{"title":"M-3 zone in Victoria: Heavy Industrial District","code":"M-3","slug":"m-3","name":"Heavy Industrial District","group":"Industrial","section":"7.3","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Main uses: Assaying, Bakeries, Banks, Blast furnaces, Breweries, and 35 more.","fields":{"primary_uses":{"value":["Assaying","Bakeries","Banks","Blast furnaces","Breweries","Carpet cleaners","Churches","Clubs","Crematoria","Docks, wharves and piers","Distilleries","Dry cleaners","Dye works","Electrical generating","Fish packing and processing, except fish oil extraction","Forging","Gas and petroleum tank farms and storage of flammable liquids or gases (capacity under 135,000 litres)","Garages","Incineration or reduction of garbage, offal, dead animals, or refuse","Industrial processing, including manufacturing, processing, refining, assembly, testing, servicing, wrecking or salvaging of the listed products (except offensive trades under the Health Act)","Junkyards","Mail order businesses","Milk processing and distribution","Power generating","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)","Rolling mills","Saw or planing mills","Schools, including trade schools","Storage lots excluding storage of undamaged vehicles intended for sale, rent, or lease","Tanning or curing of raw hides or skins","Tire vulcanizing","Veterinary hospitals","Vehicle sales and rentals","Warehouses","Washing of vehicles","Wholesale"],"note":"Uses must not be noxious or offensive to any residential neighbourhood or the public (odours, dust, smoke, gas, noise, effluent or hazard).","quotes":["(a) assaying;","(b) bakeries;","(c) banks;","(d) blast furnaces;","(e) breweries;","(f) carpet cleaners;","(g) churches;","(h) clubs;","(i) crematoria;","(j) docks, wharves and piers;","(k) distilleries;","(l) dry cleaners;","(m) dye works;","(n) electrical generating;","(o) fish packing and processing, except fish oil","(p) forging;","(q) gas and petroleum tank farms and storage or","capacity of less than 135,000 litres;","(r) garages;","(s) incineration or reduction of garbage, offal, dead","(t) except those activities designated as offensive","(u) j junkyards;","(v) mail order businesses;","(w) milk processing and distribution;","(x) power generating;","(y) printing and publishing;","(z) quick-freeze lockers;","(aa) residence for watchman as ancillary use on lot;","(bb) restaurants;","(cc) retail, as an accessory use, of products","to exceed 25% of the total building area;","(dd) rolling mills;","(ee) saw or planing mills;","(ff) schools, including trade schools;","(gg) storage lots excluding the storage of undamaged","(hh) tanning or curing of raw hides or skins;","(ii) tire vulcanizing;","(jj) veterinary hospitals;","(kk) vehicle sales and rentals;","(ll) warehouses;","(mm) washing of vehicles;","(nn) 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 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 required.","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":["setback of 3m 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 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 required.","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"],"quotes":["4 More than one building may be sited on a lot.","dimensions of not less than 4m in width","4.3m 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/73pdf#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-3/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/m-3.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/m-3.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/index.json"}}