Vancouver, British Columbia
20 answers · 108 facts matched to official text · sources read 2026-11-09Use 311 for City services. The City’s permit and licensing systems handle building work, business licences and dog tags. Use the City’s Digital Zoning Map for the district attached to a property, then read the corresponding district schedule. Garbage and green-bin service have address-specific calendars. For watering, Vancouver applies seasonal restrictions under Metro Vancouver’s drinking water plan. Short-term rental hosts deal with both the City for local licensing and the Province for registration.
Building, renovating and your property
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Garbage, recycling and waste
2Water, sewer, roads and snow
1Pets, animals and wildlife
4Bylaws, noise and complaints
4Starting and running a business
1Housing and renting
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For AI agents. Every answer is available as Markdown at the same address with
.md appended (or send Accept: text/markdown), and as JSON with .json. All answers for Vancouver in one file: index.json. Question list for this place: llms.txt. Full text of every answer here: llms-full.txt. Zones: zoning/index.json; zone of an address: /ca/bc/vancouver/zoning/lookup?address=. Official boundary as GeoJSON: boundary.geojson. All places: /llms.txt.