CD1: Orchards Walk Comprehensive Development Zone 1

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Up to 997 homes across the zone, at least 30% of them in sub-zone B: houses and duplexes in strata, apartments and townhouses, with secondary suites

Main uses

A bare land or strata neighbourhood of houses, duplexes, multi-unit housing and parks, with a mixed-use village centre in sub-zone B; secondary suites, home-based business, short-term rental or boarders, residential care

Height limit

Not set in the zone

In sub-zones A and C together, homes in house or duplex form and attached homes each make up 15% to 85% (s. 12.1.1).

Sub-zone A (s. 12.1.2): houses and duplexes in strata, multi-unit housing, parks, residential care, secondary suites, home-based business, short-term rental or boarders.

Sub-zone B (s. 12.1.3): the same homes plus a village centre of up to 3,900 m² of business floor: bakery, shops (offices up to 700 m² each, medical offices 465 m², retail 975 m²), restaurants, convenience store, personal services, laundry, bank, entertainment, community care, liquor store, produce stand; a neighbourhood amenity building of at least 464 m² goes up before the building permit for the 400th home.

Sub-zone C (s. 12.1.4): as sub-zone A.

The zone sets no lot size, coverage, height or setbacks, so the general rules of Divisions 2 to 5 govern (s. 12.0.3).

Which sub-zone a lot is in is shown on the CD1 map (s. 12.1.6).

Short-term rental (stays under 30 days) or boarders are allowed as an accessory use: the home must be the registered owner's principal residence (s. 2.2); one booking at a time on the property and in each home; residents, boarders and guests together stay within one household (a family alone; otherwise five people at most, or a family of more than three with at most two boarders or guests); never combined with a home daycare or a licensed home care facility (s. 3.20).

Secondary suites (s. 3.4): inside a house, half of a duplex, a townhouse or a row house, at most 90 m² of living space, never strata-titled apart from it, none in the Red Zone or Foreset Area of the Silt Bluff hazard development permit area; the zone doesn't list garden or carriage suites.

Home-based businesses (s. 3.3): up to 50 m² or 20% of the home, whichever is less; at most two helpers from outside (one in multi-unit or small-scale multi-unit housing, none for a business clients come to); no clients on the lot except music, art or tutoring lessons for up to two students, or, on a lot with only one house or one duplex (or a manufactured home on its own lot), a listed set of services for one client at a time and nine visits a day, with an extra parking space and no residential suite on that lot; no vehicle repair or sales; a nameplate of 0.28 m² at most; closed 10 pm to 7 am.

Wherever the water main can't supply 67 L/s of fire flow, a lot holds at most 2 homes, and in the Rayleigh Waterworks District service area (Figure 16) at most 1 (s. 3.19).

Section 3.11.4 doesn't list this zone, so shipping containers stay only during construction or a move (s. 3.11.2).

Beside a provincial highway, buildings and structures stand at least 4.5 m from that lot line (3 m where a public lane gives secondary access); less needs the Ministry of Transportation's consent and a variance (s. 3.15).

Below the 200-year flood level, floors used for living, business or storing goods in multi-unit or small-scale multi-unit housing and in garden or carriage suites sit above that level (s. 3.16).

A lot registered before this bylaw that is smaller or narrower than the zone's minimum may still be developed to the zone's density (s. 2.1.1).

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 City of Kamloops' planning and development department before you buy or build.

Source: City of Kamloops Zoning Bylaw No. 55, 2021 (summarised in our words); zone map: Open Government Licence – Kamloops.