{"title":"M-2 zone in Victoria: Light Industrial District","code":"M-2","slug":"m-2","name":"Light Industrial District","group":"Industrial","section":null,"site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Main uses: Assaying gold and silver, Bakeries, Banks, Carpet cleaning, Churches, and 24 more.","fields":{"primary_uses":{"value":["Assaying gold and silver","Bakeries","Banks","Carpet cleaning","Churches","Clubs","Docks, wharves and piers","Drycleaners","Dye works","Forging, electric only","Funeral undertaking","Gas and petroleum tank farms and storage of flammable liquids or gases (total capacity under 135,000 litres)","Garages","Light industry, including manufacturing, processing, assembly, testing, servicing and repairing","Mail order businesses","Milk processing and distribution","Printing and publishing","Quick freeze lockers","Residence for watchman as ancillary use on lot","Restaurants","Retail, as an accessory use of products manufactured, cleaned, stored or handled in the primary use (up to 25% of total building area)","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","Warehouses","Washing of vehicles","Wholesale"],"note":"Uses must not be noxious or offensive to the immediate neighbourhood or public (odours, dust, smoke, gas, noise, effluent or hazard).","quotes":["(a) assaying gold and silver;","(b) bakeries;","(c) banks;","(d) carpet cleaning;","(e) churches;","(f) clubs;","(g) docks, wharves and piers;","(h) drycleaners;","(i) dye works;","(j) forging, electric only;","(k) funeral undertaking;","(l) gas and petroleum tank farms and storage of","capacity of less than 135,000 litres;","(m) garages;","(n) light industry, including manufacturing, processing,","(o) mail order businesses;","(p) milk processing and distribution;","(q) printing and publishing;","(r) quick freeze lockers;","(s) residence for watchman as ancillary use on lot;","(t) restaurants;.","(u) retail,as an accessory use of products","not to exceed 25% of the total building area:","(v) schools, including trade schools;","(w) storage lots for undamaged vehicles, impounded","(x) tire vulcanizing;","(y) vehicle sales and rentals;","(z) veterinary hospitals;","(aa) warehouses;","(bb) washing of vehicles;","(cc) wholesale.","The following uses are permitted, provided they are not"]},"max_density":{"value":"Floor space ratio 3.0 to 1","quotes":["exceed 3.0 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":["any building shall not exceed 15 m.","building within 7.5 m of the internal boundary shall","not exceed 4 m."]},"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 required.","diagonal line connecting two points 3 m 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":["setback of 3 m is required where the lot adjoins the","(2) For any other lot boundary, no setback is required;","but if a setback is provided, it shall be at least 3 m."]},"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 required.","diagonal line connecting two points 3 m 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 the street"],"quotes":["4 More than one building may be sited on a lot.","dimensions of not less than 4 m in width","4.3 m in height"]}},"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/72pdf#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-2/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/m-2.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/m-2.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/index.json"}}