M-3 zone in Victoria: Heavy Industrial District

Victoria, British ColumbiaDraft, not yet reviewedBylaw read 2026-11-07

In short

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 (read 2026-11-07)

Rules in the bylaw's general sections (parking, fences, suites, home businesses) also apply, and a lot can have site-specific rules. 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). Zone pages are taken from the bylaw text by a research agent and have not yet been reviewed by a person: confirm with the bylaw before you rely on them. How answers are checked.

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