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title: "C-3 zone in Smithers: Tourist Commercial"
place: Smithers, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/smithers
zone: C-3
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-3/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/smithers/zoning/c-3.json"
---

# C-3 zone in Smithers: Tourist Commercial

To accommodate a wide variety of services oriented to the travelling public, including hotels, motels and restaurants.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** To accommodate a wide variety of services oriented to the travelling public, including hotels, motels and restaurants.
- **Main uses:** Tourist accommodation including hotels and motels; Restaurant; Premises licensed for consumption of alcoholic beverages; Visitor information centre; Recreational vehicle park or campground; Entertainment and recreational uses; Microbrewery
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Office uses; Residential use (front part of ground floor used only for permitted principal uses); Where contained in a hotel: assembly, confectionery, hair stylist, barbershop, shoeshine, entertainment, retail sales, indoor recreation or restaurant uses, and premises licensed for consumption and retail sale of alcoholic beverages; Short-term rental (ground floor used only for permitted principal uses); 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:** 3.0 metres
- **Street side setback:** 2 metres
- **Other rules:** Ground-floor dwelling limited to one unit, at the rear of the principal building

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw No. 1987 (adopted June 17, 2025), s. 5.4](https://www.smithers.ca/sites/default/files/2025-06/Town%20of%20Smithers%20Zoning%20Bylaw%20No.%201987_Deepa%20Chandran.pdf#page=58) (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-3/_