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IH - Heavy Industrial Zone (Section 201-202)
Purpose of the Zone
The purpose of the IH - Heavy Industrial Zone is to:
(1)
permit a wide range of industrial uses, including those which, by their nature, generate
noise, fumes, odours, and are hazardous or obnoxious, in accordance with the
Employment Area designation of the Official Plan or, the General Urban Area
designation where applicable;
(2)
allow in certain Employment Areas or General Urban Areas, a variety of
complementary uses such as recreational, health and fitness uses and service
commercial (e.g. convenience store, personal service business, restaurant, automobile
service station and gas bar), occupying small sites as individual occupancies or in
groupings as part of a small plaza, to serve the employees of the Employment or
General Urban Area, the general public in the immediate vicinity, and passing traffic;
(3)
prohibit retail uses in areas designated as Employment Area but allow limited sample
and showroom space that is secondary and subordinate to the primary use of buildings
for the manufacturing or warehousing of the product; and
(4)
provide development standards that would ensure that the industrial uses would not
impact on the adjacent non-industrial areas.
201.
In the IH Zone:
Permitted Uses
(1)
The following uses are permitted subject to:
(a)
the provisions of subsections 201(3) to (5);
animal care establishment (By-law 2015-190)
animal hospital
automobile body shop
automobile service station
broadcasting studio
Cannabis Production Facility, contained within a building that is not a
greenhouse. (By-law 2019-222)
catering establishment
crematorium
drive-through facility
emergency service
garden nursery
heavy equipment and vehicle sales, rental and servicing
heavy industrial uses
kennel, see Part 3, Section 84
leaf and yard waste composting facility
light industrial uses
office
parking garage
parking lot
personal brewing facility (By-law 2019-41)
printing plant
production studio
research and development centre
service and repair shop
storage yard
technology industry
training centre
truck transport terminal
warehouse
waste processing and transfer facility (By-law 2014-289)
(2)
The following uses are also permitted subject to:
(a)
the provisions of subsections 201(3) to (5);
(b)
the cumulative total gross floor area for these uses not exceeding 2,999 m2;
(OMB Order #PL080959, issued September 18, 2009)
(c)
each use not exceeding 300 square metres of gross floor area; and
(d)
the provisions of subsection 201(2)(c) above not applying to amusement centre and
recreational and athletic facility;
amusement centre
animal care establishment
bank
bank machine
bar (By-law 2018-171)
car wash
convenience store
gas bar
instructional facility
personal service business
place of assembly
post office
recreational and athletic facility
restaurant (By-law 2019-338)
(e)
a bar
(i)
must be ancillary to a permitted brewery, winery or distillery; and,
(ii)
may not have a gross floor area exceeding the lesser of:
(1)
300m2, or
(2)
25% of the floor area of the brewery, winery or distillery to which it is
ancillary. (By-law 2018-171)
Zone Provisions
(3)
The zone provisions are set out under Table 201 below.
TABLE 201 - IH ZONE PROVISIONS
I
ZONING MECHANISMS
II
PROVISIONS
(a) Minimum lot area
4,000 m2
(b) Minimum lot width
No minimum
(c) Minimum front yard and corner side yard
7.5 m
(d) Minimum interior side yard
and rear yard
(i) uses listed under Section
201(1) abutting a residential or
institutional zone
15 m
(ii) all other cases
7.5 m
(e) Maximum floor space index
2
(f) Maximum building height
22 m
(g) Minimum width of
landscaping
(i) abutting a residential or
institutional zone
7.5 m
(ii) in all other cases
3 m
(4)
Accessory display and sales area must be within the same building as the use to which
it is accessory and must not exceed 25% of gross floor area.
(5)
For other applicable provisions, see Part 2 - General Provisions, Part 3 - Special Use
provisions, and Part 4 - Parking, Queuing and Loading Provisions.
IH SUBZONES
202.
In the IH Zone, the following subzones apply:
IH1 Subzone
(1)
In the IH1 Subzone:
(a)
the following additional uses to Section 201(1) are permitted:
automobile dealership
automobile rental establishment
medical facility
place of assembly
(b)
the uses listed in Section 201 (2) do not apply, and only the following uses are
permitted, subject to Section 201 (2) (a), (b), (c) and (d):
car wash
instructional facility
personal service business
recreational and athletic facility
restaurant, fast-food (OMB Order #PL080959 issued March 18, 2010)
restaurant, full service
restaurant, take out