---
title: "RM-1 zone in Port Clements: Multiple Family Residential"
place: Port Clements, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/port-clements
zone: RM-1
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/rm-1/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-clements/zoning/rm-1.json"
---

# RM-1 zone in Port Clements: Multiple Family Residential

Low-rise multiple family housing on a residential parcel.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** Low-rise multiple family housing on a residential parcel.
- **Main uses:** Apartments; Single family and two-family dwellings, triplexes, or fourplexes; Townhouses or rowhouses
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Accessory buildings and structures; Childcare program
- **Minimum lot area:** 558 m² (parcels created by subdivision). Minimum site area: 270 m² single family; 558 m² two-family; 1,116 m² triplexes or fourplexes; 2,232 m² apartment buildings and townhouses
- **Minimum lot width:** 15 m frontage on the highway
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 40 % of the site area, including all buildings, structures and accessory buildings
- **Maximum density:** 40 units per hectare (16 units per acre)
- **Maximum height:** Two-family dwellings, triplexes, fourplexes and townhouses: three stories to a maximum of 11.0 m; apartments: three stories to a maximum of 12.0 m
- **Maximum height, accessory buildings:** 4.0 m
- **Front setback:** 6.0 m
- **Rear setback:** 6.0 m
- **Interior side setback:** 1.5 m (from an adjacent parcel or road)
- **Street side setback:** 1.5 m (from an adjacent parcel or road)
- **Accessory building setbacks:** Not permitted within front setback of principal building; rear 1.5 m; side 1.5 m
- **Other rules:** Total floor area of all accessory buildings cannot exceed 10 % of the parcel area (20 % where the building is a parking structure)

## Source

- [Village of Port Clements Zoning Bylaw No. 444, 2024 (adopted February 17, 2026), s. 7.3.3](https://portclements.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/February-17-2026-Regular-Council-Meeting-Agenda-Package.pdf#page=86) (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/rm-1/_