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Smart Bylaws Guide – Kelowna
Kelowna uses a suite of OCP policies, infrastructure and zoning
to direct growth into already-serviced areas.
OCP Policies
New Rural Residential Zone. Initiate an
amendment to the Zoning Bylaw to create a new Rural Residential
Zone, with a minimum parcel size of 4.0 ha (10 acres), which would
apply to all properties within the Future Urban Reserve designation
and to non-ALR properties within the Rural / Agricultural
designation of the OCP that are currently 4.0 ha or more in size.
Official
Community Plan, Policy 5.1.3
Minimize Impact on Agricultural Lands. Support the
Agricultural Land Reserve and establish a defined
urban-rural/agricultural boundary, as indicated on Map 11.2 - Urban
- Rural/Agricultural Boundary, utilizing existing roads, topographic
features, or watercourses wherever possible. The City will direct
urban uses to land within the urban portion of the defined
urban-rural/agricultural boundary, in the interest of reducing
development and speculative pressure, toward the preservation of
agricultural lands. The City will discourage further extension of
existing urban areas into agricultural lands.
Official
Community Plan, Policy 5.1.7
Encourage Mixed Use Developments. Encourage a mix of
residential, employment, institutional, and recreational uses within
individual buildings or larger development projects, and an
increased share of development going to the designated Urban Centres,
to provide access by proximity, thereby reducing
transportation-related pollution and urban sprawl.
Official
Community Plan, Policy 5.1.8
Support an Increase in Multiple-Units. Support a gradual
increase in multiple unit development toward a 33% single
detached/duplex and 67% apartment/townhouse share of new residential
development by 2013, with a multiple unit housing emphasis on ground
oriented housing.
Official
Community Plan, Policy 5.1.9
Develop a Compact Urban Form. Develop a more compact urban
form that maximizes the use of existing infrastructure, by
increasing densities through development, conversion, and
re-development within existing areas, particularly in designated
Urban Centres, and by providing for higher densities within future
urban areas. Encourage development to proceed in a logical,
sequential order, concurrently with availability of required urban
services.
Official
Community Plan, Policy 5.1.10
Civic Improvements. Invest civic capital in the Urban
Centres as a priority (e.g. sidewalks, bike lanes, parks, and other
infrastructure investments) in order to encourage the creation of
accessible, high quality living and working environments which are
environmentally, socially and financially sustainable and consistent
with the future land-uses shown on Map 19.1.
Official
Community Plan, Policy 6.1.3
Future Urban Reserve Land that has some development
potential but is not projected for development within the Official
Community Plan 20-year time horizon. There is potential for the
reconsideration of the status of these lands as part of a future
review and updating of the Official Community Plan. These boundaries
are schematic in nature, and include lands that may remain within
the ALR.
Official
Community Plan, Policy 19 (p.19-4)
Infrastructure Limits
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Map
13-2 - Sanitary Sewer System (showing service limits to
2013)
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Map 19-1 - Generalized Future Land Use (showing urban reserve)
Zoning
Agriculture
Zones (minimum 4 hectares)
For More Information
Signe Bagh, Long Range Planner
(250) 862-3304
sbagh@city.kelowna.bc.ca
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