City of Courtenay · zoning
The CD-44 zone in Courtenay.
Comprehensive Development Forty-Four Zone (CD-44) - 2270 Cliffe Avenue. 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 City of Courtenay reads it, is always the final word.
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CD-44 at a glance
| What you can use it for | multi-residential dwelling, accessory building, bakery and deli, barber shop and beauty salon, cannabis retailer (limited to one in total on the subject property), convenience store, day care, facility for adults with a disability, fitness facility, florist, general service, grocery store, laundromat and dry cleaning, licensed premises, meat and fish market, medical clinic, micro-brewing limited to 400 m² (4,306 sq ft) and including accessory retail sale of goods produced on site, office, personal service, printing shop, restaurant, retail store, school, small item sales services rental and repair, studio, veterinary clinic |
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| Dwelling units | dwelling units shall not be located within a portion of the first storey of the building (8.66.3); commercial uses are permitted only within the first storey of the building (8.66.4); commercial units must front onto a public street (8.66.4) |
| Smallest lot for subdivision | 5,000 m² (53,820 sq ft); frontage 60.0 m (197 ft); depth 80.0 m (262 ft) (8.66.5) |
| Setbacks (front / side / rear / side on a road) | F 5.2 m (17 ft) to main building wall and 3.4 m (11 ft) to projecting features / S 7.3 m (24 ft) to main building wall and 3.2 m (10 ft) to projecting features (west property line); 7.3 m (24 ft) to bottom four storeys, 10.0 m to fifth storey, 13.5 m (44 ft) to sixth storey (east property line) / R 13.0 m (43 ft) (8.66.9) |
| Height | 22.0 m (72 ft) from the average curb grade along front of building (Mansfield Drive), excluding solar panels and elevator equipment (8.66.9) / accessory building (refuse storage) 3.1 m (10 ft) (8.66.10) |
| Lot coverage | FAR 2.21 (8.66.6); site coverage of all buildings 57% (8.66.8); maximum total floor area for all non-residential units 1,200 m² (12,917 sq ft) (8.66.7) |
| Shops, garages and sheds: size | Div 6 (refuse storage: F 80.0 m (262 ft) / S 60.0 m (197 ft) (west property line), 0.25 m (0.8 ft) (east property line) / R 2.0 m (6.6 ft)) (8.66.10) |
| Parking | 166 total parking spaces minimum; maximum 44 of the total required parking spaces may be small car parking spaces; minimum 0.94 parking space per residential unit plus 0.1 visitor parking spaces per residential unit; maximum 50% of residential visitor parking may be used for parking for commercial uses with hours of operation limited to between 6am and 6pm; minimum one parking space per 47 m² (506 sq ft) of retail commercial floor area; minimum one parking space per 50 m² (538 sq ft) of office commercial floor area; minimum one parking space per 37.5 m² (404 sq ft) of medical clinic floor area; minimum additional parking stall width where abutting wall or building 0.3 m (1.0 ft); minimum additional maneuvering aisle width where abutting wall or building 0.0 m; minimum of 100% of required parking spaces must have adequate conduits for providing at minimum future Level 2 charging (208-240V AC and minimum 40A circuit breaker); minimum 22 of required total parking spaces must have at minimum Level 2 charging (8.66.12); Div 7 Part 3 Bicycle Parking Requirements do not apply; residential bicycle parking spaces located in secure covered rooms are required at a minimum rate of two spaces per dwelling unit with two or more bedrooms and one residential bicycle parking space per dwelling unit with fewer than two bedrooms; additional bicycle parking spaces intended for visitor use located at grade illuminated and configured so that a bicycle can be securely locked to a fixed rack are required at a minimum rate of 10% of the number of required residential bicycle parking spaces; oversized bicycle parking spaces are required at a minimum rate of 10% of the total number of required bicycle parking spaces (8.66.13) |
Metric figures are the bylaw's own. Feet and acres are converted for reading and rounded.
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- 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.
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