{"title":"R-3-C zone in Victoria: Central Area Residential District","code":"R-3-C","slug":"r-3-c","name":"Central Area Residential District","group":"Residential","section":"3.7","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Main uses: Multiple dwellings, Churches, Business or professional offices, including chartered banks and other financial lending institutions, Retail stores, Restaurants, and 4 more.","fields":{"primary_uses":{"value":["Multiple dwellings","Churches","Business or professional offices, including chartered banks and other financial lending institutions","Retail stores","Restaurants","Rest homes, nursing homes and hospitals","Launderettes","Theatres, auditoriums and places of recreation","Private hospitals, intermediate care facilities and commercial care facilities"],"quotes":["The following uses are permitted:","(a) multiple dwellings;","(d) retail stores;","(i) private hospitals, intermediate care facilities and"]},"min_parcel_area":{"value":"920 m²","quotes":["having a site area of less than 920m2."]},"max_parcel_coverage":{"value":"50%","quotes":["No building shall exceed a site coverage of 50%."]},"max_density":{"value":"Floor space ratio 2.5 to 1, which may rise to 3.0 to 1 as site coverage drops (2.6 at 46%, 2.7 at 42%, 2.8 at 38%, 2.9 at 34%, 3.0 at 30%); never more than 3 to 1","quotes":["2.5 to 1 provided that:","2.6 46%","2.7 42%","2.8 38%","2.9 34%","3.0 30%","(b) in no case shall the said floor space ratio exceed"]},"max_height":{"value":"37 m","quotes":["No building shall exceed 37m in height."]},"setback_front":{"value":"4.5 m from a street boundary","quotes":["The minimum setback of a building from a street boundary","shall be 4.5m."]},"setback_rear":{"value":"6 m from any lot line that is not a street boundary","quotes":["The minimum setback of a building from any lot line, which","is not a street boundary, shall be 6m."]},"setback_side_interior":{"value":"6 m from any lot line that is not a street boundary","quotes":["The minimum setback of a building from any lot line, which","is not a street boundary, shall be 6m."]},"setback_side_exterior":{"value":"4.5 m from a street boundary","quotes":["The minimum setback of a building from a street boundary","shall be 4.5m."]},"other":{"value":["Uses other than residential may take up at most 20% of the allowable floor space ratio and only the floors below grade and the first and second storeys","Open site space at least 40% of the lot, landscaped","No street wall may run along one plane for more than 30 m","Parking for multiple dwellings: 0.55 space per dwelling unit"],"quotes":["3. Any use other than residential shall occupy not more","than 20% of the allowable floor space ratio and shall be","area of such lot, which shall be landscaped.","space not less than 40% of the","30m, and where such street wall consists of two or more","0.55 space per dwelling unit (10% of the parking"]}},"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/37pdf#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/r-3-c/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/r-3-c.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/r-3-c.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/index.json"}}