LR-1: Leisure Recreation One

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

None

Main uses

Ski lift terminal, golf clubhouse and pro shop, indoor and outdoor recreation, retail (including sporting goods), equipment rental and repair, restaurants (no drive-in), bars and lounges, resort administration offices, fire station, public service buildings

Smallest lot for a subdivision

No minimum

Lot coverage

No maximum

Height limit

12 m

Setbacks

Front 4.5 m; no side or rear setback set

Floor space ratio 1 (s. 9.3).

Neighbourhood pubs also need provincial liquor licensing (s. 9.9(a)).

A landscaping plan must be approved, and finished within a year of the main building being completed. (s. 9.9(b))

Frontage at least a tenth of the lot's perimeter (s. 9.5(b)).

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

Fences: 1 m in the front setback, 2 m elsewhere (s. 3.5(a)).

Shipping containers are allowed as an auxiliary use, within the zone's setbacks (s. 3.9(a)).

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

The zone allows no homes (s. 9.2), so no nightly rentals.

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.