I-1: Light Industrial

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 main use, with its own outside door (the zone; s. 1.18(3))

Main uses

Veterinary clinic, kennel, sand and gravel processing and hauling; wood products (wood preservation, remanufacturing, sawmills, shake and planer mills), log homes, furniture, machine, metal fabricating and welding shops, solar systems, non-metallic minerals (no cement, concrete or asphalt plants); equipment rental, small engine repair, farm supply; public works yard, salvage yard, recycling depot, wireless towers, farming, cannabis production; retail on the side

Smallest lot for a subdivision

1 ha

Lot coverage

50%

Height limit

12 m

Setbacks

Front 7.5 m; rear 15 m beside a residential or institutional zone or a lot with a home (4.5 m otherwise); sides 7.5 m

Display, rental and sales areas have a dust-free surface.

Neighbours in this zone can run sawmills and a salvage yard.

Cannabis production buildings stay 15 m from the front and side lot lines and 30 m from the rear and a side beside a road, and have no height limit (ss. 1.10(6), 1.11(5)).

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; fences up to 2 m along a lot line next to a residential or institutional zone or a lot with a home (s. 1.15).

Kennel buildings and runs stay 60 m from every lot line (s. 1.10(2)).

Farm buildings (s. 1.20): dairy, livestock, fur and poultry buildings 15 m from lot lines (confined livestock areas 30 m) and 30 m from a well or spring; mushroom barns 7.5 m; buildings with boilers or fan walls 15 m; other farm buildings 4.5 m. Livestock and poultry barns, stables, milking buildings, mushroom barns and confined livestock areas stay 15 m from a lake or stream (30 m for confined livestock areas of more than 10 animal units), and manure storage 30 m from wells and springs and 15 m from lakes and streams. Farm buildings have no height limit (s. 1.11(4)).

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, and above 750.11 m in elevation (ss. 2.2, 3.3).

Heights are measured from finished grade to halfway between the eaves and the ridge; a flat roof to its top; the walls under a single-pitch roof may reach 1.5 m above the limit (ss. 3.2(6), 1.11(6)).

Every zone also allows parks, public utilities, highways and railways, surface parking, heritage sites and conservation areas (s. 1.3). Buildings stay 22 m from a controlled access highway unless the lot is on a frontage road (s. 1.6).

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, 1.21, 1.25, 1.27).

Floodplain (Schedule B): the floor of any living or business space sits above 751 m beside Lake Koocanusa, and 1.5 m above the high water mark of 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); no basement floor below 751 m; buildings with living space or goods that flood water would damage stay upland of the 750.11 m contour of the reservoir; fill and supports stay 15 m from 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: South Country Zoning & Floodplain Management Bylaw No. 2320, 2011 (summarised in our words); zone map: Open Government Licence – Regional District of East Kootenay.