number of data relations
If RDF dataset, total number of triples.
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Number of entities
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Number of data properties
If RDF dataset, total number of unique properties used by the triples.
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Data quality
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Metric for data quality
A metric used to measure the quality of the data, such as missing values or invalid formats.
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