CA-73 zone in Victoria: Pandora and Cook Apartment District

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

In short

Main uses: Bakeries (retail sale), Business and professional offices, Financial institutions, Retail, Restaurants and coffee shops, and 8 more.

Zone rules

Main uses	Bakeries (retail sale) Business and professional offices Financial institutions Retail Restaurants and coffee shops Personal services Cultural facilities Gymnasia Launderettes and dry-cleaning establishments Public Building Studios High tech Multiple dwelling Dwelling units must be on the second or higher storey; the other uses must be on the ground floor.
Also allowed (secondary uses)	Home occupation (subject to Schedule D)
Maximum lot coverage	88% site coverage; at least 9% open site space
Maximum density	Floor space ratio 3:1 (4.82:1 where community amenities have been provided); floor area of all floor levels combined up to 9737 m²
Maximum height	39.0 m
Front setback	0.5 m (Pandora Avenue)
Rear setback	Nil (south)
Interior side setback	Nil (west)
Street side setback	0.5 m (Cook Street)
Other rules	Business offices, financial institutions and gymnasia may not occupy street-level floor space within 6 m of the building front Extra density needs a community amenity: a payment to the City or a housing agreement Parking: multiple dwelling 0.8 spaces per dwelling unit; commercial 10 spaces

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. 6.84 (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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