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 business, with its own outside door (s. 1.18(4))

Main uses

Veterinary clinic, auctions, vehicle repair, trucking, storage and warehousing (RVs and contractors' equipment too), gravel processing and hauling; manufacturing (food and drink, rubber and plastics, wood products but no saw, shake or planer mills, furniture, printing, machine and welding shops, solar systems, truck bodies, RVs, manufactured homes, boats, electrical products, non-metallic minerals but no cement, concrete or asphalt plants, instruments, signs); utilities (no landfill); vehicle and equipment rental, electronics repair, building and garden supply, labs, laundry plants, small engine repair and gunsmith, building services and septic pumping, trailer sales, farm supply; funeral services, public works yard, recycling depot, cannabis production

Smallest lot for a subdivision

1 ha

Lot coverage

50%

Height limit

15 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 4.5 m

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

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

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 (s. 1.15).

New lots also need at least 1,670 m² of usable land (695 m² on a community water system): one piece averaging 15% slope or less, with no land slip, avalanche, rock fall, flooding or high water table hazard (ss. 2.03, 3.3).

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 or in Moyie townsite (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 and farm-hand dwellings (ss. 1.20 to 1.22, 1.31).

Floodplain (Schedule B): the floor of any living or business space sits at least 3 m above the high water mark of the Moyie and St. Mary rivers and 1.5 m above any other stream, lake, marsh or pond (in the Special Policy Area mapped on Schedule B2, such as alluvial fans, 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 Moyie and St. Mary rivers and Lamb and Braunagel creeks, 15 m from other streams, and 7.5 m from Moyie Lake, Monroe Lake and any other 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: Electoral Area C South Zoning & Floodplain Management Bylaw No. 2913, 2019 (summarised in our words); zone map: Open Government Licence – Regional District of East Kootenay.