Zoning glossary

The bylaw gives many everyday words a precise meaning. These are its definitions, quoted, with a link to the page they come from.

296 terms from Zoning Bylaw No. 7850, 2007, consolidated to October 5, 2026.

A

Abattoir: “penning and slaughtering of animals, and the processing of animal carcasses including cutting, preserving, packing, storing and may include accessory wholesale of the product.” Bylaw page 40 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Abut: “contiguous to, or physically touching, and when used with respect to sites means two or more that share a common property line of at least one point.” Bylaw page 40 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Access: “a means, way or area that provides for the physical ingress and/or egress of vehicles and pedestrians from a highway.” Bylaw page 40 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes Regulations: “the federal regulation, and any subsequent regulations or acts which may be acted in substitution, that facilitates possession, production, selling (i.e. shipping, delivering, transporting), and the destroying of dried marihuana and cannabis plants harvested within the facility.” Bylaw page 40 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Adjacent: “when used with respect to sites means abutting, or would abut, if not for a common highway, walkway, watercourse, right of way, or easement.” Bylaw page 40 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Agri-Tourist Accommodation: “the accessory use of land, buildings and structures for short-term overnight accommodation limited to 4 sleeping units, and seasonal campsites combined, where the total area for buildings, landscaping, and access for accommodation is less than 5% of the lot.” Bylaw page 41 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Agricultural Land Reserve: “as defined in the Agricultural Land Commission Act.” Bylaw page 40 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Agricultural Waste: “includes manure, used mushroom medium and agricultural vegetation waste.” Bylaw page 40 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Agriculture, General: “means: a) growing, producing, raising or keeping animals or plants, or the primary products of those plants or animals; b) land cultivation; c) storage, packing, product preparation or processing agricultural products, if at least 50% of the agricultural product being stored, packed, prepared or processed is produced on the same site, or is feed required for agriculture production purposes on that site; d) agricultural retail sales if all of the agricultural product offered for sale is produced on the site on which the retail sales are taking place, or at least 50% of the retail sales area is limited to the sale of agricultural products produced on the same site, on which the retail sales are taking place and the total area, both indoors and outdoors, used for retail sales of all products does not exceed 300 m²; e) may include accessory: i. land development works including clearing, berming, leveling, draining, irrigating and construction of reservoirs and other works; ii. use of agricultural machinery, equipment, devices, materials and structures; iii. storage and application of fertilizers, pesticides, soil conditioners, and biological control agents, including by ground and aerial spraying; iv. production, storage, and application of compost and biosolids from agricultural wastes produced on that site for agricultural purposes; and v. temporary seasonal agri-tourism, other than accommodation, limited to promoting or marketing agricultural products grown, raised or processed on that site. f) This use excludes any cannabis production facility uses.” Bylaw page 40 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Agriculture, Intensive Impact: “intensive growing, producing, raising or keeping of livestock or poultry or the primary products of those animals, that because of area, extent, density, length of confinement, product type, and/or production methods, may have significant impact on adjacent lands or uses, or create an environmental hazard. Typical uses include cannabis production facilities, feedlot, mushroom production, and significant composting.” Bylaw page 41 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Aircraft Sale & Rental: “sale, charter, or rental of aircraft and may include accessory maintenance services and the sale of parts and accessories.” Bylaw page 41 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Airport: “any area for the arrival, departure, movement or servicing of aircraft, and includes any associated buildings, installations, open space, and equipment in connection therewith. This also includes aircraft and airport related manufacturing, services, and flying instruction.” Bylaw page 41 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Alter or Alteration: “soil relocation due to building or parking lot construction or removal, alteration, disruption or destruction of vegetation; soil removal or filling; construction or alteration or retaining walls, patios, agricultural activity or any structural change to a building or structure that results in an increase or decrease in the area or the volume of the building; any change in the area frontage, depth, or width of a lot that affects the required yard, landscaped open space, or parking requirements of this Bylaw; and to discontinue or change where the new use is differently defined as the original use, in the principal use of the lot, building or structure.” Bylaw page 41 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Animal Breeding & Boarding: “keeping, breeding or boarding four or more pets over the age of four months, and may include accessory pet grooming and training services.” Bylaw page 41 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Animal Shelter: “the temporary accommodation of lost, abandoned, stray or neglected animals, and may include accessory care of such animals.” Bylaw page 41 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Antenna: “any system of wires, poles, rods, discs or similar device, and attendant processing equipment used for the transmission or reception of electromagnetic waves external to, or attached to the exterior of any building or structure.” Bylaw page 41 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Apartment Hotel: “apartment housing having a principal common entrance, cooking facilities and furnishings within each dwelling that may be available for rent or occupation for periods of no less than 30 days. This does not include any additional commercial uses except when specifically permitted in the zone.” Bylaw page 41 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Aquaculture: “growing, cultivating, harvesting, and the accessory storage of fish, mollusks, crustaceans, aquatic plants, and other aquatic organisms for commercial purposes, but excludes the processing of such products.” Bylaw page 42 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Attic: “the unfinished space between the roof and the ceiling of the upper most storey, or between a dwarf wall and a sloping roof.” Bylaw page 42 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Auction, Major: “sale of livestock, vehicles, trailers or industrial, agricultural or construction equipment, parts and materials to the highest bidder, and may include accessory repair and temporary storage of such items.” Bylaw page 42 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Auction, Minor: “sale of household goods, and smaller commercial equipment and materials (less than 200 kg) to the highest bidder, and may include accessory repair and temporary storage of such items.” Bylaw page 42 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Authorized Person: “the person appointed by Council as head of the Department responsible for the land use planning function, or a person designated in writing by the head of the Department responsible for the land use planning function, to carry out any act or function under this Bylaw.” Bylaw page 42 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Awning: “retractable or non-retractable covering of non-rigid materials such as canvas or similar fabric projecting from the exterior wall of a building.” Bylaw page 42 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

B

Balcony: “a platform, attached to, supported by, and projecting horizontally from the face of a building, normally surrounded by a balustrade, parapet or railing with access only from within the building.” Bylaw page 42 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Basement: “that portion of a building between two floor levels that is partially or totally underground.” Bylaw page 42 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Bay Window: “a projection from the wall of a building that contains a window, is wholly above the level of the adjacent floor surface and does not result in any projection of the adjacent floor area.” Bylaw page 42 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Bed & Breakfast: “the accessory use of single or two-unit housing in which short- term overnight accommodation and limited meals are provided to overnight guests for consideration.” Bylaw page 42 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Bedroom: “a room containing a window, located in a dwelling, which due to its design or location in the dwelling, is or may be used primarily for sleeping. It includes dens and lofts.” Bylaw page 42 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Boarder: “a person other than a family member who is a lodger, roomer, or person who for consideration takes regular lodging in the dwelling, with or without meals or other services.” Bylaw page 42 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Boarding or Lodging House: “a dwelling in which the owner lives and supplies sleeping unit accommodation for at least three and not more than ten residents, exclusive of the proprietor and members of the proprietor’s family. It may or may not include meal service.” Bylaw page 42 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Boat Launch: “a ramp that extends from an upland property or right-of-way across the foreshore and into a body of water or watercourse, the purpose of which is to facilitate placement and removal of boats and other water vessels.” Bylaw page 42 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Boat Lift: “an uncovered structure, attached to a dock, which facilitates the placement and removal of boats from the water; and allows for boat storage above the high water level of a body of water or watercourse.” Bylaw page 43 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Brewery & Distillery, Major: “the brewing, distilling, storage and manufacturing of beverage products with an alcoholic content exceeding 1% by volume. Production, manufacturing and selling of any liquor product(s) must be licensed by the Liquor Control and Licensing Act. This use may include the accessory retail of: a) liquor products manufactured on-site; and b) merchandise specific to the brewery & distillery function and company branding.” Bylaw page 43 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Brewery & Distillery, Minor: “the brewing, distilling, storage and manufacturing of beverage products with an alcoholic content exceeding 1% by volume. Production, manufacturing and selling of liquor product(s) must be licensed by the Liquor Control and Licensing Act. All processes, functions and mechanical equipment associated with this use must be contained indoors. The total area for manufacturing shall be limited to a maximum of 250 m². This use may include the accessory retail of: a) liquor products manufactured on-site; and b) merchandise specific to the brewery & distillery function and company branding.” Bylaw page 43 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Building: “a temporary or permanent structure designed, erected, or intended for the shelter, enclosure or occupancy of persons or property including animals, materials, chattels and/or equipment. Any tent, awning, bin, bunk, container, vessel, vehicle or trailer used for the purposes above shall be deemed a building.” Bylaw page 43 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Building & Garden Supply: “the retail sale or wholesale of building materials, fixtures or hardware, garden furniture, construction and home improvement equipment or supplies, animal feed, farm supplies, and includes a lumber yard, building supply outlet, home improvement centre, and may include accessory rental of home construction, maintenance or repair equipment.” Bylaw page 43 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Building Permit: “written authorization from the Authorized Person to perform work regulated by the City of Prince George Building Bylaw.” Bylaw page 43 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Building, Accessory: “a building or structure detached from a principal building, which is naturally, normally and customarily incidental, subordinate, exclusively devoted to, and on the same site as the principal building or use. Typical accessory structures include flagpoles, swimming pools, propane tanks, antenna, satellite dishes, garages, and garden sheds. Where a building is attached to the principal building by each, and every one of the following: a common wall having heated functional living space on each side; common roof; and common foundation, it shall be deemed part of the principal building. Despite this requirement, a carport may be deemed part of the principal building.” Bylaw page 43 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Building, Principal: “a building that accommodates the principal use of the site on which it is located.” Bylaw page 43 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Business or Office Supplies: “machines, equipment and supplies customary to an office environment including stationary, safety equipment, hand tools, uniforms, cleaning supplies, and copying, audio-visual, printing, testing and telecommunications equipment.” Bylaw page 43 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Bylaw Enforcement Officer: “an officer or employee of the City who has responsibility for inspection and enforcement relating to bylaw compliance including a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or other Peace Officer.” Bylaw page 44 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

C

Caliper: “the diameter of a tree trunk measured at a point 300 mm above the top of the root ball.” Bylaw page 44 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Campground: “land which has been planned, improved, or occupied for the seasonal short term use of tents, and recreational vehicles, and is not used as year round storage or accommodation for residential use for a period exceeding 240 days in a calendar year. Typical uses include tourist trailer parks, campsites, and tenting grounds. This use may include accessory facilities for eating and assembly purposes, washrooms and bathing facilities, entrance kiosk, minor indoor and outdoor recreation, spectator and patron participation entertainment, and convenience retail with a maximum gross floor area of 100 m².” Bylaw page 44 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Cannabis Production Facility: “a facility licensed under the Cannabis Act (Canada), or subsequent regulations or acts, which may be acted, in substitution by the Federal Government, to cultivate, harvest, process, store, pack, non-retail distribution, analytical testing, and research. Cannabis production excludes cannabis retail sales and the cultivation of cannabis by an individual for personal use and consumption.” Bylaw page 44 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Canopy: “a roof free of enclosed walls over an entrance to a building, structure, or a gasoline pump island.” Bylaw page 44 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Carport: “a roofed structure free standing or attached to the principal building which is not enclosed on the front and at least one side, used by the building occupants to shelter parked vehicles.” Bylaw page 44 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Cemetery: “the use of land, buildings or structures for the internment of human or animal remains and includes burial grounds, columbarium, mausoleum, ash garden, and memorial park.” Bylaw page 44 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
City: “the City of Prince George.” Bylaw page 44 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Claims Centre: “a facility that provides auto insurance, vehicle licensing and registration, and applicable claims services. This may include accessory minor vehicle rental. The total combined area devoted to accessory minor vehicle rental shall not exceed 25% of the site devoted to the claims centre use.” Bylaw page 44 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Club: “a facility maintained by and for members of a social, athletic, recreational, fraternal, benevolent, patriotic, or veterans organization, whether incorporated under the laws of British Columbia or not, whose members pay an annual membership fee, but is not operated primarily for monetary gain, spectator entertainment, patron participation entertainment, and food and beverage service. May include an accessory building or structure (i.e. club house) that provides recreation and may include accessory food and beverage services, lockers, change rooms, meeting area, recreational equipment rental and sales facilities, and ticket sales, but shall not include overnight accommodation.” Bylaw page 44 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Community Care Facility, Major: “means: a) the residential care of seven or more persons who are not related by blood or marriage, in a facility licensed under the Community Care and Assisted Living Act, including supervision provided to minors through a prescribed residential program, or adults who are vulnerable because of family circumstances, age, disability, illness or frailty, and are dependent on caregivers for continuing assistance or direction in the form of three or more prescribed services as defined in the Community Care and Assisted Living Regulation, or b) a day care licensed under the Community Care and Assisted Living Act, for 13 or more persons such as nursery school, emergency care, out of school care, family day care, special needs day care, group day care, occasional, casual, or short term supervised child care. This use includes limited overnight accommodation for minors who are supervised under a prescribed program.” Bylaw page 45 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Community Care Facility, Minor: “the use of a principal dwelling for: a) the residential care of up to six persons who are not related by blood or marriage, in a facility licensed under the Community Care and Assisted Living Act, including supervision provided to minors through a prescribed residential program, or adults who are vulnerable because of family circumstances, age, disability, illness or frailty, and are dependent on caregivers for continuing assistance or direction in the form of three or more prescribed services as defined in the Community Care and Assisted Living Regulation, or b) a day care licensed under the Community Care and Assisted Living Act, for up to 12 persons such as nursery school, emergency care, out of school care, family day care, special needs day care, group day care, occasional, casual, or short term supervised child care. This use includes limited overnight accommodation for minors who are supervised under a prescribed program. A minor community care facility shall comply with the development regulations for the housing type in which it resides.” Bylaw page 45 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Community Care Facility, Specialized: “a facility where specialized care is provided to persons with addiction, and physical, mental or other developmental disability, or chronic or progressive condition, that is not primarily due to the aging process. Typical uses include mental care asylums, sanatoria, detoxification centre, drug addiction counseling and treatment, needle exchanges, and safe injection sites.” Bylaw page 45 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Concrete & Asphalt Plant: “processing, manufacturing, recycling, and sale of concrete and asphalt and may include accessory facilities for the administration or management of the business, the stockpiling of bulk materials and finished products, the storage and maintenance of vehicles and equipment, and the manufacture and sale of products made from concrete and asphalt which are typically used for building or construction.” Bylaw page 45 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Consulting, Scientific and Technical: “the provision of technical consulting services that require a combination of office work and field work with accessory equipment storage. For clarity, this use must include accessory vehicle, equipment of materials storage on the same site. Typical uses include surveying, forestry, biology and soil remediation consultants.” Bylaw page 45 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Contractor Service, Major: “providing heavy building, utility, and highway construction services including road, bridge, pipeline, communication, site preparation, landscaping, concrete, logging, excavation, drilling, carpentry or similar services of a construction nature which require outdoor storage. This use may include accessory retail and wholesale; display; office; technical support; manufacturing, fabricating, and assembly activities; and fleet storage for any number of vehicles. This use also includes minor contractor services that require accessory outdoor storage and/or fleet storage for more than 4 fleet vehicles. The combined floor area devoted to accessory office, technical, administrative support, or retail sale operations shall not exceed 25% of the gross floor area of the building(s) devoted to the major contractor service use on the same site.” Bylaw page 46 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Contractor Service, Minor: “providing specialty or finish construction services including electrical, plumbing, elevator/escalator, heating, air-conditioning, foundation, structural, masonry, glass, roofing, siding, finish carpentry, painting, drywall, insulation and similar services of a construction nature which may require accessory indoor storage and warehouse space. This use may include accessory retail and wholesale; display; office; technical support; indoor manufacturing, fabricating, and assembly activities; and outdoor fleet storage of no more than four vehicles. The combined floor area devoted to accessory office, technical, administrative support, or retail sale operations shall not exceed 25% of the gross floor area of the building(s) devoted to the minor contractor service use on the same site.” Bylaw page 46 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Correction Service: “holding or confining, and treating and/or rehabilitating persons. Typical uses include prisons, jails, halfway houses, remand centres, and correction centres.” Bylaw page 46 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Council: “the Municipal Council of the City of Prince George.” Bylaw page 46 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Crematorium: “a building or structure used for the cremation of human or animal remains.” Bylaw page 46 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
CSA: “Canadian Standards Association.” Bylaw page 46 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

D

Deck: “a platform with the top of the floor more than 0.6 m above landscape grade without a roof or walls, except for balustrade or railings.” Bylaw page 46 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Density: “a measure of the intensity of development to the area of the lot, including the number of dwellings on a lot measured in units/area of floor area ratio.” Bylaw page 46 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Development: “an excavation or stockpile and the creation of either of them; a building or structure, or an addition to or replacement or repair of a building or structure, and the construction or placing of any of them in, on, over, or under land; a change of use of land or a building or an act done in relation to land or a building that results in or is likely to result in a change in the use of the land or building; or a change in the intensity of use of land or a building or an act done in relation to land or a building that results in or is likely to result in a change in the intensity of use of the land or building.” Bylaw page 46 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Dock: “a structure, attached to or forming part of the mainland that provides for the mooring of boats or other floating vessel.” Bylaw page 47 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Dwelling or Dwelling Unit: “accommodation providing sleeping, washrooms, and a kitchen intended for domestic use, and used or intended to be used permanently or semi-permanently for a household. A dwelling unit includes only one room which, due to its design, plumbing, equipment, and furnishings, may be used primarily as a kitchen, except where otherwise permitted in the bylaw. Wet bars are permitted. This use does not include a room in a hotel or a motel, or recreational vehicle, except in accordance with Section 5 of this Bylaw. A secondary suite and a secondary dwelling are each considered a dwelling unit.” Bylaw page 47 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Dwelling, Principal: “either a dwelling that occupies the entirety of a building or a larger gross floor area than another dwelling in the same building.” Bylaw page 47 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

E

Eave: “the projecting lower edges of a roof overhanging a wall of a building, free of enclosed walls, without supporting columns.” Bylaw page 47 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Education: “education, training, or instruction such as public, private, religious, philanthropic, recreational, cultural, special, alternative, continuing, or distance education and may include accessory administration, food and beverage service, and student, recreational, religious and cultural services, spectator entertainment, patron participation entertainment, and a dormitory for students, faculty, and staff.” Bylaw page 47 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Education, Commercial: “Solely for education, training, or instruction in a skilled trade or vocation for professional licensing, registration, or certification purposes such as secretarial, safety and first aid, business, beauty, modeling, art, dance, drama, music or pet training.” Bylaw page 47 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Education, Higher: “community colleges and universities and may include accessory administration, food and beverage service, research, development, high technology, and student, recreational, religious and cultural services, spectator entertainment, patron participation entertainment, and a dormitory for students, faculty, and staff.” Bylaw page 47 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Emergency Service: “a facility used by fire protection, police, ambulance, or other such services as a base of operations.” Bylaw page 47 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Entertainment, Adult-Oriented: “live performances, or the showing of motion pictures, videos, or other electronic or photographic reproductions other than magazines, the central feature of which is the visual representation of a person’s genitals, anus or pubic area, or physical contact with a person’s genitals, anus or pubic area, including strip shows, exotic dancing and other adult-oriented performances.” Bylaw page 47 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Entertainment, Patron Participation: “an accessory use where the patrons are predominantly participants such as sing-alongs or karaoke, dancing and amateur nights.” Bylaw page 47 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Entertainment, Spectator: “live music, stage performances, or the showing of motion pictures within an enclosed building, where the patrons are predominantly spectators, such as an auditoria, cinema, theatre, performing arts, or concert hall.” Bylaw page 47 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Equestrian Centre, Major: “horse riding, training, breeding, and boarding if the stables do not have more than 40 permanent stalls. This use does not include a racetrack for horse racing licensed under the Gaming Control Act.” Bylaw page 48 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Equestrian Centre, Minor: “horse riding, training, breeding, and boarding if the stables do not have more than eight permanent stalls. This use does not include a racetrack for horse racing licensed under the Gaming Control Act.” Bylaw page 48 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Equipment, Major: “sale, rental, service, or repair of machinery or mechanical equipment typically used in building, utility, highway, pipeline, oil field and mining construction, manufacturing, assembling and processing operations, and agricultural production. This does not include major or minor vehicle repair.” Bylaw page 48 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Equipment, Minor: “sale, rental, service or repair of tools, machines and light construction equipment, (under 500 kg) or similar items. This does not include major or minor vehicle repair.” Bylaw page 48 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Exhibition & Convention Facility: “a building or site intended to provide permanent facilities for meetings, banquets, seminars, conventions, workshops, product and trade fairs and similar exhibitions. This use may include accessory food and beverage service, and spectator and patron participation entertainment.” Bylaw page 48 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

F

Façade: “The portion of any exterior elevation of a building or structure exposed to public view extending from the grade to the eaves or the top of a parapet wall and the entire length of the building elevation, including all areas divided by firewalls.” Bylaw page 48 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Feedlot: “means a fenced area where livestock or poultry is confined solely for the purpose of growing or finishing, and is sustained by means other than grazing.” Bylaw page 48 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Fence: “an artificially constructed barrier of any material used to enclose or screen areas of land. For the purpose of calculating fence height, any arch, arbor, trellis or pergola affixed to or supported by a fence shall be deemed part of the fence.” Bylaw page 48 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Fish Hatchery: “growing, cultivating, and rearing fish for recreational or commercial purposes, or for preserving genetic integrity, or rebuilding native populations, but excludes the processing of such products.” Bylaw page 48 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Fleet Service: “development using a fleet of vehicles for the delivery of people, goods or services, where such vehicles are not available for sale or long-term lease. Typical uses include taxi services, bus lines, mobile catering, towing, and messenger and courier services. This use includes a place where vehicles are impounded for breach of the law, and may be taken, towed and stored temporarily until reclaimed. This does not include moving or cartage firms involving vehicles with a gross vehicle weight of more than 10,885 kg or a wrecking yard.” Bylaw page 48 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Floor Area Ratio: “the numerical value of the net floor area on all levels of all buildings and structures on a site, divided by the area of the site.” Bylaw page 49 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Floor Area, Gross (GFA): “the total area of all the floors, measured to the extreme outer limits of the building, including all dwellings and all areas giving access thereto, such as corridors, hallways, landings, foyers, staircases and stairwells, and includes enclosed balconies and mezzanines, enclosed porches, decks, or verandas, elevator shafts and accessory buildings. For the purpose of calculating required off-street parking, gross floor area does not include parking areas.” Bylaw page 49 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Floor Area, Gross Leasable (GLFA): “means the total floor area designed for tenant occupancy on which rent is paid or income produced, and includes basements, mezzanines and upper floors, if any, but excludes parking areas.” Bylaw page 48 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Floor Area, Gross Leasable Constructed: “the total floor area designed for tenant occupation on which rent is paid or income produced, and includes basements, mezzanines and upper floors, if any, but excludes parking areas; for which a Building Permit has been issued pursuant to the Building Bylaw.” Bylaw page 48 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Floor Area, Ground: “gross floor area of the first storey.” Bylaw page 49 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Floor Area, Net: “the total area of all the floors, measured to the extreme outer limits of the building, including all dwellings and all areas giving access thereto, excluding basement areas used exclusively for storage or service to the building, attics, parking areas, elevator shafts, breezeways, porches, decks, balconies, exit stairways, landings, corridors, patios and terraces. In the case of multiple dwellings, corridors, common amenity spaces, and building mechanical systems are also excluded. In the case of congregate housing, communal dining and kitchen facilities are excluded.” Bylaw page 49 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Foreshore: “Crown land between the high and low water levels of a lake.” Bylaw page 49 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Forestry: “growing, or the cultivating, protecting, harvesting, sorting or storage of forest products grown on the same site, and may include accessory auction, retail or wholesale of forest products grown on the same site, and the storage of harvesting equipment or supplies and temporary repair of such equipment used on the same site, but excludes the manufacturing or processing of any forestry products.” Bylaw page 49 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

G

Gaming Facility: “casino gaming with not more than 575 electronic gaming machines (slot machines or community gaming units), 15 gaming tables, bingo with not more than 650 gaming seats, licensed under the Gaming Control Act, horse racing teletheatre, and may include the accessory retail sale of British Columbia Lottery Corporation products, spectator entertainment and patron participation entertainment.” Bylaw page 49 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Garage: “an accessory structure, or part of a principal building, designed and used primarily for the storage of vehicles. It includes a carport.” Bylaw page 49 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Garage Sale: “the occasional sale of secondhand household goods belonging to the owner or tenant of residential premises as an accessory use only to a single detached or two-unit dwelling, but does not include the sale of vehicles, new goods, or goods on consignment.” Bylaw page 49 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Grade, Building: “the finished grade of the ground abutting the front of a building or structure facing the font lot line, exclusive of grades altered by materials such as earth and rock, and any localized embankment or entrenchment such as for vehicle or pedestrian entrances.” Bylaw page 49 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Grade, Landscaped: “with reference to the height of balconies, decks, patios, terraces, arbours, trellises, fences, pergola and other architectural or landscape features, the average elevation of the finished surface of the ground under the four principal corners of the balconies, decks, patios, terraces, arbours, trellises, pergola, fences and other architectural or landscape features.” Bylaw page 49 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Grade, Natural: “the elevation of the ground surface in its natural state, before artificial alteration; or on sloping or irregular sites, the plane, before alteration.” Bylaw page 50 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Greenhouse & Plant Nursery: “cultivating, harvesting, storing and selling vegetables, fruits, grains, flowers, trees, bushes, bedding plants, sod and similar products, and may include the accessory retail or wholesale of landscaping and gardening products and materials, such as soil, bedding, plant food, plant pest and disease control products, gardening tools, provided this accessory use occupies not more than 400 m² on any site. This use excludes any cannabis production facility uses.” Bylaw page 50 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

H

Habitable Room: “a room in a dwelling designed for living, sleeping, eating or food preparation. Hard surfacing: a durable ground surface, constructed of cast-in-place concrete, brick, or concrete unit pavers, turfstone, stone, asphalt, or similar materials (but excluding gravel and clay).” Bylaw page 50 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Health Service, Community Outreach: “the provision of integrated and responsive community health care services and programs of a clinical, educational, preventive, diagnostic, treatment, therapeutic, rehabilitative, palliative or counselling nature delivered on an outreach basis directly to patients in their homes or in a clinical setting by appointment on an individual patient or a pre- selected group basis. Typical outreach services that are primarily delivered in the patient’s home include home support personal care, home care nursing/education, rehabilitation (physiotherapy and occupational therapy), palliative care consulting, long term care assessment, integrated health team multidisciplinary, health services/community living and lifeline emergency programs. Typical health care services that may be provided on a limited onsite basis within a clinical setting to individual patients by appointment or to small groups meeting selected criteria include intravenous therapy and wound care, education and group medical sessions of a preventive and disease management nature for frail, elderly and those living with a chronic disease such as diabetes, heart or similar conditions. The floor area devoted to accessory office shall not exceed 40% of the gross floor area of the building(s) devoted to the community outreach health service use on the same site.” Bylaw page 50 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Health Service, Major: “a facility providing room, board, and surgical or other medical treatment for the sick, injured or infirm including outpatient services and may include accessory staff residences, food and beverage service, religious assembly, medical and diagnostic laboratories, and pharmaceutical dispensary. Typical uses includes hospitals, morgues, and nursing homes with health care for dependent residents.” Bylaw page 50 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Health Service, Minor: “the provision of physical and mental health services on an outpatient basis. Services may be of a preventive, diagnostic, treatment, therapeutic, rehabilitative or counseling nature, Typical uses include medical and dental offices, health clinics, acupuncture clinics, vocational rehabilitation, blood- bank, and counseling services, and may include accessory medical and diagnostic laboratories, the retail sale or rental of medical supplies, and pharmaceutical dispensary. This does not include massage services.” Bylaw page 50 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Height: “with reference to a building or structure, the greatest vertical distance from building grade of such building or structure to the highest point of such building or structure. With reference to a fence, the height shall be determined by measurement from the average landscape grade 1.0 m from both sides of the fence. In the case of the retaining wall, the height at the high side will be used.” Bylaw page 51 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
High Water Mark: “the visible high water mark of a watercourse where the presence and action of the water are so common and usual, and so long continued in all ordinary years, as to mark on the soil of the bed of the watercourse a character distinct from that of its banks, in vegetation, as well as in the nature of the soil itself, and includes the active floodplain.” Bylaw page 51 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Highway: “any public street, road, sidewalk, lane, bridge, boulevard, or any other public way intended for the general public for the passage of vehicles within the City or land as shown as road on a plan of survey that has been filed or registered in the Land Titles Office or used as a public road.” Bylaw page 51 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Home Business 1: “the accessory use of a principal dwelling by at least 1 resident (who resides for more than 240 days of a year at that dwelling) of the dwelling to conduct a business activity or occupation. A home business 1 does not include: any use permitted under the M6 and M7 zones; spectator, patron participation, or adult-oriented entertainment; dating or escort services; massage services; community care facilities; correction services; restaurants; veterinary services; animal shelter or animal breeding & boarding; taxidermy; education; on-site manufacturing, processing, fabricating or assembling goods heavier than 5 kg; repair, washing or painting of vehicles or equipment; on-site waste management or recycling; utility; soil crushing, screening or washing; warehousing; non- accessory parking; bed & breakfast, agri-tourism accommodation, campground, hotel, motel or any other on-site accommodation service; or the sale of products manufactured off-site, other than products accessory to the business, mail order sales, telephone sales, or where the customer does not enter the premises to inspect or pick up the goods.” Bylaw page 51 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Home Business 2: “the accessory use of a principal dwelling by at least 1 resident (who resides for more than 240 days of a year at that dwelling) of the dwelling to conduct a business activity or occupation. A home business 2 does not include: any use permitted under the M6 and M7 zones; spectator, patron participation, or adult-oriented entertainment; dating or escort services; massage services; community care facilities; correction services; restaurants; veterinary services; animal shelter or animal breeding & boarding; taxidermy; on-site manufacturing, processing, fabricating or assembling of goods heavier than 200 kg; on-site repair, washing or painting of vehicles or equipment; on-site waste management or recycling; utility; soil crushing, screening or washing; warehousing; non- accessory parking; bed & breakfast, agri-tourism accommodation, campground, hotel, motel or any other on-site accommodation service.” Bylaw page 51 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Home Business 3: “the accessory use of a principal dwelling by at least 1 resident (who resides for more than 240 days of a year at that dwelling) of the dwelling to conduct a business activity or occupation. A home business 3 does not include: any use permitted under the M6 and M7 zones; spectator, patron participation, or adult-oriented entertainment; dating or escort services; massage services; community care facilities; correction services; restaurants; veterinary services; animal shelter or animal breeding & boarding; on-site repair, washing or painting of vehicles or equipment (unless accessory to the business); on-site waste management or recycling; utility; soil crushing, screening or washing; warehousing; non-accessory parking; bed & breakfast, agri-tourism accommodation, campground, hotel, motel or any other on-site accommodation service.” Bylaw page 52 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Home Business Overlay (HBO): “lands identified in Schedule “B” of this Bylaw.” Bylaw page 51 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Home Furnishings: “portable items used to increase the comfort and utility of a dwelling and includes appliances, electronic entertainment equipment, furniture, window and floor coverings, electrical fixtures, lamps, kitchen and bathroom accessories, fabrics and bedding.” Bylaw page 52 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Hotel: “providing rooms or suites for temporary sleeping accommodation where the rooms have access to an enclosed common interior corridor and may be equipped with individual kitchen facilities. This use may include accessory food and beverage services, spectator entertainment, patron participation entertainment, minor indoor and outdoor recreation, and personal services for the convenience of guests.” Bylaw page 52 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Household: “means: a) a person; b) two or more persons related by blood, marriage, common law relationship, or adoption, together with not more than two persons unrelated to such persons; or c) a group of not more than 6 persons who are not related by blood, marriage, common law relationship or adoption; all living together in a dwelling, comprising a single housekeeping group and using cooking facilities shared in common. Unrelated persons may include owners, renters, tenants, boarders, paid domestic servants, or foster children.” Bylaw page 52 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Housing, Apartment: “any physical arrangement of attached dwellings, intended to be occupied by separate households, which does not conform to the definition of any other residential use class” Bylaw page 52 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Housing, Carriage: “a secondary dwelling constructed above a detached garage with direct vehicle access.” Bylaw page 52 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Housing, Congregate: “housing in multiple unit form for semi-independent persons within which is provided living and sleeping facilities, meal preparation, laundry services, and room cleaning. Such facilities may also provide other services such as transportation for routine medical appointments and counseling. This may include housing for seniors.” Bylaw page 52 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Housing, Cottage: “a one storey secondary dwelling that is constructed at building grade. This use does not include a basement or a half storey.” Bylaw page 52 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Housing, Four-Plex: “any physical arrangement of three or four attached dwellings intended for separate households with separate exterior access to grade.” Bylaw page 52 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Housing, Manufactured: “building or structure containing only 1 dwelling exclusively used for occupancy by 1 household, being either factory built housing certified in accordance with can/csa-A277 or facture built housing that is designed, constructed, or manufactured CAN/CSA Z240 MH standards.” Bylaw page 53 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Housing, Row: “a development containing three or more dwellings with a separate individual, direct access at grade that shares no more than two party walls with adjacent dwellings.” Bylaw page 53 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Housing, Single Detached: “a building containing only 1 dwelling exclusively used for occupancy by 1 household, except where permitted by this Bylaw a secondary suite may be within a single detached home. This use includes manufactured homes that conform to the CSA A277 standards.” Bylaw page 53 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Housing, Stacked Row: “row housing, except that dwellings may be arranged two deep, either horizontally so that dwellings may be attached at the rear as well as the side, or vertically so that dwellings may be placed over others. Each dwelling will have an individual access to outside, not necessarily at grade, provided that no more than two units share a corridor or steps.” Bylaw page 53 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Housing, Supportive: “residential housing provided and managed by a non-profit organization registered under the Society Act, for persons reintegrating into the community. This housing type aims to transition individuals to long-term permanent housing. This housing type typically contains common amenity space, laundry facilities, dining and kitchen facilities. Accessory minor health service or educational uses may also be provided. This use does not include Boarding or Lodging.” Bylaw page 53 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Housing, Transitional: “means independent, temporary residential housing provided in multiple unit form which is provided and managed by a non-profit organization registered under the Society Act. This housing type aims to transition individuals to long-term permanent housing. Transitional housing typically contains common amenity space, laundry facilities, dining and kitchen facilities. Accessory minor health service or educational uses may also be provided.” Bylaw page 53 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Housing, Two-Unit: “a building designed exclusively to accommodate two households living independently in separate primary dwellings above, below, or beside each other. This type of development is designed and constructed as two dwellings at initial construction.” Bylaw page 53 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

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Industry, Heavy: “the processing, manufacturing, fabricating or assembling of semi- finished or finished goods, products or equipment from raw materials; the storage, cleaning, servicing, repairing or testing of materials, goods and equipment normally associated with industrial or business use. This use typically has area, intensity, and land use impacts with greater magnitude and significance than light industry. This use includes a sawmill; planing mill; veneer and plywood plant; wood preserving; the manufacturing of prefabricated, log, or manufactured homes; carpet mill; vehicle, heavy equipment, tank, boiler, or shipping container manufacturing. This use may include accessory office; technical and administrative support; the retail sale of goods processed, manufactured, fabricated, or assembled on same site; major vehicle repair or washing; warehousing; wholesale; and commercial education. The combined floor area devoted to accessory office, technical, administrative support, or retail sale operations shall not exceed 25% of the gross floor area of the building(s) devoted to the heavy industrial use on the same site.” Bylaw page 53 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Industry, Light: “the processing, manufacturing, fabricating or assembling of semi- finished or finished goods, products or equipment; the storage, cleaning, servicing, repairing or testing of materials, goods and equipment normally associated with industrial, business or household use. This use typically has area, intensity, and land use impacts with lesser magnitude and significance than heavy industry. This use includes manufacturing of packaged food (not including an abattoir) and beverage products; clothing, leather, electronics, and furniture manufacturing; metal or hardware fabrication; and machine shop. This use may include accessory office; technical and administrative support; the retail sale of goods processed, manufactured, fabricated, or assembled on same site; minor vehicle repair or washing; warehousing; wholesale; and commercial education. The combined floor area devoted to accessory office, technical, administrative support, or retail sale operations shall not exceed 25% of the gross floor area of the building(s) devoted to the light industrial use on the same site. This use does not include other uses that are defined separately. This use includes only those developments where activities and uses are primarily carried on within an enclosed building and no significant nuisance factor is created or apparent outside an enclosed building.” Bylaw page 54 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Industry, Special Heavy: “any offensive trade including processing or manufacturing uses such as an oil refinery; chemical, explosive or fertilizer plant; pulp and paper mill; particle-board plant; cement or structural clay products manufacturing; smelter, basic iron and steel manufacturing; and tannery. This use may include accessory office; technical and administrative support; the retail sale of goods processed, manufactured, fabricated, or assembled on same site; major vehicle repair or washing; warehousing; wholesale; and commercial education. The combined floor area devoted to accessory office, technical, administrative support, or retail sale operations shall not exceed 25% of the gross floor area of the building(s) devoted to the heavy industrial use on the same site.” Bylaw page 54 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Intersection: “the area within the connection of two or more highways intended for use by vehicles” Bylaw page 54 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

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Kitchen: “facilities for the preparation or cooking of food, and includes any room containing counters, cabinets, plumbing, or wiring which taken together, may be intended or used for the preparation or cooking of food.” Bylaw page 54 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

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Landing: “a platform, with or without a roof, between flights of stairs or the floor at the foot or head of a flight of stairs.” Bylaw page 54 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Landscaping: “the preservation or modification of the natural features of a site through the placement or addition of any or a combination of soft landscaping elements (trees, shrubs, plants, lawns, ornamental plantings, etc.), decorative hard surfacing elements (bricks, pavers, shale, crushed rock, etc., but excluding concrete and asphalt in the form of patios, walkways, and paths), and architectural elements (decorative fencing, walls, sculpture, etc.).” Bylaw page 54 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Lane: “a highway not exceeding 10.0 m in width.” Bylaw page 55 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Leave Strip: “an area of land where development is regulated to preserve, protect, restore or enhance the natural features, functions, and conditions that support fish life processes.” Bylaw page 55 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Library & Exhibit: “the collection of literary, artistic, musical and similar reference materials in the form of books, manuscripts, recordings and films; or a development for the collection, preservation and exhibition of works or objects of historical, scientific, natural, archival, or artistic value. Typical uses include libraries, museums, art galleries, botanical gardens, arboreta, and archaeological and cultural exhibits. This use may include accessory retail, spectator entertainment and patron participation entertainment.” Bylaw page 55 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Liquor Primary Establishment, Major: “a place or premises, licensed under the Liquor Control and Licensing Act, where liquor is served for consumption on site, and may include accessory adult-oriented entertainment only in C1l, spectator entertainment, patron participation entertainment, minor arcade and liquor off- sales.” Bylaw page 55 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Liquor Primary Establishment, Minor: “a place or premises, licensed under the Liquor Control and Licensing Act, where liquor is served for consumption on site, with a maximum indoor occupant load of 125 persons, and may include accessory adult-oriented entertainment only in C1l, spectator entertainment, patron participation entertainment, minor arcade and liquor off-sales.” Bylaw page 55 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Livestock: “cattle, goats, horses, sheep, swine, game, and similar farmed or fur bearing animals.” Bylaw page 55 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Loading Space: “an off-street parking space reserved for temporary parking for the purpose of loading or unloading goods and materials.” Bylaw page 55 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Log Storage: “handling, sorting and storage of logs harvested on the same site they are stored on.” Bylaw page 55 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Lot: “a parcel of land, including Crown Land, which is legally defined either by registered plan or metes and bounds description.” Bylaw page 55 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Lot Area: “the total area of a lot taken in a horizontal plane excluding land covered by a natural body of water or occupied by a panhandle.” Bylaw page 56 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Lot Line: “the legally defined boundary of any lot or property line.” Bylaw page 56 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Lot Line, Front: “in the case of an interior lot, a lot line separating the lot from the highway; or in the case of a corner lot, a line separating the narrowest highway frontage of the lot from the highway not including a corner rounding or corner cut; or in the case of a double fronting lot, the front lot line may be on both frontages in order to be consistent with the location of permitted access and the orientation of other development in the block. In the case of a lot abutting a watercourse, the front lot line is the lot line abutting the highway.” Bylaw page 56 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Lot Line, Rear: “either the lot line opposite to, and most distant from, the front lot line, or, where there is no such property line, the point of intersection of any property lines other than a front lot line which is furthest from and opposite the front lot line.” Bylaw page 56 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Lot Line, Side: “any lot boundary line that is not a front or rear lot line.” Bylaw page 56 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Lot Width: “the width of a lot where it abuts the highway except in the case of an irregularly shaped lot such as a pie lot where the width shall be the horizontal distance between the side lot lines at 9.0 m from the front lot line. For a reverse pie lot, the lot width is the horizontal distance between the side lot lines 22.0 m from the front lot line. For other lots where the lot width cannot be reasonably calculated by these methods, the City shall determine the lot width having regard to the access, shape and buildable area of the lot, and the lot width and location of buildings on abutting lots.” Bylaw page 56 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Lot, Corner: “a lot or site located at the intersection of two highways, other than lanes.” Bylaw page 55 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Lot, Double Fronting: “a lot which abuts two highways which are parallel or nearly parallel and do not intersect at the boundaries of the lot, excluding a lane.” Bylaw page 55 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Lot, Interior: “a lot other than a corner lot.” Bylaw page 55 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Lot, Panhandle: “a lot that has its primary legal access from a highway through a narrow strip of land that is an integral part of the lot. This narrow strip is referred to as the panhandle.” Bylaw page 55 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Lot, Pie: “a lot that is generally configured such that its width at the rear lot line is greater than at its front lot line.” Bylaw page 55 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Lot, Reverse Pie: “a lot that is generally configured such that its width at the rear lot line is less than at its front lot line.” Bylaw page 55 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Lot, Strata: “a lot shown on a strata plan according to the Strata Property Act.” Bylaw page 55 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

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Manufactured Home Park: “2 or more manufactured home spaces that may be rented or strata titled for residential housing units certified as complying with CAN/CSA Z240 and CSA A277 standards. A lot in the Agricultural Land Reserve on which the principal dwelling unit and an additional dwelling unit are manufactured homes is not, under this bylaw, a manufactured home park.” Bylaw page 56 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Manufactured Home Space: “an area set aside within a manufactured home park for the installation of one manufactured housing unit.” Bylaw page 56 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Manufacturing, Custom Indoor: “small scale on-site indoor production of goods by hand; manufacturing primarily involving the use of hand tools. Typical uses include jewelry, toy and musical instrument manufacturing, gunsmiths, and pottery and sculpture studios.” Bylaw page 56 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Motel: “providing rooms or suites for temporary sleeping accommodation where the rooms do not have access to an enclosed common interior corridor and may be equipped with individual kitchen facilities. This use may include accessory food and beverage services, minor indoor and outdoor recreational facilities, meetings rooms, spectator entertainment, patron participation entertainment, minor indoor and outdoor recreation, and personal services for the convenience of guests and visitors.” Bylaw page 56 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

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N/A: “not applicable, that there is no particular regulation in that zone for that category, but that the other regulations in this Bylaw still apply.” Bylaw page 57 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Natural Features, Functions & Conditions: “include, but are not limited to the following: a) large organic debris that falls into the watercourse or streamside area, including logs, snags and root wads; b) areas for channel migration, including active floodplains; c) side channels, intermittent watercourse, seasonally wetted contiguous areas and floodplains; d) the multi-canopied forest and ground cover adjacent to watercourses that moderates water temperatures, provides a source of food, nutrients and organic matter to watercourses, establishes root matrices that stabilize soils and stream banks, thereby minimizing erosion, and buffers watercourses from sedimentation and pollution in surface runoff; e) a natural source of watercourse bed substrates; and f) permeable surfaces that permit infiltration to moderate water volume, timing and velocity and maintain sustained water flows in watercourses, especially during low flow periods.” Bylaw page 57 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Non-Resident On-Site Employee: “any person employed by the resident operator of a home business who normally works on the site of the home business more than a total of four hours in a consecutive 7-day period as part of their employment. Employees who work off-site or occasionally attend the site for less than this period of time in any consecutive 7-day period shall not be considered a non- resident on-site employee.” Bylaw page 57 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Nuisance: “anything that is obnoxious, offensive or interferes with the use or enjoyment of property, endangers personal health or safety, or is offensive to the senses. This could include that which creates or is liable to create a nuisance through emission of noise, smoke, dust, odour, heat, light, fumes, fire, electrical interference, or explosive hazard; results in the unsightly or unsafe storage of goods, salvage, junk, waste or other materials; poses a hazard to health and safety; or adversely affects the amenities of the neighbourhood or interferes with the rights of neighbours, and the traveling public, to the normal enjoyment of any land or building.” Bylaw page 57 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

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Office: “the provision of administrative, professional, management, technical, or consulting services with no accessory outdoor storage. This use also includes scientific and technical consulting that requires no accessory outdoor storage. This use excludes the growing, extraction, manufacture, processing, assembly, fabrication, storage, sale, service or repair of goods on the same site.” Bylaw page 57 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Official Community Plan: “City of Prince George Official Community Plan Bylaw.” Bylaw page 57 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Open Space: “that portion of a lot not occupied by parking or vehicle areas, buildings, accessible to, and suitable for gardens, landscaping, and recreational use by building occupants.” Bylaw page 57 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Open Space, Usable: “an unobstructed area available for use by all occupants of a building, having no dimension less than 4.5 m and no slope more than 10%, providing for greenery, recreation space and other leisure activities normally carried on outdoors, but excludes off-street parking and loading spaces, service drive-ways, and roof areas unless developed as recreation space.” Bylaw page 57 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Outdoor: “in relation to uses are those that are not entirely enclosed within a building or structure.” Bylaw page 58 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Outdoor Storage: “storage of equipment, goods, and materials in the open air where such storage of goods and materials does not involve the erection of permanent structures or the material alteration of the existing state of the land. Typical uses include pipe yards, shipping and cargo containers, trailers and rail car storage, or heavy equipment storage compounds.” Bylaw page 58 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Owner: “as defined in the Community Charter.” Bylaw page 58 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

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Parapet or Parapet Wall: “that portion of a perimeter building wall that rises above the roof.” Bylaw page 58 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Park: “any outdoor land specifically for passive or active recreation including tot- lots, playgrounds, walkways, trails, environmentally significant areas, forest reserves, wildlife sanctuaries, greenbelts, conservation areas, allotment gardens, buffers, nature and cultural interpretation areas, and similar land uses. It includes all landscaping, facilities, sports fields, accesses, trails, buildings and structures consistent with the general purpose of parkland. It does not include a campground or manufactured home park.” Bylaw page 58 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Parking Space: “an off-site space of the size and dimensions to park one vehicle in conformance with Section 7 of this Bylaw exclusive of driveways, aisles, ramps, or obstructions.” Bylaw page 58 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Parking, Non-Accessory: “providing vehicular parking that is not primarily intended for the use of residents, employees, customers, visitors, members, or clients of a principal use on the same site. Typical uses include surface parking lots and parking structures located above or below grade.” Bylaw page 58 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Party Wall: “a wall jointly owned and jointly used by two parties under easement agreement or by right in law, and erected at or upon a line separating two parcels of land, each of which is, or is capable of being, a separate real estate entity.” Bylaw page 58 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Patio: “an area of hard surfacing or platform with the top of the floor not more than 0.6 m above the landscaped grade without a roof or walls, except for balustrade or railings.” Bylaw page 58 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Penthouse: “a structure projecting above a building roof or parapet, housing an elevator shaft or stairwell; or forming a wall or screen around equipment mounted on the roof.” Bylaw page 58 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Person: “in addition to its usual connotation, shall include a firm or partnership, association, company, society, and body corporate.” Bylaw page 58 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Pet: “cat, dog, bird or other domestic animal, excluding livestock and poultry.” Bylaw page 58 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Porch: “a roofed structure projecting from the exterior wall of a building forming a covered approach or vestibule to a doorway.” Bylaw page 58 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Poultry: “chickens, turkeys, ducks, geese, and similar farmed fowl.” Bylaw page 58 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Premises: “means a building or site, or portion of a building or site where a business is operated.” Bylaw page 58 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Property Line: “a legal boundary of a lot.” Bylaw page 58 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

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Qualified Professional: “an applied scientist or technologist, acting alone or together with another qualified professional that is registered and in good standing in British Columbia with an appropriate professional organization constituted under an Act, acting under that association’s code of ethics and subject to disciplinary action by that association; the individual is acting within that individual’s area of expertise, the individual is a full member and is not in training, articling, retired, on leave or a student member.” Bylaw page 59 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

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Railway: “railway right-of-way exclusively used for rail transportation.” Bylaw page 59 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Ravine: “a narrow, steep-sided valley that is commonly eroded by running water and has a slope grade greater than 3 (horizontal) to 1 (vertical).” Bylaw page 59 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Recreation, Indoor: “the provision of recreational services entirely within an enclosed building for sports, active recreation and performing arts, where patrons may or may not be participants. This use may include accessory indoor food and beverage service, and the sale and service of recreational products.” Bylaw page 59 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Recreation, Outdoor: “the provision of recreational services conducted primarily outdoors, for the public at large for sporting events and active recreational uses, where patrons may or may not be participants. This use may include buildings or structures consistent with a club house or base lodge.” Bylaw page 59 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Recycling Centre, Intermediate: “buying, selling, collection, sorting, bailing, packing, and temporary storage of recyclable materials including cardboard, plastics, glass, paper, bottles, cans and similar household goods and electronics, household appliances, office equipment, and batteries, where all storage is contained within an enclosed building. This use does not include waste management or wrecking yard.” Bylaw page 59 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Recycling Centre, Major: “buying, selling, collection, sorting, bailing, packing, processing and temporary storage of left over paints, solvents, flammable liquids, pesticides, and petroleum products, filters, containers, and similar goods and materials. This use includes intermediate recycling centre where there is outdoor storage. This use does not include waste management or wrecking yard” Bylaw page 59 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Recycling Centre, Minor: “unattended bins and containers for the collection and temporary storage of recyclable materials including cardboard, plastics, glass, paper, cans and similar household goods. Recyclable material left at the drop-off shall be periodically removed and taken to larger, permanent recycling operations for final recycling. This use does not include waste management or wrecking yard. Minor recycling centres are permitted as an accessory use with any multiple dwelling residential, commercial, industrial, or institutional use subject to the landscaping and screening provisions of Section 6.7 of this Bylaw.” Bylaw page 59 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Registered Plan: “subdivision plan registered in the Land Titles Office.” Bylaw page 59 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Religious Assembly: “the assembly of persons for religious worship, services, or rites, and may include accessory food and beverage service, administration, educational, social, recreational, charitable or philanthropic activities, spectator entertainment, patron participation entertainment, and a residence for a caretaker or head of congregation. Typical uses include chapel, church, convent, monastery, mosque, parish hall, rectory, seminary, synagogue, and temple.” Bylaw page 59 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Residential Sales Centre: “building used for a limited period of time for the purpose of marketing residential land or buildings.” Bylaw page 59 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Residential Security/Operator Unit: “a secondary dwelling within a building or portion of a building used to provide on-site accommodation by the employer for persons employed on the property, a residence for the site caretaker, operator of a commercial establishment, manufactured home park or on-duty security personnel at a storage facility. No more than one residential security/operator unit is permitted on a site.” Bylaw page 59 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Restaurant: “the primary purpose is the retail sale of prepared foods and beverages for consumption on or off the site. Typical uses are restaurants, coffee, donut, bagel or sandwich shops, ice cream parlors, and dessert shops. This use may include a food primary license issued under the Liquor Control and Licensing Act and accessory spectator or patron participation entertainment.” Bylaw page 60 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Retail, Adult-Oriented: “providing, offering or furnishing the rental, use, viewing, or sale of an object, other than a magazine, contraceptive device or prescription medicine, the central feature of which is the visual representation of a person’s genitals, anus or pubic area, or physical contact with a person’s genitals, anus or pubic area.” Bylaw page 60 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Retail, Cannabis: “a store licensed by the Liquor and Cannabis Regulation Branch to sell non-medical cannabis products and cannabis accessories for consumption off-site.” Bylaw page 60 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Retail, Convenience: “retail sale of those goods required by area residents or employees on a day to day basis. Typical uses include stores selling confectionery tobacco, groceries, beverages, pharmaceutical and personal care items, hardware or printed matter, and may include accessory video rental.” Bylaw page 60 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Retail, Farmers Market: “retail sale of farm produce, homegrown food products, meat, fish, seafood and retailing of handicrafts as an accessory product to retailing of farm produce.” Bylaw page 60 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Retail, Flea Market: “sale of new or used goods by more than 3 vendors renting tables and/or space outdoors or in an enclosed building. Vendors may vary from day to day, although the general layout of space to be rented remains the same. The goods sold are generally handicrafts, household items, tools, electronic equipment, food products or concessions, plants, clothing, and furniture. This use only occurs on weekends and statutory holidays, and the goods may not be stored or displayed outdoors between sale days.” Bylaw page 60 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Retail, General: “the retail sale of goods, wares, merchandise, substances, articles or things. Typical uses include grocery, hardware, appliance, electronics, furniture, antiques, second-hand, consigned, and pawned items, catalogue sales, health and personal care, clothing and accessories, hobby, book, music, video or game (including rental), flower, office supply, stationary, gift, pet supply (may include accessory pet grooming & day care), art and sporting goods stores. This use may include accessory storage and servicing of the retail goods.” Bylaw page 60 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Retail, Liquor: “the retail sale of packaged liquor for consumption off-site.” Bylaw page 60 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Retaining Wall: “structure constructed to hold back, stabilize or support an earthen bank.” Bylaw page 60 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

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Screen: “continuous fence or wall used as an enclosure and a visual barrier around all or part of a lot, interrupted only for driveways and walkways, all of which shall be self-supporting or attached to a durable and sturdy structural frame.” Bylaw page 60 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Screen, Solid: “continuous solid fence or wall used as an enclosure and a total visual barrier around all of a use and includes gates on all access points made of materials comparable to the fence or wall, all of which shall be self-supporting or attached to a durable and sturdy structural frame.” Bylaw page 60 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Screening: “continuous wall, fence, compact evergreen hedge or combination thereof, supplemented with landscape planting, that would effectively screen from view at street levels the property which it encloses, and is broken only by access drives and walks.” Bylaw page 61 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Second Hand Goods: “previously owned home furnishings, clothing, household items, and similar goods, but specifically excluding vehicles and any goods for pawn or sale by consignment.” Bylaw page 61 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Secondary Dwelling: “a self-contained dwelling that is detached, and subordinate to the principal dwelling in terms of size, scale and massing. This use is exclusively used for occupancy by one household that complies with the requirements of this Bylaw, and serviced with an approved and permanent water and sewer system. Typical detached dwelling uses include carriage housing and cottage housing. This use does not include manufactured housing.” Bylaw page 61 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Secondary Suite: “a self-contained dwelling within a building or portion of a building as defined in the British Columbia Building Code.” Bylaw page 61 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Self-Storage Facility: “fully enclosed buildings or structures in which individual storage units are rented or leased for the storage of goods, materials, and equipment. This use does not include outdoor storage. In industrial “M” zones, storage units are not required to be fully enclosed to accommodate recreational and similar vehicles” Bylaw page 61 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Service Station, Major: “the retail sale of vehicle fuel, lubricant, and other fluids and may include accessory minor vehicle repair, and minor vehicle washing, with more than 2 service and washing bays combined, and the retail sale of sundry items and packaged food.” Bylaw page 62 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Service Station, Minor: “the retail sale of vehicle fuel, lubricant, and other fluids and may include accessory minor vehicle repair, and minor vehicle washing within a building containing not more than 2 service and washing bays combined, and the retail sale of sundry items and packaged food.” Bylaw page 62 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Service, Business Support: “services to businesses including security guard, patrol, and security systems services, packaging, labeling, document preparation, publishing and printing, testing laboratories, film developing and processing, and the servicing of office equipment and machines.” Bylaw page 61 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Service, Dating or Escort: “providing or furnishing an escort or partner for a social occasion or function, but does not include a person providing assistance to another person because of that other person’s age, medical condition or disability.” Bylaw page 61 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Service, Financial: “financial, insurance, accounting, bookkeeping, and investment services by a bank, trust company, investment dealer, credit union, mortgage broker, pay-day loan operation, or agency where money is deposited, kept, lent or exchanged, excluding pawn.” Bylaw page 61 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Service, Food Bank: “the storage and distribution of food products, home furnishings, clothing, supplies, and household items to patrons for non-profit or charitable purposes.” Bylaw page 61 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Service, Funeral: “the preparation of the dead for internment or cremation, and the holding of memorial services, and may include accessory retail sale and storage of caskets, urns and other related funeral supplies. This includes funeral homes and undertaking establishments.” Bylaw page 61 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Service, Household Repair: “the provision of maintenance and repair services for goods and equipment normally found in a home. Typical uses include engraving, the repair or maintenance of telecommunication devices, radios, televisions, appliances, recreation equipment, and furniture refurbishing and upholstery shops.” Bylaw page 61 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Service, Industrial Support: “services to businesses and buildings including locksmiths, armoured car services, laundering uniforms, table cloths or other items for a business, extermination and pest control services, janitorial services, window cleaning service, waste collection, carpet and upholstery cleaning service, duct and chimney cleaning service, septic tank installation, sign shop, pumping and repair services, water-well and other drilling services.” Bylaw page 62 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Service, Massage: “providing or furnishing a massage service involving the application of physical external manipulation of the soft tissues of the human body by another person. It does not include massages administered as part of a skin care treatment by an aesthetician (where the massage is for the purpose of product application and is a minor or incidental part of the treatment) or massage therapy service.” Bylaw page 62 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Service, Massage Therapy: “massage therapy service as defined by the Massage Therapist Regulation, as practiced by a massage therapist designated under the Health Professions Act.” Bylaw page 62 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Service, Personal: “services to an individual that are related to the care and appearance of the body or the cleaning and repair of personal effects. Typical uses include barber shops, hairdressers, manicurists, tailors, dressmakers, shoe repair shops, tanning, photography studios, dry-cleaning establishments, tattoo parlors, and laundries but does not include health services.” Bylaw page 62 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Service, Pet Grooming & Day Care: “pet grooming and the supervised care of pets during the day, but does not include overnight accommodation.” Bylaw page 62 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Setback: “the distance that a development must be set back from a property line or any other features specified by this Bylaw.” Bylaw page 62 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Site: “area of land consisting of a lot or two or more abutting lots of sufficient size and dimension to meet the minimum lot area and lot width requirements of this Bylaw in respect of the particular zone, use, site coverage, and area to which the lot or lots relate.” Bylaw page 62 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Site Coverage: “the percentage of the total horizontal area of a site that may be built upon including principal and accessory buildings and structures permitted by this Bylaw, except for projections permitted under section 4.2 of this Bylaw.” Bylaw page 62 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Sleeping Unit: “a habitable room, or a group of two or more habitable rooms, not equipped with self contained cooking facilities, providing accommodation for guests.” Bylaw page 62 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Snow Storage: “storage of snow, whether permanent or temporary, and may include associated snow dumping, berming, grading, equipment storage and access control facilities. Snow dumping sites include only those lands on which snow is placed after being brought from a separate site, and not areas in which snow is moved from one portion of a site after being cleared from the rest of the site.” Bylaw page 62 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Soil Crushing: “mechanically operated device or structure used to crush or break soil.” Bylaw page 63 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Soil Screening: “fixed or a mechanically operated device or structure to sift, sort or separate rock, sand, gravel or other material of which land is composed.” Bylaw page 63 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Soil Washing: “use of water to wash or separate silts, and other fine or small materials from larger rock, sand, gravel or other material of which land is composed.” Bylaw page 63 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Storey: “that portion of a building, other than an attic or half storey, which is situated between the top of any floor and the top of the floor next above it, and if there is no floor above it, that portion between the top of such floor and the ceiling above it.” Bylaw page 63 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Storey, First: “the uppermost storey having its floor level not more than 2.0 m above building grade.” Bylaw page 63 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Storey, Half: “that portion of a building located wholly or partly within a slopping roof having a floor area not more than two-thirds of the floor area of the storey next below, side walls not less than 1.2 m in height, and a ceiling with a minimum height of 2 m over an area equal to at least fifty percent of its floor area; or that portion of a building between two floor levels which is partially underground having walls between 0.6 m and 2.0 m in height measured between the building grade and finished floor next above.” Bylaw page 63 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Structural Alteration: “any change or addition to the supporting members of a structure, including the foundations, bearing walls, rafters, columns, beams and girders.” Bylaw page 63 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Structure: “a permanent or temporary construction of any kind or any material whether attached to or supported by or sunk into land or water including a building or edifice of any kind, such as a tent, awning, bin, bunk, container, vessel, tower, arbor, trellis, gazebo, pergola, swimming pool, dock, tank, but excludes fences, retaining walls, moving vehicles and open air surface areas at landscape grade such as pavements, walks, and curbs.” Bylaw page 63 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Studio Dwelling: “dwelling in which the sleeping and living areas are combined and which is not reasonably capable of being developed as a unit containing a separate bedroom or bedrooms.” Bylaw page 63 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Subdivision: “as defined in Section 872 of the Local Government Act.” Bylaw page 63 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

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Tandem Parking: “two parking spaces, one behind the other, with a common or shared point of access to a maneuvering aisle or highway.” Bylaw page 63 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Temporary Building or Structure: “a building or structure without any foundation or footings which is removed when the designated time period, activity, or use for which the temporary structure has ceased.” Bylaw page 64 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Temporary Sawmill: “an accessory use to the construction of a building or structure involving the cutting, sawing, or planning of timber, either to finished lumber, or to an intermediary step, and temporarily stored raw or finished lumber, but may not include kiln drying or the wholesale or retail of such products.” Bylaw page 63 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Temporary Shelter Services: “the provision of temporary accommodation for one or more individuals who are otherwise temporarily or permanently homeless, or lack fixed, regular or adequate accommodation, or may be in a crisis or emergency situation.” Bylaw page 63 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Tenancy: “a separate or self-contained premise that contains one commercial use.” Bylaw page 64 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Top of Bank: “the points closest to the boundary of the active floodplain of a watercourse or water body where a break in the slope of the land occurs such that the grade beyond the break is flatter than 3 (horizontal) to 1 (vertical) at any point* for a minimum distance of 15.0 m measured perpendicularly from the break. Where banks are not well defined (as determined by a qualified professional) the top of bank is equivalent to the high water mark. * Minor variations in elevation may be discounted where slope change greater than 3 (horizontal) to 1 (vertical) results in less than 1.0 m elevation gain between the points where the slope is less than 3 (horizontal) to 1 (vertical).” Bylaw page 64 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Top of Ravine Bank: “the first significant break in a ravine slope where the break occurs such that the grade beyond the break is flatter than 3 (horizontal) to 1 (vertical) at any point* for a minimum distance of 15 meters measured perpendicularly from the break, and the break does not include a bench within the ravine that could be developed. * Minor variations in elevation within the 15.0 m may be discounted where slope change greater than 3 (horizontal) to 1 (vertical) results in less than 1.0 metre elevation gain between the points where the slope is less than 3 (horizontal) to 1 (vertical).” Bylaw page 64 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Trailer: “is as defined in the Motor Vehicle Act.” Bylaw page 64 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Training Works: “any wall, dyke or protective structure used to prevent a watercourse from leaving its channel at a given location. This includes any debris flow training structures including basins, trash racks, or other works.” Bylaw page 64 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Transportation Depot: “a transportation facility providing for the receiving and discharge of passengers traveling by, rail, water, bus, taxi or other vehicle, and may include accessory ticket offices, luggage checking, and trans-shipment of goods.” Bylaw page 64 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Truck or Rail Terminal, Major: “a transportation facility providing a break-of- bulk or assembly point for commodities that require specialized storage and handling methods such as petroleum bulk plants, cement storage facilities and similar uses, which enter or leave a site by rail, common carrier trucking lines or freight forwarders, and includes related warehousing and may include accessory administration, and repair of related vehicles, trailers, materials-handling equipment, and rolling stock.” Bylaw page 64 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Truck or Rail Terminal, Minor: “a transportation facility providing a break-of- bulk or assembly point for commodities which enter or leave a site by rail, common carrier trucking lines or freight forwarders, and includes warehousing and may include accessory administration, and repair of related vehicles, trailers, materials-handling equipment, and rolling stock. This use may include the accessory storage of shipping and cargo containers, trailers and rail cars, whether or not they are also used for warehousing & storage.” Bylaw page 64 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

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Use: “the purposes for which land or a building is arranged or intended, or for which either land, a building, or a structure is, or may be, occupied and maintained.” Bylaw page 65 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Use, Accessory: “a use that is naturally, normally, and customarily incidental, subordinate, and exclusively devoted to a principal use located on the same site.” Bylaw page 65 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Use, Principal: “the main or primary use for which a site, or its buildings and structures, are used, designed, arranged, developed, maintained, occupied or intended.” Bylaw page 65 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Use, Secondary: “uses contained within the lists of secondary uses in the zones of this Bylaw, that are only permitted on sites that are maintained, and occupied for one or more of the principal uses permitted by that zone.” Bylaw page 65 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Utility, Major: “sewage treatment plants, water treatment plants, major pumphouses, water towers or tanks, sewage lagoons, sludge disposal beds, garbage transfer and compacting stations, power terminal and distributing stations, power generating stations, cooling plants, utilities and services, district heating plants, and may include accessory vehicle, equipment and material storage, This use does not include waste management sites.” Bylaw page 65 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Utility, Minor: “the unattended equipment necessary for the operation of a water, sewer, gas, radio or television receiving or broadcasting antenna, telecommunication relay station, automatic telephone exchange, navigational aid, electrical substation or generation stations, or other utility, excluding outdoor vehicle, equipment or material storage.” Bylaw page 65 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

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Vehicle: “any motor vehicle as defined in the Motor Vehicle Act.” Bylaw page 65 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Vehicle Rental, Major: “rental of new or used vehicles, trailers or boats with a gross vehicle weight greater than 5,500 kg, and may include accessory administration and vehicle storage.” Bylaw page 65 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Vehicle Rental, Minor: “rental of new or used vehicles, trailers or boats with a gross vehicle weight of 5,500 kg or less, and may include accessory administration and vehicle storage.” Bylaw page 65 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Vehicle Repair, Major: “general repair, rebuilding, or reconditioning of engines, vehicles, trailers or boats with a gross vehicle weight greater than 10,885 kg, including collision repair, body repair, frame straightening, painting, vehicle steam cleaning, sandblasting and undercoating.” Bylaw page 65 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Vehicle Repair, Minor: “the servicing and incidental replacement of parts and fluids for vehicles, trailers or boats with a gross vehicle weight of 10,885 kg or less, and camper vehicles. This includes transmission, muffler, tire, upholstering, and automotive glass shops.” Bylaw page 66 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Vehicle Sale, Major: “sale or lease on a monthly or longer basis of new or used vehicles, trailers or boats with a gross vehicle weight greater than 10,885 kg, and may include accessory retail sale of vehicle parts and accessories.” Bylaw page 66 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Vehicle Sale, Minor: “sale or lease on a monthly or longer basis of new or used vehicles, trailers or boats with a gross vehicle weight of 10,885 kilograms (kg) or less, manufactured housing and camper vehicles and may include accessory retail sale of vehicle parts and accessories.” Bylaw page 66 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Vehicle Wash, Major: “a facility designed, maintained or intended for the washing of vehicles or trailers with a gross vehicle weight greater than 5,500 kg, on an automated, semi-automated or manual basis.” Bylaw page 66 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Vehicle Wash, Minor: “a facility designed, maintained or intended for the washing of vehicles or trailers with a gross vehicle weight of 5,500 kg or less on an automated, semi-automated or manual basis.” Bylaw page 66 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Vehicle Weight, Gross: “means the combined weight of a vehicle or trailer and its load derived by adding the weights on all the axles of a vehicle or trailer.” Bylaw page 66 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Vehicle, Camper: “Definition deleted by Bylaw 9417, 2023” Bylaw page 65 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Vehicle, Heavy: “any vehicle or trailer that exceeds either a length of 7.5 m or a maximum gross vehicle weight of 5,500 kg. Heavy vehicles do not include passenger buses with a gross vehicle weight of 6,400 kg or less, or recreational vehicles.” Bylaw page 65 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Vehicle, Home Business: “any commercial vehicle as defined in Section 664 of the Local Government Act, including a trailer, or piece of equipment in excess of 1,000 kg, that is used in the operation of a home business.” Bylaw page 65 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Vehicle, Recreation: “a vehicle intended as a temporary accommodation for travel or recreational use, such as travel trailers, motor homes, slide-in campers, chassis-mounted campers, and may include boats, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles, and towing trailers or decks, but excluding manufactured housing and construction or industrial equipment.” Bylaw page 65 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Veterinary Service, Major: “care, diagnosis and treatment of sick, ailing, infirm, or injured livestock and poultry, including medical intervention, surgery, and may include accessory short-term accommodation of such animals.” Bylaw page 66 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Veterinary Service, Minor: “care, examination, diagnosis and treatment of sick, ailing, infirm, or injured pets, including medical intervention, surgery, and may include accessory short-term accommodation of pets, pet grooming, and the sale of medicine and pet supplies.” Bylaw page 66 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

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Walkway: “thoroughfare intended to carry pedestrian and non-motorized traffic only, except that a walkway may be designed for maintenance and emergency vehicle use.” Bylaw page 66 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Warehousing: “Buildings or structures in which goods, products, substances and materials are received and stored for distribution. This use does not include retail sales on the same site, wrecking yard, truck or rail terminal, or waste management.” Bylaw page 66 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Waste Management: “a site used primarily for the storage, bailing, packing, processing, treatment and disposal of solid and/or liquid wastes. Typical uses include sanitary landfills, incinerators, and similar uses.” Bylaw page 66 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Watercourse: “includes any of the following that provides fish habitat: a) a watercourse, whether it usually contains water or not; b) a pond, lake, river, creek or brook; c) a ditch, spring or wetland that is connected by surface flow to something referred to in paragraph a) or b).” Bylaw page 66 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Wholesale: “sale of goods to retail dealers or to other wholesale dealers or to contractors or manufacturers for resale or for incorporation into other products.” Bylaw page 66 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Winery & Cidery: “the processing, manufacturing and storage of fermented beverage products containing berries and fruit. These products have an alcoholic content exceeding 1% by volume. The processing, manufacturing and selling of any liquor product(s) must be licensed by the Liquor Control and Licensing Act. This use typically includes accessory: a) retail of liquor products manufactured on-site; and b) retail of merchandise relating to the winery & cidery function and company branding” Bylaw page 66 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Wood Waste: “includes hog fuel, mill ends, wood chips, bark and sawdust, demolition waste, and construction waste, but does not include tree stumps, branches, logs or log ends.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Wrecking Yard: “use of land, buildings and structures for the collection, demolition, dismantling, storage, salvage, bailment, recycling, reclamation, reuse, remanufacture and/or the sale of waste materials including scrap metal, inoperable vehicles, vehicle parts, tires, building materials, machinery, appliances and other used, worn out, or discarded materials. The presence on any site of two or more vehicles, which, for a period exceeding 30 days, have not been capable of operating under their own power or from which parts have been or are to be removed for reuse or sale shall be deemed to be a wrecking yard.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

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Yard: “a setback measured 0.5 m above landscape grade.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Yard, Exterior Side: “a side yard that abuts a highway.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Yard, Front: “the area between side lot lines extending from the front lot line to the nearest wall of a building. On a corner lot, it is the yard associated with the front lot line.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Yard, Interior Side: “a side yard abutting another lot.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Yard, Rear: “the area between the side lot lines extending from the rear lot line to the nearest wall of a building.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Yard, Side: “the portion of a site abutting a side lot line extending from the front yard to the rear yard. The side yard shall be situated between the side lot line and a line on the site parallel to it, at a specified distance from it, and measured at a right angle to it along its full length.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

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Zone: “an area of the City as defined in Sections 9 to 15 of this Bylaw.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Zone, Business and Industrial: “any M zone included in Section 12 of this Bylaw.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Zone, Commercial: “any C zone included in Section 11 of this Bylaw.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Zone, Recreation and Institutional: “any P or W zone included in Section 13 of this Bylaw.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Zone, Residential: “any R zone included in Section 10 of this Bylaw.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Zone, Rural: “any AG or AF zone included in Section 9 of this Bylaw.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Zone, Rural Residential: “any AR zone included in Section 9 of this Bylaw.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Zone, Site Specific: “any Z zone included in Section 15 of this Bylaw.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)
Zone, Utility: “any U zone included in Section 14 of this Bylaw.” Bylaw page 67 (PDF, opens in a new tab)

Source: Zoning Bylaw No. 7850, 2007, section 2.3 (definitions), quoted for reference. The consolidated bylaw is a convenience copy; the adopted bylaws are the legal text. Data: JSON.

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