Farm-class assessment can cut a property's taxable value by 95%. We put aggregate numbers to it: across the parcels whose records show that pattern, about $645,000 a year is foregone under the provincial farm-class framework.
We can now measure how close a building sits to its property line and compare it to Land Use Bylaw 186. Here's how it works, what it found, and the lines we're deliberately not crossing.
A reader's own tax bill exposed two bugs in our estimate. Fixing them revealed how much of a Denman tax bill is local service areas — and how often the buildings on a lot are bigger than the record says.