I1: Business Industrial

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

A security or operator home, as a secondary use

Main uses

General industry (the zone is meant for indoor business parks), warehousing, commercial storage, boat storage, cannabis production, alcohol production, animal clinics, personal and professional services, child care, cultural and indoor recreation, emergency services, restaurants and pubs (each at most 235 m² per lot outside the Mixed Employment District), recycling drop-offs; in the Mixed Employment District also education, offices and shops; a cannabis store (up to 250 m²) with the 'rcs' sub-zone; a security or operator home, urban agriculture

Smallest lot for a subdivision

2,000 m², 40 m wide, 35 m deep (s. 14.10)

Lot coverage

60% for buildings; 80% for buildings, structures and hard surfaces (s. 14.12)

Height limit

3 storeys and 16 m; 1.2 FAR; 2.4 FAR in the Mixed Employment District and on Bay Avenue, Crowley Avenue, Ethel Street, Trench Place and Weddell Place (s. 14.14)

Setbacks

Front and flanking 2 m; sides 0 m (4.5 m next to a residential zone); rear 0 m (4.5 m next to a residential zone) (s. 14.12)

The zone is for planned business parks of indoor industry with limited outdoor storage, and as a transition from heavier industry (s. 14.4).

Education, offices and shops are allowed only on lots in the OCP's Mixed Employment District (MED) (s. 14.9 note .16); offices not on the ground floor (note .6).

Alcohol production: no limit on manufacturing; tasting and serving at most 235 m² per lot, except on lots fronting Richter Street, Clement Avenue, Vaughan Avenue or Baillie Avenue (s. 14.9 note .1).

Restaurants (food primary) and pubs (liquor primary) are at most 235 m² per lot, except in the OCP's Mixed Employment District (s. 14.9 note .5).

A cannabis store stands 500 m from another, 150 m from public elementary schools and from 21 listed parks (City Park, Waterfront Park and others), 500 m from public middle and secondary schools; one per lot; no drive-through (s. 9.9).

These minimum lot areas apply to lots connected to community sewer; without a sewer connection the minimum is 10,000 m² (s. 14.10 note .1).

Cannabis production facilities stand 60 m from any lot whose main use is residential (s. 9.9).

Fences up to 2.4 m; an opaque 2.4 m fence around storage yards, along lot lines next to non-industrial zones and around wrecking yards seen from a street; no barbed or razor wire (s. 7.5).

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 (s. 14.15, zone not named): extra commercial uses at 760 and 815 Vaughan Avenue, 810 Clement Avenue, 1171-1199 Gordon Drive and 907 Ethel Street (with apartments and child care); 15 storeys and 50 m at 3838 Capozzi Road; 18 storeys and 60 m at 3773-3795 Lakeshore Road; 2.35 FAR and 8 storeys at 155-179 Rutland Road North; a sales centre at 945 Guy Street; on Harvey Avenue (2061-2091) and Cooper Road (1840-1990) 1.5 FAR and 4 storeys, or 12 storeys and 37 m for apartments and hotels; no ground-floor commercial needed on Highway 33 at 135 Barber Road; religious assembly at 230-240 Lougheed Road; 300 m² of tasting room at 8999 Jim Bailey Road; a hotel at 860-1000 KLO Road; larger restaurants above the first storey at 675 and 683 Dease Road; boat storage at 9505 Haldane Road.

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

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.