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CA-90 zone in Victoria: Mid Cook District

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

In short

Main uses: Assembly, Assisted Living Facility, Care Facility, Civic Facility, Financial Service, and 14 more.

Zone rules

Main uses
  • Assembly
  • Assisted Living Facility
  • Care Facility
  • Civic Facility
  • Financial Service
  • Food and Beverage Service
  • Office
  • Hotel
  • Recreation Facility
  • Personal Service
  • Residential
  • Residential Lock-off Unit
  • Retail Trade
  • Small-scale commercial Urban Agriculture
  • Studio
  • Utility
  • Cinema
  • Gallery
  • Retail Liquor Sale
Also allowed (secondary uses)Home occupation (subject to Schedule D)
Minimum lot area1,000 m² minimum development area
Maximum densityMaximum floor area 48,960 m² (all development areas combined); development area 1 minimum floor area 14,000 m²
Maximum height45 m (Development Areas 1, 2 and 3); 50 m (Development Area 4)
Front setbackAverage front lot line setback for the first storey: 2.5 m
Other rules
  • Above 20 m: 4.5 m street wall setback for any portion facing Cook Street; 1 cm of setback for each 5 cm of height along Yates and Cook Streets
  • Above 15 m along Johnson Street: 1 cm of setback for each 5 cm of height
  • Building separation of 12.0 m between Development Areas for all portions of a building above 20 m
  • Zone is divided into Development Areas DA-1 to DA-4, with setbacks and separations that vary by area, use and height

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. 6.99 (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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