The water under Denman
2026-08-20
Provincial mapping shows one bedrock aquifer beneath nearly the entire island — rated High vulnerability, Low productivity. Here's what the Province's own data says, now live on our maps and every lot record.
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What Denman's farm-class tax break is really worth
2026-06-01
Farm-class assessment can substantially change taxable value. Across parcels showing that pattern, our model estimates about a $645,000 annual difference from a residential-class counterfactual—not tax owed or revenue lost.
Measuring Denman's buildings against the bylaw — carefully
2026-05-31
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.
What Denman property taxes really cost — and what the buildings are worth
2026-05-31
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.
Every lot, one page, every fact sourced
2026-05-31
We've built a public record for every parcel on Denman Island — drawn entirely from public data, with a citation on every fact.
Denman by the Numbers
2026-05-31
A first data portrait of the island: parcels, zoning, value, and an estimate of what we pay in property tax.
A living record of Denman news
2026-05-31
Thousands of real happenings, compiled from community sources, sorted by date — and growing.