CA-2 zone in Victoria: Fort Street 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, Restaurants and coffee shops, and 9 more.

Zone rules

Main uses	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
Maximum density	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
Maximum height	15.5 m
Front setback	No setbacks are required
Rear setback	No setbacks are required
Interior side setback	No setbacks are required
Other rules	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

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. 6.5 (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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