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Where in Squamish, BC can I build 100 homes?
Seven parcels stand out for 100 homes in Squamish. Each one is zoned for multi-family housing (RM-1, RM-2 or RM-3), is 1 to 3.6 ha, is designated Reside...
See the mapWhere do utility lines run under downtown Vancouver?
Under downtown Vancouver's core district, City records show about 55 km of sewer and drainage mains. Water mains, a dedicated fire-protection water syst...
See the mapWhere near Squamish, BC is industrial land by rail and highway?
About 156 acres of industrial land in Squamish lies within 500 m of both the rail line and the Sea-to-Sky Highway (99). Almost all of it is in four area...
See the mapWhere in Vancouver are homes in the flood zone?
1,780 homes in Vancouver are inside the City's designated floodplain. More than half are in Dunbar-Southlands (614) and Kerrisdale (393), on the Fraser...
See the mapWhere do buried creeks run in Vancouver?
Vancouver's historical-streams map traces about 157 km of lost creeks and old shorelines (178 segments) across the city. The longest named creeks are St...
See the mapWhere in Surrey are people far from a grocery store?
About 71,400 Surrey residents live in 15 census tracts whose centre is more than 2 km from the nearest supermarket. Newton has the most of them (about 2...
See the mapWhere in Vancouver are streets with no trees?
538 of Vancouver's 17,072 street segments, about 45 km in total, have no public tree within 20 m. The longest stretches are on Kent Avenue, Boundary Roa...
See the mapWhere in Squamish, BC are homes on steep slopes?
120 homes in Squamish stand on ground sloping 25% or more, and 71 of those on 30% or more. That is about 2% of the town's 5,512 residential buildings, a...
See the mapWhere in Fredericksburg, Texas can I build 100 homes?
Six privately owned, flood-free parcels on residentially zoned land in Fredericksburg could each take 100 or more homes at about 3.5 homes per acre. The...
See the mapWhere do storm drains run under downtown Austin?
Downtown Austin has about 113 km of mapped storm-drain pipe (8,637 segments), of which about 83 km is active. The network follows the street grid and dr...
See the mapWhere near Taylor, Texas is industrial land by rail and highway?
154 parcels near Taylor, about 3,870 acres, are zoned Employment Center (Taylor's industrial and employment zone) and lie within 1.5 km of both the Unio...
See the mapWhere in Houston are homes in the flood zone?
In Meyerland, one of Houston's most flood-prone neighbourhoods, 43% of the land lies in FEMA's 100-year flood zone. About 1,470 of the neighbourhood's r...
See the mapWhere do buried creeks run in Houston?
Harris County flood-control data shows about 83 miles of Houston-area creeks now running in underground storm sewers (304 segments), plus about 46 miles...
See the mapWhere in Houston are people far from a grocery store?
About 680,000 Houstonians live in 182 census tracts whose centre is more than a mile (straight line) from the nearest supermarket. That is 30% of the 2....
See the mapWhere in Austin are streets with no trees?
In downtown Austin, 59 of 576 street segments, about 4.4 miles in total, have no inventoried street tree within 30 m. Two-thirds of that length is I-35...
See the mapWhere in Fredericksburg, Texas are homes on steep slopes?
384 Fredericksburg parcels include ground steeper than 15%, and 91 of them are steep across most of the lot (average slope of 12% or more). The steepest...
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