CD17: Comprehensive Development: High Density Mixed Use Commercial

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Apartments; townhouses and stacked townhouses only where most homes are apartments (s. 15.3.3 note .2)

Main uses

Apartments, hotels and motels, offices, education, non-accessory parking; on the first storey only, shops, restaurants, pubs, health, personal and professional services; cultural and indoor recreation, child care, minor home-based businesses, short-term rental by a resident; short-term rental without a resident operator with the 'str' sub-zone

Smallest lot for a subdivision

1,700 m², 30 m wide, 35 m deep (s. 15.3.4)

Lot coverage

65% for buildings; 85% for buildings, structures and hard surfaces (s. 15.3.5)

Height limit

16 storeys and 55 m; 2.0 FAR (s. 15.3.5)

Setbacks

Front and flanking 6 m (2 m for ground-oriented homes; a garage or parkade door facing the street 6 m from the curb or 4.5 m from the lot line, whichever is more); sides 4.5 m; rear 7 m (4.5 m from a rear lane and for accessory buildings; a low parkade with lane access 1.5 m) (s. 15.3.5)

The zone holds large mixed-use buildings in the Core Area, built before this bylaw, whose scale is beyond what the 2040 OCP now recommends (s. 15.3.1).

Where a lot has a lane, vehicles reach it only from the lane (s. 15.3.5).

Whether a cannabis store is allowed with the 'rcs' sub-zone: Section 15.3.2 creates it, but the CD17 use table lists no retail cannabis sales, so this is unclear; ask the City of Kelowna.

Shared and private outdoor space: 6 m² per studio, 10 m² per one-bedroom and 15 m² per larger home, at least 4 m² a home shared (s. 15.3.5).

Buildings of 12 storeys or more (s. 9.11): a podium of 16 m at most, towers 30 m apart, floor plates above the sixth storey at most 750 m² for homes (850 m² hotels, 930 m² offices and shops), a 3 m stepback above the podium, no parking above 16 m.

Short-term rental (stays under 90 days, s. 5.3) is allowed as a minor use only: run by a principal resident who lives in the home more than 240 days a year (a suite or carriage house by a resident of the same lot); one booking per home at a time; up to three bedrooms of two adults each; on a lot with a house and a suite or carriage house, at most two homes and five bedrooms let this way (s. 9.10).

With the 'str' sub-zone, short-term rental without a resident operator (major) is a permitted use too; a lot with the 'r' rental-only sub-zone can't have it (s. 9.10).

Sections 6 to 9 of the bylaw (general rules, landscaping and fences, parking, specific uses) also apply.

On a lot beside Highway 97 or Highway 33, buildings and structures stand 4.5 m from that lot line (s. 6.4).

Setbacks from streams and lakes are those of the official community plan's riparian management areas, measured from the top of bank (s. 6.5).

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 Kelowna's planning department before you buy or build.

Source: City of Kelowna Zoning Bylaw No. 12375 (summarised in our words); zone map: Open Government Licence – City of Kelowna.