Current status: Closed
Open from June 14, 2025 to August 14, 2025.
Transport Canada is modernizing the zoning regulations for the Saskatoon International Airport.
Background
Safety is the fundamental reason for airport zoning regulations in Canada. These regulations keep land near an airport from being used in ways that would be dangerous to aircraft, passengers and crews.
The zoning regulations for the Saskatoon International Airport have been in place for 37 years. Transport Canada wants to change these regulations so that the airport can move ahead with long-term planning, and add additional protection for flight crews, aircraft passengers, and members of nearby communities. We also want to add measures to make bird strikes less likely and make it harder for structures to interfere with aircraft communications.
The proposed changes to the airport zoning regulations plan to:
- relax height restrictions in some areas and add new limits in others for things like new buildings, as well as other structures and objects, including trees, which could interfere with aircraft safety.
- ban some land uses that attract birds, such as landfills and large ponds, as birds are hazardous to aircraft especially during landing and take-off when they share airspace.
- add protection from electronic interference with aviation navigation and communications systems, which are crucial for safe flight.
- change the name of the regulations to the Saskatoon John G. Diefenbaker International Airport Zoning Regulations.
Who can participate?
All Canadians can participate in this consultation. We’re especially interested in hearing from Indigenous Peoples, people who live near the Saskatoon International Airport, and land developers.
How to participate
Request a copy
- Get a detailed map of the proposed airport zoning regulations
- Get a map showing the outer extent of the proposed airport zoning regulations
- Get a map showing the outer extent of the current airport zoning regulations, established in 1984
- Get a map comparing the current and proposed airport zoning regulations
- Get a map of the wildlife hazard zone
Send us an email
Please email your feedback to caspnr-sacrpn@tc.gc.ca, and include “Update to Saskatoon International Airport Zoning Regulations” in the subject line.
You can submit feedback until the end of the day, August 14, 2025.
Contact us
Phone: 1-888-463-0521
Email: caspnr-sacrpn@tc.gc.ca