Comox Valley Regional District (Areas A, B and C) · zoning
The IS zone in the rural Comox Valley.
Industrial Storage. 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. 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
IS at a glance
| What you can use it for | principal: general contractor services and storage yard; warehousing; mini-storage; outdoor storage; retail and wholesale establishments (retail floor space max 1,000 m² (10,764 sq ft)); offices. Accessory: residential use limited to one dwelling unit; industrial equipment maintenance and repair; storage and sale of aggregate. Prohibited: scrap salvage yards, bulk storage, motor vehicle repair and salvage, vehicle fuel sales, wood, gravel, meat or seafood processing, compost facilities (909.1–909.3) |
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| Dwelling units | 1 dwelling unit; FAR not stated |
| Smallest lot for subdivision | Schedule B lands 4.0 ha (9.9 acres); community water + sewer 4,000 m² (43,056 sq ft); water or sewer 8,000 m² (86,111 sq ft); well + septic 1.0 ha (2.5 acres) (909.6) |
| Setbacks (front / side / rear / side on a road) | 7.5 / 7.5 / 7.5 / 7.5 m (25 ft); 15.0 m (49 ft) for all buildings, structures and outdoor storage along an ALR boundary (909.4) |
| Lot coverage | 50% (909.5) |
| Shops, garages and sheds: size | not stated |
| Shops, garages and sheds: setbacks | 7.5 m (25 ft) all lot lines |
| Parking | s.319; no parking or loading within 7.5 m (25 ft) of any property line; outdoor storage ≥ 15.0 m (49 ft) from Part 700 lots, ≥ 7.5 m (25 ft) from other lots; 2.4 m (7.9 ft) hedge in 7.5 m (25 ft) landscaped strip along highways; 8.0 m (26 ft) buffer next to ALR (909.3) |
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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