Strathcona Regional District, Quadra Island · zoning
The I-1 zone in Quadra Island.
Industrial 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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I-1 at a glance
| What you can use it for | Heavy industrial and agricultural equipment sales, service, storage; service stations and body shops; warehouses and wholesale; repair and manufacturing; refuse disposal site; sand and gravel extraction (refuse and gravel: 30.0 m (98 ft) yard from all property lines); smoking and canning of fish; boat building, repair, storage; fuel storage and sales; SFD accessory to principal industrial use; auto wrecking yards (landscaped buffer printed as '1.0 metre (32.8 feet)' [sic] and ≥2.0 m (6.6 ft) fence along storage yards; 30.0 m (98 ft) from any residential-zoned lot line); indoor cannabis production only on Lot 3, DL 207 & 180, Plan VIP59552 (s.11.8.1). Screening (11.8.5): ≥1.8 m (5.9 ft) dense vegetation on setbacks abutting Residential/Country Residential/Rural; fence ≤2.0 m (6.6 ft) secondary and outside setback; front setback landscaped with 1.8 m (5.9 ft) decorative wood fence |
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| Dwelling units | 1 SFD accessory to industrial use (s.11.8.1(j)); FAR not stated |
| Smallest lot for subdivision | 4000.0 m² (43,056 sq ft) (s.11.8.2) |
| Setbacks (front / side / rear / side on a road) | 7.5 / 7.5 / 7.5 (s.11.8.3); 30.0 m (98 ft) for refuse/gravel (11.8.1(f)(i)) and wrecking yards from residential lots (11.8.1(k)(ii)); 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 | 35% (s.11.8.4) |
| 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: manufacturing/industrial, warehouses, storage yards, repair 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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