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Smart Bylaws Guide – Mixing Uses – Okotoks

Heritage

The purpose of the Okotoks Heritage Mixed -Use District is to provide for the continuation of residential development and allow for certain specialized commercial uses to develop in the form of unique shops, boutiques, professional offices and tourist attractions. The preservation of the historic and unique aesthetic character of the district is encouraged through design guidelines set out at the end of the zone description.

Heritage Mixed-Use District
Okotoks Land Use Bylaw No. 40-98 (to February 20, 2003), Section 18, p.117

Live/Work

The purpose of the Okotoks Residential Mixed-Use Detached district is to provide for laned, low density mixed use development, fronting on collector roads, in the form of live/work detached dwellings. This district provides an option for certain specialized commercial uses to develop that are accessory to the principal dwelling. It is the intent of the district to facilitate development of live/work units that are largely indistinguishable from single detached dwellings in adjacent residential districts and may contain small commercial shops, boutiques, professional offices and home occupations.

Residential Mixed-Use Detached District
Okotoks Land Use Bylaw No. 40-98 (to February 20, 2003), Section 18A, p.125

Special Development Commercial & Entertainment

The purpose of the Special Development Commercial district is to encourage the development of a pedestrian oriented shopping area comprised of a broad range of retail shops, eating establishments and entertainment facilities and which may include residential development in upper floors.  Flexibility in applications of regulations will encourage innovative development that recognizes unique parcel size and shapes in this area.

Special Development Commercial District
Okotoks Land Use Bylaw No. 40-98 (to February 20, 2003), Section 22, p.141


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