PlaceDossier / Zoning / Comox Valley Regional District
WS-RA: Water Supply and Resource Area
A zone in Rural Comox Valley Zoning Bylaw No. 520, 2019 (Comox Valley Regional District). Our summary of Section 805 of the bylaw as consolidated to 2026-09-08.
The Comox Valley Regional District doesn't publish its zoning map as open data, so a PlaceDossier report can't say whether a lot is zoned WS-RA. Bylaw No. 520 zones Electoral Areas A, B and C, Mt. Washington included. Denman and Hornby Islands are zoned by the Islands Trust, and Indian Reserves are outside it. Ask the CVRD's planning services department which zone a lot is in, or find it on the CVRD's iMap.
What the zone allows
- Homes allowed
- One house
- Main uses
- Silviculture
- Smallest lot for a subdivision
- 400 ha, with 100 m of road frontage
- Lot coverage
- 35%, at most 1,000 m²
- Height limit
- 10 m (accessory buildings 7 m)
- Setbacks
- 7.5 m from every lot line (small accessory buildings 1 m from the rear)
No boat launch or dock, except on a lot reached only by water (s. 805.3).
Buildings stay 4.5 m from a lot line on a road, and 22.5 m from the centre line of Island Highway 19A (19.5 m on the ocean side in Area A) (s. 402).
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 CVRD's planning services department before you buy or build.
Source: Rural Comox Valley Zoning Bylaw No. 520, 2019 (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-20); no open zoning map (ask the CVRD's planning services department which zone a lot is in).
Rural Comox Valley Zoning Bylaw No. 520, 2019 applies in Comox Valley, Electoral Area A, Comox Valley, Electoral Area B (Lazo North), Comox Valley, Electoral Area C (Puntledge - Black Creek).
Other residential and rural zones in this bylaw
R-1 Residential One, R-RU Residential Rural, CR-1 Country Residential One, MHP Mobile Home Park, RM Residential Multiple, RU-8 Rural Eight, RU-20 Rural Twenty, RU-ALR Rural ALR, UR Upland Resource.