{"title":"C-1A zone in Smithers: Downtown Commercial","code":"C-1A","slug":"c-1a","name":"Downtown Commercial","group":"Commercial","section":"5.2","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"To accommodate a broader mix of retail, business and office uses, together with residential development, within Downtown Smithers.","fields":{"purpose":{"value":"To accommodate a broader mix of retail, business and office uses, together with residential development, within Downtown Smithers.","quotes":["The purpose of the C-1A zone is to accommodate a broader mix of retail, business, and office"]},"primary_uses":{"value":["Bank","Club, fraternal lodge","Public or private school, college","Restaurant","Premises licensed for consumption of alcoholic beverages","Entertainment establishment","Funeral home, undertaking establishment","Institutional use","Medical, health service centre","Offices for business, professional services","Off-street parking, including parking garage","Open-air produce market","Personal service establishment","Hotel","Printing, publishing","Retail sales","Studio, including artist, display, music, radio, recording, television, photographic","Wholesale sales","On-site manufacture and sale of hand crafted small goods when totally contained","Plant nursery and sale of garden supplies","Animal hospital and veterinary facility, when totally contained in a building","Rescue mission","Youth centre","Microbrewery","Cannabis retail sales"],"quotes":["bank","club, fraternal lodge","public or private school, college","restaurant","premises licensed for consumption of alcoholic beverages","entertainment establishment","funeral home, undertaking establishment","institutional use","medical, health service centre","offices for business, professional services","off-street parking, including parking garage","open-air produce market","personal service establishment","hotel","printing, publishing","retail sales","studio, including artist, display, music, radio, recording, television, photographic","wholesale sales","on-site manufacture and sale of hand crafted small goods when totally contained","plant nursery and sale of garden supplies","animal hospital and veterinary facility, when totally contained in a building","rescue mission","youth centre","microbrewery","cannabis retail sales"]},"secondary_uses":{"value":["Residential use (front part of ground floor used only for permitted principal uses)","Minor group home (front part of ground floor used only for permitted principal uses)","Swimming pool","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":["residential use, provided that the portion of the ground floor","minor group home, provided that the portion of the ground floor","swimming pool","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"]},"site_specific":{"value":["3876 Second Avenue (Lots 5-7, Block 95, Plan PRP1054, District Lot 5289, Range 5, Coast Range 5 Land District): short-term rental permitted from the ground floor as an auxiliary use to the principal use at the front"],"quotes":["Short-Term Rental","3876 Second Avenue,"]},"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 & structures"]},"max_height":{"value":"3 storeys or 12 metres, whichever is less","quotes":["Height 3 storeys or 12 metres maximum, whichever is less"]},"other":{"value":["C-1A Residential Overlay (Figure 5.2): properties in the overlay may also be used for single-detached dwelling, semi-detached dwelling, townhouse, houseplex and group home (minor and major), with secondary suite, carriage home, short term rental and bed and breakfast","Ground-floor dwelling limited to one unit, at the rear of the principal building","All storage areas must be at the rear of the parcel","Residential parking must be accessed from the lane and located at the rear or side of the parcel"],"quotes":["C-1A Residential Overlay (Figure 5.2)","(c) Townhouse","(d) Houseplex","(f) Secondary suite","shall be is limited to one.","All storage areas shall be located in the rear of the parcel.","Residential parking shall be accessed from the lane and located in the rear or side of the"]}},"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=51","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-1a/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/smithers/zoning/c-1a.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/smithers/zoning/c-1a.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/smithers/zoning/index.json"}}