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title: "MR7 zone in Surrey: Low-Rise (5-8 Storey) Apartment Zone"
place: Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/surrey
zone: MR7
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/mr7/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/surrey/zoning/mr7.json"
---

# MR7 zone in Surrey: Low-Rise (5-8 Storey) Apartment Zone

Low-rise apartment buildings, typically 5 to 8 storeys, with optional accessory uses such as commercial.

## Zone rules

- **Purpose:** Low-rise apartment buildings, typically 5 to 8 storeys, with optional accessory uses such as commercial.
- **Main uses:** Multiple unit residential buildings; Ground-oriented multiple unit residential buildings; Non-market rental development
- **Also allowed (secondary uses):** Child care centres; Short-Term Rental; 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 (Accessory uses are limited to a floor area ratio of 0.2 and 232 m² per building.)
- **Minimum lot area:** 2,000 m² (not required for air space parcels)
- **Minimum lot width:** 36 m
- **Maximum lot coverage:** 60% (not applicable to non-market rental development)
- **Maximum density:** Outside a Transit-Oriented Area: floor area ratio 2.0 (up to 2.5 with bonus density conditions). Inside a Transit-Oriented Area: 3.0 if inclusionary housing requirements are met. Entirely non-market rental: 3.0
- **Maximum height:** Outside a Transit-Oriented Area: lesser of 6 storeys or 22 m. Inside a Transit-Oriented Area: lesser of 8 storeys or 26 m
- **Maximum height, accessory buildings:** 4.5 m (accessory buildings and structures)
- **Front setback:** 5.5 m (4.5 m for non-market rental development)
- **Rear setback:** 7.5 m
- **Interior side setback:** 7.5 m
- **Street side setback:** 5.5 m
- **Other rules:** Balconies are required on dwelling units that are not ground-oriented.; 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 24A](https://www.surrey.ca/sites/default/files/bylaws/BYL_Zoning_12000.pdf#page=218) (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/mr7/_