M-3 zone in Smithers: Heavy Industrial

Smithers, British ColumbiaDraft, not yet reviewedBylaw read 2026-11-07

In short

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 (read 2026-11-07)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply, and a lot can have site-specific rules. The Town posts the bylaw as adopted on 17 June 2025; no later amendments are folded into this PDF. Schedule A (the zoning map) is a separate PDF. Zone pages are taken from the bylaw text by a research agent and have not yet been reviewed by a person: confirm with the bylaw before you rely on them. How answers are checked.

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