--- title: "C6 zone in Kamloops: Arterial Commercial" place: Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada place_path: ca/bc/kamloops zone: C6 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/c6/" json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/kamloops/zoning/c6.json" --- # C6 zone in Kamloops: Arterial Commercial Commercial uses next to major arterial roads that serve the day-to-day needs of commuters and adjacent neighbourhoods. ## Zone rules - **Purpose:** Commercial uses next to major arterial roads that serve the day-to-day needs of commuters and adjacent neighbourhoods. - **Main uses:** animal grooming shop; Animal Shelter or Animal Daycare; Artisan or Photography Studio; Assembly Use; auction sales; Automobile Sales, Rental, and/or Service; Bottle Depot, subject to Section 10.8.8; Communications Facility; Community Care Facility; Contracting Services; Cultural Facility; Education/Training Facility; Entertainment Facility; Financial Institution, Minor, excluding drive-thrus where located in the; Fuel Bar; garden and nursery store; laundry and dry cleaning; Multi-Unit Residential Dwelling Units, subject to Section 10.8.9; Office; off-Street parking; Personal Services; Recreation Facility, Indoor; Recreation Vehicle Sales, Service, and/or Rental; Restaurant or Café, excluding drive-thrus where located in the North; Retail Trade; UBrew operation; veterinary clinic, excluding outdoor kennels - **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Food Truck or Trailer; Fruit and Vegetable Stand; Home-Based Business within Multi-Unit Residential Dwelling Unit; liquor primary licence accessory to Personal Services; Mobile Food Concession; outdoor storage/display areas, subject to Section 10.8.6 - **Extra uses on specific lots:** Emergency shelter and transitional housing units with a minimum of eight parking spaces: north 120 ft. of Lot 3, D.L. 231, Plan 48, and Lot 2, Plan B1444 (271 Victoria Street West); Food and beverage packaging and distribution, small-scale manufacturing, warehousing/Mini-Warehousing, Wholesale Distribution (Animal Shelters, auction sales, Fuel Bars and machine and welding shops prohibited): Lot A, Plan 31648 (3211 Westsyde Road); Heating and air conditioning sales and service: Lot 9, D.L. 416, Strata Plan KAS1934 (805 Notre Dame Drive); Indoor commercial dog kennel, maximum 30 dogs per day and six overnight: Lot 3, Sec. 36, Plan 30160 (1440 Hugh Allan Drive); Licensee retail store not adjacent to a licensed liquor primary establishment: Lot A, Plan KAP46472 (1821 Trans Canada Highway East); Neighbourhood Pub with a maximum of 65 indoor seats: Lot 1, Plan KAP63178 (945 Lorne Street); Vintner's Quality Alliance (VQA) specialty wine store: Lot A, Sec. 6, Plan KAP56531 (12-1380 Summit Drive); Warehousing: Parcel Y, Plan 6547 (1110 Tranquille Road); Retail liquor sales: Lot 1, Plan EPP97502 (780 Windsor Avenue) - **Minimum lot area:** 450 m² - **Minimum lot width:** 15 m - **Maximum lot coverage:** 50% (75% at Lot A, Plan 13160, 1211 8th Street) - **Maximum density:** Floor area ratio 1.0 for commercial; 2.0 where development includes Multi-Unit Residential (3.5 within 200 m of a Transit Exchange, 2.5 at 201 to 400 m in a Transit-Oriented Area; 1.0 where property abuts Hugh Allan Drive) - **Maximum height:** 2 storeys; 6 storeys where development includes Multi-Unit Residential (10 storeys within 200 m of a Transit Exchange in a Transit-Oriented Area); structures 4.5 m above roof of principal building with a building on the lot, 6 m without - **Front setback:** 2 m (4.5 m for pump islands and accessory structures) - **Rear setback:** 0.0 m; 1.5 m for the portion of a building where doors exit onto a lane or rear loading is provided without a loading stall; where lot adjoins a residential zone with no intervening lane or street, 3 m for one- or two-storey buildings and 4.5 m for buildings over two storeys - **Interior side setback:** 0.0 m; where lot adjoins a residential zone with no intervening lane or street, 3 m for one- or two-storey buildings and 4.5 m for buildings over two storeys - **Street side setback:** 2 m - **Other rules:** Minimum floor area 45 m²; Outdoor storage only as an accessory use and screened; display areas only with automobile sales, recreation vehicle sales and garden and nursery uses; Multi-Unit Residential only with a commercial use occupying at least 40% of the first-storey building footprint, or else with a landscaped amenity area of at least 30% of the lot area; Bottle 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. 10.8](https://kamloops.civicweb.net/document/138849#page=211) (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/c6/_