City of Ottawa Zoning By-law 2008-250: Waste Management (Section 143)

Ottawa, Ontario · No. 2008-250 · summary & facts

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Waste Management (Section 143) 143. (1) In any R1, R2, R3 or R4 zone, any building exceeding 400 square metres in total floor area must provide the following: (By-law 2019-410) (a) Include a path for the movement of garbage containers between a garbage storage area and the street line or travelled public lane, and such path must be: (i) not less than 1.2 metres in width; (ii) unobstructed by any projection or accessory structure to a height of 1.5 metres above the path surface; (iii) uninterrupted by any window well, depression or grade change that would impede the movement of a wheeled garbage container; (iv) for that part of the path located outside a building, paved or finished with hard landscaping and may be on a driveway or walkway; and (By-law 2019-410) (v) notwithstanding the above, a service vent or utility may encroach no more than 0.30 metres into the above path. (b) A garbage storage area for any building containing: (By-law 2019-410) (i) a rooming house; (ii) an oversize dwelling unit; or (iii) more than two but not more than five dwelling units. (By-law 2019-41) (c) The garbage storage area required by b) must: (i) be located within (1) the principal building, or (2) an accessory building located in the rear yard; (ii) have a total volume of not less than 3.5 cubic metres with a minimum floor area of not less than 2.0 square metres; (iii) be located adjacent to the path required by clause a); and, (iv) Notwithstanding (i)(1) above, in the area shown on Schedule 383, the garbage storage area must be located only within the principal building. (d) Notwithstanding the above, a building containing a townhouse dwelling or stacked dwelling is exempt where the Total Floor Area of the part of the building occupied by a principal dwelling unit, including an associated additional dwelling unit, is less than 200 square metres as calculated from the party walls. (By-law 2018-206)