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C1-N zone in Victoria: Neighbourhood Shopping District

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

In short

Main uses: Uses permitted in the R-2 Zone (Two Family Dwelling District), under the R1-B Zone regulations, Commercial-residential buildings, Business offices, Professional businesses, Chartered banks, and 10 more.

Zone rules

Main uses
  • Uses permitted in the R-2 Zone (Two Family Dwelling District), under the R1-B Zone regulations
  • Commercial-residential buildings
  • Business offices
  • Professional businesses
  • Chartered banks
  • Retail stores
  • Restaurants
  • Theatres
  • Clubs for social or recreational purposes
  • Bakeries (products sold by retail on site)
  • Launderettes
  • Attended coin-operated drycleaning plants
  • Drycleaning or clothes pressing establishments (up to 278 m² of floor space)
  • High tech
  • Call centre
Maximum densityFloor space ratio not more than 1.4 to 1
Maximum height21.5 m
Front setback3 m from any street (roof projections, entrance canopies, steps, balconies and lawful signs excepted)
Other rules
  • Next to a lot with a residential building: setback of 2.5 m or one-quarter of the building height, whichever is greater
  • Land between buildings and the street must be graded and landscaped (except areas used only for vehicle movement)
  • No commercial goods or materials stored or displayed in the setback areas except within a building

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. 4.3 (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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