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title: "B-1 zone in Coquitlam: Business Enterprise"
place: Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/coquitlam
zone: B-1
bylaw: Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996 (consolidated with amending bylaws, updated July 27, 2026)
bylaw_read: 2026-11-07
review: draft
canonical: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/coquitlam/zoning/b-1/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/coquitlam/zoning/b-1.json"
---

# B-1 zone in Coquitlam: Business Enterprise

Most types of industrial uses, office uses, intensive commercial recreation uses and commercial uses that support industrial activities.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** Most types of industrial uses, office uses, intensive commercial recreation uses and commercial uses that support industrial activities.
- **Main uses:** Assembly child care; Child care; Commercial: contractor service, grocery store, industrial office, intensive commercial recreation, retail - general, office, personal services (physio, speech and neurological therapy), restaurant, motor vehicle sales and service, trade school, liquor manufacturing; Industrial (except batch plants for concrete and asphalt, manufacture of concrete products, and recycling, processing or salvaging of motor vehicles); Assembly (child-minding service only); Public service; Cannabis processing (Uses must be enclosed in a building; grocery store and restaurant limited to 85 m² gross floor area; retail - general at least 500 m² per business; personal services, and motor vehicle sales and service, only at the listed addresses.)
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Accessory health care and athletic rehabilitation and treatment services (intensive commercial recreation only); Accessory office; Accessory retail; Accessory unenclosed storage; Accessory street vending
- **Extra uses on specific lots:** Restaurant up to 360 m² total: 1988 United Boulevard (PID 028-371-798); Personal services (physio, speech and neurological therapy): 277 Schoolhouse Street / 1580-1582 Booth Avenue (PID 008-596-352); Motor vehicle sales and service and accessory unenclosed storage: 1751 United Boulevard (PID 018-623-719), 1881 United Boulevard (PID 018-470-424), 277 Schoolhouse Street (PID 008-596-352)
- **Maximum lot coverage:** Not applicable in this zone
- **Maximum density:** Gross floor area up to 2.0 times the lot area
- **Maximum height:** Eight storeys
- **Front setback:** 7.6 m (lot lines along a street)
- **Rear setback:** 7.6 m (rear lot line abutting all other zones; no figure stated for rear lot lines abutting an industrial or business zone)
- **Interior side setback:** 3.0 m (interior side lot line abutting all other zones; no figure stated for lines abutting an industrial or business zone)
- **Street side setback:** 7.6 m (lot lines along a street)
- **Other rules:** Setbacks may increase under sections 518, 519 and 523 or decrease under section 514; Unenclosed storage must be on a dust-free surface and, next to a street, lane or residential use, behind opaque screening at least 1.8 m high

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw No. 3000, 1996 (consolidated with amending bylaws, updated July 27, 2026), s. 1801](https://www.coquitlam.ca/DocumentCenter/View/1162/Part-18-Business-Enterprise-Zone-PDF--B-1-Zone#page=1) (read 2026-11-07)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply. All zones in Coquitlam: https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/coquitlam/zoning/index.json

_Draft: taken from the bylaw text by a research agent and not yet reviewed by a person. Gov Handbook is an independent guide. Canonical page: https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/coquitlam/zoning/b-1/_