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M-1 zone in New Westminster: Light Industrial Districts

New Westminster, British ColumbiaDraft, not yet reviewedBylaw read 2026-11-07

In short

Allow light industrial uses.

Zone rules

PurposeAllow light industrial uses.
Main uses
  • Acetylene or electric welding
  • Animal grooming and Daycare facilities
  • Auctions
  • Bottling works
  • Broom manufacturing
  • Restaurants not exceeding 140 square metres (1505.00 square feet) in gross floor area, excluding drive-in and drive-through restaurants
  • Cannabis production facilities, only at 1135 Tanaka Court
  • Car washing establishments
  • Child care in a non-residential building as an accessory use
  • Cigar and cigarette manufacturing
  • Clay and clay products
  • Cleaning and dyeing works
  • Clothing garments and hat manufacturing
  • Cosmetic manufacturing
  • Delivery and express facilities
  • Electrical utilities (one specific parcel only)
  • Experimental laboratories
  • Frozen food lockers
  • House moving equipment and wrecking
  • Jewellery manufacturing
  • Knitting mills
  • Laboratories, scientific and research
  • Laundries
  • Lounge endorsement area (occupant load not over 30 persons)
  • Lumber yards enclosed with a closed fence at least 6 feet (1.83 metres) high
  • Machine shops
  • Mattress manufacturing
  • Milk distribution stations
  • Mini storage buildings, only at 1084 Tanaka Court
  • Novelty and toy manufacturing
  • Office, workshop and indoor storage uses for trade contractors
  • Ornamental iron works
  • Poultry storage (wholesale only)
  • Printing, publishing and bookbinding, blue printing and photostatting, lithographing, engraving, stereotyping and other reproduction processes
  • Manufacturing of food and beverage products
  • Public assembly and entertainment use, excluding bingo halls, clubs and lodges, community centre, curling rinks and trampoline centres
  • Public transportation depots
  • Radio and television broadcasting masts and towers, railway yards, sewerage pumping stations, transmission lines
  • Recycling Return Centre (not in the area bounded by Columbia Street, Quayside Drive, Third Avenue, Fourteenth Street, Fourth Avenue and Mc Bride Boulevard)
  • Retail building supply establishments
  • Riding academies
  • Rubber and metal stamp manufacturing
  • Sales, servicing and repairing of new or used automobiles, parts and accessories (excludes automobile wrecking or storage of damaged vehicles)
  • Sales, storage, rental, repair and parking of commercial truck parts and equipment; trailers, buses, moving vans, boats and unoccupied recreation vehicles; industrial machinery and small- to mid-sized vehicles such as forklifts; tools and small equipment
  • Shoe manufacturing
  • Sign painting and manufacturing
  • Stencil manufacturing
  • Stone monumental works
  • Art studios
  • Taxi offices
  • Tent and awning manufacturing
  • Textile manufacturing
  • Assembly, fabrication and finishing of materials and products within an enclosed building
  • Tinsmith shops
  • Tire vulcanizing
  • Trade schools
  • Used automotive parts businesses
  • Venetian blind and window shade manufacturing
  • Warehousing, wholesaling and indoor storage
  • Wiping rags and cotton waste storage
Some uses are limited to named locations, and several have conditions (see the bylaw).
Also allowed (secondary uses)Shipping container storage, accessory to a permitted principal use
Extra uses on specific lots
  • Cannabis production facility only at 1135 Tanaka Court (LOT 3, DISTRICT LOT 758, NEW WEST DISTRICT, PLAN BCP43340 GROUP 1; PID 028-124-073)
  • Electrical utilities only at PID 023-364-068 (LOT 1, DISTRICT LOT 757, NEW WEST DISTRICT, PLAN LMP27313 GROUP 1)
  • One lounge endorsement area (up to 100 persons) only at PID 006-639-453 (LOT 7 SUBURBAN BLOCK 6 PLAN 73589)
  • Mini storage buildings only at 1084 Tanaka Court (PID 030-691-893)
  • Housing units on LOT 31 SUBURBAN BLOCK 6 PLAN 25767 (380 Thirteenth Street) are limited to residential rental tenure
Maximum densityFloor space ratio 5.0
Maximum heightSix storeys or 85 feet (25.91 metres)
Front setback3.05 metres (10 feet); 7.62 metres (25 feet) for the part of the building above 12.24 metres (50 feet)
Rear setback3.05 metres (10 feet); 6.10 metres (20 feet) for the part of the building above 12.24 metres (50 feet)
Interior side setback3.05 metres (10 feet); 7.62 metres (25 feet) for the part of the building above 12.24 metres (50 feet)
Street side setback3.05 metres (10 feet); 7.62 metres (25 feet) for the part of the building above 12.24 metres (50 feet)
Other rules
  • Cannabis production must be fully enclosed and at least 60.9 metres (200 feet) from any school or residential site
  • Restaurants may not exceed 140 square metres (1505.00 square feet) and may not be drive-in or drive-through

Source: Zoning Bylaw No. 6680, 2001 (consolidated as of June 8, 2026), s. 710 (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 publishes the complete bylaw as a single PDF, consolidated as of June 8, 2026; it also publishes each part separately. The saved text includes the list of amendments and appendices. 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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