Cranbrook, British ColumbiaDraft, not yet reviewedBylaw read 2026-11-07
In short
Community Commercial Zone: general commercial uses, with housing allowed above or behind commercial uses.
Zone rules
Purpose
Community Commercial Zone: general commercial uses, with housing allowed above or behind commercial uses.
Main uses
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
Also allowed (secondary uses)
Dwelling unit accessory to a permitted use
Sleeping unit accessory to a permitted use
Other uses, buildings and structures accessory to a permitted use
Extra uses on specific lots
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
Minimum lot area
232.0 m²
Minimum lot width
Front parcel line at least 7.5 m
Maximum density
For housing in a mixed use building or accessory dwelling units: 180 dwelling units per gross hectare (written as 'eighty (180)' in the bylaw)
Maximum height
30.0 m
Other rules
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
Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply, and a lot can have site-specific rules. 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. 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.