Agenda Package - City of Vernon

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planner indicated that even without having policies related to the tenure of
visitors and residents, the system works fine'
Synopsis: Penticton is a similar size to Vernon but has a downtown
adjacent to the lake, and aS such, has been able to develop the downtown
in conjunction with the lakefront. A landmark hotel and strip of motels
providé the basis for tourist accommodation, but the city still relies heavily
on vacation rentals of people's personal residences to meet the tourist
demand in the summer.
Osoyoos: Osoyoos provides a Very releÚant comparison to Vernon, as it
has é¡milar destinations and lifestyle amenity resorts. Like Vernon, Osoyoos
has a tourist and residential focused waterfront area in their official
community plan. Like Vernon, Osoyoos, with its warm climate and lake side
location, ñas also been a popular retirement community. Osoyoos has a
zone specifically designed to provide the strata rental accommodations that
allow both touríst acCommodation and permanent residency. The City did
not have any objection if each project wished to regulate the ratio of
permanent and short term stay accommodation units in their company'
For their resort developments, Osoyoos relies on comprehensive
development (CD) zones. The CD zones range from single mixed use
residential/commercial buildings to larger developments with multiple
buildings offering a range of resort amenities, including spa s-ervices, food
and bãverage and long term accommodation. Most of the CD zones do
allow for commercial lesidential uses (strata rental properties). These
properties fit the definition of a strata accommodation property as defined by
'BC'Assersment Authority. Almost all of these properties had been classified
residential, although many are available for vacation rental for a large
portion of the year.
bynopsis; ósoyoos provides a very comparable example to the efforts
Vêrnon is promoting regarding its waterfront and resort areas. Osoyoos has
been liberal with letting the market dictate what percentage of units in any
given development wili ultimately become available for vacation rental and
ú,nat percentage will become full time residences. Osoyoos has the
advantage of having a large supply of hotel units in its waterfront area'
Pitt Meadows: Pitt Meadows is trying to spur waterfront development along
the Fraser River with a tourist-centric approach. Pitt Meadows also has a
tourist commercial designation in its OCP that supports a number of tourist
specific uses including overnight and vacation accommodation. lts
waterfront area is zoned as a Comprehensive Development zone, a model
used often in P¡tt Meadows to add a specific design element to a
neighbourhood. The Waterfront CD zone allows for residential uses in
spJcific areas and there does not seem to be any tenure limitations to the
residential units, There is also a Tourist Accommodation zone in the zoning
bylaw, but it focuses more on through travelers rather than destination end
users, and has a residency limit of 60 days.
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