Development Intelligence

Know what got approved this week. Without checking 21 portals.

A weekly email brief covering every development decision across Metro Vancouver's 21 municipalities. Plain language. Five-minute read. Built for professionals who move fast.

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Municipalities covered
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Inbox. Every Monday.

From 21 portals to one clean email

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We scrape the portals

Every council agenda, development permit application, rezoning decision, and public hearing outcome across all 21 Metro Vancouver municipalities. Automatically. Every week.

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AI writes the brief

Each item summarized in one short paragraph: what, where, who, and what it means. No jargon walls. No 40-page council minutes. Just the signal.

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You read with coffee

Scannable. Mobile-first. Bold headlines, short paragraphs, clickable links to the official source if you want to dig deeper. Consistent format you learn once.

The product

What your Monday morning looks like

One email. Every decision that matters.

Grouped by municipality or project type. You choose. Each item is one paragraph with a link to the source. No login required to read. Archive lives on a clean, searchable web page.

  • Proposals, approvals, and denials
  • Grouped by municipality or type
  • Clickable links to official sources
  • Searchable archive of past decisions
  • Custom alerts for areas you care about
  • No login to read the email itself
from: brief@devbrief.app
Week of April 21, 2026
Vancouver

25-storey rental tower approved at Kingsway & Boundary

Telus-owned site at 3696 Kingsway rezoned from C-2 to CD-1 for a 25-storey purpose-built rental with 280 units. Council approved 7-4 after public hearing.

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Burnaby

Metrotown density bonus framework amended

Council voted to increase maximum density from 6.0 to 7.5 FSR for projects within 400m of SkyTrain. Applies to new applications only.

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Surrey

Mixed-use project denied at King George & 96th

12-storey mixed-use proposal denied over traffic concerns. Third project rejected on this corridor in 2026. Staff recommended approval.

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CRE professionals who need to know

Development Firms

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Investment Sales Brokers

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Planning Consultants

Stay current on precedent-setting decisions and policy shifts without reading 21 sets of council minutes.

Appraisers & Lawyers

Reference a searchable archive of municipal decisions for valuations, due diligence, and land-use opinions.

The information already exists. It's just buried in 21 different places.

DevBrief pulls it together, translates it into plain language, and puts it in your inbox every Monday. So you can stop checking portals and start making decisions.