R2: Multi-Unit Residential

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

A building of three or more homes, up to 70 homes per hectare; or one house or one duplex

Main uses

Apartments or row housing, house, duplex; home business

Smallest lot for a subdivision

724.6 m², with 18.6 m of frontage (6.2 m on a cul-de-sac or for a panhandle lot)

Lot coverage

45%

Height limit

Main building 10 m, accessory buildings 6.2 m

Setbacks

Main building: front 6 m, interior sides 1.5 m, exterior side 3 m, rear 3 m, and 3 m from another main building. Accessory buildings: interior sides 1.5 m, exterior side 3 m, rear 3 m

The s. 7.2 table prints its figures out of line with their labels from the height rows on; read in order, as above, they also set a minimum main-building width of 6.2 m.

Each apartment has at least 65 m² of floor area, and a house at least 92.9 m².

Setback areas are landscaped within a year of building an apartment block, and lot lines next to a commercial or industrial zone are screened by a fence or hedge (s. 3.23).

Whether a secondary suite is allowed. The bylaw's definition of a house includes one suite "where permitted by this Bylaw", and s. 3.5 sets the rules (one per lot, up to 90 m², in the house with its own outside door or in an accessory building on a lot of 280 m² or more, 3 m from the house; never with a duplex; on community water and sewer, or on a lot of 0.2 ha or more with its own septic system, a proven backup field and drinking water; one more parking space). But no zone lists a suite as a permitted use, and a use no zone lists isn't permitted (s. 2.10), so is unclear; ask the Village of Lytton.

The bylaw doesn't list vacation or short-term rental, or bed and breakfast, as a use in this zone. Ask the Village before renting a home short term.

Home business (s. 3.12): an office, personal service or professional practice inside the home or an accessory building, run only by people who live there, one per home, no outside storage, selling only what is made on the lot, with one unlit sign up to 0.3 m².

One main building per lot (s. 3.3).

No accessory building goes up before the main building (s. 3.6). Accessory buildings without a suite total at most 10% of the lot or half the main building's floor area, whichever is less (s. 3.7), stand 1.8 m from the main building, and sit no closer to the front lot line than it does (ss. 3.8, 3.9).

Fences up to 1.8 m on rear and interior side lot lines and 1.3 m on front and exterior side lot lines; on a corner lot, nothing over 0.9 m in the 6 m sight triangle at the corner (ss. 3.10, 3.19).

A modular home (CSA A277) can be the house if it sits on a permanent concrete or masonry foundation (s. 3.14).

For a new lot, the minimum area grows to keep driveways at 18% grade or less, and by the area of any watercourse crossing it plus 7 m each side, and of any right-of-way over 3 m wide (s. 3.22).

A lot registered before the bylaw that is smaller than the zone's minimum may still have one home if a medical health officer approves its sewage disposal in writing (s. 3.29).

Parking (Schedule C): a house or a duplex needs 1 space for its first three bedrooms plus 1 for every two more; an apartment 1 per unit plus 1 for every five units.

Heights are measured from grade (the lowest of the walls' average ground levels) to the top of a flat roof, the deck line of a mansard roof, or between the eaves and ridge of a pitched roof (s. 1).

Every zone also allows parks, public services and public uses such as roads, utility lines and pump stations (s. 3.2).

Floodplain (Schedule B): no building within 30 m of the top of the bank of the Fraser and Thompson rivers, 15 m of Lytton Creek or any other watercourse, or 7.5 m of a lake, pond or dike. Floors of living, business or storage space sit at least 8 m above the Fraser and Thompson rivers' high water mark and 1.5 m above that of Lytton Creek, other streams and standing water; on an alluvial fan an engineer designs the foundations. Renovations, additions under 25% of the floor area, garages and carports, and most farm buildings are exempt from the floor level.

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 Village of Lytton (planning@lytton.ca) before you buy or build.

Source: Village of Lytton Zoning Bylaw No. 484, 1998 (summarised in our words); zone map: Open Government Licence – Thompson-Nicola Regional District.