R-CL(B): Residential Compact Lot

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

One of these (s. 405.2): small-scale multi-unit housing, up to 4 homes (3 on a lot of 280 m² or less) where the lot meets the conditions below; or one house with either a secondary suite or one accessory dwelling unit (such as a coach house), not both

Main uses

Homes, home occupations (an office only), a detached garage (for at least two cars), accessory buildings

Smallest lot for a subdivision

315 m², 12.6 m wide with parking from the street; 266 m², 9.5 m wide from a lane; corner lots 355 m² and 14.2 m, or 352 m² and 12.6 m; 25 m deep (28 m from a lane); 8.0 m wide on a cul-de-sac bulb; no panhandle lots; the Approving Officer may allow somewhat less in some cases (s. 405.9)

Lot coverage

50%; covered porches and decks at the front or street side and accessory buildings under 9.3 m² not counted (s. 405.4)

Height limit

Homes 9.0 m; infill housing within 6.0 m of the rear lot line 4.5 m (a coach house on a lane excepted); accessory buildings that aren't homes 3.75 m; no hoop or fabric-covered buildings (s. 405.6, 405.7)

Setbacks

Parking from the street: house front at least 2.5 m and at most 4.0 m, the garage door 4.5 m from the lot line, rear 3.0 m, sides 1.2 m (2.5 m along a collector or arterial street); an accessory dwelling unit or other accessory building front 2.5 m, rear and sides 0.6 m (2.5 m along a collector or arterial street). Parking from a lane: house front 2.5 m, rear 1.0 m, sides 1.2 m (2.5 m along a collector or arterial street); a detached garage or coach house rear 0.6 m, sides 0.6 m (1.2 m on a lane or local street, 2.5 m along a collector or arterial street; 0 m where two neighbours build matching garages together under a party wall agreement). None in the front yard; porches, stairs and balconies may come to 1.5 m of the front or street side (s. 405.5)

Small-scale multi-unit housing (s. 102): up to 4 homes on one lot, attached or detached (3 on a lot of 280 m² or less), only where the lot is inside the Official Community Plan's urban containment boundary, under 4,050 m², on municipal sewer and water, not protected as heritage, outside the Willowbrook Transit-Oriented Area and not reached from an arterial road. A secondary suite may sit in one of these homes; that suites count toward the 4 is our reading. The bylaw sets no higher count near frequent bus stops. Which of these conditions a lot meets we don't check: ask the Township.

How many lots or homes a development may hold follows the Community or Neighbourhood Plan for the area, whatever the lot sizes allow (s. 405.2); we don't read those plans: ask the Township.

A third storey: at most 50% of the first storey's floor area with 1 or 2 homes on the lot, 80% with 3 or 4 (s. 405.4).

The first floor at most 0.8 m above the average grade on any side facing a street (less strict on a lot sloping 5% or more) (s. 405.7).

Infill housing means new detached homes on a lot that keeps a house or duplex built before the 2024 small-scale multi-unit housing amendment (Bylaw No. 6020); with it, coverage may go up to 45% (s. 102).

A secondary suite is a home inside a house (or a duplex or small-scale multi-unit building), at most 120 m², built to the BC Building Code; in the ALR it must also meet the Agricultural Land Commission's rules (s. 102). An accessory dwelling unit is a home in a building of its own on the lot, such as a coach house (a home above a detached garage); the zone allows one only where the house has no suite.

Landscaping and fencing follow the development permit or the Exterior Design Control Agreement (s. 405.10).

Parking: one space per home, at least 2 on the lot (s. 107.3).

Home occupations (s. 104.3): only an office run by people who live in the home, at most 25 m², not in a secondary suite.

Short-term rental isn't a listed use in this zone, and neither is a bed and breakfast (the bylaw allows one only as part of a farm use, which this zone doesn't list). Ask the Township before renting a home by the night.

Uses the zone doesn't list aren't allowed, even where a general clause might seem to cover them (s. 101.4).

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 Township of Langley's community development division before you buy or build.

Source: Section 405 of Township of Langley Zoning Bylaw 1987 No. 2500 (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-04); Section 100 (definitions and general rules), Township of Langley Zoning Bylaw No. 2500; zone map: Open Government Licence – Township of Langley.