R-MP: Manufactured Home Park Residential

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Manufactured homes in a park, up to 18 per hectare of usable land, one per space of at least 370 m²; plus a dwelling accessory to the park

Main uses

Manufactured home park; home based business, common storage

Smallest lot for a subdivision

2 ha

Height limit

Manufactured homes 5 m, other main buildings 9 m, accessory buildings 4.5 m

Setbacks

Manufactured homes 7.6 m from a lot line on a road and 4.6 m from other lot lines, 3 m from the rear and sides of their space and 1.8 m from park roads and common storage; the park's accessory buildings 7.5 m from the rear lot line, 4.5 m from other lot lines and from home spaces

The park's design, servicing and facilities follow the RDEK Mobile Home Park By-law No. 1, 1978, which the zone cites.

Fences up to 2 m; no barbed wire or electric fencing in or next to the zone (s. 1.15).

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).

Home based business (s. 1.08): run by people living in the home with at most two outside employees, selling only what is made, grown or assembled on the lot (up to 10 m² of display). On lots under 2 ha it stays inside the house or an accessory building, up to 185 m², with at most five customers at a time; on 2 ha or more it can use 1% of the lot up to 400 m² (185 m² inside the ALR), with its buildings and outdoor storage 10 m from lot lines. Child care for up to seven children.

The bylaw doesn't list vacation or short-term rental as a use; a bed and breakfast (up to four guest rooms in a house, breakfast for those guests only) is allowed as a home based business (s. 1.08). Ask the RDEK before renting a home short term.

An RV or park model trailer can't be used as a home (s. 1.04). At most two RVs on a lot, sited like an accessory building (s. 1.19).

No vehicle wrecking or repair outdoors, and at most one derelict vehicle, kept out of the front yard (s. 1.17).

Heights are measured from finished grade to halfway between the eaves and the ridge; a flat roof to its top (ss. 3.02(6), 1.11(6)).

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.