{"title":"M-1 zone in Victoria: Limited Light Industrial District","code":"M-1","slug":"m-1","name":"Limited Light Industrial District","group":"Industrial","section":"7.1","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Main uses: Bakeries, Banks, Car washes, except those with hand operated sprayers and other driver operated machinery, Carpet cleaning, Churches, and 27 more.","fields":{"primary_uses":{"value":["Bakeries","Banks","Car washes, except those with hand operated sprayers and other driver operated machinery","Carpet cleaning","Churches","Clubs","Docks, wharves and piers","Dry cleaners","Dye works","Funeral undertaking","Garages","Limited light industries, including testing, servicing and repair (excluding manufacturing, processing or assembly)","Mail order businesses","Milk processing and distribution","Printing and publishing","Quick-freeze lockers","Restaurants","Residence for watchman as ancillary use on a lot","Retail sales and offices as accessory uses","Schools, including trade schools","Storage lots for undamaged vehicles (impounded, or used to park passenger transportation, emergency, commercial service or delivery vehicles; not vehicles for sale, rent or lease)","Tire vulcanizing","Vehicle sales and rentals","Veterinary hospitals, provided all runs are totally enclosed within a building","Warehouses","Wholesale","High tech","Call centre","Professional services, including architects, engineers and surveyors","Transient accommodation","Retail sales of home furnishings, home supplies, or sporting goods","Work-live"],"note":"Uses must not be noxious or offensive to adjacent property or the public (odours, dust, smoke, gas, noise, effluent, radiation, glare, heat, vibration or hazard).","quotes":["(a) bakeries;","(b) banks;","(c) car washes, except those equipped with hand","(d) carpet cleaning;","(e) churches;","(f) clubs;","(g) docks, wharves and piers;","(h) dry cleaners;","(i) dye works;","(j) funeral undertaking;","(k) garages;","(l) limited light industries, including testing, servicing","(m) mail order businesses;","(n) milk processing and distribution;","(o) printing and publishing;","(p) quick-freeze lockers;","(q) restaurants;","(r) residence for watchman as ancillary use on a lot.","(s) retail sales and offices as accessory uses that:","(t) schools, including trade schools;","(u) storage lots for undamaged vehicles, impounded or","(v) tire vulcanizing;","(w) vehicle sales and rentals;","(x) veterinary hospitals, provided that all runs are","(y) warehouses;","(z) wholesale;","(aa) high tech;","(bb) call centre;","(cc) professional services, including those provided by","(dd) transient accommodation;","(ee) retail sales of home furnishings, home supplies, or","(ff) work-live.","The following uses are permitted, provided they are"]},"max_density":{"value":"Floor space ratio 3.0 to 1 (high tech, call centre and transient accommodation each up to 1.6 to 1 of lot area; home furnishings, home supplies or sporting goods retail up to 1.4 to 1)","quotes":["shall not exceed 3.0 to 1.","must not exceed 1.6 to 1.","not exceed 1.4 to 1."]},"max_height":{"value":"15 m; 4 m for any part of a building within 7.5 m of an internal boundary that adjoins the rear lot line of a residential lot","quotes":["height of any building shall not exceed 15m.","building within 7.5m of the internal boundary shall","not exceed 4m."]},"setback_front":{"value":"No street setbacks required, except on corner lots (no building closer to the intersection than a line joining points 3 m from it)","quotes":["5. Except for corner lots, no street setbacks are","diagonal line connecting two points 3m distant from the"]},"setback_side_interior":{"value":"3 m where the lot adjoins the side yard of a predominantly residential lot; otherwise none required (at least 3 m if provided)","quotes":["a setback of 3m is required where the lot adjoins","For any other lot boundary, no setback is","least 3m."]},"setback_side_exterior":{"value":"No street setbacks required, except on corner lots (no building closer to the intersection than a line joining points 3 m from it)","quotes":["5. Except for corner lots, no street setbacks are","diagonal line connecting two points 3m distant from the"]},"other":{"value":["More than one building may be on a lot","Loading space at least 4 m wide, 9 m long and 4.3 m high, at least 3 m from any street","Work-live: at least one parking space per work-live unit; residential use is accessory and no more than 50% of the unit floor space"],"quotes":["More than one building may be sited on a lot.","dimensions of not less than 4m in width","4.3m in height","There must be at least one parking space on a lot","used for residential use.","(b) is located in a unit that is a room or suite of rooms","of which not more than 50% of the floor space is"]}},"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/71pdf#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/m-1/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/m-1.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/m-1.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/index.json"}}