I: Industrial

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

A home

Main uses

Industrial workshops and offices, manufacturing, service industry, industrial and farm equipment sales, wholesale, warehousing, restaurant up to 140 m², mini-storage, contractor's yard, sawmill, ready-mix and asphalt plants, storage of logs, lumber, chips, gravel, ore and fuel, rail spur, public works yard, agriculture and horticulture; a home, accessory buildings, minor retail tied to a main use

Smallest lot for a subdivision

4,000 m²

Lot coverage

No maximum

Height limit

No maximum

Setbacks

Front 8 m; sides 8 m (accessory buildings 1.5 m, or 4.5 m beside a street); rear 8 m (accessory buildings 1.5 m); no industrial building or use within 30 m of a residential zone

Cannabis sales is also allowed at 3820 Enterprise Way (s. 13.1, Bylaw 227). Auto wrecking and storage was taken out of this zone (Bylaw 257).

The zone lists a dwelling unit as an accessory use without saying how many or who may live there.

The bylaw lists no short-term rental or bed and breakfast use, and only listed uses are permitted (s. 2.2(b)). Ask the District before renting a home here short term.

Parking (s. 3.10): retail 1 space per 40 m² of floor area, offices 1 per 30 m², restaurants 1 per 3 seats; 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 keeps the main building's front and street-side setbacks (s. 3.5(e)).

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.