---
title: "RM3 zone in Powell River: Medium Density Multiple Family Residential"
place: Powell River, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/powell-river
zone: RM3
bylaw: Zoning Bylaw 2100, 2006 (consolidated May 15, 2025)
bylaw_read: 2026-11-07
review: draft
canonical: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/powell-river/zoning/rm3/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/powell-river/zoning/rm3.json"
---

# RM3 zone in Powell River: Medium Density Multiple Family Residential

Apartments, townhouses and cluster housing

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** Apartments, townhouses and cluster housing
- **Main uses:** Multiple family dwellings or groups of multiple family dwellings including apartment buildings, townhouse dwellings and cluster housing dwellings; Boarding houses; Child care centre in a non-residential space within a multiple family residential development
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Home based business; Accessory buildings and uses; Keeping of not more than three boarders; In-home child care
- **Minimum lot area:** 930 m²
- **Minimum lot width:** 27 m
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 40%
- **Maximum density:** Townhouse and cluster: 290 m² of lot area per dwelling unit (250 m² with amenity bonus); apartment building with surface parking: 3 units on the first 930 m² then 95 m² per additional unit; with 60% underground parking: 4 units on the first 930 m² then 75 m² per additional unit
- **Maximum height:** 8.5 m (townhouse/cluster); 13.5 m (apartment)
- **Maximum height, accessory buildings:** 4 m
- **Front setback:** 7.5 m
- **Rear setback:** 9.0 m
- **Interior side setback:** 3.0 m
- **Street side setback:** 4.5 m
- **Other rules:** Development Permit application and urban services are required; With the amenity space bonus, maximum lot coverage is 45% of the lot area; Developments with 40 or more units where over 30% have three or more bedrooms need an equipped playground of at least 7.5 x 7.5 metres

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw 2100, 2006 (consolidated May 15, 2025), s. 9.4](https://powellriver.civicweb.net/document/876#page=76) (read 2026-11-07)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply. All zones in Powell River: https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/powell-river/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/powell-river/zoning/rm3/_