Strathcona Regional District, Quadra Island · zoning
The C-1 zone in Quadra Island.
Commercial One. 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 Strathcona Regional District reads it, is always the final word.
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C-1 at a glance
| What you can use it for | Restaurants, pubs, coffee shops; business and professional offices; retail stores; bake shop; barbershops, beauty salons and similar; tailors, dressmakers, shoe repair, handicrafts; dry-cleaning, laundromats; theatres, bowling halls, entertainment; service stations, tire shops and similar; building supply and retail centres; door, sash, cabinet making and sales (enclosed, max 200.0 m² (2,153 sq ft) floor area, s.11.5.2(a)); SFD accessory to principal commercial use; accessory buildings; parking lot (s.11.5.1). More than one commercial building per lot allowed (11.5.2(b)). Uses permitted in all upland zones also apply (s.11.1.3) |
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| Dwelling units | 1 SFD accessory to commercial use (s.11.5.1(l)); density/FAR not stated |
| Smallest lot for subdivision | 2000.0 m² (21,528 sq ft) (s.11.5.3); frontage not stated |
| Setbacks (front / side / rear / side on a road) | 7.5 / side only where adjacent property zoned Residential: 4.5 m (15 ft) (separate dwelling 1.75 m (5.7 ft) for that building) / 7.5 (s.11.5.4); flanking s.10.6.2 (4.5 m (15 ft) if lot ≤31.0 m (102 ft) wide at front setback, else = front); 7.5 m (25 ft) from a local road right-of-way abutting a front or rear lot line (s.10.6.1) |
| Height | 10.0 m (33 ft) (s.10.2.1(f), all zones) / not separately stated |
| Lot coverage | 50% (s.11.5.4 [second, numbering repeats]) |
| Shops, garages and sheds: size | not stated |
| Shops, garages and sheds: setbacks | not in required front yard; ≥1.0 m (3.3 ft) from boundary if in a required side/rear yard (s.10.2.1(d)) |
| Parking | s.10.9.1: retail/personal service 1 per 13.5 m² (145 sq ft) GFA; restaurants/pubs 1 per 3 seats; banks/offices 1 per 15 m² (161 sq ft) GFA; laundromat 1 per 2 washers; billiard hall 1 per table; repair/manufacturing 1 per 2 employees (2 shifts) + 1 per 45 m² (484 sq ft) retail/display; dwelling 2; 2 per dwelling unit; 1.5 m (4.9 ft) clear of property lines (10.9.3); each space ≥16 m² (172 sq ft) (10.9.4) |
Metric figures are the bylaw's own. Feet and acres are converted for reading and rounded.
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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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