---
title: "H1 zone in Princeton: Institutional and Health Care"
place: Princeton, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/princeton
zone: H1
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/h1/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/princeton/zoning/h1.json"
---

# H1 zone in Princeton: Institutional and Health Care

Accommodate institutional services including age-friendly housing, health care and education.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** Accommodate institutional services including age-friendly housing, health care and education.
- **Main uses:** Assisted living housing; Campus of care; Civic use; Complex care housing; Congregate housing; Day care centre; Hospital; Institutional use; Independent living housing; Park; Residential care housing; Schools; Shelter housing; Supportive living housing
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Accessory uses, buildings and structures
- **Minimum lot area:** 669 m² (7,200 ft²) fully serviced
- **Minimum lot width:** 18 m (58 ft) for fully serviced lots with a lane; 21.3 m (69 ft) for fully serviced lots without a lane
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 45%
- **Maximum density:** 110 sleeping units/ha; floor area ratio 1.20
- **Maximum height:** 12 m (39 ft) or 3 storeys
- **Maximum height, accessory buildings:** 4.5 m (15 ft)
- **Front setback:** 6 m (20 ft)
- **Rear setback:** 6 m (20 ft)
- **Interior side setback:** 2.4 m (8 ft)
- **Street side setback:** 4 m (14 ft)
- **Accessory building setbacks:** front 6 m (20 ft), rear 3 m (10 ft), interior side 2.4 m (8 ft), exterior side 4 m (14 ft)
- **Other rules:** Minimum outdoor amenity area is 40% of the parcel area; Fences: maximum height 1.2 m (4 ft) within the front setback and 1.8 m (6 ft) outside the front setback

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw Number 880, 2013 (consolidated for convenience, including amending bylaws up to and including Bylaw No. 1032, 2022), s. 27](https://princeton.civicweb.net/document/11311#page=86) (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/h1/_