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Original analysis on Burnaby zoning and custom-home building.
We work in Burnaby every week. The zoning bylaw moves, the permit office moves, and the data behind both is messier than the press releases suggest. This is where we publish what we find — sourced, dated, and free to cite.
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What we publish
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Burnaby Zoning Monitor
Every Burnaby zoning bylaw change, tracked and published within 48 hours of adoption. Reverse-chronological log with citations to City of Burnaby source documents, plus an RSS feed for newsrooms and a mailto subscription for everyone else.
Open the monitorAnnual report · CC-BY 4.0
State of Custom Building in Burnaby
First-edition annual analysis of Burnaby custom-home and SSMUH permit activity — total permits issued, average timeline to issuance, common rejection reasons, neighbourhood breakdowns, year-over-year trends. The 2025 edition is in data-acquisition phase; framework and methodology are published now.
Read the reportWhy a builder publishes research
Most of what's written about Burnaby zoning comes from planners, real-estate analysts, or sales-driven multiplex specialists. That's useful work, but it's not builder work. We see the bylaws collide with real lots, real trees, real servicing every day. The Zoning Monitor is the field-side observation of that collision. The annual report is the data behind it.
Everything here is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. That means newsrooms, researchers, planners, lawyers, and AI engines can quote and remix it freely as long as they credit Icon Projects (wemakehomes.com).
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