{"title":"CA-4 zone in Victoria: Central Area Commercial Office District","code":"CA-4","slug":"ca-4","name":"Central Area Commercial Office District","group":"Commercial","section":"6.8","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Main uses: Bakeries (production and retail sale, up to 650 m²), Chartered banks, Offices for business, charitable, religious, political or other purposes, Professional offices and surgeries, Residences (second and higher storeys only; first storey must be non-residential), and 10 more.","fields":{"primary_uses":{"value":["Bakeries (production and retail sale, up to 650 m²)","Chartered banks","Offices for business, charitable, religious, political or other purposes","Professional offices and surgeries","Residences (second and higher storeys only; first storey must be non-residential)","Transient accommodation and accessory uses","Rental businesses","Restaurants","Retail sales (other than gasoline and automotive fuels)","Theatres, auditoriums, gymnasiums and other places of recreation or worship","Drycleaning or clothes pressing (up to 279 m²)","Clubs","Hospitals, private hospitals, nursing homes, intermediate care facilities and community care facilities","High tech","Call centre"],"quotes":["(a) the production and sale of bread, cakes and other bakery","(b) chartered banks;","(c) offices used for business, charitable, religious, political or other","(d) offices, surgeries and other establishments used for","(e) residences, restricted to the second and higher storeys of a","(f) transient accommodation and transient accommodation","(g) rental businesses;","(h) restaurants;","(i) retail sales, other than gasoline and automotive fuels;","(j) theatres, auditoriums, gymnasiums and other places of","(k) drycleaning or clothes pressing or both, provided that:","does not comprise more than 279m2;","(iii) the building or buildings used for such purposes do not","occupy more than 650m2;","(l) clubs;","(m) hospitals, private hospitals, nursing homes, intermediate care","(n) high tech;","(o) call centre"]},"max_density":{"value":"Floor space ratio not more than 3 to 1","quotes":["4 The floor space ratio of a building shall not exceed 3 to 1."]},"max_height":{"value":"10 m at lot lines bordering a street; the part above 10 m is set back 1 cm for each 5 cm of extra height; no building over 43 m","quotes":["(a) 10 metres at all lot lines bordering a street.","(b) For each 5 cm by which the height exceeds10m, that","be set back 1 cm from all lot lines bordering a street.","(c) No building shall exceed 43m in height."]},"setback_side_interior":{"value":"Side yard not less than 4.5 m wide for buildings higher than 15 m","quotes":["5 No building having a height of more than 15m shall be erected","or used unless it has a side yard not less than 4.5m in width."]},"other":{"value":["Uses do not authorize a service station business","No off-street parking required except 50% of transient accommodation units and 70% of residential dwelling units","No off-street loading facilities required"],"quotes":["None of the aforesaid uses shall be deemed to authorize the","equal in number to not less than 50% of the number of","not less than 70% of the number of","7 No off-street loading facilities are required in this zone."]}},"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/68pdf#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-4/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/ca-4.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/ca-4.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/index.json"}}