RE: Resource

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

No house as such: the only home the zone allows is one caretaker dwelling, accessory to a resource use on the lot, of at most 70 m² (90 m² on a lot of 0.2 ha or more if a tenth of its energy is made on site), never on its own strata title, and it may be in an accessory building (ss. 22.1(m), 4.3). Short-term rental isn't allowed in it (s. 4.46(d))

Main uses

Agriculture, an airport, aquaculture, a home child care facility, a log transfer site, gravel, rock and earth removal, an interpretive centre, a kennel, a telecommunication tower, a horse stable, a solid waste and resource management facility; a caretaker dwelling, and accessory uses including selling the farm's own produce from up to 92.9 m² (ss. 22.1, 22.6)

Smallest lot for a subdivision

8 ha (s. 22.2); no width or depth set

Lot coverage

None set in the zone

Height limit

None set in the zone for a main building; accessory buildings 4.58 m (s. 4.4(g))

Setbacks

Front 7.62 m, rear 9.15 m, interior side 2.13 m, exterior side 7.62 m (4.57 m on a lot created before Zoning Bylaw No. 1342, 1995); every use and building but a caretaker dwelling 152.40 m from the line of a residentially zoned lot next door (s. 22.3). The table is worded for a single-unit dwelling, which the zone doesn't list as a use, so how it applies to other buildings is unclear: ask the District

The zone is for primary resource activities in the rural part of the District (s. 22). Land the zoning map gives no zone is zoned Resource (s. 5.2(b)).

At most one main building on a lot (s. 22.5). Accessory buildings: one of up to 60 m² for a resource use (140 m² for farming), plus up to five of 10 m² or less and 3 m high, not in the front yard, 1.2 m from side and rear lines; where agriculture is the use, farm buildings have no limit on number or size (s. 4.4).

The 8 ha is the smallest new lot; what an existing smaller lot may do is the District's to say (our reading).

Barbed wire fencing up to 3 m is allowed here (s. 22.4).

Short-term rental is allowed only in a dwelling unit that is the operator's principal residence, never in a caretaker dwelling (s. 4.46), so it isn't open in this zone (our reading).

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 District of Squamish's planning department before you buy or build.

Source: Section 22 of District of Squamish Zoning Bylaw No. 2200, 2011 (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-04); zone map: Open Government Licence – Squamish.