City of Powell River · zoning
The C1 zone in Powell River.
General Commercial. 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 the zoning bylaw (10.1; Part 6). General information, not legal or planning advice. The adopted bylaw, as the City of Powell River reads it, is always the final word.
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C1 at a glance
| What you can use it for | retail stores; retail uses with ancillary light manufacturing and assembly; personal service establishments; commercial and professional offices and financial institutions; assembly use; entertainment use; civic use; traveller accommodation use; public transportation terminals and taxi stands; veterinary clinic; preparation and bottling of food excluding fish or seafood products (≤162 m² (1,750 sqft), ≤3 employees, 10.1.3.4); mushroom sorting, grading and packaging depots; boarding houses; dwelling units located in commercial and institutional buildings; parking lot; wholesale use accessory to retail; restaurant; liquor store use; cannabis retail store use (10.1.2). business inside a completely enclosed building except child care centres, parking and loading, accessory outdoor sales ≤25% of the principal use's GFA, and permitted seasonal retail (10.1.3.1); ancillary light manufacturing enclosed, no exterior storage, pre-processed materials, goods sold retail on premises (10.1.3.3) |
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| Dwelling units | dwelling units in a commercial/institutional building: not over RM3 density, residential:commercial GFA ratio ≤2:1, part of a building with another permitted use, not in a basement, separate main entrance directly to a street (10.1.3.2); FAR not stated |
| Smallest lot for subdivision | 270 square metres (2,905 sqft); lot width 7.5 metres (25 ft), depth 30 metres (99 ft) (10.1.4–10.1.5) |
| Setbacks (front / side / rear / side on a road) | not stated front / 3 metres (10 ft) side where abutting an R or A zone lot with no intervening street or lane (10.1.7.1); where there is no rear lane, 3 metres (10 ft) on one side (10.1.7.2) / 6 metres (20 ft) rear (10.1.7.3) / flank not stated |
| Height | 3½ storeys or 13.5 metres (44 ft) (10.1.6) / accessory not stated |
| Lot coverage | not stated |
| Shops, garages and sheds: size | not stated |
| Shops, garages and sheds: setbacks | not stated |
| Parking | Part 6 by use (6.5.3–6.5.4): retail/personal service ≤185 m² (1,991 sq ft) 1 per 23 m² (248 sq ft) GFA; shopping centre/supermarket 1 per 30 m² (323 sq ft); offices 1 per 35 m² (377 sq ft); restaurants/licensed 1 per 5 seats; hotels/motels 1 per sleeping unit + 1 per employee; manufacturing/industrial 1 per 90 m² (969 sq ft); warehousing/wholesale 1 per 150 m² (1,615 sq ft); parking in a commercial/industrial front setback ≥2 m (6.6 ft) from the front lot line, landscaped between (6.2.2) |
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.
The lot report answers those for one address.
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