---
title: "C-4 zone in Smithers: Service Station Commercial"
place: Smithers, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/smithers
zone: C-4
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-4/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/smithers/zoning/c-4.json"
---

# C-4 zone in Smithers: Service Station Commercial

To accommodate service stations and gas stations with convenience stores and/or restaurants.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** To accommodate service stations and gas stations with convenience stores and/or restaurants.
- **Main uses:** Service stations; Convenience stores (in conjunction with service stations); Restaurants (in conjunction with service stations)
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Residential use, not more than one dwelling unit
- **Minimum lot area:** 1,100 m²
- **Minimum lot width:** 25 metres
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 40% for all buildings and structures
- **Maximum height:** 6 metres
- **Front setback:** 6 metres
- **Interior side setback:** 3.5 metres (side yard)
- **Other rules:** Maximum 2 buildings; Front and exterior side parcel lines need a landscape screen at least 0.6 metres high, except at entrances and exits; Fuel pumps must be at least 4.5 metres from a parcel line

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw No. 1987 (adopted June 17, 2025), s. 5.5](https://www.smithers.ca/sites/default/files/2025-06/Town%20of%20Smithers%20Zoning%20Bylaw%20No.%201987_Deepa%20Chandran.pdf#page=60) (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-4/_