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title: "HC zone in Grand Forks: Highway Commercial"
place: Grand Forks, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/grand-forks
zone: HC
bylaw: Zoning Bylaw No. 2039, 2018 (unofficial consolidation to Amendment 37, July 24, 2024)
bylaw_read: 2026-11-07
review: draft
canonical: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/grand-forks/zoning/hc/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/grand-forks/zoning/hc.json"
---

# HC zone in Grand Forks: Highway Commercial

Main uses: hotels or motels, restaurants, automobile sales and parts supply, service stations, convenience stores including gas bars, car wash establishments, and 9 more.

## Zone rules

- **Main uses:** hotels or motels; restaurants; automobile sales and parts supply, service stations; convenience stores including gas bars; car wash establishments; retail sales establishments; personal service establishments; liquor licensed premises; animal hospitals; building supply establishments; offices; professional services; tool and equipment rental establishments; Electric vehicle charging stations
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** a dwelling unit accessory to permitted uses; buildings or structures accessory to permitted uses
- **Minimum lot area:** No minimum
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 60% for the principal building with all accessory buildings and structures
- **Maximum density:** Apartment units within commercial activities up to 50% of the principal building floor area
- **Maximum height:** 18 metres
- **Accessory building setbacks:** 1.5 metres from a rear or side parcel line
- **Other rules:** No building, structure or illuminated sign within 4.6 metres of a lot in a Residential zone; Accessory building floor area not more than 25% of the principal structure; Fences not over 2.4 metres high; Each parcel must be connected to a community sewage and water system

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw No. 2039, 2018 (unofficial consolidation to Amendment 37, July 24, 2024), s. 47](https://www.grandforks.ca/wp-content/uploads/Zoning-Bylaw-2039-CONSOLIDATED-to-Amendment-37July2024.pdf#page=41) (read 2026-11-07)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply. All zones in Grand Forks: https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/grand-forks/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/grand-forks/zoning/hc/_