RR-1: Resort Reserve One

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

A house (the zone sets no number; the lot is at least 8 ha)

Main uses

House, ski hills and lift terminals, golf courses and clubhouses, forestry (no secondary processing), retail (including sporting goods), equipment rental and repair, licensed restaurants, bars and lodges, resort administration offices, utilities and towers; auxiliary buildings

Smallest lot for a subdivision

8 ha (no minimum for utilities)

Lot coverage

No maximum stated

Height limit

No maximum stated (auxiliary buildings 5 m)

Setbacks

Front 6 m, sides 6 m, rear 6 m

The zone is meant to keep land from premature or inappropriate development (s. 24.1). The bylaw sets no density, coverage or height for main buildings here.

A licensed lodge is a permitted use (s. 24.2(b)); renting the house by the night isn't, and needs a temporary use permit (s. 3.10).

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

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).

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.