C6: Urban Peripheral Commercial

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Homes on the second storey or higher; live-work units

Main uses

Edge of downtown: shops, grocery store, restaurants, cannabis store, craft brewery or distillery, offices, call centre, financial, health and personal services, high-tech and business support services, artisan crafts, government service with outdoor storage and works yards, contractor services (limited), custom indoor manufacturing, vehicle and equipment repair, wholesale, beer and wine making and supply, household repair, commercial school, assembly, indoor amusement and recreation, animal clinic and day care, bakery, funeral service, major day care, homes above the ground floor, live-work units; short-term rental

Smallest lot for a subdivision

650 m², 20 m wide

Lot coverage

100%

Height limit

21 m

Setbacks

Front 0 m; interior sides 0 m (3 m next to a residential, public or institutional zone); exterior side 0 m; rear 0 m (6 m next to a residential, public or institutional zone)

The zone sets no floor area ratio.

No parking or loading spaces are required for any use, homes included (Table 6.6).

Cornices, balconies and trim may reach 0.4 m out and canopies 1.5 m, at 2.8 m above a sidewalk or street and 4.5 m above a lane (s. 11.6.3).

The zone doesn't list home occupations.

Site-specific (s. 11.6.4): ground-floor homes at 380 Westminster Avenue West (Lot 1, DL 4, Plan EPP44206); indoor millwork at 230 Brunswick Street (Lot 14, DL 4, Plan 871).

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.

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).

Metal storage containers: two on the first 0.2 ha of lot plus two for each further 0.2 ha, five at most, sited like buildings, never between the building and a street other than a lane, off parking, aisles and fire lanes, holding only the business's own goods (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.