{"title":"CR-3 zone in Victoria: Commercial Residential Apartment District","code":"CR-3","slug":"cr-3","name":"Commercial Residential Apartment District","group":"Mixed use","section":"4.14","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Main uses: Uses permitted in the R-2 Zone, Two Family Dwelling District, Multiple dwellings and multiple dwelling accessory uses, Commercial-residential buildings, Business offices, Professional business, and 10 more.","fields":{"primary_uses":{"value":["Uses permitted in the R-2 Zone, Two Family Dwelling District","Multiple dwellings and multiple dwelling accessory uses","Commercial-residential buildings","Business offices","Professional business","Retail stores","Restaurants","Theatres","Clubs for social or recreational purposes","Bakeries","Launderettes","Attended coin-operated drycleaning plants","Drycleaning or clothes pressing establishments","High tech","Call centre"],"note":"Non-residential uses may only be in a one storey building or a commercial-residential building.","quotes":["(a) The uses permitted in the R-2 Zone, Two Family","(b) multiple dwellings and multiple dwelling accessory","(c) commercial-residential buildings, which, for the","(i) business offices;","(ii) professional business;","(iii) retail stores;","(iv) restaurants;","(v) theatres;","(vi) clubs for social or recreational purposes;","(vii) bakeries, if all of the products baked or","(viii) launderettes, which for the purposes of this","(ix) attended coin-operated drycleaning plants,","(x) drycleaning or clothes pressing","(e) high tech","(f) call centre."]},"max_density":{"value":"Floor space ratio 1.0:1","quotes":["The maximum floor space ratio for each lot shall be 1.0:1."]},"max_height":{"value":"10.7 m or 3 storeys","quotes":["The height of a building shall not exceed 10.7m or","3 storeys."]},"setback_front":{"value":"Buildings with non-residential uses: 3 m for the first storey and 6 m for upper storeys on a street front. Apartment buildings: 6 m on a street front","quotes":["(a) 3m for a street front for the first storey and 6m for","(a) 6m for a street front;"]},"setback_rear":{"value":"6 m (buildings with non-residential uses)","quotes":["nearer to any rear boundary than a horizontal distance","of 6m."]},"setback_side_interior":{"value":"Buildings with non-residential uses: one-quarter of the building height or 2.5 m, whichever is greater, next to residential lots; 2.4 m or greater (or nil) next to other lots. Multiple dwellings: one-half the building height or 3 m, whichever is greater","quotes":["of the building height, or 2.5m whichever is greater;","(b) For other lots the distance shall be 2.4m or greater","one-half the building height or 3m whichever is greater."]},"setback_side_exterior":{"value":"Buildings with non-residential uses: 2.4 m on other streets. Apartment buildings: one-half the building height or 2.4 m, whichever is greater","quotes":["(b) 2.4m for other streets.","(b) one-half the building height or 2.4m whichever is"]},"other":{"value":["Each dwelling unit must have a floor area of at least 33 m² (excluding balconies)","Street rights-of-way next to the lot must be at least 15 m wide for commercial-residential or commercial buildings","Parking other than enclosed parking must be in the rear yard"],"quotes":["Each dwelling unit shall have a floor area of at least 33m2","way adjoining the lot are at least 15m.","Parking, other than enclosed parking space, shall be sited","within the rear yard"]}},"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/414pdf#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/cr-3/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/cr-3.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/cr-3.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/index.json"}}