{"title":"CHP-OB zone in Victoria: Cathedral Hill Precinct Office Building District","code":"CHP-OB","slug":"chp-ob","name":"Cathedral Hill Precinct Office Building District","group":"Commercial","section":"8.2","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Main uses: Office buildings, Accessory uses for office buildings, High tech, Call centre.","fields":{"primary_uses":{"value":["Office buildings","Accessory uses for office buildings","High tech","Call centre"],"quotes":["The following uses are the only uses permitted in","(a) office buildings","(b) accessory uses for office buildings","(c) high tech","(d) call centre."]},"max_density":{"value":"Floor space ratio 2 to 1","quotes":["No building shall have a floor space ratio in excess","of 2 to 1."]},"max_height":{"value":"22.5 m","quotes":["No building may have a height in excess of 22.5m."]},"setback_front":{"value":"2 m from any street boundary (3 m for parts wholly below grade; 4.5 m for roof projections, entrance canopies or steps)","quotes":["nearer to any street boundary than a horizontal","distance of 2m.","boundary than a horizontal distance of 3m.","horizontal distance of 4.5m."]},"setback_side_exterior":{"value":"2 m from any street boundary","quotes":["nearer to any street boundary than a horizontal","distance of 2m."]},"other":{"value":["Only one building per lot","Freight service area of at least 60 m² required, at least 2 m from any street boundary"],"quotes":["Not more than one building may be erected, used","area of not less that 60m2.","street boundary than a horizontal distance of 2m."]}},"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/82pdf#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/chp-ob/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/chp-ob.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/chp-ob.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/index.json"}}