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COUNCIL ADOPTION OCTOBER 15, 2013
Zoning By-Law
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COUNCIL ADOPTION OCTOBER 15, 2013
Zoning By-Law
Township of Emo
39 Roy Street P.O. Box 520
Emo, Ontario P0W 1E0
Phone: 807.482.2378
Web: www.emo.ca
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CONTENTS
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CONTENTS
SECTION 1
INTERPRETATION AND ADMINISTRATION ...................................................... 1-1
1.1
TITLE ................................................................................................................................................... 1-1
1.2
APPLICATION ...................................................................................................................................... 1-1
1.3
SCOPE ................................................................................................................................................. 1-1
1.4
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS ............................................................................................................... 1-1
1.5
INTERPRETATION OF BY-LAW ............................................................................................................ 1-1
1.5.2
NUMBER AND GENDER ..................................................................................................................... 1-1
1.5.3
MEANING OF USE ............................................................................................................................... 1-1
1.5.4
MEANING OF SHALL ........................................................................................................................... 1-1
1.5.5
MEASUREMENTS ............................................................................................................................... 1-1
1.5.6
PRIMARY ZONES ................................................................................................................................ 1-1
1.5.7
EXCEPTION ZONES AND TEMPORARY USE BY-LAWS ....................................................................... 1-1
1.5.8
HOLDING ZONES ................................................................................................................................ 1-2
1.6
USE OF ZONE SYMBOLS .................................................................................................................... 1-2
1.7
INTERPRETATION OF ZONE BOUNDARIES ........................................................................................ 1-2
1.8
CONFLICT ............................................................................................................................................ 1-3
1.9
STRUCTURE ........................................................................................................................................ 1-3
1.10
ADMINISTRATION ............................................................................................................................... 1-3
1.11
LICENSES AND PERMITS ................................................................................................................... 1-3
1.12
BUILDING TO BE MOVED ................................................................................................................... 1-3
1.13
REPEAL OF EXISTING BY-LAWS ......................................................................................................... 1-3
1.14
APPLICATION OF OTHER BY-LAWS .................................................................................................... 1-3
1.15
VALIDITY .............................................................................................................................................. 1-3
1.16
VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES ............................................................................................................. 1-4
1.17
REMEDIES .......................................................................................................................................... 1-4
SECTION 2
DEFINITIONS ................................................................................................... 2-1
SECTION 3
ESTABLISHMENT OF ZONES ........................................................................... 3-1
SECTION 4
GENERAL PROVISIONS ................................................................................... 4-1
4.1
ACCESSORY BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND USES ......................................................................... 4-1
4.2
AUTOMOBILE WRECKING YARDS AND SCRAP METAL YARDS ......................................................... 4-2
4.3
BED AND BREAKFAST ESTABLISHMENTS ........................................................................................ 4-2
4.4
BUFFER STRIP .................................................................................................................................... 4-2
4.5
CORNER LOT SIGHT RESTRICTIONS ................................................................................................. 4-3
4.6
DANGEROUS USES ............................................................................................................................. 4-3
4.7
DRIVE-THROUGH FACILITY ................................................................................................................. 4-3
4.8
EXISTING LOTS ................................................................................................................................... 4-3
4.9
FARM HELP HOUSE ............................................................................................................................ 4-4
4.10
GARDEN SUITES ................................................................................................................................. 4-4
4.11
GROUP HOMES ................................................................................................................................... 4-4
4.12
HEIGHT ................................................................................................................................................ 4-4
4.13
HOME INDUSTRY ................................................................................................................................ 4-4
4.14
HOME OCCUPATION ........................................................................................................................... 4-5
4.15
LAND WITHOUT BUILDINGS ............................................................................................................... 4-5
4.16
LOADING SPACES ............................................................................................................................... 4-5
4.17
MOBILE HOMES.................................................................................................................................. 4-6
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4.18
NON-CONFORMING USES .................................................................................................................. 4-6
4.19
NON-COMPLIANCE WITH MINIMUM LOT OR YARD REQUIREMENTS .............................................. 4-6
4.20
PARKING REQUIREMENTS ................................................................................................................. 4-6
4.21
PERMITTED ENCROACHMENTS IN YARDS ........................................................................................ 4-9
4.22
PERMITTED PUBLIC USES ................................................................................................................. 4-9
4.23
PROHIBITED USES .............................................................................................................................. 4-9
4.24
NOXIOUS TRADE ................................................................................................................................. 4-9
4.25
ROAD FRONTAGE REQUIRED ............................................................................................................. 4-9
4.26
SECONDARY DWELLING UNIT ......................................................................................................... 4-10
4.27
SEPARATION DISTANCES ................................................................................................................. 4-10
4.28
GAS BARS ......................................................................................................................................... 4-10
4.29
SERVICES REQUIRED ....................................................................................................................... 4-11
4.30
SETBACKS ON PROVINCIAL HIGHWAYS .......................................................................................... 4-11
4.31
SETBACK FROM NAVIGABLE AND NON-NAVIGABLE WATERCOURSES, HAZARD LAND AND
TOWNSHIP SURFACE DRAINS ......................................................................................................... 4-11
4.32
SPECIAL USES PERMITTED .............................................................................................................. 4-11
4.33
STRUCTURES IN WATER .................................................................................................................. 4-12
4.34
TELEVISION DISH ANTENNAE .......................................................................................................... 4-12
4.35
TEMPORARY BUILDINGS .................................................................................................................. 4-12
4.36
TRUCK, BUS AND COACH BODIES OR TRAILERS OR TENTS USED FOR HUMAN HABITATION .... 4-12
4.37
WAYSIDE PITS AND QUARRIES ........................................................................................................ 4-12
4.38
YARD AND OPEN SPACE PROVISIONS FOR ALL ZONES ................................................................. 4-12
SECTION 5
RURAL ZONE (RU) REGULATIONS ................................................................... 5-1
5.1
PERMITTED USES ............................................................................................................................... 5-1
5.2
ZONE PROVISIONS ............................................................................................................................. 5-1
5.3
USE SPECIFIC PROVISIONS ............................................................................................................... 5-2
SECTION 6
RESIDENTIAL 1 ZONE (R1) REGULATIONS ..................................................... 6-1
6.1
PERMITTED USES ............................................................................................................................... 6-1
6.2
ZONE PROVISIONS ............................................................................................................................. 6-1
6.3
EXCEPTION ZONES ............................................................................................................................. 6-1
SECTION 7
RESIDENTIAL 2 ZONE (R2) REGULATIONS ..................................................... 7-1
7.1
PERMITTED USES ............................................................................................................................... 7-1
7.2
ZONE PROVISIONS ............................................................................................................................. 7-1
SECTION 8
RESIDENTIAL MULTIPLE ZONE (R3) REGULATIONS ...................................... 8-1
8.1
PERMITTED USES ............................................................................................................................... 8-1
8.2
USE SPECIFIC PROVISIONS ............................................................................................................... 8-1
SECTION 9
MOBILE HOME RESIDENTIAL ZONE (R4) REGULATIONS ............................... 9-1
9.1
PERMITTED USES ............................................................................................................................... 9-1
9.2
USE SPECIFIC PROVISIONS ............................................................................................................... 9-1
9.3
EXCEPTION ZONES ............................................................................................................................. 9-1
SECTION 10
MOBILE HOME PARK ZONE (MHP) REGULATIONS ...................................... 10-1
10.1
PERMITTED USES ............................................................................................................................. 10-1
10.2
ZONE PROVISIONS ........................................................................................................................... 10-1
SECTION 11
HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL ZONE (C1) REGULATIONS .................................... 11-1
11.1
PERMITTED USES ............................................................................................................................. 11-1
11.2
ZONE PROVISIONS ........................................................................................................................... 11-1
11.3
USE SPECIFIC PROVISIONS ............................................................................................................. 11-2
SECTION 12
GENERAL COMMERCIAL ZONE (C2) REGULATIONS .................................... 12-1
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12.1
PERMITTED USES ............................................................................................................................. 12-1
12.2
ZONE PROVISIONS ........................................................................................................................... 12-1
12.3
USE SPECIFIC PROVISIONS ............................................................................................................. 12-2
12.4
EXCEPTION ZONES ........................................................................................................................... 12-2
SECTION 13
NEIGHBOURHOOD COMMERCIAL ZONE (C3) REGULATIONS ...................... 13-1
13.1
PERMITTED USES ............................................................................................................................. 13-1
13.2
ZONE PROVISIONS ........................................................................................................................... 13-1
13.3
ZONE PROVISIONS FOR ACCESSORY USES .................................................................................... 13-1
SECTION 14
INDUSTRIAL ZONE (M1) REGULATIONS ....................................................... 14-1
14.1
PERMITTED USES ............................................................................................................................. 14-1
14.2
ZONE PROVISIONS ........................................................................................................................... 14-1
14.3
ZONE PROVISIONS FOR ACCESSORY USES .................................................................................... 14-2
SECTION 15
AGGREGATE EXTRACTION (MX) ZONE REGULATIONS ................................. 15-1
15.1
PERMITTED USES ............................................................................................................................. 15-1
15.2
ZONE PROVISIONS ........................................................................................................................... 15-1
SECTION 16
MINERAL MINING ZONE (MM) REGULATIONS ............................................. 16-1
16.1
PERMITTED USES ............................................................................................................................. 16-1
16.2
ZONE PROVISIONS ........................................................................................................................... 16-1
SECTION 17
INSTITUTIONAL ZONE (I) REGULATIONS ....................................................... 17-1
17.1
PERMITTED USES ............................................................................................................................. 17-1
17.2
ZONE PROVISIONS ........................................................................................................................... 17-1
SECTION 18
WASTE DISPOSAL ZONE (WD) REGULATIONS .............................................. 18-1
18.1
PERMITTED USES ............................................................................................................................. 18-1
18.2
ZONE PROVISIONS ........................................................................................................................... 18-1
SECTION 19
OPEN SPACE ZONE (OS) REGULATIONS ....................................................... 19-1
19.1
PERMITTED USES ............................................................................................................................. 19-1
19.2
ZONE PROVISIONS ........................................................................................................................... 19-1
SECTION 20
CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ZONE (CEP)
REGULATIONS 20-1
20.1
PERMITTED USES ............................................................................................................................. 20-1
20.2
FILL .................................................................................................................................................... 20-1
SECTION 21
ZONING SCHEDULES .................................................................................... 21-1
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SECTION 1 INTERPRETATION AND ADMINISTRATION
1.1 TITLE
This By-law shall be known as the "Zoning By-law" of The Corporation of the Township of Emo.
1.2 APPLICATION
The provisions of this By-law shall apply to all lands within the boundaries of The Township as now or
hereafter are legally constituted.
1.3 SCOPE
No lands shall be used and no buildings or structures shall be erected, altered, enlarged or used
within the Township of Emo except in compliance with the provisions of this By-law.
1.4 MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
In interpreting and applying the provisions of this By-law, they are held to be the minimum
requirements for the promotion of the health, safety, comfort, convenience, and general welfare of the
inhabitants of the Township.
1.5 INTERPRETATION OF BY-LAW
1.5.1 DEFINITIONS
In this By-law, unless the context requires otherwise, the definitions set out in Section 2 shall apply.
Where a term is not defined, its common usage shall apply.
1.5.2 NUMBER AND GENDER
In this By-Law, unless the contrary intention is indicated, words used in the singular shall include the
plural and words used in the male gender shall include the female gender and vice versa.
1.5.3 MEANING OF USE
Unless the context otherwise requires, the expressions "use" or "to use" in this By-law include anything
done or permitted by the owner or occupant of any land or buildings, directly or indirectly or by or
through any trustee, tenant, servant, or agent, acting for, or with the knowledge or consent of such
owner or occupant, for the purpose of making use of the said land or building.
1.5.4 MEANING OF SHALL
In this By-law, the word "shall" shall always be construed as mandatory.
1.5.5 MEASUREMENTS
Measurements of length and area used in this By-law are given in metric units (e.g. metres, hectares).
1.5.6 PRIMARY ZONES
Primary zones are the basic structural unit of this Zoning By-law and identify a land use category with
permitted uses and regulations. Primary zones are indicated by a set of symbols, for example R1
represents the Residential 1 (R1) Zone in this By-law.
1.5.7 EXCEPTION ZONES AND TEMPORARY USE BY-LAWS
Where a zone classification is followed by a dash and a number (e.g. RU-1), this denotes an Exception
Zone. Lands so zoned shall be subject to all of the provisions of the zone represented by the
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classification except as otherwise provided by the Exception provisions, which are listed as separate
subsections within the parent zone.
In some cases, temporary use by-laws have been passed by the Township to allow temporary uses
pursuant to Section 39 of the Planning Act, R.S.O. 1990, C.P. 13. Temporary uses are shown on the
zoning schedules as exceptions and details concerning the temporary use are included in the
exception text within the specific zone category.
1.5.8 HOLDING ZONES
1. Holding zones are created by adding a capital H in brackets - (H) - to the zone code on the Zoning
Schedules. This has the effect of allowing the uses set out in the corresponding text of the by-law at
some time in the future. A Holding symbol is removed once specified conditions, which are identified
in the exception provisions, are met (e.g. such as conditions related to environmental, transportation,
servicing matters), in accordance with Section 36 of the Planning Act, as amended.
2. No land shall be used in a Holding Zone (H), except for the following purposes:
Accessory Uses
Existing Uses
3. The following zone provisions apply to accessory buildings on lands zoned with the H symbol:
Provision
a) Maximum Lot Coverage
10 percent
b) Maximum Height
10.5 metres
c) Minimum Floor Area
70 square metres
d) Minimum Front Yard
7.5 metres
e) Minimum Side Yard
7.5 metres
f)
Minimum Rear Yard
7.5 metres
1.6 USE OF ZONE SYMBOLS
The symbols listed shall be used to refer to land, buildings and structures and uses thereof permitted
by this By-law in the said zones, and wherever in this By-law the word "Zone" is used preceded by any
of the said symbols, such zones shall mean any area within the Township of Emo delineated on the
Zoning Schedules and designated therein by the said symbol.
1.7 INTERPRETATION OF ZONE BOUNDARIES
Where any uncertainty exists as to the location of the boundary of any of the said zones, as shown on
the Zoning Schedules, the following shall apply:
a. Unless otherwise shown, the boundary of the zones as shown on the Zoning Schedules and
the centre lines of the road allowance or lot lines and the projection thereof;
b. Where zone boundaries are indicated as approximately following lot lines shown on a plan of
subdivision, such lot lines shall be deemed to be the said boundary;
c.
Where zone boundaries are indicated as approximately parallel to the line of any road and the
distance from such road is not indicated, such zone boundaries shall be construed as being
parallel to such road and the distance therefrom shall be determined by the use of the scale
shown on the Zoning Schedules;
d. Unless otherwise indicated, a road, lane, railroad, or railway right-of-way or watercourse
included on the Zoning Schedules, is included within the zone of the adjoining property on
either side thereof; and where such road, lane, right-of-way or watercourse serves as a
boundary between two or more different zones, a line midway in such road, lane, right-of-way
or watercourse and extending in the general direction of the long division thereof is
considered the boundary between zones, unless specifically indicated otherwise;
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e. In the event a dedicated road, lane or right-of-way shown on the zone maps is closed, the
property formerly in said road lane or right-of-way shall be included within the zone of the
adjoining property or either side of the said closed road lane right-of-way and the zone
boundary shall be the former centre line of the closed road, lane or right-of-way;
f.
Where any zone boundary is left uncertain after application of the preceding provisions, then
the boundary line shall be determined according to the scale on the Zoning Schedules in the
office of the Chief Building Official; and
g. Wherever it occurs, the limit of the Township of Emo is the boundary of the zone adjacent to
it.
1.8 CONFLICT
In the event of a conflict between this By-law and amendments thereto and any other general or
special by-law of the Township, the most restrictive By-law shall prevail.
1.9 STRUCTURE
This Zoning By-law is composed of twenty (20) sections:
Section 1: Interpretation and Administration
Section 2: Definitions
Section 3: Establishment of Zones
Section 4: General Provisions
Sections 5-19: Zone Provisions
Section 20: Zoning Schedules
1.10 ADMINISTRATION
This By-law shall be administered by the Chief Building Official and/or such other persons or persons
as the Council of the Township of Emo designates.
1.11 LICENSES AND PERMITS
No person shall be entitled to a permit, certificate, or license where the said permit is required for a
proposed use of land or a proposed erection, alteration, enlargement or use of any building or
structure that is in violation of any provisions of this By-law.
1.12 BUILDING TO BE MOVED
No building, residential or otherwise, shall be moved within the limits of the Township or shall be
moved into the Township a location beyond the Township limits, without a permit from the Chief
Building Official.
1.13 REPEAL OF EXISTING BY-LAWS
From the coming into force of this By-law, all previous by-laws passed under Section 34 of the
Planning Act or a predecessor thereof, shall be deemed to have been repealed except to the extent
that any of the said by-laws prohibits the use of any land, building or structure for a purpose that is
also prohibited by this By-law.
1.14 APPLICATION OF OTHER BY-LAWS
Nothing in this By-law shall serve to relieve any person from the obligation to comply with the
requirements of any other By-law of the Township, in force from time to time, or the obligation to
obtain any license, permit, authority or approval required under any By-law of the Township.
1.15 VALIDITY
Should any section, clause or provision of this By-law be held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be
invalid, the validity of the remainder of the By-law shall not be affected.
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1.16 VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES
1. Every person who uses any lot, or erects or uses any building or structure or any part of any lot,
building or structure, in a manner contrary to any requirement of this Bylaw, or who causes or permits
such use or erection, or who contravenes any provision of this By-law or causes or permits a
contravention, shall be guilty of an offence and upon conviction therefore, shall be liable:
a. on a first conviction to a fine of not more than $25,000; and
b. on a subsequent conviction to a fine of not more than $10,000 from each day or part thereof
upon which the contravention has continued after the day on which the conviction was first
made.
2. Where a corporation is convicted under this Section, the maximum penalty that may be imposed is:
a. on a first conviction, a fine of not more than $50,000; and ii) on a subsequent conviction, a
fine of not more than $25,000 for each day or part thereof upon which the contravention has
continued after the day on which the corporation was first convicted.
3. Every such penalty as set out in this Section shall be recoverable under the Section 67 of the Planning
Act, 1990 and/or the Provincial Offenses Act and/or any other legislation applicable.
1.17 REMEDIES
In case any buildings or structure or any part thereof is to be erected, altered, reconstructed or
extended, or any lot is being used or is to be used, in contravention of any requirement of this By-law,
such contravention may be restrained by action at the instance of any rate-payer or of the Township,
pursuant to the provisions of the Planning Act and/or the Municipal Act and/or any other legislation
applicable.
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SECTION 2 DEFINITIONS
For the purpose of this By-law, the definitions and interpretations given herein shall govern.
Abandoned
Means the failure, in the opinion of the Chief Building Official, to proceed expeditiously with construction work
or to undertake construction work during any continuous 12 month period.
Abattoir
Means a building, structure or lot or part thereof, used for the slaughter of livestock, poultry or other animals
for purpose of processing or rendering.
Accessory Building or Structure
Means a detached building or structure that is not used for human habitation except where a residential use is
a permitted accessory use, but the use of which is naturally and normally incidental to, subordinate to, or
exclusively devoted to a principal use or building and located on the same lot therewith and includes a
detached private garage, carport, detached deck and dock.
Accessory Apartment
Means self-contained apartments created through converting part of or adding on to a building containing a
commercial use.
Accessory Dwelling Unit
Means a detached dwelling unit on a commercial lot.
Accessory Use
Means a use naturally and normally incidental to, subordinate to, or exclusively devoted to a principal use and
located on the same lot therewith.
Aggregate
Means gravel, sand, clay, rock, or other material prescribed under the Aggregate Resources Act suitable for
construction, industrial, manufacturing and maintenance purposes.
Agricultural Services
Means the use of lands, structure or building for the purposes of buying and selling commodities and services
that are necessary to support agricultural operations, including livestock sales barn, but does not include any
manufacturing, assembling, processing, warehousing or construction uses.
Agricultural Use
Means the cultivation of land, including nursery and horticultural crops, raising of livestock, raising of other
animals for food, fur or fibre, including poultry and fish, aquaculture, apiaries, agro-forestry, maple syrup
production, and associated on-farm buildings and structures, including accommodate for full-time labour when
the size and nature of the operation requires additional employment.
Airport or Aircraft Landing Area
Means the use of land, including water, runway, or other facility designed, used or intended to be used, either
publicly or by any person or persons, for the landing or taking off of aircraft, including all necessary taxiways,
aircraft storage, tie-down areas, hangars and other necessary buildings, structures and open spaces.
Alter
When used in reference to a building or structure or part thereof, means to change the use or the external
dimensions of such building or structure or to change the type of construction of the exterior walls or roof
thereof.
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Notwithstanding the above, when used in reference to a lot, the word "alter" means to increase the width,
depth or area thereof or to decrease the width, depth or area of any required yard, setback, landscaped open
space, or parking area, or to change the location of any boundary of such lot with respect to a road or lane,
whether such alteration is made by conveyance or alienation of any portion of said lot, or otherwise; or
Notwithstanding the above, when used in reference to a use, to discontinue and replace a use with a use
which is defined herein as being distinct from the discontinued use.
Animal Hospital
Means a "Veterinary Clinic" as defined in this By-law.
Animal Shelter
Means a building or portion thereof where small domestic animals/pets, birds, livestock or farm animals are
given temporary shelter, where minor treatment is given, and includes a public pound and crematorium but
does not include an animal hospital, a veterinary clinic or any establishment engaged primarily in the retail sale
of animals or in the breeding or training of animals for gain or profit.
Apartment Dwelling
Means a residential dwelling unit located within a commercial use building or an apartment building.
Arcade
Means an establishment, or parts of an establishment, containing three or more arcade machines operated for
gain, including where the operation of such arcade machines for gain is an accessory use or is not the primary
use of the establishment.
Arena
Means a facility for sport activities and includes ice surfaces for hockey and curling and other surfaces for any
sporting activity.
Assembly Hall
Means a building, or part thereof, in which facilities are provided for such purposes as meetings for civic,
educational, political, recreational, religious or social purposes and, without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, may include such facilities as a banquet hall or private club.
Attached
Means a building otherwise complete in itself, which depends for structural support, or complete enclosure,
upon a division wall or walls shared in common with an adjacent building or buildings.
Attic
Means the space between the ceiling of the top storey and the roof or between a dwarf wall and a sloping roof.
Automobile Service Station
Means a building or part of a building or a clearly defined space on a lot used primarily for the retail sale or
some or all of lubrication oils, gasoline, diesel fuel and propane for motor vehicles, and may include the sale of
automobile accessories, and the servicing and repairing essential to the operation of motor vehicles, but does
not include a car washing establishment.
Automobile Wrecking Yard or Scrap Metal Yard
A place where motor vehicles are wrecked or disassembled and resold.
Bake Shop
Means a bakery where the prepared food products of such bakery are offered for retail sale on the same
premises.
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Basement or Cellar
Means that portion of a building between two floor levels which is more than 50% below the ground level at the
exterior walls.
Bed and Breakfast Establishment
Means a single-detached dwelling in which not more than 4 habitable rooms for overnight lodging are provided
for gain, with breakfast included, to persons other than the lessee, tenant or owner of said dwelling, or any
member of the his household, but shall not include a hotel, motel, tourist commercial establishment, trailer
camp or hunt camp.
Boarding House
Means "Rooming House" as defined in this By-law.
Boat House
Means a detached accessory building or structure constructed for the purpose of sheltering or storage of boats
or other form of water transportation and accessories, but it shall not include a dwelling unit.
Buffer Strip
Means an area of land used for no other purpose than for the erection of a fence, or the planting and
maintaining of a continuous row of natural evergreens or a continuous unpierced hedgerow of natural shrubs
and the remainder of which is to be used for landscaping.
Building
Shall include any structure, whether temporary or permanent, used or intended for sheltering any use or
occupancy, but shall not include a boundary wall or fence or any vehicle as defined herein.
Building Area
Means the greatest horizontal area of a storey above grade within the outside surface of exterior walls or within
the outside surface of exterior walls and the centre line of firewalls.
Builders' Supply Outlet
Means a commercial establishment used for milling, storage, or wholesaling of a broad range of building
materials and tools.
Business
Means a building in which one or more persons are employed in the management, direction, or conducting of a
business or where professionally qualified persons and their staff serve clients or patients who seek advice,
consultation or treatments.
By-law Enforcement Officer
Means a person appointed by Council and charged with the duty of enforcing the provisions of the Zoning By-
law and any amendments hereto.
Cabin
Means a "cottage" as defined in this By-law.
Campground
Means a parcel of land used for short-term occupancy by campers using travel trailers, tents, tent trailers, or
other moveable dwellings, rooms or sleeping quarters of any kind for short-term occupancy.
Carport
Means "garage" as defined in this By-law.
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Car Wash
Means an establishment where motor vehicles are washed, cleaned or polished for compensation, including a
coin wash, but does not include a service station or vehicle repair shop where car washing is incidental to the
operation of such service station or vehicle repair shop.
Cemetery
Means a cemetery or columbarium within the meaning of the Cemetery Act as amended from time to time.
Clinic
Means a building or structure that is used or intended for use by one or more physicians, dentists,
chiropractors and/or drugless practitioners for the purpose of consultation, diagnosis and office treatment, but
does not include short and long-term patient care facilities.
Club, Private
Means a building or part thereof used as a meeting place for members of an organization not operated for
profit or of an athletic, social or recreational club not operated for profit.
Club, Commercial
Means a building or part thereof used as a meeting place for members of an organization operated for profit or
of an athletic, social or recreational club operated for profit.
Commercial Storage Facility
Premises where individual enclosed areas are made available to the public for keeping or storing goods or
commodities, but does not include any hazardous material or fuel storage.
Commercial Use
Means the use of land or buildings for the purpose of buying and/or selling commodities and supplying
services separate from such uses as manufacturing or assembling of goods, warehousing, transport terminals,
construction and other similar uses.
Community Centre
Means a building used primarily for community activities and not used for commercial purposes, the control of
which is vested in the Township, a local board, or commission.
Conservation Use
Means the preservation, protection and improvement of the components of the natural environment through a
comprehensive management and maintenance program administered by a public authority for individual or
public use.
Contractor's Yard
Means a yard and associated buildings of any general contractor or builder where equipment and materials
are stored or where a contractor performs shop or assembly work but shall not include aggregate material.
Convenience Store
Means a retail store serving the daily or occasional needs of the residents of the immediate area with a variety
of good such as groceries, meats, dairy products, patent medicines, sundries, tobacco, stationery, hardware,
magazines and/or newspapers.
Cottage
Means a detached building used as an occasional and seasonal residential dwelling for recreation, rest or
relaxation by one household, but not occupied continuously or as a principal residence or as a year-round
permanent dwelling.
Council
Means the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Emo.
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Day Nursery
A day nursery operated for pre-school age children within the meaning of the Day Nurseries Act, R.S.O., 1980,
c.111 as amended.
Demolition
Means the removal of a building or any part thereof.
Detached
Means not attached.
Development
Means the creation of a new lot, a change in land use, or the construction of buildings and structures, requiring
approval under the Planning Act, but does not include:
a. activities that create or maintain infrastructure authorized under an environmental assessment
process;
b. works subject to the Drainage Act; or
c.
for the purposes of policy 2.1.3(b), underground or surface mining of minerals or advanced exploration
on mining lands in significant areas of mineral potential in Ecoregion 5E, where advanced exploration
has the same meaning as under the Mining Act. Instead, those matters shall be subject to policy
2.1.4(a).
Dock
Means a structure on land or in the water to be used for transferring goods or passengers to or from a boat or
airplane. This definition includes a launching ramp or boatlift but does not include any building used for human
habitation.
Drive-through Facility
Means an establishment that provides or dispenses products or services, through an attendant or an
automated machine, to persons remaining in vehicles that are in designated stacking aisles. A drive-through
facility may be in combination with other uses, such as a bank, restaurant or gas station.
Dwelling
Means a combination of rooms in which a kitchen, living quarters and sanitary conveniences are provided for
habitation for the exclusive use of the residents and with a private entrance from outside the building or from a
common hallway or stairway inside. It may include a modular home constructed in accordance with the
Building Code and C.S.A. A-277 Regulations. A dwelling may include the following subtypes:
Single-detached
Means a separate building or factory built twin-wide or double-wide modular home
designed, used, or intended to be used for occupancy as a single dwelling unit. This
definition shall not include a mobile home as defined herein.
Semi-detached
Means a building that is divided vertically into 2 dwelling units designed or intended
to be used for occupancy as a single dwelling unit and which dwelling units may be
held in separate ownership. This definition shall not include a mobile home as
defined herein.
Dwelling, Duplex
Means a building that is divided horizontally into 2 dwelling units, each of which has an
independent entrance either directly or through a common vestibule.
Dwelling, Double Duplex
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Means 2 attached duplex dwellings.
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Dwelling, Townhouse
Means the whole of a residential use building containing three or more dwelling units
that are divided vertically, each of which has an independent entrance.
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Dwelling, Street Townhouse
Means a townhouse or rowhouse dwelling which has direct access and frontage
along a public street. Each dwelling unit may be located on a separate lot. For street townhouses, the
maximum number of attached units shall be 8 units.
Dwelling, Triplex
Means a building that is divided horizontally into 3 separate dwelling units, each of
which has an independent entrance either directly or through a common vestibule.
Apartment Building
Means a building that contains 4 or more dwelling units, which units have one or
more common entrances from road level and are served by a common corridor,
and the occupants of which units have the right to use in common the corridors,
stairs, elevators, yards or one or more of them.
Bachelor
Means a dwelling unit in which only one room or part thereof contains sleeping accommodation, and
which room is used as a living or dining room or both, as well as for sleeping purposes, but does not
mean or include a dwelling unit containing one or more rooms designed exclusively for sleeping
accommodation.
Secondary Dwelling Unit
Means a self-contained dwelling unit created by either an interior renovation within an existing
dwelling, or as an exterior addition, provided that one entire face of the addition is attached to the
principal dwelling, and shall not be considered a second dwelling on the lot for the purposes of this By-
law.
Dwelling, Multiple
Means a building used, designed, or intended to be used for occupancy as 3 or more dwelling units
independently of each other.
Dwelling Unit
Means a residential unit that:
a. consists of a self-contained set of rooms located in a building or structure;
b. is used or intended for use as a residential premises
c.
contains kitchen and bathroom facilities that are intended for the use of the unit only; and
d. is not a mobile home or any vehicle.
Easement
Shall have the meaning attributed to it in the definition of "Right-of-Way".
Entertainment Facility
Means a building or facility for the use of a motion picture or other theatre, arena, auditorium, public hall,
bingo hall, billiard or pool room, arcade, bowling alley, ice or roller skating rink and does not include an adult
entertainment establishment.
Erect
Means to build, construct, reconstruct, install, enlarge, extend or alter material or repair a building or structure.
"Erect" shall include the relocation of a building or structure, the installation of a building unit fabricated or
removed from elsewhere, the demolition or removal of a building or any part thereof and any physical
operation such as excavating, filling, grading or draining preparatory to building construction or reconstruction.
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Existing
Means existing as of the date of the final passing of this By-law.
Fairground
Means the use of land, buildings, or structures for the purpose of holding agricultural fairs including displays,
exhibiting, livestock shows, sporting events, midway amusements, and concession stands; temporary overnight
accommodations associated with fairground uses is permitted.
Farm Help House
Means a building located on the same lot and accessory to an agricultural use and which is provided and
maintained by the owners of the lot for the accommodation of persons employed in the agricultural operation
by the owner of the lot.
Financial Institution
Means a commercial establishment such as a bank, trust company, credit union or other similar business or
institution where money is deposited, kept, lent and exchanged.
Flea Market
Means an occasional market held in an open air or building structure, where groups of individual sellers
display and offer goods for sale to the public, but does not include a garage sale.
Flood Fringe
Means the outer portion of the flood plain between the floodway and the limit of the regulatory flood.
Flood Plain
Means the area, usually low lands, adjoining a watercourse which has been, or may be covered by flood water.
Floodproofing
Means the combination of structural changes and/or adjustments incorporated into the basic design and/or
construction or alteration of individual buildings, structures or properties subject to flooding so as to reduce or
eliminate flood changes. The word "floodproofed" has a corresponding meaning.
Floodway
Means the channel of a watercourse and that inner portion of the flood plain where flood depths and velocities
are generally higher than those experienced in the flood fringe. The floodway represents that area required for
the safe passage of flood flows and that area where flood depths and velocities are considered as such that
they pose a potential threat to life and property.
Floor Area
Means the sum of the areas of all of the floors of a building or structure measured from the outside of all
outside walls, exclusive of any terrace, veranda, unfinished attic, basement, cellar, open or enclosed porch or
sunroom, unless such sunroom or enclosed porch is an integral part of the building and habitable in all
seasons.
Floor Area, Ground
Means the floor area of the lowest storey of a building approximately at or just above the finished grade level
excluding any basement, which area is measured between the exterior faces of the exterior walls at the floor
level of such storey.
Forestry Use
Means the raising and harvesting of wood and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, includes the
raising and cutting of fuel wood, pulp wood, lumber, holiday trees, and other forest products.
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Fuel Depot
Means a lot where bulk storage of fuel, including petroleum products and propane takes place and where
wholesaling and retailing of these products is carried on.
Funeral Home
Means a building designed for the purpose of furnishing funeral supplies and services to the public and
includes facilities intended for the preparation of the internment or cremation and for accessory meetings.
Garage
Means a building or portion of a building designed for the storage of private passenger motor vehicles wherein
no service for profit is rendered; where such structure is attached to the main building, it shall be deemed to
be part of the main building and not an accessory building.
Garden Suite
Means a self contained temporary dwelling that is accessory to the main dwelling unit with its own kitchen,
bathroom and living area which is designed to be portable and is sometimes referred to as a "granny flat". This
may include a mobile home.
Gas Bar
Means a lot containing gasoline, diesel fuel or propane dispensing devices and a structure used for the sale of
fuel and lubricants for vehicles.
Golf Course
Means a public or private area operated for the purposes of playing golf and does not include golf driving
ranges.
Golf Driving Range
Means a public or private area for the purpose of practicing golf driving techniques and is equipped with
distance markers, lighting, safety nets, parking areas, and can include golf equipment rental facilities and
washrooms, but does not include a golf course.
Grade
Means the average level of finished ground adjoining a building at all exterior walls.
Grain Elevator and Grain Drying Facility
Means buildings or structures associated with the processing, dryings, storage, or transshipment of grain.
Greenhouse, Commercial
Means a building for the growing of flowers, plants, shrubs, trees and similar vegetation which are not
necessarily transplanted outdoors on the same lot containing such greenhouses, but are sold directly from
such lot at wholesale or retail.
Group Home
Means a single housekeeping unit in a residential dwelling in which a maximum of 10 persons (excluding
supervisory staff or the receiving family) live under responsible supervision consistent with the particular
requirements of its residents. The group home shall conform with the Township By-laws and shall be licensed
and/or approved by the Province of Ontario.
Guest Cabin
Means a dwelling unit for guest accommodation accessory to a seasonal residential dwelling which contains no
provision for cooking or any water or sewage treatment systems and is not used year-round for human
habitation.
Habitable Room
Means a room in a dwelling used for human occupancy but does not include a bathroom, toilet room, serving
or storage pantry, laundry and corridor.
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Hazard Land
Means land which exhibits, or potentially exhibits, a hazardous condition as a result of its susceptibility to
flooding, erosion, subsidence, inundation, as the presence of organic soils or steep slopes, or where, by reason
of its low lying marshy or unstable character, the cost of construction of satisfactory waterworks, sewage or
drainage facilities is prohibitive. Hazard lands include areas where the operation of mines or former mines has
left the lands in a hazardous state, lands where contaminants may have been spilled or placed and filled
lands.
Health Centre
Means a building or structure that is used or intended for use by one or more physicians, dentists,
chiropractors and/or drugless practitioners for the purpose of consultation, diagnosis and office treatment.
Health Centre includes short and long-term patient care facilities and urgent care, but does not include 24
hour urgent care.
Height
When used with reference to a building or structure, means the vertical distance in metres between the
horizontal plane through the established grade and a horizontal plane through:
a. the highest point of the roof assembly in the case of a building with a flat or deck roof;
b. the average level of a sloped roof, provided that a roof having a slope of less than 20 degrees with the
horizontal shall be considered a flat roof;
c.
the deck roof line, in the case of a mansard roof;
d. the average level between eaves and ridges in the case of roof type not mentioned above.
Highway
Shall be considered to be synonymous and have the meaning as defined for "Road".
Home Day Care
Means a dwelling unit where a maximum of 6 children, who are not residents of the dwelling, are provided
temporary care, guidance, or both for a continuous period, not exceeding 24 hours.
Home Industry
Means a gainful occupation including a carpentry shop, a craft shop, a metal working shop, a plumbing shop,
an electrical shop, a welding shop, conducted in whole or in part in an accessory building to a permitted
dwelling unit.
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Home Occupation
Means an occupation or profession which is conducted entirely within a dwelling unit, and may include
consulting businesses and hairstyling.
Hotel
Means premises used by a business establishment used mainly for the purposes of catering to the needs of
the travelling public by furnishing sleeping accommodations of not less than 5 guest rooms, and may include
an accessory restaurant, operations licensed under the Liquor License Act and/or meeting rooms.
Hunt Camp
Means an area where one or more buildings and/or tents are used for sleeping, accommodations, the
preparation and serving of food and/or sports or recreation facilities and are intended for uses as a base camp
for hunting, fishing, trapping, mining or forestry. A hunt camp is to be used on a temporary or seasonal basis,
and is not a commercial facility.
Industrial Use
Means the use of land, buildings or structures primarily for manufacturing, processing and assembling of
goods or raw materials warehousing and bulk storage of goods and repair and servicing of goods, including
transportation terminals.
Heavy Industrial Use
Means uses of a heavy industrial nature including:
a.
the manufacture or processing of products from raw materials;
b.
the production or use of flammable, explosive or other hazardous materials;
c.
the storage of these products and materials; or
d.
a wrecking yard.
Light Industrial Use
Means uses of a light industrial nature, including:
a.
warehousing or distribution of finished parts or finished products;
b.
the manufacture from previously prepared materials of finished parts or finished products;
c.
factory or assembly-line processes that involve the manufacture, processing, assembly or
packaging of finished parts or finished products made from previously prepared materials; or
d.
the repair or servicing of such products.
Institutional Use
Means the use of land, buildings or other structures for some public or social purpose and may include
governmental, religious, educational, charitable, philanthropic, hospital, emergency services uses, a firehall or
other similar uses.
Kennel
Means any lot, building or structure on or within which 4 or more domesticated animals of more than 4 months
of age are housed, groomed, bred, boarded, trained or sold, and which may offer minor medical treatment but
does not include a veterinary clinic or animal hospital.
Landscaped Area
Means an area not built upon and not used for any purpose other than as a landscaped area, which may
include grass, shrubs, flowers, trees, vegetables, herbs and similar types of vegetation and appurtenances, but
does not include parking areas, parking lots, driveways or ramps.
Lane
Means a public thoroughfare or way, not more than 9 metres wide, which affords only secondary means of
access to abutting lots.
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Library
A library, branch library or distribution station to which the provisions of the Public Libraries Act apply, as
amended.
Liquid Waste Disposal Facility
Means a site which has received a Certificate of Approval under the Environmental Protection Act, or such
equivalent approval as may exist from time to time under this or any other successor legislation, to allow the
site to be used for the purpose of disposing liquid waste materials.
Loading Space
Means a space or bay located on a lot which is used or intended to be used for the temporary parking of any
commercial vehicle while loading or unloading goods, merchandise or materials used in connection with the
main use of the lot or any buildings thereto, and which has unobstructed access to a road or lane.
Lot
Means a parcel or tract of land described
in a deed or other legal document which is
legally capable of conveying title and:
a. Which is a whole lot within a
Registered Plan of Subdivision, or
lot within a Plan of Condominium
other than a Registered Plan of
Subdivision which has been
deemed not to be a Registered
Plan of Subdivision under a By-law
passed pursuant to Section 50 of
the Planning Act, S.O., 1990, c.
P.13, as amended; or
b. Which is a legally separated
parcel of land in existence on the date
of passing of this By-law without the
owner holding the fee or the equity or
redemption in, or power or right to
grant, assign or exercise a power of
appointment with respect to any
abutting land; or
c.
The description of which is the same as
in a deed which has received final
consent to a conveyance pursuant to
Section 50 of the Planning Act, S.O.,
1990, c. P. 13, as amended.
d. Which is the whole remnant retained
by an owner or owners after a
conveyance is made with final consent
pursuant to Section 40 of the Planning
Act, S.O., 1990, c. P. 13, as amended,
but for the purpose of this paragraph no parcel or tract of land ceases to be a lot by reason only of the
fact that a part or parts of it has or have been conveyed to or acquired by the Township of Emo, Her
Majesty in the Right of Ontario or Her Majesty in the Right of Canada; or,
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e. Which is the subject of an order of
the Minister of Municipal Affairs
pursuant to the provisions of Section
57 of the Planning Act, S.O., 1990,
c. P.13, as amended.
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f.
A lot includes the following s
ubtypes:
orner: A lot situated at the
treets,
of the
d
,
terior: A lot other than a corner lot.
regular: A lot where any interior
s
hrough: A lot bounded on opposite
aterfront: Means a lot which abuts a
Lot Area
horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot or if an island, the area of land above the normal high
ot Coverage
bined area of all buildings or structures, but not including an outdoor swimming pool on the lot,
ot Depth
orizontal distance measured between the midpoint of the front lot line and the midpoint of the
Lot Frontage
lot lines of a lot measured at right angles.
larly to the line
e
lines meet, the lot frontage shall be measured perpendicularly to the line joining the
shall be measured along the line between the
interior side lot line and the intersection or the tangents to the street line, drawn through the front lot
line and exterior side lot line.
C
intersection of two or more s
or at the intersection of a street and
a railway right-of-way, or a lot
abutting on one or more parts
same street, in which an interior
angle of less than one hundred an
thirty-five (135) degrees is contained
between the front and side lot lines
abutting by the said street or streets.
In
Ir
angle formed by any two lot lines i
other than ninety (90) degrees.
T
sides by streets.
W
shoreline and may or may not also
abut a street or lane.
The total
water mark.
L
Means the com
measured at the level of the lowest storey above grade, including all porches and verandas, open or covered
areas, but excluding open, unenclosed terraces at grade, steps, cornices, eaves, bay windows, chimney
breasts, corbelling and similar projections and open parking areas.
L
Means the h
rear lot line.
Means the horizontal distance between the side
a. Where such lot lines are not parallel, the lot frontage shall be measured perpendicu
joining the midpoint of the front and midpoint of the rear lot lines at a point 7.5 metres back from th
front lot line.
b. Where the side
apex of the triangle formed by the side lot lines and the midpoint of the front lot line at a point
measured 7.5 metres back from the front lot line.
c.
Where the front lot lines are curved, the lot frontage
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Lot Lines
Means the boundary lines of a lot defined as follows:
a. Front Lot Line means:
i)
in the case of an interior lot, the lot line dividing the lot from the road;
r lot line abutting the road unless each lot line is of qual
t lot line shall be the lot line where the principal access to the lot
a waterfront lot, either the shoreline or the streetline shall be deemed the front
b.
e farthest from and opposite the front lot line.
d.
erior means a side lot line that is also a street line.
ch the lot is used.
support of a
lly enclosed space or roof.
ication of goods and materials utilizing materials which have been manufactured
another location and which does not produce waste water in excess of 4500 litres per day, chemical by-
rea for open storage of goods or materials except for equipment or vehicles which are
tablishment where a boathouse, boat storage, boat repair facilities boat rental, pier,
ock or jetty facilities, or any combination thereof, are available for marine craft and may include a pump for
ng of marine craft and a building or structure for the sale or repair of marine craft and accessories.
al
aggregate resources and derived products such as asphalt and concrete, or the production of secondary
, land and associated facilities, or, past producing mines with remaining mineral
evelopment potential that have not been permanently rehabilitated to another use, as regulated by the
xploration for metallic minerals such as gold, copper and nickel or the exploration for non-metallic
inerals such as mica and salt talc.
to be made mobile, and constructed or manufactured to provide a
ermanent residence for one or more persons, but does not include a travel trailer or tent trailer or trailer
.
ii) in the case of a corner lot, the shorte
length, in which case the fron
is provided;
iii) in the case of a through lot, the front lot line shall be the lot line where the principal access to
the lot is provided;
iv) in the case of
lot line.
Rear Lot Line means the lot lin
c.
Side Lot Line means a lot line other than a front or rear lot line.
Side Lot Line, Ext
Main Building
Means the building or structure in which is conducted the principal use for whi
Main Wall
Means the exterior front, side or rear wall of a building, and all structural members essential to the
fu
Manufacturing, Light
The assembly or repair or fabr
in
products or utilize an a
for sale, lease or hire.
Marina
Means a commercial es
d
the fuelli
Mineral Aggregate Operation
Means an operation which includes extraction, transport, beneficiation, processing or recycling of miner
related products.
Mineral Mining Operation
Means operations
d
Mining Act.
Mineral Exploration
Means the e
m
Mobile Home
Means any dwelling that is designed
p
otherwise designed
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M
M
obile Home Park
eans a lot managed by a mobile home park operator, for the permanent placement of one or more mobile
omes or factory built park model homes or double-wide homes on individual mobile home sites, and may
clude a park or place of recreation.
ble-Wide or Twin-wide
h as a poured concrete or mortared concrete block foundation.
ide of
t room may be entered from a separate entrance to the
utside.
s
of water which is capable in its natural state or at normal water level of being navigated by floating
vessels for the purpose of transportation, recreation or commerce.
f
ne in which it is located.
on-Residential
ference to a building, structure or use, means designed, intended or used for purposes other
e.
ssion of odour, smoke, dust, noise, gas fumes, vibration or refuse matter.
pen to
h
in
Mobile Home Site
Means a parcel of land within a mobile home park which is serviced and intended for the placement of one
mobile home.
Modular Home, Dou
Means a mobile home where the two halves of the unit have been joined and placed on a permanent
foundation, suc
Modular Dwelling
Means a prefabricated single-detached dwelling being so constructed or assembled that the shortest s
such dwelling is not less than 6 metres in width.
Motel
Means one or more buildings for the purpose of catering to the needs of the traveling public by furnishing
sleeping accommodation, provided that each gues
o
Navigable Waterway
Means a navigable body of water or stream as deemed under the Beds of Navigable Waters Act and include
any body
Non-Complying
Means a use, building, or structure which is existing but does not meet, comply or agree with the regulations o
this By-law, but is a permitted use, building or structure within the zo
Non-Conforming
Means a use, building or structure which is existing but which is not permitted in the zone in which it is located.
N
When used with re
than those of a dwelling.
Nursing Home
Means a place where accommodation and care are provided for one or more persons, who, by reason of age or
infirmity, are in need of sam
Obnoxious Use
Means an offensive trade within the meaning of the Public Health Act or any use which is offensive or
dangerous by reason of the emi
Open Storage
Means the storage of goods, merchandise or equipment in the open air and in unenclosed portions of
buildings which are open to the air on one or more sides.
Park, Private
Means a park controlled or owned by a private individual, group or organization and which may not be o
the public.
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Park, Public
Means a park controlled or owned by the Township or a public authority and which is normally open to the
ublic.
arking Lot
a for the parking of vehicles and may include aisles, parking spaces and related entrance and
arking Space
ea 3 metres by 6 metres enclosed in a building, or unenclosed, and set aside for the temporary
arking, Tandem
of two or more vehicles one behind another in a row.
ocessing
eans an operation that includes associated facilities used in extraction, processing or transport of peat
ermitted
hall include an individual, an association, a firm, a partnership, a corporation, a trust, a incorporated
n organization, a trustee or agent and their heirs, executers or other legal representatives of a
ly according to law.
Service Establishment
cleaning establishment but shall not include an
dult entertainment parlour. The sale of merchandise shall be permitted only as an accessory use to the
h
nursery.
lant
ial, and includes stockpiling and storage of bulk materials used in the
process; and
ermanent construction, but which is to be dismantled at the completion of the
facility:
tures
nd includes stockpiling and storage of bulk materials used in the process; and
b. which is not of permanent construction, but which is designed to be dismantled at the completion of
p
P
Means an are
exit lanes, but shall not include any part of a road.
P
Means an ar
storage of a vehicle.
P
Means the parking
Peat Extraction and Pr
M
resources.
P
Means permitted by this By-law.
Person
S
company, a
person to whom the same can app
Personal
Means a building or part thereof in which persons are employed in furnishing services and otherwise
administering to individual and personal needs and may include the premises of a barber, hairdresser,
beautician and shoe repair establishment, laundromat and dry
a
personal service provided.
Place of Worship
Includes, but is not limited to churches, chapels, temples, parish halls and synagogues including offices for the
administration of the religious institution, convents, seminaries, monasteries, rectories, parsonages, paris
houses, and associated day
Portable Asphalt P
Means a small, portable facility:
a. with equipment designed to heat and dry aggregate and to mix aggregate with bituminous asphalt to
produce asphalt paving mater
b. which is not of p
construction project.
Portable Concrete Plant
Means a small, portable
a. with equipment designed to mix and/or crush cementing materials, aggregate, water and admix
to produce concrete, a
the construction project.
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Professional Office
Means a building or part thereof in which a legal, medical, or other professional service is performed or
onsultation is given including, but not so as to limit the generality of the foregoing, the offices of a lawyer,
rchitect, a surveyor, an engineer or an accountant, but does not include a personal service establishment, a
usiness office, a veterinarian's clinic, an animal hospital or shelter.
,
tablished or exercising any power or
uthority under any general or special statute of Ontario or Canada with respect to any of the affairs or
ownship or any portion thereof and includes any committee or local authority established by
ty,
ority.
necessary and accessory buildings and structures, but
oes not include a track for racing animals, motor vehicles, snowmobiles, all terrain vehicles or motorcycles.
Redevelopment
sed for residential or non-residential purposes,
enovate
by improving or repairing to an earlier condition.
eans a building used for the purpose of serving food and/or refreshments including a licensed
ent, and may include take-out food facilities as an accessory use.
etail Store
ding or part of a building where goods, wares, merchandise or articles are offered or kept for sale
arden centre,
ome
ational services to serve the residents of the home.
eans any right, liberty or privilege in, or along or under land which a person may have with respect to any land
.
c
a
b
Public Authority
Means any Federal or Provincial agency, school board, public utility commission, transportation commission
public library board, board of parks management, board of health, board of commissioners of police, planning
board or other board or commission or committee or local authority es
a
purposes of the T
By-law of the Township and Ontario Hydro.
Public Services
Means the buildings, structures and other related works necessary for supplying water, gas, oil, electrici
steam, hot water, telephone services, telecommunication services, sewage collection and treatment facilities
and other services provided by a public auth
Recreation Use
Means the use of land for parks, playgrounds, nature trails, tennis courts, lawn bowling greens, indoor and
outdoor skating rinks, athletic fields, golf courses, picnic areas, swimming pools, day camps, community
centres, skiing and other similar uses, together with
d
Recreational Vehicle or Boat Sales and Service Establishment
Means a building or place where new or used recreational vehicles, trailers, snowmobiles, boats, and
accessories are sold, rented, or repaired.
Means the creation of new residential units on land previously u
where demolition of the previous structure is to take place or has taken place.
R
Means to restore
Restaurant
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establishm
R
Means a buil
at retail directly to the public and includes storage on or about the premises and shall include a g
pharmacy, grocery store, and a post office.
Retirement H
A residential use building containing rooming units or a combination of rooming and dwelling units, providing
residence mostly to senior citizens who do not require assistance with daily living, and which may provide
accessory health, personal service, and recre
Riding Stable
An area used as an educational centre for horse training, handling, care, or for the lodging of horses.
Right-of-Way
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in the Township
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Road
c highway under the jurisdiction of the Township or the Province or as shown on a plan of
o abutting lots, but does not include a public lane or right-of-way.
llowance
eans a building containing rooming units, and which may also contain dwelling units and an accessory
ice.
ooming Unit
of rooms, that constitutes a separate, independent residential occupancy, but which is not
rve
g shower or bathtub facilities, kitchens, eating areas or bathrooms.
any
ommercial
eans a school, other than a public school or a commercial school, under the jurisdiction of a private board or
a religious organization or charitable institution.
eaplane Base
f land, buildings, or structures for the purposes of docking, storing or repairing seaplanes and
easonal Camp
ishment that is owned and operated by a private club or organization for the boarding and
g Unit
on
s.
ervice Station
obile Service Station" as defined in this By-law.
Means a publi
subdivision with respect to which a subdivision agreement has been entered into which affords the principal
means of access t
Road A
Means land held under public ownership for the purpose of providing a road.
Rooming House
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administration off
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A room, or a suite
self-contained and which requires access to other parts of the principal dwelling or building intended to se
the residents, includin
Salvage Yard
Means a lot, building or structure used for wrecking, dismantling, storing or selling used goods, wares or
materials including, but not so as to limit the generality of the foregoing, rags, bones, bottles, metals, clothing,
furniture, paper, machinery, building materials, vehicles and parts thereof.
School
Means a school under the jurisdiction of a Board as defined in the Education Act a college, a university or
other education establishment including, but not necessarily restricted to, a nursery school or a boarding
school having accessory dormitory facilities.
School, C
Means a school operated by one or more persons for gain or profit.
School, Private
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trustees or governors,
S
Means the use o
for the supplying of associated services.
S
Means an establ
lodging of children during the summer months only, and may include such recreational activities as boating,
swimming, crafts, riding, archery, etc.
Secondary Dwellin
Means a self-contained residential unit with kitchen and bathroom facilities within a single-detached, semi-
detached or townhouse dwelling or within a structure accessory to a single-detached, semi-detached or
townhouse dwelling.
Service Shop
Means a building or part thereof used for the sale or repair of household articles and includes radio, televisi
and appliance repair shops, but does not include industrial or manufacturing uses or vehicle repair shop
S
Means "Autom
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Setback from Top of Bank
Means the horizontal distance from the point of the slope or bank where the downward inclination of the land
ward inclination of the land levels off to the nearest part of any main wall of any building or
ewage Treatment Centre
e receiving and processing of sewage including residential, commercial and industrial
hopping Centre
oup of buildings planned, designed, developed or managed as a unit, having off-
nd
le Commercial / Industrial Use
hall mean the use of land or buildings for the purpose of buying and/or selling commodities and supplying
parate from such uses as warehousing, transport terminals, construction and other similar uses.
or
torey
ng:
s situated between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it and if
there is no floor above it, that portion between the surface of any floor and the ceiling above it; and
which is more than 50% above the average finished grade; and
less than 2 metres and includes an attic having not less than 2 metres
headroom for at least 50% of the attic floor area.
etres above finished grade.
hall be considered to be synonymous and have the meaning as defined for "Road".
eans anything that is erected, built or constructed of parts joined together and which is fixed to or supported
oil but not a terrace, patio, sign, boundary wall, fence, bridge or culvert.
wimming Pool, Indoor
ol located within a building or enclosed structure that is either detached or attached to the main
begins or the up
structure.
Setback from Water
Means the horizontal distance between the normal or controlled high water mark of any navigable waterway
and the nearest part of any main wall of any building or structure.
S
Means a facility for th
waste.
S
Shall mean a building or gr
road parking provided on the same lot, and which building or buildings contain one or more retail stores, a
offices.
Shoreline
Means any lot line or portion thereof which abuts a navigable waterway.
Small Sca
S
services se
The use shall be limited in area to not more than 93 square meters.
Solid Waste Disposal Facility
Means a facility providing for the long-term storage or destruction of solid waste, and includes a landfill site
an incinerator.
S
Means that portion of a buildi
a. which i
b.
c.
which has a height of not
Storey, First
Means the lowest storey of a building whereby the ceiling is at least 1.5 m
Street
S
Structure
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by the s
S
Means a po
building.
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Swimming Pool, Outdoor
avern
eans a building, where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises and shall include all
r liable to be licensed under the Liquor License Act as amended or revised from time
d
d
Temporary Buildings
ary use of buildings and structures, including mobile homes, incidental to and accessory for lawful
reement with the Township.
tablishment
ng
tion of persons, notwithstanding that such vehicle is jacked up or that its running gear is removed.
his definition shall not include a mobile home as defined herein.
rary
se
s a noun, means the purpose for which any land, building or structure is designed, used or
se, Continuous
s the continuous use of a lot, building or structure, notwithstanding a change of ownership of the property
ame
in a period of one year from the date of cessation, and/or if a structure is destroyed or
amaged, it is rebuilt or repaired for the same use within a period of one year from the date of its destruction
in addition to the protection afforded by Section 34(9) of the Planning Act.
ehicle Repair Shop
n a building or part thereof which contains facilities for the repair and maintenance of vehicle and/or
d
does not any establishment engaged in the
retail sale of vehicle fuels.
Means an in-ground or above ground pool that is not located within a building or structure.
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such buildings operating o
to time.
Taxi Stan
Means a lot or building used as a dispatch office and the parking of taxis and/or limousines when not engage
in transporting persons or goods.
The tempor
construction work, shall be permitted in all zones, but only for so long as the same are necessary for the
construction work subject to an ag
Tourist Commercial Es
Means a tourist commercial use that operates throughout all or part of the year and that has facilities for
serving meals and furnishing equipment, supplies or services to persons in connection with recreational
purposes.
Trailer
Means a vehicle so constructed that it is suitable for being attached to a motor vehicle for the purpose of bei
drawn or propelled by a motor vehicle and capable of being used for temporary living, sleeping or eating
accommoda
T
Trailer Park
Means any land upon which any travel trailer tent, or tent trailer is used or intended to be used for tempo
occupation.
U
When used a
intended to be used.
U
Mean
where the use is located. The use shall further be deemed to be continuous if, after having ceased, the s
use recommenced with
d
or damage. This is
Vehicle
Includes a motor vehicle, trailer, traction engine, farm tractor, road-building machine, motorized snow vehicle
and any vehicle drawn, propelled or driven by any kind of power.
V
Shall mea
recreational vehicles on the premises, and in which vehicle accessories are sold and vehicle maintenance an
repair operations are performed in return for remuneration, but
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Veterinary Clinic
Means the use of land, including water, runway, or other facility designed, used or intended to be used, either
ublicly or by any person or persons, for the landing or taking off of aircraft, including all necessary taxiways,
ircraft storage, tie-down areas, hangars and other necessary buildings, structures and open spaces.
sing and Transfer Facility
atercourse
of water and for the purpose of this By-law, includes any watercourse
ater Frontage
ndary of a lot directly abutting an original shoreline reserve.
eans the management of species native to the immediate area. This may include stream enhancement,
e or shelter species, nesting boxes, nesting islands, ponds, dugouts and trees.
ard
on the same lot with a main building or structure, unoccupied and unobstructed from
respective lot
nes measured perpendicular from the lot line shall be used:
t
of a lot between the rear lot line and the
nearest main wall of the main building or structure on the lot;
of the main building or structure on the lot and
e side lot line and extending from the front yard to the rear yard;
ublic or private street or abutting a
reserve on the opposite side of which is located a private or public street; and
rear yard and from the interior
side lot line to the nearest part of the principal building, structure or excavation on the lot.
eans a designated area of land shown on Schedule A and A-1 hereto.
p
a
Warehouse
Means a building or part thereof which is used primarily for the housing, storage, adapting for sale, packaging
or distribution of goods, wares, merchandise, foodstuff, substances, articles or things, and includes the
premises of a warehouseman, but does not include a fuel depot.
Waste Proces
Means a facility where waste is sorted, recycled, processed or temporarily stored prior to transfer off site and
may include a source separated organics and biosolids processing and storage facility.
W
Means the natural channel for a stream
shown on Schedules A and A-1 of this By-law.
W
Means the bou
Wildlife Management
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planting of brows
Y
Means an open space
the ground to the sky, except as otherwise permitted by this By-law. In determining yard measurements the
minimum horizontal distance between the nearest wall of the main building or structure and the
li
1. Front Yard means a yard extending across the full width of a lot between the front lot line and neares
main wall of the main building or structure on the lot;
2. Rear Yard means a yard extending across the fall width
3. Side Yard means a yard between the nearest side wall
th
4. Exterior Side Yard means a side yard immediately adjoining a p
5. Interior Side Yard means a yard extending from the front yard to the
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SECTION 3 ESTABLISHMENT OF ZONES
For the purpose of this By-law, the following Zones are established and they may be referred to by the
name or by the symbol set opposite the name of the zone below:
Rural Zone (RU)
Residential 1 Zone (R1)
Residential 2 Zone (R2)
Residential Multiple Zone (R3)
Mobile Home Residential Zone (R4)
Mobile Home Park Zone (MHP)
Highway Commercial Zone (C1)
General Commercial Zone (C2)
Neighbourhood Commercial Zone (C3)
Industrial Zone (M1)
Aggregate Industrial Zone (MX)
Mineral Mining Zone (MM)
Institutional Zone (I)
Waste Disposal Site Zone (WD)
Open Space Zone (OS)
Conservation and Environmental Protection Zone (CEP)
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SECTION 4 GENERAL PROVISIONS
4.1 ACCESSORY BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES AND USES
1. General Provisions
Accessory uses, buildings or structures are permitted subject to the provisions of this By-law for the
particular zone in which the said building, structure, or use is located, and provided that the accessory
building, structure or use:
a. shall not be used for human habitation, except where a residential use is a permitted
accessory use;
b. in a residential, commercial or industrial zone shall not be located in the front yard or the
exterior side yard;
c.
in the Rural and Agricultural zones, farm help houses must respect the minimum yard
setbacks;
d. shall not exceed 10 percent coverage of the total lot area;
e. in a residential zone, shall not exceed 4.5 metres in height, or contain more than one storey,
except that where a dwelling unit is a permitted accessory use it shall not exceed 6.0 metres
in height, or contain more than two storeys. In all other zones the maximum height shall not
exceed 7.0 metres;
f.
shall not be considered as an accessory building or structure if attached to the main building
in any way;
g. shall not be considered an accessory building or structure if located completely underground;
h. shall not be built closer than 1.2 metres to any side or rear lot line except where a lot abuts a
lane, the accessory building or structure may be located up to 0.5 metres from the said lane;
and
i.
may be permitted in the front yard of a lot having frontage on a lake or river, subject to the
setback requirements outlined in the Setback from Navigable and Non-Navigable
Watercourses, Hazard Land and Township Surface Drains Section of this By-law.
2. Commercial Accessory Uses
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this By-law, where a commercial use is permitted as an
accessory use in an industrial zone, it shall:
a. not exceed 40 percent of the total floor area if located in the main building, and shall not
exceed a maximum floor area of 278.0 square metres if located in an accessory building.
3. Guest Cabins
Where a guest cabin is permitted on a lot, the following provisions shall apply:
a. no cooking facilities are located in the building;
b. the building is not connected to a sewage system or pressurized water system;
c.
the building has an area of 23.0 square metres or less:
d. the building has a height not greater than 4.5 metres; and,
e. the building complies with all of the setbacks that apply to the principal building on the lot.
4. Ground-Mounted Solar Panels
Notwithstanding the yard and setback requirements of the By-law to the contrary and provision 1 of
this Section, ground-mounted solar panels may be permitted in any zone provided that:
In residential zones:
a. it is setback at least 1.0 metre from a lot line; and
b. it may be located in a front or exterior side yard within the RU zone.
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In non-residential zones:
a. in a yard abutting a residential zone, it is setback at least 1.0 metre from a lot line; and
b. in all other cases, there are no restrictions.
5. Swimming Pool, Indoor
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this By-law, an indoor swimming pool is permitted on lots with
a principal residential dwelling located in the R1, R2, R3, R4, RU and AG zones provided that:
a. the total lot coverage of all accessory swimming pool buildings or structures shall not exceed
15 percent of the total lot area; and
b. the swimming pool shall only be permitted in the interior side yard or rear yard.
6. Swimming Pool, Outdoor
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this By-law, an enclosed swimming pool is permitted on lots
with a principal residential dwelling located in the R1, R2, R3, R4, RU and AG zones subject to the
following:
a. a fence shall be erected in compliance with the Township of Emo Fence By-law.
b. the swimming pool shall only be permitted in the interior side yard and the rear yard.
c.
the walls of the pool are a minimum of 1.5 metres from the interior side or rear lot lines; and
d. any filter, pumps, or similar operating machines shall be a minimum distance of 0.6 metres
from any lot line and a minimum distance of 3.0 metres from the main building.
4.2 AUTOMOBILE WRECKING YARDS AND SCRAP METAL YARDS
Where land is used for the purpose of an automobile wrecking yard or scrap metal yard or similar use,
the storage of derelict automobiles, scrap metal, junk and other material shall not be carried out in
that part of the land designated herein as the front yard, side yard or rear yard. A natural or artificial
screen or buffer strip shall be provided to obscure the subject property from the street on which the
lands abut and from any adjoining properties to the side or rear of the property and shall be a
minimum of 6.0 metres in width in compliance with the Buffer Strip Section of this By-law.
4.3 BED AND BREAKFAST ESTABLISHMENTS
Where permitted, a bed and breakfast establishment shall be subject to the requirements of the zone
in which it is located and the following:
a. be permitted only within an existing single-detached dwelling;
b. be clearly secondary to the main residential use;
c.
be operated by a resident of the dwelling in which the bed and breakfast establishment is
located;
d. not contain more than 4 guest rooms; and
e. in the Residential Zones, no outdoor display or advertising shall be permitted, other than a
non-illuminated sign which shall not exceed 1.5 square metres in area indicating the name of
the bed and breakfast establishment.
4.4 BUFFER STRIP
A buffer strip shall be used for no other purpose than for the erection of a fence or the planting of a
continuous row of natural evergreens or natural shrubs, immediately adjacent to the lot line or portion
thereof along which such buffer strip is required hereunder, the remainder of the strip shall be
landscaped and planted with ornamental shrubs, flowering shrubs, flower beds or a combination
thereof:
a. where a buffer strip is required in any zone, it shall be of a minimum width as specified in the
regulations for that zone.
b. a buffer strip shall be located within the zone for which it is required.
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4.5 CORNER LOT SIGHT RESTRICTIONS
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this By-law, and except in a Commercial Zone on a corner lot,
within the triangular space included between the street lines for a distance of 6.0 metres from the
point of intersection, no building or structure including a fence or sign shall be erected and no shrubs
or foliage shall be planted or maintained which obstruct the view of a driver or a vehicle approaching
intersection.
4.6 DANGEROUS USES
No land, building or structure shall be used in the Township of Emo for the industrial manufacture or
distribution of coal oil, rock oil, fuel oil, burning fluid gas, naphtha, benzene, gasoline, dynamite,
dualene, nitroglycerine, gunpowder, petroleum products or other combustible or inflammable or liquid
material which is likely to create danger to health, or danger from fire or explosion except as otherwise
specifically provided for in this By-law.
4.7 DRIVE-THROUGH FACILITY
1. The minimum queuing space requirements for drive-through facilities within a designated queuing
lane are as follows.
Use Associated with Drive-
Through Facility
Minimum Required Spaces
Restaurant
5
Gas Bar
3
Car wash
2 per bay
All Other Uses
3
Queuing Space Requirements
2. All queuing spaces shall be rectangular in shape, with a minimum length of 6.0 metres and a
minimum width of 3.0 metres.
Queuing Lane Requirements
3. Where drive-through service facilities are permitted, queuing lanes are required and shall be exclusive
of any other parking space and aisle requirements contained within this By-law and shall be provided
in accordance with the provisions of this Section.
4. Where multiple queuing lanes are required on a lot, the queuing space requirements shall be provided
for each individual queuing lane in compliance with the Queuing Space Requirements.
5. Queuing lanes shall be unobstructed and shall be clearly delineated by pavement markings or physical
barriers and shall be independent of the balance of the parking area.
4.8 EXISTING LOTS
An existing vacant lot, having less than minimum frontage or lot area required by this By-law, may be
developed for all uses in the appropriate zone, provided all other regulations of this By-law are
satisfied; and
a. such lots can be safely serviced; and
b. such lots have a minimum frontage of 7.5 metres on a road.
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4.9 FARM HELP HOUSE
Notwithstanding any other provision in this By-law, where a Farm Help House is permitted, the
following provisions shall apply:
Provision
a) Minimum Front Yard
15.0 metres
b) Minimum Side Yard
4.5 metres
c) Minimum Exterior Side Yard
15.0 metres
d) Minimum Rear Yard
15.0 metres
e) Maximum Height
10.5 metres
f)
Minimum Dwelling Unit Area
45 square metres
g) Maximum Dwelling Unit Area
60 square metres
4.10 GARDEN SUITES
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this By-law, Garden Suites shall be permitted as temporary
residential accommodation for a maximum of twenty (20) years pursuant to Section 39 of the Planning
Act and shall be considered accessory to a permitted single-detached dwelling according to the
following provisions:
a. one Garden Suite may be authorized per lot;
b. the Garden Suite shall not be permitted to separate by consent from the main residential
dwelling on the lot;
c.
the Garden Suite shall be serviced from the main dwelling on the lot, subject to the approval
of the Northwestern Health Unit where required;
d. the establishment of any new Garden Suite shall be subject to the passage of a Temporary
Use By-law. The use shall not exceed twenty (20) years plus one (1) day from the date of the
passing of the by-law.
e. the Garden Suite shall be one (1) storey, having a height not to exceed 4.6 metres;
f.
the Garden Suite shall not be constructed or arranged as to constitute a travel trailer;
g. a mobile home may be used as a Garden Suite.
As per the Planning Act regulations for Garden Suites, Council shall require the owner of the suite or
any other person to enter into an agreement with the Township dealing with such matters related to
the temporary use of the Garden Suite as the council considers necessary or advisable, including:
a. the installation, maintenance and removal of the Garden Suite;
b. the monetary or other form of security that the council may require for actual or potential
costs to the Township related to the Garden Suite; and
c.
connection to existing services (sewer, water, hydro, septic, well).
4.11 GROUP HOMES
A group home, licensed by the appropriate Provincial Ministry, shall be permitted within any permitted
single-detached dwelling, semi-detached or duplex dwelling, subject to the following provision:
a. When a residential use building is converted to a group home, the group home must occupy
the whole of the building including all attached units within the building.
4.12 HEIGHT
The height regulations shall not apply to any ornamental dome, chimney, communications tower,
power transmission tower, storage silo, barn, cupola, steeple, church spire, water storage tank,
elevator enclosure, flag pole, television or radio antennae, grain elevator, windmill or weather
monitoring device.
4.13 HOME INDUSTRY
Where a home industry is permitted, it shall:
a. have at least one permanent resident of the dwelling unit engaged in the business;
b.
have not more than two persons, other than the owner, employed on a full-time basis;
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c.
in the Residential 1, Residential 2, Residential Multiple zones have no external display or
advertising, other than a nonilluminated sign which is a maximum size of 1.5m2;
d. any external storage of materials, containers or finished products shall be screened, fenced
or buffered from view to maintain an attractive appearance;
e. be conducted entirely in an accessory building to a single detached dwelling. The home
industry shall not occupy more than 100.0 m2;
f.
be clearly secondary to the main residential use and not change the character of the dwelling
unit as a private residence or create or become a nuisance due to such matters as noise,
smell, hours of operation or traffic generation;
g. be located on the same lot as the residential use; and
h. have adequate area on the lot that is suitably separated and buffered from the main
residential use for the parking and storage of all vehicles associated with the home industry.
4.14 HOME OCCUPATION
Where a home occupation is permitted, it shall:
a. have at least one permanent resident of the dwelling unit engaged in the business;
b. in the Residential 1, Residential 2, Residential Multiple zones, have no external display or
advertisement other than a nonilluminated sign which is a maximum size of 1.5 m2;
c.
have no external storage of materials, containers or finished products;
d. not change the character of the dwelling as a private residence or create or become a
nuisance;
e. not occupy more than 25% of the floor area of the dwelling unit including in the floor area any
basement area used as living quarters and any basement area used for home occupation;
f.
there shall be no goods, wares, or merchandise other than those produced on the premises,
offered or exposed for sale or rent on such premises;
g. have not more than one employee who is not a permanent resident of the dwelling unit.
4.15 LAND WITHOUT BUILDINGS
Where land is used for or in connection with any use but without any buildings or structures therein, all
yards required by the By-law on a lot in the respective use zone shall be provided and maintained as
yards and the applicable regulations shall apply, except where the land or lot is used for agriculture,
gardening or open space purposes not prohibited by this By-law in such use zone.
4.16 LOADING SPACES
The owner of every building or structure erected for any purpose involving the receiving, shipping,
loading or unloading of persons, animals, goods, wares, merchandise or raw materials shall provide
and maintain loading spaces on the lot accordingly.
1. Loading spaces are required under this By-law in accordance with the Loading Space Requirement
Table.
Minimum Gross Floor Area of
Building
Minimum number of
loading spaces required
0 - 300 square metres
0
301 - 2,300 square metres
1
2,301 - 7,400 square metres
2
Over 7,400 square metres
3
2. Each loading space shall have a minimum width of 3.5 metres, a minimum length of 9 metres and a
minimum vertical clearance of 4.2 metres, and each space shall be visibly designated and marked;
3. Driveways used for ingress and egress shall be clearly marked.
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4. The loading space(s) shall be located in the interior side or rear yard unless such space or spaces are
removed from the street line a minimum distance of 15.0 metres.
5. The loading space requirements referred to herein shall not apply to any building in existence at the
date of passing of this By-law so long as the gross floor area, as it existed at such date, is not
increased by more than 300.0 square metres. If an addition is made to the building or structure,
which increases the gross floor area, then additional loading spaces shall be provided as required by
this Section, in accordance with the provisions of the loading Space Requirement Table for such
addition.
4.17 MOBILE HOMES
Mobile homes shall only be permitted where specifically listed as permitted within a particular zone.
Mobile Homes shall be permitted as a Garden Suite as per the Garden Suite Section of this By-law.
4.18 NON-CONFORMING USES
1. The provisions of this By-law shall not apply or prevent the use of any lot, building or structure for any
purpose prohibited by this By-law if such lot, building or structure was lawfully used for such purpose
on the date of passing of this by-law providing such use has been continuous since that date; nor to
prevent the erection or use for any purpose prohibited by this By-law of any building or structures the
plans for which have, prior to the date of the passing of the By-law, been approved by the Chief
Building Official so long as the building or structure when erected is used and continues to be used for
the purpose for which it was erected and provided the erection of such building or structure is
commenced within two years after the date of the passing of the By-law, and such building or structure
is completed forthwith after the erection thereof is commenced.
4.19 NON-COMPLIANCE WITH MINIMUM LOT OR YARD REQUIREMENTS
1. Alterations to Non-Complying Buildings and Structures
Nothing in this By-law shall prevent the enlargement, renovation or repair of an existing legal non-
complying building or structure provided such enlargement, renovation or repair shall not increase any
existing non-compliance with an applicable zoning provision.
2. Use of Undersized Lots
Where a lot having less than the minimum lot area or frontage required by this By-law, exists on the
date of passing of this By-law or is increased in area or frontage but still does not meet the minimum
area or frontage requirements of this By-law, such lot may be used for a purpose permitted in the zone
in which it is located provided that all other applicable provisions in this By-law are met.
3. Rebuilding or Repair Permitted
Nothing in this By-law shall prevent the rebuilding or repair of a non-complying use provided that the
building or structure is built to its prior gross floor area or to a gross floor area which would not further
contravene any of the regulations of this By-law, at its prior location on the lot or at a location on the
lot that would not further contravene any of the regulations of this By-law and provided further that if
the use is altered in any way that the use would not further contravene any of the regulations of this
By-law.
4.20 PARKING REQUIREMENTS
The owner of land or of a building or structure erected or used for any of the purposes hereinafter set
forth shall provide and maintain parking spaces for the sole use of the owner, occupant, or other
persons entering upon or making use of the said premises, from time to time.
4.20.1 PARKING SPACE REQUIREMENTS
1. Parking spaces are required under this By-law, in accordance with the Parking Space Requirement
Table. Where the calculation of required spaces exceeds a whole space by more than 0.25, the
required number of spaces shall be the next whole number.
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2. Where a building or structure accommodates more than one use, the required parking spaces shall be
the sum of the required parking spaces for each use.
3. Where a building or structure has deficient parking spaces at the date of passing of this By-law to
comply with the requirements herein, this By-law shall not be construed to require the deficiency be
made up prior to the construction of any addition. However, no addition may be built and no change in
use may occur, the effect of which would increase the number of deficient parking spaces.
Use
Minimum Number of Parking Spaces Required
assembly hall, auditorium, restaurant,
theater, arena, community centre and
private club
where there are fixed seats, 1 space for every 5
seats or for every 3.0 metres of bench space;
where there are no fixed seats, 1 space for each
9.0 square metres of floor area devoted to public
use
bed and breakfast establishment and
rooming house
1.5 spaces for every 2 rooms rented
bowling alley
3 spaces per bowling lane
clinic
6 spaces per practitioner
curling rink
4 spaces per curling sheet
dwelling unit - single-detached, semi-
detached, duplex, double duplex,
townhouse, street townhouse, triplex,
apartment building, bachelor, secondary
dwelling unit
1.5 space per dwelling unit rounded to the next
highest number
golf course
4 spaces per hole
golf driving range
1 space for every 2 persons who can be
accommodated at one time
group home
1 space for every 49 square metres of floor area
with a minimum of 2 spaces
home occupation and home industry
1 space for each 28 square metres of floor area or
fraction thereof devoted to said use in addition to
the parking required for the dwelling
hospital, nursing home
1 space for every 4 beds
hotel, motel, tavern
1 space per rental unit, plus 1 additional space for
each 9.0 square metres of floor area devoted to
public uses such as restaurants, taverns and other
eating places associated with motels and staff
houses
industrial uses
1 space for each 93 square metres of floor area or
for each 3 employees whichever is greater
library
a minimum of 10 spaces or 1 space per 28 square
metres of building floor space, whichever is greater
marina
1 space per 28 square metres of retail floor area
plus 1 space for each boat slip
place of worship
1 space for every 6 seats or 4.0 metres of bench
space of its maximum seating capacity
professional office
1 space per 28 square metres of floor area
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Use
Minimum Number of Parking Spaces Required
retail store
1 space per 28 square metres of retail floor area
retirement home
1 space per dwelling unit
riding stable
1 space for every 4 horses available for public
riding
schools
1 space for each teaching staff member, plus 1
additional space for each 20 square metres of
auditorium or gymnasium floor space
4. Barrier-Free Parking Spaces
Barrier-free parking spaces shall be provided as follows:
Total Number of
Parking Spaces
Required Number of Barrier-
Free Spaces
0-9
0
10-99
1
100-199
2
200 plus
3
4.20.2 DESIGN OF SPACES
1. Each parking space shall be a minimum of 3.0 metres by 6.0 metres and shall be provided with
unobstructed access to a street by a driveway, aisle or lane.
2. Barrier-Free Parking Spaces shall be a minimum of 3.7 metres by 6.0 metres.
4.20.3 DESIGN OF PARKING LOTS
1. Where in this By-law parking areas designed for 4 or more vehicles are required or permitted:
a. adequate drainage facilities shall be provided and maintained in accordance with the
requirements of the Township;
b. the parking area and approaches shall be surfaced with concrete, asphalt, crushed stone,
gravel or a combination thereof with a stable surface treated to prevent the raising of dust or
loose particles;
c.
the lights used for illumination of parking areas shall be so arranged as to divert the light
away from adjacent lots;
d. parking areas shall be within 90 metres of the location which it is intended to serve and shall
be situated in the same zone; and
e. a strip of land not less than 3 metres wide lying within the lot in which the parking area is
located and along all boundaries of said area shall be used for landscaping, excluding those
areas used as entrances and exits.
f.
the parking area and any loading area shall be screened from any abutting residential use by
a landscaped buffer strip, in compliance with the Buffer Strip Section of this By-law.
2. No person shall, within any Residential Zone, use any part of any front yard except the driveway for the
parking or temporary storage of tent trailers, motor homes, travel trailers, truck campers, school
buses, converted buses, fifth wheel units or motorized snow vehicles; and
3. Tandem parking of vehicles is permitted to accommodate the parking requirements for single-
detached dwellings, semi-detached dwelling units, duplex units, townhouse dwelling units, mobile
homes, group homes, home occupations and home industries.
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4.21 PERMITTED ENCROACHMENTS IN YARDS
Every part of any yard required by this By-law shall be open and unobstructed by any structure, other
than a fence, deck or patio from the ground to the sky, provided however that those structures listed in
the following table shall be permitted to project into the yards as per the following table:
Structure
Yard in Which Projection is
Permitted
Maximum Permitted Projection
Balconies
Front and rear yards for single-
detached, semi-detached and
duplex dwellings; any yard for
apartment buildings
2.0 metres
Canopies over entrances
Front and rear yards only
3.0 metres
Fire escapes, and exterior
staircases
Rear yard only
1.5 metres
Gate house
Any yard in a commercial or
industrial zone
1.0 metres from property boundary
Open roofed porches not
exceeding one storey in
height; covered terraces
Any yard
2.5 metres including eaves and
cornices
Sills, belt courses, cornices,
eaves, gutters, chimneys,
parapets or pilasters
Any yard
0.5 metres
Bay Windows
Front and rear yards only
1.0 metres
4.22 PERMITTED PUBLIC USES
This By-law permits the use of land in any zone, construction or re-construction, of any building or
structure for the purposes of the provision of public services by the Township or of any telephone
company, cable company, transportation or other public utility owned, operated or authorized by or for
the Township, any department of the Federal or Provincial Governments, including TransCanada
Pipeline, Hydro One or any conservation authority established by the Government of Ontario provided
that:
a. the use, building or structure complies with the provisions of that zone;
b. any building or structure is designed and maintained in general harmony with the buildings
and structures in that zone; or
c.
there is no exterior storage of goods, materials or equipment in any Residential zone.
4.23 PROHIBITED USES
Notwithstanding other provisions contained in this By-law, no land or building in any zone shall be
used for any purpose which from its nature or from the materials used is declared to be a health
hazard under the Health Protection and Promotion Act without the consent of the local Medical Officer
of Health as provided in that Act.
4.24 NOXIOUS TRADE
1. Except as may otherwise be specifically permitted under this By-law, no use shall be permitted which,
from its nature or the materials used therein, is defined as a noxious trade, business or manufacturer
under the Health Protection and Promotion Act, R.S.O., 1990, as amended, and the Regulations
passed thereunder.
4.25 ROAD FRONTAGE REQUIRED
No person shall erect any building or structure for permanent, year-round or full-time use unless the lot
upon which such building or structure is to be erected, except as otherwise specifically permitted by
this By-law, has lot frontage upon a road which has been assumed by the Township, province of
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Ontario or some other road authority, and is maintained year round by such authority in such a manner
so as to permit its use by vehicular traffic.
1. Notwithstanding the foregoing, a building or structure may be erected upon a lot within a registered
plan of subdivision in accordance with the provisions of a subdivision agreement in respect of such
plan by subdivision notwithstanding that the roads within such plan of subdivision have not been
assumed and are not being maintained by the Township.
2. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this clause, buildings and structures accessory to
agricultural, forestry and mining uses, but not for human habitation or occupation are permitted in
appropriate zones where publicly maintained road frontage is not available.
4.26 SECONDARY DWELLING UNIT
Any secondary dwelling units shall be developed in accordance with the following provisions:
a. A maximum of one secondary dwelling unit shall be permitted in single-detached dwellings
where permitted by this By-law, provided that:
i)
It does not change the streetscape character along the street where it is located;
ii) It is not a stand-alone, principal unit capable of being severed;
iii) It only exists with, and must be contained within the same building as, its principal
dwelling unit; and
iv) A building permit is required prior to the establishment of a secondary dwelling unit
and must follow the requirements of the Ontario Building Code.
b. The doorway entrance that leads to a secondary dwelling unit is limited to locations on the
ground floor only, except where building and fire codes dictate otherwise.
c.
Parking for the secondary dwelling unit shall be provided in accordance with the parking
provisions in this By-law.
d. Notwithstanding any other provision in this By-law, the required parking space for a secondary
dwelling unit may be stacked behind the required parking space of the principal dwelling in
the driveway. The creation of the secondary dwelling unit must not eliminate a required
parking space for the principal dwelling unit.
e. Where a secondary dwelling unit is located on a lot, no rooming units are permitted on the lot.
f.
Secondary dwelling units must not be limited by, nor included in, any density control
requirement, including for example, number of dwelling units and unit per hectare counts.
4.27 SEPARATION DISTANCES
New non-farm residential dwellings shall be located away from existing intensive agricultural uses
such as livestock or poultry buildings or liquid manure storage structures in accordance with the
Minimum Distance Separation I Criteria and new intensive agricultural operations shall be located
away from existing non-farm residential dwellings in accordance with the Minimum Distance
Separation II Criteria of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs.
4.28 GAS BARS
Fuel pumps and fuel pump islands may be located in any required yard; however no portion of any fuel
pump island shall be erected closer than 6.0 metres from any road allowance:
a. the minimum distance from the intersection of the front and side lot line to the nearest
ingress or egress ramp shall not be less than 9.0 metres;
b. the maximum width of a curb ramp at the front or side lot line shall not be more than 7.0
metres;
c.
the minimum distance between the ramps shall not be less than 9.0 metres;
d. a canopy or roof may be erected over fuel pumps and fuel pump islands or may be extended
from the main building to the pump island, however a minimum setback of 3.0 metres is
required between the extent of the canopy or the roof and any lot line;
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e. where the lot is a corner lot, no portion of any canopy or roof shall be located within any sight
triangle.
4.29 SERVICES REQUIRED
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this By-law, no lands shall be used nor any building or
structure erected or used thereon unless:
a. public sanitary sewer and water services are available and capable of servicing the said land,
buildings or structures; or
b. the requirements of the Northwestern Health Unit and the Ministry of the Environment are
met for the use of private water supply and sewage treatment services for the servicing of
said land, buildings or structures.
4.30 SETBACKS ON PROVINCIAL HIGHWAYS
1. Where the following types of development are proposed in proximity to provincial highways, a permit
shall be obtained from the Ministry of Transportation:
Type of development
Distance within which an MTO
Permit is required
Building, structure, entrance or any road
45 m of the limit of any highway
180 m of the centre point of any
intersection (on King's Highways)
395 m of the centre point of any
interchange (on controlled-access
highways)
Sign
400 m of the limit of the highway
Major developments or uses (i.e. shopping
centre, stadium, fair ground, race track, drive-in
theatre or any other purpose that causes
persons to congregate in large numbers)
800 m of the limit of the highway
4.31 SETBACK FROM NAVIGABLE AND NON-NAVIGABLE WATERCOURSES, HAZARD LAND
AND TOWNSHIP SURFACE DRAINS
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this By-law, a building in any zone along the Rainy River is
required to be no nearer than 30 m from the top of the bank. Buildings along the La Vallee River and
their tributaries or next to municipal drainage are required to have a minimum 15 m setback from the
top of the bank.
4.32 SPECIAL USES PERMITTED
Nothing in this By-law shall prevent the use of land or the use or erection of a building or structure for:
a. a scaffold or other temporary building or structure incidental to construction in progress on
premises for which a building permit has been granted, until such time as the work has been
finished or abandoned;
b. a sign having an area of not more than 4.7 square metres incidental to construction in
progress on premises for which a building permit has been granted, until such time as the
work has been finished or abandoned;
c.
a street sign or street light or yard light;
d. an authorized sign or signal;
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e. a public election list or other proclamation of governmental authority; or
f.
a sign erected to fulfill the conditions of a registered subdivision agreement.
4.33 STRUCTURES IN WATER
No person shall erect, alter or use any structure located in a navigable water except in compliance
with the Lakes and Rivers Improvement Act and the Navigable Waters Act as revised or amended from
time to time.
4.34 TELEVISION DISH ANTENNAE
Any television dish antennae larger than 1 metre in diameter shall not be located in the front yard on
any lot.
4.35 TEMPORARY BUILDINGS
The temporary use of buildings and structures, including mobile homes, incidental to and necessary
for lawful construction work shall be permitted in all zones, but only for as long as the same are
necessary for the construction work subject to an agreement with the Township.
4.36 TRUCK, BUS AND COACH BODIES OR TRAILERS OR TENTS USED FOR HUMAN
HABITATION
Except as expressly permitted by this By-law no truck, bus, railroad car, caboose, coach or streetcar
body shall be used for human habitation whether the same is mounted on wheels or not. Except as
expressly permitted by this By-law, the use of tents and trailers for human habitation is prohibited
provided; however, this provision shall not prevent the occasional accommodation of guests in a
Residential Zone.
4.37 WAYSIDE PITS AND QUARRIES
Where in this By-law, a wayside pit and quarry is permitted in a particular zone, it shall not be located:
a. within 90.0 metres of an existing residential use;
b. in the Conservation and Environmental Protection Zone; and
c.
in an area where environmental disruption would occur.
4.38 YARD AND OPEN SPACE PROVISIONS FOR ALL ZONES
No part of a yard or other open space required abutting any building for the purpose of complying with
the provisions of this By-law shall be included as part of a yard or other open space similarly required
for another building.
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SECTION 5 RURAL ZONE (RU) REGULATIONS
5.1 PERMITTED USES
No land shall be used in the Rural Zone (RU) except for the following purposes:
Agricultural Service
Agricultural Use
Conservation Use
Dwelling, Single-detached
Farm Help House
Forestry Use
Fuel Depot
Garden Suite
Grain Elevator and Grain Drying Facility
Greenhouse, Commercial
Guest Cabin
Home Industry
Home Occupation
Hunt Camp
Kennel, Animal
Manufacturing, Light
Mineral Exploration
Mobile Home
Peat Extraction and Processing
Portable Asphalt Plant
Light Industrial Use
Recreational Use
Riding Stable
Secondary Dwelling Unit
Small Scale Commercial
Wildlife Management
5.2 ZONE PROVISIONS
The following zone provisions shall apply to the permitted uses in the RU Zone:
Provision
a) Minimum Lot Area
4.0 hectares
b) Minimum Lot Frontage
100.0 metres
c) Maximum Lot Coverage
10.0 percent
d) Minimum Front Yard
15.0 metres
e) Minimum Side Yard
7.5 metres
f)
Minimum Exterior Side Yard
15.0 metres
g) Minimum Rear Yard
15.0 metres
h) Maximum Height
10.5 metres
i)
Minimum Dwelling Unit Area
60.0 square metres
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5.3 USE SPECIFIC PROVISIONS
Notwithstanding Section 5.2, the following provisions shall apply to the uses listed in the following:
Provision Per Use
Single-detached Dwelling
Agricultural Service / Light Industrial Uses
/ Small Scale Commercial Use / Home
Industry
a) Minimum Lot Area
1.2 hectares
1.2 hectares
b) Minimum Lot Frontage
90.0 metres
90.0 metres
c) Maximum Lot Coverage
10 percent
15 percent
d) Minimum Front Yard
15.0 metres
15.0 metres
e) Minimum Side Yard
7.5 metres
15.0 metres
f)
Minimum Exterior Side
Yard
15.0 metres
15.0 metres
g) Minimum Rear Yard
15.0 metres
15.0 metres
h) Maximum Height
10.5 metres
10.5 metres
i)
Minimum Ground Floor
65.0 square metres
60.0 square metres
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SECTION 6 RESIDENTIAL 1 ZONE (R1) REGULATIONS
6.1 PERMITTED USES
No land shall be used in the Residential 1 Zone (R1) except for the following purposes:
Dwelling, Modular
Dwelling, Single-detached
Garden Suite
Group Home
Home Industry
Home Occupation
Secondary Dwelling Unit
6.2 ZONE PROVISIONS
The following zone provisions shall apply to the permitted uses in the R1 Zone:
Provision from the Main Building
Single-detached Dwelling, Group
Home
Modular Dwelling
a) Minimum Lot Area
650 square metres
400 square metres
b) Minimum Lot Frontage
18.0 metres
12.0 metres
c) Maximum Lot Coverage
35 percent
30 percent
d) Minimum Front Yard
7.5 metres
7.5 metres
e) Minimum Side Yard
2.0 metres
2.0 metres
f)
Minimum Exterior Side Yard
4.5 metres except where the
entrance to a garage faces an
exterior side yard the minimum
side yard for the garage shall be
6.0 metres
4.5 metres
g) Minimum Rear Yard
9.0 metres
7.5 metres
h) Maximum Dwelling Height
10.5 metres
4.0 metres
i)
Minimum Dwelling Unit Area
80 square metres
45.0 square metres
6.3 EXCEPTION ZONES
1. Notwithstanding Provision 6.2 d of this By-law, on lands shown as R1-1, the following provision shall
apply:
Minimum Front Yard: 2.5 metres
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SECTION 7 RESIDENTIAL 2 ZONE (R2) REGULATIONS
7.1 PERMITTED USES
No land shall be used in the Residential 2 Zone (R2) except for the following purposes:
Dwelling, Duplex
Dwelling, Semi-detached
Dwelling, Single-detached
Group Home
Home Occupation
Modular Dwelling
Secondary Dwelling Unit
7.2 ZONE PROVISIONS
The following zone provisions shall apply to the permitted uses in the R2 Zone:
Provision for the Main Building
Single-detached
Dwelling
Semi-detached
Dwelling
Duplex Dwelling,
Group Home
Modular Dwelling
a) Minimum
Lot Area
465 square
metres
372 square metres
per unit
650 square
metres
400 square
metres
b) Minimum
Lot
Frontage
15.0 metres
12.2 metres per unit 18.0 metres
12.0 metres
c) Maximum
Lot
Coverage
30 percent
40 percent
35 percent
30 percent
d) Minimum
Front Yard
7.5 metres
7.5 metres
7.5 metres
7.5 metres
e) Minimum
Side Yard
1.2 metres
1.2 metres, no side
yard is required for
common vertical
wall dividing one
unit from another.
2.0 metres
2.0 metres
f)
Minimum
Exterior
Side Yard
3.0 metres except
where the
entrance to a
garage faces an
exterior side yard
the minimum side
yard for the garage
shall be 6.0
metres
3.0 metres on each
side, except that
where an entrance
to a garage faces an
exterior side yard,
the exterior side
yard shall be 6.0
metres
4.5 metres on
each side, except
that where an
entrance to a
garage faces an
exterior side yard,
the exterior side
yard shall be 6.0
metres
4.5 metres
g) Minimum
Rear Yard
7.5 metres
7.5 metres
9.0 metres
7.5 metres
h) Maximum
Dwelling
Height
10.5 metres
10.5 metres
10.5 metres
4.0 metres
i)
Minimum
Dwelling
Unit Area
80 square metres
80 square metres
80 square metres 45.0 square
metres
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SECTION 8 RESIDENTIAL MULTIPLE ZONE (R3) REGULATIONS
8.1 PERMITTED USES
No land shall be used in the Residential Multiple Zone (R3) except for the following purposes:
Apartment Building
Dwelling, Single-detached (existing)
Dwelling, Semi-detached (existing)
Dwelling, Duplex (existing)
Dwelling, Double Duplex
Dwelling, Townhouse
Dwelling, Street Townhouse
Dwelling, Triplex
Nursing Home
Rooming House
Secondary Dwelling Unit
8.2 USE SPECIFIC PROVISIONS
Zone provisions for existing single detached, semi-detached and duplex dwellings shall be in
accordance with the provisions for these uses as set out in Section 7.2 of this By-law.
The following zone provisions shall apply to the permitted uses in the R3 Zone:
Provision Per Use
Double Duplex
Dwelling
Town-house
Dwelling
Street Townhouse
Dwelling
Triplex Dwelling Apartment Building,
Nursing Home
Rooming
House
a)
Minimum Lot Area
744 square
metres
285 square
metres
230 square metres
690 square
metres
690 square metres
650 square
metres
b)
Minimum Lot Frontage
12.2 metres
30 metres
6.7 metres
21.0 metres
30.0 metres
18.0 metres
c)
Maximum Lot Coverage
40 percent
40 percent
40 percent
35 percent
35 percent
35 percent
d)
Minimum Front Yard
7.5 metres
7.5 metres
6.0 metres
7.5 metres
7.5 metres
7.5 metres
e)
Minimum Side Yard
4.5 metres
7.5 metres. No
interior side
yard is
required
between the
common
vertical wall
dividing one
unit from
another.
2.0 metres for end
units. No interior side
yard is required
between the common
vertical wall dividing
one unit from another.
4.5 metres
6.0 metres, except
that where the interior
lot line abuts an R1,
R2, or R4 Zone, a
minimum side yard
equal to the building
height is required to a
maximum of 10.5
metres
2.0 metres
f)
Minimum Exterior Side
Yard
4.5 metres
4.5 metres
4.5 metres
6.0 metres
7.5 metres
4.5 metres
g)
Minimum Rear Yard
9.0 metres
7.5 metres
7.5 metres
9.0 metres
7.5 metres, except
that where the rear lot
line abuts an R1, R2,
or R4 Zone, a
minimum rear yard
equal to the building
height is required to a
maximum of 10.5
metres
9.0 metres
h)
Minimum Distance
Between Apartment
Buildings on the Same Lot
20 metres
i)
Minimum Landscaped
Open Space
20 percent
25 percent
20 percent
30 percent
30 percent
j)
Maximum Dwelling Height 10.5 metres
10.5 metres
10.5 metres
10.5 metres
10.5 metres
10.5 metres
k)
Minimum Dwelling Unit
Area
80 square
metres
80 square
metres
80 square metres
60 square
metres
45 square metres
110 square
metres
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SECTION 9 MOBILE HOME RESIDENTIAL ZONE (R4) REGULATIONS
9.1 PERMITTED USES
No land shall be used in the Mobile Home Residential Zone (R4) except for the following purposes:
Mobile Home
Modular Dwelling
9.2 USE SPECIFIC PROVISIONS
The following zone provisions shall apply to the permitted uses in the R4 Zone:
Provision
a) Minimum Lot Area
400 square metres
b) Minimum Lot Frontage
12.0 metres
c) Maximum Lot Coverage
30 percent
d) Minimum Front Yard
7.5 metres
e) Minimum Side Yard
2.0 metres
f)
Minimum Exterior Side
Yard
4.5 metres
g) Minimum Rear Yard
7.5 metres
h) Maximum Dwelling
Height
4.0 metres
i)
Minimum Dwelling Unit
Area
45 square metres
9.3 EXCEPTION ZONES
1. Notwithstanding Provision 9.2 of this By-law, on lands zoned as R4-1, the following provisions shall
apply:
Minimum Lot Area: 366 square metres
Minimum Lot Coverage: 33 percent
Minimum Front Yard: 3.5 metres
Minimum Side Yard: 2.0 on one side and 4.3 metres on the other side
Minimum Rear Yard: 2.5 metres
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SECTION 10
MOBILE HOME PARK ZONE (MHP) REGULATIONS
10.1 PERMITTED USES
No land shall be used in the Mobile Home Park Zone (MHP) except for the following purposes:
Mobile Home
10.2 ZONE PROVISIONS
The following zone provisions shall apply to the permitted uses in the MHP Zone:
Provision
a) Minimum Lot Area
2.0 hectares
b) Minimum Site Area per
Unit
275 square metres
c) Minimum Lot Frontage
90 metres
d) Maximum Lot Coverage
30 percent
e) Minimum Front Yard
9.0 metres
f)
Minimum Side Yard
7.5 metres
g) Minimum Exterior Side
Yard
9.0 metres
h) Minimum Rear Yard
9.0 metres
i)
Minimum Landscaped
Open Space
10 percent
j)
Maximum Dwelling
Height
4.0 metres
k) Minimum Dwelling Unit
Area
45 square metres
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SECTION 11
HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL ZONE (C1) REGULATIONS
11.1 PERMITTED USES
No land shall be used in the Highway Commercial Zone (C1) except for the following purposes:
Accessory Dwelling Unit or Mobile Home for a caretaker, owner or manager of a permitted use
in association with the following uses:
Agricultural Services
Animal Hospital
Automobile Service Station
Builders' Supply Outlet
Business or Professional Office
Club, Commercial
Club, Private
Community Centre
Drive-through Facility
Entertainment Facility
Financial Institution
Flea Market
Funeral Home
Hotel
Motel
Personal Service Establishment
Recreational Vehicle or Boat Sales and Service Establishment
Restaurant
Retail Store
Shopping Centre
Tavern
Taxi Stand
Tourist Commercial Establishment
Vehicle Repair Shop
11.2 ZONE PROVISIONS
The following zone provisions shall apply to the permitted uses in the C1 Zone:
Provision
a) Minimum Lot Area
Unserviced
Serviced
1.2 hectare
no minimum required
b) Minimum Lot Frontage
Unserviced
Serviced
50.0 metres
No minimum required
c) Minimum Lot Coverage
Unserviced
Serviced
30 percent
50 percent
d) Minimum Front Yard
15 metres
e) Minimum Side Yard
10.0 metres
f)
Minimum Exterior Side Yard
10.0 metres
g) Minimum Rear Yard
10.0 metres
h) Minimum Landscaped Open Space
20 percent
i)
Maximum Building Height
10.5 metres
j)
Minimum Floor Area
60 square metres
k) Buffer Strip
Where a Highway Commercial Zone (C 1) abuts a
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HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL (C1) REGULATIONS
11-2
Provision
residential, institutional or open space zone, a buffer strip
shall be provided along the property line having a
minimum width of 3.0 metres
11.3 USE SPECIFIC PROVISIONS
1. Notwithstanding Section 11.2, the following provisions shall apply to Automobile Service Stations and
Vehicle Repair Shops:
Provision
a) Minimum Lot Area
Unserviced
Serviced
0.8 hectare
1400 square metres
b) Minimum Lot
Frontage
Unserviced
Serviced
36.0 metres
25.0 metres
c) Minimum Lot
Coverage
35 percent
d) Minimum Front Yard
15.0 metres
e) Minimum Side Yard
4.5 metres
f)
Minimum Exterior
Side Yard
7.5 metres
g) Minimum Rear Yard
7.5 metres
h) Minimum
Landscaped Open
Space
10 percent
i)
Minimum
Landscaped Open
Space
20 percent
j)
Maximum Building
Height
10.5 metres
k) Minimum Floor Area
40 square metres
l)
Buffer Strip
Where an automobile service station or Vehicle Repair Shop abut a
residential, Institutional or open space use, a buffer strip shall be
provided along the property line having a minimum width of 3.0
metres
m) Open storage
Open storage is prohibited, except merchandise offered for sale
2. Notwithstanding Section 11.2, the following provisions shall apply to Accessory Dwelling Units:
Provision
a) Minimum Front Yard
15.0 metres
b) Minimum Side Yard
4.5 metres
c) Minimum Exterior
Side Yard
6.0 metres
d) Minimum Rear Yard
7.5 metres
e) Minimum Dwelling
Unit Area
45 square metres
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SECTION 12
GENERAL COMMERCIAL ZONE (C2) REGULATIONS
12.1 PERMITTED USES
No land shall be used in the General Commercial Zone (C2) except for the following purposes:
Apartment Dwelling
Automobile Service Station
Bake Shop
Builders' Supply Outlet
Business or Professional Office
Club, Commercial
Club, Private
Community Centre
Contractor's Yard
Convenience Store
Drive-through Facility
Entertainment Facility
Financial Institution
Funeral Home
Gas Bar
Manufacturing, Light
Motor Vehicle or Recreation Vehicle Sales, Leasing and Storage Establishment
Parking Lot
Personal Service Establishment
Restaurant
Retail Store
School, Commercial
Shopping Centre
Tavern
Taxi Stand
Vehicle Repair Shop
12.2 ZONE PROVISIONS
The following zone provisions shall apply to the permitted uses in the C2 Zone:
Provision
a) Minimum Lot Area
No minimum required
b) Minimum Lot Frontage
No minimum required
c) Maximum Lot Coverage
60 percent
d) Minimum Front Yard
6.0 metres
e) Minimum Side Yard
2.0 metres
f)
Minium Exterior Side Yard
4.5 metres
g) Minimum Rear Yard
6.0 metres
h) Minimum Landscaped Open
Space
none
i)
Maximum Height
10.5 metres
j)
Minimum Floor Area
60 square metres
k) Buffer Strip
Where abutting a residential, institutional or open space
zone, a 3.0 metres buffer strip shall be provided.
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GENERAL COMMERCIAL ZONE (C2) REGULATIONS
12-2
12.3 USE SPECIFIC PROVISIONS
1. Notwithstanding Provision 12.2 of this By-law, Manufacturing, Light uses shall not exceed 50 percent
of the floor area and the products manufactured are primarily for retail sale on the premises.
2. Notwithstanding Provision 12.2 of this By-law, the following zone provisions shall apply to Apartment
Dwellings within a commercial building:
Provision
a) Minimum Amenity Area
9 square metres per dwelling unit
b) Minimum Dwelling Unit Area
i.
Bachelor unit
ii.
One Bedroom
iii.
Two Bedroom
45 square metres
55 square metres
65 square metres
c) Location within a commercial
building
Above or behind the commercial use
12.4 EXCEPTION ZONES
Notwithstanding Provision 12.1 of this By-law, no land shall be used on lands shown as C2-1 except
for the following uses:
Apartment dwelling
Bake Shop
Builders' Supply Outlet
Business
Community Centre
Convenience Store
Dwelling, Single-detached
Financial Institution
Funeral Home
Personal Service Establishment
Restaurant
Retail Store
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SECTION 13
NEIGHBOURHOOD COMMERCIAL ZONE (C3) REGULATIONS
13.1 PERMITTED USES
No land shall be used in the Neighbourhood Commercial Zone (C3) except for the following purposes:
Apartment Dwelling for a caretaker, owner or manager in association with the following uses:
Convenience Store
Personal Service Establishment
13.2 ZONE PROVISIONS
The following zone provisions shall apply to the permitted uses in the C3 Zone:
Provision
a) Minimum Lot Area
700 square metres
b) Minimum Lot Frontage
15.0 metres
c) Maximum Lot Coverage
40 percent
d) Minimum Front Yard
7.5 metres
e) Minimum Side Yard
3.0 metres, except where the interior side yard
abuts a Residential Zone, 4.5 metres is required
f)
Minimum Exterior Side Yard
4.5 metres
g) Minimum Rear Yard
7.5 metres, except where the rear yard abuts a
Residential Zone, 12 metres is required
h) Minimum Landscaped Open Space
20 percent
i)
Maximum Height
10.5 metres
j)
Minimum Floor Area
60 square metres
k) Open storage
None permitted
13.3 ZONE PROVISIONS FOR ACCESSORY USES
1. The following provisions shall apply to Apartment Dwellings within a commercial building:
Provision
a) Minimum Amenity Area
9 square metres per dwelling unit
b) Minimum Dwelling Unit Area
i.
Bachelor unit
ii.
One Bedroom
iii.
Two Bedroom
45 square metres
55 square metres
65 square metres
c) Location within a commercial
building
Above or behind the commercial use
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SECTION 14
INDUSTRIAL ZONE (M1) REGULATIONS
14.1 PERMITTED USES
No land shall be used in the Industrial Zone (M1) except for the following purposes:
Accessory Dwelling Unit or Mobile Home for a caretaker, owner or manager, and / or retail use
in association with the following uses:
Abattoir
Automobile Wrecking Yard or Scrap Metal Yard
Airport or Aircraft Landing Area
Commercial Storage Facility
Contractor's Yard
Light Industrial Use
Manufacturing, Light
Open Storage
Portable Asphalt Plant
Public Services
Warehouse
14.2 ZONE PROVISIONS
The following zone provisions shall apply to the permitted uses in the M1 Zone:
Provision
a) Minimum Lot Area
i.
Unserviced
ii.
Serviced
1.2 hectare
4000 square metres
b) Minimum Lot Frontage
i.
Unserviced
ii.
Serviced
40.0 metres
30.0 metres
c) Maximum Lot Coverage
i.
Unserviced
ii.
Serviced
35 percent
50 percent
d) Minimum Front Yard
15 metres
e) Minimum Side Yard
10 metres
f)
Minimum Exterior Side
Yard
10 metres
g) Minimum Rear Yard
10 metres
h) Minimum Landscaped
Open Space
10 percent
i)
Maximum Building
Height
12 metres
j)
Minimum Floor Area
140 square metres
k) Buffer Strip
3,0 metres where the lot abuts a residential, institutional or
open space zone
l)
Open Storage
may be located in an interior side yard and rear yard and shall
be screened from adjacent streets by means of fencing and / or
landscaping features. Open storage shall not a permitted within
9.0 metres of a residential zone.
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INDUSTRIAL ZONE (MI) REGULATIONS
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14.3 ZONE PROVISIONS FOR ACCESSORY USES
1. The following provisions shall apply to Accessory Dwelling Units and Mobile Homes:
Provision
a) Minimum Front Yard 15.0 metres
b) Minimum Side Yard 4.5 metres
c) Minimum Exterior
Side Yard
6.0 metres
d) Minimum Rear Yard 7.5 metres
e) Minimum Dwelling
Unit Area
45 square metres
f)
Minimum
Landscaped Open
Space
10.5 metres
2. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, retail use area shall comprise a maximum of 5 percent
of the ground floor area or 278 square metres, whichever is greater.
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SECTION 15
AGGREGATE EXTRACTION (MX) ZONE REGULATIONS
15.1 PERMITTED USES
No land shall be used in the Aggregate Extraction Industrial (MX) Zone except for the following
purpose:
Mineral Aggregate Operation
Open Storage
15.2 ZONE PROVISIONS
The following zone provisions shall apply to the permitted uses in the MX Zone:
Provision
a) Minimum Lot Area
4.0 hectares
b) Minimum Lot Frontage
100.0 metres
c) Minimum Excavation Setback
I.
front lot line
II.
from road allowance
III.
from abutting lands used for
residential, institutional, commercial or
recreational uses
15.0 metres
30.0 metres
300.0 metres
d) Minimum Setback for Building, Equipment,
Machinery, or Stockpiling
I.
from lot line
II.
from road allowance
III.
from lands used or zoned for
residential purposes
30.0 metres
30.0 metres
90.0 metres
e) Buffer Strip
Where an aggregate use abuts a residential,
institutional, commercial or open space use,
a buffer strip together with screening
measures shall be provided along the
property line having a minimum width of 6.0
metres
f)
Retail Use Area
80 square metres
g) Open storage
230 square metres
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SECTION 16
MINERAL MINING ZONE (MM) REGULATIONS
16.1 PERMITTED USES
No land shall be used in the Mineral Mining (MM) Zone except for the following purposes:
Mineral Mining Operation
Open Storage
16.2 ZONE PROVISIONS
The following zone provisions shall apply to permitted uses in the MM Zone:
Provision
h) Minimum Lot Area
4.0 hectares
i)
Minimum Lot Frontage
100.0 metres
j)
Minimum Excavation Setback
IV.
front lot line
V.
from road allowance
VI.
from abutting lands used for
residential, institutional, commercial or
recreational uses
15.0 metres
30.0 metres
300.0 metres
k) Minimum Setback for Building, Equipment,
Machinery, or Stockpiling
IV.
from lot line
V.
from road allowance
VI.
from lands used or zoned for
residential purposes
30.0 metres
30.0 metres
90.0 metres
l)
Buffer Strip
Where an mining use abuts a residential,
institutional, commercial or open space use,
a buffer strip together with screening
measures shall be provided along the
property line having a minimum width of 6.0
metres
m) Retail Use Area
80 square metres
n) Open storage
230 square metres
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SECTION 17
INSTITUTIONAL ZONE (I) REGULATIONS
17.1 PERMITTED USES
No land shall be used in the Institutional Zone (I) except for the following purposes:
Animal Shelter
Arena
Assembly Hall
Cemetery
Club, Private
Community Centre
Institutional Use
Place of Worship
Public Service
School
School, Private
17.2 ZONE PROVISIONS
The following zone provisions shall apply to the permitted uses in the I Zone:
Provision
a) Minimum Lot Area
i.
Unserviced
ii.
Serviced
1.2 hectares
No minimum required
b) Maximum Lot Coverage
50 percent
c) Minimum Front Yard
7.5 metres
d) Minimum Side Yard
5.0 metres
e) Minimum Rear Yard
7.5 metres
f)
Maximum Building Height
10.5 metres
INSTITUTIONAL ZONE (I) REGULATIONS
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SECTION 18
WASTE DISPOSAL ZONE (WD) REGULATIONS
18.1 PERMITTED USES
No land shall be used in the Waste Disposal Zone (WD) except for the following purposes:
Solid Waste Disposal Facility
Waste Processing and Transfer Facility
18.2 ZONE PROVISIONS
The following zone provisions shall apply to the permitted uses in the WD Zone:
Provision
a) Minimum Lot Area
20.0 hectares
b) Minimum Lot Frontage
100.0 metres
c) Minimum Front Yard
30.0 metres
d) Minimum Side Yard
30.0 metres
e) Minimum Rear Yard
30.0 metres
f)
Maximum Building Height
10.5 metres
g) Minimum Landscaped Area
20 percent
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SECTION 19
OPEN SPACE ZONE (OS) REGULATIONS
19.1 PERMITTED USES
No land shall be used in the Open Space Zone (OS) except for the following purposes:
Campground
Cemetery
Conservation Use
Dock
Fairground
Golf Course
Golf Driving Range
Marina
Park, private
Park, public
Recreation Use
Trailer Park
Wildlife Management
19.2 ZONE PROVISIONS
The following zone provisions shall apply to the permitted uses in the OS Zone:
Zoning Mechanism
Provision
a) Minimum Lot Area
i.
Unserviced
ii.
Serviced
0.4 hectares
No minimum required
b) Minimum Lot Frontage
i.
Unserviced
ii.
Serviced
30.0 metres
No minimum required
c) Maximum Lot Coverage
15 percent
d) Minimum Front Yard
10.0 metres
e) Minimum Side Yard
10.0 metres
f)
Minimum Rear Yard
10.0 metres
g) Maximum Building Height
10.5 metres
h) Maximum Floor Area
50.0 square metres
OPEN SPACE ZONE (OS) REGULATIONS
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CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ZONE (CEP) REGULATIONS
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SECTION 20
CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ZONE
(CEP) REGULATIONS
20.1 PERMITTED USES
No land shall be used in the Conservation and Environmental Protection Zone (CEP) except for the
following purposes:
Agricultural Use
Conservation Use
Dwellings existing at the date of the passing of this By-law, and uses, buildings and structures
accessory thereto, but not conversions or enlargements thereof
Forestry Use
Mineral Exploration
public and private parks, including playgrounds, picnic facilities, sport fields, tennis courts,
golf course, outdoor natural rinks and docks.
Public Services
Wildlife Management
20.2 FILL
No fill shall be placed on or removed from land in the Conservation and Environmental Protection
Zone (CEP) whether originating on such lands or elsewhere.
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ZONING SCHEDULES
21-1
SECTION 21
ZONING SCHEDULES
This Section includes the two (2) zoning schedules (maps) for the entire Township of Emo labeled:
Schedule A - Township of Emo;
Schedule A-1 - Village of Emo Settlement Area.
TOWNSHIP OF EMO
ZONING BY-LAW
SCHEDULE A
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CANADA
U.S.A
CANADA
U.S.A
Rainy River
Rainy River
Village of Emo Settlement
Village of Emo Settlement Area
Zone Boundary
RU
- Rural Zone
C1
- Highway Commercial Zone
M1
- Industrial Zone
MX
- Aggregate Extraction Zone
WD
- Waste Disposal Zone
CEP
- Conservation and Environmental
Protection Zone
H
- Holding Zone
Transportation
Provincial Highway
Township Roads
CN Railway
Area - See Schedule A-1
RU
CEP
CEP
CEP
RU
RU
RU
RU
C1(H)
M1
RU
RU
RU
RU
RU
CEP
CEP
30m FROM
TOP OF BANK
CEP
30m FROM
TOP OF BANK
CEP
MX
CEP
30m FROM
TOP OF BANK
WD
Emo Rd
Reid Rd
Highway 11
Highway 11
Reid Rd
Meyers Rd
Cooper Rd
Carlson Rd
Allan Rd
Everette Rd
Howse Rd
George Rd
Redford Rd
Fisher Rd
Alysworth Rd
Jewell Rd
Highway 602
Highway 602
Ogden Rd
Carpenter Rd
Carpenter Rd
Allan Rd
Barnharot Rd
Steward Rd
Steward Rd
McDiarmid Rd
Dunbar Rd
TOWNSHIP OF EMO
ZONING BY-LAW
SCHEDULE A-1 - Village of Emo
Settlement Area
Village of Emo Settlement Area
Zone Boundary
R1
- Residential 1 Zone
R2
- Residential 2 Zone
R3
- Residential Multiple Zone
R4
- Mobile Home Residential Zone
MHP - Mobile Home Park Zone
C1
- Highway Commercial Zone
C2
- General Commercial Zone
C3
- Neighbourhood Commercial Zone
M1
- Industrial Zone
I
- Institutional Zone
OS
- Open Space Zone
CEP - Conservation and Environmental
Protection Zone
H
- Holding Zone
Transportation
Provincial Highway
Railway
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300m 400m
500m
Rainy River
Rainy River
Byng St
Cherlen
Bay
Colonization St
Adelaide St
Canning Ln
Coral St
Highway 11
Highway 11
Florence St
Roy St
Queen St
Highway 602
Front St
Strachan Dr
Front St
Off Lake Rd
King St
Jessie
Hannah St
Young Ln
Robert St
Meadow St
Birch
Pl
Maple
Pl
Judson St
Marion St
Linton St
Aspen Cr
R2(H)
R2(H)
R2(H)
R2
R2
R2
OS
CEP
R1(H)
C1
OS
M1
M1
OS
C2
R4
OS
OS
R4
C2
R1
R1
R1
C1
R1(H)
R1(H)
M1
R1
C1
C1
R1-1
I
R1
R1
I
OS
R1
C1
I/OS
C1
R1
I/OS
R1
R1
R1
R3
C1
R1
R1
R4
R4
C2
I
R3
I
M1
R4
R1
C2
C2
I
R4
R4
C2
I
OS
I
R4
R4
C3
R4-1
R4
R1-1
R1
R1
CEP
CEP
CEP
CEP
R4
R1
R1
R1
R4
R3
R1
I
R4
C1
CEP
CEP
CEP
C2
R1
Kitchener St
C2
C1
R1
R1
I
C1
I
I
Adelaide
St
Hazel St
I
R3
R1
R1
R1
R4
R4
R1
R4
R1
R1
Walker St
Charles St
R1
R1