Bare Land Strata Surveys in Squamish

Bare land strata developments offer a highly strategic and flexible mechanism for creating individual ownership of land parcels while maintaining communal governance over shared amenities like private roads, servicing infrastructure, and recreational areas in Squamish. Unlike a building strata, where boundaries are defined by the walls, floors, and ceilings of a structure, the boundaries of a bare land strata lot are defined by physical survey markers driven into the earth. Functioning much like a traditional fee-simple subdivision, a bare land strata allows developers to maximize land utility while establishing a formalized strata corporation to manage shared assets.

Creating a bare land strata is a complex, heavily regulated process governed by the Strata Property Act, the Bare Land Strata Regulations, the Local Government Act, and the strict Survey and Plan Rules enforced by the Association of British Columbia Land Surveyors (ABCLS). In British Columbia, establishing these legal boundaries to create new titles constitutes the "practice of land surveying" under the Land Surveyors Act, an exclusive statutory authority reserved strictly for a commissioned British Columbia Land Surveyor (BCLS). Relying on our dual-registered BCLS and Professional Engineering team ensures that your development flawlessly navigates the intricacies of the Torrens land registration system and local municipal bylaws.

A significant strategic advantage of a bare land strata lies within the Bare Land Strata Regulations, which allows for "density averaging". This clustering principle permits the creation of individual strata lots that may be smaller than standard municipal zoning minimums, allowing you to nestle lots together while setting aside larger tracts of common property for conservation or shared recreation. However, unlike typical building stratas, bare land strata plans require the rigorous review and formal endorsement of a municipal or provincial Approving Officer. Our firm seamlessly integrates geomatics engineering and regulatory expertise to ensure your access routes, utility corridors, and overall design meet the Approving Officer's exacting standards.

To achieve the uncompromising absolute and relative accuracy standards mandated by the Surveyor General, we deploy an elite arsenal of surveying equipment. During the preliminary design and topographic mapping phase, we utilize Aerial Drone Photogrammetry and Aerial Drone LiDAR to penetrate dense vegetation, generating flawless 3D terrain models that allow designers to optimize road alignments and lot clustering in Squamish. We establish a highly robust primary survey control network using Static GNSS and RTK GNSS Receivers to integrate the site flawlessly into the official horizontal and vertical datums. In heavy timber or dense corridors where satellite signals are obstructed, our crews deploy millimeter-accurate Robotic Total Stations to run redundant, closed-loop traverses, precisely placing the physical boundary markers. Finally, Terrestrial LiDAR (3D laser scanning) is utilized to meticulously map complex existing infrastructure or heritage features that will form part of your common property.