C2: Highway Service Commercial

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Homes in the commercial building

Main uses

Liquor and cannabis stores, animal clinic, car wash, club or lodge, daycare, bank, funeral services, health services, hotel, motel, microbrewery and craft distillery, offices, outdoor market, personal services, indoor recreation, place of worship, restaurant, retail, self-storage; homes in the commercial building, home-based business in those homes, outdoor storage, mobile vendor, drive-through restaurant

Smallest lot for a subdivision

758 m², 15 m wide

Lot coverage

60%

Height limit

12 m

Setbacks

Front 6 m, sides 3 m (3 m beside a street), rear 3 m; accessory buildings front 6 m, sides 3 m (3 m beside a street), rear 1.5 m; main buildings at least 5.5 m wide

Homes in a commercial building (s. 6.7): in the same building as the businesses, away from where customers are served; in a one-storey building at the back and at most 40% of its floor area, in a taller one above the ground floor.

Business is carried on inside a building or screened from view, apart from parking, loading, vehicle service and repair, restaurant patios and goods set out for display (s. 11.5.1). Outdoor storage stays in its own area, off parking (s. 11.5.2).

Site-specific (s. 11.6): a gas bar and vehicle service and repairs at 1322 Highway 97 (Lots 7A, 8 and 8A, Townsite of Clinton) and 1429 Highway 97 (Lot A, Plan 35067); cannabis sales at 1302 Highway 97 (Parcel J, Townsite of Clinton). A gas bar or repair shop is 200 m from another, with pumps 4.5 m from lot lines (ss. 6.8 and 6.16).

Cannabis sales. The C2 zone lists it as a permitted use, but s. 6.5.1 allows it only where the bylaw permits it for a single lot (in C2, 1302 Highway 97), at least 100 m from a school or daycare and 400 m from another cannabis store. The stricter reading, which s. 1.6.2 points to, allows it only there. Whether a store may open on any C2 lot is unclear; ask the Village of Clinton.

A drive-through has at least six queuing spaces of 6 m by 3 m, outside the setbacks, not off a lane, with a 3.5 m landscaped buffer from homes next door (s. 6.17).

New lots in this zone connect to community water and sewer (s. 4.5.1).

The zone allows hotels and motels (nightly stays for the public, s. 3). The bylaw has no short-term rental use, so whether a home in the commercial building may be rented short term is unclear; ask the Village of Clinton.

Parking (s. 20.3): retail 1 space per 25 m² of retail floor area, offices 1 per 30 m², banks 1 per 20 m², health services 1 per 30 m², personal services 1 per 15 m² of service area, restaurants 1 per 5 seats, hotels and motels 1 per room, other commercial uses 1 per 20 m²; in a commercial zone parking may be on another lot within 150 m (s. 20.4.2), and a third of the spaces may be paid for instead (s. 20.1.4).

Fences are at most 3.5 m tall in every zone (s. 5.1.1); a pool is fenced at least 2.5 m high with a childproof lock (s. 5.1.4).

On a corner lot, nothing over 1 m above the street's grade within the triangle reaching 7.5 m along each street line from the corner (s. 4.3).

Nothing built within 4.5 m of a lot line on an arterial highway, including the Cariboo Highway (Highway 97) (s. 4.2).

New homes on a lot next to the CN Railway stand 30 m from the shared lot line (s. 4.4).

No building within 30 m of the natural boundary of Clinton Creek, Cutoff Valley Creek or any other watercourse (the toe of any fill too), and the floor of living or storage space at least 1.5 m above that boundary (s. 4.6.1). Changes to a watercourse need the Ministry of Environment's approval, and the developer answers for added runoff (ss. 4.6.2 and 4.6.3).

In every zone: no wrecked or dismantled vehicles or equipment in the front yard, and outside a wrecking yard none kept in the side or rear yard more than 30 days; s. 5.5.4(c) also bars storing machinery, equipment or vehicles in disrepair outside at all, and the stricter rule applies (s. 1.6.2).

Shipping containers count as accessory buildings: at most 1 per lot, 12.1 m long, one plain colour that suits the main building, unstacked, never lived in and screened from Highway 97 (ss. 5.4.1, 5.4.2 and 5.4.5).

Outdoor garbage bins and storage areas are screened from highways and neighbours (s. 5.3.1).

A commercial or industrial lot next to a residential or park zone or a highway keeps a landscape screen at least 1.5 m tall (s. 5.3.2); junk materials stay 30 m from residential and park zones, inside a 2.5 m fence or building (s. 5.2).

Food trucks and other mobile vendors may also trade in any C, I or P zone, self-contained, with the landowner's permission and a business licence (s. 6.11).

Steps, and eaves, chimneys and bay windows up to 1 m, may reach into a setback; balconies, porches and canopies up to 1.5 m or half the setback, whichever is less; an uncovered pool stays out of the front yard and 3 m from every lot line (s. 4.8). Height is measured from the average finished grade to the highest point (s. 3); chimneys, domes, spires, antennas and towers, rooftop equipment, farm structures, water tanks and a few others listed in s. 4.9 are exempt.

Site-specific exceptions listed in the bylaw by legal description can add or change uses for one property, and development permit areas, the ALR and building rules apply on top. Confirm with the Village of Clinton's office before you buy or build.

Source: Village of Clinton Zoning Bylaw No. 607, 2025 (summarised in our words); zone map: Open Government Licence – Thompson-Nicola Regional District.