CD3: Comprehensive Development (2784 Skaha Lake Road)

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Homes in a building with the zone's commercial uses, each with its own ground-level entrance; seniors' boarding homes

Main uses

Offices, shops, thrift store, restaurants and drinking places, personal services, dry cleaning, health and fitness, commercial school, high-tech services, household repair, care centres, day cares, kindergartens and community care, seniors' boarding homes, utility services, and homes with these

Smallest lot for a subdivision

1,500 m², 30 m wide

Lot coverage

70%

Height limit

46 m

Setbacks

Front 3 m, sides 4.5 m, rear 4.5 m

Mixed residential and commercial buildings on key sites along Skaha Lake Road (s. 14.3.1).

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 up to 2.0 FAR, or 2.5 FAR if the owner pays $15 for each square foot (0.09 m²) of extra floor area into the City's reserve for affordable and special-needs housing or amenities, due at the building permit (s. 14.3.5).

A mixed-use building keeps commercial space on at least 90% of its Skaha Lake Road frontage on the first floor (s. 14.3.6).

Amenity space: 6 m² per bachelor home or group-home bedroom, 10 m² per one-bedroom home, 15 m² per larger home (s. 14.3.6).

Parking (s. 14.3.3): commercial 1 space per 28 m²; homes 1 per bachelor, 1.25 per one-bedroom, 1.5 per larger home.

Canopies may reach 2.5 m into the front or side-street yard and balconies, glazed or open, 2 m into any setback (s. 14.3.4).

At 2964 Skaha Lake Road (Lot 1, DL 116, Plan 30067) townhouses at grade along Wilson Street, set back 3.5 m (s. 14.3.7).

At 2784, 2824 and 2730 Skaha Lake Road (Lots 2 and 3, Plan 21548; Lot A, Plan 27251; DL 116) and their consolidations: street frontages lined by active ground floors (shops or homes at least two storeys high, half glazed, a door every 20 m) with upper floors stepped back 3 m, and parking and service space screened by at least 8 m of active frontage (s. 14.3.7).

Area 1 (about 4,236 m², Figure 16): 2.0 FAR, 2.5 with the bonus, when built in phases (s. 14.3.7).

Area 2 (about 4,236 m², Figure 16): 2.0 FAR, 2.5 with the bonus, when built in phases (s. 14.3.7).

Area 3 (about 4,236 m², Figure 16): 2.0 FAR, 2.5 with the bonus, when built in phases (s. 14.3.7).

Short-term rental (stays of 90 days or less, s. 3.2) isn't a listed use in this zone, and a use a zone doesn't list isn't allowed (s. 1.9.2).

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

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.