{"title":"C-3U zone in Saanich: Shopping Centre Uptown Zone","code":"C-3U","slug":"c-3u","name":"Shopping Centre Uptown Zone","group":"Commercial","section":"825","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Main uses: Shopping Centre, Display and/or Retail Sale of all Classes of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, Personal Service, Medical Services, Restaurant, and 13 more.","fields":{"primary_uses":{"value":["Shopping Centre","Display and/or Retail Sale of all Classes of Goods, Wares, and Merchandise","Personal Service","Medical Services","Restaurant","Drive-In Restaurant","Fast Food Restaurant","Office","Recreation Facility","Assembly","Apartment","Congregate Housing","Service Station","Beverage Container Depot","Liquor Retail Store","Non-Medical Cannabis Retail Store","Daycare, Adult","Daycare, Child"],"quotes":["Shopping Centre; which may include the following","Display and/or Retail Sale of all Classes","Personal Service","Medical Services","Restaurant","Drive-In Restaurant","Fast Food Restaurant","Office","Recreation Facility","Assembly","Apartment","Congregate Housing","Service Station","Beverage Container Depot","Liquor Retail Store","Non-Medical Cannabis Retail Store","Daycare, Adult","Daycare, Child"]},"secondary_uses":{"value":["Supplementary Off-Street Parking","Cable Hub Site"],"quotes":["Supplementary Off-Street Parking","Cable Hub Site"]},"max_density":{"value":"Floor Space Ratio of 1.50; Liquor Retail Store or Non-Medical Cannabis Retail Store limited to 700 m² of Gross Floor Area","quotes":["Floor Space Ratio of 1.50.","700 m2 (7535 ft2)."]},"max_height":{"value":"65 m geodetic for buildings with residential use; 44 m geodetic for other uses","quotes":["higher than 65 m geodetic and the top","than residential is not higher than 44 m"]},"setback_front":{"value":"7.5 m from a lot line abutting a street (3.75 m where the area is landscaped and not used for off-street parking)","quotes":["7.5 m (24.6 ft) from any lot line abutting","3.75 m (12.3 ft)."]},"setback_rear":{"value":"0 m from a rear lot line not abutting a street (if not built within 0.5 m of the line, at least 3.0 m)","quotes":["0 m from a rear lot line or an interior","or structure is not sited immediately","be sited not less than 3.0 m (9.8 ft)","0.5 m (1.6 ft)"]},"setback_side_interior":{"value":"0 m from an interior side lot line not abutting a street (if not built within 0.5 m of the line, at least 3.0 m)","quotes":["0 m from a rear lot line or an interior","side lot line which does not abut a","be sited not less than 3.0 m (9.8 ft)","0.5 m (1.6 ft)"]},"other":{"value":["Apartment and congregate housing limited to storeys above the first storey and only where no advertising use is on, above or attached to those storeys","Liquor Retail Store, Non-Medical Cannabis Retail Store and Service Station each limited to one per shopping centre","Beverage container depot collection and storage must be entirely inside a building or fully enclosed structure","Prohibited: lumber and building supply yard; sale, servicing or repair of vehicles, trailers, mobile homes, recreation vehicles, boats, farm and industrial machinery and engines (except as accessory to a department or hardware store); neighbourhood public house; carnivals, circuses and fairs"],"quotes":["Shall be limited exclusively to storeys above","Shall be permitted only where no Advertising","Shall be limited to one per shopping centre.","Collection activities and storage to be conducted","Lumber and Building Supply Yard","Neighbourhood Public House","Carnivals, Circuses, and Fairs"]}},"bylaw":{"title":"Zoning Bylaw No. 8200 (Saanich, September 2003; office consolidation current on the District website, amendments include B. 10058 2025)","url":"https://www.saanich.ca/assets/Local~Government/Documents/Planning/zone8200.pdf","accessed":"2026-11-07","note":"The District publishes the whole bylaw as one PDF and a separate Zoning Bylaw Amendment List (https://www.saanich.ca/assets/Local~Government/Documents/Planning/Zoning%20Bylaw%208200%20Amendments.pdf). Each zone is a numbered Schedule (e.g. Schedule 101 = zone A-1); the 'section' field holds the schedule number."},"source_url":"https://www.saanich.ca/assets/Local~Government/Documents/Planning/zone8200.pdf#page=223","place":{"path":"ca/bc/saanich","name":"Saanich","region":{"code":"bc","name":"British Columbia"},"country":{"code":"ca","name":"Canada"}},"urls":{"html":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/saanich/zoning/c-3u/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/saanich/zoning/c-3u.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/saanich/zoning/c-3u.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/saanich/zoning/index.json"}}