CC: Community Commercial

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

Apartments only above the ground floor, with their own entrance and all their parking inside the building or underground (Table 3.3, Note 2). No house, duplex or townhouse

Exceptions (1)

• Apartments on the ground floor of a building of at most 4 storeys at one lot the bylaw names, on Wilson Avenue

Listed in Table 3.3, Note 2(c) of the bylaw.

Main uses

Shops and services for a commercial centre: general and convenience retail (firearms at most 10% of a shop's retail floor, up to 25 m²), auto parts, building and landscape supplies and nurseries, furniture, tools, electronics and appliances, musical instruments, rentals, apartments (above), child care, cinemas, theatres, entertainment and commercial indoor recreation, commercial schools, financial institutions (a payday loan or cheque-cashing business at least 1 km from another), funeral homes, hotels (on a lot of 1,400 m² or more, no rooms on the ground floor), offices, personal services, pet daycare and grooming (indoors, not in a building with apartments), restaurants, trade contractors, veterinary services, wine and beer making, parking lots and structures, parks and playgrounds; accessory container return, school-age group child care (only with indoor recreation or a commercial school), home businesses, rental and repair, restaurants and retail (Table 3.3 and its notes)

Exceptions (1)

• Assembly uses, a dinner theatre, a neighbourhood pub, packaged liquor sales and a cannabis retail outlet only at lots the bylaw names, some with a floor area cap

Listed in Table 3.3, notes to assembly uses, dinner theatres, neighbourhood pubs, packaged liquor sales and cannabis retail outlets of the bylaw.

Smallest lot for a subdivision

500 m², 15 m wide, 15 m frontage, 28 m deep (Table 3.2)

Lot coverage

90%; floor area ratio 1.5, not counting shared entrances, stairs, halls and service rooms, balconies and decks, floor area at ground level or below ground, required parking inside the building, and 2 m² in each adaptable home (Table 3.4, Note 6)

Height limit

None set in the zone (Table 3.4)

Exceptions (1)

• One storey at four lots the bylaw names, on Westwood Street and Marpole Avenue

Listed in Table 3.4, Note 7 of the bylaw.

Setbacks

Front none, rear none, street side 1.5 m; inside sides none, or 1.8 m beside a lot in a residential zone; at least 9 m from a provincial highway (Table 3.4, Notes 1, 2)

The zone is for a wide range of general commercial and personal service uses in walkable commercial centres, with homes above ground-floor shops (Table 3.1).

Apartments: over 10 homes, at least 3.5 m² of shared outdoor open space and 2 m² of indoor amenity space per home; in a mixed-use building of over 10 homes, at least 25% family-oriented homes and 5% with three or more bedrooms; outdoor storage screened by landscaping at least 2 m high (s. 3.5).

Child care: at most 8 children in a home, which must be lived in and have its own way outside, not with a home business; a centre for 10 or more people at most 50 children, outside the homes, built to the Building Code's assembly rules, one per building in commercial premises (Section III, ss. 8-3, 8-4).

Home businesses in an apartment: residents only (at most two), inside the home, no personal services or pet grooming, at most five visits a day, not with boarding or child care (Section III, ss. 5-1, 5-3).

Short-term rental is allowed only as a home business in the A and RS zones, so not here (Section III, s. 5-4).

Uses the zone doesn't list aren't allowed (Section II, s. 5).

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 Port Coquitlam's development services department before you buy or build.

Source: Section II, Part 3 of City of Port Coquitlam Zoning Bylaw, 2008, No. 3630 (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-06); zone map: Open Government Licence – City of Port Coquitlam.