Helping Metro Vancouver build more homes, faster.
Access to efficient, innovative urban planning solutions for Vancouver’s future.
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Vancouver is on a mission to approve 83,000 housing units over the next ten years
Our team of data experts leverages modern technologies and collaboration tools to create accessible data to help streamline the pre-application process. From site identification, initial due diligence reports, to exploring development options, Ratio.City offers easy to use tools to optimize decisions and increase staff productivity. We understand the unique needs of those in the housing sector and work diligently to save our users time and money by aggregating public and proprietary geospatial data. Ratio.City is your toolkit for urban transformation, allowing you to make informed decisions, faster and moving us closer to the City’s housing targets.
Visualize
and summarize information
Map various data sets including federal, regional, and municipal policies, public assets, development activity, transportation, and more to better understand sites and context
Instantly generate site reports
Make data-driven decisions
Click the button below to see how our Explore tool can support in decision-making
Maximize
development potential
Search for parcels that meet specific criteria or conditions (i.e. under-utilized properties)
Generate massing models and overlay the relevant policy information to understand the development potential of a site in minutes
Click the button below to see how our Locate and Develop tool can support in identifying opportunities and conducting massings to find the best outcome
Easy-to-use
collaboration tools
Spend less time on tedious data gathering
Align team members to accelerate decision making
Create data-driven presentations for internal and external discussions
Click the button below to see how our Stories tool can support teams reviewing a site, understanding context, and summarizing relevant policy and information.
Access to the data at your fingertips
We’ve aggregated data for the City of Vancouver and province - saving you time and creating a one-stop shop for your planning needs.
Click one of the three different areas to see the available layer list (British Columbia, Metro Vancouver or the City of Vancouver).
Data Sources: https://opendata.vancouver.ca/pages/home/, https://open-data-portal-metrovancouver.hub.arcgis.com/, https://catalogue.data.gov.bc.ca/datasets, https://www.translink.ca/about-us/doing-business-with-translink/app-developer-resources/gtfs.
Tools to support you:
Explore
Understand context
Our web-based GIS software lets you easily visualize parcel and policy data in just a few clicks.
Locate
Identify opportunities
Advanced search filters allow you to quickly pinpoint parcels based on specific criteria. This is helpful in sourcing opportunities for development.
Develop
Derive valuable insights
Our 3D massing tools are designed to help you better understand development potential. Shadow study tools provide a high-level review of shadow implications in a neighbourhood.
Data
Visualize assets
Upload your own data to visualize it in relation to policy based information. Graphical representations of the information help to make informed decisions.
Stories
Assemble information
Quickly pull together presentations to efficiently communicate with others, highlighting relevant information including policy, development options and details, and more. Collaboration tools make it easy to track meeting discussion points and log required updates or changes.
700+ users across Canada manage their projects with Ratio.City
"…Ratio.City allowed us to zero in on areas of the city where we think we needed modular housing and find some of those smaller land assets, infill opportunities, or just assets that we wouldn’t have paid attention to before because they weren’t the big obvious sites."
Ashmeed Ali
Vice President of Portfolio Strategy
CreateTO
"Ratio.City took a complex problem and made it a lot easier, but what really separated Ratio.City from the competition was its ability to layer data and mass developments…."
Guidzag Kassabian
Planning Coordinator
Collecdev
"We’re able to save 70% of time on initial planning and massing related site analysis by using Ratio.City.
Tejas Bhatt
Senior Development Manager
CAPREIT
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