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Land Use Bylaw

TABLE OF CONTENTS      

ONE:  ADMINISTRATION PDF

                Section 1:    Title
                Section 2:    Purpose
                Section 3:    Previous Bylaws
                Section 4:    Effect and Application of this Bylaw
                Section 5:    Applications in Progress
                Section 6:    Compliance with other Legislations
                Section 7:    Units of Measurement
                Section 8:    Severability

TWO: INTERPRETATION PDF

                Section 9:     Rules of Interpretation
                Section 10:  Land Use District Boundaries
                Section 11:  Definitions              

THREE:  AUTHORITIES PDF

                Section 12:  Development Authority
                Section 13:  Subdivision Authority
                Section 14:  Municipal Planning Commission
                Section 15:  Development Officer
                Section 16:  Subdivision and Development Appeal Board

FOUR:  PROCEDURES PDF

                Section 17:  Control of Development
                Section 18:  Where a Permit is Not Required
                Section 19:  Non-Conforming Buildings and Uses
                Section 20:  Application For Development Permit
                Section 21:  Referral of Development Permit Applications
                Section 22:  Decisions on Development Permit Applications
                Section 23:  Development Permit Conditions
                Section 24:  Notification of Development Permits
                Section 25:  Development Permit Appeal Process
                Section 26:  Validity of Development Permits
                Section 27:  Development Permit Standstill Provision
                Section 28:  Power of Variance
                Section 29:  Application For Subdivision
                Section 30:  Decisions on Subdivision Applications
                Section 31:  Subdivision Application Appeal Process
                Section 32:  Court of Appeal
                Section 33:  Subdivision Application Standstill Provision
                Section 34:  Development Agreement
                Section 35:  Performance Bonds and Securities
                Section 36:  Compliance Certificates 

FIVE:  AMENDMENT PDF

                Section 37:  Purpose
                Section 38:  Application to amend the Land Use Bylaw
                Section 39:  Review Process
                Section 40:  Notification of Public Hearing
                Section 41:  Amendment Review by Council
                Section 42:  Land Use Bylaw Amendment Standstill Provision
 
SIX:  ENFORCEMENT PDF

                Section 43:  General Regulations
                Section 44: Right Of Entry
                Section 45:  Warning Notice
                Section 46:  Offences and Fines
                Section 47:  Stop Orders
                Section 48:  Appeal of Stop Orders
                Section 49:  Enforcement of Stop Orders               

SEVEN:  GENERAL REGULATIONS PDF

                Section 50:  General Provisions
                Section 51:  Access, Parking, and Loading
                Section 52:  Bare Land Condominiums
                Section 53:  Communal Water and Sewer Servicing
                Section 54:  Corner and Double Fronting Sites
                Section 55:  Crime Prevention through Environmental Design
                Section 56:  Decks
                Section 57:  Design, Character, and Appearance of Buildings
                Section 58:  Designated Hamlets
                Section 59:  Development Adjacent to Residential Districts
                Section 60:  Development in the Vicinity of Highways
                Section 61:  Development near Water Bodies and Slopes
                Section 62:  Direct Control Districts
                Section 63:  Energy Conversion Systems
                Section 64:  Existing Substandard Lots
                Section 65:  Fences/Walls/Hedges
                Section 66:  Fire Protection
                Section 67:  Garbage Collection and Outside Storage
                Section 68:  Height
                Section 69:  Historical and Archaeological Sites
                Section 70:  Intermunicipal Development Plan (IDP) Area
                Section 71:  Landscaping Requirements
                Section 72:  Lighting
                Section 73:  Multiple Dwelling Developments
                Section 74:  Prohibited or Restricted Goods and Animals
                Section 75:  Projection into Yards
                Section 76:  Protection from Exposure Hazards
                Section 77:  Relocation of Buildings
                Section 78:  Servicing Requirements
                Section 79:  Site Conditions
                Section 80:  Stripping, Excavations, and Grading
                Section 81:  Temporary Development    

EIGHT:  SPECIAL LAND USE PROVISIONS PDF

                Section 82:  Applicability
                Section 83:  Accessory Building and Structures
                Section 84:  Airport Vicinity Protection Overlay
                Section 85:  Animal Service Facilities
                Section 86:  Bed and Breakfast and Guest Ranch Establishments
                Section 87:  Campgrounds
                Section 88:  Child Care Facilities and Family Day Homes
                Section 89:  Churches and Other Religious Assemblies
                Section 90:  Communication Towers
                Section 91:  Drive-In Business
                Section 92:  Dwelling Units Permitted Per Lot
                Section 93:  Garage and Garden Suites
                Section 94:  Group Homes
                Section 95:  Heaving Industrial (Outside of Hamlet Areas)
                Section 96:  Home Business
                Section 97:  Industrial (Within Hamlet Areas)
                Section 98:  Motels
                Section 99:  Natural Resource Extraction/Processing Facility
                Section 100:  Residential Subdivisions
                Section 101:  Rural Industrial Uses
                Section 102:  Service Stations and Fuel and Chemical Sales/Storage
                Section 103:  Signs
                Section 104:  Surveillance Suites
                Section 105:  Work Camps 

NINE:  LAND USE DISTRICTS PDF

                Section 106:  Establishment of Districts
                Section 107:  Establishment of Land Use District Regulations       

TEN:  RESOURCE DISTRICTS PDF

                Section 108:  Agricultural District (AG)
                Section 109:  Crown Land District (CL) 

ELEVEN:  RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS PDF

                Section 110:  Country Residential District (CR)
                Section 111:  Serviced Estate Residential District 1 (ES1)
                Section 112:  Servicing Estate Residential District 2 (ES2)
                Section 113:  On-Site Estate Residential District 1 (OE1)
                Section 114:  On-Site Estate Residential District 2 (OE2)
                Section 115:  Low Density Hamlet Residential District (LDR)
                Section 116:  Restricted Residential (Large Lot) District (RR1)
                Section 117:  Medium Density Hamlet Residential District (MDR)
                Section 118:  High Density Hamlet Residential District (HDR)
                Section 119:  Mobile Home Community District (MHD)

TWELVE:  COMMERCIAL AND RECREATIONAL DISTRICTS PDF

                Section 120:  Resort Recreational District (RR)
                Section 121:  Highway Commercial District (HWC)
                Section 122:  Hamlet Commercial District (HC)    
                Section 123:  Central Commercial District (C1)
                Section 124:  Arterial Commercial/Shopping Centre District (C2) 

THIRTEEN:  INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS PDF

                Section 125:  Rural Industrial District (RI)
                Section 126:  Hamlet Industrial District (HI)
                Section 127:  Serviced Industrial District (SI) 

FOURTEEN:  OTHER DISTRICTS PDF

                Section 128:  Public/Institutional District (PI)
                Section 129:  Natural Open Space District (NOS)
                Section 130:  Parks, Recreation, and Open Space District (P)
                Section 131:  Urban Reserve District
                Section 132:  Airport District (A)
                Section 133:  Direct Control District (DC1)
                Section 134:  Direct Control District 2 (DC2)
                Section 135:  Direct Control District 3 (DC3)
                Section 136:  Direct Control District 4 (DC4)     

 
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