TP-1: Tourist Pension One

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

A pension (a bed and breakfast with 4 or more guest rooms) with one owner's home of at least 50 m² inside it

Main uses

Pension, one auxiliary home inside the building; auxiliary buildings

Smallest lot for a subdivision

836 m² for a new lot

Lot coverage

30%

Height limit

7.6 m

Setbacks

Front 6 m, sides 3 m (4.5 m for a building over 325 m²), rear 6 m

Building up to 500 m² or a floor space ratio of 0.35, whichever is lower (s. 23.3(a)).

Guest rooms by lot size (s. 23.3(b)): 4 on 836 to 887 m², one more for about each further 52 m², up to 10 from 1,148 m²; each room 9.5 to 28 m² (s. 23.9).

Site-specific (s. 23.2.1): a restaurant of up to 30 seats, run by the owners, at 2232 Sunburst Drive.

One main building per lot (s. 23.9(d)).

Parking (Table 4A): 2 spaces for the operator's home and 0.75 per guest room.

Frontage at least a tenth of the lot's perimeter (s. 23.5(b)).

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

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)).

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.