Housing – Small Scale (zoning code H-1) is a zone proposed by the City of Calgary’s [[Zoning Bylaw]] Draft.[1] It amalgamates all zones from the Low-Density Residential category in the Land Use Bylaw — including R-CG, R-2M, and other now-defunct zones like R-C1 or R-2.
It is intended to accommodate a variety of low-density residential developments, and discretionary Home Businesses.
Scale
H-1 is virtually identical to R-CG, copying its height, setback, and density restrictions almost directly.
The Zoning Bylaw includes suites in density calculations, so H-1’s 150 dwelling units per hectare is equivalent to R-CG’s 75.
List of Uses
Permitted
- Housing*
- Minor Utility
- Protective and Emergency Services
- Sign (Classes A and B)
- Supportive Housing*
- Urban Agriculture
* – uses become discretionary when a parcel is located in a heritage guideline area.
Discretionary
- Child Care Service
- Community Service
- Home Business
- Religious Facility
- Sign (Classes C and E)
- Temporary Sales Centre
Additional
The following additional uses are enabled as discretionary if they are located entirely within a heritage resource or pre-war home.
- Health Care Service
- Indoor Sales & Service
- Neighbourhood Store
- Office
Analysis
Home Business as a discretionary use, especially when paired with Class C or E signage, and accommodates more commercial opportunities than the “Home Based Business” use in the Land Use Bylaw.
Though, Home Business is not a commercial use, and does not accommodate the range of commercial opportunities present in Indoor Sales & Service, or Neighbourhood Store, for example.
Restricting these small commercial opportunities to “heritage” or “pre-war” areas is argued to make the retention of properties “more attractive”[2]. H-2 is slightly more relaxed than H-1, moving some of these Additional Uses into full-time Discretionary Uses.