CS-1: Commercial Service Station One

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

One auxiliary home

Main uses

Service station, car repair and servicing (no body work), auto parts, propane sales, laundromat or dry cleaner, restaurant up to 90 m² (no drive-in), retail for day-to-day needs; auxiliary home

Smallest lot for a subdivision

1,350 m²

Lot coverage

60%

Height limit

7.6 m and 2 storeys

Setbacks

Front 6 m, sides 1.5 m (4.5 m beside a street), rear 6 m; gas pumps 7 m from every lot line

Floor space ratio 0.25 (s. 7.3).

Oil and water separators on runoff from the parts and service station uses (s. 7.9(c)).

A landscaping plan must be approved, and finished within a year of the main building being completed. (s. 7.9(d))

Parking (Table 4A): service stations 4 spaces per 100 m² of floor area plus 3 per service bay; restaurants and retail 5 per 100 m².

Frontage at least a tenth of the lot's perimeter (s. 7.5(b)).

No parking space within 1.5 m of a lot line (s. 4.2(e)).

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).

Renting by the night (tourist accommodation) isn't a permitted use in this zone. The Municipality may allow it on a lot by temporary use permit, for up to three years and renewable once after a hearing, with conditions such as a guest limit, inspections and a local manager (s. 3.10).

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).

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.