{"title":"CA-2 zone in Victoria: Fort Street Special Commercial District","code":"CA-2","slug":"ca-2","name":"Fort Street Special Commercial District","group":"Commercial","section":"6.5","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Main uses: Bakeries (retail sale), Business and professional offices, Financial institutions, Stores and shops, Restaurants and coffee shops, and 9 more.","fields":{"primary_uses":{"value":["Bakeries (retail sale)","Business and professional offices","Financial institutions","Stores and shops","Restaurants and coffee shops","Personal services","Churches and places of worship","Cultural facilities","Gymnasia","Launderettes and drycleaning establishments","Commercial-residential building (ground floor not residential)","Studios","High tech","Call centre"],"quotes":["(a) bakeries used predominantly for the retail sale of bakery","(b) business and professional offices;","(c) financial institutions, including chartered banks, credit unions,","(d) stores and shops for the sale of goods, wares, or","(e) restaurants and coffee shops;","(f) personal services including barbering, hairdressing, tailoring,","(g) churches and places of worship;","(h) cultural facilities including museums, galleries and exhibits;","(i) gymnasia;","(j) launderettes and drycleaning establishments used or intended","(k) a commercial-residential building, provided that the ground","(l) studios;","(n) high tech;","(o) call centre."]},"max_density":{"value":"Floor space ratio by site area: up to 650 m² 2.5:1; 651 m² to 975 m² 2.0:1; over 975 m² 1.5:1","quotes":["Up to 650m2 2.5:1","651m2 to 975m2 2.0:1","Over 975m2 1.5:1"]},"max_height":{"value":"15.5 m","quotes":["Height of Buildings 3 (a) No building shall exceed 15.5m in height."]},"setback_front":{"value":"No setbacks are required","quotes":["Setbacks 4 No setbacks are required."]},"setback_rear":{"value":"No setbacks are required","quotes":["Setbacks 4 No setbacks are required."]},"setback_side_interior":{"value":"No setbacks are required","quotes":["Setbacks 4 No setbacks are required."]},"other":{"value":["Business offices, financial institutions and gymnasia may not occupy street-level floor space within 6 m of the building front","Access to interior floor area may take up no more than 25% or 4.5 m of the building frontage, whichever is less","Surface parking must be at the rear of the lot, at least 12 m from the front lot line","Parking: none required for site area up to 650 m²; residential 0.55 space per dwelling unit"],"quotes":["shall not occupy floor space within 6m of the","more than 25% or 4.5m of the building frontage, whichever is the","the lot not less than 12m from the front lot line.","(a) Site area up to 650m: None required","Residential 0.55 space per dwelling unit"]}},"bylaw":{"title":"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)","url":"https://www.victoria.ca/building-business/permits-development-construction/zoning/zoning-regulation-bylaw","accessed":"2026-11-07","note":"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)."},"source_url":"https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/65pdf#page=1","place":{"path":"ca/bc/victoria","name":"Victoria","region":{"code":"bc","name":"British Columbia"},"country":{"code":"ca","name":"Canada"}},"urls":{"html":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/ca-2/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/ca-2.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/ca-2.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/index.json"}}