M2: Heavy Industrial

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

One security or operator home (up to 100 m²), as an M1 use

Main uses

Everything M1 allows, plus heavy industry, concrete mixing plant, foundry and recycling drop-off

Smallest lot for a subdivision

2,000 m², 30 m wide

Height limit

15 m

Setbacks

Front 6 m, interior sides 6 m, exterior side 4.5 m, rear 6 m (10 m next to a residential, commercial, public or institutional zone)

M1 uses here follow the M1 zone's rules (s. 12.2.3).

The zone sets no lot coverage.

At 4001 Skaha Lake Road (Plan M-489): an airport and tourist accommodation, with 1,000 m² and 20 m wide lots, 50 m height, front 6 m, interior side 4.5 m, exterior side 6 m, rear 7.5 m (s. 12.2.4).

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: 1 space per 200 m² of net floor area (Table 6.6); it may be paid for in cash instead (s. 6.1.2). Retaining walls up to 2.4 m (s. 5.4.2).

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 up to 2.4 m (agricultural and industrial zones); barbed and electric wire allowed, razor wire not; nothing over 1.2 m in a corner visibility triangle (ss. 4.3, 5.4.1).

Landscape buffers for industrial uses: 3 m wide beside R4-L and R4-S lots, with a visual screen at least 1.8 m high beside residential zones; none required along highways (Table 5.1); waste bins screened (s. 4.10).

Fabric-covered metal-frame buildings over 10 m² only for industrial, farm or institutional uses (s. 4.8.1).

Metal storage containers sited like buildings, stacked two high at most, off parking, aisles and fire lanes, holding only the business's own goods (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.