I-1: Industrial

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

None: the zone lists no dwelling

Main uses

Vehicle repair; transport, storage and warehousing (RVs and contractors' equipment too); wood products manufacturing, including sawmills, pulp and paper mills; power plants; machine, metal fabricating and welding shops; industrial landfill; public utilities (no garbage landfill); vehicle and equipment rental, electronics repair, building and garden supply, labs, small engine repair and gunsmith, building services and septic pumping, trailer sales, farm supply; public works yard, recycling depot, wireless towers, cannabis production; sand and gravel extraction and retail on the side

Smallest lot for a subdivision

4 ha

Lot coverage

70%

Height limit

70 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, none on a railway); sides 7.5 m

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

Neighbours in this zone can run sawmills, pulp mills, power plants and industrial landfills; the zone allows buildings up to 70 m tall.

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, and a fence or screen at least 2 m tall runs along a lot line next to a residential or institutional zone or a lot with a home (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, 3.3).

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, 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, 1.21, 1.25, 1.27).

Floodplain (Schedule B): the floor of any living or business space sits above 772 m (geodetic) beside Wasa Lake, at least 3 m above the high water mark of the Kootenay and Lussier rivers, Skookumchuck Creek, the St. Mary River and Perry Creek, and 1.5 m above any other stream, lake, marsh or pond (on the Lussier River fan mapped in Schedule B1, 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 those five rivers and creeks, 15 m from other streams and 7.5 m from any lake, marsh or pond. On the Argyle Creek hazard area (Schedule B2) the setbacks apply and an engineer assesses the site (Schedule B, Part 3).

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: Electoral Area E Zoning and Floodplain Management Bylaw No. 2502, 2014 (summarised in our words); zone map: Open Government Licence – Regional District of East Kootenay.