C4: Service Commercial

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

An accessory home inside the main building, at most 40% of its floor area and 150 m²

Main uses

Car and RV sales, rental and service, contractors, light industry (no smoke, noise or fumes), machine and welding shops, food and beverage packaging, warehousing, mini-storage and wholesale, transportation depot, bottle and recycling depots, fuel and cardlock, garden stores, laboratories, shops, restaurants, personal services, entertainment, indoor and outdoor recreation, private clubs, UBrew, animal shelters, grooming and veterinary clinics, auctions, technology centres, field-crew offices; an accessory home

Smallest lot for a subdivision

557 m², 15 m wide

Lot coverage

60%

Height limit

2 storeys; structures 13.5 m (6 m on a lot with no building)

Setbacks

Front 1.5 m (fuel pump islands 4.5 m); sides 0 m (3 m next to a residential zone with no lane or street between); rear 0 m (1.5 m where a door opens onto a lane or loading has no stall; 3 m next to a residential zone; 7 m on Sunset Drive between River Road and Sparrow Road)

Floor area ratio 1.2, offices at most 0.6 (s. 10.6.5). Buildings are at least 45 m², except fuel kiosks, cardlocks and accessory buildings.

Site-specific homes (s. 10.6.3): an accessory home at 7530 and 7450 Dallas Drive and 177 Leigh Road; one house under CR1's rules at 5020 Yellowhead Highway.

Other site-specific uses (s. 10.6.3) include manufactured home sales at 6767, 7245 and 8055 Dallas Drive, 200 slot machines and off-track betting at 1250 Halston Avenue, a church at 1410 Pearson Place, an ambulance station at 245 Clapperton Road, RV storage at 2400 Ord Road and an equipment yard at 9459 Dallas Drive.

Outdoor storage is screened; display only for car, RV and garden sales; both paved and edged by a landscaped strip; bottle and recycling depots keep materials indoors (ss. 10.6.7, 10.6.8).

The zone doesn't list short-term rental (stays under 30 days), so homes here are let for 30 days or more (ss. 1.3.1, 2.2).

Fences up to 1.2 m in a required front or side-street yard and 2 m elsewhere (s. 5.7).

Up to two for storage, each at most 12.1 m long, under the accessory building limits, never lived in and never holding fuel or explosives (s. 3.11.4).

Beside a provincial highway, buildings and structures stand at least 4.5 m from that lot line (3 m where a public lane gives secondary access); less needs the Ministry of Transportation's consent and a variance (s. 3.15).

Below the 200-year flood level, floors used for living, business or storing goods in multi-unit or small-scale multi-unit housing and in garden or carriage suites sit above that level (s. 3.16).

A lot registered before this bylaw that is smaller or narrower than the zone's minimum may still be developed to the zone's density (s. 2.1.1).

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 City of Kamloops' planning and development department before you buy or build.

Source: City of Kamloops Zoning Bylaw No. 55, 2021 (summarised in our words); zone map: Open Government Licence – Kamloops.