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title: "C4 zone in Kamloops: Service Commercial"
place: Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/kamloops
zone: C4
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/c4/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/kamloops/zoning/c4.json"
---

# C4 zone in Kamloops: Service Commercial

Commercial uses with a repair, maintenance, service, distribution or small-scale manufacturing component, or that serve commuters and adjacent neighbourhoods.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** Commercial uses with a repair, maintenance, service, distribution or small-scale manufacturing component, or that serve commuters and adjacent neighbourhoods.
- **Main uses:** animal grooming shop; Animal Shelter or Animal Daycare; Artisan or Photography Studio; auction sales; Automobile Sales, Rental, and/or Service; Bottle Depot; Commercial Cardlock Facility; Communications Facility; Contracting Services; Entertainment Facility; food and beverage packaging and distribution; Fuel Bar; garden and nursery store; laboratory; laundry and dry cleaning; Light Industry, limited to Uses that do not produce offensive smoke, noise,; machine and welding shop; off-Street parking; Office associated with construction, engineering, landscaping, surveying; Personal Services; Private Club; Recycling Depot; Recreation Facility, Indoor; Recreation Facility, Outdoor; Recreation Vehicle Sales, Service, and/or Rental; Restaurant or Café; Retail Trade; Trade and Technology Centre; transportation depot; UBrew operation; veterinary clinic, excluding outdoor kennels; warehousing/Mini-Warehousing; Wholesale Distribution
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** accessory Dwelling Unit; Alcohol Manufacturer’s Lounge accessory to an Alcohol Production; 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 10.6.6; Sale from Mobile Vehicle
- **Extra uses on specific lots:** Accessory Dwelling: Lot C, D.L. 269, Plan KAP78633 and part of Lot 1, D.L. 268 and 269, Plan KAP66756 (7530 Dallas Drive); Accessory Dwelling Unit inside principal building, up to 40% of its floor area to a maximum of 150 m²: Lot 2, D.L. 269, Plan EPP39752 (7450 Dallas Drive); Ambulance station: Lot A, Plan KAP54156 (245 Clapperton Road); Church: Lot 3, Plan 32016 (1410 Pearson Place); Education/Training Facility, maximum 40 students: Strata Lots 45-48, Plan KAS2024 (1121 12th Street); Hotel/motel, commercial gymnasia, service/commercial laboratory and government uses, certain offices; gas bars/Fuel Bars excluded: Lot 1, Plan KAP71191 (1485 Trans Canada Highway West); Indoor kennel with accessory residential Dwelling Unit: Lot 6, Plan 687 (177 Leigh Road); Industrial Equipment storage yard: Blk. C, Sec. 31, Twp. 19, Rge. 15, W6M (9459 Dallas Drive); Manufactured Home sales (Automobile sales/service/rental, Bottle Depots, Recycling Depots excluded): part of Lot 1, D.L. 268 and 269, Plan KAP66756 (8055 Dallas Drive); Manufactured Home sales, outdoor storage and associated Office Use: Parcel Z (KE33944), D.L. 273, Plan 25880 (6767 Dallas Drive); Office Use: strata lots at 1139, 1157, 1121 and 1103 12th Street (Plan KAS2024); Office Use limited to construction trades, consulting, research and development and government offices: Lot 23, Plan 30304 (940 Notre Dame Drive); Recreational vehicle storage and landscaping business and storage yard: Lot D, Plan KAP62646 (2400 Ord Road); 200 Slot Machines and off-track betting, accessory Lounge and real estate Office: Lot B, D.L. 257, Plan KAP59042 (1250 Halston Avenue); One Single-Detached Residential Dwelling subject to CR1 zone regulations: Lot 1 Section 21 Township 21 Range 17, Plan 40691 (5020 Yellowhead Highway); Manufactured Home sales, outdoor storage and associated Office Use: closed road in District Lot 273, Plan KAP76594 (7245 Dallas Drive); Office use for Health Services to a maximum of 325 m²: Lot 2, Plan 32016 (1450 Pearson Place)
- **Minimum lot area:** 557 m²
- **Minimum lot width:** 15 m
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 60%
- **Maximum density:** Floor area ratio 1.2 total; 0.6 for office use
- **Maximum height:** 2 storeys; structures 13.5 m with a building on the lot, 6 m without a building
- **Front setback:** 1.5 m (4.5 m for fuel pump islands and accessory structures)
- **Rear setback:** 0.0 m; 1.5 m for the portion of a building where doors exit directly onto a lane or where loading access is provided without a loading stall; 3 m where lot adjoins a residential zone with no intervening lane or street; 7 m for lots adjacent to Sunset Drive (River Road to Sparrow Road)
- **Interior side setback:** 0.0 m (3 m where lot adjoins a residential zone with no intervening lane or street)
- **Other rules:** Minimum floor area 45 m² (no minimum for fuel bar kiosks, cardlock facilities and accessory buildings); Accessory dwelling units must be inside the principal industrial building and no more than 40% of its floor area, to a maximum of 150 m²; Outdoor storage only as an accessory use and screened; display areas only with automobile sales, recreation vehicle sales and garden and nursery store; paved, orderly, 1 m landscaped buffer (2 m next to an arterial); Bottle Depot and Recycling Depot materials must be stored within a building

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw No. 55 (consolidated, as amended; amendments listed to Bylaw 55-124, adopted October 27, 2026), s. 10.6](https://kamloops.civicweb.net/document/138849#page=201) (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/c4/_
