Town of Comox · zoning
The MU-1 zone in Comox.
Downtown Mixed-Use. 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 Town of Comox reads it, is always the final word.
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MU-1 at a glance
| What you can use it for | P: hotel; child care; community care; cultural & community services; dwelling units (cond. 1: only above a first-storey non-residential use, separate entrance, residential access ≤ 25% of first-storey business frontage); entertainment facility; food services; health services (above first storey only); licensed premises; mobile vending; personal services; professional services internal-facing (above first storey only); professional services public-facing; indoor recreation; retail, cannabis; retail sales; minor veterinary (above first storey; not in a building with > 1 dwelling unit, hotel or motel). S: accessory structures; home occupation minor (above first storey); parking lot; alcohol production facility. Liquor retail: cell shows "--" with a condition marker — see note below table |
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| Dwelling units | dwelling units per cond. 1; no unit cap stated; FAR 1.2 |
| Smallest lot for subdivision | 550.0 m² (5,920 sq ft) / 15.0 m (49 ft) |
| Setbacks (front / side / rear / side on a road) | 0.0 / 0.0 (3.5 m (11 ft) on a lot line abutting a Low-Density or Multi-Unit Residential zone) / 0.0 / 0.0 m; corner cut-off 1.0 |
| Height | 10.0 m (33 ft) / 4.5 m (15 ft) |
| Lot coverage | n/a / n/a |
| Shops, garages and sheds: setbacks | front 0.0 / side 0.0 / ext. side 0.0 / rear 0.0; cut-off 1.0 |
| Parking | Table 8.4.1(1) by use: retail, personal, public-facing professional, cannabis, liquor 2.5 per 100 m² (1,076 sq ft); food, health, licensed, indoor recreation 4.0 per 100 m²; internal-facing professional 1.0 per 100 m² (1,076 sq ft); hotel 1.0 per sleeping unit; dwelling 1.0 per unit. Non-residential (except marina) reduced 50% inside the Downtown (Map 8-1), s.8.4(1)(b). Loading Table 8.4.8(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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