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M1 zone in Ashcroft: Industrial 1

Ashcroft, British ColumbiaDraft, not yet reviewedBylaw read 2026-11-08

In short

Main uses: Animal hospital and animal beauty parlours, Auction houses excluding livestock, Automobile sales and repair, Bakery, Boat building, boat showrooms and display yards, and 31 more.

Zone rules

Main uses
  • Animal hospital and animal beauty parlours
  • Auction houses excluding livestock
  • Automobile sales and repair
  • Bakery
  • Boat building, boat showrooms and display yards
  • Bottling and distribution plant
  • Building supply and lumber yards
  • Car wash
  • Cardlock fuel installation
  • Cargo container storage, rentals, and sales
  • Cartage, delivery and express facilities including truck terminals
  • Commercial nurseries and greenhouses, including related retail outlets
  • Commercial recreation
  • Funeral services
  • Garage and parking lot for the storage of water vehicles and recreational vehicles
  • Heavy equipment sales and repair
  • Laundromats and dry cleaning
  • Machine shop and parts manufacturer, machinery and assembly not involving forging, casting, punch presses or drop forges
  • Manufacturing and processing plants
  • Mini-storage, including facilities utilizing cargo containers for storage lockers
  • Motor vehicle service stations
  • Outdoor garden shops
  • Plumbing and sheet metal workshop
  • Printing and other reproduction processes
  • Propane sales
  • Public work yards
  • Publishing and allied trades
  • Recycling Centre
  • Rental and repair of small equipment and tools
  • Restaurants
  • Sash and door and other woodworking shops
  • Septic tank service
  • Storage, excluding auto wreckers and junk yards
  • Tire shops, re-treading and rebuilding, sales and service
  • Trailer manufacture, repairs, sales and display yards
  • Warehousing and wholesale establishments
Also allowed (secondary uses)
  • Offices in conjunction with storage buildings for trade contractors
  • Caretaker suite
  • Accessory buildings and uses
Minimum lot area560 m² (new subdivisions)
Maximum lot coverage60%
Maximum height15 m
Front setback7.5 m
Rear setback3.0 m
Interior side setback2.0 m; where M1 abuts a Residential zone: 3.0 m (one storey building), 7.5 m (more than one storey)
Street side setback2.0 m; corner parcel flanking a highway: 4.5 m
Other rules
  • Setbacks do not apply to a fence, landscaped area or parking area
  • Motor vehicle service station pumps or pump islands: 4.5 m to any property line
  • All businesses must be inside a completely enclosed building, except open storage areas, parking and loading facilities
  • No storage areas in any required front yard

Source: Village of Ashcroft Zoning Bylaw No. 890, 2026, s. 11 (read 2026-11-08)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply, and a lot can have site-specific rules. Bylaw 890 repeals Zoning Bylaw No. 823, 2018. Its zoning map is Schedule B. Zone pages are taken from the bylaw text by a research agent and have not yet been reviewed by a person: confirm with the bylaw before you rely on them. How answers are checked.

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