S-1 zone in Victoria: Limited Service District

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

In short

Limited Service District.

Zone rules

Purpose	Limited Service District.
Main uses	Automobile, truck, trailer and other chattel rentals Bakeries Banks and other financial institutions Churches and places of worship Professional services Carpet cleaning Clubs Recreation and entertainment services Dye works and dry cleaning Washing of motor vehicles Garages (excluding impound lots and storage of damaged vehicles in any yard) Laundries Milk processing and distribution stations Printing and publishing establishments Quick freeze locker plants Restaurants Taxi offices Tire vulcanizing Wholesale and retail sales Parking facilities (excluding impound lots, storage of damaged vehicles and storage of vehicles for sale, rent or lease) Offices Servicing and repair of goods Uses incidental to any of the above uses High tech Call centre
Maximum lot coverage	60%
Maximum density	Floor space ratio of all buildings on a lot not to exceed 1.5 to 1; more than one building may be on a lot
Maximum height	15 m; within 7.5 m of an internal boundary adjoining the rear lot line of a residential lot, 4 m
Front setback	No street setback required, except on corner lots (no building closer to the intersection than the diagonal line joining points 3 m from the intersecting point)
Rear setback	None required; if provided, at least 3 m; 3 m where the lot adjoins the side yard of a residential lot
Interior side setback	None required; if provided, at least 3 m; 3 m where the lot adjoins the side yard of a residential lot
Other rules	Loading space at least 4 m wide, 9 m long and 4.3 m high, set back at least 3 m from the street Parking, loading or outdoor storage yards must be separated from any street by a landscape screen at least 1 m wide Yards next to residential lots need a landscape screen at least 1.5 m high and 60 cm wide

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. 7.6 (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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