P2: Parks and Recreation

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

None: the zone lists no dwelling

Main uses

Parks, community gardens, marina, indoor and outdoor amusement and recreation, carnival, outdoor market, government service, public parking, restaurant (up to 100 m²)

Smallest lot for a subdivision

560 m², 15 m wide

Lot coverage

40%

Height limit

16 m

Setbacks

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

Whether a security or operator home is allowed: s. 13.2.3 limits one to 100 m², but the zone doesn't list it as a use, so this is unclear; ask the City of Penticton.

At 470 Edmonton Avenue (Lot A, DLs 202, 249 and 250, Plan EPP111114) a major day care (s. 13.2.4).

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.