{"title":"C-1 zone in Smithers: Town Centre Commercial","code":"C-1","slug":"c-1","name":"Town Centre Commercial","group":"Commercial","section":"5.1","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"To accommodate a wide mix of retail, business and office uses, together with upper storey residential development along Main Street.","fields":{"purpose":{"value":"To accommodate a wide mix of retail, business and office uses, together with upper storey residential development along Main Street.","quotes":["The purpose of the C-1 zone is to accommodate a wide mix of retail, business and office uses,","together with upper storey residential development along Main Street."]},"primary_uses":{"value":["Bank","Club, fraternal lodge","Public or private school, college","Restaurant","Entertainment establishment","Institutional use","Medical, health service centre","Offices for business, professional services","Open-air produce market","Hotel","Printing, publishing","Retail sales","Studio, including artist, display, music, radio, recording, television, photographic","On-site manufacture and sale of hand-crafted small goods when totally contained","Personal service establishment","Animal hospital and veterinary facility, when totally contained in a building","Microbrewery","Cannabis retail sales"],"quotes":["bank","club, fraternal lodge","public or private school, college","restaurant","entertainment establishment","institutional use","medical, health service centre","offices for business, professional services","open-air produce market","hotel","printing, publishing","retail sales","studio, including artist, display, music, radio, recording, television, photographic","on-site manufacture and sale of hand-crafted small goods when totally contained","personal service establishment","animal hospital and veterinary facility, when totally contained in a building","microbrewery","cannabis retail sales"]},"secondary_uses":{"value":["Parking lot","Residential use (ground floor used only for permitted principal uses)","Minor group home (ground floor used only for permitted principal uses)","Auction of goods sold in respect of the principal use","Storage and minor repairs of goods sold in respect of the principal use","Short-term rental (ground floor used only for permitted principal uses)"],"quotes":["parking lot","residential use, provided that the ground floor","minor group home, provided that the ground floor","auction of goods sold in respect of the principal use","storage and minor repairs of goods sold in respect of the principal use","Short-Term Rental, provided that the ground floor"]},"min_parcel_area":{"value":"No minimum","quotes":["Parcel Area No minimum"]},"min_parcel_width":{"value":"7 metres","quotes":["Parcel Width 7 metres minimum"]},"max_parcel_coverage":{"value":"100% for all buildings and structures","quotes":["Parcel Coverage 100% maximum for all buildings and structures"]},"max_height":{"value":"3 storeys or 12 metres, whichever is less","quotes":["Height 3 stories or 12 metres maximum, whichever is less"]}},"bylaw":{"title":"Zoning Bylaw No. 1987 (adopted June 17, 2025)","url":"https://www.smithers.ca/sites/default/files/2025-06/Town%20of%20Smithers%20Zoning%20Bylaw%20No.%201987_Deepa%20Chandran.pdf","accessed":"2026-11-07","note":"The Town posts the bylaw as adopted on 17 June 2025; no later amendments are folded into this PDF. Schedule A (the zoning map) is a separate PDF."},"source_url":"https://www.smithers.ca/sites/default/files/2025-06/Town%20of%20Smithers%20Zoning%20Bylaw%20No.%201987_Deepa%20Chandran.pdf#page=49","place":{"path":"ca/bc/smithers","name":"Smithers","region":{"code":"bc","name":"British Columbia"},"country":{"code":"ca","name":"Canada"}},"urls":{"html":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/smithers/zoning/c-1/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/smithers/zoning/c-1.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/smithers/zoning/c-1.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/smithers/zoning/index.json"}}