CD2: Comprehensive Development (270 Riverside Drive)

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Apartments, townhouses, resort residential, live-work units and a seniors' boarding home, up to 2.0 FAR (2.5 with the amenity package); a motel caretaker's home

Main uses

Apartments, townhouses, resort residential, live-work units, seniors' boarding home, motel of up to 19 units with a caretaker's home, campground of up to 30 sites, convenience store with the campground or motel, mobile vending; short-term rental

Smallest lot for a subdivision

9,000 m², 60 m wide

Lot coverage

65%

Height limit

44 m and 15 storeys

Setbacks

Front (Riverside Drive) 4.5 m; sides 2.5 m; rear (Wylie Street) 2.5 m

The site: Lot A, DL 366, Plan KAP91771, 270 Riverside Drive and 271 Wylie Street (s. 14.2.1).

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).

Density can rise to 2.5 FAR if the owner pays $200,000, grants a right-of-way for public open space on the land to the south and builds its improvements, all due on applying for the first building permit (s. 14.2.5).

Live-work units front Riverside Drive only; the business takes 23 to 28 m² across the front of the ground floor, facing the street, and is an office, a studio, retail of things made there or mail-order sales; residents only work on site; no commercial vehicle trips, power tools, amplified sound or nuisance; a business licence; no parking for the business (ss. 14.2.4, 14.2.5).

Stairs, balconies, porches and canopies may reach 2 m into any yard (s. 14.2.5).

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).

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).

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.