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RM7 zone in Prince George: High-rise Residential

Prince George, British ColumbiaDraft, not yet reviewedBylaw read 2026-11-07

In short

Provide for high-rise multiple housing with a maximum density of 280 dwellings/ha for areas defined by the OCP as suitable for higher density housing.

Zone rules

PurposeProvide for high-rise multiple housing with a maximum density of 280 dwellings/ha for areas defined by the OCP as suitable for higher density housing.
Main uses
  • community care facility, major
  • community care facility, minor
  • apartment hotel
  • housing, apartment
  • housing, congregate
  • housing, fourplex
  • housing, row
  • housing, stacked row
  • religious assembly (only on sites less than 1.0 ha)
Also allowed (secondary uses)
  • club
  • health service, minor
  • home business 1
  • retail, convenience
  • secondary suite
  • service, massage therapy
  • service, personal
Extra uses on specific lotshousing, supportive only on Parcel A (W19288), Parcel C (Plan B7858), Lot 19 and Lot 20, Block 257, District Lot 343, Cariboo District, Plan 1268
Minimum lot area1,800 m²
Minimum lot width30.0 m
Maximum lot coverage55% (an additional 30% may be used for covered or enclosed off-street parking)
Maximum density280 dwellings/ha
Maximum height55.0 m
Maximum height, accessory buildings5.0 m
Front setback4.5 m
Rear setback4.5 m
Interior side setback3.0 m (not required for a common wall for attached housing)
Street side setback3.0 m
Accessory building setbacksfront 15.0 m, interior side 1.2 m, exterior side 3.0 m, rear 1.2 m
Other rules
  • Minimum distance between principal buildings is 6.0 m
  • Service, retail, and health service uses must be in a building that also has a residential use; each tenancy is limited to 150 m², and all such uses combined to the lesser of 260 m² or 10% of the gross floor area of all principal buildings

Source: Zoning Bylaw No. 7850, 2007 (consolidated version, revised October 5, 2026), s. 10.15 (read 2026-11-07)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply, and a lot can have site-specific rules. The City says this version is consolidated for convenience. Zone sections that share a heading cover variant codes (AR3m, RS1m, RS2m, RM9r, C1c/C1l, C2c, C4c/C4l/C4lc, C6c/C6l/C6lc, M1n, M2n, M3n, M5n). Sections 10.5 (deleted), 15.13 (Z13 not in the bylaw) and 15.18 (Z18, deleted by Bylaw 9466) are not zones. Schedule A, the zoning map, is the zoning layer in PGMap. Zone pages are taken from the bylaw text by a research agent and have not yet been reviewed by a person: confirm with the bylaw before you rely on them. How answers are checked.

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