P1: Public Assembly

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Congregate housing; security or operator homes of up to 100 m² each (the zone doesn't set a number)

Main uses

Schools, hospital and patient care, government service, offices, assembly, cemetery, commercial school, congregate housing, indoor and outdoor amusement and recreation, carnival, outdoor market, public parking, restaurant, shops, major day care, security or operator home

Smallest lot for a subdivision

560 m², 15 m wide

Lot coverage

40%

Height limit

12 m

Setbacks

Front 6 m, interior sides 4.5 m, exterior side 6 m, rear 7.5 m

Density up to 1.2 FAR (s. 13.1.2).

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).

At 550 Carmi Avenue (Lot A, DLs 1997S, 3237S and 3429S, Plan KAP62140) main buildings may reach 45 m (s. 13.1.3).

At 1080 Railway Street (Parcel A, DLs 1 and 2, Plan 841 except Plans 7745 and 17680) student housing, with 1 parking space per 5 beds (s. 13.1.3).

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. 13.1.4).

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).

Metal storage containers: two on the first 0.2 ha of lot plus two for each further 0.2 ha, five at most, sited like buildings, off parking, aisles and fire lanes, holding only the business's own goods (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).

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.