RR1: Large Lot Rural Residential

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

One house (single detached) per lot; with a secondary suite and a carriage house (s. 10.3 note .13)

Main uses

A house; urban agriculture, group home, greenhouses and plant nurseries, kennels (on 2 ha), animal clinics; child care for more than 8 children only with the 'cc' sub-zone; bed and breakfast, carriage house, secondary suite, child care for up to 8 children, home-based businesses (minor, major and rural), short-term rental by a resident; no other agriculture

Smallest lot for a subdivision

4 ha without community sewer, 8,000 m² with it; 36 m wide, 30 m deep; a 150 m² building envelope (s. 10.4)

Lot coverage

20% for buildings (30% on lots under 8,000 m²); 40% for buildings, structures and hard surfaces (50% under 8,000 m²) (s. 10.6)

Height limit

House 10 m (with a walkout basement, 8.6 m at the front and 12.5 m at the rear), a third storey at most 70% of the second; carriage house 5.7 m (6.1 m with a roof flatter than 3 in 12); accessory buildings 4.8 m

Setbacks

House: front 6 m (an attached garage or carport 6 m from the sidewalk or curb, at least 3 m from the lot line), flanking 4.5 m, sides 3 m, rear 9 m. Carriage houses and accessory buildings: front 12 m (6 m on a double-fronting lot), flanking 6 m, sides 1.5 m, rear 3 m (s. 10.6)

The zone is also a holding zone for land the official community plan may direct to future development (s. 10.1).

Accessory buildings: at most 90 m² of footprint each (s. 10.6).

Carriage houses need community sewer and water unless the lot is at least 10,000 m² (s. 10.3 note .8); up to 100 m² of floor area on one storey or 90 m² on two, the upper storey at most 70% of the footprint (s. 10.6).

Secondary suites (s. 5.3): inside a house, a semi-detached or duplex home or a townhouse (never an apartment or a boarding house), built to the BC Building Code with an occupancy permit, on a lot with community water, and never titled apart from the home; at most 90 m² of floor area.

A carriage house is a home in a separate building subordinate to the main one, never strata-titled (s. 5.3).

Bed and breakfast (s. 9.3): only in a single detached house and only where it's the lot's one home; up to four guest rooms of two guests each, at least 11 m² each; the licensed operator lives there and is on site while guests stay; never combined with short-term rental; guest parking screened from neighbours; one space per guest room (Table 8.3.1).

Home-based businesses (s. 9.2) are run by a resident who lives there more than 240 days a year, with no outdoor storage or work, no nuisance and no commercial vehicle over 5,500 kg. Minor: inside the home, residents only, one client at a time, up to 20 m² and 25% of the home. Major: in the home or one accessory building, one outside worker, two clients at a time, up to 50 m² and 25% of the home (no fixed cap, but at most half the home, in a ground-oriented home on a transit supportive corridor or in an urban or village centre); one parking space.

Rural home-based businesses (s. 9.2): on lots of 4,000 m² or more, two outside workers, two clients at a time, up to 100 m² with any accessory building.

Child care for up to 8 children (minor) is run by a resident who lives there more than 240 days a year (s. 5.3).

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).

Fences up to 2.0 m (2.4 m next to an agricultural, industrial or commercial zone, 3.0 m on the low side of a slope if no more than 2.0 m above the neighbour's ground); no barbed or razor wire; within 1.4 m of a building, not wood or vinyl (s. 7.5).

Site-specific rules in Section 10.7 (zone not named): an animal clinic on a lot under 2 ha at 2605 O'Reilly Road; a café of 25.3 m² indoors at 700 Highway 33 East; a bed and breakfast of up to 8 guest rooms with a guests-only winery, restaurant and lounge at 380 Lochview Road; a carriage house on a lot under 10,000 m² at 2261-2265 James Road; temporary shelter at 212 Valley Road North; alcohol production at 3640 Hilltown Drive.

Accessory buildings may have one half bathroom of up to 3 m² (a full one only in a pool house) and no bedroom, and can't be a home (s. 6.9).

Steps, decks, porches, balconies and eaves may reach 0.6 m into required setbacks, and up to 2.5 m into the rear yard (s. 6.2).

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).

No new lot under 1.0 ha unless it's served by a community sewer (s. 6.6).

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.