MH: Mobile Home Park

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Mobile homes in a park, up to 20 per hectare; one house for the owner or operator

Main uses

Mobile home park; park service buildings, shared RV and boat storage, one house for the owner or operator, accessory buildings

Smallest lot for a subdivision

2 ha for the park

Lot coverage

No maximum

Height limit

The owner's house 12 m, accessory buildings 5 m

Setbacks

Front 6 m; sides 1.5 m for accessory buildings (4.5 m beside a street); rear 6 m (accessory buildings 1.5 m)

The park follows the TNRD's Manufactured Home Parks Bylaw No. 1949 or its successor, and is on community water and sewer (s. 8.6). Homes in the park are built to CSA Z240 with insulated skirting (s. 3.9(c)).

The zone sets no side setback for the house or the park's main buildings, only for accessory buildings.

Whether the caregiver home of s. 3.7 may go on the owner's lot in the park. The zone permits one house there, so this is unclear; ask the District of Barriere.

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.

Home occupation in any zone (s. 3.13(n)): a business inside the home on up to 25% of its living area, with no change to how it looks, no outside storage, no flammable materials, a sign of at most 0.3 m² and no cannabis sales (s. 1). A home-based business, the same thing in an accessory building, is allowed in every zone but RM.

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)).

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

Parking (s. 3.10): 2 spaces per home, 1.5 per home in a multi-family building, 1 per secondary suite.

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.