Development Permit Areas - Mainland

To view the Development Permit Guidelines for the mainland (Schedule B of the Official Community Plan), click here to view the consolidated Development Permit Guidelines, or use the table of contents below to find a specific Development Permit Area.

Eight categories of Development Permit Areas are identified in the OCP. Each category is based on a prominent land use or mix of uses.

1.0  Residential Neighbourhoods (Introduction and Maps)

• 1.1 Laneway and Carriage Houses
  • Click here to learn more about building a laneway or carriage house.
• 1.2 Ground Oriented Housing
  • Duplex, Triplex and Quadraplex: Interim Development Review Policy
• 1.3 Infill Townhouses and Rowhouses
  • Click here to learn more about building townhouses and rowhouses.
• 1.4 Multiple Unit Residential
• 1.5 High Rise Residential
• 1.6 Terry Hughes

2.0  Residential Corridors (Introduction and Map)

• 2.1 Upper Twelfth Street
• 2.2 Sixth Street

3.0  Commercial Corridors (Introduction and Map)

• 3.1 Upper Twelfth Street
• 3.2 East Columbia Street

4.0 Mixed Use Nodes (Introduction and Map)

• 4.1 Uptown
• 4.2 Eighth Avenue & McBride Boulevard
• 4.3 Braid Street & Brunette Avenue 
• 4.4 100 Braid Street
  • Click here to view the supplemental guidelines for 100 Braid Street.

5.0 Mixed Use Neighbourhoods (Introduction and Map)

• 5.1 Victoria Hill
  • Click here to view the supplemental guidelines for Victoria Hill.
• 5.2 Sapperton Green
• 5.3 Brewery District
  • Click here to view the supplemental guidelines for Brewery District.

6.0 Employment Lands (Introduction and Map)

• 6.1 Twentieth Street
• 6.2 Brunette Avenue
• 6.3 Mixed Employment
• 6.4 Industrial
• 6.5 Intertidal 

7.0 Natural Features (Introduction and Map)

• 7.1 Brunette River
  • Click here to view the supplemental guidelines specific to the Sapperton Reach.
     

8.0 Study Areas (Introduction and Map)

• 8.1 Bent Court
• 8.2 Lower Twelfth St. & Sharpe St.