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title: "CBD zone in Hope: Downtown Commercial"
place: Hope, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/hope
zone: CBD
bylaw: Zoning Bylaw No. 1324, 2012 (consolidated to March 20, 2025)
bylaw_read: 2026-11-07
review: draft
canonical: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/hope/zoning/cbd/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/hope/zoning/cbd.json"
---

# CBD zone in Hope: Downtown Commercial

Serves as the Central Business District of Hope, with a full range of commercial activities, offices and multiple family residential use, visually attractive and oriented to pedestrian traffic.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** Serves as the Central Business District of Hope, with a full range of commercial activities, offices and multiple family residential use, visually attractive and oriented to pedestrian traffic.
- **Main uses:** Assembly use; Bus depot and taxi office; Business or professional office; Civic use; Commercial service use; Day care; Entertainment facility; Financial institution; Hotel; Liquor primary use; Medical or dental office; Motel or motor inn; Off-street parking area; Place of worship; Public market; Radio and television broadcasting station; Recreation facility; Restaurant; Retail store; Specialty retail; Tourist information booth; Veterinary clinic; Video games arcade; Retail sale of cannabis
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Accessory buildings or structures; Home based business; One or more dwelling unit accessory to any of the principal uses permitted in this zone (Multiple family dwellings and accessory dwelling units must be above the ground floor with separate street entrances (a dwelling unit accessory to a motel or motor inn may be on the ground floor in the same building).)
- **Extra uses on specific lots:** Vehicle service or repair is permitted as a principal use on Lot A Section 9 Township 5 Range 26 W6M YDYD Plan 40443; PID 012-519-481 (535 Wallace Street)
- **Minimum lot area:** 550 square metres (~5920 square feet) for a hotel, motel or motor inn; 200 square metres (~2,152 square feet) for each other principal use
- **Minimum lot width:** Hotel, motel or motor inn: 10% of the parcel perimeter or 20 metres (~66 feet), whichever is greater. Other principal uses: 10% of the perimeter or 7.5 metres (~25 feet), whichever is greater
- **Maximum lot coverage:** Total 100%
- **Maximum density:** 92 units/hectare (multiple family dwellings only)
- **Maximum height:** 15 metres (~49.5 feet)
- **Maximum height, accessory buildings:** 15 metres (~49.5 feet)
- **Front setback:** 0 metres
- **Rear setback:** 0 metres
- **Interior side setback:** 0 metres
- **Street side setback:** 0 metres
- **Accessory building setbacks:** 0 metres from all lot lines
- **Other rules:** Multiple family dwellings and accessory dwelling units must be above the ground floor, with separate entrances to the street

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw No. 1324, 2012 (consolidated to March 20, 2025), s. 11.1](https://hope.ca/uploads/dm/86919/Zoning_Bylaw_No._1324_2012_Consolidated_March_20_2025#page=73) (read 2026-11-07)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply. All zones in Hope: https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/hope/zoning/index.json

_Draft: taken from the bylaw text by a research agent and not yet reviewed by a person. Gov Handbook is an independent guide. Canonical page: https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/hope/zoning/cbd/_