TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL BYLAW NO. 1057

TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL BYLAW NO. 1057

A BYLAW TO AMEND THE TOWN OF VIEW ROYAL ZONING BYLAW AND THE LAND USE BYLAW

The Council of the Town of View Royal, in open meeting assembled, enacts as follows:

1. This Bylaw may be cited as "Zoning Bylaw No. 900, 2014 and Land Use Bylaw, 1990, No. 35, Amendment Bylaw No. 1057, 2020”

2. Zoning Bylaw No. 900, 2014 is hereby amended by renaming Section 1 “Application and Administration”.

3. Zoning Bylaw No. 900, 2014 is hereby amended by adding the following to Section 2.2 Definition as per alphabetical order of the definition:

“Balloon Structure” is a typically inflatable, decorative object tethered to a building’s roof or to the ground, used primarily for advertising or attracting attention to an enterprise.

“Communications Tower” is a structure supporting communications transmitters, receivers, and associated hardware for commercial or institutional use.

“Home Craft” is a hand made or hand assembled finished good produced by a resident or permitted employee for sale off-site or online under a Home Occupation use.

“Pawnbroker” is a business which sells goods or chattels by way of security for money advanced on them; or which purchases, receives or takes in goods or chattels and pays, advances or lends on them a sum of money under an agreement expressed, implied or to be from the nature and character of the dealing reasonably inferred, that those goods or chattels may be afterwards redeemed or repurchased on any terms.

“Residential Antenna” is an antenna installation at a residential location used in a residential context, for hobby use or to support a permitted home occupation use.

4. Zoning Bylaw No. 900, 2014 is hereby amended by removing the following from Section 2.2 Definition:

“Boarder” means a person who, in return for payment, has his or her place of residence in a separate or shared sleeping room in a dwelling unit.

5. Zoning Bylaw No. 900, 2014 is hereby amended by adding the following to Section 3.3.2 immediately after 3.3.2 m):

n) Pawnbroker o) Balloon Structure

6. Zoning Bylaw No. 900, 2014 is hereby amended by removing “…and antennas” from Section 3.9.2.

7. Zoning Bylaw No. 900, 2014 is hereby amended by adding the following as 3.10.7:

3.10.7 Property lines of parcels being created by subdivision which intersect a highway must be substantially at right angles unless the Approving Officer is satisfied that it is impracticable to comply with this requirement.

8. Zoning Bylaw No. 900, 2014 is hereby amended by adding the following as Section 5.14:

5.14 ACCESSIBLE PARKING

a) One of every 100 spaces must be accessible when 50 or more spaces are provided. b) A minimum width of 3.7m is required. c) A minimum length of 5.5m is required.

9. Zoning Bylaw No. 900, 2014 is hereby amended by adding the following as 6.0 SCREENING and renumbering the existing subsequent sections accordingly:

6.0 SCREENING

6.1 Screening must be provided as per Section 6.5: Screening Schedule to mask or separate:

a) Outdoor storage. b) Industrial uses from commercial, institutional, and residential uses. c) Commercial uses from residential uses. d) Residential, commercial, and industrial uses from designated highways.

6.2 Materials stored outdoors must not project above the screening.

6.3 The following highways are designated for the purpose of this Section:

a) Trans-Canada Highway (No. 1) b) Island Highway (No. 1A)

6.4 The following zone categories are designated for the purpose of this Section:

a) Rural Zoning: Covers any zone with Agriculture as a principle use and a minimum lot size of 2ha (20,000m²) or more. b) Detached Residential Zoning: Any zone permitting residential uses in a detached or duplex form only, with a minimum lot size of 0.5ha (5000m²) or less. c) Attached Residential Zoning: Any zone permitting residential uses in a townhouse, rowhouse or apartment residential form but not permitting commercial (mixed) uses. d) Local Commercial Zoning: Any zone permitting commercial uses and a maximum base density of 0.6 FSR or less, but does not include automobile repair, servicing, sales of parts, service station, car wash or any other automobile-related uses. e) Service Commercial and Industrial Zoning: Any zone permitting cold storage plant, warehousing, garden centre, storage yard, wholesale, lumber and building supply yard, automobile repair, servicing, sales of parts, service station, medical marihuana production facility or car wash uses. f) Regional Commercial Zoning: Any zone permitting commercial uses with a base density of 0.8 FSR or more and a lot size of at least 4000m² g) Local Institutional Zoning: Any land under a P zone, except the Regional Institutional Zoning in subsection h) below. h) Regional Institutional Zoning: The properties containing the View Royal Public Safety Building and the Victoria General Hospital.

Section 6.5 Screening Schedule

6.6 Form of Screening:

• Fence: Tight board fence, natural stain
• Shrub: Tight evergreen shrubbery (located 1m or more on centre)
• Berm: Grassed Berm 80% of the required height
• Treed: Treed and landscaped 10m buffer

6.7 Notwithstanding the provisions of the Section 6.5 Screening Schedule, landscape screening shall be provided along lot boundaries for development sites adjacent to existing residential uses, and shall be of a size, type and spacing satisfactory to the Approving Officer which will, in conjunction with a fence, ensure absolute protection of privacy between properties. For the purpose of this subsection, 'absolute privacy protection' shall be deemed to be achieved initially by the installation of a decorative wood fence not less than 2.5m in height, of which the upper 0.61 m shall be in the form of a semi-opaque trellis. The said trellis portion of the fence shall be removed at such time as the adjacent screening hedge to be installed grows to a height of at least 2.5m, unless otherwise provided for in a resolution of Council.