Planning and Housing

GIS brings the power of location to planning and housing, enabling teams to make smarter decisions, foster collaboration, and address community growth and housing goals effectively.

How can GIS help your business areas?

  • Future Planning Communities

    Visualize and compare development scenarios to inform new zoning policies. Support growth and align planning decisions with your community's vision.

    Video: ArcGIS Urban - Transforming Urban Planning and Design

  • Report on Growth Metrics

    Visually tell the story of how you’re meeting housing mandates in a way that interested parties can understand. Connect to your internal systems, allowing you to share your housing story from the source of truth. 

    Blog: Town of Oakville's Data Hub Success

  • Creating a Planning Digital Strategy

    Develop a multi-year roadmap tailored to your planning department, helping you leverage better technology to meet housing goals. This clear roadmap will break down your technology plan into priority milestones based on your organization’s vision. 

    Planning Digital Strategy

  • Streamlining Development Applications Review

    Put planning and policy data at the fingertips of your non-technical municipal planners. Quickly find the data you need to speed up development application review and make data-driven decisions.

    Ratio.City

  • Simplify Development Applications for Builders

    Bring your development application information into one simple portal, enabling commenting agencies and applicants to collaborate using the same information and data. 

    Community Concierge

  • Report Securely to Higher-Tier Governments

    Alleviate the burden of regional-to-municipal reporting by allowing higher-tier governments to securely and instantly view your municipal data. Keep data in the source system and free up your GIS analysts' time.

    Planning Data Exchange
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See GIS at Work

Ratio.City

Ratio.City

Use Ratio.City to amplify your planning process—explore policy and zoning data in context, uncover development opportunities, and create 3D massing models to assess potential with ease.

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ArcGIS Urban

ArcGIS Urban

Transform city and regional planning with ArcGIS Urban—run scenario modeling and impact assessments to encourage collaboration and build more sustainable communities.

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Community Property Map of Canada

Community Property Map of Canada

An online national property map that provides a single view of property rights, assessed values and land use across the country. This map provides centralized access to critical land and property attributes.

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Digital Twin for Planning

Digital Twin for Planning

Support innovation and complex multi-disciplinary decisions from initial feasibility of planning and design through to maintenance and operations.

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Additional Resources

  • Growing Housing Supply: A Study with UofT

    Esri Canada worked with the Infrastructure Institute at the School of Cities, University of Toronto, on a study of underutilized sites. 

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  • City of Ottawa Digital Twin

    The City of Ottawa is building a 3D geospatial foundation for a digital twin using Esri’s enterprise GIS software. 

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  • Town of Oakville's Data Hub Success

    The Town of Oakville is telling its housing success stories through data. 

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  • How Ratio.City is Revolutionizing Housing Development Across Canada

    Read how Ratio.City is addressing Canada’s housing supply challenges through scaling innovative data-driven solutions.

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  • The District of Saanich: Creating New Housing by Re-Envisioning Policy

    Saanich is updating its planning and land use policies to accommodate their housing target, which requires an approximate tripling of the current new unit production.

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