RC-1: Recreational Residential/Commercial

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Apartments and other multi-family buildings, and homes with the zone's commercial uses, up to 55 homes per hectare

Main uses

Multi-family buildings, hotels, motels and hostels, restaurants and coffee shops, bars, nightclubs and movie theatres, retail including a post office, sporting goods rental, personal services, indoor and outdoor recreation, communal facilities and utilities; homes with those uses

Smallest lot for a subdivision

No minimum stated

Lot coverage

30%

Height limit

No maximum stated (auxiliary buildings 5 m)

Setbacks

Front 6 m, sides 1.5 m (4.5 m beside a street), rear 6 m (1.5 m for auxiliary buildings)

Floor area ratio at most 0.90, covered parking not counted (s. 25.8(d)); 1.12 at 1140 Sun Peaks Road (s. 25.8.1).

Density bonus (Bylaw 0230, December 2025): a building may reach 10% more density if it adds at least 5 homes and one in five of the new homes goes to the local housing authority or the Municipality as affordable rental housing (rent 20% below market, kept as rentals), under a housing agreement, or pays cash in lieu under Council Policy 0034.

Site-specific (s. 25.3): 110 homes at 1180 Sun Peaks Road, and mini self-storage at 1130 Sun Peaks Road.

No physical access between homes and commercial uses (s. 25.8(a)); every building on community water and sewer (s. 25.8(c)); sporting goods exclude motorised vehicles (s. 25.8(b)).

Parking (s. 25.7): 2 spaces per home, 1 per hotel or motel unit, 6 per 100 m² of other commercial floor area.

Renting a home by the night. The zone lists hotels, motels and hostels but not tourist accommodation in homes, and the Municipality may allow it by temporary use permit (s. 3.10). Whether a home here may be rented nightly is unclear; ask the Sun Peaks Mountain Resort Municipality.

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

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

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

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.