CR1: Country Residential 1

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Up to 2 homes: a house (which may be a manufactured home) and a residential suite (which may also be a manufactured home)

Main uses

House or manufactured home; residential suite; home-based business; short-term rental or boarders; home daycare; licensed home care facility; keeping livestock

Smallest lot for a subdivision

0.8 ha, 49 m wide and 49 m of frontage (0.75 ha at 6920 Westsyde Road, 0.4 ha for the north part of Lot 2, Plan 17211, 6115 Meadowland Crescent South)

Lot coverage

Accessory buildings together 8% of the lot up to 200 m²; no overall limit set

Height limit

Main buildings 2 storeys; accessory buildings 8 m; structures 12 m

Setbacks

Front 6 m; sides 3 m (6 m for the main building beside land in the ALR); side street 4.5 m; rear 6 m (accessory buildings 3 m); 3 m between accessory and main buildings

A manufactured home sits on a concrete foundation, skirted to match its cladding. (s. 7.4.7)

Site-specific (s. 7.4.3): one accessory manufactured home at 7227 Riverview Road; a secondary home in a manufactured home of up to 90 m² at 7180 Riverview Road.

Residential suites (s. 3.4): a secondary suite inside a house, half of a duplex, a townhouse or a row house (never strata-titled apart from it), a one-storey garden suite or a two-storey carriage suite; each has at most 90 m² of living space, and none is allowed in the Red Zone or Foreset Area of the Silt Bluff hazard development permit area.

A garden or carriage suite needs an Intensive Residential development permit before its building permit, stands 4.5 m from a front or side street and 1 m (garden) or 1.5 m (carriage) from side and rear lot lines (a carriage suite 4.5 m from the rear on a lot without a rear lane), and is at most 5 m (garden) or 7 m (carriage) tall (s. 3.4, Table 4).

Here a garden or carriage suite counts toward the zone's coverage limit for accessory buildings (s. 3.4.4).

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).

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.

Up to three customers at a time may come to buy farm products grown on the lot (s. 3.3.11(c)).

Up to one for storage, each at most 12.1 m long, under the accessory building limits, never lived in and never holding fuel or explosives, screened by a 2 m fence, landscaping or building (s. 3.11.4).

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).

Accessory buildings can't hold a shower, bathtub, bedroom or other sleeping space, deck, balcony or wet bar, and have at most two plumbing fixtures and a 3 m² bathroom (s. 3.1.8); under 10 m² they need no setback from rear or interior side lot lines (s. 3.1.4).

No repair, sale or salvage of vehicles other than the residents' own (s. 3.8), and on a lot with one or two homes no more than five vehicles parked outside (s. 3.9).

Fences up to 2 m in any yard; barbed wire allowed, razor wire not (ss. 5.7, 5.8).

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.