RS-1A: Residential Single Family One – Tourist Accommodation

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

One house with up to 4 bedrooms, with a suite inside it; one of the two may be rented by the night

Main uses

House, suite, home occupation, tourist accommodation in one home; auxiliary buildings

Smallest lot for a subdivision

700 m²

Lot coverage

35%

Height limit

7.6 m

Setbacks

Front 6 m, sides 3 m (6 m for a house over 325 m²), rear 7 m (3 m backing onto a golf course or Crown land)

Nightly rental: either the house (up to 4 bedrooms) or the suite (up to 2), not both (ss. 13.2(e) and 13.9(e) to (g)); 0.5 parking spaces per bedroom while rented, without the usual manoeuvring aisle (s. 13.8). No home occupation while the house is rented to tourists (s. 13.9(j)).

Site-specific (s. 13.2.1): on 29 lots the bylaw lists by address (on Sunburst, Fairways, Lookout Ridge, Mountain View and Sundance Drives), both the house and the suite may be rented, up to 6 bedrooms in all; 4128 Sundance Drive also has a floor space ratio of 0.37 and a suite of up to 81.5 m² (s. 13.3.1).

The zone is applied lot by lot, by rezoning (s. 13.1), so neighbouring houses may be RS-1, where nightly rental needs a temporary use permit (s. 3.10).

House from 70 m² up to 500 m² or a floor space ratio of 0.35, whichever is lower (ss. 13.3 and 13.9(a)).

Auxiliary dwelling unit (a suite): inside the house, 32.5 to 80 m² and no more than 40% of the house's floor area, with at most two bedrooms, one bathroom and one kitchen (ss. 13.9(c) and (d)).

One main building per lot (s. 13.9(h)).

Parking inside the house: up to 85 m² (Bylaw 0154, 2020; the consolidated zone text still prints the old 60 m², which also counted auxiliary buildings).

Home occupation (s. 13.9(i)): inside the house, run only by the people who live there, with no outside storage, no sales from the home and no change to the house's look.

Frontage at least a tenth of the lot's perimeter (s. 13.5(b)).

Parking (Table 4A): 2 spaces per home of up to 235 m², 3 up to 325 m², 4 above; 1 per auxiliary dwelling unit. 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).

Tourist accommodation, as the bylaw defines it (Division One), is rooms or homes used for short stays by visitors or for the owner's own use; no one but the owner may live there.

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.