City of Powell River · zoning
The CD5 zone in Powell River.
Comprehensive Development 5. 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 Powell River reads it, is always the final word.
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CD5 at a glance
| What you can use it for | In a live-work unit located on the ground floor with frontage along Joyce Avenue: one live-work unit, personal service establishments but excludes dry cleaners, electrical appliance repair shops, laundrettes, printing shops, or similar services, commercial and professional offices and financial institutions; townhouse dwellings; apartment buildings; home based business; accessory buildings and uses; in-home child care; child care centre located in a non-residential space within a mixed use or a multiple family residential development (13.5.2) |
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| Dwelling units | not stated |
| Smallest lot for subdivision | 1700 square metres (18,300 sqft) (13.5.5) |
| Setbacks (front / side / rear / side on a road) | Where a CD5 lot abuts a lot in any R zone without an intervening street or lane, a side setback of not less than 3 metres (10 ft) in width (13.5.8) |
| Height | 8.5 metres (28 ft) principal (13.5.7) / accessory not stated |
| Lot coverage | 40% of the lot area (all buildings and structures) (13.5.6) |
| Shops, garages and sheds: size | not stated |
| Shops, garages and sheds: setbacks | not stated |
| Parking | Off street parking shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of this bylaw (13.5.9) |
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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