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title: "M-3 zone in Smithers: Heavy Industrial"
place: Smithers, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/smithers
zone: M-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/m-3/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/smithers/zoning/m-3.json"
---

# M-3 zone in Smithers: Heavy Industrial

To accommodate industrial operations that largely involve outdoor activities, including storage of materials.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** To accommodate industrial operations that largely involve outdoor activities, including storage of materials.
- **Main uses:** Contractors’ yard and storage building; Distilling, incinerating, tanning, or rendering of fish, animal or vegetable products and the manufacture of paper or rubber; Works yard; Industrial service industry including heavy equipment overhaul and repair, welding shop, electrical shop, plumbing and heating shop, blacksmith shop; Junk yard, wrecking yard, or salvage yard; Manufacturing, processing, refining, mixing or bulk storing of petroleum, bitumen, coal tar products or derivatives, and corrosive, noxious, highly flammable, or explosive materials, chemicals, gases, and fission or fused products; Operation of sawmills, hammer mills, rolling mills, blast furnaces, foundries, drop forges, brick kilns, flour mills; Operation of stockyards, the slaughtering of animals or poultry, the manufacturing of fertilizer; Secondary manufacturing industries including furniture manufacture, manufactured home building, wood products manufacturing, textile manufacturing; Smelting, refining and reducing of minerals or metallic ores; Transportation uses including truck terminal, railways, freight handling and passenger transportation depot; Asphalt, concrete plant, rock and gravel crushing; Fuel sales – wood; Commercial cardlock facility
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Office use (exclusively auxiliary to a permitted principal use); Residential use, not more than one dwelling unit per parcel; Fuel pumps exclusively auxiliary to principal uses on a parcel
- **Minimum lot area:** 2 hectares
- **Minimum lot width:** Not restricted
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 60% for all buildings and structures
- **Maximum height:** 12 metres
- **Maximum height, accessory buildings:** 12 metres (auxiliary buildings)
- **Front setback:** 6 metres
- **Rear setback:** 6 metres
- **Interior side setback:** 6 metres (side yard); no setback needed where the parcel line is next to a railway right of way
- **Other rules:** Number of principal buildings: unlimited

## Source

- [Zoning Bylaw No. 1987 (adopted June 17, 2025), s. 6.3](https://www.smithers.ca/sites/default/files/2025-06/Town%20of%20Smithers%20Zoning%20Bylaw%20No.%201987_Deepa%20Chandran.pdf#page=70) (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-3/_