511 in-scope development filings have been recorded in Great Plains between 1995 and 2026 — the 26th busiest community in Calgary's record over that 32-year span.
Its busiest year on record was 2014, with 43 filings.
Most of what has been proposed here is industrial and logistics — 416 filings, the largest single class.
Building permits in Great Plains account for 1 dwelling units.
3 decisions in Great Plains have gone to the appeal board.
What this record does not establish
- Filing volume is not a measure of how developed a community is. A large industrial site generates many filings over its life — a building, then its tenant improvements, then its expansion — while a single tower may generate few.
- Community is the City's own field on each filing. It locates the application, not a municipal boundary.
- These counts describe filings, not construction. Nothing here establishes what was built.
Sources for every claim
How these numbers were arrived at
Counted over every in-scope filing in the acquired corpus. Each underlying record is a municipal application with its own page and source link; the count is arithmetic over them.
That makes every figure in this brief evidence class C — derived from class A municipal records by a documented method — rather than class A. No single municipal field states a total; the corpus states it by counting, and each record counted has its own page and source link. Browse them from the record.
Claim audit
5 claims · 0 uncitedEvery sentence this brief asserts, with what backs it. A claim may rest on an extracted fact, on a municipal field read directly off the record, or on a documented derivation over a stated population — and on nothing else. A brief with an uncited claim is not offered for publication.
| Claim | Class | Confidence | Backed by |
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| 511 in-scope development filings have been recorded in Great Plains between 1995 and 2026 — the 26th busiest community in Calgary's record over that… | C · derived | 100% |
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| Its busiest year on record was 2014, with 43 filings. | C · derived | 100% |
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| Most of what has been proposed here is industrial and logistics — 416 filings, the largest single class. | C · derived | 100% |
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| Building permits in Great Plains account for 1 dwelling units. | C · derived | 100% |
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| 3 decisions in Great Plains have gone to the appeal board. | C · derived | 100% |
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