CL-1: Commercial Local One

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Tourist accommodation and a hostel; one auxiliary home (up to 100 m², one bedroom) per business

Main uses

Retail for residents' and visitors' day-to-day needs, ski equipment sales, repair and rental, personal services, offices, restaurant (no drive-in), neighbourhood pub, bakery, recreation, child care, tourist accommodation, hostel; auxiliary homes and buildings

Smallest lot for a subdivision

695 m² of usable area

Lot coverage

50%

Height limit

12 m and 3 storeys

Setbacks

Front 6 m, sides 3 m, rear 6 m

Floor space ratio 0.60 (s. 6.3).

A hostel uses at least half its floor area for dormitory sleeping, with at least 3 m² per bed (s. 6.9(d) and (e)).

An auxiliary home has at most one bedroom, one bathroom, one kitchen and one living room (s. 6.9(f)).

Site-specific (s. 6.2): a property management business and cannabis retail at 1160 Sun Peaks Road.

Neighbourhood pubs also need provincial liquor licensing (s. 6.9(a)).

A landscaping plan must be approved, and finished within a year of the main building being completed. (s. 6.9(g))

Frontage at least a tenth of the lot's perimeter (s. 6.5(b)).

Usable lot area leaves out water and slopes steeper than 30% (for townhouses, apartments, pensions and hostels) or 40% (for houses and duplexes) (Division One).

Parking (Table 4A): hotels, lodges and inns 0.7 spaces per guest room and 1 per sleeping unit (less above 100 units), or for homes 1 space per 55 m² plus 0.5 per further 40 m², at most 2 per home; no parking or driveways in the setbacks except the access from the road (s. 4.3(c)).

Fences up to 2 m (s. 3.5(b)).

Shipping containers only during construction under a building permit, removed within 14 days of completion (s. 3.9(b)).

Cannabis stores only where the bylaw names the lot (s. 3.8).

No auxiliary building before the main building, unless built under the same permit (s. 3.2(a)); auxiliary buildings are at most 5 m tall (s. 3.2(e)), and one attached to the main building counts as part of it (s. 3.2(b)).

Eaves, chimneys and bay windows may reach 60 cm into a setback; open stairs, balconies, porches and canopies 1.5 m into front and side setbacks and 2 m into the rear setback, with their supports outside it (s. 3.3). Domes, chimneys, antennas and screened rooftop equipment may rise above the height limit, up to 1.2 times it, over at most 10% of the roof (s. 3.4).

Height of a main building is measured from the average finished grade to halfway between the eaves and the ridge of a sloping roof (the top of a flat roof), averaged over the roof's planes by area as s. 3.7 sets out; an auxiliary building is measured to its highest point (Division One).

Tourist accommodation, as the bylaw defines it (Division One), is rooms or homes used for short stays by visitors or for the owner's own use; no one but the owner may live there.

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 Sun Peaks Mountain Resort Municipality's planning department before you buy or build.

Source: Sun Peaks Resort Area Zoning Bylaw No. 1400 (summarised in our words); zone map: Open Government Licence – Thompson-Nicola Regional District.