P-3: Public Works and Utility

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

None: the zone lists no dwelling

Main uses

Cemetery and crematorium, public works and storage yards, waste transfer station and recycling depot, government services, farming, wireless towers

Smallest lot for a subdivision

None set in the zone

Height limit

10 m

Setbacks

Front 7.5 m, rear and sides 6 m; a waste transfer station 1,000 m from any home on another lot

The zone sets no lot coverage.

Fences up to 2 m (s. 1.15).

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)).

An RV or park model trailer can't be used as a home (s. 1.4). Up to two RVs may be stored or used seasonally 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; 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.