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title: "M-1 zone in Smithers: Light Industrial"
place: Smithers, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/smithers
zone: M-1
bylaw: Zoning Bylaw No. 1987 (adopted June 17, 2025)
bylaw_read: 2026-11-07
review: draft
canonical: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/smithers/zoning/m-1/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/smithers/zoning/m-1.json"
---

# M-1 zone in Smithers: Light Industrial

To accommodate industrial operations that are mostly or fully enclosed and need no outdoor storage beyond what supports the permitted uses.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** To accommodate industrial operations that are mostly or fully enclosed and need no outdoor storage beyond what supports the permitted uses.
- **Main uses:** Automobile, motorcycle, boat, and recreational trailer and vehicle sales and rentals, repair shops, and auto body shops; Laundry, dry cleaning serving commercial, industrial, and institutional uses; Plant nursery and sales of farm and garden supplies; Manufacturing use if totally contained in a building; Trade shop if totally contained in a building; Warehouse use; Wholesale sales; Sales and service of logging and construction materials and supplies, when totally; Animal hospital and veterinary facility when totally contained in a building; Processing and manufacturing of dairy products, when totally contained in a; Laboratory, testing facility; Sales and service, rental and repair of tools, when totally contained in a building; Building materials supply, lumber yard; Auctions other than of livestock provided that the auction takes place only in a; Document and parcel delivery depot; Truck terminal and freight depot; Truck or heavy equipment sales, services, repair, excluding wreckage and salvage; Vehicle washing establishment; Towing truck business provided that the vehicle compound is fenced and; Food exchange
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Office use; Residential use (front part of ground floor used only for permitted principal uses); Employee training facility; Dispensing of fuel for private use; Auction of goods sold in respect of the principal use; Retail sales of food exchange goods to a maximum of 10% of total gross floor area; Sale and service of products manufactured on the same parcel; Fuel pumps auxiliary to; Minor group home (front part of ground floor used only for permitted principal uses)
- **Minimum lot area:** 1,050 m²
- **Minimum lot width:** 27.5 metres
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 75% for all buildings and structures
- **Maximum height:** 12 metres
- **Maximum height, accessory buildings:** 12 metres (auxiliary buildings)
- **Front setback:** 3 metres
- **Rear setback:** 3 metres where the rear yard abuts a highway other than a lane; 0 for all other parcels, with unobstructed space for garbage pickup at least 3 metres wide, 2 metres deep and 3.5 metres high
- **Street side setback:** 4.5 metres
- **Other rules:** Manufacturing use: no more than 50 m² or 10% of floor area (whichever is less) for retail sales or display of goods made on site; Wholesale or warehouse use: no more than 50 m² or 10% of floor area (whichever is less) for display of goods; Ground-floor dwelling limited to one unit, at the rear of the principal building

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw No. 1987 (adopted June 17, 2025), s. 6.1](https://www.smithers.ca/sites/default/files/2025-06/Town%20of%20Smithers%20Zoning%20Bylaw%20No.%201987_Deepa%20Chandran.pdf#page=64) (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/m-1/_