CD7: Comprehensive Development (154 Brunswick Street)

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Apartments up to 2.0 FAR

Main uses

Apartments, an office of up to 100 m²; minor home occupation, short-term rental

Smallest lot for a subdivision

1,700 m², 31 m wide

Lot coverage

65%

Height limit

Main building 23 m; accessory buildings 4.5 m

Setbacks

Front 3 m; interior sides 4.5 m (accessory buildings 1.5 m); rear 4.5 m (accessory buildings 1.5 m)

The site: Lot 1, DL 4, Plan KAP49946 (s. 14.7.1).

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).

Amenity space: 20 m² per home (s. 14.7.4).

No landscape buffer is required beside residential zones or the highway (s. 14.7.5).

Roofs may reach 1.7 m into the interior side yard and 0.5 m into the front; stairs 1.2 m into the side yard (keeping 1.5 m clear) and 1.5 m into the front; balconies 1.6 m into the north side yard and 0.8 m into the south (Table 14.2).

Up to 44% of parking may be small-car spaces, and parking may be paid for in cash instead (s. 14.7.7).

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).

Parking (Table 6.6): 1 space per house or duplex unit; 1 per apartment, townhouse or cluster home plus 0.2 for visitors; none for a secondary suite or carriage house; 0.5 per non-market home.

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.