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title: "C3 zone in Kamloops: Highway Commercial"
place: Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/kamloops
zone: C3
bylaw: "Zoning Bylaw No. 55 (consolidated, as amended; amendments listed to Bylaw 55-124, adopted October 27, 2026)"
bylaw_read: 2026-11-07
review: draft
canonical: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/kamloops/zoning/c3/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/kamloops/zoning/c3.json"
---

# C3 zone in Kamloops: Highway Commercial

Commercial uses next to major highways that mainly serve the travelling public.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** Commercial uses next to major highways that mainly serve the travelling public.
- **Main uses:** animal grooming shop; Animal Shelter or Animal Daycare; auction sales; Automobile sales, rental and/or service; Commercial Cardlock Facility; Communications Facility; Fuel Bar; garden and nursery store; Hotel/motel; Office associated with construction, engineering, landscaping, surveying; off-Street parking; Personal Services; Recreation Facility, Indoor; Recreation Facility, Outdoor; Recreation Vehicle Sales, Service, and/or Rental; Restaurant or Café; Retail Trade; tourist information booth; warehousing/Mini-Warehousing; Wholesale Distribution
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Food Truck or Trailer; Fruit and Vegetable Stand; liquor primary licence accessory to Personal Services; Mobile Food Concession; outdoor storage/display areas, subject to Section 10.5.7; Sale from Mobile Vehicle
- **Extra uses on specific lots:** Rural agency store: Lot 2, Plan 1496, K.D.Y.D. (7060 Yellowhead Highway); Industrial Equipment (sales, rental, storage and/or service) excluding tracked equipment, Light Industry, and Truck Travel Centre: Lot A, Plan KAP70136, D.L. 269 (170 Kokanee Way) and Strata Lots 1-5, Plan KAS3071 (175 Kokanee Way); Education/training facility and retail trade: Lot 1, Sec. 35, Twp. 19, Rge. 18, W6M, K.D.Y.D. Plan KAP84376 (1560 Versatile Drive); Multi-Unit Residential to a maximum of 189 dwelling units per hectare (51 units): Lot B, Section 36, Township 19, Range 18, Plan KAP49134 (1835 Rogers Place)
- **Minimum lot area:** 1,115 m²
- **Minimum lot width:** 30 m
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 33%
- **Maximum density:** Floor area ratio 0.66 total (1.0 for hotels/motels); 0.33 for office use. Site-specific: 0.45 at 1175 Rogers Way; 1.3 at 1270 Rogers Way; 1.17 for hotel/motel at 1475 Hugh Allan Drive
- **Maximum height:** 2 storeys (4 storeys for hotels/motels); structures 4.5 m above roof of principal building with a building on the lot, 6 m without a building
- **Front setback:** 6 m (4.5 m for fuel pump island and accessory structures)
- **Rear setback:** 3 m (6 m where lot adjoins a residential zone with no intervening lane or street)
- **Interior side setback:** 3 m (6 m where lot adjoins a residential zone with no intervening lane or street)
- **Street side setback:** 4.5 m
- **Other rules:** Minimum floor area 45 m² (no minimum for fuel bar kiosks, cardlock facilities and accessory buildings); Outdoor storage only as an accessory use, screened from streets and lots; display areas only with automobile and recreation vehicle sales; Outdoor storage/display areas must be paved and drained, kept orderly, with a minimum 1 m landscaped buffer along front and side street lot lines (2 m where abutting an arterial road)

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw No. 55 (consolidated, as amended; amendments listed to Bylaw 55-124, adopted October 27, 2026), s. 10.5](https://kamloops.civicweb.net/document/138849#page=198) (read 2026-11-07)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply. All zones in Kamloops: https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/kamloops/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/kamloops/zoning/c3/_