---
title: "M-2 zone in Salmon Arm: Light Industrial Zone"
place: Salmon Arm, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/salmon-arm
zone: M-2
bylaw: "Zoning Bylaw No. 2303 (Schedule \"A\" consolidation, effective December 18, 1995, updated August 2026)"
bylaw_read: 2026-11-07
review: draft
canonical: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/salmon-arm/zoning/m-2/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/salmon-arm/zoning/m-2.json"
---

# M-2 zone in Salmon Arm: Light Industrial Zone

Light manufacturing and related uses in areas where conflict with surrounding uses is unlikely.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** Light manufacturing and related uses in areas where conflict with surrounding uses is unlikely.
- **Main uses:** auction yards; automotive and truck repair shop, including body repair and painting, excluding fuel service station; auto sales and rental lots, showroom (new and used); boat and boat trailer sales and rental showroom, including minor repairs; cafe; distillery and brewery; distribution of refurbished/recycled goods; farm equipment sales and rentals; frozen food lockers, including retail sales; funeral services, including crematorium, embalming and related viewing rooms; greenhouses, and nurseries, including retail sales; high technology research and development; key lock fuel installation; laboratory, scientific and research; light industry; mini warehouse to a maximum parcel area of 20%; machinery sales, rental; mobile food vending; mobile home sales; moving and storage establishment; office, in association with a permitted industrial use, where the office does not exceed 50% of the lot area; outside vending; print shop; private utility; recreation vehicle sales and rental lots, and showroom (new and used); recycling depot; rental and repair of tools, small equipment; transportation use; truck sales and rental lots, and showroom (new and used); upholstery shop
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** home occupation; ancillary retail sales; accessory use, including one dwelling unit, or one single family dwelling, or one upper floor dwelling unit
- **Minimum lot area:** 465.0 m²
- **Minimum lot width:** 15.0 m
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 70% of parcel or site area
- **Maximum height:** 15.0 m (principal and accessory buildings)
- **Maximum height, accessory buildings:** 15.0 m (principal and accessory buildings)
- **Front setback:** 6.0 m
- **Rear setback:** 6.0 m next to a parcel not zoned Industrial; 3.0 m in all other cases
- **Interior side setback:** 6.0 m next to a parcel not zoned Industrial; 1.5 m where the parcel has access to a lane; 4.0 m where it does not
- **Street side setback:** 6.0 m
- **Accessory building setbacks:** Same as principal buildings: front 6.0 m, rear 6.0 m or 3.0 m, interior side 6.0 m, 1.5 m or 4.0 m, exterior side 6.0 m
- **Other rules:** Accessory retail uses must not exceed 25% of the maximum floor area of the principal building; Outside storage must be screened from public view and adjacent parcels not zoned Industrial; An outside storage business is limited to 20% of the parcel area (not contractor's storage yards or accessory uses)

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw No. 2303 (Schedule "A" consolidation, effective December 18, 1995, updated August 2026), s. 29](https://www.salmonarm.ca/DocumentCenter/View/74/Zoning-Bylaw-No-2303#page=85) (read 2026-11-07)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply. All zones in Salmon Arm: https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/salmon-arm/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/salmon-arm/zoning/m-2/_