City of Campbell River · zoning
The C-4 zone in Campbell River.
Commercial Four. What the bylaw lets you build, how big the lot has to be, and how close to the lines you can go, in plain words with the section for each.
From Zoning Bylaw No. 3250, 2006. General information, not legal or planning advice. The adopted bylaw, as the City of Campbell River reads it, is always the final word.
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C-4 at a glance
| What you can use it for | Purpose: a mix of limited retail, service, highway and tourist accommodation commercial services and uses, as well as medium to high density residential uses in the commercial designation areas of Campbellton, North Campbell River, and along the South Island Highway. Uses: hotel, motel; restaurant with or without ancillary drive-through; licensed facility, licensed retail store; retail store, retail and wholesale store; office, adult learning centre; entertainment centre; personal service establishment; merchandise service establishment; escort service or massage parlor; health services or fitness centre; community centre, meeting hall; parking garage, parking lot; veterinary clinic; funeral parlor; small-tool rental establishment; printing and publishing; gas bar / convenience store; vehicle sales, vehicle rental, minor repair shop; auto repair shop, auto body repair excluding outdoor storage; car wash; self storage units within an enclosed building; ancillary warehouse; ancillary storage yard; freight transfer depot; truck repair shop excluding scrap metal yard; auction; light industrial uses meeting 5.9.9 (fabrication, assembly, processing, packaging or storage of materials and goods, only in conjunction with another permitted use, entirely within an enclosed building, using 75% or less of the total floor area of all buildings on a lot or single occupancy within a complex); commercial nursery; apartment; ancillary dwelling unit; residential uses existing continuously since November 24, 1998; mixed use commercial/residential buildings; vocational training centre; pet services wholly within an enclosed building; cannabis retail store on lots south of the Campbell River; medical clinic, dental clinic; acquired injury facility; child care facility; community living facility; extended care residences; hospice (5.9.1, 5.9.9, as amended by 3346, 3399, 3497, 3703, 3813, 3978). Site-specific: bmx track only at 1299 Homewood Rd (Lot 3 DL 1417 Sayward Plan 44221) (5.9.1(ff)); equipment sales, rental, storage only at 2460 Island Hwy (Lot B DL 67 Sayward Plan 6004 Except Plan VIP65222) (5.9.1(kk), 3534); lumber yard only at 2175 Campbell River Rd (PID 000-293-270, Lot B DL 66 Sayward Plan 34524 except part in Plan VIP67238) (5.9.1(oo), 3776). 1054 South Island Hwy (Lot 1, Section 29, Township 1, Comox District, Plan 4780) limited to uses a), b), c), d), e), g), cc), dd) and hh) of 5.9.1 (5.9.10, 3505) |
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| Dwelling units | Apartment, ancillary dwelling unit and mixed use commercial/residential buildings permitted (5.9.1(cc), (dd), (gg)); residential uses existing continuously since Nov 24, 1998 (5.9.1(ee)). No unit count: combined commercial/residential floor area ratio 1.5 (5.9.3). Max 2,500 m² (26,910 sq ft) per retail or retail-and-warehouse occupancy or tenant; 8,500 m² (91,493 sq ft) combined commercial in a commercial complex (5.9.4) |
| Smallest lot for subdivision | 750 m² (8,073 sq ft) fee-simple (5.9.2); frontage not stated |
| Setbacks (front / side / rear / side on a road) | No general yard minimum stated. 3.0 m (9.8 ft) side or rear yard next to a lot zoned residential, multiple-family residential or public areas (5.9.6). 4.5 m (15 ft) for any yard adjacent to a road or highway (5.9.7) |
| Height | 13.0 m (43 ft) principal. Along Island Hwy 19A from 6th Ave south to the Evergreen Rd ROW: 8 m (26 ft) above the finished grade of the adjacent highway. Along Island Hwy 19A from the Evergreen Rd ROW south to Simms Creek: measured to the highest roof peak, not more than 3.0 m (9.8 ft) below the "top of the ridge" adjacent to or within the lot (geodetic height set by the City, confirmed by BCLS) (5.9.8) / ancillary s.4.12 |
| Lot coverage | 65% all buildings; 50% for any portion of a lot within 100 m (328 ft) of the Campbell River and Campbell River estuary area (5.9.5) |
| Shops, garages and sheds: size | s.4.12 |
| Shops, garages and sheds: setbacks | s.4.12 |
| Parking | Table 4.21.1; loading s.4.22 |
Metric figures are the bylaw's own. Feet and acres are converted for reading and rounded.
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What the zone page can't tell you
- Whether your lot is actually in this zone. Check the zoning map, not the listing.
- Whether a permit area, floodplain, stream setback or farmland reserve sits over the lot. Each adds steps.
- Whether site-specific rules or a covenant on title change what this table says.
- What council has decided on the street lately.
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