{"title":"GRD-1 zone in Victoria: General Residential District – 1 Zone","code":"GRD-1","slug":"grd-1","name":"General Residential District – 1 Zone","group":"Residential","section":"4.1","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Main uses: Assembly, Civic Facility, Food and Beverage Service, Heritage Conserving Infill, Personal Service, and 3 more.","fields":{"primary_uses":{"value":["Assembly","Civic Facility","Food and Beverage Service","Heritage Conserving Infill","Personal Service","Residential","Retail Trade","Utility"],"note":"Non-residential uses are only allowed on the first storey of buildings where over 50% of the floor area is dwelling units, and the lot is next to a Transit Priority Network street, next to an LVD-1, CVD-1 or TCD-1 lot, or is a corner lot.","quotes":["b. Assembly h. Residential","c. Civic Facility i. Retail Trade","d. Food and Beverage Service j. Utility","e. Heritage Conserving Infill","g. Personal Service"]},"secondary_uses":{"value":["Accessory Building","Home Occupation"],"quotes":["a. Accessory Building g. Personal Service","f. Home Occupation"]},"site_specific":{"value":["Many individual lots have extra permitted uses, density or other limits listed by address in section 8 (Site Specific Regulations); not itemized here"],"quotes":["8. Site Specific Regulations","Column A Column B Column C"]},"min_parcel_area":{"value":"460 m² (buildings with less than three Dwelling Units); not applicable (Heritage Conserving Infill); 360 m² (3 storeys or less with three or more Dwelling Units); 540 m² (more than 3 storeys with three or more Dwelling Units)","quotes":["460m2 N/A 360m2 540m2","a. Lot Area –"]},"min_parcel_width":{"value":"Street frontage 10.0m (buildings with less than three Dwelling Units, Heritage Conserving Infill, and 3 storeys or less with three or more Dwelling Units); more than 3 storeys with three or more Dwelling Units: 15.0m up to 4 storeys, 30.0m up to 5 storeys, 36.0m over 5 storeys","quotes":["10.0m 10.0m 10.0m","b. Street Frontage","15.0m for","30.0m for","36.0m for"]},"max_parcel_coverage":{"value":"40% (less than three Dwelling Units); 50% (Heritage Conserving Infill); 45% (3 storeys or less with three or more Dwelling Units); 55% (more than 3 storeys with three or more Dwelling Units)","quotes":["40% 50% 45% 55%","a. Lot Coverage –"]},"max_density":{"value":"0.5:1 (lots with less than three Dwelling Units); 1.6:1 (Heritage Conserving Infill); 1.6:1, subject to Schedule C – Density Benefits (lots with three or more Dwelling Units)","quotes":["Development – 0.5:1 1.6:1 Schedule C – Schedule C –","a. Density of 1.6:1, subject to 1.6:1, subject to"]},"max_height":{"value":"7.6m (less than three Dwelling Units); Heritage Conserving Infill: greater of 7.6m or 80% of the height of the Heritage Designated Building; 12.0m (3 storeys or less with three or more Dwelling Units); over 3 storeys: 14m up to 4 storeys, 17m over 4 and up to 5 storeys, 20.5m and 6 storeys elsewhere, 32m and 10 storeys within 200m of a Transit Oriented Area","note":"Buildings over four storeys are only allowed on lots in a Priority Growth Area or Transit Oriented Area.","quotes":["a. Height – Greater of 7.6m or","80% of the Height of","12.0m","14m for","17m for","20.5m and 6","32m and 10"]},"setback_front":{"value":"4.0m; for corner lots with 3 storeys or less and three or more Dwelling Units: 2.0m up to 15.0m from the flanking street lot line, then 4.0m; 4.0m for all other lots","quotes":["Setback – 4.0m 4.0m Line 4.0m","A. 2.0m to a","15.0m from","B. 4.0m after the","ii. 4.0m for all"]},"setback_rear":{"value":"6.0m (less than three Dwelling Units); 5.0m (Heritage Conserving Infill); 3 storeys or less with three or more Dwelling Units: 5.0m for corner lots, 8.0m for all other lots; over 3 storeys: 8.0m or 25% of lot depth, whichever is greater","quotes":["d. Rear Lot Line","6.0m 5.0m","5.0m for","8.0m for all","8.0m or 25% of Lot"]},"setback_side_interior":{"value":"1.5m (less than three Dwelling Units); Heritage Conserving Infill: 2.0m for one side yard when no flanking street, 3.0m for all other side lot lines; 3 storeys or less with three or more units: 4.0m to a Primary Façade, 1.5m to all other façades; over 3 storeys: 7.5m to a Primary Façade up to 4 storeys, 9.0m to a Primary Façade above 4 storeys, 1.5m to other façades up to 4 storeys, 3.0m to other façades above 4 storeys","quotes":["Setback – 1.5m","2.0m for one","3.0m for all","i. 2.0m for one i. 4.0m to a i. 7.5m to a","ii. 1.5m to all ii. 9.0m to a","iii. 1.5m to all","iv. 3.0m to all"]},"setback_side_exterior":{"value":"Flanking street: 4.0m (less than three Dwelling Units, Heritage Conserving Infill, and over 3 storeys); 2.0m (3 storeys or less with three or more Dwelling Units)","quotes":["Lot Line Setback 4.0m 4.0m 2.0m 4.0m"]},"other":{"value":["Open lot space: at least 30%","More than one Building is permitted on a Lot","On a Waterfront Lot, no Building may be more than 36.5m from the Front Lot Line"],"quotes":["30% 30% 30% 30%","b. More than one Building is permitted on a Lot.","c. On a Waterfront Lot, no Building or portion of a Building, shall be placed or erected more than 36.5m from"]}},"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/zoning-bylaw-2018#page=30","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/grd-1/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/grd-1.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/grd-1.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/index.json"}}