NR-1: Nature Resort

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

No dwellings; guests and staff stay in glamping units, at most 45 sites per lot

Main uses

Nature resort (glamping cottages, glamping structures, prospector tents and stationary RVs for paying guests, reached on foot from central parking); food service (up to 200 m²), concession stand and gift shop (up to 50 m² each), employee accommodation in the glamping units

Smallest lot for a subdivision

8 ha

Lot coverage

10%

Height limit

Glamping cottages 6 m, glamping structures and prospector tents 5 m, other buildings 9 m

Setbacks

Front 10 m, rear 20 m, sides 10 m (10 m beside a road); a buffer of the same widths around the zone holds no sites, parking, garbage, privies or recreation

Each glamping site is at least 140 m², holds one unit, and is reached from the resort's paths, not from a road. Of the sites, at most 40% may be cottages, 70% glamping structures, 50% prospector tents and 20% stationary RVs. A glamping cottage is at most 53.5 m² and a glamping structure 70 m², counting decks (s. 3.3). No other RVs and no park model trailers.

The resort supplies drinking water under the Drinking Water Protection Act and sends wastewater to a community sewer or a private system that meets provincial rules; no holding tanks.

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. 1.14(4)).

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: Columbia Valley Zoning Bylaw No. 3255, 2023 (summarised in our words); zone map: Open Government Licence – Regional District of East Kootenay.