Princeton zoning: find your zone and what it allows
How do I find out how my property is zoned and what I can build on it?
Use the Town of Princeton's Public Parcel Viewer, an online map run by the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen, to search by address or legal description. For a PDF zoning map, email planning@princeton.ca. The Zoning Bylaw lists what each zone allows.
Zoning map
RuralResidentialCommercialComprehensive developmentIndustrialPublic
Search an address or click a lot on the map to see its zone and what it allows.
Zoning shown from the Town of Princeton's RDOS Public Parcel Map data, downloaded 2026-11-08.
Zones in Princeton
From Zoning Bylaw Number 880, 2013 (consolidated for convenience, including amending bylaws up to and including Bylaw No. 1032, 2022). The consolidation has no legislative sanction; the original bylaw must be consulted for interpreting and applying the law. Later amending bylaws (for example 1039/2023 and 1040/2023 CD3 Culbertson Way, 1048/2024, 1049/2024 Business Park, 1051/2024, 1064/2025) are posted separately and are not in this consolidation, so zones created only by them (such as CD3) are not listed. 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.
Rural zones
Residential zones
- RS1 Single Family Residential
- RS2 Single Family Residential (Small Parcel)
- RSM Manufactured Home Park
- RD Two Family Residential
- RM2 Multi-Family Residential (Low Density)
- RM3 Multi-Family Residential (Medium Density)
Commercial zones
- C1 Local Business
- C2 Central Business
- C3 Commercial Transition
- CT Tourist Commercial
- CS Service Commercial
Comprehensive development zones
- CD1 Comprehensive Development Zone
Industrial zones
- BP1 Business Park: Princeton-Summerland Road
- BP2 Business Park: General
- I1 Light Industrial
- I2 Heavy Industrial
- AP Airport
Public zones
Key facts
| How to find your zone | Use the Town's Public Parcel Viewer (RDOS online map): search by address or legal description to see zoning, OCP and other land-use information. For a PDF zoning map, email planning@princeton.ca.Building Services, Building Services page · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-08Official wordingYou can search properties by address or legal description to obtain additional information on a property within the Town of Princeton or Regional District Okanagan-Similkameen. To request a PDF Zoning Map contact planning@princeton.ca |
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| Zoning bylaw | Town of Princeton Zoning Bylaw Number 880, 2013. The posted consolidated copy includes amendments up to and including Bylaw No. 1032, 2022; later amending bylaws are posted separately.Zoning Bylaw Number 880, 2013, cover page · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-08Official wording(Including Amending bylaws up to and including Bylaw No. 1032, 2022) it has no legislative sanction; |
| What the zone controls | Each zone lists permitted uses ('and no others') and a table of rules: density, minimum parcel size and frontage, parcel coverage, setbacks, and building heights.Zoning Bylaw Number 880, 2013, s. 11.1 and 11.2 (RS1 example) · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-08Official wordingThe following principal uses, and no others, will be permitted in the RS1-Single Family no building or structure shall be constructed, located or altered, and no plan of subdivision approved which contravenes the regulations |
| Contact | Planning Department: planning@princeton.ca, Town Hall 250-295-3135; Development Coordinator ext 107, markm@princeton.ca.Building Services, Building Services page; Contact Us · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-08Official wordingLyle Thomas cao@princeton.ca Building Department building@princeton.ca Planning Department planning@princeton.ca Telephone: 250-295-3135 ext 104 - Main folder - Building Documents | 250-295-3135 ext 105 | ckassa@princeton.ca | Mark McNaughton | Development Coordinator | 250-295-3135 ext 107 | markm@princeton.ca | James Graham | ckassa@princeton.ca | Mark McNaughton | Development Coordinator | 250-295-3135 ext 107 | markm@princeton.ca | James Graham | Director of Finance |
| Bylaw | Town of Princeton Zoning Bylaw Number 880, 2013Zoning Bylaw Number 880, 2013, s. 1.1 · Wording matched the official text retrieved 2026-11-08Official wordingTown of Princeton Zoning Bylaw Number 880, 2013 |
How it works
The Town of Princeton's Building Services page links the Public Parcel Viewer, an online map hosted by the Regional District of Okanagan-Similkameen. Search by address or legal description to see zoning, Official Community Plan and other land-use information.
The Zoning Bylaw Number 880, 2013 sets the rules. Each zone lists its permitted uses ("and no others") and a table of rules: density, minimum parcel size and frontage, parcel coverage, setbacks and building heights.
Steps
- Open the Public Parcel Viewer from the Town's Building Services page and search your address.
- Note your zone, then find that zone in the Zoning Bylaw.
- For a PDF zoning map, email planning@princeton.ca.
Good to know
- The posted consolidated copy includes amendments up to and including Bylaw No. 1032, 2022. Later amending bylaws are posted separately in the Town's bylaw library, so check them too.
- Contact Planning at planning@princeton.ca or 250-295-3135.
Official forms and pages
The same question in other places
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Sources
- Building Services, Town of Princeton (read 2026-11-08)
- Zoning Bylaw Number 880, 2013 (PDF), Town of Princeton (read 2026-11-08)
- Contact Us, Town of Princeton (read 2026-11-08)
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.