---
title: "C-2 zone in Smithers: Service Commercial"
place: Smithers, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/smithers
zone: C-2
bylaw: Zoning Bylaw No. 1987 (adopted June 17, 2025)
bylaw_read: 2026-11-07
review: draft
canonical: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/smithers/zoning/c-2/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/smithers/zoning/c-2.json"
---

# C-2 zone in Smithers: Service Commercial

To accommodate a wide variety of auto-oriented commercial services.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** To accommodate a wide variety of auto-oriented commercial services.
- **Main uses:** Automobile, motorcycle, snowmobile, boat, manufactured home, and recreational trailer and vehicle sales and rentals, repair shops, and auto body shops; Vehicle washing establishment; Document and parcel delivery depot; Sales of fresh fruits, vegetables, and seafood in open air market; Sales and service of tires, mufflers, brakes and automotive transmissions,; Plant nursery and sale of farm and garden supplies; Passenger transport depot; Sales, service, repair and rental of tools and appliances when fully enclosed within; Auctions other than of livestock when fully enclosed within a building; Laundromat, laundry, and dry cleaning serving commercial, industrial, and; Warehouses; Wholesale sales; Building materials supply and sales; Trucking and freight depot; Soil and rock sample preparation facility; Microbrewery
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Office use; Residential use (front part of ground floor used only for permitted principal uses); Fuel pumps auxiliary to; Auction use of goods sold in respect of the principal use; Commercial bathrooms and showers; Retail sales of goods not otherwise permitted (limited to 4 days per parcel per calendar year); Minor group home (front part of ground floor used only for permitted principal uses)
- **Minimum lot area:** 1,050 m²
- **Minimum lot width:** 25 metres
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 50% for all buildings and structures
- **Maximum height:** 3 storeys or 12 metres, whichever is less
- **Front setback:** 3 metres
- **Street side setback:** 3.5 metres
- **Other rules:** Ground-floor dwelling limited to one unit, at the rear of the principal building; All storage areas must be in the rear or side yards; Every business must be in a completely enclosed building, except parking and loading, screened storage yards, and outdoor display, rental or sales areas

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw No. 1987 (adopted June 17, 2025), s. 5.3](https://www.smithers.ca/sites/default/files/2025-06/Town%20of%20Smithers%20Zoning%20Bylaw%20No.%201987_Deepa%20Chandran.pdf#page=55) (read 2026-11-07)

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