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Find your Alberta city guide by address.

Enter a street address. We’ll match it to one of the SuiteRulesCanada municipalities covered in this province and open the correct audited city guide.

Property address

Uses Natural Resources Canada’s national Geolocator to match the address. The rule result comes from SuiteRulesCanada’s audited municipal source set.

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Major city suite and ADU rules

Select the actual municipality for the property. Provincial rules alone do not confirm a project can proceed.

Provincial starting point

Local zoning controls permission

Alberta: municipal zoning decides where suites are allowed.

The Alberta government describes a secondary suite as a self-contained unit within a house and states that municipalities may create land-use bylaws allowing secondary suites and decide where those bylaws apply. That means the provincial building-code rules do not create a blanket province-wide zoning entitlement.

For a project, check the municipality's land-use district first, then the development/building permit path and Alberta code requirements. The province specifically requires independent heating and ventilation for the primary dwelling and secondary suite under the National Building Code – Alberta Edition.

Alberta secondary-suite building codes ↗Alberta land-use planning overview ↗

Provincial framework reviewed September 20, 2026. No B.C.-style province-wide 3/4/6-unit zoning baseline was identified in the current Alberta sources reviewed here.

17 Alberta city guides