Comox Valley Regional District (Areas A, B and C) · zoning
The IL zone in the rural Comox Valley.
Industrial Light. What the bylaw lets you build, how big the lot has to be, and how close to the lines you can go, in plain words with the section for each.
From the zoning bylaw (Part 906). General information, not legal or planning advice. The adopted bylaw, as the Comox Valley Regional District reads it, is always the final word.
Check a lot in the rural Comox ValleyThe rules
IL at a glance
| What you can use it for | principal: light industrial; wood processing; general contractor services and storage yard; retail and wholesale sales (retail floor area max 1,000 m² (10,764 sq ft) per lot); industrial equipment sales and service; automobile body shop; plant nursery and greenhouse; veterinary establishment; water and beverage bottling only at Lot A Plan 49534 and part of Lot 2 Plan 9853 (DL 50 Newcastle, west of Berray Rd); mini-storage only at Lot A Plan 18686, Lot 1 Plan 2280, Lot B Plan 13432 and Lot 5 Plan VIP20040. Accessory: residential use limited to one dwelling unit; offices; warehousing; outdoor storage (screened per s.310); pet crematorium (906.1–906.3) |
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| Dwelling units | 1 dwelling unit; FAR 0.5, +0.05 for each 10% of open space above the required 25% (to 60%); ≥ 25% of lot as open space (906.3(i)) |
| Smallest lot for subdivision | Schedule B lands 4.0 ha (9.9 acres); community water + sewer 2,000 m² (21,528 sq ft); water or sewer 4,000 m² (43,056 sq ft); well + septic 1.0 ha (2.5 acres) (906.6) |
| Setbacks (front / side / rear / side on a road) | 7.5 / 7.5 / 7.5 / 7.5 m (25 ft) (906.4) |
| Lot coverage | 50% (906.5) |
| Shops, garages and sheds: size | not stated |
| Shops, garages and sheds: setbacks | 7.5 m (25 ft) all lot lines (both accessory height bands) |
| Parking | s.319; no parking, loading or storage within 1.5 m (4.9 ft) of any lot line; contractor yards: no parking/loading within 7.5 m (25 ft) of any lot line, outdoor storage ≥ 15.0 m (49 ft) from Part 700 lots and ≥ 7.5 m (25 ft) from other lots, 2.4 m (7.9 ft) hedge in 7.5 m (25 ft) landscaped strip on highway lines, 8.0 m (26 ft) buffer next to ALR (906.3(ii)) |
Metric figures are the bylaw's own. Feet and acres are converted for reading and rounded.
One lot, not the zone
What the zone page can't tell you
- Whether your lot is actually in this zone. Check the zoning map, not the listing.
- Whether a permit area, floodplain, stream setback or farmland reserve sits over the lot. Each adds steps.
- Whether site-specific rules or a covenant on title change what this table says.
- What council has decided on the street lately.
The lot report answers those for one address.
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What can you build on your lot in the rural Comox Valley?
This page is the zone. The report is your lot: the zone it's actually in, the setbacks drawn on a plan in feet, how many dwelling units it allows, floodplain, streams, farmland and permit areas, with the source for every rule. $9, on screen in about a minute, with a PDF to keep.
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