{
 "built": "2026-11-04",
 "permits_issued_from": "2020-01-02",
 "permits_issued_through": "2026-10-28",
 "permit_count": 17624,
 "licence": "Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – City of Regina. Statistics Canada and CMHC figures: see the sources named in context.json.",
 "columns": {
  "permit_id": "The City's permit number. Unique.",
  "date_issued": "Date the permit was issued (YYYY-MM-DD). A permit number that the City lists more than once is kept once, on its first issue date.",
  "address": "Street address of the property.",
  "neighbourhood": "Neighbourhood name from the City's permit report.",
  "community_association": "City community association the address falls in (from the City's boundary layer). Blank if none.",
  "zoning_code": "Zoning district code at the address in the City's CURRENT zoning layer. For an older permit this is today's zone, not necessarily the zone at the time.",
  "work_group": "Our grouping of the type of work: new-homes, new-multi, new-commercial, commercial-reno, suites, home-work, other.",
  "permit_type": "The City's permit application type, for example 'Renovation/Alteration' or 'Multi-Unit Dwelling 3+ Units'.",
  "building_use": "The City's building use code, for example RES or COM. Blank if not given.",
  "declared_value": "The applicant's declared construction value in dollars (whole dollars). An estimate made when applying. Not an appraisal, a sale price or the final cost.",
  "new_units": "Number of dwelling units the City lists on the permit (0 when not applicable).",
  "latitude": "WGS84 latitude of the matched City address point. Blank when the address could not be matched (about 3% of permits).",
  "longitude": "WGS84 longitude of the matched City address point. Blank when the address could not be matched."
 },
 "tax_rate_columns": {
  "year": "Tax year.",
  "bylaw": "The City's Property Tax Bylaw number for that year (City Clerk, on openregina.ca). Every number in this file is typed in from that bylaw.",
  "city_mills": "City mill rate. A mill is a dollar of tax per $1,000 of assessed value.",
  "library_mills": "Regina Public Library mill rate.",
  "downtown_bid_mills": "Extra mill rate on businesses inside the Regina Downtown Business Improvement District.",
  "warehouse_bid_mills": "Extra mill rate on businesses inside Regina's Warehouse Business Improvement District.",
  "factor_residential": "Mill rate factor for residential property. The City and Library mills are multiplied by this.",
  "factor_multi_family": "Mill rate factor for multi-family residential (four or more units).",
  "factor_commercial": "Mill rate factor for commercial and industrial property (also resource, railway/pipeline and agricultural).",
  "factor_golf": "Mill rate factor for golf courses.",
  "residential_per_100k": "City + Library tax in dollars on each $100,000 of assessed value, residential: (city + library mills) x residential factor x 100.",
  "commercial_per_100k": "The same for commercial and industrial property.",
  "assessment_reset_year": "True when the class multipliers changed this year, which is when the City re-set every property's assessed value (2021 and 2025). Rates either side of a reset are not like for like, and the rate alone does not show anyone's tax bill."
 },
 "work_groups": {
  "new-homes": "New homes",
  "new-multi": "New apartments and townhouses",
  "new-commercial": "New commercial, industrial, institutional",
  "commercial-reno": "Commercial and institutional renovations",
  "suites": "Suites and basements",
  "home-work": "Other home work",
  "other": "Demolition and other"
 },
 "caveats": [
  "tax-rates.csv is the City and Library rates only. The Province's education property tax is separate and not included. It holds rates, not anyone's assessed value or tax bill.",
  "Permits are listed when issued. A permit means work is approved to begin. It does not mean the work is finished or that it will cost the declared amount.",
  "Declared values are the applicant's own estimates. A few very large permits can dominate any total.",
  "About 3% of permits could not be matched to a City address point and have no coordinates.",
  "Older permits are placed using today's City address points, zoning layer and community areas.",
  "Some permit numbers appear more than once in the City's yearly files (about 20 in six years); each is counted once, on its first issue date.",
  "The City publishes weekly, so the newest days are missing.",
  "Rezonings are found by comparing the City's own zoning maps over time and only go back to the first snapshot (see meta in rezonings.json).",
  "No names of people or companies are included."
 ]
}