RE: Resource Extraction

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

One house, which may be a manufactured home; the zone lists no residential suite

Main uses

Quarrying and sand and gravel extraction (with screening and stockpiling), farming, house or manufactured home; home-based business, short-term rental or boarders, home daycare, licensed home care facility

Smallest lot for a subdivision

8 ha, 49 m wide

Height limit

Houses 2 storeys; structures 12 m

Setbacks

6 m from every lot line

The zone is for extracting and screening sand and gravel on sites the official community plan identifies (s. 7.3).

The zone sets no lot coverage; farming needs a lot of at least 8 ha.

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 two for storage, each at most 12.1 m long, under the accessory building limits, never lived in and never holding fuel or explosives (s. 3.11.4).

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).

Section 5.7 sets no fence height for this zone; barbed wire is allowed, razor wire not (s. 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.