MUNICIPAL PROCESS SECTION
Cumberland's Zoning Bylaws
- Bylaw 717 - Parts 1 & 2
March 1998 - Bylaw 717 - Parts 3 - 5
1997 - Bylaw 717, - Parts 6 -8
1997 - Zoning Amendments
1996 - 2007
Zoning Maps
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Schedule B
General Designations
Revised June 1999 -
Schedule B1
Outside the Village Core
Revised July 2006 -
Schedule B2
Inside the Village Core
Revised July 2006
Cumberland's Zoning Designations
- Under Bylaw 717, 26 different zoning designations were outlined. Since then, various amendments have fine-tuned these categories, mostly through text amendments.
- Residential (12)
- Mixed Use (1)
- Commercial (2)
- Public Facilities (2)
- Parks (1)
- Industrial (3)
- Light Industrial (1)
- Heavy Industrial (1)
- Refuse Industrial (1)
- Resource Rural (1)
- Uplands Resource Rural (1)
Zoning defines land use and density
While the Official Community Plan is primarily a “vision statement”, zoning bylaws put the community vision into practical, legalistic terms, by regulating use and density. Within the Village Core, zoning is handled on a lot-by-lot basis with each zoning classification operating under a very specific set of rules. Outside the Village core, most areas fall under the designation of Comprehensive Planning Areas, (CPA's) as outlined in the OCP's Map C. Development Permit Areas (DPA's), are outlined on Map B.
Trilogy's zoning amendment applications shown by colour.
Each different colour represents a different zoning bylaw.
Fine-tuning land use along the Highway
Whereas the Village's original OCP saw most of the lands along the Inland Island Highway as a combination of Rural and various types of Industrial zoning, Trilogy's zoning amendments bring these lands into much sharper focus by envisioning them as an introduction and a complement to the Village core.
Each Lot, depending upon its proximity to the Highway and to its other adjacencies, has been looked at individually, resulting in 11 different zoning amendment applications. Unlike their original "one size fits all" designations, this fine-tuning acknowledges that each Lot has a specific role to play Cumberland's future.
Trilogy's zoning amendments have been awarded 4th Reading!
Trilogy submitted its rezoning applications more or less at the same time as its OCP amendments. This was because the land use and density that the Master Plan proposed did not conform to the Village's OCP --- simply put, to fully understand why the OCP amendments were requested, the Village had to be cognizant of the zoning details as well.
On February 8, 2010, Trilogy's zoning amendments were officially granted 4th Reading, along with their OCP amendments. Together, OCP Bylaws 901 and 851 expand the Village's Residential Containment Boundary to include Lots 2, 3, 5, 7, 9A, 9B, 10 and 11.
Finally, zoning Bylaw 918 updates the requirement for for a Comprehensive Development Agreement (CDA) as outlined in the Village's original OCP; this will be replaced with a Covenant requirement, in accordance with the B.C. Land Titles Act. The terms of the covenant will be binding on all future owners of the property.
Photo: North end of Union Mine, 1889. When Cumberland was first settled, residential, commercial & industrial premises co-existed side-by-side.
Cumberland's Zoning Designations
Current Status:
4th Reading Granted
February 7th, 2010
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Visualizing Density Catalogue
Lincoln Land Institute, 2007