DC

This part outlines specific regulation that applies to the City’s Land Use Districts.

 

5.26 DC - Direct Control District

1. Application
   
   This section applies to the areas designated as Direct Control (DC) on the Land Use District Map, Schedule A of this Bylaw.
2. Purpose
   
   The purpose of a Direct Control (DC) District is to enable Council to exercise particular control over the use and development of land or buildings within the area so designated. The DC District may be used to create site-specific regulations for lots, including historic resources Historic Resource means a building, group of buildings, District, landscape, archaeological site, or other place that has been formally recognized by the City, provincial, and/or federal government for its heritage value..
3. Approval Authority
   1. Council shall determine the uses that may be allowed in a DC District, and may impose such standards and conditions it considers appropriate to regulate that use.
      1. Notwithstanding section (a), Council may delegate the following Discretionary Uses for approval by the Development Authority Development Authority has the same meaning as set out in the MGA., and the Development Authority may impose standards and conditions it considers appropriate to regulate, including:
         1. Accessory Accessory means subordinate, incidental to, and exclusively devoted to a principal use or principal building. Developments to a use enabled within a DC District.
   2. Council, or the Development Authority where delegated by Council, may issue a Development Permit for any use in a DC District, and impose such conditions as it considers appropriate.
   3. In addition to section 2.16, the Development Authority where delegated by Council, may impose such conditions as it deems appropriate.
4. Development Regulations
   1. Council, or the Development Authority, where delegated by Council, may refer to a corresponding conventional District or any part of the Land Use Bylaw to determine land use regulations that may be applied to a DC District Development Permit Development Permit means the document issued by the Development Authority or by Council in a Direct Control District under this Bylaw or any previous Land Use Bylaw, and includes any plans or conditions of approval..
   2. A DC District is a separate and distinct bylaw from this Bylaw and can be made with reference to Districts in this Bylaw.