---
title: "CT zone in Princeton: Tourist Commercial"
place: Princeton, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/princeton
zone: CT
bylaw: Zoning Bylaw Number 880, 2013 (consolidated for convenience, including amending bylaws up to and including Bylaw No. 1032, 2022)
bylaw_read: 2026-11-08
review: draft
canonical: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/princeton/zoning/ct/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/princeton/zoning/ct.json"
---

# CT zone in Princeton: Tourist Commercial

Provide tourist accommodation, entertainment, recreation oriented facilities and convenience services.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** Provide tourist accommodation, entertainment, recreation oriented facilities and convenience services.
- **Main uses:** Campground; Commercial amusement or recreation enterprise; Convenience store; Craft brewery/distillary; Garden centre, including nursery; Hotel; Liquor primary licenced premises; Liquor sales, primary; Motel; Recreation facilities; Restaurant; Retail service establishment, minor; Single detached dwelling accessory to any of the above uses (A single detached dwelling must be self-contained and have a separate entrance to the street.)
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Accessory uses, buildings and structures
- **Minimum lot area:** 1,700 m² (18,300 ft²) for motels and hotels; 0.2 ha (0.5 ac) for recreation facility and campground; 600 m² (6,460 ft²) for all other uses
- **Minimum lot width:** 10 m (32 ft)
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 35%
- **Maximum density:** Floor area ratio 0.45; 1 principal building per parcel
- **Maximum height:** 10.5 m (34 ft)
- **Front setback:** 7.5 m (24 ft), except as outlined in 'other regulations' (parking spaces must be at least 3 m (10 ft) from the front parcel line)
- **Rear setback:** 3 m (10 ft) with lane; 6 m (20 ft) without lane or adjacent to RS1, RS2, RSM, RD, RM2 or RM3 zones
- **Interior side setback:** 2.4 m (8 ft)
- **Street side setback:** 4.5 m (15 ft)
- **Other rules:** A single detached dwelling unit must be self-contained and have a separate entrance to the street; No mobile home or mobile building is permitted; A landscaped strip at least 3 m (10 ft) wide is required for parcels abutting a highway other than a lane, except at ingress and egress points

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw Number 880, 2013 (consolidated for convenience, including amending bylaws up to and including Bylaw No. 1032, 2022), s. 20](https://princeton.civicweb.net/document/11311#page=65) (read 2026-11-08)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply. All zones in Princeton: https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/princeton/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/princeton/zoning/ct/_