We are highlighting individual zoning codes to make zoning in Metro Vancouver more accessible to the public! Today features CD-1 (1) in Vancouver, a Comprehensive Development better known as Oakridge Centre. zoning.sociology.ubc.ca/2020/11/25/fea…

How did a private school affect the western boundary of Vancouver? Read more and examine historical zoning in “St. George’s slays the UEL.” zoning.sociology.ubc.ca/2020/11/22/his…

Denis Agar 🚌🕸️ I am happy to report that grocery stores are at least in principle allowed in 800m radius of every CoV skytrain stations. But for some, e.g. Nanaimo, there aren't many options where grocery stores could actually go.

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Have you ever wondered why Vancouver has so few corner stores? Zoning regulations made it nearly impossible to open new ones after 1980 in single or two-family zones... until last month. Read more here: zoning.sociology.ubc.ca/2021/03/04/cor…

This is incredible, painstaking work; it’s kind of insane that we need a team of external researchers to help us understand basic aspects of what’s permitted by our zoning code.

FEATURED ZONES: Multifamily residential zones RM-4 and RM-3A were amended this week to allow for six-storey social housing projects. Check it out here: zoning.sociology.ubc.ca/2021/04/22/fea…

Great thread that’s very relevant to Vancouver’s “zoned capacity” canard. And the linked report is a nice blueprint of one of the paths we want explore building on the work from Metro Vancouver Zoning Project.

Check out the Metro Vancouver Zoning Project unified zoning map for all of Metro Vancouver and look at the amount of yellow low-density zoning that is dominating even central parts of Metro Vancouver. mountainmath.ca/zoning_map

First Nation zoning and land use planning adds another layer of complexity that we have not properly captured yet in our Metro Vancouver Zoning Project project. But we are working on an update to incorporate this!

The topic for day 34 is "Historical map", and I offer this map we made with Metro Vancouver Zoning Project of the City of Vancouver's zoning history, tracing how the geography of zoning has changed from the initial 1932 zoning map until today. (Hasn't changed much.) mountainmath.ca/cov_zoning_his…

But why only look at the City of Vancouver? Thanks to Metro Vancouver Zoning Project we now have a unified zoning fabric for all of Metro Vancouver and updated the original post to check how other cities have grown. It's not clear how to treat agricultural land, so we ran two version.