Port Alberni, British ColumbiaDraft, not yet reviewedBylaw read 2026-11-07
In short
To establish and maintain areas containing light industrial uses such as wholesale, warehouse and light manufacturing operations.
Zone rules
Purpose
To establish and maintain areas containing light industrial uses such as wholesale, warehouse and light manufacturing operations.
Main uses
Automotive sales, repair and servicing
Boat or recreational vehicle sales and repair
Building supply
Cannabis Micro-Cultivation
Cannabis Micro-Processing
Cannabis Nursery
Cannabis Standard Cultivation
Cannabis Standard Processing
Cartage and delivery service
Contractor’s shop
Custom workshop
Electronics repair
Enclosed Storage and warehousing, including mini-storage
Exterminating service
Food and beverage processing (excluding the fish, meat and poultry products industries)
Furniture and fixture manufacturing
Garden shop, nursery and landscape supplies
Gasoline service station
Glass shop
Health and fitness centre
Machine shop
Machinery and equipment sales, rental and repair
Other light manufacturing industry
Petroleum products, wholesale
Prefabricated buildings sales
Printing, publishing and allied industry
Recycling depot
Signs and displays industry
Storage yard
Transportation dispatch and depot
Veterinary clinic
Wholesale (excluding wholesalers of scrap and waste materials)
Works yard
Also allowed (secondary uses)
Caretaker's dwelling unit (subject to Section 6.16)
Display, storage, and retail sales of goods produced on the premises
Office
Extra uses on specific lots
Medical Marijuana Facility at 4921 Bute St. (Lot A, District Lot 1, Alberni District, Plan VIP31847)
Minimum lot area
930 m² (10,011 ft²)
Minimum lot width
30 m (98.4 ft)
Maximum lot coverage
50%
Maximum height
12.5 m (41 ft)
Front setback
6 m (19.7 ft)
Rear setback
3 m (9.8 ft)
Interior side setback
6 m (19.7 ft) total; 0 m permitted on one side
Other rules
Nothing may cause annoyance or nuisance to surrounding areas (odours, effluent, dust, fumes, smoke, vibration, noise, glare) or create health, fire or explosion hazards.
All activities must be inside a completely enclosed building except parking, loading, outside storage and product display.
Outdoor storage areas must be screened or fenced; unused parts of the required front yard must be landscaped.
A continuous landscape buffer at least 1.8 m (5.9 ft) high is required along any lot line next to an R, RR or RM zone.
Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply, and a lot can have site-specific rules. The City also posts each zone as a separate PDF and keeps a table of amendments at https://www.portalberni.ca/zoning-bylaw-no-5105-table-amendments. The CD6 zone (6123 Russell Place) is listed in section 5.1 but has no section in this PDF, so it is not in the zone list below. 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.