C1: Commercial Transition

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

One house or one duplex; live-work units; a boarding house

Main uses

Offices, personal and health services, high-tech services, artisan crafts, convenience store, restaurant, major day care, boarding house, live-work unit, one house or one duplex; bed and breakfast, minor and major home occupation, short-term rental

Smallest lot for a subdivision

550 m², 13 m wide

Lot coverage

40%

Height limit

11 m and 3 storeys

Setbacks

Front 3 m, interior sides 1.5 m, exterior side 4.5 m, rear 6 m

Small-scale commercial uses in mostly residential areas (s. 11.1).

A live-work unit's business part is at least 40% of the unit (s. 11.1.3).

Live-work units (s. 7.8): a home combined with one of the zone's commercial uses, run by someone who lives there; at ground level the business takes at least a third of the frontage; nothing stored that the fire or building code bars from a home.

On lots in the Transitional Neighbourhood Overlay on the zoning map (Schedule B), the owner may develop under this zone's rules or the R4-S zone's, but not mix the two on one lot (s. 11.1.3.3).

The zone's use list points bed and breakfast to s. 8.2, which covers carriage houses: a numbering slip, as s. 7.2, the section on bed and breakfast, applies wherever the use is allowed (s. 7.1.1).

The zone's use list points major home occupations to s. 8.4, which covers flex units: a numbering slip, as s. 7.4, the section on major home occupations, applies wherever the use is allowed (s. 7.1.1).

At 689 Winnipeg Street (Lot A, DLs 4 and 202, Plan EPP138406): a bakery; a restaurant of up to 650 m²; at least 4 parking spaces for commercial uses; accessory structures may sit on the rear lot line (s. 11.1.4).

Bed and breakfast (s. 7.2): only in a single detached house, with the licensed operator living there; up to four guest rooms of two guests each; the house keeps its residential look; one guest room counts as a minor home occupation. Parking: one space per guest room up to three, plus one for the home (Table 6.6).

Minor home occupations (s. 7.3): in the home, a suite, carriage house or accessory building; residents only; up to 25% of the home's floor area and 20 m²; one client visit and one commercial vehicle visit (8 am to 6 pm) a day; no outdoor storage or work; no vehicle repair, welding, cabinet making, manufacturing and similar uses.

Major home occupations (s. 7.4): as minor ones, but up to 25% of the home and 50 m² with any accessory building used, one employee from outside, two clients at a time, and one per property; parking: one space per business (Table 6.6).

Short-term rental is a permitted use. The bylaw counts any stay of 90 days or less as short-term (s. 3.2), and requires a City business licence; only the property's principal resident may rent it out; at most two guests per bedroom and eight in all; no alterations that change the home's residential look; on a lot with a house and a secondary suite or carriage house, only one of the homes may be rented this way (ss. 3.2, 7.6).

No drive-through (s. 4.11.3).

Parking (Table 6.6): 1 space per home in a commercial building; shops, restaurants and most other commercial uses 1 per 50 m² of net floor area (offices, grocery stores, health and personal services 1 per 30 m²); tourist accommodation 1 per room.

Parking may be paid for in cash instead (s. 6.1.2).

Metal storage containers only during construction under a building permit (s. 4.8.4).

Transit-oriented areas (Schedules C to E, around the bus exchanges at Penticton Plaza, Peachtree Square and Cherry Lane Mall; Area 1 within 200 m, Area 2 200 to 400 m, s. 3.2): residential buildings, and mixed-use ones at least half residential, need no parking for homes and may reach 6 storeys and 2.5 FAR in Area 1 or 4 storeys and 1.5 FAR in Area 2, or the zone's own figures where higher (s. 4.16).

Accessory buildings go up only with or after the main building, stand behind its front face (those of 10 m² or less anywhere behind it), and can't be lived in except as a carriage house where allowed (ss. 4.2.1 to 4.2.4).

Fences and walls up to 1.2 m, or 1.8 m behind the front yard setback and in side and rear yards, or 2.4 m beside a controlled-access highway; nothing over 1.2 m in a corner visibility triangle; no barbed, electric or razor wire (ss. 4.3, 5.4.1). Retaining walls 1.2 m in required yards, 2.4 m elsewhere (s. 5.4.2).

Landscape buffers, for commercial uses and for housing of 5 or more homes: 3 m wide beside R4-L and R4-S lots and along highways other than lanes, with a visual screen at least 1.2 m high beside residential zones (Table 5.1); waste bins screened (s. 4.10).

No development within 30 m of a watercourse, or the smaller distance a Qualified Environmental Professional sets under the Riparian Areas Protection Regulation and the official community plan's development permit areas (s. 4.14).

No building inside an existing or future collector or arterial road right-of-way shown in the official community plan; setbacks from those roads are measured from the future road line (s. 4.6).

Nothing, cranes included, may rise above the Horizontal Surface of the federal Penticton Airport Zoning Regulations without federal approval (s. 4.5).

Every zone also allows public parks, utility services, urban agriculture, cultural exhibits and a minor day care (up to 8 children) (s. 4.12).

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 Penticton's planning department before you buy or build.

Source: City of Penticton Zoning Bylaw No. 2024-22 (summarised in our words); zone map: Open Government Licence – City of Penticton.