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title: "CC zone in Port Coquitlam: Community Commercial"
place: Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/port-coquitlam
zone: CC
bylaw: Zoning Bylaw, 2008, No. 3630 (City's online copy, includes CD1 to CD44)
bylaw_read: 2026-11-07
review: draft
canonical: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-coquitlam/zoning/cc/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-coquitlam/zoning/cc.json"
---

# CC zone in Port Coquitlam: Community Commercial

A wide range of general commercial and personal service uses in pedestrian-oriented commercial centres, with residential uses above ground floor commercial uses.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** A wide range of general commercial and personal service uses in pedestrian-oriented commercial centres, with residential uses above ground floor commercial uses.
- **Main uses:** Apartments (above the ground floor, separate entrance, parking within building or underground); Automobile parts sales; Building and landscape supplies sales and rentals; nurseries; Child care facilities; Cinemas; Commercial indoor recreation; Commercial schools; Entertainment facilities; Financial institutions; Funeral homes; Hotels (only on lots of at least 1400 m²); Household furniture, tools, electronics and appliances sales and rentals; Musical instruments sales; Offices; Parking lots and structures; Parks and playgrounds; Personal services; Pet daycare facilities; Pet grooming services; Restaurants; Rentals; Retail sales - convenience; Retail sales - general; Theatres; Trade contractors; Veterinary services; Wine and beer making
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Accessory container return; Accessory group child care (school age) (only with a commercial indoor recreation or commercial school use); Accessory home businesses; Accessory personal services; Accessory rental and repair; Accessory restaurant; Accessory retail
- **Extra uses on specific lots:** Assembly uses only at Lots 16 and 17, Plan 1213, LD 36, Block 1, DL 379 NWD; Dinner theatres only at Lot D, District Lot 379, Plan 16549 (2616 Shaughnessy); Neighbourhood pubs only at 3261 Coast Meridian Road, 1125 Nicola Avenue, 2099 Lougheed Highway, 1864 Argue Street and 1979 Brown Street; Packaged liquor sales only at listed locations including 2099 Lougheed Highway, 1436 Prairie Avenue, #100-2748 Lougheed Highway, 3209-3285 Coast Meridian Road, 1864 Argue Street and 1097 Nicola Avenue; Cannabis retail outlets, one premises, only at listed locations including 1502 Broadway Street, 2755 Lougheed Highway, 985 Nicola Avenue and 101-3377 Coast Meridian Road; Apartments allowed on the ground floor at 2245 Wilson Avenue (building not over 4 stories)
- **Minimum lot area:** 500 m²
- **Minimum lot width:** 15 m lot width; 15 m frontage; 28 m lot depth
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 90%
- **Maximum density:** Floor area ratio 1.5
- **Front setback:** None listed ('-'); at least 9 m from a Provincial Highway
- **Interior side setback:** 0 / 1.8 m; required only where the side yard abuts a lot in a Residential zone
- **Street side setback:** 1.5 m (at least 9 m from a Provincial Highway)
- **Other rules:** Building height is restricted to one storey at 3590, 3610 and 3646 Westwood Street and 2332 Marpole Avenue.; Usable open space of at least 3.5 m² per dwelling unit and indoor amenity space of 2 m² per dwelling unit for apartments over 10 dwelling units.; At least 25% of units in a mixed-use development with more than 10 units must be family-orientated, and at least 5% must have three or more bedrooms.

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw, 2008, No. 3630 (City's online copy, includes CD1 to CD44), s. 3](https://www.portcoquitlam.ca/media/file/3630-zoning-bylaw-2008pdf#page=29) (read 2026-11-07)

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