{"title":"Alert Bay zoning: find your zone and what it allows","question":"How do I find out how my property is zoned in Alert Bay and what I can build on it?","slug":"zoning-lookup","place":{"path":"ca/bc/alert-bay","name":"Alert Bay","region":{"code":"bc","name":"British Columbia"},"country":{"code":"ca","name":"Canada"}},"category":{"slug":"building-and-renovating","name":"Building, renovating and your property"},"owner":"municipal","owner_label":"Municipal","owner_body":{"name":"Village of Alert Bay","url":"https://www.alertbay.ca"},"short_answer":"In Alert Bay, the Village's Bylaws and Regulations page links a Zoning Map and a Zoning Regulation folder under Zoning Bylaw No. 418. There is no online lookup tool. Call the Village Office at 250-974-5213 with your address.","aliases":["alert bay zoning map","zoning bylaw alert bay","what is my zoning alert bay","property zoning alert bay"],"cost":"Not stated.","how_long":"Not stated.","where":[{"type":"phone","label":"Village Office","value":"250-974-5213"},{"type":"in_person","label":"Municipal Hall","value":"15 Maple Road, Alert Bay, BC V0N 1A0","note":"Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m."}],"documents":[],"forms":[{"title":"Bylaws and Regulations, Village of Alert Bay","url":"https://www.alertbay.ca/bylaws-and-regulations"},{"title":"Official Community Plan folder, Village of Alert Bay","url":"https://alertbay.civicweb.net/filepro/documents/2294/"}],"related":[{"slug":"building-permit","title":"Alert Bay building permits: when you need one and how to apply","url":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/alert-bay/building-permit/"}],"nearby":[{"place":"ca/bc/port-mcneill","name":"Port McNeill","url":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-mcneill/zoning-lookup/"},{"place":"ca/bc/port-hardy","name":"Port Hardy","url":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-hardy/zoning-lookup/"},{"place":"ca/bc/port-alice","name":"Port Alice","url":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-alice/zoning-lookup/"},{"place":"ca/bc/sayward","name":"Sayward","url":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/sayward/zoning-lookup/"},{"place":"ca/bc/tahsis","name":"Tahsis","url":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/tahsis/zoning-lookup/"},{"place":"ca/bc/gold-river","name":"Gold River","url":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/gold-river/zoning-lookup/"}],"topic":{"title":"Zoning maps in British Columbia, by municipality","url":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/zoning-lookup/"},"facts":{"how_to_find":{"label":"How to find your zone","value":"The Bylaws and Regulations page links a Zoning Map (PDF) and a Zoning Regulation folder. The civicweb Official Community Plan folder holds \"Schedule A Zoning Map - Village of Alert Bay Zoning Bylaw No. 418 Consolidated 2019\".","short":"PDF zoning map","status":"stated","sources":[{"url":"https://www.alertbay.ca/bylaws-and-regulations","title":"Bylaws and Regulations, Village of Alert Bay","section":"Bylaws and Regulations page","quotes":["Zoning Map Zoning Amendment Application"]},{"url":"https://alertbay.civicweb.net/filepro/documents/2294/","title":"Official Community Plan folder (civicweb), Village of Alert Bay","section":"civicweb OCP folder","quotes":["Schedule A Zoning Map - Village of Alert Bay Zoning Bylaw No. 418 Consolidated 2019"]}],"check":{"result":"matched","text_date":"2026-11-08"}},"zoning_bylaw":{"label":"Zoning bylaw","value":"Zoning Bylaw No. 418; the zoning map is consolidated 2019.","status":"stated","sources":[{"url":"https://alertbay.civicweb.net/document/3025/","title":"https://alertbay.civicweb.net/document/3025/","section":"recital","quotes":["Bylaw No. 7 1 1 A Bylaw to Amend Zoning Bylaw No. 418 WHEREAS the Council of the Corporation of the Village of Alert Bay has adopted"]},{"url":"https://alertbay.civicweb.net/filepro/documents/2294/","title":"Official Community Plan folder (civicweb), Village of Alert Bay","section":"civicweb OCP folder","quotes":["Bylaw No. 418 Consolidated 2019"]}],"check":{"result":"matched","text_date":"2026-11-08"}},"what_zone_controls":{"label":"What the zone controls","value":null,"status":"unknown","reason":"not_published","note":"The Village's online zoning folder lists only amending bylaws and an information sheet, not the text of Zoning Bylaw No. 418.","sources":[]},"contact":{"label":"Contact","value":"Village Office, 250-974-5213","status":"stated","sources":[{"url":"https://alertbay.civicweb.net/document/4576/","title":"https://alertbay.civicweb.net/document/4576/","section":"2020 review sheet","quotes":["by either telephone (250-974-5213)"]},{"url":"https://www.alertbay.ca/contact","title":"Contact, Village of Alert Bay","section":"Contact page","quotes":["Alert Bay, BC V0N 1A0 MON - FRI 8:30 AM-4:30 PM T: (250) 974-5213 F: (250) 974-5470 E: OFFICECLERK@ALERTBAY.CA"]}],"check":{"result":"matched","text_date":"2026-11-08"}},"bylaw":{"label":"Bylaw","value":"Zoning Bylaw No. 418","status":"stated","sources":[{"url":"https://alertbay.civicweb.net/document/3025/","title":"https://alertbay.civicweb.net/document/3025/","section":"recital","quotes":["Bylaw No. 7 1 1 A Bylaw to Amend Zoning Bylaw No. 418 WHEREAS the Council of the Corporation of the Village of Alert Bay has adopted"]}],"check":{"result":"matched","text_date":"2026-11-08"}}},"facts_summary":{"total":5,"stated":4,"matched":4,"none":0,"unknown":1},"zoning":{"bylaw":{"title":"Village of Alert Bay Zoning Bylaw No. 418 (as published on the Village's document centre as \"Zoning Regulations\")","url":"https://alertbay.civicweb.net/document/2608","accessed":"2026-11-08","note":"The only published copy is a 27-page scanned image with no text layer, so no zone list could be extracted (no OCR used). Amendments exist, such as Bylaw 578 and Bylaw 711."},"zones":0,"zone_pages":0,"index_url":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/alert-bay/zoning/index.json","lookup_url":null,"map":{"has_map":false,"has_addresses":false,"zones_geojson":null,"addresses_json":null,"source_url":null,"viewer":{"title":"Village of Alert Bay bylaws and regulations (zoning section)","url":"https://www.alertbay.ca/bylaws-and-regulations"},"caveat":null,"accessed":null}},"body_markdown":"## How it works\n\nThe Village of Alert Bay's [Bylaws and Regulations page](https://www.alertbay.ca/bylaws-and-regulations) links a Zoning Map (PDF) and a Zoning Regulation folder. The Village's Official Community Plan folder on its document site holds \"Schedule A Zoning Map - Village of Alert Bay Zoning Bylaw No. 418 Consolidated 2019\". The Village has no online lookup tool, and the map PDF is an image.\n\nThe zoning bylaw is Zoning Bylaw No. 418. Its text could not be read online: the Zoning Regulation folder lists only amending bylaws and a 2020 information sheet about a proposed updated bylaw. So this page cannot say what each zone allows.\n\n## Steps\n\n1. Open the [Zoning Map](https://alertbay.civicweb.net/filepro/documents/2294/) and find your lot.\n2. Call the Village Office (250-974-5213) with your address and ask for your zone and its rules.\n3. Ask whether your plan also needs a building permit. See the building-permit answer.\n\n## Good to know\n\n- The 2020 information sheet describes a proposed update. Do not treat it as the current rules.","sources":[{"url":"https://www.alertbay.ca/bylaws-and-regulations","title":"Bylaws and Regulations, Village of Alert Bay","accessed":"2026-11-08"},{"url":"https://alertbay.civicweb.net/filepro/documents/2294/","title":"Official Community Plan folder (civicweb), Village of Alert Bay","accessed":"2026-11-08"},{"url":"https://www.alertbay.ca/contact","title":"Contact, Village of Alert Bay","accessed":"2026-11-08"},{"url":"https://alertbay.civicweb.net/document/3025/","title":"https://alertbay.civicweb.net/document/3025/","accessed":"2026-11-08"},{"url":"https://alertbay.civicweb.net/document/4576/","title":"https://alertbay.civicweb.net/document/4576/","accessed":"2026-11-08"}],"sources_read":"2026-11-08","review":{"status":"machine_checked","badge":"Checked against official text","label":"Checked by script, not yet by a person: the official wording behind 4 of 5 facts was matched to the official text; 1 could not be confirmed."},"urls":{"html":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/alert-bay/zoning-lookup/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/alert-bay/zoning-lookup.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/alert-bay/zoning-lookup.json"}}