---
title: "C-2 zone in Port Clements: Commercial Service"
place: Port Clements, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/port-clements
zone: C-2
bylaw: Village of Port Clements Zoning Bylaw No. 444, 2024 (adopted February 17, 2026)
bylaw_read: 2026-11-08
review: draft
canonical: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-clements/zoning/c-2/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-clements/zoning/c-2.json"
---

# C-2 zone in Port Clements: Commercial Service

Retail commercial and personal service facilities, including automotive uses, on commercial parcels.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** Retail commercial and personal service facilities, including automotive uses, on commercial parcels.
- **Main uses:** Combined commercial and residential complexes; Contractor's offices (no outside storage of materials or equipment); Convenience stores; Gasoline service stations; General automotive repair services; Hotels and motels; Neighbourhood shopping centre; Personal service establishments; Printing and publishing; Restaurants; Retail sales of building supplies; Retail sales of garden supplies, nursery items, and greenhouses; Sale, rental, or lease of motor vehicles; Undertaking parlor or funeral home; Mobile vendors
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Accessory buildings and structures; Accessory dwelling unit (on parcels serviced by the municipal sewer system); Bed and breakfast establishment; Boarding house; Childcare program; Short term rental; Single family dwelling (per R-1 requirements)
- **Minimum lot area:** 558 m² (parcels created by subdivision; site area also 558 m²)
- **Minimum lot width:** Frontage of 1/10 of the perimeter of the parcel that fronts on the highway
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 60 % of the site, including buildings, structures and accessory buildings
- **Maximum density:** Floor area ratio of 1:1
- **Maximum height:** 9.0 m
- **Maximum height, accessory buildings:** 3.6 m
- **Front setback:** 7.5 m
- **Rear setback:** 6.0 m
- **Interior side setback:** 3.0 m (from an adjacent parcel or road); 6.0 m where the abutting parcel is zoned residential
- **Street side setback:** 3.0 m (from an adjacent parcel or road)
- **Other rules:** Combined commercial and residential: residential use must be in the principal building, on upper floors or behind the commercial use, with a separate private entrance to the street; Outdoor recreational space of 5.5 m² is required for each dwelling unit; Floor area for each use is 55 m²

## Source

- [Village of Port Clements Zoning Bylaw No. 444, 2024 (adopted February 17, 2026), s. 7.3.6](https://portclements.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/February-17-2026-Regular-Council-Meeting-Agenda-Package.pdf#page=92) (read 2026-11-08)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply. All zones in Port Clements: https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-clements/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-clements/zoning/c-2/_