QtheMap is the City of Coquitlam’s own map, and it will tell you what a lot is zoned in three steps. What it won’t tell you is whether a garden cottage or carriage house fits behind your house; that part is further down.
Walked through 2026-10-01
Free zoning check. Or skip QtheMap: enter the address and get the zone plus whether a garden cottage or carriage house fits behind the house. Check an address →
Open QtheMap →coquitlam.ca: City Maps · verified 2026-09-25 · coquitlam.ca: How to QtheMap Handout PDF · verified 2026-09-25 · coquitlam.maps.arcgis.com · verified 2026-10-01
This is what it listed on 2026-10-01 for the property we looked up, which was not a house. A house lot’s may differ.
With Planning and Development turned on, clicking a lot opens a pop-up with two lines: the zone code and its description.
With the same group on, zone codes are written across the map, so you can read a whole street at a glance.
Choosing a search result opens a pop-up for that address, with lines for the postal code, plan, lot, legal description, plan area, folio and PID, and a link to a service connection report. On the public building we looked up, several of those lines were blank.
TOA, Heritage Revitalization Agreement, Zoning, Emergency Response, Community Profile Boundaries, Neighbourhood DP Areas, Environmental DP Areas and Planning Areas. Zoning and Heritage Revitalization Agreement are ticked when the map opens; the rest are not.
Among them: Environment; Steep Slope Areas; Contours; OCP; Cadastral; Transportation; Parks, Recreation and Culture; and the water, drainage and sanitary utilities. Only Cadastral is on when the map opens.
coquitlam.maps.arcgis.com · verified 2026-10-01
Look the code up in the zone-by-zone table on our Coquitlam page. It covers the 10 Coquitlam zone codes we have read, and what each allows behind the house.
QtheMap gives you the zone. It does not tell you whether a second home of the size that zone allows fits behind the house you already have, once setbacks and lot coverage are taken out. That depends on the lot: its width, its depth and what is already built on it.
Coquitlam’s own handout on QtheMap recommends hiring a B.C. Certified Land Surveyor where the exact size of a property matters.coquitlam.ca · verified 2026-09-25
The free check reads the zone for one Coquitlam address, applies the bylaw’s size and setback rules for it, and tests whether a garden cottage or carriage house fits — every rule cited.
Use QtheMap, the City of Coquitlam’s own map. Open QtheMap and type the address, or the PID, into “Search by Address or PID” at the top. Open the Layer List — the stacked-layers button along the bottom — and tick Planning and Development. Zoning sits inside it and is already ticked. Click your lot. A pop-up names the zone and its full title, such as “RS-2 - One-Family Suburban Residential”.
Its Planning and Development group has layers named Neighbourhood DP Areas and Environmental DP Areas. Neither is ticked when the map opens.
Yes. The search box at the top is labelled “Search by Address or PID”.
It opens straight to the map, with no terms screen to accept. That was the case on 2026-10-01.
Not directly. It gives you the zone. What that zone allows is set by Coquitlam’s zoning bylaw, and whether a suite of that size fits depends on the lot. The free check reads the zone and tests the fit for one address.
The official zoning map for every city we list · Coquitlam’s rules, zone by zone · Surrey: COSMOS · Maple Ridge: RidgeView · District of North Vancouver: GEOweb · White Rock: WROMS
The rules change at every city line. These pages are built from the same bylaw reads.
Each City's map, as it worked on the date shown. City maps are published for reference; only the City can confirm a property's zoning. Nothing here is a permit determination or legal advice.