{"title":"R/A zone in Wells: Resource Area","code":"R/A","slug":"r-a","name":"Resource Area","group":"Rural","section":"4.16","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Main uses: Single-family residential dwelling, Community facility, including a community hall, fire hall, library, school, church, medical clinic or first aid station, and buildings associated with an airplane landing strip or helicopter pad, airplane landing strip or helicopter pad, Public use, including public utility buildings and structures, Parks, playgrounds and outdoor recreation facilities of a non-commercial nature, and 9 more.","fields":{"primary_uses":{"value":["Single-family residential dwelling","Community facility, including a community hall, fire hall, library, school, church, medical clinic or first aid station, and buildings associated with an airplane landing strip or helicopter pad","airplane landing strip or helicopter pad","Public use, including public utility buildings and structures","Parks, playgrounds and outdoor recreation facilities of a non-commercial nature","Museum, historic site, or cemetery","refuse disposal site","Agricultural operations, including horticulture, silviculture, livestock, intensive livestock operation, stockyard, beekeeping and aquaculture","Slaughtering and butchering of animals reared on the property or for personal consumption by the owner","Logging and forestry activities, including the manufacture of wood products","Portable sawmill, if located no closer than 300 m from an existing residential use on an adjacent or nearby property","Extraction of raw materials from the land, including crushing and screening, but excluding further processing","Temporary construction, exploration or logging camp operated by or on behalf of a government agency or a registered company","trapping and guide camps, except main lodges"],"quotes":["a single-family residential dwelling","a community facility, including a community hall, fire hall, library, school,","airplane landing strip or helicopter pad","a public use, including public utility buildings and structures","outdoor recreation facilities of a non-commercial","historic site, or cemetery","refuse disposal site","Agricultural operations, including horticulture, silviculture, livestock,","slaughtering and butchering ancillary to a permitted residential use or","logging and forestry activities, including the manufacture of wood","portable sawmill, providing such activities are located no closer than 300","activities, but excluding any further processing activities;","temporary construction, exploration or logging camp operated by or on","trapping and guide camps, except main lodges"]},"secondary_uses":{"value":["Temporary dwelling unit in conjunction with a single-family residential dwelling","Home occupation or home industry ancillary to a permitted residential use","Bed and breakfast accommodations or rooming and boarding accommodations ancillary to a permitted residential use","Ancillary buildings"],"quotes":["a temporary dwelling unit in conjunction with a single-family residential","a home occupation or a home industry ancillary to a permitted residential","bed and breakfast accommodations or rooming and boarding","ancillary buildings."]},"min_parcel_area":{"value":"32 hectares","quotes":["LOT AREA (minimum): = 32 hectares (79.07 acres)"]},"max_parcel_coverage":{"value":"10%","quotes":["LOT COVERAGE (maximum): = 10%"]},"max_height":{"value":"10.67 m","quotes":["HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS (maximum): = 10.67 metres (35 feet)"]},"setback_front":{"value":"7.6 m","quotes":["Front Yard - Setback = 7.6 metres (24.9 feet)"]},"setback_rear":{"value":"7.6 m","quotes":["Rear Yard - Setback = 7.6 metres (24.9 feet)"]},"setback_side_interior":{"value":"7.6 m","quotes":["Interior Side Yard - Setback = 7.6 metres (24.9 feet)"]},"setback_side_exterior":{"value":"7.6 m","quotes":["Exterior Side Yard - Setback = 7.6 metres (24.9 feet)"]},"other":{"value":["Additional dwellings in conjunction with bona fide agricultural operations are allowed if the lot has at least 4 hectares for each additional dwelling","Many of the uses are not permitted in the Forest Land Reserve and are subject to Land Reserve Commission approval"],"quotes":["additional dwellings in","the lot contains a minimum of 4 hectares (9.88 acres) for each additional dwelling.","Many of the above uses are non-permitted use in the Forest Land Reserve and","are therefore subject to Land Reserve Commission approval."]}},"bylaw":{"title":"District of Wells Zoning and Tree Protection Bylaw No. 26, 2000 (with Amending Bylaws No. 123 and 125, 2013 not consolidated)","url":"https://www.wells.ca/download_file/view/176/379","accessed":"2026-11-08","note":"This is the original 2000 bylaw text. The District posts amending bylaws separately and not folded in: No. 6 1998 (an older CRD bylaw), No. 123, 2013 (adds single family dwelling as permitted use in CW, s. 4.1.A.1(a)iii) and No. 125, 2013 (adds RV seasonal temporary dwelling rules, s. 3.13(g),(h)). Neither adds a zone."},"source_url":"https://www.wells.ca/download_file/view/176/379#page=70","place":{"path":"ca/bc/wells","name":"Wells","region":{"code":"bc","name":"British Columbia"},"country":{"code":"ca","name":"Canada"}},"urls":{"html":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/wells/zoning/r-a/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/wells/zoning/r-a.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/wells/zoning/r-a.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/wells/zoning/index.json"}}