Alberta Urban Area Polygons for Public Lands Fee Determination

Polygons represent all Urban Municipalities, Urban Service Areas, the Bow Corridor, and the Kananaskis Improvement District in Alberta. This dataset is used with Ministerial Order 49/2026 to determine fees, rents, and other charges for public lands dispositions. The data is provided by the Government of Alberta and was last updated on June 4, 2026.

Use Cases

• Calculate public lands fees based on geographic location within defined urban boundaries.
• Map urban service areas and municipal jurisdictions for land-use planning.
• Identify applicable fee zones for land dispositions in the Bow Corridor or Kananaskis Improvement District.

Strengths

• Explicitly linked to a specific legal instrument (Ministerial Order 49/2026) for fee determination.
• Covers multiple types of urban designations (cities, towns, villages, summer villages, service areas).
• Last updated on 2026-06-04, suggesting recent maintenance.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and spatial scale are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the province of Alberta.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta | Gouvernement de l'Alberta

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-04 13:01:32.405703

Geography

Alberta, Canada (specifically urban municipalities, service areas, Bow Corridor, Kananaskis Improvement District)