About ParcelMap BC

• Current and authoritative source of spatial data infrastructure supporting land administration and development
• Integrates over two million parcels across the province
• Continually updated via authoritative sources and driven by standards
• Relied on as a research tool for surveyed land parcels across the province
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Unless otherwise noted, these parcel representations are expected to have a PID associated.

Building Strata
A polygon representing the outer extent of a building strata plan providing a single geometry representation for all strata lots contained within – the polygon record itself does not have a PID. Individual strata lots within the building strata – with associated PIDs – are related to this extent via the plan number through the Shared Geometry table.

The building strata is represented two dimensionally based on the horizontal extent of the parent parcel. In the case of a phased strata, the extent of the current phase is mapped as defined by the plan and the remainder of the parent parcel is also represented. With each phase amendment, the remainder decreases in size and the strata increases in size. Assuming all phases are complete, the full extent of the strata plan will match the extent of the original parent parcel.

Bare Land Strata
A parcel representing a fee simple lot created under the Strata Property Act that is not comprised of a part of a building; however, it does share a divided interest in common property. Unlike building strata parcels, these strata lots are mapped individually in ParcelMap BC – each with an associated PID. Common property in the plan is mapped separately as common ownership parcels.

In the case of phased strata, the extent of the current phase is mapped as defined by the plan and the remainder of the parent parcel is also represented. With each phase amendment, the remainder decreases in size and the strata increases in size. Assuming all phases are complete, the full extent of the strata plan will match the extent of the original parent parcel.

Common Ownership
A parcel in which other parcels in the plan share a proportionate interest. A typical example would be a shared club house or court yard within a strata plan or a common lot on a subdivision plan. These parcels do not have a distinct PID and are related to other parcels with an interest in them through the common ownership table. ParcelMap BC does not differentiate between common property and limited common property. Common property is not mapped for building stratas but is mapped for bare land stratas.

Unless otherwise noted, these parcel representations are expected to have a PID associated.

Subdivision
A parcel that is a fee simple titled lot that has been Crown granted from a primary or Crown subdivision or defined through the division of its parent parcel into two or more smaller titled parcels, generally by deposit of a subdivision plan.

Air Space
A parcel which is a volumetric fee simple interest defined by an air space plan. Air space parcels are three-dimensional with upper and lower limits in addition to horizontal (side) limits contained within a single land parcel. In ParcelMap BC, air space parcels are represented two dimensionally using the horizontal extent of the parent parcel. As such, the air space plan should be referenced to identify the true extent of the parcel. Air space parcels and the remainder parcel representation will overlap topologically.

Unless otherwise noted, these parcel representations are expected to have a PIN associated (but are not expected to have a PID).

Primary
A parcel of previously unsurveyed crown land which has been delineated and surveyed on a Land Act survey plan and registered in the Crown land registry. This land is not titled and is governed under the Land Act. All titled land begins as a primary parcel and enters the land title register after it is Crown granted.

Part of Primary
Refers to the remaining extent of an underlying primary parcel of Crown land over which there is no known titled parcel or further subdivided crown parcel. In ParcelMap BC, these parcels are referenced with “PART: See PIN12345” in the name field where the PIN number refers to the PIN of the district lot or underlying primary parcel and a legal description prefixed by “Part of Primary:” to refer to part of this defined piece of land.

Crown Subdivision
A parcel of Crown land, called a block, that has been created as a part of its parent primary parcel, generally by confirmation of a Land Act survey plan. An important distinction is that these parcels are within the Crown land registry – without a title registered in the land title register – and governed under the Land Act.

Return to Crown
A parcel that has been transferred from the land title register to the Crown. This usually relates to parcels created as a result of erosion of land by a water body and will represent the area between the present natural boundary and the original natural boundary. If the foreshore is provincial Crown land, then the eroded land is often returned to the Crown.

Unless otherwise noted, these parcel representations are not expected to have either a PID or PIN associated.

Absolute Fee Book
A parcel for a title registered in the now-historic Absolute Fee title system. The Register of Absolute Fees closed in 1921, however some active Absolute Fee Book titles continue to be retained in this legacy paper-based system. Since 2015 there has been an ongoing effort to convert most active Absolute Fee Book parcel to modern electronic indefeasible title. Titles in the Absolute Fee Book book will often have a draft status PID (in preparation for the indefeasible title) or no PID at all logged in the system. Once converted to modern indefeasible title, the parcel will receive an active PID in the land title register

Interest Parcels
Refers to a parcel representing the surveyed extent of a charge (i.e. less than fee-simple interest) such as easements, covenants, statutory rights of way over titled parcels or statutory rights of way over untitled Crown land. Statutory rights of way are differentiated from other interest parcels through the Name field. Interest parcels in ParcelMap BC include surveyed charges defined on a plan filed with the LTSA after that region was first published in ParcelMap BC. For statutory rights of way over untitled Crown land, the parcel representation may reference a PID corresponding to the area defined on the plan over which a charge has been raised. Otherwise these statutory rights of way over Crown land will have a PIN associated.

These parcels represent the extent to which a charge may be registered and do not indicate whether a charge is actually active.

In ParcelMap BC, interest parcels may topologically overlap other cadastral parcels. Similar to air space parcels, volumetric interests are represented two dimensionally using the horizontal extent of the parent parcel but attributed as interest parcels.

Park
A parcel that has been dedicated as a public park on a subdivision, reference, or explanatory plan deposited to the land title office.

Road
A parcel that has been dedicated as road through a subdivision, reference, or explanatory plan deposited to the land title office. Further details on the road type can be distinguished through the Name field which includes: arterial highway, forest service road, lane, pathway, road, or Walkway. These names correspond to the wording on the land title plan which dedicated the road.