BPT zone in Victoria: Belleville Park Tourist District

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

In short

Main uses: Transient accommodation, Commercial fitness centres, Trade schools, Commercial exhibits, Professional businesses, and 9 more.

Zone rules

Main uses	Transient accommodation Commercial fitness centres Trade schools Commercial exhibits Professional businesses Financial services, including currency exchange services Clubs Theatres and auditoriums Galleries and exhibits Bakeries (selling all products by retail at the same location) Rental businesses Trades that require artisan skills (not noxious or offensive) Retail Liquor retail store A liquor retail store's floor area must not exceed 35m².
Also allowed (secondary uses)	Tourist or travel agencies Beauty parlours and barber shops Restaurants Licensed liquor establishments Recreational and pleasure uses for guests Accessory garden structures These are uses accessory to transient accommodation on the same lot.
Minimum lot area	1850 m²
Maximum lot coverage	40%
Maximum density	1.3 to 1 floor space ratio
Maximum height	20 m
Accessory building setbacks	Accessory structures are not permitted within setbacks
Other rules	Setbacks: at least 14 m from Belleville Street, 3 m from Quebec Street (average at least 7.5 m), 1.5 m from Oswego Street Open site space: at least 60% Parking: at least 0.5 spaces per transient accommodation unit

Source: Zoning Regulation Bylaw No. 80-159 (consolidated on October 17, 2019 up to Bylaw No. 19-074; zone Parts amended to Bylaw 24-060, August 2024) and Zoning Bylaw 2018 (consolidated on June 9, 2022 up to Bylaw No. 22-048), s. 4.50 (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. Victoria has two zoning bylaws in force. Zoning Bylaw 2018 (zones GRD-1, LVD-1, CVD-1, TCD-1, CBD-1, CBD-2, MRD-1, OTD-1, IAI-1, MI-1, LI-1, HI-1; https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/zoning-bylaw-2018) applies to the areas on its Map 1: the Downtown Core Area and most commercial and low-density residential properties in town centres, urban villages and residential fabric. The Zoning Regulation Bylaw No. 80-159 (one PDF per zone) still governs the rest, including most industrial, medium and high density residential outside downtown, comprehensive development districts and some commercial properties. The City says its website bylaws are office consolidations provided for convenience; refer to the bylaws and amendments at City Hall. In text.txt every file starts at a '[source <url>]' line; the first file is the Introduction & General Regulations of Bylaw 80-159 and the Zoning Bylaw 2018 is appended at the end. Zones whose PDF has no text layer (image-only; no OCR was run) have no lines or pdf_page, only source_url; 179 codes, listed in places/victoria/no-text-layer.txt. For zones with text, pdf_page is the page inside that zone's own PDF (always the first page). 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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