CT1: Tourist Commercial

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

One security or operator home (up to 100 m²)

Main uses

Tourist accommodation, restaurants, liquor primary premises, indoor and outdoor amusement and recreation, outdoor market, personal services and shops (each up to 100 m²), rentals of bikes, watercraft, sports gear and scooters up to 50 cc, major day care, one security or operator home

Smallest lot for a subdivision

930 m², 20 m wide

Lot coverage

40%

Height limit

12 m

Setbacks

Front 3 m; interior side "0 m and 4.5 m" as printed; exterior side 4.5 m; rear 4.5 m (6 m next to a residential or institutional zone)

Density up to 1.2 FAR (s. 11.10.2).

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 interior side setback is printed as "0 m and 4.5 m" without saying which figure applies where, so how close a building may come to each side line is unclear; ask the City of Penticton.

Restaurant patios may sit in the setbacks (s. 4.9.4).

On lots in the Transitional Neighbourhood Overlay on the zoning map (Schedule B), the owner may develop under this zone's rules or the R4-S zone's, but not mix the two on one lot (s. 11.10.3.4).

At 21 Lakeshore Drive West (Lot A, Plan KAP63701): 24 m height; front 6 m, sides 6 m, rear 9 m; buildings 3 m from internal roads, parking and walks; up to 300 slot machines and 30 gaming tables (s. 11.10.4).

At 970 and 976 Vernon Avenue (Lots 8 and 9, DL 366, Plan 5419), 954 Vernon Avenue (Lot 8, DL 366, Plan 3413), 950 Westminster Avenue West and 903 Vernon Avenue (Lots A and B, DL 366, Plan KAP84491): a hotel; rooms let through a strata rental pool or held as timeshares; homes on up to 50% of the floor area in hotel rooms; restaurants and indoor entertainment; shops and personal services up to 100 m²; rentals including scooters up to 55 cc; conference rooms; offices up to 10% of the building and 900 m²; 40% coverage, 1.75 FAR, 0.4 ha lots, 40 m height (within the airport rules); 0.66 parking spaces per hotel room (s. 11.10.4).

A security or operator home houses the site's caretaker, operator or staff and has at most 100 m² of floor area (ss. 3.2, 8.5); one space of parking (Table 6.6).

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).

Parking (Table 6.6): 1 space per home in a commercial building; shops, restaurants and most other commercial uses 1 per 50 m² of net floor area (offices, grocery stores, health and personal services 1 per 30 m²); tourist accommodation 1 per room.

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.