T-1 zone in Victoria: Limited Transient Accommodation District

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

In short

Limited Transient Accommodation District.

Zone rules

Purpose	Limited Transient Accommodation District.
Main uses	Single family dwellings and customary accessory uses (Part 1.2 regulations) Transient accommodation and transient accommodation accessory uses Housekeeping apartment buildings, boarding houses and rooming houses (under the multiple dwelling and C-2 Zone regulations named in the bylaw) Transient accommodation accessory uses are only permitted with at least 25 transient accommodation units on the same lot.
Minimum lot area	1,850 m² (the text reads "1,850 m"; the square symbol is cut off)
Maximum lot coverage	By storeys in the building: 1 to 4 storeys 30%; 5 storeys 24%; 6 or more storeys 20%
Maximum density	Floor space ratio by storeys: 1 storey 0.3 to 1; 2 storeys 0.6 to 1; 3 storeys 0.9 to 1; 4, 5 or 6 or more storeys 1.2 to 1
Maximum height	21.5 m
Maximum height, accessory buildings	Car shelters: 3 m
Front setback	7.5 m from any lot boundary; surface parking 7.5 m from the street boundary
Rear setback	7.5 m from any lot boundary
Interior side setback	7.5 m from any lot boundary
Street side setback	7.5 m from any lot boundary
Other rules	Each self-contained transient accommodation unit must have at least 33 m² of floor area Open site space at least 30% of the lot Distance between buildings with transient accommodation units: 9 m (one storey, up to two units); 12 m (one storey, more than two units); 15 m (two or three storeys); 18 m (more than three storeys)

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. 1.2 (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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