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

# NC zone in Port Coquitlam: Neighbourhood Commercial

Small-scale convenience retail uses to serve local neighbourhoods and satisfy residents' daily household needs.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** Small-scale convenience retail uses to serve local neighbourhoods and satisfy residents' daily household needs.
- **Main uses:** Child care facilities; Parks and playgrounds; Restaurants (maximum 10 seats, take-out allowed as accessory); Retail sales - convenience (groceries, meat, fish, produce, baked goods and flowers; premises up to 112 m²)
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Accessory office; Accessory residential (at the rear if on the same storey, with a separate entrance)
- **Minimum lot area:** 750 m²
- **Minimum lot width:** 18 m lot width; 18 m frontage; 28 m lot depth
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 40%
- **Maximum height:** 7.5 m
- **Front setback:** 7.5 m (at least 9 m from a Provincial Highway)
- **Rear setback:** 7.5 m (at least 9 m from a Provincial Highway)
- **Interior side setback:** 0 / 1.8 m; required only where the side yard abuts a lot in a Residential zone
- **Street side setback:** 3.5 m (at least 9 m from 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/nc/_