Industrial Zoning Reference
Langley Township industrial zoning, explained for industrial users.
The Township of Langley still runs on its 1987 bylaw, continuously amended, with the region's most granular industrial M-series: sixteen zones separating service industrial, general industrial variants, several flavours of heavy industrial, salvage, rural service and business park uses. The newest addition is the M-14 Brookswood Employment Zone, adopted in July 2026.
The Industrial Zones
Every industrial zone in Langley Township
The broad service-industrial menu: light manufacture, assembly, repair and packaging, warehousing and wholesaling, trucking terminals, building supply and lumber yards, vehicle repair and sales, trade-contractor workshops, breweries and distilleries, printing and production studios. Business is enclosed except parking, loading and accessory open storage.
All service-industrial uses plus general industrial. M-2A adds processing, manufacture and repair of heavy machinery and heavy transportation products; M-2B adds meat processing plants (excluding abattoirs).
General industrial uses plus agro-industrial (excluding abattoirs), cargo handling and wharf facilities, ready-mix concrete, sand, gravel and wood processing with outside storage, heavy machinery manufacture and repair, and enclosed recycling depots.
M-3 uses except ready-mix concrete, plus meat processing plants, enclosed recycling depots, and sawmills and shake and shingle mills without waste burning.
Narrow zones: M-5 covers sawmills and shake and shingle mills with accessory offices and open storage; M-5A is agricultural-flavoured, covering agricultural uses, regulated intensive swine operations and lumber remanufacturing.
A very narrow zone for farm-building and silo construction and the development, manufacture, assembly and distribution of refrigeration units and related products.
Vehicle towing and storage yards and wrecking and salvaging yards, with screening and fencing requirements.
Service-industrial uses plus campgrounds under the Township's campground regulations, with campground-catering convenience uses.
An accessory-only zone: storage uses and an industrial access driveway accessory to an abutting M-1B property.
Offices and research labs, assembly uses, light manufacture where more than half the floor area is office, restaurants, medical clinics, day care and larger-format commercial, with retail permitted in ratio with light manufacturing and warehouse. All uses enclosed.
Rural service industrial: agricultural equipment sales, service and repair, farm auctions, nurseries and garden centres, light manufacture of agricultural products, public works yards and veterinary clinics.
M-3 uses except ready-mix concrete plants, plus asphalt batch plants.
Added July 2026: an employment zone for Brookswood covering breweries and distilleries, scientific and technical research, information technology, warehousing and wholesaling (excluding bulk energy and chemical storage), restaurants and public works yards. A Development Permit is required before a Building Permit.
M-9 was deleted in 1998 and is no longer in force.
Recent changes: The M-14 Brookswood Employment Zone was added by Bylaw No. 6129, adopted July 27, 2026. The Township continues to amend Bylaw 2500 rather than replace it.
What This Means in Practice
Zoning is the first check, not the last.
- The Township's M variants differ on exactly the uses that get industrial deals killed late (concrete, meat processing, asphalt, outdoor processing); match the specific variant, not just the M number.
- A zone listing a use as permitted is the start, not the finish: conditional uses, accessory-use limits, outdoor storage rules and site-specific conditions all live in the schedule fine print.
- Parking and loading are usually governed by a separate parking bylaw or section; a building can be correctly zoned and still fail your trailer or fleet requirements.
- Many individual properties carry site-specific or comprehensive-development zoning instead of a standard code, so always confirm the actual zone on the parcel, not the area around it.
- Confirm current regulations with the municipal planning department before committing; bylaws are amended continuously.
If you are evaluating a building or a site in Langley Township and want a read on whether the zoning actually supports your operation, or which zones to target for a requirement, I do this work as part of every assignment.
This page is a plain-language summary of Langley Township’s industrial zoning prepared by Samuel Brahem, Industrial Sales and Leasing, NAI Commercial (BC) Ltd., for general orientation only. It is not legal advice and is not a substitute for the bylaw itself. Zoning bylaws change; always confirm current regulations, permitted uses and site-specific conditions with the official bylaw and the municipal planning department before making decisions. Last verified against the official source on September 14, 2026.