{"title":"C3 zone in Port Moody: General Commercial","code":"C3","slug":"c3","name":"General Commercial","group":"Commercial","section":"10.3","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Mixed use medium density development in three-storey buildings","fields":{"purpose":{"value":"Mixed use medium density development in three-storey buildings","quotes":["To accommodate mixed use medium density development in three-Storey"]},"primary_uses":{"value":["Apartment","Artist Studio – Type A and Type B","Child Care","Commercial Athletic and Recreation","Community Care","Hotel","Office","Personal Service","Retail Food Service","Restaurant","Retail","Work-Live"],"quotes":["Apartment","Artist Studio – Type A and Type B","Child Care","Commercial Athletic and Recreation","Community Care","Hotel","Personal Service","Retail Food Service","Restaurant","Work-Live","vii. Office"]},"secondary_uses":{"value":["Home Occupation – Type A"],"quotes":["Home Occupation – Type A"]},"site_specific":{"value":["One Liquor-Primary Establishment and one Licensee Retail Store on Block 9, Plan 72, District Lot 201, NWD, Lots 3,4,5,8 E 36' of Lot 9 & Lot 7, Exc S20' Exc W 33'","One Liquor-Primary Establishment on Lot B, District Lot 210, Group 1, NWD, Reference Plan 78768","One Canada Post Corporation mail sorting depot on Lot 7, Block 10, Plan 72, District Lot 201, Group 1, NWD","Assembly Use on Lot 12, Block 11, Plan NWP72, District Lot 201, NWD, and Lot 11, Block 11, Plan NWP72, District Lot 201, NWD","One Cannabis Retail Use at 2816 St. Johns Street (Plan RP70815, District Lot 201, New West District Parcel A, PID 002-870-355)","One Cannabis Retail Use at 3034 St. Johns Street (Strata Lot 2 District Lot 190 Group 1 New Westminster District Strata Plan NW1656)","One Cannabis Retail Use at 2343 Clarke Street (Easterly 50 Feet Lot 34 Block 1 District Lot 202 Group 1 New Westminster District Plan 55)","Non-Market Housing within the ground level storey at 2340 Clarke Street (East Half of Lot 52 Except Part Subdivided by Plan 908, Block 1, District Lot 202 Group 1 New Westminster District Plan 55)"],"quotes":["One Liquor-Primary Establishment and one","Block 9, Plan 72, District Lot 201, NWD, Lots","One Liquor-Primary Establishment on property","Lot B, District Lot 210, Group 1, NWD,","Reference Plan 78768","One Canada Post Corporation mail sorting depot","Lot 7, Block 10, Plan 72, District Lot 201,","iv. Assembly Use on the following properties legally","Lot 12, Block 11, Plan NWP72, District Lot","Lot 11, Block 11, Plan NWP72, District Lot","One Cannabis Retail Use on the property legally","Plan RP70815, District Lot 201, New West","District Parcel A, PID 002-870-355 (for 2816","St. Johns Street – Kiaro)","Strata Lot 2 District Lot 190 Group 1 New","Westminster District Strata Plan NW1656,","3034 St. Johns Street – Cannoe)","Easterly 50 Feet Lot 34 Block 1 District Lot","Queen Street [sic] (for 2343 Clarke Street –","Non-Market Housing within the ground level","THE EAST HALF OF LOT 52 EXCEPT: PART","2340 Clarke Street – House of Omeed)"]},"max_parcel_coverage":{"value":"n/a","quotes":["Lot Coverage i. n/a"]},"max_density":{"value":"n/a","quotes":["Density (maximum) i. n/a"]},"max_height":{"value":"9.5 m and 3 storeys","quotes":["9.5m and 3 Storeys"]},"setback_front":{"value":"n/a","quotes":["Front Lot Line i. n/a"]},"setback_rear":{"value":"None required, except 3.5 m where the lot abuts or is separated by a lane from a residential zone","quotes":["None required, except, where a Lot abuts or is","shall be 3.5m"]},"setback_side_interior":{"value":"1.5 m, or 0.0 m where abutting a commercial zone","quotes":["1.5m except it shall be 0.0m where abutting a"]},"setback_side_exterior":{"value":"3.0 m (exterior lot line)","quotes":["commercial zone and 3.0m for an exterior Lot line"]},"other":{"value":["The ground-level storey must be occupied by permitted commercial or office use","Apartments are only permitted when all off-street parking is underground","Minimum lot size is set in the table in section 3.2 of the bylaw"],"quotes":["The ground level Storey shall be occupied by permitted commercial","An Apartment use is only permitted when all Off-Street Parking for","the use is Underground Parking.","For the minimum lot size for the C3 zone, please refer to the table in section"]}},"bylaw":{"title":"City of Port Moody Zoning Bylaw, 2018, No. 2937 (consolidated for convenience, includes amendments to July 14, 2026)","url":"https://api.ghdcdn.com/portmoody-edocs/v1/eDocs/Get?docnumber=461917","accessed":"2026-11-07","note":"The City's PDF (listed as BL2937-C on its Bylaws page) is \"Consolidated for Convenience\". Many older CD zones (CD1 to CD5, CD2R, CD10 to CD15) are listed in s. 3.1 but their text is not in this document; the bylaw says to refer to the original enacting bylaws, so those entries have no lines. CD81, CD94 and CD95 appear in Schedule D but not in the s. 3.1 list. CD zone text is in Schedule D (lines for CD zones are inside Schedule D)."},"source_url":"https://api.ghdcdn.com/portmoody-edocs/v1/eDocs/Get?docnumber=461917#page=106","place":{"path":"ca/bc/port-moody","name":"Port Moody","region":{"code":"bc","name":"British Columbia"},"country":{"code":"ca","name":"Canada"}},"urls":{"html":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-moody/zoning/c3/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-moody/zoning/c3.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-moody/zoning/c3.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/port-moody/zoning/index.json"}}