{"title":"R3-G zone in Victoria: Garden Apartment District","code":"R3-G","slug":"r3-g","name":"Garden Apartment District","group":"Residential","section":"3.1","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Garden Apartment District.","fields":{"purpose":{"value":"Garden Apartment District.","quotes":["R3-G ZONE, GARDEN APARTMENT DISTRICT"]},"primary_uses":{"value":["Single family dwellings and accessory uses (R1-B Zone regulations)","Two family dwellings and accessory uses (R-2 Zone regulations)","Garden apartments and garden apartment accessory uses","Not more than 2 garage sales in any year"],"quotes":["(a) single family dwellings and customary accessory","(b) two family dwellings and accessory buildings and","(c) garden apartments and garden apartment","(d) Not more than 2 garage sales in any year."]},"min_parcel_area":{"value":"1,858 m² for a garden apartment","quotes":["on a lot having an area of less than 1,858m2."]},"max_parcel_coverage":{"value":"30% in total for all garden apartments on a lot","quotes":["not exceed 30% in total."]},"max_density":{"value":"Floor space ratio of all garden apartments on a lot not to exceed 0.5 to 1; two or more garden apartments may be on one lot","quotes":["not exceed 0.5 to 1.","may be erected, used and maintained on one lot."]},"max_height":{"value":"11 m; no more than 30% of the maximum floor area may be in apartments of more than two storeys","quotes":["No building shall exceed 11m in height and not more than","30% of the maximum permitted total floor area determined"]},"max_height_accessory":{"value":"3 m for surface parking structures that are not part of a garden apartment","quotes":["of surface parking space shall exceed 3m in height."]},"setback_front":{"value":"7.62 metres from any lot boundary","quotes":["than a horizontal distance of 7.62 metres."]},"setback_rear":{"value":"7.62 metres from any lot boundary","quotes":["than a horizontal distance of 7.62 metres."]},"setback_side_interior":{"value":"7.62 metres from any lot boundary","quotes":["than a horizontal distance of 7.62 metres."]},"setback_side_exterior":{"value":"7.62 metres from any lot boundary","quotes":["than a horizontal distance of 7.62 metres."]},"other":{"value":["Each garden apartment dwelling unit must be at least 33 m²","At least 40% of the lot must be open site space","Separation between garden apartments: storeys multiplied by 3.048 metres","Surface parking must be at least 6 m from dwelling units (2.4 m with a parking screen wall)"],"quotes":["area of less than 33m2, reckoned exclusively of the width","Not less than 40% of the area of a lot upon which a garden","number of metres obtained by multiplying the","maximum number of storeys comprised in the garden","apartment by 3.048.","lot than a horizontal distance of 6m provided that where a","aforementioned horizontal distance may be 2.4m."]}},"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/31pdf#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/r3-g/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/r3-g.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/r3-g.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/index.json"}}