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OTD-1 zone in Victoria: Old Town District – 1 Zone

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

In short

Main uses: Art and Cultural Facility, Assembly, Assisted Living Facility, Brew Pub (beer, spirits, wine), Care Facility, and 17 more.

Zone rules

Main uses
  • Art and Cultural Facility
  • Assembly
  • Assisted Living Facility
  • Brew Pub (beer, spirits, wine)
  • Care Facility
  • Civic Facility
  • Dock, Pier and Wharf
  • Drinking Establishment
  • Equipment Rental
  • Financial Service
  • Food and Beverage Service
  • Hotel
  • Laboratory
  • Light Industrial
  • Office
  • Personal Service
  • Residential
  • Retail Liquor Sale
  • Retail Trade
  • Studio
  • Utility
  • Veterinary Clinic
Residential uses and Hotel guest rooms are not allowed on the first storey, except where directly next to and accessed from a lane, alleyway, through-block walkway or interior courtyard.
Also allowed (secondary uses)Home Occupation
Maximum density3.0:1; 1.0:1 for Office within any Building constructed after 1914
Maximum height15.0m
Other rules
  • Motor vehicle parking is only required for lots of 1100m² or more, and all required parking must be within a Building
  • Lot coverage, lot dimensions and building setbacks: no regulations stated (left blank)

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. 4.8 (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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