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Manitoba: secondary suites and ADUs need two rule checks.

Use the provincial framework, then the local zoning and permit route for each property. Browse 5 city guides.

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Find your Manitoba city guide by address.

Enter a street address. We’ll match it to one of the SuiteRulesCanada municipalities covered in this province and open the correct audited city guide.

Uses Natural Resources Canada’s national Geolocator to match the address. The rule result comes from SuiteRulesCanada’s audited municipal source set.

Provincial starting point

Provincial guidance; local zoning

Manitoba: provincial guidance, local zoning.

Manitoba's Municipal Planning Guidelines cover basement suites, garden suites, coach houses, granny flats and accessory apartments. The document is guidance for municipalities and includes policy/regulatory approaches that can be placed into local zoning bylaws.

The practical consequence is that the municipality or planning district's current zoning bylaw remains the land-use authority for a particular property. Building and fire-code compliance is a separate check.

Manitoba Municipal Planning Guidelines for Secondary Suites ↗Manitoba planning support material ↗

Provincial framework reviewed September 20, 2026. The guidelines support local adoption; they do not make every lot automatically eligible.

5 Manitoba city guides

BrandonGeneral official routePortage la PrairieGeneral official routeSteinbachGeneral official routeWinklerGeneral official routeWinnipegGeneral official route