{"title":"SOC zone in Victoria: Songhees Office Commercial District","code":"SOC","slug":"soc","name":"Songhees Office Commercial District","group":"Commercial","section":"10.24","site_specific_zone":false,"summary":"Songhees Office Commercial District.","fields":{"purpose":{"value":"Songhees Office Commercial District.","quotes":["PART 10.24 – SOC ZONE, SONGHEES OFFICE COMMERCIAL DISTRICT"]},"primary_uses":{"value":["Offices (business, charitable, religious, political or other purposes)","Retail sales","Launderettes","Service stations (alone or combined with any other permitted use)","High tech","Call centre"],"note":"Retail must be limited to the ground floor and not exceed 185 m² on any lot; not more than one service station per lot.","quotes":["(a) offices used for business, charitable, religious,","(b) retail sales;","(c) launderettes;","(d) service stations, or a service station in combination","(e) high tech;","(f) call centre.","(b) not exceed 185m 2 on any lot."]},"min_parcel_area":{"value":"1500 m²","quotes":["No lot shall be less than 1500m 2."]},"max_parcel_coverage":{"value":"25%","quotes":["Site coverage shall not exceed 25%."]},"max_density":{"value":"Floor space ratio 0.4 to 1; more than one building may be on a lot","quotes":["exceed 0.4 to 1.","More than one building may be located on a lot."]},"max_height":{"value":"10.5 m or 3 storeys, measured from grade to the ceiling of the highest habitable space","quotes":["No building shall exceed 10.5m in height or 3","storeys, measured from grade to the ceiling of the highest"]},"setback_front":{"value":"6 m from Esquimalt Road or Tyee Road","quotes":["The minimum setback from Esquimalt Road or","Tyee Road shall be 6m."]},"setback_rear":{"value":"1.5 m from any other lot line","quotes":["Except as provided in Section 11, a minimum","setback from any other lot line shall be 1.5m."]},"setback_side_interior":{"value":"1.5 m from any other lot line","quotes":["Except as provided in Section 11, a minimum","setback from any other lot line shall be 1.5m."]},"other":{"value":["No parking spaces closer to any street than 6 m","Service stations need 1 parking space for each 20 m² of gross floor area","No gas bar service area may be located in a required setback"],"quotes":["No parking spaces shall be located closer to any","street than 6m.","1 parking space for each 20m 2 of gross floor area","No service area for any gas bar may be located in"]}},"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/1024pdf#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/soc/","markdown":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/soc.md","json":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/soc.json","index":"https://govhandbook.com/ca/bc/victoria/zoning/index.json"}}