The BC Laneway Housing Newsroom

In the BC Laneway Housing Newsroom, Burnaby Laneway Houses excerpts and links to stories about the Laneway House, Carriage House and Semi-detached house market in BC! Note the opinions expressed are those of the source of each news item.

How Burnaby is making it easier to build more homes on one lot

How Burnaby is making it easier to build more homes on one lot

The Daily Hive: Jan 19, 2025 A Metro Vancouver municipality is rolling out a new feature for residents and builders looking to construct multi-unit homes on one lot. The City of Burnaby’s Housing Design Library is an online gallery of multiplex homes, including duplexes, laneways, quad and sixplexes. The library comes after the city announced that it would end its single-family…

Burnaby Design Library

Burnaby publishes design library of new housing options

Burnaby.ca January 14 2025 The City of Burnaby is making it easier for new homebuilders to explore expanded options for developing their property by publishing a housing design library. The housing design library contains 12 designs for a range of different options, including laneway homes, duplexes and new options such as quadplexes and 6-unit configurations…

skyTrain Approved

City of Burnaby approves BC government’s required transit-oriented development policies

Daily Hive December 3, 2024 The City of Burnaby, already home to some of Metro Vancouver’s largest transit-oriented developments, has finally moved to comply with the Government of British Columbia’s transit-oriented development legislation.  Burnaby City Council quietly and swiftly approved the bylaws’ first, second, and third readings to turn the provincial legislation relating to Transit-Oriented Areas…

transit-oriented development

Burnaby city council caves to B.C. transit-oriented development demands

burnabynow.com Burnaby is set to approve a transit-oriented development bylaw, which the province had required to be passed back in June. After five months of refusing to comply with provincial housing regulations, Burnaby City Council is now on track to approve the mandated bylaw. At a meeting on Dec. 2, 2024, councillors unanimously passed three…

Laneway Homes: New Burnaby Zoning Bylaw Update

Laneway Homes: New Burnaby Zoning Bylaw Update

City of Burnaby Zoning Bylaw Update The proposed changes were introduced to the Council on October 7, 2024, and detailed text amendments are expected to be considered by the Council for adoption in early 2025. “As part of Burnaby’s comprehensive Zoning Bylaw update, building forms commonly referred to as laneway homes will continue to be permitted in…

New housing rules Burnaby

New housing rules promote increased density and shift infrastructure and amenity costs to taxpayers 

Burnaby.ca In 2024, the provincial government brought in new housing legislation with the aim of addressing affordability by increasing housing supply throughout BC, including in Burnaby. The new legislation allows density increases beyond what has traditionally been permitted in Burnaby neighbourhoods. In areas previously zoned for single- and two-family housing, “small-scale multi-unit housing” of up to 4…