MHP-1: Manufactured Home Park

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Manufactured homes in a park, up to 17 per hectare; one caretaker home

Main uses

Manufactured home park, rented spaces or bare land strata; amenity areas, home based business, one caretaker home

Smallest lot for a subdivision

2 ha for the park

Lot coverage

Set by the park bylaw

Height limit

Set by the park bylaw

Setbacks

Set by the park bylaw

Space sizes, setbacks, coverage and heights come from the District's Manufactured Home Parks Bylaw, which s. 8.4 names as No. 1949, not from this bylaw.

Parking (Table 3): 1 space per home plus 1 visitor space for every 2 homes.

A manufactured home (CSA Z240 or A277) sits on a BC Building Code foundation, anchored and skirted (s. 5.20).

Home based business (s. 5.18): run mainly by the people who live there, inside the house, duplex or manufactured home, with at most one full-time or two part-time employees from outside, no outside storage or change to how the home looks, and none of vehicle repair, trucking, sawmilling, welding, kennels, retail of goods not made on the lot, pubs or restaurants, or cannabis retail. A child care centre or preschool of up to ten children counts as one (s. 5.19). One customer parking space (Table 3).

Besides residents' own cars: one RV, camper or trailer, one boat and one commercial vehicle driven by someone who lives there; no commercial vehicle repairs or wrecks (s. 5.6).

No one may live or do business in an RV except in a campground (s. 5.1.2); while a lot is built on under a building permit, a temporary building or RV may be used for up to a year, or two with the District's extension (s. 5.4).

At a street corner, nothing over 1 m in the 6 m sight triangle (s. 5.10).

The bylaw doesn't mention short-term rental and lists no bed and breakfast in this zone; a use the bylaw doesn't list isn't permitted (s. 5.1.1). Ask the District before renting a home short term.

Nothing but a sign within 4.5 m of a provincial controlled access highway (s. 5.8.1).

Development within a riparian assessment area of a stream follows the provincial Riparian Areas Regulation's setbacks (s. 5.8.3).

On ALR land, the Agricultural Land Commission's rules come first: no extra home, duplex, carriage suite or garden suite without its approval, and agri-tourism lodging of up to four rooms (s. 4.4). Licensed cannabis production is allowed on ALR land in any zone, on a lot of 8 ha or more (s. 5.23.1).

Every zone also allows community gardens, municipal parks, utilities, rooftop solar and accessory uses of the zone's main uses, off ALR land (s. 5.2); beekeeping under the Animal Control Bylaw (s. 5.28).

Height is measured from the average finished grade to the highest point, leaving out chimneys, antennas and rooftop equipment (s. 2.2).

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 Clearwater's planning department before you buy or build.

Source: District of Clearwater Zoning Bylaw No. 133, 2016 (summarised in our words); zone map: Open Government Licence – Thompson-Nicola Regional District.