Town of Comox · zoning
The MU-5 zone in Comox.
Cape Lazo Accommodation. 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-5 at a glance
| What you can use it for | P: hotel; motel; dwelling units; mobile vending. S: accessory structures; coach houses; food services (max 140.0 m² (1,507 sq ft) floor area, cond. 2); home occupation minor, major, B&B and vacation rental; licensed premises; parking lot; professional services internal-facing; retail sales (carries cond. marker 5 — see note); secondary suites |
|---|---|
| Dwelling units | 3 dwelling units per lot; FAR 0.8 |
| Smallest lot for subdivision | 2,000.0 m² (21,528 sq ft) / 27.0 m (89 ft) |
| Setbacks (front / side / rear / side on a road) | 3.0 / 2.0 (0.0 abutting a Cape Lazo Mixed-Use lot) / 2.0 / 3.0 m (9.8 ft); cut-off 1.0 |
| Height | 10.0 m (33 ft) and 2 storeys / 4.5 m (15 ft) |
| Lot coverage | 50% / 60% |
| Shops, garages and sheds: setbacks | front 3.0 / side 0.0 / ext. side 2.0 / rear 3.0; cut-off 1.0 |
| Parking | Table 8.4.1(1): hotel/motel 1.0 per sleeping unit; dwelling 1.0 per unit; B&B 0.5 per sleeping unit; food 4.0 per 100 m² (1,076 sq ft) |
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 Comox?
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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