C-1: Local Commercial

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

One dwelling, accessory to a business on the lot: a manufactured home on a non-permanent foundation, or a self-contained unit built into the main building above the first storey or behind the business, with its own outside door (s. 1.18(3))

Main uses

General and convenience stores, liquor store, personal services, professional offices, gas station with auto repair and body shop, restaurants and neighbourhood pub, gift shop, bus depot, postal outlet, tourist information; light industry (signs, secondary wood processing, contractors, machinery and equipment repair and rental, machine and welding shops, small engine repair, printing, landscaping); sporting goods store, campground

Smallest lot for a subdivision

0.3 ha

Lot coverage

60%

Height limit

10 m

Setbacks

Front 7.5 m; rear 6 m beside a residential or institutional zone (4.5 m otherwise); sides 4.5 m

The business runs inside an enclosed building, apart from parking, loading, driveways, storage yards and display, rental or sales areas (up to 300 m² outdoors), which have a dust-free surface.

Outdoor storage is screened by a solid board fence or evergreen hedge at least 2 m tall on every side not facing a building on the lot, and a 2 m fence runs along a lot line next to a residential or institutional zone or a home (s. 1.15).

Campgrounds follow the RDEK's Campground Bylaw No. 2403 (s. 1.16).

New lots also need at least 1,670 m² of usable land: one piece averaging 15% slope or less, with no land slip, avalanche, rock fall, flooding or high water table hazard (ss. 2.02, 3.03).

Every zone also allows parks, public utilities, highways and railways, surface parking, heritage sites and conservation areas (s. 1.03). Buildings stay 22 m from a controlled access highway unless the lot is on a frontage road (s. 1.06).

Inside the ALR, farm uses and those the Agricultural Land Commission approves are permitted, as is cannabis production under the ALR Use Regulation; the Commission's rules also apply to suites, farm-hand dwellings and dwellings for a relative needing care (ss. 1.14, 1.20 to 1.22, 1.26).

Floodplain (Schedule B): the floor of any living or business space sits at least 3 m above the high water mark of the St. Mary River and Perry Creek and 1.5 m above any other stream, lake, marsh or pond (in a Special Policy Area, such as an alluvial fan, the highest of 1 m above the ground, 0.6 m above anything that could pond water, or an engineer's level); fill and supports stay 30 m from the St. Mary River and Perry Creek, 15 m from other streams and 7.5 m from any lake, marsh or pond.

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 RDEK's planning department before you buy or build.

Source: Wycliffe Zoning & Floodplain Management Bylaw No. 2256, 2010 (summarised in our words); zone map: Open Government Licence – Regional District of East Kootenay.