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title: "M4 zone in Port Coquitlam: Intensive Light Industrial"
place: Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/port-coquitlam
zone: M4
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/m4/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-coquitlam/zoning/m4.json"
---

# M4 zone in Port Coquitlam: Intensive Light Industrial

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.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** 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.
- **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; 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)
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** 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
- **Minimum lot area:** 930 m²
- **Minimum lot width:** 30 m lot width; 18 m frontage; 28 m lot depth
- **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/m4/_