RA 1: Resource/Agricultural

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

One house or one duplex; with a house, a secondary suite, a carriage house or a secondary dwelling

Main uses

Farming including feedlots and stockyards, log sort yards and small sawmills 300 m from homes, gravel extraction, kennel or animal hospital, airstrip, horse boarding, home business, bed and breakfast, community hall or school

Smallest lot for a subdivision

32 ha (45.5 m along the water for a waterfront lot)

Lot coverage

10%

Height limit

10.67 m

Setbacks

7.6 m from every lot line (30 m on a lot with a kennel, boarding facility or animal hospital)

Only one of the extra homes the zone lists, never two. A secondary suite or a carriage house is at most 90 m², a secondary dwelling at most 130 m²; the owner must live in the house or the suite, and none may be a vacation rental or be strata-titled (s. 4.26).

More homes for a working farm: one for every 4 ha of the lot.

Guests may stay in up to two RVs during any six months of a year, not rented to them.

No building within 7.6 m of a lake or 30 m of a stream (15 m where the ground is 6 m above it), with floors above flood level: 3 m above a stream or Green, Canim and Mahood lakes, 1.5 m above Lac La Hache and lakes of 15 km or less, where no flood level is set (s. 4.2).

Where the zone's code carries (S), the land may slide, flood or erode: nothing new is built or subdivided there without an engineer's report that the site is safe (s. 4.3).

Special exception zones change some of these rules for the lots the bylaw lists (s. 5.21.3).

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 CRD's planning department before you buy or build.

Source: South Cariboo Area Zoning Bylaw No. 3501, 1999 (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-04); no open zoning map (ask the CRD's planning department which zone a lot is in).