C8: Community Commercial

What the zone allows

Homes allowed

No homes except one caretaker unit per lot (s. B.17)

Main uses

Shops (no adult entertainment stores, secondhand stores or pawnshops), personal services (no body rub parlours), general services such as banks and veterinary clinics (no funeral parlours or drive-through banks), restaurants (no drive-throughs), a neighbourhood pub, a liquor store, offices (no escort services, methadone clinics or marijuana dispensaries), parking, light automotive service tied to a shop, indoor recreation, entertainment (no arcades), assembly halls, community services, child care, cultural uses, an indoor beverage container return centre; one caretaker unit (s. B)

Smallest lot for a subdivision

2,000 m², 30 m wide, 30 m deep (s. C)

Lot coverage

50%; floor area at most 0.80 times the lot area, a beverage container return centre at most 418 m² (ss. D, E)

Height limit

Main buildings 12 m; accessory buildings and structures 4.5 m (s. G)

Setbacks

7.5 m from every lot line (s. F)

The zone is for community shopping centres serving several neighbourhoods (s. A).

No outdoor storage or display of goods at all (s. J.3).

Along land the Official Community Plan designates residential: a planted screen and a solid fence, each at least 1.5 m high; loading areas and garbage screened to 2.5 m and kept out of the setback there; a 1.5 m planted strip along the street (ss. I, J.2).

No use that makes heat or glare seen from the lot line, or noise over 70 dB at a lot line beside land the Official Community Plan designates industrial (60 dB beside other land) (s. J.1).

A caretaker unit is a home inside the main building for the owner or a caretaker, there to protect the business (Part 1 definitions).

Parking: by use, in Part 5's Table D.1 (s. H).

Short-term rental isn't a listed use in this zone.

Every use the zone allows depends on City sewer, water, drainage and road works being in place and adequate; where they aren't, the lot may be used only as the A-1 zone allows until the owner extends them on the City's terms (Part 2, ss. B and C; Part 4, s. B.4).

Uses the zone doesn't list aren't allowed (Part 2, s. A).

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 Surrey's planning and development department before you buy or build.

Source: Part 36 of Surrey Zoning By-law, 1993, No. 12000 (summarised in our words, checked 2026-10-04); zone map: Open Government Licence – Surrey.