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M2-B zone in Victoria: Bay Light Industrial District

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

In short

Main uses: Bakeries, Banks, Call centre, Carpet cleaning, Churches, and 19 more.

Zone rules

Main uses
  • Bakeries
  • Banks
  • Call centre
  • Carpet cleaning
  • Churches
  • Clubs
  • Dry cleaners
  • Funeral undertaking
  • Garages
  • High-tech
  • Light industry, including manufacturing, processing, assembly, testing, servicing and repairing
  • Mail order business
  • Printing and publishing
  • Professional services, including architects, engineers and surveyors
  • Residence for a security guard, as an ancillary use
  • Restaurants
  • Retail as an accessory use of products manufactured, cleaned, stored or handled in the primary use
  • Retail sale of home furnishings, home supplies, or sporting goods
  • Retail sales and offices as accessory uses
  • Schools, including trade schools
  • Veterinary hospitals
  • Warehouse, in a building or part of a building constructed before the year 2008
  • Washing of vehicles
  • Wholesale, in a building or part of a building constructed before the year 2008
Uses must not be noxious or offensive to the immediate neighbourhood or public (odours, dust, smoke, gas, noise, effluent or hazard).
Maximum densityFloor space ratio 2 to 1
Maximum height15 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 lot zoned for predominantly residential purposes
Front setbackBay Street: 3.3 m. All other boundaries: the greater of 3 m or ½ the height of the building
Rear setbackThe greater of 3 m or ½ the height of the building (all boundaries except Bay Street)
Interior side setbackThe greater of 3 m or ½ the height of the building (all boundaries except Bay Street)
Street side setbackBay Street: 3.3 m. All other boundaries: the greater of 3 m or ½ the height of the building
Other rules
  • A lot may contain more than 1 building
  • Front yards must be graded and landscaped for 3 m from the front lot line
  • Loading space at least 4 m wide, 9 m long and 4.3 m high, at least 3 m from a 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. 7.40 (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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