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title: "MR10-C zone in Surrey: City Centre High-Rise Apartment with Commercial Zone"
place: Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/surrey
zone: MR10-C
bylaw: Surrey Zoning By-law, 1993, No. 12000 (consolidation includes amendments up to By-law 22120, adopted 09/21/2026)
bylaw_read: 2026-11-07
review: draft
canonical: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/surrey/zoning/mr10-c/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/surrey/zoning/mr10-c.json"
---

# MR10-C zone in Surrey: City Centre High-Rise Apartment with Commercial Zone

High-density high-rise mixed-use apartment buildings in City Centre, typically in tower form, with required ground floor commercial.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** High-density high-rise mixed-use apartment buildings in City Centre, typically in tower form, with required ground floor commercial.
- **Main uses:** Multiple unit residential buildings (at least 25% of the ground floor must be commercial or related uses accessible from the street); Child care centres; Retail stores (excluding adult entertainment stores, secondhand stores, and pawnshops); Personal service uses (excluding body rub parlours); General service uses (excluding funeral parlours and drive-through banks); Eating establishments (excluding drive-through restaurants); Liquor store; Neighbourhood pubs; Office uses (excluding social escort services, methadone clinics, and cannabis dispensaries); Indoor recreational facilities; Entertainment uses (excluding arcades and adult entertainment stores); Community services; Cultural uses; Places of worship (no more than 30% of the total gross floor area) (Applies to land located in City Centre (Map D.1 of Schedule D).)
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Short-Term Rental
- **Minimum lot area:** 2,000 m² (not required for air space parcels)
- **Minimum lot width:** 36 m
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 85%
- **Maximum density:** Floor area ratio 6.0 if inclusionary housing requirements are met (up to 10.0 with bonus density conditions)
- **Maximum height:** Not applicable to this Zone (no height limit set)
- **Front setback:** 4.5 m
- **Rear setback:** 7.5 m (0.0 m next to certain OCP-designated properties)
- **Interior side setback:** 7.5 m (0.0 m next to certain OCP-designated properties)
- **Street side setback:** 4.5 m
- **Other rules:** Balconies are required on dwelling units that are not ground-oriented.; Ground floor commercial must front a highway shown as commercial frontage, otherwise an arterial, collector or local road in that order.; Child care centres may not exceed 3.0 m² per dwelling unit.

## Source

- [Surrey Zoning By-law, 1993, No. 12000 (consolidation includes amendments up to By-law 22120, adopted 09/21/2026), s. Part 27A](https://www.surrey.ca/sites/default/files/bylaws/BYL_Zoning_12000.pdf#page=246) (read 2026-11-07)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply. All zones in Surrey: https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/surrey/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/surrey/zoning/mr10-c/_