City of Powell River · zoning
The C2 zone in Powell River.
Service 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 (10.2; 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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C2 at a glance
| What you can use it for | retail sales, service or rental of garden supplies, building supplies, hardware, vehicles, trucks, boats, recreational vehicles and small equipment; automotive repair shop; assembly use; civic use; offices; entertainment use; service station; veterinary clinic; printing shop; convenience store; window manufacturing; parking lot; mushroom sorting, grading and packaging depots; accessory residential dwelling unit within a commercial or other principal-use building; wholesale use accessory to 10.2.2(a); restaurant; warehousing and storage (per 11.1.3) only at 6530 Sutherland, Lot 4 DL 4169 Plan 14654 (10.2.2). 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 (10.2.3.4); no storage yard in the front setback except retail display yards, which must be ≥2 metres (6.5 ft) from the front lot line with landscaping in front (10.2.3.2–3); exterior storage behind a ≥2 metre (6.5 ft) view-obscuring fence, material ≤3 metres (10 ft) high (10.2.3.5) |
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| Dwelling units | accessory residential dwelling unit within the commercial building; not in a basement; separate main entrance directly to a street (10.2.3.1); unit count and FAR not stated |
| Smallest lot for subdivision | 550 square metres (5,920 sqft); width 15 metres (50 ft), depth 30 metres (100 ft) (10.2.4–10.2.5) |
| Setbacks (front / side / rear / side on a road) | 7.5 metres (25 ft) / 3 metres (10 ft) each side / 6 metres (20 ft) / flank not stated (10.2.7) |
| Height | 13.5 metres (44 ft) (10.2.6) / 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); vehicle/boat/RV sales and service, service stations, garden and building supplies 1 per 50 m² (538 sq ft) GFA + 3 per service bay; retail lumber/building supply 1 per 100 m² (1,076 sq ft) covered sales and storage |
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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