---
title: "DC zone in Port Coquitlam: District Commercial"
place: Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/port-coquitlam
zone: DC
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/dc/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-coquitlam/zoning/dc.json"
---

# DC zone in Port Coquitlam: District Commercial

Auto-oriented commercial uses and a range of commercial uses located in large premises.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** Auto-oriented commercial uses and a range of commercial uses located in large premises.
- **Main uses:** Auctions; Automobile parts sales; Automobiles, light trucks, and motorcycle sales and rentals; Automobile repairs and servicing (indoors); Boats and trailers sales and rentals; Building and landscape supplies sales and rentals; nurseries; Child care facilities; Cinemas; Commercial indoor recreation; Commercial schools; Container return depot; Entertainment facilities; Financial institutions; Funeral homes; Hotels; Household furniture, tools, electronics and appliances sales and rentals; Musical instruments sales; Parks and playgrounds; Pet daycare facilities; Restaurants; Rentals; Retail sales - convenience (premises of at least 93 m²); Retail sales - general; 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 office; Accessory personal services; Accessory pet daycare facilities; Accessory pet grooming services; Accessory rental and repair; Accessory restaurant; Accessory retail; Accessory vending cart
- **Extra uses on specific lots:** Offices (other than accessory) only at 1250 Dominion Avenue, 2325 Ottawa Street and 2310 Ottawa Street; Personal services only at 1971 Lougheed Hwy (Parcel A, Plan NWP 61653); Automobile servicing with drive-through only at 1380 Dominion Avenue; Car washes (one premises) only at 1388 Dominion Avenue, 2484 Lougheed Highway and 9-3160 Westwood Street; Financial institutions with drive-through (one premises) only at 2115 Hawkins Street, 7100-2850 Shaughnessy Street and 4100-2850 Shaughnessy Street; Restaurants with drive-through only at listed locations including 101 1940 Oxford Connector, 1525 Lougheed Highway, 110 2160 Hawkins Street, 2330 Ottawa Street, 200 2325 Ottawa Street, 2830 Oxford Street and 1502 Broadway Street; Packaged liquor sales and cannabis retail outlets only at listed locations (see Notes 9 and 33)
- **Minimum lot area:** 1000 m²
- **Minimum lot width:** 30 m lot width; 30 m frontage; 28 m lot depth
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 50%
- **Maximum height:** 12 m
- **Front setback:** 6 m (at least 9 m from a Provincial Highway)
- **Rear setback:** 3 m (at least 6 m abutting streets other than a Provincial Highway; at least 9 m from a Provincial Highway)
- **Interior side setback:** 3 m (one side may be eliminated if the other is at least 6 m; at least 6 m abutting property designated in the Official Community Plan for residential use)
- **Street side setback:** 3 m (at least 6 m abutting streets other than a Provincial Highway; at least 9 m from a Provincial Highway)
- **Other rules:** Loading areas must be screened from streets and parking areas with evergreen trees at least 2 m high.; Lots must be screened from residential-designated lots by a landscape screen at least 2 m high.; Landscaping required when developed, including a strip at least 3 m wide abutting a street (9 m abutting a Provincial Highway).

## 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/dc/_