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M5 zone in Sooke: Technical Industrial Business Park

Sooke, British ColumbiaDraft, not yet reviewedBylaw read 2026-11-07

In short

Commercial and light industrial activities in a business park setting, emphasizing sustainable, renewable, clean high tech or green technologies located primarily indoors, with complementary uses including live/work.

Zone rules

PurposeCommercial and light industrial activities in a business park setting, emphasizing sustainable, renewable, clean high tech or green technologies located primarily indoors, with complementary uses including live/work.
Main uses
  • Amusement facility – indoor
  • Artisan industry
  • Bakery
  • Biotechnology
  • Brew pub
  • Car wash
  • Commercial kitchen
  • Commercial school or college
  • Commercial laundry
  • Communications technology
  • Film studio
  • Fitness facility
  • Funeral home
  • Health services
  • High-technology electronic & scientific production
  • Horticulture
  • Light industrial
  • Live-Work dwelling
  • Micro brewery
  • Office
  • Personal service
  • Pharmaceuticals development
  • Place of worship
  • Printers and publishers
  • Research and development
  • Restaurant
  • Studio
  • Veterinary clinic
  • Wholesaling
Some uses (marked *) are subject to conditions of use.
Also allowed (secondary uses)
  • Accessory dwelling unit, one per lot
  • Commercial office space
  • Retail
  • Employee housing
Minimum lot area600 m² within the Sewer Specified Area; 1 ha outside it
Minimum lot width30 m
Maximum lot coverage70% within the Sewer Specified Area; 50% outside it
Maximum height2 storeys up to 13 metres high
Maximum height, accessory buildings10 m
Front setback7.5 m (outside Sewer Specified Area); 4.5 m (inside Sewer Specified Area); 0 m (adjacent to residential zones, including CD zones)
Rear setback7.5 m (outside Sewer Specified Area); 3 m (inside Sewer Specified Area); 4.5 m (adjacent to residential zones, including CD zones)
Interior side setback7.5 m (outside Sewer Specified Area); 3 m (inside Sewer Specified Area); 4.5 m (adjacent to residential zones, including CD zones)
Street side setback6 m (outside Sewer Specified Area); 4.5 m (inside Sewer Specified Area); 0 m (adjacent to residential zones, including CD zones)
Other rules
  • An accessory dwelling unit must be inside a principal use building and cannot exceed 90 m² in floor area; accessory retail is permitted up to 40% of gross floor area
  • Live-work dwellings must be built as an employee housing unit within a mixed use building and have a private, exterior, residential entrance
  • Landscaped area at least 7.5 m wide along frontage where a lot adjoins a residential or institutional use or public road; at least 4.5 m wide where it adjoins any other street

Source: Sooke Zoning Bylaw No. 600, 2013 (unofficially consolidated, updated February 18, 2025), s. 505 (read 2026-11-07)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply, and a lot can have site-specific rules. Consolidated for public convenience only; the original bylaw and amendments at Municipal Hall prevail. In this bylaw each zone is a numbered Schedule (101 to 815), so section is the schedule number. Sub-zones carry a letter or number suffix on the map (for example CD2-A, CD7-1). The schedule heading for Harbourside Cohousing (813) says CD12 in the document, but the zone table and the map call it CD13. Zone pages are taken from the bylaw text by a research agent and have not yet been reviewed by a person: confirm with the bylaw before you rely on them. How answers are checked.

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