Cottonwood 55+ Homes for Sale

In Cottonwood, Maple Ridge, the 55+ homes you can buy are St. George's Village Seniors Housing Co-operative (co-op or membership). The other seniors housing here, which you cannot buy into, is subsidized rental. This page names each building, says what type it is and what the sources show, and covers local rules and the questions buyers ask.

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55+ co-op and membership housing in Cottonwood (not strata)

St. George's Village Seniors Housing Co-operative — 52–23580 Dewdney Trunk Rd (at the sub-area's north edge on Dewdney Trunk Road)

The one 55+ ownership complex in Cottonwood MR. It is a housing co-operative, not a strata: the co-op's own membership application form states "The age qualification for membership is 55 years. However, a dependent may live here with the member(s) providing they are 19 years or older," that the co-op "has clear title to land," and that accepted applicants pay a non-refundable transfer fee of $3,500 on completion of a sale/transfer of shares (co-op-stated figures — confirm current amounts with the co-op). The same form states St. George's Village is not an assisted living/care facility and members must be capable of managing their own care.

Rental, care and subsidized seniors housing in Cottonwood (not for sale)

Cottonwood Park — 11600 Cottonwood Dr: Subsidized non-profit rental run by Red Door Housing Society. BC Housing's Zone 4 directory (May 2025) lists Cottonwood Park as a non-profit (NP) development in its Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows section, with on-site staff and wheelchair-accessible units, in a directory whose stated scope is affordable housing for seniors and adults with disabilities.

Streets, schools and getting around Cottonwood

The City of Maple Ridge does not list Cottonwood as a named neighbourhood (its neighbourhoods page lists Albion/Kanaka, Port Hammond, Port Haney, Ruskin, Silver Valley, Thornhill, Town Centre, Webster's Corners, Whonnock and Yennadon), and no Cottonwood area plan exists.
The City publishes no street-by-street boundary for Cottonwood MR. The residential area sits around Kanaka Creek Elementary (11120 234A Street) and Alexander Robinson Elementary (11849 238B Street), west of 240 Street and east of the Town Centre, with Kanaka Creek Regional Park along the creek.
Kanaka Creek runs through the area to the Fraser River; the regional park follows it, with the Canyon Trail from the fish hatchery to Cliff Falls and Riverfront Trails at the creek oxbow. Metro Vancouver flags steep, slippery cliffs along the creek, especially at Cliff Falls.
Lougheed Highway and Dewdney Trunk Road are the east–west corridors south and north of the area. Local streets in TransLink routing for the area include 232 Street, 238B Street, Kanaka Way, 240 Street and 104 Avenue.
The bus route named for the area is the 745 Haney Place / Cottonwood; the 746 Haney Place / Albion interlines with it at Jackson Road at 103 Avenue, forming one circular service to Haney Place Exchange. There is no West Coast Express station in Cottonwood MR — the nearest are in the Town Centre.
School District 42 (Maple Ridge–Pitt Meadows) serves the area; it has no middle tier — elementary is Kindergarten to Grade 7 and secondary is Grades 8 to 12.
No City recreation centre or library branch sits in Cottonwood MR; the Maple Ridge Leisure Centre is at 11925 Haney Place in the Town Centre and Maple Ridge Public Library is at 22470 Dewdney Trunk Road.
Where 55+ housing actually concentrates: it does not concentrate in the interior of the sub-area at all — the interior is family townhouse and house subdivisions around the two elementary schools. The two seniors complexes sit on the sub-area's arterial edges: St. George's Village on Dewdney Trunk Road at 23580, and Cottonwood Park on Cottonwood Drive at 11600.

Local rules and plans in Cottonwood

Co-op age rules are membership rules, not strata bylaws: St. George's Village sets its own membership qualification (55 years, with a dependent aged 19+ allowed to live with a member) in its application form; co-op housing is jointly owned by the members, who buy shares and contribute time to running the co-op — the Seniors Resource Directory's co-op section states this model generally, and the St. George's form states its own terms.
City zoning: Zoning Bylaw No. 7600-2019: contains the land-use and development regulations for every property in Maple Ridge; its residential zones include RS-1 through RS-3, RST, RT-1, RT-2 and RM-1 to RM-4, and the bylaw schedule gives a minimum lot area of 668 m² for RS-1.
Secondary suites: one secondary suite per lot, inside the single detached building, maximum 40% of gross floor area, not in the Floodplain Area, with a building permit required; eligible single-detached and duplex lots can have up to three, four or six units under the City's SSMUH rules.
Subsidized seniors housing runs through BC Housing's Housing Registry: for this area (Zone 4: Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Maple Ridge, Pitt Meadows directory, May 2025), but Cottonwood Park is in the directory's (apply to The Housing Registry) while some other Maple Ridge buildings are apply-direct — check the listing's "To Apply" route building by building.

BC’s 55+ rules (age bylaws, who may live in a unit, exemptions and rentals) apply in every strata and are on the BC 55+ strata rules page.

BC 55+ strata rules

Good to know about Cottonwood

"Cottonwood" has no official existence at City Hall. It is a board sub-area name; the City does not list it as a neighbourhood and there is no Cottonwood area plan, so rezoning and density expectations here run off the Official Community Plan's general policies and the Lougheed Transit Corridor Area Plan to the south — not neighbourhood-plan promises.
The sub-area's only 55+ ownership complex holds clear title to its land. St. George's Village states this in its own application form — a tenure point worth confirming in the share purchase, because many co-ops sit on leased land; this one states it does not.
Two different "Cottonwood Parks" share the neighbourhood. Cottonwood Park (11600 Cottonwood Dr) is subsidized seniors rental housing run by Red Door Housing Society; Cottonwood North Park (12111 238B St) is a City picnic park. Searches and showing directions mix them up.
The bus is a loop, not a line. The 745 Cottonwood and 746 Albion interline at Jackson Road at 103 Avenue and run as one circular service, so trip time to Haney Place depends on which direction around the loop your stop sits.
Detached supply is deep here, which shapes downsizer negotiations.
The park corridor is a working salmon system, not just scenery. Kanaka Creek Regional Park protects the creek corridor and the Bell-Irving Hatchery supports chum and coho salmon and cutthroat trout; creek-adjacent lots carry setback and slope considerations that interior subdivision lots do not.

Sources

Facts on this page come from these public sources, read on November 1, 2026. Listing-level pages are not listed.

Cottonwood 55+ homes: your questions answered

Is there a 55+ condo or townhouse strata I can buy in Cottonwood?

No — no strata complex in Cottonwood MR carries a 55+ age restriction. The 55+ ownership option in the sub-area is St. George's Village, a housing co-operative on Dewdney Trunk Road where you buy membership shares rather than a strata lot. The nearest known 55+ strata buildings are the Fraserview Village buildings in East Central.

How does buying into St. George's Village differ from buying a strata townhome?

You apply for co-op membership and buy shares; the co-op's application form states the age qualification is 55, a dependent aged 19 or older may live with the member, the co-op holds clear title to the land, and a $3,500 non-refundable transfer fee is payable on a sale/transfer of shares (co-op-stated — confirm current terms with the co-op). It is independent living only: the form states it is not an assisted living/care facility and members must manage their own care.

Can I rent out my home in a 55+ complex here?

For strata, long-term rental bans no longer exist in BC — every strata rental-restriction bylaw became invalid on Nov 24, 2022, though the tenant must still satisfy any 55+ age bylaw or an exemption, and short-term rentals can still be restricted.

Are pets allowed at St. George's Village?

(For comparison, the family townhouse complexes on Cottonwood Drive record pets allowed, some with restrictions.)

Where is the hospital?

Ridge Meadows Hospital, 11666 Laity Street, Maple Ridge (Fraser Health), provides 24/7 emergency and community hospital services for Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows; the Ridge Meadows Urgent and Primary Care Centre is in Haney Place Mall, 11900 Haney Place, open 7 days a week, 9:00 a.m.–8:00 p.m. Both are west of this sub-area, in or beside the Town Centre.

What transit can I actually use day to day?

The 745 Haney Place / Cottonwood bus (interlined with the 746 as one circular service) to Haney Place Exchange is the area's route; there is no West Coast Express station in the sub-area, so rail commuters bus or drive to Port Haney or Maple Meadows stations in the Town Centre / southwest.

Is Cottonwood in a floodplain?

The area's watercourse is Kanaka Creek, a salmon-bearing creek with a protected regional-park corridor; the City's flood material covers the Fraser River floodplain, and whether a specific Cottonwood MR lot is in a mapped floodplain is per-lot — check the City flood maps at MapleRidge.ca/Flood, and check setbacks and slope for any lot backing onto the creek (Metro Vancouver flags steep slippery cliffs at Cliff Falls).

If I need care later, can I stay in the area?

The in-city ladder is in East Central / Town Centre: independent and assisted rental and long-term care at Maple Ridge Seniors Village (22141 119 Ave) and Chartwell Willow (12275 224 St), and the Fraserview Village amenity-based strata community for independent living.

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