S.2: Residential Attendance Program

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

One home for the owner, operator or an employee, and a residential attendance program building (not a permanent home)

Main uses

Farming and intensive resource use, with a residential attendance program: a building of up to 150 m² housing youths placed in care by the authorities, never rented or lived in permanently

Smallest lot for a subdivision

16 ha outside the ALR; 8 ha in the ALR (or as the Agricultural Land Commission approves); frontage 10% of the lot's perimeter

Lot coverage

10%

Height limit

12 m

Setbacks

Front and exterior side 45 m; rear and interior sides 30 m

Farming off ALR land (s. 3.5(4)): up to six animal units per hectare (one animal unit is about 455 kg of livestock: one cow or horse, five sheep, 250 laying hens); swine only for the owner's own use; no mushroom growing. Kennels need 2 ha outside the ALR (s. 3.12), and farm buildings keep the setbacks in s. 7 (barns and confined livestock areas 30 m from residential zones and lot lines).

In the ALR, the Agricultural Land Commission's rules also apply and come first (s. 3.4): a house may have at most 500 m² of floor area (s. 3.23), and subdividing needs the Commission's approval (s. 5.1).

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

Outdoor storage is screened by a 2.5 m solid fence or a 2 m evergreen hedge (s. 9.1).

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.