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Kelowna zoning: find your zone and what it allows

How do I find my property’s zoning in Kelowna and check what I can build?

Kelowna, British ColumbiaChecked against official textSources read 2026-11-09

Short answer

Open Kelowna’s zoning map and find your parcel. Match its zone to the zoning bylaw, then check the City’s list of approved amendments that have yet to be incorporated.

Zoning map

AgriculturalCommercialComprehensive developmentIndustrialMixed useOtherPublicResidential

Search an address or click a lot on the map to see its zone and what it allows.

Zoning shown from the City of Kelowna's Kelowna Map Viewer data, downloaded 2026-11-09. Address points and zoning are from the published layers. Confirm zoning for split lots, recent amendments and addresses without a single mapped zone.

Zones in Kelowna

From City of Kelowna Zoning Bylaw No. 12375 (PDF). Read the linked consolidation and check amendments with planning before relying on a zone for a project. A sheet lists only the rules traced to that zone. Additional definitions, exceptions and general provisions may apply. The accessible consolidation is older than the current City master PDF. The purposes shown were cross-checked against the City zoning layer. The map reports base districts. Consult the City map for parcel-specific subzones and conditions. Check the current PDF and posted amendments for any project. Each zone has its own page with its uses, lot sizes, heights and setbacks. Zone pages are drafts taken from the bylaw text and not yet reviewed by a person.

Agricultural zones

Commercial zones

Comprehensive development zones

  • CD12 Comprehensive Development Airport
  • CD17 Comprehensive Development Mixed Use High Density
  • CD18 Comprehensive Development McKinley
  • CD20 Comprehensive Development University
  • CD22 Comprehensive Development Central Green
  • CD26 Comprehensive Development Capri
  • CD29 Cara Glen Multi-Dwelling

Industrial zones

Mixed use zones

Other zones

Public zones

Residential zones

Key facts

How to find your zoneOpen Kelowna’s zoning map and find your parcel.Zoning Bylaw, View the zoning map · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-09
Official wording
Use the Kelowna Map Viewer to see how zoning applies to a specific property or area. This interactive map lets you explore zoning across the city and view the Official Community Plan in 2D.
Zoning bylawZoning Bylaw No. 12375. Check the City’s approved amendments awaiting consolidation.Zoning Bylaw, What's new in the bylaw · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-09
Official wording
Zoning Bylaw No. 12375 was adopted on September 26, 2022. From time to time, City Council updates the bylaw to reflect new policies, priorities, or legislation. Below you’ll find a list of approved changes that are not yet reflected in the consolidated bylaw.
What the zone controlsLand uses and building form and siting.Zoning Bylaw · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-09
Official wording
The Zoning Bylaw regulates land use and the form and siting of buildings and other structures in the City of Kelowna. These rules help to provide for the orderly development of the community and to avoid conflicts between incompatible uses.
ContactCall City Development Planning at 250-469-8626.Development Planning | City of Kelowna, Development Planning, phone · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-09
Official wording
# Development Planning Phone: 250-469-8626 Phone number: 250-469-8626
BylawZoning Bylaw No. 12375. Check the City’s approved amendments awaiting consolidation.Zoning Bylaw, What's new in the bylaw · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-09
Official wording
Zoning Bylaw No. 12375 was adopted on September 26, 2022. From time to time, City Council updates the bylaw to reflect new policies, priorities, or legislation. Below you’ll find a list of approved changes that are not yet reflected in the consolidated bylaw.

How it works

A zoning search has two parts. The map identifies the district attached to a parcel. The written regulations explain what that district means for a proposed use, building size or location on the lot. Land uses and building form and siting.

Steps

  1. Start the parcel search with Kelowna Map Viewer. Search for the civic address, select the actual parcel and copy the complete zone code, including any suffix. For a parcel crossed by a zone line, identify where the proposed work would sit.
  2. Open the matching district or zone section. Read the permitted uses and the relevant dimensions together with definitions and any rules that apply across zones.

Good to know

  • Call City Development Planning at 250-469-8626.
  • Save the address, zone code and relevant section with your sketch. Give those details to planning when asking about an amendment, a site-specific provision or a boundary that is hard to read.

The same question in other places

West Kelowna · Lake Country · Peachland · Coldstream · Vernon · Summerland

Zoning maps in British Columbia, by municipality →

Sources

  1. Zoning Bylaw (read 2026-11-09)
  2. Kelowna Map Viewer (read 2026-11-09)
  3. Kelowna municipal office contact information (read 2026-11-09)
  4. Development Planning | City of Kelowna (read 2026-11-09)

Checked by script, not yet by a person: the official wording behind 5 of 5 facts was matched to the official text. How answers are checked.