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Smart Bylaws Guide – Mixing Uses – Comprehensive Development Zoning
A Comprehensive Development Zone (CD) provides for the
development or redevelopment of a larger site allowing a variety of
land uses and development approaches as part of a comprehensive
development plan. This form of zoning enables a municipality to
negotiate detailed guidelines and specifications for all aspects of
a development in an integrated manner.
The ability of a municipality to specifically regulate the development of a
particular site as a CD zone is ideal for sites that should receive
innovative treatment. Typically, a new zone is created for the site,
tailor made for a specific development. CD zones provide
municipalities with greater flexibility to obtain a development plan
that better suits the neighbourhood and the particular property.
Municipal staff also find that CD zoning allows them to negotiate
with developers to obtain amenities, such as additional parkland,
greater access to the waterfront, tree retention, innovative
stormwater management, and affordable housing, that might not
otherwise be obtained with conventional zoning.
CD zones are ideal to manage and regulate the development of
sites that are in a strategic location (e.g., are a significant site
in an already-developed area or adjacent to existing uses), have
topographic constraints (CD zones can be used to impose
site-specific development requirements as a package), or are
environmentally sensitive.
CD zones are also an excellent means to create compact
complete communities, or a portion of, on a site. The
detail in their design allows for integrating a diversity of uses
and street patterns to meet the needs of the new and adjacent
neighbourhoods.
Examples of Policies and Zoning for CD Zones
Selkirk
Comprehensive District (Victoria)
(see also the case study for the Selkirk
Waterfront)
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allows
industrial, commercial, institutional and residential uses;
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relies
on maximum floor area and site coverage for each development
area (not floor area ratio);
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minimal
lot setbacks;
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includes
a map of areas within the CD zone corresponding to allowed uses
and regulations within the zoning.
Railyards
Residential Commercial District (Victoria)
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includes
maps of areas within the CD zone corresponding to allowed uses
and regulations within the zoning;
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allows
and defines live/work uses;
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provides
for a range of different attached housing forms, including
townhouses and studios.
Burnaby
– examples of the range of uses for, and comprehensive nature of,
CD zones
Burnaby
Comprehensive Development Zoning
Draft
Land Use Framework – New Haven (Burnaby)
Detailed discussion of planning context to provide a basis for
public consultation for proposed directions for future land use on
this 23 hectare (57 acre) site in south Burnaby. The Framework
provides the foundation for formulation of a more detailed
conceptual plan for development of the site as a CD zone.
Comprehensive
Development Zone OCP Policies (District of North Saanich, see
sections 331-333, page 90)
Comprehensive development zones may be used by the District to
manage and regulate the development of sites that are strategically
located, have topographic constraints and are environmentally
sensitive. Five such sites have been identified for which land
use policies have been established in the OCP, indicating the type
of future development that the District considers appropriate. Rural
Community Residential (Cowichan Valley Regional District) Rural
Community Residential Development Permit Area (Cowichan
Valley Regional District)
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