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 370 m²; and a house that isn't a manufactured home, on a space of 700 m²

Main uses

Manufactured home park, house; 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

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 7.6 m from the rear lot line, 4.6 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.

The zone sets no lot coverage.

Signs only at the park entrance, up to 1.8 m tall and 3 m² (s. 1.13); fences up to 2 m (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).

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 150 m², with no outdoor storage and at most five customers at a time; on 2 ha or more it can use 1% of the lot up to 400 m² (150 m² inside the ALR), with its buildings and outdoor storage 10 m from lot lines and out of the yards facing a road. At most one commercial vehicle heavier than Class 4 on the lot. Child care for up to seven children.

A home based business sign is unlit and at most 0.5 m² (s. 1.13).

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, not a duplex, 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). In the Kimberley Rural Official Community Plan area an RV may be lived in only while a house is being built (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, 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.