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title: "M3 zone in Port Coquitlam: Light Industrial"
place: Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/port-coquitlam
zone: M3
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/m3/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-coquitlam/zoning/m3.json"
---

# M3 zone in Port Coquitlam: Light Industrial

A range of light industrial and related uses that act as a transition between industry and nearby residential, commercial or agricultural uses, for businesses that operate fully within a building with no outdoor storage and do not produce excessive noise, odour or other disturbances.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** A range of light industrial and related uses that act as a transition between industry and nearby residential, commercial or agricultural uses, for businesses that operate fully within a building with no outdoor storage and do not produce excessive noise, odour or other disturbances.
- **Main uses:** Advanced technology industries; Auctions; Commercial indoor recreation; Machinery and equipment repair; Manufacturing and processing; Packaged liquor sales (only accessory to liquor manufacturing); Parks and playgrounds; Pet daycare facilities; Production studios; Restaurants (maximum 75 m² interior floor area); Retail sale of industrial supplies; Trade Contractors; Trade, technical and vocational schools; Warehousing and Transhipment; Wholesale sales; Wine and beer making; Container return depots; Office (only for governments, utility administration, engineers, architects, landscape architects or surveyors; at least 140 m²)
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Accessory display; Accessory group child care (school age); Accessory office uses; Accessory lounge endorsement area; Accessory outdoor storage (only at listed Sherling Place and Nicola Place addresses); Accessory packaged liquor sales; Accessory pet grooming services; Accessory retail sales
- **Extra uses on specific lots:** Commercial indoor storage only at 585 Seaborne Avenue (site area up to 2000 m², floor area up to 6000 m², building up to 15 m high, at least 15 parking spaces); Accessory outdoor storage only at 550, 551, 570 and 573 Sherling Place and 548 and 572 Nicola Place
- **Minimum lot area:** 930 m²
- **Minimum lot width:** 30 m lot width; 18 m frontage; 28 m lot depth
- **Maximum height:** 12 m
- **Front setback:** 6 m (at least 9 m from a Provincial Highway)
- **Rear setback:** 3 m (at least 6 m for rear setbacks from streets other than Provincial Highways, and abutting residential-designated property; 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 residential-designated property)
- **Street side setback:** 6 m (at least 9 m from a Provincial Highway)
- **Other rules:** Impervious surface limit 80%.; Off-street parking is limited to 55% of the lot area.; Overhead doors, loading areas and loading docks are prohibited in the portion of the lot adjacent to the fronting street.; Accessory office uses limited to 60% of the floor area occupied by a business.

## 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/m3/_