Land fit pilot · evidence before enthusiasm

Find land for the home you actually designed

Aura compares the design’s exact floor area, ground footprint, storeys and height with parcel evidence. Unknown zoning, setbacks, access, water or wastewater stays unknown. A high fit score is a screening result, never a permit or purchase opinion.

The real surface on this page is the City of Edmonton zoning lookup below. It is published authority data, it can refuse a design with the bylaw section behind the refusal, and it holds the rules that govern land rather than the land itself.

What this page does not promise

Aura can tell you what the City of Edmonton’s rules and its property register say about a lot you already have. It cannot tell you which land somebody is selling, it cannot confirm a lot is yours to buy, and nothing here is a survey, a permit, or a development approval.

  • It does not give a height ceiling from an address.

    A property register carries base zone codes and drops the h and f modifiers, which are the one thing the district register can evidence. An address can name the district. The district still refuses the ceiling.

  • It does not give a lot width and depth.

    A property register publishes an area. No free City of Edmonton source publishes frontage, so the frontage has to come from the person who owns the lot, and any depth derived from it is arithmetic on that number.

  • It does not make a parcel a match.

    The district check has two verdicts and gains no third. A lot you state yourself is checked against the rules; it is never returned as a pass.

  • It does not need the network.

    The zoning rules are baked into Aura and every check on this page runs in your browser. Where a live call to the City is offered, it can fail without taking anything else on the page down.

Design fit

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City of Edmonton · authority data, not inventory

Look up what a zoning district actually publishes

Zoning rules published by the City of Edmonton, not inventory. Nothing here is on offer, priced, or owned by Aura.

This is the real half of this page. Every figure below is the City’s own, read from its weekly open-data extract on 2026-08-15, and every one of them links to the authority page it came from. A district answers one of the seven questions the fit engine asks. The other six are answered by a parcel, and this screen says so on every district rather than at the bottom in small print.

156Zoning districtsSource

62Publish a Height on the mapSource

11,518Mapped zone areasSource

35Overlay recordsSource

What this data cannot answer

  • Which district a specific parcel falls in. Polygon geometry is not baked (about 8 MB of GeoJSON, measured 2026-08-14), so Aura links to the City's own zoning map for the parcel-specific answer.
  • Minimum Site area, Setbacks, minimum Site width and minimum dwelling size. Those are in Zoning Bylaw 20001 text rather than in an open dataset, so each district carries the City's URL for its own section and Aura records the numbers as unknown.
  • Servicing, potable water, private sewage and legal access. Those are parcel and utility facts; no district record can stand in for them.
Open the City’s zoning map for a specific parcel

Showing 10 of 156 districts, most-mapped first.

RM h16

Medium Scale Residential

Parcel evidence required

6 of 7 questions unanswered

1 answered by the City's published rules · read on the City's extract of 2026-08-15

Nothing the City publishes about this district refuses the design. That is emphatically not the same as land here working: the questions below that stay open are answered by the parcel, the survey and the utility, never by the zone code.

Checked against the design on this page

800 sqft floor area · 800 sqft footprint · 18.0 ft tall · one storey

Those four numbers come from your design, not from the City. Change them in the Design fit controls above and this answer changes with them.

What the City’s property register says

Lot areas the City of Edmonton records in its property assessment register, summarised by zoning district. A property register records who owns what. It never records what is being sold, and no figure here describes any one property.

Across 4,738 RM properties the City records a median lot area of 563 m2 (6,062 sq ft), with half of them between 375 m2 (4,032 sq ft) and 1,314 m2 (14,142 sq ft). That is what lots in this district tend to be, not the size of any one of them.

324 m2 · 3,489 sq ft10th percentileCity of Edmonton property register · read 2026-08-15

375 m2 · 4,032 sq ftLower quartileCity of Edmonton property register · read 2026-08-15

563 m2 · 6,062 sq ftMedian lot areaCity of Edmonton property register · read 2026-08-15

1,314 m2 · 14,142 sq ftUpper quartileCity of Edmonton property register · read 2026-08-15

2,801 m2 · 30,151 sq ft90th percentileCity of Edmonton property register · read 2026-08-15

Every figure above is an AREA. The register publishes no frontage and no depth, so it cannot say how wide a lot is or how far back it runs, and a quantile over thousands of properties is not a statement about the one you are standing on.

The City states the coverage of these records as 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 and refreshes them weekly; the rows were last updated 2026-08-10. A recent subdivision, rezoning, or new build may not be in them yet.

Ask the City about one address

Needs the network

Pressing this sends the house number and street name you typed to data.edmonton.ca, the City of Edmonton's open data portal, and asks it for the lot area it records there. Nothing else about you goes with it, nothing is sent until you press it, and you can type the area yourself instead.

This button is the only thing on this page that uses the network. The district rules, the district figures above and your own lot below are baked into Aura and run in your browser, so if the City does not answer, nothing else here stops working.

Contains information published by the City of Edmonton under the City of Edmonton Open Data Terms of Use. The City does not endorse Aura or this use of the data. Open Data Terms of Use

Your own lot

A property register records who owns what. It never records what is being sold.

A district governs every parcel inside it and knows nothing about the one you are standing on, which is why six of the seven questions above stay open. State your lot here and the buildable-envelope question is re-answered against your rectangle. Aura can look up only the City-recorded lot area, and only when you press the lookup button above. That lookup never fills or overwrites these fields and does not infer parcel geometry, so every value saved from this form is one you type.

Every measured field below starts empty, on purpose. Aura holds no lot of yours to open on, and a rectangle it filled in for you would end up saved as something you stated. Until a frontage, a depth and three setbacks are here, there is nothing to check and nothing for the button to write.

State the whole lot here. The setbacks you give are taken off it to get the buildable rectangle. A plot carried over from one of the demonstration records on this page is the opposite case — its width and depth are already what is left after setbacks, so those are stored as zero. Reading one as the other would take the same land off twice, or take none of it off at all.

These setbacks are your numbers, not the bylaw's. Aura has not read this district's setback table — Zoning Bylaw 20001 writes setbacks in its own text rather than in an open dataset — so it takes the rectangle you state and does not correct it. Zero is a number you may type, and it is not a number Aura will fill in for you.

The slope control opens on Flat and the facing control opens on Not sure yet. Flat is where the control starts rather than something Aura knows about your ground; if it falls, say so, because that is a foundation cost on screw piles.

Nothing stated yet

Waiting on your lot

Nothing has been checked here, because nothing has been stated yet. Type the frontage, the depth and the three setbacks above and this block works out what your setbacks leave, against your numbers and no others.

Your lot answers one of the seven questions above and changes nothing else: the district dwelling minimum, the height ceiling, road access, water, private sewage and grid distance are exactly as open as they were. This rectangle is your statement rather than a survey, so this check can refuse the design and can never confirm it.

The button waits on the numbers above. Nothing is written while any of them is incomplete.

There is no project open in this browser to write this lot onto. Start or open a project — the same one the builder uses — and this lot goes onto its design.

What the City publishes about RM h16

A district ceiling is not a parcel permission. Overlays, special areas, Direct Control provisions and site-specific rules can lower it, and none of that is decided by the zone code alone.

  1. District dwelling minimum

    Unanswered

    District dwelling minimum is not supported by connected evidence. Confirm it with the municipality, authority, survey, or qualified site professional.

    Zoning Bylaw 20001 sets this in its own text rather than in an open dataset, so Aura does not restate it.

    Zoning Bylaw 20001 · this district’s section
  2. Buildable envelope

    Unanswered

    The post-setback buildable width and depth are not both evidenced. A parcel area alone cannot prove the home fits.

    This is a parcel fact. No zoning district can answer it, and Aura will not infer one.

    Zoning Bylaw 20001 · this district’s section
  3. Height limit

    Published by the City

    18.0 ft is below the evidenced 52.5 ft limit.

    Zoning Bylaw 20001 · this district’s section
  4. Year-round road access

    Unanswered

    Year-round road access is not supported by connected evidence. Confirm it with the municipality, authority, survey, or qualified site professional.

    This is a parcel fact. No zoning district can answer it, and Aura will not infer one.

    Zoning Bylaw 20001 · this district’s section
  5. Potable water path

    Unanswered

    Potable water path is not supported by connected evidence. Confirm it with the municipality, authority, survey, or qualified site professional.

    This is a parcel fact. No zoning district can answer it, and Aura will not infer one.

    Zoning Bylaw 20001 · this district’s section
  6. Wastewater path

    Unanswered

    Wastewater path is not supported by connected evidence. Confirm it with the municipality, authority, survey, or qualified site professional.

    This is a parcel fact. No zoning district can answer it, and Aura will not infer one.

    Zoning Bylaw 20001 · this district’s section
  7. Grid proximity

    Unanswered

    Grid proximity is not supported by connected evidence. Confirm it with the municipality, authority, survey, or qualified site professional.

    This is a parcel fact. No zoning district can answer it, and Aura will not infer one.

    Zoning Bylaw 20001 · this district’s section

Overlays and special areas

An overlay adds to or overrides the district underneath it, so a ceiling read without them is an overstatement. The extract does not say which overlays touch which district — that join needs the parcel geometry Aura does not hold — so these are shown whole rather than attached to the zone above. 17 of the 35 records are recorded as not in force, 16 of them under the repealed Zoning Bylaw 12800. They are on screen because they are in the City’s own extract, not because they still govern anything.

  • AMAmbleside Special Area · special areaNot in force · Bylaw 12800
  • BFBlatchford Special Area · special areaNot in force · Bylaw 12800
  • BFBlatchford Special Area · special areaIn force · Bylaw 20001
  • BHBird Hazard Area - Airport Protection OverlayIn force · Bylaw 20001
  • BVRiver Valley Special Area - Buena Vista Park Zone · special areaIn force · Bylaw 20001
  • CMCentral McDougall Urban Village Special Area · special areaIn force · Bylaw 20001
  • CVClareview Campus Special Area · special areaNot in force · Bylaw 12800
  • DNDowntown Special Area · special areaNot in force · Bylaw 12800
  • EDCEdmonton Design CommitteeNot in force · Bylaw 12190
  • EIEllerslie Industrial Special Area · special areaNot in force · Bylaw 12800
  • EIAEdmonton International Airport - Airport Protection OverlayIn force · Bylaw 20001
  • ESEdmonton South Special Area · special areaNot in force · Bylaw 12800
  • ETEdmonton Energy and Technology Park Special Area · special areaNot in force · Bylaw 12800
  • FERiver Valley Special Area - Fort Edmonton Park Zone · special areaIn force · Bylaw 20001
  • FPFloodplain Protection OverlayNot in force · Bylaw 12800
  • GBGriesbach Special Area · special areaNot in force · Bylaw 12800
  • GHGarrison Heliport - Airport Protection OverlayIn force · Bylaw 20001
  • HVHeritage Valley Town Centre Special Area · special areaNot in force · Bylaw 12800
  • LMRRiver Valley Special Area - Louise McKinney Riverfront Park Zone · special areaIn force · Bylaw 20001
  • LSLiquor Stores Non-exemption Area to 500m Separation DistanceIn force · Bylaw 20001
  • MCRiver Valley Special Area - Muttart Conservatory Zone · special areaIn force · Bylaw 20001
  • MQMarquis Town Centre Special Area · special areaNot in force · Bylaw 12800
  • NS10All Lands within 10.0m of the North Saskatchewan River Valley and Ravine System Protection Overlay (Area 2)In force · Bylaw 20001
  • NSRVNorth Saskatchewan River Valley and Ravine System Protection Overlay (Area 1)Not in force · Bylaw 12800
  • OROrchards Special Area · special areaNot in force · Bylaw 12800
  • OROrchards Special Area · special areaIn force · Bylaw 20001
  • PAPaisley Special Area · special areaIn force · Bylaw 20001
  • PGAPriority Growth Area RezoningNot in force · Bylaw 12800
  • PMParking MaximumsIn force · Bylaw 20001
  • RCRiver Valley Special Area - River Crossing Zone · special areaIn force · Bylaw 20001
  • RTRiverview Town Centre Special Area · special areaNot in force · Bylaw 12800
  • RVRiverview Special Area · special areaIn force · Bylaw 20001
  • SWStillwater Special Area · special areaIn force · Bylaw 20001
  • SWStillwater Special Area · special areaNot in force · Bylaw 12800
  • VZRiver Valley Special Area - Edmonton Valley Zoo Zone · special areaIn force · Bylaw 20001
City of Edmonton Zoning Overlays · read 2026-08-15

Contains information published by the City of Edmonton under the City of Edmonton Open Data Terms of Use. The City does not endorse Aura or this use of the data. Open Data Terms of Use

Listing access

Active MLS inventory is not scraped or copied. In-app MLS browsing turns on only through an authorized CREA DDF® or board/provider feed with the required attribution and permissions. Until then, Aura holds no land inventory of its own.

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REALTOR.ca DDF®

not connected

The lawful in-app MLS path. It requires an eligible REALTOR®/broker relationship, DDF permissions, attribution, and an approved feed before Aura may display inventory.

Alberta Site Selector

link out

An official Alberta discovery surface for commercial and investment properties. Aura links out until a provider grants reusable feed rights.

Aura demonstration inventory

available

Four fictionalized records exercise fit, refusal, and unknown-evidence states. They are not active listings and cannot be purchased.

City of Edmonton zoning districts

reference only

Every zoning district in the City's own weekly extract. Where the zone code carries a height modifier, that ceiling is evidence; every other rule links to the district's section of Zoning Bylaw 20001 rather than being guessed. It says what the rules are, never what is on the market.

City of Edmonton zoning overlays

reference only

The overlays and special areas that add to or override an underlying district — the river valley protection overlay among them. A district ceiling read without its overlays is an overstatement.

Your own land

Aura holds no land inventory

Aura does not hold, buy, or index land. The reason is set out by the providers themselves under Listing access above: in-app MLS inventory requires an eligible broker relationship and an authorized feed, and Aura has neither.

What this page can do is the zoning lookup overhead, and the lot you already have. A property register records who owns what; it never records what is being sold.

Four fictional records exercising the fit engine sit behind the button above. They are a demonstration of the arithmetic, not a place to look for land.