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Originally Posted by EvoFire

a 1200sf laneway AND a triple? That I'm down. My goal is the Fairview area, but hard to say no that that kind of layout in Burnaby, and we don't mind Burnaby one bit.
My friends have been asking why I don't build a laneway, but we are a 4 car household (wife and I have two cars, my parents in the basement have 2 cars) and there's noway we can fit that many cars with a laneway.

Though.... 1200sf laneway with triple sounds like it'll be close to 1m to build. Who has 5m sitting around?

It's 1200sf including the triple garage - any space used for the garage would count against the laneway's allowable floor space so figure half goes to the garage. The maximum size laneway is 1500sf but that requires a 7500sf lot (20% of the lot size) and figure $450/sf to build.

Vancouver's updated regs will also allow for larger laneways - 20% of lot size so you could do the same thing in Vancouver if your lot is big enough. If I had a 6000sf lot I'd do a triple garage with the laneway above it - turn it into massive man cave that all my side pieces can stay in (cause I'm such a player).