C1-CR-2 zone in Victoria: Neighbourhood Business District

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

In short

Main uses: Bakeries (with retail outlet on the premises, lot area for bakery not over 650 m²), Banks, Business offices, Dry cleaning or clothes pressing (up to 280 m² of floor space), Hospitals for small domestic animal pets, and 8 more.

Zone rules

Main uses	Bakeries (with retail outlet on the premises, lot area for bakery not over 650 m²) Banks Business offices Dry cleaning or clothes pressing (up to 280 m² of floor space) Hospitals for small domestic animal pets Printing and publishing Professions Quick freeze locker plants Residential use (ground floor restricted to commercial use) Retail sales of all commodities except gasoline Schools Storage garages for motor vehicles only Wholesale
Maximum density	0.90 to 1 floor space ratio
Maximum height	8 m
Front setback	No street setbacks required except for corner lots
Rear setback	3 m
Interior side setback	3 m where the lot adjoins the side yard of a lot zoned for predominantly residential purposes; otherwise none required, but at least 1.5 m if one is provided
Other rules	Non-residential floor area may not exceed 325 m² in total Corner lots: no building closer to the intersection than a diagonal line between points 3 m from the intersection point At least 75% of the area between a building and the street must be landscaped No off-street parking is required except for the residential portions of buildings

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. 4.4 (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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