THE RESORT VILLAGE OF CANDLE LAKE ZONING BYLAW
Article Two: DEFINITIONS
Bylaws
Whenever in this Bylaw the following words or terms are used they shall, unless the context otherwise provides, be held to have the following meaning:
Accessory Building

see Building, Accessory.
Accessory Use

see Use, Accessory.
Act

The Planning and Development Act, 1983 as amended from time to time.
Adult Theatre Any premises or any part thereof, where, for any form of consideration, live entertainment, motion pictures, video tapes, video discs, slides, or similar electronic or photographic reproductions, are performed or shown and where the main feature of which is the nudity or partial nudity of any person.
Alterations Any structural changing, or addition to, a building or structure, and shall include a change from one type of use to another.
Adult Day Care Centre An establishment for the provision of care, supervision, and protection of adults, but does not include the provision of overnight supervision.
Basic Planning Statement The Basic Planning Statement for the Resort Village of Candle Lake.
Bed and Breakfast Home A dwelling unit in which the occupants use a portion of the dwelling unit for the purpose of providing, for remuneration, sleeping accommodation and one meal per day to members of the general public, for periods of one week or less, and in which:
i) not more than three bedrooms within the dwelling unit are used to provide such sleeping accommodation;
ii) the dwelling unit is the principal residence of the person or persons receiving the remuneration and providing the sleeping accommodation and one meal per day; and,
iii) the meal which is provided is served before noon each day.
Building Any structure constructed or placed on, in, or over land but does not include a public highway.
Building, Accessory A subordinate, detached building appurtenant to a principal building and located on the same site, the purpose of which is to provide better and more convenient enjoyment of the principal building.
Building, Principal A building in which the main or primary use of the site is conducted.
Building Bylaw A bylaw adopted by the council pursuant to the relevant provincial statute that regulates the construction, alteration, repair, occupancy, or maintenance of buildings.
Building Line, Established A line, parallel to the front lot line, and set back the average distance from the edge of the front lot line to the front wall of the existing buildings on a side of the street where more than half of the lots have been built upon.
Campground A parcel of land providing a location for the placement of tents or recreation vehicles used by travelers or tourists for overnight accommodation that may or may not include confectionaries and laundromat facilities for use by the travelers or tourists.
Chief Administrative Officer The Chief Administrative Officer of the Resort Village of Candle Lake appointed by Council to administer the Resort Village affairs.
Club A group of people organized for a common purpose, to pursue common goals, interests, or activities, and usually characterized by certain membership qualifications, payment of dues or fees, regular meetings, and a constitution and bylaws
Confectionary A retail, commercial establishment supplying a limited selection of foodstuffs and other daily household necessities to the surrounding area.
Construction Trades Offices, shops, and warehouses, with or without associated retail sales of plumbing and heating, electrical, carpentry, masonry, pipe fitting, metal working, and other trades associated with the construction of buildings, services, or of landscaping features or planting.
Custodial Care Facility A facility for:
i. the temporary detention or open custody of persons pursuant to the provisions of The Young Offenders Act (Canada) or the Summary Convictions Procedures Act (Saskatchewan); or
ii. a community training residence as defined in The Corrections Act (Saskatchewan).
Design Flood The peak water level, being the 1:100 year return peak calm water level in combination with the 1:5 year return wind set up and wave run up from the governing direction, as determined by the Saskatchewan Water Corporation.
Day Care Centre An establishment for the provision of care, supervision, and protection of children, but does not include the provision of overnight supervision.
Development The carrying out of any clearing, land stripping, building, engineering, mining, or other operations in, on, or over land or the making of any material change in the use or intensity of the use of any building or land.
Development Application A document requesting a development or construction in the Resort Village of Candle Lake.
Development Permit A document authorizing a development issued pursuant to this bylaw, but does not include a building permit.
Discretionary Use A use of land or a building that may be permitted in a zoning district only at the discretion of the Council and that may be subject to specific development standards as required by Council.
Dwelling A building or part of a building that may be used as a permanent residence, including a prefabricated or modular home but excluding a mobile home.
Dwelling Unit A separate set of living quarters, whether occupied or not, that may be used as a residence each unit having separate sleeping, cooking, and sanitary facilities but does not include rooming houses or rooming units.
Dwelling, Duplex A building divided horizontally into two dwelling units.
Dwelling, Multiple Unit A building containing three or more dwelling units but not including a motel or hotel.
Dwelling, Semi-detached A building divided vertically into two dwelling units by a common wall extending from the base of the foundation to the roof line throughout at least 40 percent of the length of the entire structure, measured from the front to the rear building lines.
Dwelling, Single Detached A building containing only one dwelling unit but not including a mobile home.
Environmental Site Assessment An investigation intended to identify actual or potential contamination, and is performed by a qualified person in accordance with The Canadian Standards Association Standard Z768-94, Phase I Environmental Site Assessment.
Erected To be built, constructed, or reconstructed including the removal of a structure from one site to another; and any physical operation such as excavating, filling, or draining, preparatory to commencing the work of erecting, building, or constructing a building.
Fill Soil, rock, rubble, or a combination of these that is placed on the natural surface or previously graded area or used to fill an excavation.
Flood Hazard Area An area of land that would be inundated by the design flood.
Flood Proofing, Adequate Any combination of structural and non-structural additions, changes, or adjustments to land or buildings that significantly reduce or eliminate flood damage to the buildings, property, and contents up to and including the design flood plus freeboard.
Floor Area The maximum habitable area contained within the outside walls of a building at, or above grade level, excluding, in the case of a dwelling unit any private garage, porch, sunroom, or unfinished attic.
Freeboard The elevation of the design flood plus 0.5 m.
Garage, Private A building or part of a building used or intended to be used for the storage of motor vehicles, but specifically excluding aircraft, for occupants of the Dwelling Unit to which the Garage is Accessory and having a capacity of not more than three (3) parking spaces.
Gas Bar A site or part of a site used for the retail sale of lubricating oils and gasoline, and automobile accessories, but not the servicing, rental, or repairing of motor vehicles.
Grade Level The finished ground elevation of a Site at the Front of the principal building midway between the outermost front corners of the building.
Hazard Land Lands which, due to potential flooding, landslides, subsidence, or erosion pose dangers to uses or developments that may occur on those lands.
Home-based Business A trade or craft conducted for gain in a dwelling unit or a conforming accessory building by the resident or residents and which is incidental and secondary to the residence and does not change the building’s exterior character.
Home Occupation An occupation or profession conducted for gain in a dwelling unit or a conforming accessory building by the resident or residents and which is incidental and secondary to the residence and does not change the building’s exterior character.
Hotel A building or structure or part of a building or structure in which sleeping accommodation with or without meals, and which may have a licensed beverage room, is provided for tourists or travelers, and where a guest register or record is kept, but does not include a Motel or rooming house.
Ice Push Ridge A natural feature formed by lake ice pushing shore materials into a ridge in the shore area.
Junk and Salvage Yards Uses involved in salvaging, storing, or selling scrap metal, paper, plastic, glass, wood, and other waste material, as well as appliances, unlicensed vehicles, and used vehicle parts.
Junked Vehicle Any automobile, tractor, truck, trailer or other vehicle that:
i) has no current valid license plates attached to it;
ii) is in rusted, wrecked, partly wrecked, dismantled, partly dismantled, inoperative, or abandoned condition; or
iii) is located on private land, but is not within a structure erected in accordance with any law respecting the erection of buildings and structures in force within the Resort Village of Candle Lake and that does not form a part of a business enterprise lawfully being operated on that land.
Lane A public highway vested in the Crown as a secondary level of access to a Lot or parcel of land.
Livestock Domesticated animals used primarily as beasts of burden or for the production of fur, hides, meat, milk, eggs or other product, but excluding companion animals.
Lodge A hotel like facility centered around recreational activities that provides all meals for registered guests.
Lot A parcel of land in a subdivision, the plan of which has been filed or registered in the Land Title Office for the Prince Albert Land Registration District.
Lounge A room or area adjoining a restaurant set aside for the sale of beverage alcohol for consumption on the premises, with or without food, and where no area has been set aside for live dancing or entertainment, either in the lounge or in the adjoining restaurant. The area of the lounge may not exceed 50% of the public assembly area in the adjoining restaurant.
Marina, Type I A facility, accessible by boat from a water body for the sole purpose of docking or tying up watercraft.
Marina, Type II A facility, accessible by boat from a water body for the launching, berthing, and fueling of water craft and may include a confectionary or sales of boating supplies as accessory uses, but shall not include any food service use, night club, tavern, or lounge.
Mayor The Mayor of the Resort Village of Candle Lake.
Mean Width The width of a yard, measured as a straight line connecting the mid-point of the two side property lines.
Minister The member of the Executive Council to whom for the time being is assigned the administration of the Act.
Mobile Home A trailer coach that conforms to the Canadian Standards Association Standard No. Z240 for mobile homes or to such standards as may have been defined by the Canadian Standards Association for mobile home at any time subsequent to the definition of the standard set out as Z240, and is a single dwelling unit. The trailer coach may be used as a dwelling all year; has water faucets and shower or other bathing facilities that may be connected to a water distribution system; and has facilities for washing and water closet or other similar facility that may be connected to a sewage system. The trailer coach may be no greater that 5 m (16.4 ft) in width.
Mobile Home Court A site under single management for the placement of two or more mobile homes but does not include an industrial or construction camp or any such court if a tent or recreation vehicle that is not a mobile home is also permitted to be situated thereon.
Motel An establishment consisting of a group of attached or detached overnight accommodation for temporary use by automobile tourists or travelers, and may include a licensed dining room.
Night Club An establishment or portion thereof, where primarily evening or night time entertainment is provided, where beverage alcohol may be served to patrons for consumption on the premises, with or without food, and where a designation area for live entertainment or dancing during certain hours of operation is also provided.
Parking, Off Street Space for the parking of motor vehicle off of a public street or land and contained wholly within the Site Lines.
Permitted Use A use of land or buildings with associated development standards that shall be permitted in a zoning district where all requirements of the Zoning Bylaw are met.
Personal Service Shops Establishments engaging in the provision of care for a person or their possessions, but not including shops that are primarily retail in nature.
Personal Storage Facilities Facilities that offer indoor or outdoor storage space for household goods, vehicles, or recreation equipment, generally for a fee.
Place of Worship A place used for worship and related religious, philanthropic, or social activities and includes accessory rectories, manses, meeting rooms, and other buildings.
Pool A body of water located outdoors contained in whole or in part by artificial means for which the depth at any point can exceed 0.7 m (2.5 ft) and is used or is capable of being used for swimming.
Pond A body of still water artificially formed by excavation or embankment of soil and is greater that 0.7 m (2.5 ft) in depth and with a side gradient of less that 20% (1 in 5) slope and is not intended for swimming.
Principal Building see Building, Principal.
Property Line A line of record bounding a site that divides one site from another or from a public street or any other public space.
Public Works Includes facilities and land that are owned or operated wholly or partially by the Crown or a municipality to accommodate:
i) the production or distribution of electricity;
ii) the distribution of natural gas or oil;
iii) the distribution of telephone or light;
iv) the storage, transmission, treatment, distribution, or supply of water; or
v) the collection, treatment, movement, or disposal of sanitary sewage.
Recreation Vehicle A vehicle intended to provide temporary living accommodation for tourists or travelers, build as part of, or to be towed by a motor vehicle and includes truck campers, motor homes, tent trailers, and travel trailers.
Resort Village The Resort Village of Candle Lake.
Rooming House A building containing more than one rooming unit.
Rooming Unit A room or rooms for accommodation, other than a dwelling unit or other form of accommodation defined elsewhere in this bylaw, with sleeping facilities, but without private toilet facilities.
Secondary Suite A self-contained dwelling unit that is an accessory use to, and located within, a detached building in which the principal use is a one unit dwelling and that does not occupy more than 25 percent of the gross floor area of the dwelling, including the basement.
Service Station A site or part of a site used for the retail sale of lubricating oils and gasoline, automobile accessories, and the servicing, rental, and repairing of motor vehicles, and which may include a restaurant, car wash, or car sales lot as accessory uses.
Sign Any figures, numbers, emblems, pictures, devices, marks or designs, intended to be visible from other than inside a building, for the purpose of making known any individual, association, business, industry, or service, or for advertisement, directing, or obtaining attention.
Sign, Temporary A sign that is not permanently attached to a building or secured to the ground by means of concrete, nor is it permanently connected to any services.
Sign, Portable A freestanding sign mounted on a portable frame with a single sign face area of not less than 1.9 m2 or greater than 6.0 m2 that can be readily moved or transported.
Site An area of land consisting of one or more lots, or parts of lots:
i) under one ownership considered as a unit; and
ii) having its principal frontage on a public street.
Site Coverage The percentage of the site covered by buildings above grade level exclusive of marquees, canopies, balconies, and eaves.
Site Line, Front The line separating a site from a street and, for a corner site, the shorter of the two lines separating a site from the streets. Where the rear site line would border on the lake the lakeshore side of the property may be considered the front lot line.
Site Line, Rear The line at the rear of a site opposite the front site line.
Site Line, Side A site line other than a front or rear site line.
Street The whole and entire width of every highway, public road, or road allowance vested in Her Majesty in right of the Province of Saskatchewan and shown as such on a plan of survey registered in a Land Titles Office.
Structural Alteration The construction or reconstruction of the supporting elements of a building.
Tavern An establishment, or portion thereof, where the primary business is the sale of beverage alcohol for consumption on the premises, with or without food, and where no live entertainment or dance floor is permitted. A brew pub may be considered a tavern if beverage alcohol is manufactured and consumed on site under a valid manufacturer’s permit in accordance with the Alcohol Control Regulations of the Provincial Alcohol and Gaming Regulation Act.
Townhouse or Row House A building divided into three or more dwelling units located side by side under one roof and sharing common walls.
Use, Accessory A use normally incidental, subordinate, exclusively devoted to, and located on the same site as the principal use.
Use, Principal The main or primary use conducted on a site.
Water Body A lake, pond, reservoir, lagoon, swamp, marsh, wetland, or any other area containing standing surface water, either permanently or intermittently.
Water Course Any natural or artificial stream, river, creek, ditch, channel, canal, conduit, culvert, drain, waterway, gully, ravine, or wash in which water flows in a definite direction or course, either continuously or intermittently, and has a definite channel, bed, and banks, and includes any area adjacent thereto subject to inundation by reason of overflow or design flood.
Yard Open, uncovered space unoccupied by buildings or structures on a site except as specifically permitted elsewhere in this bylaw.
Yard Clearances The open space between a site line and the portion of a site that may be built upon, unoccupied by buildings or structures except as specifically permitted elsewhere in this bylaw.
Yard, Front That part of a site extending across the full width of the site between the front lot line and the nearest wall or supporting member of a principal building or structure.
Yard, Rear That part of a site extending across the full width of the site between the rear site line and the nearest wall or supporting member of a principal building or structure.
Yard, Side That part of a site extending from the front yard to the rear yard between the side site line and the nearest wall or supporting member of a building or structure but not including a wall or supporting member that supports an uncovered patio or uncovered sun deck.
 

 
       
 

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