C5: Shopping Centre Commercial

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Apartments in residential or mixed-use buildings (and a caretaker's home on one lot at 1967 Trans Canada Highway East)

Main uses

Shopping centres and big-box stores: shops, offices, personal services, restaurants and cafés (no drive-throughs in the North Shore Town Centre), pubs and lounges, hotels and motels, banks, entertainment, assembly and cultural facilities, community care, education, laundry, UBrew, car repair (not in the North Shore Town Centre), fuel, bottle depot, garden stores, grooming and veterinary clinics, cannabis and liquor stores; apartments; temporary car sales; food trucks, produce stands, home-based businesses in apartments

Smallest lot for a subdivision

8,000 m², 60 m wide; 1,500 m², 40 m wide for multi-unit or mixed-use development (5,600 m² for Lot B, Plan KAP48194, west of Nina Place; 2,470 m² at 565 Notre Dame Drive)

Lot coverage

60%

Height limit

Commercial buildings 2 storeys; with a hotel or homes 6 storeys; 10 storeys in the North Shore and Sahali town centres or within 200 m of a transit exchange in a transit-oriented area; rooftop structures 4.5 m above the main roof

Setbacks

Front 6 m (3 m in the North Shore Town Centre); sides 6 m (7.5 m next to a residential zone with no lane or street between; 3 m in the North Shore Town Centre); rear 6 m (7.5 m next to a residential zone)

Floor area ratio 1.0 for commercial buildings; 2.0 with a hotel or homes, 3.0 with the density bonus; in a transit-oriented area 3.5 within 200 m of a transit exchange and 2.5 at 201 to 400 m; 1.0 on lots facing Hillside Drive (Cariboo Place to Cascade Street) or Versatile Drive, whatever else applies (s. 10.7.6).

Whether a lot in a transit-oriented area can still use the density bonus: the zone allows a floor area ratio of 2.0, or 3.0 with the bonus, but only 2.5 in part of a transit-oriented area, and doesn't say which governs there, so this is unclear; ask the City of Kamloops.

Density bonus (s. 3.18): the higher figures need every added home kept as market rental, or 40% of them as affordable rental, or 20% of all homes as social housing, under a housing agreement that bars strata-titling them; in RM3, RM4 and RM5 the lot must also be within 200 m of a mixed-use centre in the official community plan.

Homes (s. 10.7.10) may be in all-residential or mixed buildings, with shared landscaped amenity space of 5% of the residential floor area on top of the zone's 15% landscaping.

Temporary car sales up to four weeks a year on 10% of the parking (45 spaces at most); indoor car sales in units up to 500 m² (s. 10.7.9).

Site-specific (ss. 10.7.3, 10.7.4, 10.7.7): car rental at 2121 Trans Canada Highway East; small-animal boarding at 2101 Trans Canada Highway East; a casino at 1555 Versatile Drive; motorcycle sales, storage and wholesale at 1967 Trans Canada Highway East; banks, but no car repair, fuel or offices, at 680 and 700 Notre Dame Drive; warehousing and mini-storage with a caretaker's home, animal grooming, printing and wholesale on Lot A, Plan 38537 (1967 Trans Canada Highway East); no car repair, fuel or offices at 1180 Columbia Street West; only a bank of up to 600 m² as office, and no car repair or bottle depot, at 565 Notre Dame Drive.

No outdoor storage (s. 10.7.8).

Cannabis stores stay 150 m from P3 (school) lots and 100 m from each other; liquor stores 1 km from each other (ss. 3.13, 3.14).

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).

Home-based businesses are allowed inside homes (s. 3.3).

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.