Maple Ridge Launches a New Housing Design Catalogue
The City of Maple Ridge recently launched a new online Housing Design Catalogue, a practical resource created to help homeowners, builders, and designers better understand how small-scale multi-unit housing can work in our community.
The catalogue is part of the city’s broader effort to support “gentle density” while maintaining the character of existing neighbourhoods. It provides a collection of pre-reviewed site plans and conceptual home designs that already align with Maple Ridge zoning and planning policies.
For property owners who are considering redevelopment or adding additional housing on their lot, the catalogue offers a helpful starting point.
What’s included in the catalogue
The catalogue brings together several useful resources in one place, including:
• Pre-reviewed site plans showing how small-scale multi-unit housing can fit on typical Maple Ridge lots
• Conceptual home designs created by local architects
• Links to standardized provincial housing designs
• Additional housing resources from the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
These examples illustrate how options such as duplexes, fourplexes, and garden suites can be thoughtfully integrated into existing neighbourhoods while still meeting city zoning requirements.
Why this matters for homeowners
Across British Columbia, municipalities are working to create more opportunities for small-scale multi-unit housing as part of broader housing policy changes.
Maple Ridge has aligned its policies with these provincial requirements while focusing on neighbourhood fit and thoughtful planning. The new catalogue is designed to make the process more transparent by showing what these housing forms can actually look like on real lots.
For homeowners, this can be helpful whether you are:
• exploring redevelopment potential
• considering adding a secondary unit or garden suite
• planning a future project on your property
• simply trying to understand how neighbourhoods may evolve over time
Explore the catalogue
If you are curious about how small-scale multi-unit housing might work on a typical Maple Ridge property, you can explore the full catalogue here:
The catalogue is not a replacement for working with architects, designers, or the city’s planning department, but it does provide a helpful visual starting point for understanding what’s possible.
A real estate perspective
For homeowners in Maple Ridge, tools like this catalogue can also help clarify something many people are starting to ask: What could my property support in the future?
As zoning policies evolve and small-scale multi-unit housing becomes more common across British Columbia, understanding a property’s potential is becoming an increasingly important part of real estate conversations. Even if redevelopment is not on the immediate horizon, resources like this give homeowners a clearer picture of how different housing types may fit into existing neighbourhoods over time.
For buyers, sellers, and long-term homeowners alike, having that context can be valuable when thinking about future property value, land use, and the direction our communities are heading.
Jessica Thiele is a Real Estate Advisor with Engel & Völkers Vancouver serving Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows, and Coquitlam. As a Maple Ridge resident, she helps clients buy and sell homes with clear strategy and local market insight.
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