Barrie Building Permits

About 4,900 unique issued building permits for the City of Barrie, Ontario (4,862 up to 2026-10-16), newest first.

• Per permit: permit number, permit type (e.g. Residential Deck, Sign Permit, Dwelling New Single Detached), work description, status and status date, street, ~1 km location.
• Licence: Open Government Licence – Barrie, version 1.0; every record carries the attribution.
• Output: structured JSON or CSV/Excel. Filter by permit type, keyword and street.
• Privacy: civic numbers and units dropped; free-text descriptions may contain names. The data is reduced, not anonymous.

Why not build it yourself? No ArcGIS MapServer paging or address trimming to write and maintain.

Price: $0.003 per permit (three-tenths of a cent), no start fee. A full pull (about 4,900 rows) costs roughly $14.70.

Who it is for

Contractors, building-supply and home-services firms, real-estate and housing analysts, and researchers tracking construction activity in Barrie, Ontario.

Input

Field	Meaning
permitType	Text in the permit type
keyword	Text in the work description
street	Text in the street name
dateFrom, dateTo	Status date range (YYYY-MM-DD, inclusive)
status	Text in the status (all current records are "Issued")
parentPermitNumber	Text in the parent permit number
issuedFrom, issuedTo	Older names for dateFrom/dateTo, still accepted
maxItems	stop after this many records (default 1000, at most 50,000)
fetchAll	true returns every matching record, up to 50,000 per run (default false)

A run returns at most 1,000 permits unless fetchAll is true, and never more than 50,000.

Output

permitNumber, parentPermitNumber, permitType, description, status, statusDate, street, latitude, longitude, source, licence.

Archive modes

Besides a live query (mode: live, the default), the Actor can read its own archive. The archive is a snapshot Oct 17, 2026 03:08 ADT; refreshes may be added later.

mode	Extra input	Returns
changesSince	since (YYYY-MM-DD)	permits added, changed or removed on or after that day in the snapshot Oct 17, 2026 03:08 ADT; removed ones listed (ID + _deletedOn only, not charged) in the run's key-value record DELETED
asOf	asOf (YYYY-MM-DD)	each record as it stood at the end of that day in the snapshot Oct 17, 2026 03:08 ADT
history	ids (up to 1,000)	every archived version of those records, oldest first (snapshot Oct 17, 2026 03:08 ADT)
archiveExport	–	the current version of every archived record (snapshot Oct 17, 2026 03:08 ADT)

When refreshes are added later they are compared against a complete pull; until then the archive is a snapshot Oct 17, 2026 03:08 ADT. Permits that disappear from the source are kept only as an ID and the date they were removed. Privacy rules are applied again when the archive is read, so a rule tightened later also covers older rows. The normal filters, maxItems and fetchAll apply in every mode, and each row returned is billed at the normal per-result price. Archive modes return at most 50,000 rows per run.

Large pulls

Apify stops a run once its charges reach the account's per-run limit (about $85 by default, which is about 28,000 rows at $0.003). For more than about 25,000 permits, split the pull into several runs by date range (dateFrom / dateTo) or by another filter, and combine the results.

Privacy

• The source has no owner, applicant or contractor fields.
• Most permits are for homes, so the civic number and unit are dropped from the address (only the street is kept, e.g. "MORTON CRES"), and latitude and longitude are rounded to 2 decimals (about 1 km).
• The free-text description is cleaned: emails, phone numbers, civic addresses written in the text ("a house at 372 Georgian Dr", "Proposed Address: 140 ...", "555 St. Vincent", run-together lists such as "5 Appletree Lane3 Appletree Lane"), including common misspellings of street types (e.g. CRESENT), and person names after "by", "spoke with", "owner" or "applicant", or a given name followed by a surname, are replaced with "[... removed]". On the Oct 16, 2026 data that removes civic addresses from 236 descriptions and names from 6 (counted once per permit). The check is pattern-based, so some names in free text may remain.

Source and licence

• Source: City of Barrie GIS, layer "Issued Building Permits 2018 - Present" (MapServer layer 1), read through the ArcGIS REST API in pages of 1,000 with a 1-second pause. gispublic.barrie.ca has no robots.txt (404).
• Licence: Open Government Licence – Barrie, version 1.0, which grants use "including for commercial purposes" with the attribution "Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Barrie." Every record carries it. The licence does not cover personal information, which is why the privacy steps above are applied.

Pricing

$0.003 per result, no start fee. A full pull (about 4,900 rows / 4,862 up to 2026-10-16) costs roughly $14.70.

Run settings

Default memory is 256 MB (allowed range 256–1024 MB). A full run of all permits needs no more than that.

Limits

• Only issued permits; all records have status "Issued". There is no construction value or applicant field in the source.
• Status date is the date of the status change, not always the issue date.
• The source has no "last edited" field, so it cannot be asked only for records changed since a date. A status-date range is the closest filter.