{"title":"M2-E zone in Victoria: Employment-Residential District","code":"M2-E","slug":"m2-e","name":"Employment-Residential District","group":"Industrial","section":"7.68","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Main uses: Bakery, Club, Dry cleaner, High tech, Home occupation, and 14 more.","fields":{"primary_uses":{"value":["Bakery","Club","Dry cleaner","High tech","Home occupation","Limited light industries (testing, servicing and repair, but not manufacturing, processing or assembly)","Live-work unit","Mail order business","Medical office","Multiple dwelling","Office","Personal service","Printing and publishing","Professional service","Restaurant","Retail","School","Studio","Veterinary hospital (all runs totally enclosed within a building)"],"quotes":["The following uses are the only uses permitted in this Zone:","j. Multiple dwelling","g. Live-work unit","s. Veterinary hospital, provided that all runs are totally enclosed within a building"]},"min_parcel_area":{"value":"2000 m²","quotes":["a. Lot area (minimum) 2000m2"]},"min_parcel_width":{"value":"40 m","quotes":["b. Lot width (minimum) 40m"]},"max_parcel_coverage":{"value":"65%","quotes":["a. Site Coverage (maximum) 65%"]},"max_density":{"value":"Floor space ratio 3.0:1; total floor area 6590 m²","quotes":["b. Floor space ratio (maximum) 3.0:1","a. Total floor area (maximum) 6590m2"]},"max_height":{"value":"23.20 m; 6 storeys","quotes":["a. Principal building height (maximum) 23.20m","b. Storeys (maximum) 6"]},"setback_front":{"value":"2.8 m","quotes":["a. Front yard setback (minimum) 2.8m"]},"setback_rear":{"value":"3.0 m","quotes":["b. Rear yard setback (minimum) 3.0m"]},"setback_side_interior":{"value":"4.0 m","quotes":["c. Side yard setback from interior lot lines (minimum) 4.0m"]},"setback_side_exterior":{"value":"3.8 m","quotes":["d. Side yard setback on a flanking street for a corner lot 3.8m"]},"other":{"value":["Commercial uses must not be above the first storey","Residential uses or home occupation must not be at or below the first storey","Open site space at least 35%"],"quotes":["a. Commercial uses, including commercial uses located within a live-work unit, must not be","located above the first storey","b. Residential uses or home occupation must not be located at or below the first storey","b. Open site space (minimum) 35%"]}},"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/768#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/m2-e/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/m2-e.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/m2-e.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/index.json"}}