{"title":"S4 zone in Salt Spring Island: Shoreline 4","code":"S4","slug":"s4","name":"Shoreline 4","group":"Rural","section":"9.11","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Main uses: Navigational uses, Geothermal heating equipment in tidal waters only, Private floats and buoys for non-commercial boat moorage, Private docks and floats for non-commercial boat wharfage accessory to a permitted use on the adjacent upland, Docks for the temporary commercial wharfage of transient boats, and 2 more.","fields":{"primary_uses":{"value":["Navigational uses","Geothermal heating equipment in tidal waters only","Private floats and buoys for non-commercial boat moorage","Private docks and floats for non-commercial boat wharfage accessory to a permitted use on the adjacent upland","Docks for the temporary commercial wharfage of transient boats","Docks for private boat club wharfage","Commercial moorage or wharfage of resident boats"],"quotes":["Navigational uses","Geothermal heating equipment in tidal waters","Private floats and buoys for non-commercial","Private docks and floats for non-commercial","Docks for the temporary commercial wharfage","Docks for private boat club wharfage","Commercial moorage or wharfage of resident"]},"secondary_uses":{"value":["Docks, floats, walkways, ramps, floating breakwaters and wharves accessory to a permitted use"],"quotes":["Docks, floats, walkways, ramps, floating"]},"max_height":{"value":"4.5 m","quotes":["Maximum height of buildings and structures","4.5 4.5 10 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5 4.5"]},"other":{"value":["Only accessory buildings are permitted in the Shoreline zones"],"quotes":["only buildings permitted in the Shoreline Zones are accessory buildings."]}},"bylaw":{"title":"Salt Spring Island Land Use Bylaw, 1999 (Bylaw No. 355), consolidated version June 2026","url":"https://islandstrust.bc.ca/document/ssi-ltc-bylaw-no-355/","accessed":"2026-11-07","note":"The Islands Trust says the consolidation is for convenience only and is not to be construed as a legal document. The zone names for R, RU1-RU3, RW1-RW2, Ri, S1-S8 are written out in the bylaw only as column codes or in generic lists, so names for those are derived from the bylaw's usage. The CRD zoning layer also carries R13 and CF3, which the bylaw text does not list (it lists R1 to R12 and CF1, CF2)."},"source_url":"https://islandstrust.bc.ca/document/ssi-ltc-bylaw-no-355/#page=120","place":{"path":"ca/bc/salt-spring-island","name":"Salt Spring Island","region":{"code":"bc","name":"British Columbia"},"country":{"code":"ca","name":"Canada"}},"urls":{"html":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/salt-spring-island/zoning/s4/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/salt-spring-island/zoning/s4.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/salt-spring-island/zoning/s4.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/salt-spring-island/zoning/index.json"}}