RSM: Manufactured Home Park Housing

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Manufactured homes in a park, up to 25 per hectare; one manufactured home for the owner or caretaker; one house

Main uses

Manufactured home park, an owner's or caretaker's manufactured home, one house; minor home occupation, short-term rental

Smallest lot for a subdivision

Park 2 ha, 50 m wide and deep; home spaces 280 m², 11 m wide

Lot coverage

45% of the park and of each home space

Height limit

Homes 6 m or 1 storey, whichever is less; accessory buildings 4.5 m

Setbacks

Park: 6 m from every lot line. Home spaces: interior side "1.5 m and 3.0 m" as printed, exterior side 3.5 m

The interior side setback is printed as "1.5 m and 3.0 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.

A manufactured home is built to CSA Z240; the bylaw's "single detached dwelling" covers CSA A277 modular homes but not Z240 ones (s. 3.2).

Each home space may have one shed or accessory building: 10 m², 2.5 m tall, behind the home, 1.5 m from the space's edge and 1.2 m from the home (s. 10.8.3).

A landscape buffer rings the park, with nothing built or used in it (s. 10.8.4).

Amenity space: 900 m² for every 25 home spaces, indoor or outdoor (s. 10.8.5).

Parking: one space per home space (Table 6.6).

Minor home occupations (s. 7.3): in the home, a suite, carriage house or accessory building; residents only; up to 25% of the home's floor area and 20 m²; one client visit and one commercial vehicle visit (8 am to 6 pm) a day; no outdoor storage or work; no vehicle repair, welding, cabinet making, manufacturing and similar uses.

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).

A garage or carport reached from the street stands 6 m from the curb or sidewalk, as does a driveway gate over 1.2 m (ss. 4.2.7, 4.2.8).

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).

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

One recreational vehicle may be parked outside per home, more only inside a building, and no vehicle over 5,600 kg unless it is enclosed (s. 6.1.1).

Metal storage containers only during construction under a building permit (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.