C1: Downtown Core Commercial

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Homes in the commercial building

Main uses

Shops, service station, bank, personal services, offices, clinic, restaurant, entertainment, funeral home, motel, hotel; homes in the commercial building, accessory buildings

Smallest lot for a subdivision

500 m² on community water and sewer, 1,000 m² on community water only

Lot coverage

No maximum

Height limit

Main building 12 m, accessory buildings 5 m

Setbacks

Front 0 m; sides 3 m next to a lot not zoned commercial, 4.5 m beside a street; rear 5 m

No sale of cars, trucks, RVs or farm or industrial machinery (s. 9.5(a)). Everything happens indoors except parking, loading and storage screened from neighbours and streets (s. 9.5(b)). New lots are on community water, and sewer where it's available (s. 9.5(c)).

Cannabis stores aren't retail sales under the bylaw (s. 1); the bylaw allows them only on two named lots, neither in this zone.

Renting a home by the night. This zone allows motels and hotels (units let to tourists or transients, s. 1); the bylaw mentions short-term rental only to bar it from a detached secondary dwelling unit (s. 3.8(a)(v)), so whether a home in the commercial building may be rented short term is unclear; ask the District of Barriere.

Parking (s. 3.10): retail 1 space per 40 m² of floor area (6.5 per 100 m² for a store over 500 m² of sales area), offices 1 per 30 m², banks 1 per 20 m², restaurants and entertainment 1 per 3 seats, personal services 1 per 30 m² of service area plus 1 per 90 m² of storage, clinics 2 per examination room plus 3 for an emergency room and 3 per other clinic room, funeral homes 1 per 4 seats, motels and hotels 1.25 per unit, homes 2 each; where goods are delivered, one loading space of at least 37 m² per 2,000 m² of floor area or part of it, so at least one.

No accessory building before the main building is built or permitted (s. 3.5(a)); each accessory building is at most 65 m² of floor area on lots under 4,000 m² (s. 3.5(d)) and keep the main building's front and street-side setbacks (s. 3.5(e)); a storage container used as one is at most 3 m tall unless it has a peaked roof (s. 3.5(c)).

At a street corner, nothing over 0.8 m tall within the triangle reaching 24 m along each road's centre line from where they meet (s. 3.11).

No building within 30 m of the Barriere or North Thompson River, 15 m of any other watercourse or 7.5 m of the inside toe of a dike. Floors used for living, business or storing goods that floodwater would damage stand at the North Thompson or Barriere River's flood construction level (or 3 m above the Barriere River's high water mark where none is set) and 1.5 m above any other watercourse; the floor rule leaves out renovations, additions under 25% of the floor area, garages and carports, farm buildings other than homes and closed livestock barns, and industrial buildings flood-proofed to the engineered level or behind an approved dike (s. 3.4).

On ALR land the Agricultural Land Reserve rules come first: no subdivision or new non-farm use without the Commission's approval (s. 2.4).

Every zone also allows public uses (roads, parks, water and sewer works, fire halls, schools), trails and sports courts, conservation, flood control and processing firewood for your own use (s. 3.13); banned everywhere are bulk hazardous storage not tied to a permitted use, commercial slaughtering and rendering, feedlots and stockyards, and biosolids brought in for resale (s. 3.14). Telecom towers are allowed in any zone on a lot of 2 ha or more, 150 m from a residential zone (s. 3.13(f)).

Minimum lot sizes apply to new lots; a smaller lot registered before the bylaw may use all the zone's uses if its sewage disposal meets the Public Health Act (s. 3.2). A lot in two zones follows each zone on its own part (s. 3.3). On a corner lot the owner picks which line is the front; eaves and similar features may reach 60 cm into a setback, and uncovered patios and steps don't count (s. 1).

Height is measured from the average finished grade to the highest point, leaving out chimneys, antennas and rooftop equipment (s. 1).

Site-specific exceptions listed in the bylaw by legal description can add or change uses for one property, and development permit areas, the ALR and building rules apply on top. Confirm with the District of Barriere's office before you buy or build.

Source: District of Barriere Zoning Bylaw No. 111 (summarised in our words); zone map: Open Government Licence – Thompson-Nicola Regional District.