{"title":"M4 zone in Port Coquitlam: Intensive Light Industrial","code":"M4","slug":"m4","name":"Intensive Light Industrial","group":"Industrial","section":"4","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Light industrial in an intensive multi-storey building format, with commercial indoor storage and industrial-type office uses allowed above the second storey when the lower floors are used for light industrial uses.","fields":{"purpose":{"value":"Light industrial in an intensive multi-storey building format, with commercial indoor storage and industrial-type office uses allowed above the second storey when the lower floors are used for light industrial uses.","quotes":["To accommodate and regulate light industrial in an intensive multi-","story building format that includes a provision for commercial indoor","storage and office uses of an industrial nature when these uses are","conducted above a secondary story and when the lower floors are","being used for light industrial uses."]},"primary_uses":{"value":["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","Commercial indoor storage (only above the second storey, apart from a reception area up to 250 m² and an access elevator)","Office (only above the second storey; courier and dispatch, government and utility administration, engineers, architects, landscape architects and surveyors, data processing, waste management and environmental services, film, digital media and broadcasting, event planning, staging and interior design, driving school, fulfillment services)"],"quotes":["Advanced technology industries","Auctions","Commercial indoor recreation","Machinery and equipment repair","Manufacturing and processing","Packaged liquor sales","Parks and playgrounds","Pet daycare facilities","Production studios","Restaurants","Retail sale of industrial supplies","Trade Contractors","Trade, technical and vocational schools","Warehousing and Transhipment","Wholesale sales","Wine and beer making","Container return depots","Note 3. Restaurants are limited to a maximum 75m2 in interior floor area except that:","Note 22. Packaged liquor sales use in the M1, M3 and M4 zones is only permitted where","Commercial indoor storage","Office","Note 28. Commercial indoor storage uses in an M4 zone are only permitted above the second","storey of a building, with the exception of a reception area no greater than 250 m 2","and an access elevator.","Note 29. Office uses in M4 zones must be conducted above the second storey and are limited","to offices for courier and dispatch services, government and utility administration,","engineers, architects, landscape architects and surveyors, data processing and related","services, waste management and environmental services, film, digital media and","broadcasting, event planning, staging and interior design, driving school, and","fulfillment services."]},"secondary_uses":{"value":["Accessory caretaker (only accessory to commercial indoor storage, located above the first floor)","Accessory display","Accessory group child care (school age)","Accessory office uses","Accessory lounge endorsement area","Accessory packaged liquor sales","Accessory pet grooming services","Accessory retail sales"],"quotes":["Accessory caretaker","Accessory display","Accessory group child care (school age)","Accessory office uses","Accessory lounge endorsement area","Accessory packaged liquor sales","Accessory pet grooming services","Accessory retail sales","a. Accessory to a commercial indoor storage use in the M1 and M4 zone; and","140m2 and 33% of the floor area occupied by a business and, in a M4 zone, must be","located above the first floor of a building."]},"min_parcel_area":{"value":"930 m²","quotes":["M4 930m2 30m 18m 28m"]},"min_parcel_width":{"value":"30 m lot width; 18 m frontage; 28 m lot depth","quotes":["M4 930m2 30m 18m 28m"]},"setback_front":{"value":"6 m (at least 9 m from a Provincial Highway)","quotes":["- - 6m 3m 6m 3m 80%","All setbacks from Provincial Highways must be at least 9m."]},"setback_rear":{"value":"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)","quotes":["- - 6m 3m 6m 3m 80%","In M3 and M4 zones all rear and side setbacks from streets other than Provincial","Any side or rear setback abutting a property designated for residential use in the","All setbacks from Provincial Highways must be at least 9m."]},"setback_side_interior":{"value":"3 m (one side may be eliminated if the other is at least 6 m; at least 6 m abutting residential-designated property)","quotes":["- - 6m 3m 6m 3m 80%","In M2, M3 and M4 zones one side setback may be eliminated if the other is at least","Any side or rear setback abutting a property designated for residential use in the"]},"setback_side_exterior":{"value":"6 m (at least 9 m from a Provincial Highway)","quotes":["- - 6m 3m 6m 3m 80%","All setbacks from Provincial Highways must be at least 9m."]},"other":{"value":["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."],"quotes":["- - 6m 3m 6m 3m 80%","5. Off-street parking is limited to 55% of the lot area in an M3 or M4 zone and neither off-","3. Overhead doors, off-street loading areas and loading docks are prohibited in the","Note 11. Accessory office uses in M3 and M4 zones are limited to 60% of the floor area"]}},"bylaw":{"title":"Zoning Bylaw, 2008, No. 3630 (City's online copy, includes CD1 to CD44)","url":"https://www.portcoquitlam.ca/media/file/3630-zoning-bylaw-2008pdf","accessed":"2026-11-07","note":"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."},"source_url":"https://www.portcoquitlam.ca/media/file/3630-zoning-bylaw-2008pdf#page=39","place":{"path":"ca/bc/port-coquitlam","name":"Port Coquitlam","region":{"code":"bc","name":"British Columbia"},"country":{"code":"ca","name":"Canada"}},"urls":{"html":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-coquitlam/zoning/m4/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-coquitlam/zoning/m4.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-coquitlam/zoning/m4.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-coquitlam/zoning/index.json"}}