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C4 zone in Kamloops: Service Commercial

Kamloops, British ColumbiaDraft, not yet reviewedBylaw read 2026-11-07

In short

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

Zone rules

PurposeCommercial 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 area557 m²
Minimum lot width15 m
Maximum lot coverage60%
Maximum densityFloor area ratio 1.2 total; 0.6 for office use
Maximum height2 storeys; structures 13.5 m with a building on the lot, 6 m without a building
Front setback1.5 m (4.5 m for fuel pump islands and accessory structures)
Rear setback0.0 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 setback0.0 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 (read 2026-11-07)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply, and a lot can have site-specific rules. The City's consolidation is placed online for convenience only; it is not the official or legal version, and certified copies are available from Legislative Services at City Hall. Zone T2 (Airport), section 11.6, is repealed and not listed. The bylaw is also published one section per file at https://kamloops.civicweb.net/filepro/documents/138848. 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.

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