R.5: Residential Manufactured Home Community

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

One manufactured or modular home per rented site, and one home for the owner, operator or an employee

Main uses

Manufactured home community (rented sites), under the RDNO's Manufactured Home Community Bylaw; a service building with a store, cafe, laundry, office and meeting rooms; tennis courts, pools, rinks and trails; home occupation, minor day care or group home

Smallest lot for a subdivision

2 ha, with community water and community sewer; frontage 10% of the lot's perimeter. Sites: 320 m² for a single-wide and 400 m² for a double-wide (380 m² and 425 m² on a corner), 560 m² for the operator's home

Lot coverage

50% of each site

Height limit

Homes 8 m; accessory buildings 5 m; other buildings 12 m

Setbacks

From the lot's lines: front, exterior side and rear 5 m (8 m for service and storage buildings); sides 3 m (4.5 m beside commercial or industrial uses, 10 m beside the ALR). On a site: 5 m from the internal road (6 m where parking sits in front), 1.5 m from the other site lines

Each site: one home, one shed of up to 30 m² (no side over 7.32 m) beside or behind it, 40 m² of private outdoor space, and 11 m of road frontage for a single-wide or 13.5 m for a double-wide (13 m and 15.5 m on a corner) (s. 15.5(7), (8), (13), (19)).

Manufactured homes must be built to CSA Z240, or in Electoral Areas D, E and F shown by professional reports to meet the codes (s. 3.21).

Home occupation (s. 3.17): run full time by the owner or a resident, entirely inside the home or an accessory building with nothing showing outside, up to 50 m² of floor space and one employee from elsewhere; it sells only what it makes on the lot; no auto body or paint shops, car sales, wrecking or heavy equipment work; no on-street parking from it.

Minor day cares (generally up to 8 people) and minor group homes (up to 6 residents in care) are allowed inside a single family house, licensed by the province, with at most one staff member from elsewhere (s. 3.18).

The bylaw doesn't list short-term or vacation rental of a home, nor a bed and breakfast, in this zone, and uses it doesn't list are not allowed (s. 3.2). Ask the RDNO before renting a home short term.

The access strip of a panhandle lot narrower than 14 m doesn't count toward the minimum lot size.

Parking and storage (s. 3.28): no more than one truck or commercial vehicle up to 6,350 kg, one RV up to 10 m and one boat up to 10 m on the lot, plus building materials while a building permit is open.

Parking (s. 8.1): 1.5 spaces per home in houses and duplexes up to four-plexes, 1.25 per home in multi-family buildings, and 1 per secondary suite or secondary dwelling up to 90 m² (1.5 if larger); gravel without curbs is fine in residential, rural and special use zones (in a residential zone only where three spaces or fewer are needed).

Fences and hedges up to 1.2 m anywhere on the lot, and up to 2 m outside the front and exterior side setbacks; retaining walls up to 1.2 m inside setbacks and 2.4 m outside them (s. 9.2).

Heights are measured from finished grade to the highest point of the building (s. 2); antennas, spires and fire towers are exempt, and chimneys, stair and elevator towers and rooftop equipment may rise 2.5 m above the limit (s. 4.3). Eaves, steps, decks and balconies may reach 1 m into a setback, chimneys and bay windows 0.6 m; sheds under 10 m² and 2.5 m tall that don't drain onto a neighbour are exempt from side and rear setbacks (s. 4.4).

Public parks and playgrounds are allowed in every zone except the comprehensive development zones (s. 3.2(3)). Banned everywhere (s. 3.3): living in a cellar; living or working in a tent, RV, park model or container, except one tent or one RV up to 10 m for 30 days a year outside a campground; storing wrecked vehicles in the open; pulp mills; and sewage plants that discharge to surface water.

Floodplain (s. 6.1): floors for living, business or storing goods sit above the flood construction level: the provincial floodplain maps where they exist; 351.1 m beside Mara Lake, 393.2 m beside Kalamalka Lake and 604.72 m beside Sugar Lake; 3 m above the natural boundary of Mabel Lake and of the Shuswap River between Shuswap Falls and Sugar Lake; 1.5 m above the natural boundary of any other stream, lake, marsh or pond. Buildings and fill stay 30 m from the Shuswap and Kettle rivers and Ashton, Bessette, Cherry, Duteau, Ferry, Kingfisher, Monashee, Tsuius and Wap creeks, and 15 m from other water bodies and dykes. Garages, carports, entrance foyers, renovations and most farm buildings are exempt from the level; the RDNO Board may grant exemptions on an engineer's report.

Streamside (s. 6.2): no development in the riparian assessment area (generally 30 m from a stream, lake or wetland under the provincial Riparian Areas Protection Regulation) unless a qualified environmental professional's assessment sets a smaller setback or the province approves.

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 RDNO's planning department before you buy or build.

Source: Regional District of North Okanagan Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 2023 (summarised in our words); zone map: RDNO Digital Data Files terms of use; Source: Regional District of North Okanagan GIS Department.