Lot Potential
West Vancouver + North Vancouver · BC
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The listing says 6,300 sq ft.
The hillside disagrees.

Zoning numbers are the story on paper. On a North Shore lot, the coverage cap, a creek setback, a 36% grade, or the tree bylaw can cut the real buildable footprint in half or worse, and nobody can see it from the photos. Lot Potential turns any address into a one-page report of what a buyer can actually build, drawn like an architect's site plan and branded to you.

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−55%
of the setback footprint erased by a creek setback and the coverage cap.
Chartwell lot
−82%
of the buildable eaten by a riparian setback: 1,164 m² on paper, 212 m² for real.
Eyremount Drive lot
36%
average grade. Geotechnical review before anyone draws a line.
Cypress Park lot
Real West Vancouver lots, run through the tool. Every figure sourced and footnoted in the report.

One page. The whole story.

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Sample buildable envelope report for a West Vancouver ravine lot on Eyremount Drive: site plan with creek and riparian bands, buildable footprint ledger, cost per buildable square foot, site check and tree analysis
Sample lot · Eyremount Drive · your name and logo go here
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    A drawn site plan, not a data table

    Setback dimensions, the creek and its 15/30 m bands, trees colour-coded by fate, neighbours, the street. Drafted like an architect's drawing, legible to a buyer.

  • 02

    Paper vs. actual

    The ledger itemizes exactly what each constraint removes from the setback envelope, so the headline number and the honest number sit on the same page.

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    $ per buildable square foot

    The number that re-prices the lot. Two listings can't be compared on asking price; they can on what a square foot you're allowed to build actually costs.

  • 04

    Site check, deal-breakers first

    Slope, coverage, face-height, watercourse, ordered by severity and footnoted to the bylaw or regulation each flag comes from.

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    Trees & canopy under Bylaw 4892/5373

    LiDAR canopy mapped against the tree bylaw: which trees stand inside the envelope, what clearing them costs, and which ones must stay once you develop.

Built for this hillside

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National zoning tools table planning data: setbacks, FAR, height. Nobody else clips the envelope, computes the tree bite, or draws the plan. The depth is the point:

1-metre LiDAR terrain

Real grade and real canopy heights from federal HRDEM LiDAR, not a 30 m contour guess. Slope, relief and tree heights are measured, per lot.

NRCAN HRDEM DSM/DTM

Tree-bylaw retention math

Protected-tree thresholds, protection radii, replacement and security costs, computed against the buildable footprint, not flagged as "trees present."

DWV TREE BYLAW 4892 · 5373 (2025)

Watercourse setbacks, clipped to the parcel

The 15 m protection area and 30 m riparian band are cut into the actual buildable polygon; you see the m² they remove, not a checkbox.

BC REG 178/2019 · FWA STREAMS

Slope sections for steep lots

A steepest-line cross-section with the 6.7 m highest-building-face rule drawn in, the constraint that quietly redesigns every steep-lot build.

DWV ZONING BYLAW 4662

How it works

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Email an address

Your listing, or the lot your buyer is circling. That's the whole input.

We run the site

Parcel, zoning, LiDAR terrain, watercourses and canopy, analyzed and drawn automatically, against rule tables verified line by line against the District's own bylaw text.

You get a branded one-pager

Your name and logo on it, usually within 24 hours. Hand it to the buyer who keeps asking "what can I actually build here?"

Pricing

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One branded report on an active listing. The first one is on us. Judge the work before anything else gets discussed.

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Your own branded feasibility service: twelve reports a year* across your listings, priority turnaround, and numbers kept current as the bylaws change.

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*Twelve reports a year, on your own active and prospective listings, not a wholesale feed for a brokerage or a third party. If you run past twelve we will talk about it rather than cut you off.

Reports cover single-family lots. Multi-unit and multi-parcel sites are a different piece of work and are quoted separately.

A report de-risks a multi-million dollar decision, and costs a fraction of the survey, arborist or geotechnical work it helps you scope. Send an address first. Pricing is easier to talk about once the one-pager is in your hand.

Honest by design

Every report is an indicative screen, not a survey or a legal opinion. Figures are sourced and footnoted: Zoning Bylaw 4662, Tree Bylaw 4892/5373, BC Reg 178/2019 and 1 m federal LiDAR. The report says plainly when a surveyor, arborist or geotechnical engineer is the next call. That candour is why you can put your name on it.

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No account, no demo call. Email a West Vancouver or District of North Vancouver address and get the branded one-pager back. If it doesn't make your listing easier to sell, bin it.

One address. No account, no demo call.