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title: "M1 zone in Port Coquitlam: General Industrial"
place: Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/port-coquitlam
zone: M1
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/m1/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-coquitlam/zoning/m1.json"
---

# M1 zone in Port Coquitlam: General Industrial

A wide range of industrial, research and development, processing, assembly, distribution and repair services, including limited accessory commercial uses.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** A wide range of industrial, research and development, processing, assembly, distribution and repair services, including limited accessory commercial uses.
- **Main uses:** Advanced technology industries; Auctions; Automobile, light truck, boat, motorsport vehicle and motorcycle repair, servicing, salvage and parts sales; Commercial indoor recreation; Commercial indoor storage; Dispatch services; Medical waste processing; Packaged liquor sales (only accessory to liquor manufacturing); Production studios; Retail sale, rental and repair of trucks, machinery and equipment for commercial and industrial purposes; Retail sales and rental of boats and recreational vehicles; Retail sale of building supplies; Retail sale of industrial supplies; Trade Contractors; Trade, technical and vocational schools; Transportation terminal; Utilities; Vehicle washing; Wine and beer making; Container return depots; Machinery and equipment repair; Manufacturing and processing; Parks and playgrounds; Restaurants (maximum 75 m² interior floor area); Warehousing and Transhipment; Wholesale sales (All uses must be conducted indoors except those listed in Note 2 (such as outdoor storage, parks and accessory display).)
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Accessory caretaker; Accessory display; Accessory group child care (school age); Accessory office uses; Accessory lounge endorsement area; Accessory outdoor storage; Accessory packaged liquor sales; Accessory repair of boats and recreational vehicles; Accessory retail sales; Accessory retail sales of automobiles and light trucks; Accessory retail sales of landscape supplies; Accessory retail sales of motorcycles and motorsport vehicles
- **Extra uses on specific lots:** Office only for governments, utility administration, engineers, architects, landscape architects or surveyors (up to 130 m²) at 1180 Kingsway Avenue, and offices at 1833 Coast Meridian Road; Outdoor storage only at 1180 Kingsway Avenue, 1458, 1462 and 1467 Mustang Place, 1488 and 1485 Coast Meridian Road, 1464 and 1467 Spitfire Place, 1589 and 1603 Kebet Way, 1438 and 1435 Broadway Street, within a BC Hydro right of way; Accessory embalming services only at 2645 Kingsway Avenue; Accessory caretaker residential use also at Unit 2107, 1225 Kingsway Avenue
- **Minimum lot area:** 1200 m²
- **Minimum lot width:** 15 m lot width; 9 m frontage; 30 m lot depth
- **Front setback:** 6 m (at least 9 m from a Provincial Highway)
- **Rear setback:** 3 m; 9 m where the rear yard abuts a residential zone (at least 9 m from a Provincial Highway)
- **Interior side setback:** 0 / 6 m; at least 6 m where the side yard abuts a residential zone (at least 9 m from a Provincial Highway)
- **Other rules:** Impervious surface limit 80%.; Accessory outdoor storage limited to less than 25% of the lot area (50% at certain listed addresses), not in front or exterior side setback, screened at least 2 m high.; Landscaped strip at least 3 m wide along street lot lines, and a landscape screen at least 2 m high along lot lines abutting residential, park or institutional designated lots.; Overhead doors, loading areas and loading docks are prohibited in the portion of the lot adjacent to the fronting street.

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw, 2008, No. 3630 (City's online copy, includes CD1 to CD44), s. 4](https://www.portcoquitlam.ca/media/file/3630-zoning-bylaw-2008pdf#page=39) (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/m1/_