R3-G zone in Victoria: Garden Apartment District

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

In short

Garden Apartment District.

Zone rules

Purpose	Garden Apartment District.
Main uses	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
Minimum lot area	1,858 m² for a garden apartment
Maximum lot coverage	30% in total for all garden apartments on a lot
Maximum density	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
Maximum height	11 m; no more than 30% of the maximum floor area may be in apartments of more than two storeys
Maximum height, accessory buildings	3 m for surface parking structures that are not part of a garden apartment
Front setback	7.62 metres from any lot boundary
Rear setback	7.62 metres from any lot boundary
Interior side setback	7.62 metres from any lot boundary
Street side setback	7.62 metres from any lot boundary
Other rules	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)

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. 3.1 (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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