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CA-1 zone in Victoria: Pandora Avenue Special Commercial District

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

In short

Main uses: Bakeries (retail sale), Business and professional offices, Financial institutions, Stores and shops (retail), Restaurants and coffee shops, and 12 more.

Zone rules

Main uses
  • Bakeries (retail sale)
  • Business and professional offices
  • Financial institutions
  • Stores and shops (retail)
  • Restaurants and coffee shops
  • Personal services
  • Rental of tools and appliances
  • Religious, charitable or philanthropic institutions
  • Cultural facilities
  • Service and fraternal organizations
  • Gymnasia
  • Launderettes and drycleaning
  • Commercial/residential buildings (ground floors not residential)
  • Hospitals, private hospitals, nursing homes, intermediate care facilities and community care facilities
  • Transient accommodation
  • High tech
  • Call centre
Maximum densityFloor space ratio not more than 2.0:1
Maximum height15.5 m
Front setback3 m from any street (roof projections, entrance canopies, steps, balconies and lawful signs excepted)
Interior side setback3 m from any lot boundary other than the street frontage, unless the entire wall facing that boundary is at the boundary
Other rules
  • Area between a street and a building must be landscaped (except where used for vehicle movement); parking areas within 3 m of a street must be landscaped
  • Parking: residential 0.55 space per dwelling unit; other uses 50% of Schedule C requirements

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. 6.4 (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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