---
title: "M-3 zone in Victoria: Heavy Industrial District"
place: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
place_path: ca/bc/victoria
zone: M-3
bylaw: "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)"
bylaw_read: 2026-11-07
review: draft
canonical: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/m-3/"
json: "https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/m-3.json"
---

# M-3 zone in Victoria: Heavy Industrial District

Main uses: Assaying, Bakeries, Banks, Blast furnaces, Breweries, and 35 more.

## Zone rules

- **Main uses:** 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 (Uses must not be noxious or offensive to any residential neighbourhood or the public (odours, dust, smoke, gas, noise, effluent or hazard).)
- **Maximum density:** Floor space ratio 3.0 to 1
- **Maximum height:** 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
- **Front setback:** No street setbacks required, except on corner lots (no building closer to the intersection than a line joining points 3 m from it)
- **Interior side setback:** 3 m where the lot adjoins the side yard of a predominantly residential lot; otherwise none required (at least 3 m if provided)
- **Street side setback:** No street setbacks required, except on corner lots (no building closer to the intersection than a line joining points 3 m from it)
- **Other rules:** 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

## 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. 7.3](https://www.victoria.ca/media/file/73pdf#page=1) (read 2026-11-07)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply. All zones in Victoria: https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/index.json

_Draft: taken from the bylaw text by a research agent and not yet reviewed by a person. Gov Handbook is an independent guide. Canonical page: https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/m-3/_