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R-48 zone in Victoria: Harris Green District

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

In short

Main uses: Residential (multiple dwellings, rest homes, nursing homes, hospitals, care facilities), Religious, educational, charitable or philanthropic institutions, Offices, banks and financial institutions, Retail, Restaurants, and 6 more.

Zone rules

Main uses
  • Residential (multiple dwellings, rest homes, nursing homes, hospitals, care facilities)
  • Religious, educational, charitable or philanthropic institutions
  • Offices, banks and financial institutions
  • Retail
  • Restaurants
  • Personal services
  • Theatres, auditoriums and places of recreation
  • Day care
  • Home occupations
  • High tech
  • Call centre
Maximum densityOffice floor area must not exceed 60% of the lot area; non-residential floor area (excluding underground parking and home occupations) must not exceed 50% of the floor area on the lot
Maximum height27 m and 9 storeys; or 30 m and 10 storeys where the first storey use along a street is primarily retail or restaurant
Front setback0.5 m where the first storey is not used for residential purposes; 3.5 m where the first storey is used for residential purposes
Other rules
  • Non-residential uses (except home occupations) only in a basement or on the first or second storey
  • No parking is required on a lot

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. 3.67 (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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