What Can I Build
What can I build on my lot?
Type a street address to see what the city's own records say about that lot: its zone, its area, and how many units the city's zoning bylaw allows on it. The lookup covers 6,781 lots in the City of North Vancouver.
6,781 lots, from city records. Pick one to open its page.
Everything shown comes from city maps and bylaws, and each page says which ones and when they were downloaded. Treat it as a first check. Before you pay for a design, confirm the rules for your lot with the city's planning staff.
Cities covered
6,781 lots, from the cities' own records
Each city has its own page, with the rules for every zone and the number of lots each one covers.
Questions
What does this tool tell me about my lot?
Type your street address and it looks up your lot in the city's own zoning map and zoning bylaw. You get the zone your lot sits in, its recorded area, and how many units the bylaw allows on it, such as a house, a duplex, a fourplex or a sixplex. Each result opens its own page with the full breakdown and the bylaw sections behind every figure.
Which cities does this cover?
Right now, North Vancouver (City), with 6,781 lots in the lookup. Each city has its own page listing its zones, its neighbourhoods and every lot in its records. The tool is built to take on another municipality without changing how it works, so coverage grows as RealDream Contracting reads and encodes a new city's zoning bylaw.
Is this the same as what my city will approve?
No. This tool shows what the zoning bylaw allows on paper for your lot. A real project still needs a building permit, the city reviews the actual design against more rules than the ones shown here, and your lot may carry limits the city's map does not show. Confirm the rules with the city's planning staff before you pay for a design.
Where does the data come from?
City of North Vancouver records, downloaded September 19, 2026 and read against City of North Vancouver's public zoning bylaw. Every page names its own sources, including the exact bylaw section a figure comes from, so you can check the original document yourself rather than take this tool's word for it. Nothing on these pages is estimated or guessed; a figure the tool cannot support from a real record is left blank instead.
Does it cost anything to use?
No. Type an address and the result is free to view, with no account and no sign-up. If you want the breakdown by email as well, the lot's own page has a form for that, and it goes to you and to RealDream Contracting as a lead.
What if my address does not show up?
The search only covers addresses inside the cities listed above, and only lots that have both a street address and a recorded area in the city's map. A strata building should be searched by its street address rather than a unit number. A lot in a city not yet covered will not appear, because this tool never guesses at rules it has not read.
Can I build a laneway home or coach house?
It depends on your lot's zone, and the answer differs by city and by zone within a city. Type your address above to see your zone, and the lot's own page states whether a separate unit at the back is allowed there and what conditions come with it.
What is a fourplex or sixplex, and does my zone allow one?
These are everyday names for a lot holding 4 or 6 units, which many zones now allow under provincial small-scale housing rules. The bylaw itself usually just sets a maximum unit count and leaves the building's layout to the design, so "fourplex" is the common word for the result, not a rule of its own. Your address's own page names the everyday word for your zone's count, where one applies.
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