---
title: "M2 zone in Port Alberni: Medium Industry"
place: Port Alberni, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/port-alberni
zone: M2
bylaw: Zoning Bylaw No. 5105, 2024 (October 2026 update)
bylaw_read: 2026-11-07
review: draft
canonical: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-alberni/zoning/m2/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-alberni/zoning/m2.json"
---

# M2 zone in Port Alberni: Medium Industry

To establish and maintain areas for both light and medium industrial uses, including uses that require outdoor storage.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** To establish and maintain areas for both light and medium industrial uses, including uses that require outdoor storage.
- **Main uses:** All uses permitted in the M1 Zone; Animal shelter; Automobile wrecking yard; Blacksmithing and welding shop; Bulk fuel storage; Construction and assembly of pre-fabricated or modular buildings; Construction, house moving and excavation; Industry offices, workshops and storage; Large equipment or machinery sales and repairs; Machining; Manufacturing, excluding uses specifically listed in M3; Open storage; Scrap and waste materials wholesaler; Truck transport operation; Utility works yard; Wood industry, concerned with manufacturing or finishing from prepared lumber
- **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
- **Minimum lot area:** 930 m² (10,011 ft²); automobile wrecking yard 1 hectare (2.47 ac)
- **Minimum lot width:** 30 m (98.4 ft)
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 60%
- **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.; Outside storage next to an R, RR or RM zone must be separated by a solid screen, with no material piled higher than the screen within 15 m (50 ft) of the lot line.; 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.; Unused parts of the required front yard must be landscaped.

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw No. 5105, 2024 (October 2026 update), s. 5.25](https://portalberni.ca/sites/default/files/doc_library/5105_Zoning_Bylaw_No_5105_2024_Oct%202026%20Update.pdf#page=61) (read 2026-11-07)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply. All zones in Port Alberni: https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-alberni/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/port-alberni/zoning/m2/_