{"title":"C-1 zone in Cranbrook: Community Commercial Zone","code":"C-1","slug":"c-1","name":"Community Commercial Zone","group":"Commercial","section":"7.14","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Community Commercial Zone: general commercial uses, with housing allowed above or behind commercial uses.","fields":{"purpose":{"value":"Community Commercial Zone: general commercial uses, with housing allowed above or behind commercial uses.","quotes":["COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL ZONE: C-1"]},"primary_uses":{"value":["Business and professional office","Health and social services (physicians, surgeons and dentists; other health practitioners; social services practitioners; medical and other laboratories)","Group day care","Retail trade (food, beverage and drug store; shoe, apparel, fabric and yarn store; household furniture, appliance and furnishing store; automotive sales and rental, parts and accessories; general retail store; other retail stores)","Personal service and household service","Hotel and motor hotel","Motel","Eating establishment and drinking establishment, excluding drive-in food service","Travel service","Sports and Fitness Facility","Club or lodge","Membership organization","Church","Public building","Commercial school","University and college","Bus depot and taxi business","Theatre and cinema","Upholstery shop","Mail order store","Auction sales","Publishing and printing industry","Radio and television studio","Parking lot and structures","Liquor retail outlet","Banks and financial institutions","Multiple family dwelling as part of a mixed commercial and residential use","Cannabis retail (subject to Section 4.21)","Craft brewery and craft distillery"],"quotes":["Business and professional office","Physicians, surgeons and dentists","Group day care","Food, beverage, and drug store","General retail store","Personal service and household service","Hotel and motor hotel","Motel","Eating establishment and drinking establishment, excluding","Travel service","Sports and Fitness Facility","Club or lodge","Membership organization","Church","Public building","Commercial school","University and college","Bus depot and taxi business","Theatre and cinema","Upholstery shop","Mail order store","Auction sales","Publishing and printing industry","Radio and television studio","Parking lot and structures","Liquor retail outlet","Banks and financial institutions","Multiple family dwelling as part of a mixed commercial and residential","Cannabis retail; subject to Section 4.21 of this bylaw","Craft brewery and craft distillery"]},"secondary_uses":{"value":["Dwelling unit accessory to a permitted use","Sleeping unit accessory to a permitted use","Other uses, buildings and structures accessory to a permitted use"],"quotes":["Dwelling unit accessory to a permitted use","Sleeping unit accessory to a permitted use","Other uses, buildings and structures accessory to a permitted use."]},"site_specific":{"value":["Lot 11, and Parcel A (See P9978) of Lot 10, Block 86, District Lot 5, Kootenay District, Plan 669: single family dwelling permitted","Lots 29 and 30, Block 86, DL 5, Kootenay District Plan 669 and Parcel A (See 1443671) of Lot 31: up to two dwelling units permitted below the first storey"],"quotes":["Single family dwelling specific to land legally described as Lot 11, and","Parcel A (See P9978) of lot 10, Block 86, District Lot 5, Kootenay","units shall be permitted below the first storey on all the legal","parcels combined being Lots 29 & 30, Block 86, District Lot 5,"]},"min_parcel_area":{"value":"232.0 m²","quotes":["The minimum parcel size in the C-1 Zone shall be 232.0 m² in area."]},"min_parcel_width":{"value":"Front parcel line at least 7.5 m","quotes":["less than 7.5 m in length."]},"max_density":{"value":"For housing in a mixed use building or accessory dwelling units: 180 dwelling units per gross hectare (written as 'eighty (180)' in the bylaw)","quotes":["shall locate more than eighty (180) dwelling units per gross hectare on"]},"max_height":{"value":"30.0 m","quotes":["exceeds a height of 30.0 m."]},"other":{"value":["Business must be conducted inside a completely enclosed building, except for off-street parking and loading, screened storage yards, and display, rental or sales areas","Dwelling or sleeping units must be above the first storey or behind the commercial part, with a separate outside entrance","Multiple family dwelling units in a mixed use building must be at least 32.0 m² gross floor area","Wrecking and repair of vehicles and storage of derelict vehicles are not allowed"],"quotes":["the business or undertaking within a completely enclosed building,","Have an entrance provided from outside the building, separate","Be located above the first storey of the building or behind the","Not contain dwelling units with a gross floor area less than 32.0","No person shall use or permit the use of any portion of a parcel in the"]}},"bylaw":{"title":"Zoning Bylaw No. 3977, 2019 (consolidated to Bylaw 4258, adopted September 8, 2026)","url":"https://cranbrook.civicweb.net/filepro/documents/573/","accessed":"2026-11-07","note":"The City publishes the bylaw as one PDF per Part (zone text is in Parts 7.03 to 7.32; each zone's source_url is its Part). The consolidation is for convenience purposes only and is not a legal document; the original bylaws prevail. Bylaw 4161, 2024 (June 10, 2024) replaced RS with R-1 and deleted the old R-1, RD, R-2, R-3A and CD-8 sections. The Part 7.01 file on the City's site still lists the old zone names, and the deleted Parts are not posted, so those zones are not listed here."},"source_url":"https://cranbrook.civicweb.net/document/2017/#page=1","place":{"path":"ca/bc/cranbrook","name":"Cranbrook","region":{"code":"bc","name":"British Columbia"},"country":{"code":"ca","name":"Canada"}},"urls":{"html":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/cranbrook/zoning/c-1/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/cranbrook/zoning/c-1.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/cranbrook/zoning/c-1.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/cranbrook/zoning/index.json"}}