FG: Forestry and Grazing

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

One house, plus either a secondary suite or one carriage house; one farm-help home on a lot of 2 ha or more

Main uses

Forestry, grazing and farming, animal clinic, kennels and stables, municipal solid waste facility, one house; carriage house, secondary suite, farm-help home, rural home occupation, short-term rental

Smallest lot for a subdivision

16 ha (no minimum width)

Lot coverage

10%

Height limit

Main building 12 m; accessory buildings 13.5 m

Setbacks

Front 10 m, sides 4.5 m, rear 9 m

On a lot under 0.4 ha, the RC zone's coverage, setbacks and height apply instead (s. 9.1.3).

A farm-help home houses workers employed on the farm; one per property of 2 ha or more (ss. 3.2, 9.1.3).

At 3228 Evergreen Drive (Lot 1, DLs 190 and 2710, Plan KAP74449, except Plans EPP88237, EPP106349 and EPP106355), two houses and a 20-room tourist resort of up to 1,850 m² are allowed (s. 9.1.4).

Secondary suites (s. 8.1): one per home, inside it with its own door to the outside; needs a community sewer connection unless the lot is at least 830 m² and meets the provincial sewerage rules; never titled or strata-lotted apart from the home; 5 m² of private outdoor space; no parking space required (Table 6.6).

Carriage houses here (s. 8.2): one per property and not together with a secondary suite in the house; only with or after the house; on a lot without municipal sewer the lot must be at least 1 ha (s. 8.2.3); footprint up to 150 m² or 15% of the lot, whichever is less, and floor area up to 150 m²; 7 m and two storeys tall; anywhere on the lot, with the house's setbacks except 1.5 m at the rear; 5 m² of outdoor space and a 1.2 m hard-surfaced path to the street; never titled or strata-lotted apart; side windows within 1.5 m of a neighbour are opaque.

Rural home occupations (s. 7.5): as major ones, but up to 100 m² of home and accessory building together, two employees from outside and six clients at a time; with more than one home, each may have one within those combined limits.

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).

Living in an RV on a lot is limited to 10 days in any 30 (s. 4.8.2).

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).

On land in the Agricultural Land Reserve, the Agricultural Land Commission Act and its regulations come first and generally restrict non-farm uses and subdivision (s. 4.13).

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.