CD10: Comprehensive Development (955 Timmins Street)

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Apartments, homes and resort residential, up to 0.7 FAR for the whole site

Main uses

Mixed commercial, recreational and residential: apartments, homes, resort residential, tourist accommodation, restaurants, liquor primary premises, shops, offices, health and personal services, health and fitness, artisan crafts, bakery, business support, commercial school, indoor and outdoor amusement and recreation, outdoor market, mobile vending, recreation equipment rentals, major day care; minor home occupation, short-term rental

Smallest lot for a subdivision

2,700 m², 22 m wide

Lot coverage

65%

Height limit

18 m

Setbacks

Front 4.5 m, interior sides 4 m, rear 10 m

The site: Lot A, DLs 1, 2 and 4, Plan EPP124254 (s. 14.10.1).

Floor area ratio (FAR) is net floor area divided by lot area (s. 3.2); land given up for a road still counts in it and in coverage (s. 4.6.4).

The minimum lot width is printed "22 m2", an area unit slipped onto a width (s. 14.10.3).

Outdoor amusement and recreation runs 8 am to 8 pm and stands 40 m from residential lots unless sound is mitigated, behind a landscape buffer and fence 3 m high beside residential, recreational, institutional or commercial zones; these replace the landscaping rules of Chapter 5 (s. 14.10.5).

200 m² of landscaping in the parking areas (s. 14.10.5).

Parking (Table 14.7): 0.5 spaces per home plus 0.06 for visitors; commercial 1 per 60 m²; up to 35% small-car spaces; from May to October uses may spill outdoors onto parking spaces.

Amenity space: 5 m² per home, all of it allowed above grade (s. 14.10.4).

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.

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).

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).

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

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.