PlaceDossier / Zoning / City of Quesnel
CR-1: Country Residential
A zone in City of Quesnel Zoning Bylaw No. 1980 of 2025 (City of Quesnel). Our summary of Section 9 of the bylaw as consolidated to 2025-12-30.
The City of Quesnel doesn't publish its zoning map as open data, so a PlaceDossier report can't say whether a lot is zoned CR-1. Zoning Bylaw No. 1980 zones all land in the city; land its map leaves unzoned is Agriculture (A-1). Land outside the city is zoned by the Cariboo Regional District. Ask the City of Quesnel's planning staff which zone a lot is in, or find it on the bylaw's zoning map (Schedule B).
What the zone allows
- Homes allowed
- Up to four homes (house, duplex, triplex or fourplex) on community sewer and water; on sewer with its own water, a house and a secondary suite, plus a detached unit where the water system meets drinking water rules; without community sewer, or on a lot over 4,050 m², a house and a secondary suite
- Main uses
- Homes, hobby farming on lots over 2 ha, home business, bed and breakfast, short-term rental
- Smallest lot for a subdivision
- 1 ha without community sewer; 3,000 m² with sewer but no community water; 2,023 m² with both
- Lot coverage
- 40% under 4,050 m², 20% up to 1 ha, 10% above
- Height limit
- Main building 11 m, accessory buildings 7 m
- Setbacks
- Front 6 m, sides 1.5 m, street side and rear 3 m
Lots listed in Schedule C are limited to one main building (s. 9.4.3).
Floodplain setbacks (s. 4.15): 30 m from the Fraser and Quesnel rivers and Baker Creek, 15 m from other streams, 7.5 m from a lake, pond or marsh.
Any use the bylaw doesn't list is not allowed (s. 4.22.1), so there's no rule for living in an RV while you build; ask the City.
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 Quesnel's planning staff before you buy or build.
Source: City of Quesnel Zoning Bylaw No. 1980 of 2025 (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-02); no open zoning map (ask the City of Quesnel's planning staff which zone a lot is in).
City of Quesnel Zoning Bylaw No. 1980 of 2025 applies in Quesnel.