CD26: Comprehensive Development: Capri Centre

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Apartments, townhouses and stacked townhouses, and boarding or lodging houses

Main uses

The Capri Centre's staged redevelopment: apartments and townhouses, hotels, shops, restaurants, pubs, offices, health, personal and professional services, education, cultural and indoor recreation, spectator sports, religious assembly, child care, minor animal clinics, emergency services, a gas bar with alternative fuel, temporary shelter; recycling drop-offs, minor home-based businesses and short-term rental by a resident as secondary uses; short-term rental without a resident operator with the 'str' sub-zone

Smallest lot for a subdivision

460 m², 13 m wide, 30 m deep (s. 15.7.4)

Lot coverage

75% for buildings; 100% for buildings, structures and hard surfaces (s. 15.7.5)

Height limit

Within 40 m of Harvey Avenue and east of Capri Street, 6 storeys or 22 m; elsewhere 22 storeys or 70 m, with one building up to 26 storeys or 82 m (Figure 15.7.5); 2.6 FAR, at most 205,807 m² built in all (s. 15.7.5)

Setbacks

Harvey Avenue 4.5 m; Gordon Drive and Capri Street 0 m within 40 m of Harvey Avenue, 3 m beyond; Sutherland 3 m; above 6 storeys, 6 m from Gordon Drive, Sutherland Avenue and Capri Street; 7.5 m from neighbouring lands (s. 15.7.5)

At least 18,581 m² of commercial floor, 1.5 acres of public open space and the pathways, plazas and outdoor rink set out for amenity areas A to E, phased with construction and secured by right of way (s. 15.7.5).

Buildings on Gordon Drive or Harvey Avenue have commercial units along at least 90% of the ground-floor frontage; at least 75% of upper-floor homes have a balcony of at least 5% of the home's size (s. 15.7.5).

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.