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M-2 zone in New Westminster: Heavy Industrial Districts

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

In short

Allow heavy industrial uses.

Zone rules

PurposeAllow heavy industrial uses.
Main uses
  • Animal hospitals and Veterinary Clinics
  • Automobile repair and service, including body shops
  • Automobile towing yards
  • Restaurants, not exceeding 140 square metres (1,505.00 square feet) in gross floor area, excluding drive-in and drive-through restaurants
  • Cannabis production facilities (fully enclosed, at least 60.9 metres (200 feet) from any school or residential site)
  • Child care in a non-residential building as an accessory use
  • Civic facilities including a public works yard, animal shelter, towing yard or offices ancillary to the permitted uses
  • Industrial laundries
  • Lounge endorsement area (occupant load not over 30 persons)
  • Manufacturing of chemical products, except explosives, fertilizers, or acids, glues, sizes, gelatines, or soaps
  • Manufacturing of electrical equipment
  • Manufacturing of fabricated metal products
  • Manufacturing of food and beverage products, except those involving the processing, canning, packing, cleaning, or smoking of fish and/or meat
  • Manufacturing of furniture and fixtures
  • Manufacturing of machinery and equipment
  • Manufacturing of miscellaneous products not elsewhere enumerated (with exceptions)
  • Manufacturing of non-metallic mineral products, except cement, lime, gypsum or plaster of Paris
  • Manufacturing of paper and allied products
  • Manufacturing of printing products
  • Manufacturing of rubber products
  • Manufacturing of textiles and textile products
  • Manufacturing of transportation equipment
  • Manufacturing of wood products
  • Recycling, only within a fully enclosed building
  • Recycling Return Centre
  • Repair of industrial machinery and equipment
  • Sales, storage, rental, repair and parking of commercial trucks, industrial machinery and large vehicles, farm machinery, heavy construction machinery
  • Service stations
  • Transportation facilities including bus terminals, docks, heliports, marine towing and tugboats, railway stations, seaplane ports, shipping facilities, transit terminals, truck terminals
  • Used automotive parts businesses
  • Utilities including civil defence installations, electric generating plants, electric substations, public works yards, broadcasting masts and towers, railway yards, sewerage pumping stations, transmission lines
  • Vehicle inspection stations
  • Warehousing, wholesaling and indoor storage
Also allowed (secondary uses)
  • Outdoor storage, accessory to a permitted principal use
  • Shipping container storage, accessory to a permitted principal use
Maximum heightNo set limit; any height not in conflict with this or any other City bylaw
Front setbackNo front yard required
Rear setbackNo rear yard required
Interior side setbackNo side yard required
Street side setbackNo side yard required

Source: Zoning Bylaw No. 6680, 2001 (consolidated as of June 8, 2026), s. 720 (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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