CS1 zone in Colwood: Service Commercial

Colwood, British ColumbiaDraft, not yet reviewedBylaw read 2026-11-07

In short

Main uses: Animal hospitals in enclosed buildings, Auction rooms, Automobile repair, body and painting shops, Car wash establishments and drive-in businesses, Commercial nurseries and greenhouses, and 11 more.

Zone rules

Main uses	Animal hospitals in enclosed buildings Auction rooms Automobile repair, body and painting shops Car wash establishments and drive-in businesses Commercial nurseries and greenhouses Gasoline service stations Offices, storage buildings and enclosed yards for building, electrical, heating, ventilating and air conditioning, painting, plumbing, refrigeration, roofing, septic tank and sign contractors Printing, publishing and bookbinding Personal service, limited to 200 m² in gross floor area Public transportation depots Restaurants Repair of household furnishings Retail lumber and building supply establishments Retail sale, rental and repair of tools and small equipment Retail stores not exceeding 200 m² in gross floor area Unenclosed storage accessory to a retail lumber and building supply establishment Uses are in addition to those permitted by Section 2.1.10 of the bylaw.
Also allowed (secondary uses)	Accessory buildings and structures
Extra uses on specific lots	Lot A, Section 1, Esquimalt District, Plan VIP85614: additional uses permitted include apartment dwelling units (one dwelling unit per 2 hectares of site area), bakeries, business colleges and trade schools, day care, funeral parlours, hotels and motels, indoor sports and recreation facilities, offices, personal service, post office, restaurants, retail stores, scientific or technological research facilities, shopping centre, light manufacturing, uses permitted in the P2 zone, wholesale and storage buildings, one caretaker dwelling unit and accessory dwelling unit #202-310 Wale Road (Strata Lot 10 Section 1 Esquimalt District Strata Plan VIS6898): a Cannabis Retail Store of up to 270 m² is permitted
Minimum lot area	695 m²
Minimum lot width	16 m
Maximum lot coverage	50 percent of the lot
Maximum density	Floor area ratio 1.0; 1.5 at 310, 314, 318 and 328 Wale Road and 2675 Wilfert Road
Maximum height	12 m or three storeys
Front setback	7.5 m
Rear setback	3 m (6 m where the lot abuts an Agricultural, Residential, Multiple Family Residential or Institutional Zone)
Interior side setback	4.5 m on at least one side where the lot is not serviced by a rear access highway; 6 m where the lot abuts an Agricultural, Residential, Multiple Family Residential or Institutional Zone
Street side setback	7.5 m on a corner lot next to a flanking street
Other rules	Landscaping must cover at least 5 percent of the developed lot area A landscaping strip at least 3 m wide is required along each side of the lot that abuts a highway Screen planting or a solid decorative fence at least 1.5 m high is required where the lot adjoins a Residential, Multiple Family Residential or Institutional Zone Panhandle lots are not permitted

Source: Colwood Land Use Bylaw No. 151, 1989 (with amendments to August 24, 2026), s. 7.6 (read 2026-11-07)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply, and a lot can have site-specific rules. Consolidated for convenience only; the original bylaws should be consulted for interpretation and application. Colwood's zoning bylaw is called the Land Use Bylaw. Zone sections for CD zones from 10.5 onward are numbered with roman-numeral page footers in the document; pdf_page is the PDF page. No Section 10.28 exists in the consolidation. 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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