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CR-NP zone in Victoria: North Park Commercial Residential District

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

In short

Main uses: Multiple dwellings, Multiple dwelling accessory uses, Commercial-residential buildings, Bakeries, Banks and other financial institutions, and 16 more.

Zone rules

Main uses
  • Multiple dwellings
  • Multiple dwelling accessory uses
  • Commercial-residential buildings
  • Bakeries
  • Banks and other financial institutions
  • Churches and places of worship
  • Carpet cleaning
  • Dye works
  • Dry cleaning
  • Garage
  • Printing and publishing establishments
  • Quick freeze locker plants
  • Restaurants
  • Trades that require artisan skills
  • Professional services
  • Offices, excluding those associated with taxi businesses
  • Wholesale sales
  • Retail sales
  • Service and repair of household goods, electrical devices and small motors
  • High tech
  • Call centre
Also allowed (secondary uses)Accessory uses to the uses in paragraphs (d) to (u)
Maximum densityFloor space ratio must not exceed 1.5 to 1
Maximum height12 m and 4 storeys
Front setbackNo setback required from a street
Rear setbackAt least the greater of 6 m or one-half of the height of the rear wall of the building
Interior side setbackNo setback required from an internal boundary
Street side setbackNo setback required from a street
Other rules
  • Each dwelling unit must have a floor area of at least 33 m² (excluding balconies)
  • In commercial-residential buildings, multiple dwellings may be only above the first storey
  • On a corner lot, buildings must stay out of a 3 m diagonal view-line at the intersection
  • Non-residential lots need a loading area at least 9 m long, 4 m wide and 4.3 m high

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. 4.62 (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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