RM-3: Residential Multiple Three

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Apartments and townhouses, homes of 50 m² or more with up to 4 bedrooms, at least 150 m² of usable lot per home; one auxiliary home (up to 100 m²) per 38 homes

Main uses

Multi-family buildings, townhouses; auxiliary home, auxiliary buildings including indoor recreation up to 235 m²

Smallest lot for a subdivision

150 m² of usable area per home

Lot coverage

35%

Height limit

10.7 m

Setbacks

Front 6 m, sides 6 m, rear 6 m; buildings 6 m apart

Floor space ratio 0.45 (s. 18.4).

Site-specific (s. 18.3): at 1260 Alpine Road (Strata Plan K18), up to five houses and two duplexes.

Frontage at least a tenth of the lot's perimeter (s. 18.6(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).

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).

Parking (Table 4A): 1 space per home of up to 55 m² plus 0.5 for each further 40 m², at most 2 per home; 15% of it marked for visitors in RM zones (s. 4.6). In RM zones at most half the setback area may be used for parking and driveways (s. 4.3(d)).

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

Auxiliary buildings: at most 56 m², a strata plan counting as one lot (s. 3.2(d)).

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.