Port Coquitlam, British ColumbiaDraft, not yet reviewedBylaw read 2026-11-07
In short
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.
Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply, and a lot can have site-specific rules. The City says its online bylaw copies are meant to be up to date but are not legal versions and may not include the most recent amendments. The consolidation date is not stated in the PDF. Zones are grouped in shared tables per category (A, RS/RTh/RRh/RA, NC/CC/DC/SSC/RC, M, P), so lines for those zones give the whole category section. There is no CD37 in the bylaw. 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.