Zone

A1 (Agricultural One): about 87% of the parcel; SSMUH 2g (Small-Scale Multi-Unit Housing Two - Greenfield): about 8% of the parcel

Rest of the parcel

About 4%: SSMUH 2, under 5% of the lot

Zoning bylaw

City of Abbotsford Zoning Bylaw No. 2400-2014

Homes allowed

One house (a permanent building or a manufactured home) with one secondary suite of up to 100 m²; on a lot of 0.4 ha or more, one accessory farm dwelling unit (up to 90 m², or 186 m² on a lot over 40 ha); on farm-classed ALR land with Agricultural Land Commission approval, one full-time farm worker residence (up to 300 m²) and temporary farm worker housing (up to 60 workers per farm operation)

Main uses

Farming, one house, residential care, a boarding house for temporary farm workers; with the farm: farm retail sales, farm product processing (Level 1), a farm alcohol production facility, accessory cannabis processing (Level 1), agri-tourism, gatherings for events, an office, a full-time farm worker residence, temporary farm worker housing; with the house: an accessory farm dwelling unit, secondary suite, short-term rental, boarders, a breeding and boarding kennel, home occupation (Level 3 off ALR land, Level 4 on it)

Smallest lot for a subdivision

8.0 ha (no minimum width or depth); the minimum doesn't apply to a road dedication, to ALR consolidations, boundary adjustments, homesite severances and subdivisions adding no lot that the Agricultural Land Commission approves, or to splitting off, along the zone line, a part the official community plan designates and the bylaw zones industrial, or a part outside the ALR zoned to exclude farming (s. 210.5.1)

Lot coverage

35%; greenhouses may add 25% (to 60% in all), or 40% (to 75%) where the whole greenhouse operation recirculates its irrigation water

Height limit

House three storeys; farm buildings 15.0 m (grain bins 46.0 m, silos 34.0 m, shipping containers 6.0 m); full-time farm worker residence three storeys; temporary farm worker housing three storeys in a permanent building, two in a prefabricated one; accessory farm dwelling unit 7.5 m or two storeys, whichever is less, in its own building (15.0 m inside a farm building); other non-farm accessory buildings 7.5 m

Setbacks

House, farm worker homes and non-farm accessory buildings 7.5 m from a street lot line and 3.0 m from other lot lines; kennels 30 m and 15.0 m. Farm buildings and outdoor storage 7.5 m and 3.0 m; farm retail and farm alcohol buildings 7.5 m and 4.5 m; Level 1 processing 7.5 m all round; horse corrals and riding rings 4.5 m; animal barns, confined non-grazing animal areas (grazing areas 0.0 m), feedlots, silage, manure, incinerators, generator sheds, cannabis buildings and intensive processing 15.0 m to 30.0 m (s. 210.4)

Development permit areas

Not published as open data by the City of Abbotsford: ask it which development permit areas cover this lot

Fewest homes provincial law requires

Adds no homes here: the lot is in the Agricultural Land Reserve, where the Agricultural Land Commission's limits on homes come first (usually one secondary suite or accessory home at most, and some need the Commission's approval).

Short-term rentals (provincial rule)

The Province's principal residence requirement applies in Abbotsford (list in force from June 1, 2026): a short-term rental (under 90 days) is limited to the host's own home plus one secondary suite or garden suite on the same property. Land assessed as a farm (class 9) is exempt. Local bylaws, including the zone's own rules, can be stricter. Hosts anywhere in BC register each unit with the provincial registry.

Farm siting (s. 210.4): where one building holds several uses the largest distance applies. Separation from the house runs from 0.0 m (grazing, feedlots and other confined animal areas) and 3.0 m (most farm buildings, farm retail, processing, cannabis) to 15.0 m (barns with animals, silage, manure) and 30.0 m (incinerators, generator sheds); barns with animals, manure storage and incinerators also keep 30.0 m from temporary farm worker housing, and swine barns, silage and manure 15.0 m from other farm worker homes. Farm buildings keep 15 m from wells, and animal, manure, cannabis, processing and retail buildings 30 m. A farm alcohol facility's outdoor lounge, event and picnic areas, and areas for gatherings, keep 15.0 m (picnic areas 4.5 m) from interior lot lines; these, and temporary farm worker housing, stay 30 m from a house on another lot. Mushroom growing and composting follow the City's Farm Bylaw No. 698-98.

Watercourses (ss. 210.4.18, 210.4.22): cannabis buildings 30 m from the top of bank or as s. 140.8 sets, whichever is more; everything else as s. 140.8 sets.

Separation between non-farm buildings (s. 210.4.21): 3.0 m between the house and an accessory farm dwelling unit, farm worker housing or another accessory building; 1.5 m between two accessory buildings; 15.0 m between any home and kennel buildings and runs.

Secondary suite (s. 210.7.2): one per lot, up to 100 m²; temporary farm workers may live in it, and in an accessory farm dwelling unit.

Accessory farm dwelling unit (s. 210.7.3): one per lot of 0.4 ha or more, only as the provincial ALR Use Regulation allows or the Agricultural Land Commission approves; a permanent building or a manufactured home, or a coach house, or a separate home inside a farm building with its own entrances (s. 120); up to 90 m² on a lot of 40 ha or less and 186 m² above that, basement included; no other accessory home on the lot except boarders, a secondary suite and farm worker housing; not with residential care or supported housing.

Full-time farm worker residence (s. 210.7.4): only on farm-classed ALR land owned or leased by the farmer who needs it, with Agricultural Land Commission approval; one per lot, up to 300 m² with attached garage (basement not counted); the worker is employed on the farm at least 35 hours a week, averaged by month.

Temporary farm worker housing (s. 210.7.5): only on farm-classed ALR land of 3.8 ha or more owned by the employing farmer, with Agricultural Land Commission approval, and only where the farm grows fruit, tree nuts, vegetables, nursery plants, flowers, poultry or mushrooms; in prefabricated buildings (CSA A277 or Z240, no permanent foundation or basement), removed when no longer used, or in one existing permanent building at least five years old, converted with up to 300 m²; at most 60 workers per farm operation and 7.4 m² to 15 m² per worker; floor area up to 300 m² on a lot under 8 ha, 600 m² from 8 ha, 900 m² from 16 ha, or 900 m² at one worker per 1,000 m² of greenhouse or processing floor on the same lot; indoor lounge of 1.25 m² per worker or 50 m², whichever is less and 2 m² of outdoor space per worker; each worker housed at most 10 months a year, or 24 months in a row under a federal program.

Farm uses with conditions (s. 210.8): cannabis production only on ALR land with every licence, outdoors, on a soil base, or in a growing structure built or under way before July 13, 2018 and not enlarged since, 100 m from the ALR boundary, 100 m outside the Urban Development Boundary and 150 m from a park or school lot, with a stormwater and liquid waste plan above 3,700 m² of cannabis buildings; horse boarding up to 40 horses per farm operation and no licensed racetrack; mushroom growing under the provincial compost regulation and the City's Farm Bylaw; swine with four months of manure storage, mechanical ventilation and new buildings 500 m outside the Urban Development Boundary; feedlots 100 m from the ALR boundary, 100 m outside the Urban Development Boundary and 150 m from a park or school lot; on-farm composting up to 465 m² per farm operation (s. 210.9.7).

Farm retail and processing (s. 210.9): farm retail sales on one farm-classed lot per farm operation, under the provincial ALR Use Regulation, up to 300 m² per lot together with a farm alcohol facility's retail area; farm product processing (Level 1) and accessory cannabis processing (Level 1, up to 2,000 m², on a lot growing cannabis, at the same distances as cannabis production) only on farm-classed ALR land; processing, farm alcohol and cannabis processing floor area together at most 2,500 m² per lot; uncovered outdoor storage no larger than the processing buildings.

Farm alcohol production facility (s. 210.9.4): on one provincially licensed, farm-classed lot of 1.5 ha or more per farm operation; floor area up to 1,250 m² on 1.5 ha to 4.99 ha and 2,500 m² from 5.0 ha; tasting and retail, indoor lounge and outdoor lounge each up to 125 m², a kitchen up to 20% of the lounges more, together at most 49% of the facility's floor area; outdoor tasting, lounge and special event areas at most 300 m² per lot; no buildings or hard surfaces for outdoor event and picnic areas.

Agri-tourism and gatherings for events (ss. 210.9.5, 210.9.6): on farm-classed land under the provincial ALR rules (gatherings only on ALR land), with no permanent kitchen, no new buildings or hard surfaces unless the Agricultural Land Commission allows, parking on the farm for every visitor, and indoor areas up to 300 m² per lot (farm tours and approved filming aside).

At 320 Mt. Lehman Road (PID 010-430-717, Lot 2, Section 1, Township 13, NWD Plan 18778), temporary farm worker housing may stand on a permanent foundation with up to 784 m² of floor area, as the Agricultural Land Commission approves (s. 210.10.1).

At 1481 Tracey Street (PID 012-384-755, Lot 8, Section 7, Township 16, NWD Plan 1830), farm product processing (Level 2) incidental to the farm is allowed while the lot is farmed, up to 6,039 m² (s. 210.10.2).

Other site-specific uses (s. 210.10.3): at 31530 Brookside Avenue (PID 006-046-428, Lot 21, Section 30, Township 16, NWD Plan 46266), a 10-bed residential treatment, detox and emergency placement shelter for Aboriginal girls and young women aged 13 to 19, with quarters for one full-time staff member; at 29985 Downes Road (Lot 6 except part subdivided by Plan BCP18008, Section 35, Township 13, NWD Plan 40525), a restaurant as the Agricultural Land Commission approves; at 28494 Maclure Road (PID 008-648-689, Lot 33 except Parcel "45", Explanatory Plan 64926, Section 21, Township 13, NWD Plan 39584), a full-time farm worker residence as the Commission approves; at 28522 McTavish Road (PID 005-093-911, Lot 19 except part subdivided by Plan LMP42050, Section 16, Township 14, NWD Plan 53308), a poultry barn manure clean-out, storage and pick-up business with four commercial vehicles, within 1.2 ha, as the Commission approves; at 3911 Mount Lehman Road (PID 025-603-825, Lot 3, Section 26, Township 13, NWD Plan BCP4095 except parts subdivided by Plans BCP36359 and EPP39846), a dairy processing plant making products from milk and its by-products, as the Commission approved.

Site-specific lot sizes (s. 210.10.3): new lots from 29781 Fraser Highway (PID 026-507-285, Lot B, Section 23, Township 13, NWD Plan BCP21123) may be 1.9 ha; new lots west of Bradner Road from 29048 King Road (PID 013-332-597, South Half of the North West Quarter, Section 10, Township 13, NWD, except road on Plan LMP36740) may be 0.5 ha.

Short-term rental is a permitted accessory use here. The bylaw defines it as paid nightly accommodation, accessory to a home, where no guest stays more than 30 days in any 12 months (s. 120), and requires that the host's principal residence must be on the lot; only in a single detached house or a duplex, plus, for each principal home, one of its secondary suite, garden suite, coach house or accessory farm home; at most eight guests and four guest bedrooms per principal home; one parking space for each rental on top of the lot's other parking; never on a lot with boarders or a boarding house (s. 140.3.1).

Boarders (s. 140.3.2): in a house or duplex, up to four in the principal home, two per bedroom, never together with a short-term rental; in an apartment, townhouse or rowhouse, one boarder, not in a building with supported housing or congregate care. Parking: one space per bedroom in a house or duplex (s. 150.3).

Home occupation, Level 3 (s. 140.3.5(c)): in the principal home or an accessory building (horticulture may be outdoors in an A zone), up to 112 m²; residents plus two employees from outside; no nuisance (noise, smell, traffic and the like), no outside storage, and no outward change to the home's residential look; no repair of cars, recreational or commercial vehicles, and repair of farm vehicles only in A1, A2 and A3; one sign of 1.2 m². Two extra parking spaces (s. 150.3).

Home occupation, Level 4 (s. 140.3.5(d)): as Level 3, up to 112 m² (in an accessory building, a part kept separate from the rest), but no dispatching of vehicles, no outdoor storage of customers' equipment or vehicles, and repair of farm vehicles only in A1 to A6; residents plus two employees from outside; one sign of 1.2 m². Two extra parking spaces (s. 150.3).

A Level 1 home occupation may also run in a secondary suite, garden suite, coach house, accessory farm home or lock-off unit, by someone living in that home (s. 140.2.10).

Home child care in a single detached house, run by someone living there: up to 8 children in any zone allowing a house (s. 140.2.9); up to 16 children except on a lot whose zone allows farming (the A zones, RR and CR among them) or in the ALR, and never on a cul-de-sac (s. 140.2.8). Neither on a lot with boarders, a boarding house, a secondary suite, residential care, supported housing or a home occupation of Level 2 or higher, and the larger one not with a coach house or garden suite either.

Chimneys, sills and bay windows may reach 0.6 m into a setback; steps, eaves, canopies, cantilevered balconies and open porches 1.2 m into front, rear and side-street setbacks and 0.6 m into interior side setbacks and between buildings; below-grade window wells, stairs and ramps anywhere (s. 140.4.2).

Parking (s. 150.3): 2 spaces per single detached house or duplex home; 1 per secondary suite, garden suite, coach house or accessory farm home; 1 per short-term rental; 1 per boarder's bedroom; 1 or 2 more for a home occupation's employees (Level 2 or higher).

New residential buildings give each home with required parking an energized outlet for Level 2 charging (s. 150.6).

The A1 zone's further rules for each use (ss. 210.7 to 210.9) apply wherever that use is allowed, and to any ALR use this zone doesn't address (ss. 130.1.2(b), 200.1.3).

On land in the Agricultural Land Reserve, the Agricultural Land Commission Act and its regulations come first and generally prohibit or restrict non-farm uses and subdivision; the bylaw allows the farm uses and required non-farm uses of the provincial ALR Use Regulation and only a few others (s. 200.1).

A single detached house on ALR land is allowed only as the provincial ALR rules allow or the Agricultural Land Commission approves (they cap a principal residence at 500 m² of floor area unless approved), and its accessory buildings together may not exceed the house's floor area (s. 140.3.9).

Every single detached house, in any zone, may hold one secondary suite, a home inside it that stays part of the same property (ss. 120, 140.3.8(a)).

Secondary suites here follow this zone's own accessory use rules and conditions (s. 140.3.8(b)). Parking: one space (s. 150.3).

On land in the Agricultural Land Reserve, small-scale multi-unit housing is limited to three homes, as the provincial ALR rules allow (s. 140.2.13).

Boarding house for farm workers (s. 140.3.3(b)): only temporary farm workers in a federal migrant worker program, up to 12 people in one house with one kitchen (a suite's kitchen aside), on a lot of 3.8 ha or more classed as farm; needs a business licence; not with a short-term rental, residential care, supported housing or home occupation; no parking required.

Accessory buildings go up only with or after the main building or use; one attached to the main building counts as part of it and keeps its setbacks (s. 140.4.1).

The bylaw sets no fence height in this zone; barbed and electric wire are allowed, but such a fence stands 3.0 m back from a neighbouring lot not zoned A, RR or CR (s. 140.5.2(c)).

Commercial vehicles not part of the farm: at most two, BC-registered, at least one owned by a resident, never hauling waste, sewage or dangerous goods; vehicles may stand on landscaped areas (s. 140.5.4).

The old house may stay while its replacement is built: on ALR land only as the Agricultural Land Commission authorizes; elsewhere it is removed, demolished or turned to a non-residential use within 60 days of the new home's occupancy or final inspection, under a covenant to strip its kitchen, bath and 220V wiring (s. 130.4).

A temporary building is allowed here for temporary farm worker housing, with a permit, and removed when the permit ends; anywhere, one may stand during construction (s. 130.5).

Kennel runs, pens and enclosures are screened by dense hedging at least 1.8 m high (s. 140.3.4).

Parking (s. 150.3): farm retail 1 space per 20 m² of sales area; a winery, brewery or distillery 1 per 20 m² of tasting, sales and lounge area; farm industrial and produce processing 1 per 93 m² of plant or warehouse plus 1 per 32 m² (farm industrial) or 31 m² (produce processing) of office, display or sales.

No building within 15.0 m of the natural boundary of a lake, slough, swamp, pond or watercourse (tributaries included); 30.0 m from Nathan Creek, Poignant Creek, Clayburn Creek east of Old Clayburn Road and the Sumas River in its floodplain; 60.0 m from the Fraser River in its floodplain; 15.0 m from the inside toe of a dyke or its right-of-way, whichever is more; 7.5 m from a ditch. Fill used to raise a building stays out of these setbacks (ss. 140.8.7, 140.8.8).

Floodproofing (s. 140.8, Schedule E): in the Sumas Lake Bottom, Sumas Prairie, Huntingdon, Matsqui Prairie, Glen Valley and Sumas River areas (A to G), the Fishtrap Creek 100-year floodplain (H) and the watercourse setback areas, floors of living space sit at or above the area's level in Table 1 (for example 11.1 m GSC in areas A, B and D, 9.8 m in Matsqui Prairie, 8.5 m in Glen Valley), or at a lower "reduced" level in areas A, B, E and F where the owner signs a covenant with the City and the Province; farm buildings, renovations and small additions can be exempted under a covenant (s. 140.8.6). The rule printed as floors "not less than 1.5 m above the natural boundary" of a watercourse (s. 140.8.3(c)) reads as a prohibition of floors that high, so how high a floor near a watercourse must sit is unclear; ask the City of Abbotsford.

Nothing may be built on the river side of a dyke or on an island in the Fraser River (s. 140.8.2).

At street corners, a sight triangle (Figure 2) is kept clear of buildings, structures and plants between 1.0 m and 3.0 m above the street (s. 140.4.9).

No vehicle, recreational vehicles included, may be lived in, except that a visitor's RV may be used for up to 72 hours in a row in any 30 days (s. 140.4.11).

Wrecked vehicles only where the zone allows them or a business on the lot needs them, and then inside a building or behind a fence or wall that hides them (s. 140.5.3).

Growing, processing, storing or selling cannabis is not allowed in any zone unless the bylaw provides for it, subject to the provincial ALR rules (s. 140.2.5); cannabis production is a farm use only in the A1 to A6 zones (s. 120).

Every zone also allows public service works and utilities, parks, and seasonal Christmas tree sales (s. 140.1); an emergency shelter on a lot that doesn't border one with homes, under a housing agreement (s. 140.2.3); a temporary accessory emergency shelter during a declared emergency or an extreme weather alert, except on lots whose zone allows farming or in the ALR (ss. 140.2.1, 140.2.2); and soil extraction inside the official community plan's Soil Removal Eligibility Area, under the soil bylaw (s. 140.2.4).

Our summary of Section 210 of City of Abbotsford Zoning Bylaw No. 2400-2014, consolidated to 2026-09-01. Site-specific exceptions listed in the bylaw by legal description can add or change uses for one property.

The parcel falls in more than one zone; each zone's rules apply to its own part of the lot. Shares are measured by us from the zoning map and the parcel map, which don't line up exactly.

The zones listed cover about 96% of the parcel. About 4% is in SSMUH 2 on the zoning map; we don't list a zone on under 5% of a lot, as that is usually where the zoning map and the parcel map don't line up (inferred).

Zoning is only one layer: development permit areas, the official community plan, the ALR, building and septic permits and provincial housing rules can add limits or allow more. Confirm with the City of Abbotsford's planning and development services before you buy or build.

The City of Abbotsford's development permit area map isn't open data (its open data has steep slope and watercourse layers, but no development permit area map), so we can't name the areas over this lot. Ask it before you plan to build, clear or subdivide.

The provincial floor is our summary of the small-scale multi-unit housing rules in the Local Government Act (ss. 481.3 and 481.4) and the Local Government Zoning Bylaw Regulation, checked 2026-10-04. Local governments had to bring their bylaws in line by June 30, 2024, and with the 2025 changes by June 30, 2026, so the zone's own rules usually allow at least these homes already; height, coverage, setbacks and parking still decide how they fit. Whether the lot is inside an urban containment boundary, on community water or sewer, or near a frequent bus stop isn't checked here: confirm with the local government before you buy or build.

Clear of steep slope and water setbacks

2 ha (99%)

In or within 30 m of mapped water

0%

Steeper than 30%, outside that strip

1%

15 to 30% slope

26%

On designated floodplain (counted as clear)

0%

Median slope

13%

Main slope direction

Mostly faces north-west (86% of the lot faces within 45° of it); measured by us on NRCan's lidar elevation model (Flood Hazard Mapping South West survey, 2023; 4 m grid)

Which way it faces

0% south (SE to SW), 62% north (NW to NE), 5% flat; the rest east or west

Estimated by us on Natural Resources Canada's lidar elevation model, from the Flood Hazard Mapping South West survey (2023): bare ground with buildings and trees taken out, read here on a 4 m grid, one dot on the plan per cell. Retaining walls, road cuts and ditches count as steep ground, and earthworks since the survey aren't shown. Slopes over 30% usually need a geotechnical engineer's report to build on; 15 to 30% is buildable with more work.

Not counted: zoning setbacks from the lot lines, room for a septic field and well (the Septic section screens for a field), easements and rights of way, and the local government's own slope or hazard development permit areas. What you can build names them where the local government publishes its map. A surveyor and the local government confirm where you can build.

December 21 (shortest day)

6 h 50 min of possible direct sun; 8 h on open ground

March 21 (about the same on September 21)

11 h 20 min; 12 h on open ground

June 21 (longest day)

15 h 50 min; 16 h on open ground

Noon sun on December 21

18° above level; the hills due south rise to 6°, 0.1 km away

Highest hills in the winter sun's path

6° above level to the south, 0.1 km away

Measured at

The middle of the lot, ground at about 86 m, from head height

Computed by us from the terrain only: trees, buildings and cloud aren't counted, so the sun that reaches a window or a garden is often less. The hours are possible direct sun, counted from when the sun's centre clears the hills, at head height at the middle of the lot; another spot on a hillside lot can differ.

The horizon is read from Natural Resources Canada's 30 m elevation model in 72 directions, out to 16 km: on its 30 m grid within 1.5 km, beyond that on a 120 m version of it, where single peaks can read a little lower than they are. The curve of the earth is taken into account.

The sun's path is from the standard solar position formulas. Hours are counted in sun time; clock times shift with daylight saving and with how far the lot is from its time zone's centre.

Check it on site: visit on a clear day in December or January, look at where the trees and buildings to the south fall, and ask neighbours when the sun leaves and comes back.

Capability class (1 best, 7 none)

Class 3: about 75% of the lot; Class 2: about 10% of the lot; Class 4: about 10% of the lot

What limits it

slope, too dry in the growing season, too wet (high water table)

Map scale

1:20,000 to 1:100,000: describes the area, not the field

Mapped

1960s to 1990s (digitised 2015)

These classes rate how well the land suits ordinary field crops, from the soil and climate as surveyed decades ago. Drainage, irrigation or fill since then can change the real answer, and a map at this scale can miss a good or poor field. The Agricultural Land Commission weighs these classes when it decides applications.

If farming matters to you here, a professional agrologist (P.Ag.) can assess the soil on site.

These maps were drawn mostly in the 1980s and 1990s and cover only some rivers and lakes. Not being on one doesn't mean the land can't flood: ask the local government whether it has newer flood mapping, and whether its bylaws set a flood construction level or floodplain setback here.

Fires on the parcel

1

Last burned on the parcel

1925

Each fire on the parcel

1925 (552 ha, caused by people)

Fires within 2 km

2

Within 2 km in the last 30 years

0

Most recent nearby

1925 (552 ha, caused by people)

Largest nearby

1925 (552 ha, caused by people)

Causes on record within 2 km

2 caused by people

Fire perimeters mapped by the BC Wildfire Service since 1919, each with its size and the cause the Service recorded (lightning or people, sometimes unknown); older and small fires are less complete. Past fire is history, not a forecast: for insurance, ask about the fire protection area and the distance to the nearest fire hall.

Peak ground acceleration, 2% in 50 years (the code's design level)

0.41 g

Peak ground acceleration, 10% in 50 years

0.21 g

Short-period shaking Sa(0.2), the value the code uses for houses and other low buildings

0.95 g

The same value in city centres

Victoria 0.81 g, Vancouver 0.47 g, Kelowna 0.089 g, Prince George 0.064 g

These are the 2020 National Building Code's reference values at the lot's centre, on firm ground (site class C). Soft soil, fill or a slope can make shaking stronger; the site class and the values a building is designed for come from the building official or a geotechnical engineer.

2% in 50 years means shaking at least this strong has about a 1-in-2,500 chance in any year; 10% in 50 years, about 1 in 475. g is the acceleration of gravity. The comparison with Vancouver and the other cities is ours.

Liquefaction, earthquake-triggered landslides and tsunami aren't covered here; ask the local government whether it has mapped them.

On record within 5 km

0

This is a list of landslides that are known to have happened, gathered from published inventories and from mapping on satellite images and lidar. It isn't a hazard map: it doesn't say how likely a slide is here, and no record nearby doesn't mean the ground is stable. Some parts of BC (the Fraser Valley and Fraser Canyon, Vancouver Island, Haida Gwaii, recent burn areas) are mapped in far more detail than others.

Each point mostly marks where a slide started. Debris can travel well past it, down a creek channel and onto the fan at the creek's mouth, so a lot on a fan or below a steep slope can be reached by a slide that began kilometres away. Distances are measured by us from the lot's boundary.

The kind of slide and its date are the database's own, mostly worked out from images, so treat them as a first look. Confirm with the local government, many of which have mapped steep-slope or debris-flow hazard areas, and with a geotechnical engineer.

Health region (regional figure, not this lot)

Fraser East

Homes tested here

100

At or above 200 Bq/m³ (the guideline)

3 (3%)

At or above 600 Bq/m³

None

Across BC

143 of 1,817 homes (7.9%) at or above the guideline

Radon comes up from the ground and differs from one house to the next, even next door, so a regional figure says nothing certain about one home. The only way to know is a long-term test of at least 3 months. Health Canada's guideline is 200 Bq/m³ in the parts of a home where people spend more than 4 hours a day; above it, fix it within a year, and the higher the level, the sooner. For a home you buy, Health Canada suggests a long-term test once you've moved in.

The survey tested about a hundred volunteer homes per health region, with one long-term test each. That gives a rough regional picture: it isn't a map, and a region where few or none tested high can still have homes above the guideline. The survey grouped homes by the 2007 health regions; we place the lot by today's boundaries for the same areas.

Federal sites within 2 km

0

This inventory lists only contaminated sites on federal land or that the federal government is responsible for: military land, ports and harbours, airports, fisheries and research stations, reserve land, national parks and similar. Most contaminated sites in BC, such as old gas stations, dry cleaners and industrial land, are on the Province's Site Registry, which charges for searches and isn't shown here. Ask the seller what the land and its neighbours were used for; a Phase I environmental site assessment covers it properly.

Each site is one point given by its federal custodian, and a large site such as a base or an airport reaches well past it. Distances are measured by us from the lot's boundary to that point.

Confirm with the local government and a qualified environmental professional.

Nearest railway (2 km)

None mapped within 2 km

Nearest highway or major road (2 km)

Trans-Canada Highway (Highway 1), a freeway, about 1.1 km from the lot line

Nearest airport or airstrip (2 km)

None mapped within 2 km

Distances only, not a measured noise level; noise depends on traffic, trains per day and terrain. Measured by us in a straight line from the lot line to the mapped centreline of the track or road, or to the edge of an airport's mapped grounds (to its point where only a point is mapped); a mapped line can sit some metres off the real one.

Railways are OpenStreetMap's track in use: main, branch and industrial lines, sidings and yards, and rapid transit; lines mapped as disused or abandoned, and track in tunnels, are left out. "Main line" is how OpenStreetMap's mappers class the line. Highways and major roads are the roads OpenStreetMap classes as motorway (a freeway), trunk (a highway) or primary (a major road). Airports and airstrips are every aerodrome OpenStreetMap maps, public or private, with its type where mapped; heliports aren't included. Airport noise exposure maps (the NEF contours some airports draw) aren't open data, so they aren't used.

Visit at rush hour and at night, ask the seller how often trains pass, and confirm with the local government whether a noise bylaw, a development permit area or an airport zoning regulation covers the lot. For a railway, the railway company or Transport Canada can say how many trains use the line; for an airport, ask the airport about flight paths.

Community water

In the City of Abbotsford's water service area, at the lot's middle (per the City of Abbotsford's Water Boundary map, read 2026-10-05)

Wells within 2 km

54

Median depth

57 m

Median tested yield

114 L/min (41 wells tested)

Median water level below ground

27 m

Aquifer 28 under the lot

Northwest of Clearbrook: confined sand and gravel (glacio-marine); productivity moderate, vulnerability low, demand high; 426 wells linked, median depth 40.5 m

Neighbours' wells show what drillers found nearby, not what a new well here will find; many wells were never registered. For a property on a well, ask for a recent flow test and water quality test.

Productivity is how much water the aquifer gives up to wells; vulnerability is how easily a spill at the surface could reach it; both are the province's ratings for the whole aquifer, not this lot. Mapped aquifers cover mostly settled valleys: a lot outside every outline can still have groundwater. Confirm with a qualified hydrogeologist or registered well driller.

The City's water boundary marks land inside and outside its water service.

City sewer main

Along the lot line, in a right-of-way north of Heritage Dr (per the City of Abbotsford's Sanitary Mains map, read 2026-10-05)

Recorded water-supply wells within 30 m

None recorded within 30 m

Mapped water within 30 m

None mapped

Within the setbacks, under 15% slope (gravity fields, mounds and trenches)

1.3 ha (67%)

Within the setbacks, under 25% slope (mounds, at-grade beds and trenches)

1.8 ha (89%)

Within the setbacks, under 45% slope (trenches)

1.8 ha (91%)

Screening, not a site assessment: measured by us on the same elevation cells as the buildable area, against the separations in the Province's Sewerage System Standard Practice Manual: a field stays 30 m from a drinking-water well (60 to 90 m from a high-pumping one), 30 m from a lake, river or permanent stream (15 m from seasonal water and the sea), 7.5 m from a downslope drain or bank where effluent could break out, and, as a guideline, 3 m from the lot line. We use 30 m for every mapped stream. A gravity field isn't allowed on slopes over 15%, a mound or at-grade bed over 25%, and trenches over 45%.

Under the Sewerage System Regulation, only an Authorized Person (a Registered Onsite Wastewater Practitioner or a professional engineer or geoscientist) may plan and install a system, and they file the plans with the regional health authority before work starts. They dig test pits to check the soil depth and the seasonal water table and measure how fast the soil drains, which no open map shows. Ask the seller for the filing and maintenance records of an existing system, and have it inspected.

Well locations in GWELLS are often approximate, and many wells were never registered: look for well caps on and next to the lot. Wells, water lines and septic fields on the neighbours' land count too.

On a community sewer, a septic field isn't usually needed: the screening above is kept in case one ever is. The local government may also require a lot near its sewer to connect.

A main within 30 m of the lot line is our reading of the city's pipe map: a lot beside one is usually connected or can connect, but whether it is, and at what cost, is the city's to confirm.

Nearest hospital

Abbotsford Regional Hospital and Cancer Centre: 6.1 km

Next nearest hospital

Mission Memorial Hospital: 8 km

School catchment

Not mapped for this lot: catchments are shown only where the school district's boundaries are open data, for Surrey Schools (Surrey and White Rock) and the North Vancouver School District (the City and District of North Vancouver). Ask the school district which schools serve it.

Nearest public elementary school

Dave Kandal Elementary, Abbotsford: 400 m

Nearest public secondary school

Rick Hansen Secondary, Abbotsford: 1.4 km

Independent schools within 10 km

10

Nearest grocery store

Co-op Mt. Lehman Food Store: 900 m

Grocery stores within 10 km

27

Nearest fire station

Abbotsford Fire Department Hall 8 Blueridge: 900 m, on the Province's list

Nearest ambulance station

Ambulance station 205, Abbotsford: 1.8 km

Distances are straight lines from the middle of the lot, measured by us. The drive is longer, and much longer where the road winds, crosses water or takes a ferry.

Hospitals are from the Province's list. Not every hospital has a 24-hour emergency department, and some small towns have a health centre with emergency care that isn't on this list: check with the regional health authority.

Which school a child goes to depends on the school district's catchment, not on distance: ask the district.

A fire station nearby doesn't mean it covers this lot: confirm the fire protection area with the local government. Insurers price fire cover by the road distance to the hall that responds and whether the lot is inside a fire protection area.

Fire halls and ambulance stations are from the Province's First Responders list (updated 2026-09-11), with fire stations it lacks added from OpenStreetMap. A hall that has moved may still be listed at its old address.

An ambulance station is where crews are based. How soon one arrives depends on where the crew is when the call comes.

Grocery stores are from OpenStreetMap, mapped by volunteers: one may be missing, closed or mapped in the wrong place.

Confirm services with the local government.

Best speed recorded within about 1 km

50/10 Mbps or faster

Over a wired line (cable, fibre or DSL)

50/10 Mbps or faster

Over fixed wireless

50/10 Mbps or faster

LTE mobile within about 1 km

recorded

Nearest place with 50/10 Mbps or faster

within about 1 km (about 100 m)

Data

ISED National Broadband Data, May 2026

This is the service providers report to Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) for homes and roads near the lot, not a quote: ask providers whether they serve this address, at what speed and at what cost to connect.

Speeds are download/upload bands. 50/10 Mbps is ISED's top band, so a place in it can get much faster service, and it is the CRTC's target for every Canadian home.

A line that reaches homes within 1 km may stop short of this lot; bringing it further can cost the buyer. Fixed wireless and LTE need a clear line to the tower, which hills and tall trees can block.

Satellite service doesn't need nearby lines, but it needs a clear view of the sky.

Distances are straight lines from the middle of the lot, measured by us on a grid of about 250 m.

Nearest climate station

Abbotsford Airport, 5.2 km away

Station elevation

59 m

Lot elevation (estimated, middle of the lot)

88 m

January mean temperature (1991-2020)

3.7 °C

July mean temperature (1991-2020)

18.5 °C

Yearly precipitation, rain and snow as water (1991-2020)

1,505 mm*

Yearly snowfall (1991-2020)

56 cm*

Frost-free period (1991-2020)

218 days a year*

Average last spring frost (1991-2020)

April 3*

Average first fall frost (1991-2020)

November 7*

Days with snow on the ground, 1 cm or more (1991-2020)

11 days a year, 6 days of them in January*

Lowest temperature recorded, 1991-2020

−16.4 °C (1993)

Period

1991-2020

Plant hardiness zone (regional)

8b

Normals are 30-year averages at the station, not readings for this lot. In BC's mountains a few hundred metres of elevation, a north-facing slope or a lakeshore can change winters a lot: a hillside lot can be much colder and snowier than a valley station.

The lot's elevation is our estimate from Natural Resources Canada's 30 m elevation model at the middle of the lot.

The hardiness zone is from Natural Resources Canada's 2025 map, read by us on a grid of about 2 to 3 km: near a zone's edge, or well above or below the valley around it, the lot may fall in the next zone. It is a guide to which plants survive the winter, not a frost date.

* Based on fewer years than the WMO standard: these figures rest on at least 20 or 15 of the 30 years, short of the World Meteorological Organization's standard of nearly all of them. ECCC publishes them as normals; treat them as a rougher guide.

Frost dates are averages: in about half of years the last spring frost comes later than the date shown, and frost pockets in hollows and valley bottoms get it later still.

Recent years have run warmer than the 1991-2020 averages in much of BC. Ask neighbours or the local government about snow on the road and who clears it.

Place

Abbotsford

In the taxable area

Yes

Rate, 2026

1% of the assessed value for Canadian citizens and permanent residents, 3% for foreign owners and untaxed worldwide earners (4% from 2027)

Declare by

March 31 each year, for the year before

The tax applies to property BC Assessment classes as residential; exemptions also cover a newly bought home in its first year, a home being built or rebuilt, a home reached only by water and over 100 m from a road, and a property assessed at $150,000 or less, among others. Every owner on title declares separately, each year, even when exempt. Confirm a given property with the Province's speculation and vacancy tax office.

Reserve and treaty lands, and islands reached only by air or water (Vancouver Island aside), are outside the taxable areas.

Local government

Abbotsford

Residential rate, 2026

4.52071 per $1,000

Municipal

2.95162 per $1,000

Regional district

0.08836 per $1,000

Regional hospital district

0.11583 per $1,000

School (set by the Province)

1.3266 per $1,000

Other

0.0383 per $1,000

BC municipalities' middle rate

6.24337 per $1,000

Your bill uses BC Assessment's value for the property, which can differ from its price, and may also include parcel taxes and utility fees (water, sewer, garbage) that aren't rates on value.

The home owner grant takes up to $570 off the bill of a home its owner lives in ($770 in the Province's northern and rural area in 2026, and up to $845, or $1,045 there, for seniors, veterans and people with a disability), for homes assessed at $2,075,000 or less in 2026; above that it shrinks by $5 for each $1,000. From 2027 the northern and rural extra ends and the regular grant is $570 everywhere. The owner applies each year, and must pay at least $350 in tax ($100 for the higher grant) after it.

Rates are set each May for the year; the next year's will differ.

Police service

Abbotsford's municipal police

Crime severity index, 2025

95 (BC 92)

Violent / non-violent index

129 / 82 (BC 98 / 91)

Crime severity index, 2015

87 (BC 93)

Break and enter, per 100,000 people, 2025

263 (BC 281)

Theft of a vehicle, per 100,000 people, 2025

169 (BC 138)

Theft from a vehicle, per 100,000 people, 2025

462 (BC 441)

Violent crime, per 100,000 people, 2025

1,561 (BC 1,531)

All Criminal Code offences (not traffic), per 100,000 people, 2025

5,788 (BC 6,943)

The crime severity index weighs each offence by how serious it is (one assault counts for more than several thefts), with Canada in 2006 set at 100. Rates are per 100,000 people living in the police service's area, so places with many visitors, commuters or seasonal homes read high, and in small places a few incidents swing the figures a lot. These are crimes reported to police, not all crime.

In BC only Surrey, the Township of Langley, Coquitlam and Port Coquitlam publish reported property crime block by block under an open licence; reports there count what was reported within 500 m of the lot. The police here don't, so the figures above are for the whole area they cover.

Police calls to a particular address aren't published in BC (privacy law keeps police records about identifiable people closed), and neither is whether a home was used as a grow-op or drug lab: that shows up as a notice on the title. Ask the seller for the Property Disclosure Statement, and your lawyer for the title search.