A BC Assessment review of Port Coquitlam's tax roll last year meant a $770,000 bump in revenues, the city revealed this week.
The agency's Desktop Review Project (DRP) is designed to enable appraisers to have the complete picture of a property - including aerial photos - at the tip of their fingertips rather than go out to the site to assess a property in person.
The high-tech system allows those images to be instantaneously fed to the database along with electronic building plans and permits, administrative boundaries, infrastructure and topography.
In 2013, the DRP resulted in $700,000 more for Coquitlam's bottom line.
Niko Papoutsakis, acting deputy assessor for BC Assessment's North Fraser region, said Port Moody will undergo the DRP this summer.
But there is no timeline for Anmore and Belcarra, he said.
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