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## TABLE OF CONTENTS
| SECTION | SECTION | PAGE NO. |
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| SECTION 1 - INTERPRETATION AND ADMINISTRATION ............... | SECTION 1 - INTERPRETATION AND ADMINISTRATION ............... | 1 |
| SECTION 2 - DEFINITIONS | SECTION 2 - DEFINITIONS | 4 |
| SECTION 3 - ZONES AND ZONE MAP | SECTION 3 - ZONES AND ZONE MAP | .. 30 |
| SECTION 4 - GENERAL PROVISIONS | SECTION 4 - GENERAL PROVISIONS | 32 |
| 4.1 | Application .......... | 32 |
| 4.2 | Accessory Uses | ..... 32 |
| 4.3 | Automobile Wrecking Yards and Salvage Yards .............. | 32 |
| 4.4 | Bed and Breakfast Establishments | 33 |
| 4.5 | Buffer Strips ......... | 33 |
| 4.6 | Commercial Accessory Uses | 33 |
| 4.7 | Corner Lot Sight Restrictions | 33 |
| 4.8 | Dangerous Uses | 34 |
| 4.9 | Existing Lots | 34 |
| 4.10 | Garden Suites | 34 |
| 4.11 | Group Homes | 34 |
| 4.12 | Height Exceptions | 34 |
| 4.13 | Home Industry | 35 |
| 4.14 | Home Occupations | 35 |
| 4.15 | Land Without Buildings | 36 |
| 4.16 | Loading Spaces | 36 |
| 4.17 | Loading Spaces Standards . | 36 |
| 4.18 | Mobile Homes | 36 |
| 4.19 | Non-Compliance with Minimum Lot or Yard Requirements | 36 |
| 4.20 | Non-Conforming Uses | 37 |
| 4.21 | Obnoxious Uses | 37 |
| 4.22 | Occupancy of Partially Completed Buildings | 37 |
| 4.23 | Outdoor Wood Burning Furnaces/Stoves | 38 |
| 4.24 | Parking Areas Standards. | 38 |
| 4.25 | Parking for the Handicapped | 38 |
| 4.26 | Parking Requirements | 38 |
| 4.27 | Permitted Encroachments in Yards | 40 |
| 4.28 | Permitted Public Uses | 41 |
| 4.29 | Portable Asphalt Plants | 42 |
| 4.30 | Prohibited Uses | 42 |
| 4.31 | Road Frontage Required | 42 |
| 4.32 | Service Stations, Public Garages and Gas Bars | 42 |
| 4.33 | Services Required | 43 |
| 4.34 | Setbacks and Lot Frontage Requirements on Provincial Highways . | 43 |
| 4.35 | Setback from Navigable and Non-Navigable Watercourses, | 43 |
| | Hazard Land and Municipal Surface Drains Setback from Waste Disposal Site | 43 |
| 4.36 | Setbacks on Roads .. | 43 43 |
| 4.37 | | |
| 4.38 | Special Uses Permitted | |
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4.39
| | 4.40 | Structures in Water | |
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| | 4.41 | Temporary Buildings | 44 |
| | | Truck, Bus and Coach Bodies or Trailers or Tents used for Human Habitation | 44 |
| | 4.42 | Wayside Pits and Quarries | 44 |
| | 4.43 | Yard and Open Space Provision for all Zones | 44 |
| SECTION 5 - RURAL ZONE (R) REGULATIONS | SECTION 5 - RURAL ZONE (R) REGULATIONS | SECTION 5 - RURAL ZONE (R) REGULATIONS | 44 |
| SECTION 6 - RURAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE (RR) REGULATIONS | SECTION 6 - RURAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE (RR) REGULATIONS | SECTION 6 - RURAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE (RR) REGULATIONS | 45 |
| SECTION 7 - VILLAGE RESIDENTIAL ZONE (VR) REGULATIONS. | SECTION 7 - VILLAGE RESIDENTIAL ZONE (VR) REGULATIONS. | SECTION 7 - VILLAGE RESIDENTIAL ZONE (VR) REGULATIONS. | 46 |
| SECTION 8 - RESIDENTIAL 1 ZONE (R1) REGULATIONS | SECTION 8 - RESIDENTIAL 1 ZONE (R1) REGULATIONS | SECTION 8 - RESIDENTIAL 1 ZONE (R1) REGULATIONS | 47 |
| SECTION 9 - RESIDENTIAL MULTIPLE ZONE (R2) REGULATIONS. | SECTION 9 - RESIDENTIAL MULTIPLE ZONE (R2) REGULATIONS. | SECTION 9 - RESIDENTIAL MULTIPLE ZONE (R2) REGULATIONS. | 48 |
| SECTION 10 - MOBILE HOME RESIDENTIAL ZONE (R3) REGULATIONS | SECTION 10 - MOBILE HOME RESIDENTIAL ZONE (R3) REGULATIONS | SECTION 10 - MOBILE HOME RESIDENTIAL ZONE (R3) REGULATIONS | 50 |
| SECTION 11 - MOBILE HOME PARK ZONE (MHP) REGULATIONS . | SECTION 11 - MOBILE HOME PARK ZONE (MHP) REGULATIONS . | SECTION 11 - MOBILE HOME PARK ZONE (MHP) REGULATIONS . | 53 |
| SECTION 12 - SEASONAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE (SR) REGULATIONS | SECTION 12 - SEASONAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE (SR) REGULATIONS | SECTION 12 - SEASONAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE (SR) REGULATIONS | 54 |
| SECTION 13 - HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL ZONE (C1) REGULATIONS. | SECTION 13 - HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL ZONE (C1) REGULATIONS. | SECTION 13 - HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL ZONE (C1) REGULATIONS. | 55 |
| | | | 56 |
| SECTION 14 - GENERAL COMMERCIAL ZONE (C2) REGULATIONS. | SECTION 14 - GENERAL COMMERCIAL ZONE (C2) REGULATIONS. | SECTION 14 - GENERAL COMMERCIAL ZONE (C2) REGULATIONS. | 59 |
| -SECTION 15 - NEIGHBOURHOOD COMMERCIAL ZONE (C3) REGULATIONS SECTION 16 - TOURIST COMMERCIAL ZONE (TC) REGULATIONS .. | -SECTION 15 - NEIGHBOURHOOD COMMERCIAL ZONE (C3) REGULATIONS SECTION 16 - TOURIST COMMERCIAL ZONE (TC) REGULATIONS .. | -SECTION 15 - NEIGHBOURHOOD COMMERCIAL ZONE (C3) REGULATIONS SECTION 16 - TOURIST COMMERCIAL ZONE (TC) REGULATIONS .. | . 61 |
| SECTION 17 - INDUSTRIAL ZONE (M1) REGULATIONS | SECTION 17 - INDUSTRIAL ZONE (M1) REGULATIONS | SECTION 17 - INDUSTRIAL ZONE (M1) REGULATIONS | 62 |
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| SECTION 18 - INSTITUTIONAL ZONE (I) REGULATIONS .. SECTION 19 - OPEN SPACE ZONE (OS) REGULATIONS | SECTION 18 - INSTITUTIONAL ZONE (I) REGULATIONS .. SECTION 19 - OPEN SPACE ZONE (OS) REGULATIONS | SECTION 18 - INSTITUTIONAL ZONE (I) REGULATIONS .. SECTION 19 - OPEN SPACE ZONE (OS) REGULATIONS | .. 67 |
| SECTION 20 - CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ZONE (CEP) REGULATIONS... | SECTION 20 - CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ZONE (CEP) REGULATIONS... | SECTION 20 - CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION ZONE (CEP) REGULATIONS... | . 68 |
| SECTION 21 - HOLDING ZONE (H) REGULATIONS | SECTION 21 - HOLDING ZONE (H) REGULATIONS | SECTION 21 - HOLDING ZONE (H) REGULATIONS | 69 |
| SECTION 22 - EXCEPTIONS | SECTION 22 - EXCEPTIONS | SECTION 22 - EXCEPTIONS | .. 70 |
| SCHEDULE "A" - TOWNSHIP OF PICKLE LAKE | SCHEDULE "A" - TOWNSHIP OF PICKLE LAKE | SCHEDULE "A" - TOWNSHIP OF PICKLE LAKE | 71 |
| SCHEDULE "B" - PICKLE LAKE TOWNSITE | SCHEDULE "B" - PICKLE LAKE TOWNSITE | SCHEDULE "B" - PICKLE LAKE TOWNSITE | 73 |
| SCHEDULE "C" - CENTRAL PATRICIA TOWNSITE | SCHEDULE "C" - CENTRAL PATRICIA TOWNSITE | SCHEDULE "C" - CENTRAL PATRICIA TOWNSITE | - 74 |
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## TOWNSHIP OF PICKLE LAKE
ZONING BY-LAW NO. 2002 - 05
FEBRUARY 2002
PREPARED BY: HYNDE, PAUL ASSOCIATES INCORPORATED
179 KING STREET, ST. CATHARINES, ONTARIO L2R 3J5 PHONE: (905)641-2300 FAX: (905)641-2382
## BY-LAW NO. 2002-05
A By-law to regulate the use of land, and the character, location and use of buildings and structures in the Township of Pickle Lake.
WHEREAS the Council of The Corporation of the Township of Pickle Lake deems it necessary in the public interest to pass a restricted area by-law in order to regulate the use of land and the erection and use of buildings and structures;
AND WHEREAS authority is granted under Section 34 of the Planning Act, R.S.O., 1990, subject to the approval of the Ontario Municipal Board, to pass this By-law;
AND WHEREAS the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickle Lake has adopted an Official Plan for the municipality which has been approved by the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, Council deems it advisable to implement the Official Plan of the Township of Pickle Lake;
NOW THEREFORE the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickle Lake ENACTS AS FOLLOWS:
## SECTION 1 - INTERPRETATION AND ADMINISTRATION
## 1.1 Title
Pickle Lake. This By-law shall be known as the "Zoning By-law" of the Corporation of the Township of
## 1.2 Application
The provisions of this By-law shall apply to all lands within the boundaries of the Municipality 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 Pickle Lake except in conformity 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 Municipality.
## 1.5 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 buiidings, 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.
## 1.6 Meaning of Shall
In this By-law, the word "shall" shall always be construed as mandatory.
## 1.7 Number and Gender
In this By-law, unless the contrary intention appears, words imparting the singular number or the masculine gender only shall include more persons, parties, or things of the same kind than one, and females as well as males, and the converse.
## 1.8 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 Pickle Lake designates.
## 1.9 Licenses and Permits
No person shall be entitled to a municipal 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.
## 1.10 Building to be Moved
No building, residential or otherwise, shall be moved within the limits of the Municipality or shall be moved into the Municipality from outside, without a permit from the Chief Building Official.
## 1.11 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.
## 1.12 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 By-law of the Municipality, in force from time to time, or the obligation to obtain any license, permit, authority or approval required under any By-law of the Municipality.
## 1.13 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.
## 1.14 Violations and Penalties
- a) 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 By-law, 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:
2. ії) 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.
3. on a first conviction to a fine of not more than $25,000; and
4. Where a corporation is convicted under Section 1.14(a) of this By-law, the maximum penalty that may be imposed is:
5. 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.
- i) on a first conviction, a fine of not more than $50,000; and
- C) Every such penalty as set out in Section 1.14 of this By-law shall be recoverable under the Section 67 of the Planning Act, 1990, and/or the Provincial Offenses Act and/or any other legislation applicable.
## 1.15 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 Municipality, 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.
## 2.1 Abandoned
Shall mean 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.
## 2.2 Abattoir
Shall mean a building, structure or lot or part thereof, used for the slaughter of livestock, poultry or other animals for purpose of processing or rendering.
## 2.3 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, detached carport, detached deck and dock.
## 2.4 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.
## 2.5 Aggregate
Means gravel, sand, clay, earth, shale, stone, limestone, dolostone, sandstone, marble, granite and rock, other than metallic ores.
## 2.6 Aggregate Pit
Shall mean a place where unconsolidated gravel, stone, sand, earth, clay, fill, mineral or other material is being or has been removed by means of an open excavation, and includes the processing thereof for commercial purposes including screening, sorting, washing, crushing, and other similar operations, together with required buildings and structures, but does not include a wayside pit.
## 2.7 Agricultural Use
Shall mean the cultivation of land, the production of crops and the selling, packing, storage of such products on the premises, and the breeding, raising and care of livestock and the selling of such livestock or the product of such livestock raised on the premises, and includes animal husbandry, dairying, and the raising and harvesting of field, bush or tree crops, market gardening, nurseries, animal kennels, bee-keeping and greenhouses, bait fish culture and harvesting, wild rice cuiture and harvesting and peat harvesting.
## 2.8 Airport or Aircraft Landing Area
Shall mean 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.
## 2.9 Alter
- a) When used in reference to a building or structure or part thereof, shall mean 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;
- C) 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.
- b) 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
## 2.10 Animal Hospital or Veterinary Clinic
Shall mean a building wherein domestic animals/pets, birds, or livestock and farm animals are treated or kept under the care of a licensed veterinary surgeon but shall not include long-term boarding facilities.
## 2.11 Animal Shelter
Shall mean 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 any establishment engaged primarily in the retail sale of animals or in the breeding or training of animals for gain or profit.
## 2.12 Apartment Building
Shall mean a building that contains 4 or more dwelling units which have one or more common entrances from road level and are served by a common corridor, and the occupants of the units have the right to use in common the corridors, stairs, elevators, yards or one or more of them.
## 2.13 Arcade
Shall mean an establishment, or part 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.
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## 2.14 Arena
Means a facility for sport activities and includes ice surfaces for hockey and curling and other surfaces for any sporting activity.
## 2.15 Assembly Hall
Shall mean 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.
## 2.16 Attached
Shall mean 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.
## 2.17 Attic
Means the space between the ceiling of the top storey and the roof or between a dwarf wall and a sloping roof.
## 2.18 Automobile Body Repair Shop
Shall mean a building or structure used primarily for making repairs or alterations to the body or paint work of any vehicle.
## 2.19 Automobile Service Station or Service Station
Shall mean 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.
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## 2.20 Bake Shop
Means a bakery where the prepared food products of such bakery are offered for retail sale on the same premises.
## 2.21 Bank
Means a banking institution as defined in the Bank Act.
## 2.22 Basement or Cellar
Shall mean that portion of a building between two floor levels which is more than 50% below the ground level at the exterior walls.
## 2.23 Bed and Breakfast Establishment
Means a dwelling in which not more than 3 bedrooms 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, resort, trailer camp, seasonal camp or camping establishment.
## 2.24 Boarding House or Rooming House
Shall mean a building or portion thereof, in which the proprietor supplies to other persons, for hire or gain, lodging, meals or both, but shall not include a hotel, motel, hospital, home for the young or the aged, or institution, or restaurant accommodating the general public.
## 2.25 Boat House
Shall mean 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.
## 2.26 Buffer Strip
Shall mean 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.
## 2.27 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.
## 2.28 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.
## 2.29 Bulk Sales Establishment
Shall mean the use of land for the purpose of storing, buying and selling coal, fuel oil, propane, wood, lumber, building materials, ice and allied chemicals, but does not include any manufacturing, assembling or processing uses.
## 2.30 Business or Professional Office
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.
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## 2.31 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.
## 2.32 Cabin
Means a "cottage" as defined in this By-law.
## 2.33 Campground
Shall mean 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.
## 2.34 Car Wash
Shall mean an establishment where motor vehicles are washed, cleaned or polished for compensation, including a coin wash, but does not include a service station or public garage where car washing is incidental to the operation of such service station or public garage.
## 2.35 Cemetery
Means a cemetery or columbarium within the meaning of the Cemetery Act, as amended from time to time.
## 2.36 Church, Synagogue or Temple
Shall mean a building dedicated to religious worship and may include a church hall, church auditorium, Sunday school, convent, parish hall, and church day nursery.
## 2.37 Clinic
Shall mean a building or structure that is used or intended for use by one or more physicians, dentists, chiropractors and/or drugless practitioners, or any one or more of them, as well as their staff and patients, for the purpose of consultation, diagnosis and office treatment.
## 2.38 Club
Means a building or part of a building used as a meeting place for members of an organization and includes a lodge, a fraternity or sorority house and a labour union hall.
## 2.39 Commercial Use
Shall mean 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.
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## 2.40 Community Centre
Shall mean a building used primarily for community activities and not used for commercial purposes, the control of which is vested in the Municipality, a local board, or commission.
## 2.41 Condominium
Shall mean a building or structure wherein the owner holds title to his/her own dwelling unit while sharing title to the land and other common areas of the development and sharing maintenance/operating costs with other dwelling unit owners through a condominium corporation.
## 2.42 Contaminated Site
Shall mean land that is contaminated from past land use activities relating to, but not limiting to, industrial uses, transportation or utility purposes including municipal and Ministry of Transportation refuelling yards, waste disposal sites, and commercial uses such as gas stations, auto repair shops and lands where filling has occurred.
## 2.43 Cottage
Shall mean 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.
## 2.44 Council
Means the Municipal Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickle Lake.
## 2.45 Convenience Store
Shall mean 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.
## 2.46 Coverage
Shall mean the combined area of all buildings or structures, but not including an outdoor swimming pool, on the lot measured at the level of the lowest storey above grade, including all porches and verandahs open or covered, but excluding open, unenclosed terraces, at grade, steps, cornices, eaves, bay windows, chimney breasts, corbelling and similar projections and open parking areas.
## 2.47 Day Nursery
Shall mean a premises that receives more than 5 children who are not of a common parentage, primarily for the purpose of providing temporary care, or guidance, or both, for a continuous period, not exceeding twenty-four hours where the children are:
- a) under eighteen years of age in the case of a day nursery for children with a developmental handicap; and
2. under ten years of age in all other cases;
in accordance with the Day Nurseries Act, as amended or revised from time to time.
## 2.48 Demolition
Shall mean the doing of anything in the removal of a building or any part thereof.
- 2.49 Detached
Shall mean "not attached".
## 2.50 Development
Means the construction or erection of buildings or structures on, or the excavation and grading of land.
## 2.51 Dock
Shall mean a structure on land or in the water to be used for transferring goods or passengers to or from a boat or airplane.
## 2.52 Dwelling
Shall mean a building, occupied or designed to be occupied exclusively as a home, residence or sleeping place by one or more persons, but shall not include hotels, boarding houses, lodging houses, fraternities, sororities, group homes or institutions.
## 2.53 Dwelling, Duplex
Shall mean a building that is divided horizontally into 2 dwelling units, each of which has an independent entrance either directly or through a common vestibule.
- 2.54 Dwelling, Double Duplex
Shall mean 2 attached duplex dwellings.
## 2.55 Dwelling, Modular
Shall mean a prefabricated single detached dwelling being so constructed or assembled that the shortest side of such dwelling is not less than 6 metres in width.
## 2.56 Dwelling, Multiple
Shall mean a building used, designed, or intended to be used for occupancy as 3 or more dwelling units independently of each other.
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## 2.57 Dwelling, Semi-detached
Shall mean 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.
## 2.58 Dwelling, Single-detached
Shall mean 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.
## 2.59 Dwelling, Townhouse, or Rowhouse
Shall mean a building containing not less than 3 and not more than 8 attached dwelling units with a common masonry wall dividing each of the abutting dwelling units vertically, each with an independent entrance from the outside. The attachment along the common wall may include a dwelling unit wall and/or a garage wall.
## 2.60 Dwelling, Townhouse Street
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.
## 2.61 Dwelling, Triplex
Shall mean 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.
## 2.62 Dwelling, Two Unit
Shall mean a building used, designed or intended to be used for occupancy as 2 independent dwelling units and includes a duplex dwelling or semi-detached dwelling.
## 2.63 Dwelling Unit .·.
Shall mean one or more habitable rooms occupied or designated to be occupied by an individual or family, as an independent and separate housekeeping establishment, in which separate kitchen and sanitary facilities are provided for the use of such individuals or family, with a private entrance from outside the building or from a common hallway or stairway inside the building.
## 2.64 Dwelling Unit, 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
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## 2.65 Easement
Shall have the meaning attributed to it in the definition of "Right-of-Way".
## 2.66 Entertainment Facility
Shall mean 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, but does not include an adult entertainment establishment designed to appeal to erotic or sexual inclinations.
## 2.67 Erect
Shall mean to do anything including the building, construction, reconstruction, installation, enlargement, extension or material alteration or repair of a building or structure and 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. "Erected" and "erection" shall have corresponding
## 2.68 Existing
Shall mean existing as of the date of the final passing of this By-law.
## 2.69 Financial Institution
Shall mean 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.
## 2.70 Flood Fringe
Shall mean the outer portion of the flood plain between the floodway and the limit of the regulatory flood.
## 2.71 Flood Plain
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Shall mean the area, usually low lands, adjoining a watercourse which has been, or may be covered by flood water.
## 2.72 Floodproofing
Shall mean the combination of structural changes and/or adjustments incorporated into the basic design and/or construction or alteration of individual buildings, structures of properties subject to flooding so as to reduce or eliminate flood changes. The word "floodproofed" has a corresponding meaning.
## 2.73 Floodway
Shall mean 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.
## 2.74 Floor Area
Shall mean 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 attached accessory building, terrace, veranda, unfinished attic, basement, cellar, open or enclosed porch or sunroom, uniess such sunroom or enclosed porch is an integral part of the building and habitable in all seasons.
## 2.75 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 but excludes car parking areas within the building.
## 2.76 Forestry Use
Shall mean 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, Christmas trees, and other forest products.
## 2.77 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.
## 2.78 Garage, Private or Carport
Shall mean a building or portion of a building designed forthe 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.
## 2.79 Garage, Public or Service Station
Shall mean a building or structure which is used for the repair or storage of motor vehicles for remuneration; and/or it may include an automobile body repair shop and it may include a gas bar.
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## 2.80 Garden Suite
Shall mean 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.
## 2.81 Gas Bar
Shall mean a lot containing gasoline, diesel fuel or propane dispensing devices and a structure used for the sale of fuel and lubricants for vehicles.
## 2.82 Golf Course
Shall mean a public or private area operated for the purposes of playing golf and does not include golf driving ranges.
## 2.83 Golf Driving Range
Shall mean a public or private area for the purpose of practicing golf driving techniques and is equipped with distance markers, lighting, safety nets, parking areas, golf equipment rental facilities and washrooms, but does not include a golf course.
## 2.84 Grade
Shall mean the average level of finished ground adjoining a building at all exterior walls.
## 2.85 Group Home
Shall mean a single housekeeping unit in a residential dwelling in which a maximum of 4 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 municipal By-laws and shall be licensed and/or approved by the Province of Ontario.
## 2.86 Guest Cabin
Shall mean a dwelling unit for guest accommodation accessory to a cottage which contains no provision for cooking or any water or sewage treatment systems and is not used yearround for human habitation.
## 2.87 Habitable Room
Shall mean a room in a dwelling used for human occupancy but does not include a bathroom, toilet room, serving or storage pantry, laundry and corridor.
## 2.88 Hazard Land
Shall mean 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.
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## 2.89 Height
When used with reference to a building or structure, shall mean 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;
- c) the deck roof line, in the case of a mansard 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;
- d) the average level between eaves and ridges in the case of roof type not mentioned in subsections a), b) and c), immediately preceding.
## 2.90 Home Day Care
Shail mean 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.
## 2.91 Home Industry
Shall mean the use of part of a dwelling unit or an accessory building to a dwelling unit for an industrial use by one of the permanent residents of such dwelling unit, which is clearly secondary to the main use of the dwelling unit or agricultural operation. The home industry uses permitted include: photography, sculpting, ceramic making, upholstering, weaving, dressmaking, animal hospital, wood-working shop, auto body repair and auto repair, window-frame shop, welding shop, electrical shop, carpentry shop, machine shop, blacksmith shop, office and administrative operations.
## 2.92 Home Occupation
Shall mean an occupation, trade, business, profession or craft which is clearly secondary to the main use of the dwelling unit and carried on entirely within part of a dwelling unit by at least one of the permanent residents of such dwelling unit and may include hairdressing, accounting/bookkeeping, medical/dental practitioner, drafting, word processing, etc.
## 2.93 Hotel
Shall mean any hotel, tavern, inn, lounge, or public house in one main building or in two or more buildings used mainly for the purposes of catering to the needs of the travelling public by supplying food and furnishing sleeping accommodations of not less than 6 guest rooms, and shall include all buildings liable to be licensed under the Liquor License Act, and operating under the Tourist Act, as revised or amended from time to time.
## 2.94 Hunt Camp
Shall mean 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
## 2.95 Industrial Use
Shall mean 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.
## 2.96 Institutional Use
Shall mean the use of land, buildings or other structures for some public or social purpose and may include governmental, religious, educational, charitable, philanthropic, hospital or other similar uses.
## 2.97 Kennel, Animal
Shall mean 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.
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## 2.98 Landscaped Area
Shall mean an area not built upon and not used for any purpose other than as a landscaped area, which may include grass, shrubs, flowers, trees and similar types of vegetation and appurtenances, but does not include parking areas, parking lots, driveways or ramps.
## 2.99 Lane
Shall mean a public thoroughfare or way, not more than 9 metres wide, which affords only secondary means of access to abutting lots.
## 2.100 Loading Space
Shall mean 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.
## 2.101 Lodging House
Shall mean an establishment catering to the vacationing public by providing meals and sleeping accommodation with at least 3 guest rooms or cabins, but shall not include a hotel, home or institution licensed, approved or supervised under any other provincial legislation.
## 2.102 Lot
Shall mean a parcel or tract of land which is capable of being legally conveyed in accordance with the Planning Act, as amended or revised from time to time.
## 2.103 Lot Area
Shall be the total horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot.
## 2.104 Lot, Corner
Shall mean a lot situated at the intersection of, or abutting upon, two or more roads, provided that the angle of intersection of such roads is not more than 135 degrees and each of which is at least 10 metres wide, where such adjacent sides are curved, the angle of intersection of such street lines shall be deemed to be the angle formed by the intersection of the tangents to the street lines, drawn through the extremities of the interior lot lines, and the corner of the lot shall be deemed to be that point of intersection of the said tangents.
## 2.105 Lot, Coverage
Shall mean the combined area of all buildings or structures, but not including an outdoor swimming pool on the lot, 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.
## 2.106 Lot Depth
Shall mean the horizontal distance between the midpoints of the front and rear lot line, lot depth means the horizontal distance between the midpoint of the front lot line and the apex of the triangle formed by the side lot lines.
## 2.107 Lot Frontage
Shall mean the horizontal distance between the side lot lines of a lot measured at right angles, but where such lot lines are not parallel, the lot frontage shall be measured perpendicularly to the line joining the midpoint of the front and midpoint of the rear lot lines at a point 7.5 metres back from the front lot line. Where the side lines meet, the lot frontage shall be measured perpendicularly to the line joining the 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. Where the front lot lines are curved, the lot frontage 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.
## 2.108 Lot, Interior
Shall mean a lot other than a corner lot which is situated between adjacent lots and has access to one road.
## 2.109 Lot Lines
Shall mean the boundary lines of a lot defined as follows:
## a) Front Lot Line shall mean:
- i) ii) in the case of a corner lot, the shorter lot line abutting the road unless each lot line is of equal length, in which case the front lot line shall be the lot line where the principal access to the lot is provided;
2. in the case of an interior lot, the lot line dividing the lot from the road;
3. ili) 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;
4. Rear Lot Line shall mean the lot line farthest from and opposite the front lot line.
5. iv) in the case of a waterfront lot, either the shoreline or streetline shail be deemed the front lot line;
6. Side Lot Line shall mean a lot line other than a front or rear lot line. C)
- d) Side Lot Line, Exterior shall mean a side lot line that is also a street line.
## 2.110 Lot, Through
Shall mean a lot bounded on two opposite sides by roads each of which is at least 10 metres wide, provided, however, that if any lot qualifies as being both a corner lot and a through lot, such lot shall be conclusively deemed to be a corner lot.
## 2.111 Lot, Waterfront
Shall mean a lot which abuts a shoreline or shoreline reserve and may or may not also abut a street or lane.
## 2.112 Main Building
Shall mean the building or structure in which is conducted the principal use for which the lot is used.
## 2.113 Main Wall
Shall mean the structural sheeting or foundation wall of the exterior front, sides or rear wall of a building and all structural members to the support of a fully enclosed space or roof.
## 2.114 Marina
Shall mean a commercial establishment where a boathouse, boat storage, boat repair facilities boat rental, pier, dock or jetty facilities, or any combination thereof, are available for marine craft and may include a pump for the fuelling of marine craft and a building or structure for the sale or repair of marine craft and accessories.
## 2.115 Mine Hazard
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## 2.116 Mining Operation
Shall mean a mining operation and associated facilities, or past producing mines with remaining mineral development potential that has not been permanently rehabilitated to another use.
## 2.117 Mobile Home
Shall mean any dwelling that is designed to be made mobile, and constructed or manufactured to provide a permanent residence for one or more persons, but does not include a travel trailer or tent trailer or trailer otherwise designed.
## 2.118 Mobile Home Park
Shall mean a lot managed by a mobile home park operator, for the permanent placement of one or more mobile homes or factory built park model homes or double-wide homes on individual mobile home sites, and may include a park or place of recreation.
## 2.119 Mobile Home Site
Shall mean a parcel of land within a mobile home park which is serviced and intended for the placement of one mobile home.
## 2.120 Modular Home, Double-Wide or Twin-wide
Shall mean a mobile home where the two halves of the unit have been joined and placed on a permanent foundation, such as a poured concrete or mortared concrete block foundation.
## 2.121 Motel, Motor Hotel
Shall mean one building, or 2 or more detached buildings, for the purpose of catering to the needs of the traveiling public by furnishing sleeping accommodations with or without supplying food, and shall include a motor court, auto court, and all buildings liable to be licensed under the Liquor License Act, and/or operating under the Tourist Act, as amended or revised from time to time.
## 2.122 Municipality
Shall mean the Corporation of the Township of Pickle Lake.
## 2.123 Navigable Waterway
Shall mean a navigable body of water or stream as deemed under the Beds of Navigable Waters Act, and includes any body 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.
## 2.124 Non-Complying
Shall mean a use, building, or structure which is existing but does not meet, comply or agree with the regulations of this By-law, but is a permitted use, building or structure within the zone in which it is located.
## 2.125 Non-Conforming
Shall mean a use, building or structure which is existing but which is not permitted in the zone in which it is located.
## 2.126 Non-Residential
When used with reference to a building, structure or use, shall mean designed, intended or used for purposes other than those of a dwelling.
## 2.127 Nursing Home
Shall mean a place where accommodation and care are provided for one or more persons, who, by reason of age or infirmity, are in need of same.
## 2.128 Obnoxious Use
Shall mean an offensive trade within the meaning of the Public Health Act, or any use which is offensive or dangerous by reason of the emission of odour, smoke, dust, noise, gas fumes, vibration or refuse matter.
## 2.129 Open Storage
Shall mean 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.
## 2.130 Park, Private
Shall mean a park controlled or owned by a private individual, group or organization and which may not be open to the public.
## 2.131 Park, Public
Shall mean a park controlled or owned by the Municipality or a public authority and which is normally open to the public.
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## 2.132 Parking Lot, or Parking Area
Shall mean an area for the parking of vehicles and may include aisles, parking spaces and related entrance and exit lanes, but shall not include any part of a road.
## 2.133 Parking Space
Shall mean an area 3 metres by 6 metres enclosed in a building including a garage, or unenclosed, and set aside for the temporary storage of a vehicle.
## 2.134 Parking, Tandem
Shall mean the parking of two or more vehicles one behind the another in a row.
## 2.135 Permitted
Shall mean permitted by this By-law.
## 2.136 Person
Shall include an individual, an association, a firm, a partnership, a corporation, a trust, a incorporated company, an organization, a trustee or agent and their heirs, executers or other legal representatives of a person to whom the same can apply according to law.
## 2.137 Personal Service Establishment
Shall mean 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, but shall not include an adult entertainment parlour. The sale of merchandise shall be permitted only as an accessory use to the personal service provided.
## 2.138 Portable Asphalt Plant
Shall mean a facility with equipment designed to heat and dry aggregate and to mix aggregate with bituminous asphalt to produce asphalt paving material, and includes stockpiling and storage of bulk materials used in the process. A portable asphalt plant is not of permanent construction, but is designed to be dismantled and moved to another location as required.
## 2.139 Private Club
Shall mean 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.
## 2.140 Professional Office
Shall mean a building or part thereof in which a legal, medical, or other professional service is pertormed or consultation is given including, but not so as to limit the generality of the foregoing, the offices of a lawyer, architect, a surveyor, an engineer or an accountant, but does not include a personal service establishment, a business office, a veterinarian's clinic, an animal hospital or shelter, a body-rub parlour or any adult entertainment parlour as defined in the Municipal Act.
## 2.141 Public Authority
Shall mean 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 established or exercising any power or authority under any general or special statute of Ontario or Canada with respect to any of the affairs or purposes of the Municipality or any portion thereof, and includes any committee or local authority established by By-law of the Municipality and Ontario Hydro.
## 2.142 Public Services
Shall mean the buildings, structures and other related works necessary for supplying water, gas, oil, electricity, steam, hot water, telephone services, telecommunication services, sewage collection and treatment facilities and other services provided by a public authority.
## 2.143 Quarry
Shall mean a place where consolidated rock has been or is being removed by means of an open excavation, and includes the processing thereof for commercial purposes including screening, sorting, washing, crushing, and other similar operations, required buildings and structures.
## 2.144 Recreation Use
Means the use of land for parks, playgrounds, tennis courts, lawn bowling greens, indoor and outdoor skating rinks, athletic fields, golf courses, picnic areas, swimming pools, day camps, community centres, snow skiing and other similar uses, together with necessary and accessory buildings and structures, but does not include a track for racing animals, motor vehicles, snowmobiles, all terrain vehicles or motorcycles.
## 2.145 Redevelopment
Shall mean the creation of new residential units on land previously used for residential or non-residential purposes, where demolition of the previous structure is to take place or has taken place.
## 2.146 Religious Retreat
Shall mean the use of land for religious purposes and includes a place of worship, temporary sleeping accommodation and sanitary facilities.
## 2.147 Renovate
Shall mean to restore by improving or repairing to an earlier condition.
## 2.148 Residential Intensification
Shall mean the creation of new residential units or accommodation in existing buildings or on previously developed land generally including the creation of accessory dwelling units, conversion of non-residential uses to residential uses, infilling and redevelopment.
## 2.149 Residential Unit
Shall mean the use of land, buildings or structures for human habitation.
## 2.150 Residential Use
Shail mean the use of a building or structure of parts thereof as a dwelling or residential unit.
## 2.151 Residential Use, Seasonal
Shall mean a dwelling which is used for intermittent residential occupancy for the enjoyment of the surrounding natural environment and such dwelling shall be a single detached dwelling that is not used for continuous habitation or as a permanent residence.
## 2.152 Resort
Shall mean 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.
## 2.153 Resource Management
Shall mean the use of land solely for the preservation and enhancement of the natural environment.
## 2.154 Restaurant
Shall mean a building used for the purpose of serving food and/or refreshments including a licensed establishment, and may include take-out food facilities as an accessory use.
## 2.155 Retail or Service Store
Shall mean a building or part of a building where goods, wares, merchandise or articles are offered or kept for sale at retail directly to the public and includes storage on or about the premises.
## 2.156 Right-of-Way or Easement
Shall mean any right, liberty or privilege in, or along or under land which a person may have with respect to any land in the Municipality.
## 2.157 Road
Shall mean a public highway under the jurisdiction of the Municipality or the Province of as shown on a plan of subdivision with respect to which a subdivision agreement has been entered into which affords the principal means of access to abutting lots, but does not include a public lane or right-of-way.
## 2.158 Road Allowance
Shall mean land held under public ownership for the purpose of providing a road.
## 2.159 Salvage Yard
Shall mean 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.
## .2.160 School
Shall mean a school under the jurisdiction of a Board as defined in the Education Act, a college, a university or any other education establishment including, but not necessarily restricted to, a nursery school or a boarding school having accessory dormitory facilities.
## 2.161 School, Commercial
Means a school operated by one or more persons for gain or profit.
## 2.162 School, Private
Means a school, other than a public school or a commercial school, under the jurisdiction of a private board or trustees or governors, a religious organization or charitable institution.
## 2.163 School, Public
Means a school under the jurisdiction of a public agency.
## 2.164 Seaplane Base
Shall mean the use of land, buildings, or structures for the purposes of docking, storing or repairing seaplanes and for the supplying of associated services.
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## 2.165 Seasonal Camp
Shall mean an establishment that is owned and operated by a private club or organization for the boarding and lodging of children during the summer months only, and may include such recreational activities as boating, swimming, crafts, riding, archery, etc.
## 2.166 Service Industries
Shail mean a bake shop, a public garage, including engine and body repair shop, a printing establishment, a paint shop, plumbing shop, sheet metal shop, welding shop, vehicle inspection station, boat repair and construction, small engine repair shop, woodworking shop and similar non-effluent producing uses.
## 2.167 Service Shop
Shall mean a building or part thereof used for the sale or repair of household articles and includes radio, television and appliance repair shops, but does not include industrial or manufacturing uses or motor vehicle repair shops.
## 2.168 Setback
Shall mean the horizontal distance between the nearest part of any main wall of any building or structure and the centre line of a road allowance measured at right angles to such centre line.
## 2.169 Setback From Top of Bank
Shall mean the horizontal distance from the point of the slope or bank where the downward inclination of the land begins or the upward inclination of the land levels off to the nearest part of any main wall of any building or structure.
## 2.170 Setback From Water
Shall mean 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.
## 2.171 Shopping Centre
Shall mean a building or group of buildings planned, designed, developed or managed as a unit, having off-road parking provided on the same lot, and which building or buildings contain one or more retail stores, and offices and may include institutional uses.
## 2.172 Shoreline
Shall mean any lot line or portion thereof which abuts a navigable waterway.
## 2.173 Sight Triangle
Shall be determined by connecting two points which are obtained by measuring a distance of 6.0 metres drawn along each lot line abutting the street line from a point where the tangents of the lot lines abutting the street lines intersect. Where a railway right-of-way and street line intersect, no buildings or structures, vehicles, open storage, landscaping, signage or any other use exceeding 6.0 metres of the street elevation shall be located within a 15.0 metre radius measured in all directions from the boundary of the railway rightof-way.
## 2.174 Storey
Shall mean that portion of a building:
- a) which is 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;
- C) which has a height of not less than 2 metres and includes an attic having not less that 2 metres headroom for at least 50% of the attic floor area.
3. g which is more than 50% above the average finished grade; and
## 2.175 Storey, First
Shall mean the lowest storey of a building whereby the ceiling is at least 1.5 metres above finished grade.
## 2.176 Street, Highway or Road
Shall be considered to be synonymous and have the meaning as defined for "Road".
## 2.177 Structure
Shall mean anything that is erected, built or constructed of parts joined together and which is fixed to or supported by the soil but not a terrace, patio, sign, boundary wall, fence, bridge or culvert.
## 2.178 Swimming Pool, Enclosed
Shall mean a pool with any portion of walls of the pool above finished grade and/or located within a building or enclosed structure detached from the main building. The total lot coverage of all accessory buildings or structures shall not exceed 15 percent of the total lot area.
## 2.170 Swimming Pool, Unenclosed
Shall mean a pool with the walls of the pool completely below finished grade and not located within a building or structure may be allowed in an interior side yard or rear yard, provided that the walls of the pool area are a minimum of 1.5 metres from the interior side or rear lot lines and that any filter, pumps, or similar operating machines are a minimum distance of 0.6 metres from any lot line and a minimum distance of 3.0 meters from any main building.
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## 2.180 Tavern
Shall mean a building, where alcoholic beverages are sold to be consumed on the premises and shall include all such buildings operating or liable to be licensed under the Liquor License Act, as amended or revised from time to time.
## 2.181 Temporary Buildings
The temporary use of buildings and structures, including mobile homes, incidental to and accessory for lawful construction work, will be permitted in all zones, but only for so long as the same are necessary for the construction work and if a building permit has been issued.
## 2.182 Tourist Commercial
Shall mean a use or establishment which provides goods, lodging or meals to the vacationing public.
## 2.183 Tourist Home
Shall mean a tourist establishment containing 3 or more guest rooms or cabins for hire for a single night or for less than a month at a time and may include accommodation for permanent staff and a dining room, meeting room, recreational facilities or similar uses.
## 2.184 Trailer
Shall mean a vehicle so constructed that it is suitable for being attached to a motor vehicle for the purpose of being drawn or propelled by a motor vehicle and capable of being used for temporary living, sleeping or eating accommodation of persons, notwithstanding that such vehicle is jacked up or that its running gear is removed. This definition shall not include a mobile home as defined herein.
## 2.185 Trailer Park
Shali mean any land upon which any travel trailer tent, or tent trailer is used or intended to be used for temporary occupation.
## 2.186 Use
When used as a noun, shall mean the purpose for which any land, building or structure is designed, used or intended to be used.
## 2.187 Use, Continuous
In the context of Section 4.20, Non-Conforming Uses, shall mean the continuous use of a lot, building or structure, notwithstanding a change of ownership of the property where the use is located. Use shall further be deemed to be continuous if, after having ceased, the same use recommenced within a period of one year from the date of cessation, and/or if a structure is destroyed or damaged, it is rebuilt or repaired for the same use within a period of one year from the date of its destruction or damage. This is in addition to the protection afforded by Section 34(9) of the Planning Act.
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## 2.188 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.
## 2.189 Vehicle Repair Shop
Shall mean a building or part thereof which contains facilities for the repair and maintenance of vehicle and/or recreational vehicles on the premises, and in which vehicle accessories are sold and vehicle maintenance and repair operations are performed in retur for remuneration, but does not include a body shop or any establishment engaged in the retail sale of vehicle fuels.
## 2.190 Warehouse
Shall mean 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.
## 2.191 Waste Disposal Area
Shall mean a place where garbage, refuse, or domestic or industrial waste is disposed of or dumped.
## 2.192 Watercourse
Shall mean the natural channel for a stream of water and for the purpose of this By-law, includes any watercourse shown on Schedule "A", "B" and "C" of this By-law.
## 2.193 Waterfrontage
Means the boundary of a lot directly abutting an original shoreline reserve.
## 2.194 Wayside Pit or Quarry
Shall mean a temporary open excavation made for the removal of soil, earth, clay, marl, Silt, sand, gravel or consolidated rock, opened and used by a public road authority, or person or company operating under the authority of the Ministry of Transportation, solely for the purposes of road construction.
## 2.195 Wrecking Yard
Shall mean an area of land licensed by the Ministry of the Environment for the storage and processing of wrecked vehicles.
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## 2.196 Yard
Shall mean an open space on the same lot with a main building or structure, unoccupied and unobstructed from 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 respective lot lines measured perpendicular from the lot line shall be used:
- a) Front Yard shall mean a yard extending across the full width of a lot between the front lot line and nearest main wall of the main building or structure on the lot;
- b) Rear Yard shall mean a yard extending across the full width of a lot between the rear lot line and the nearest main wall of the main building or structure on the lot;
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4. Exterior Side Yard shall mean aside yard immediately adjoining a public or private street or abutting a reserve on the opposite side of which is located a private or public street; and
5. Side Yard shall mean a yard between the nearest side wall of the main building or structure on the lot and the side lot line and extending from the front yard to the
- e) Interior Side Yard shall mean a yard extending from the front yard to the rear yard and from the interior side lot line to the nearest part of the principal building, structure or excavation on the lot.
## 2.197 Zone
Shall mean a designated area of land shown on Schedule "A", "B", and "C" hereto.
## 2.198 Zoned Area
Shall mean all those lands lying within the corporate limits of the Township of Pickle Lake.
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## SECTION 3 - ZONES AND ZONE MAP
## 3.1 Establishment of Zones
For the purpose of this By-law, the maps hereto attached as Schedule "A", Schedule "B" and Schedule "C" shall be referred to as the "Zoning Maps" for the Township of Pickle Lake and the said zoning maps shall be divided into the following zones:
| Zone | Symbol |
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| | R |
| Rural Zone | RR |
| Rural Residential Zone | VR |
| Village Residential Zone | R1 |
| Residential 1 Zone | R2 |
| Residential Multiple Zone | R3 |
| Mobile Home Residential Zone | MHP |
| Mobile Home Park Zone | SR |
| Seasonal Residentia | C1 |
| Highway Commercial Zone | C2 |
| General Commercial Zone | C3 |
| Neighbourhood Commercial Zone | TC |
| Tourist Commercial Zone | M1 |
| Industrial Zone | 1 |
| Institutional Zone | OS |
| Open Space Zone | |
| Conservation and Environmental Protection Zone | CEP |
| | H |
| Holding Zone | |
## 3.2 Use of Zone Symbols
The symbols listed in Section 3.1 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 Pickle Lake delineated on the zoning maps and designated therein by the said symbol.
## 3.3. 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 maps, the following shall apply:
- Unless otherwise shown, the boundary of the zones as shown on the zoning maps and the centre lines of the road allowance or lot lines and the projection thereof;
- 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 maps;
- 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;
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- Unless otherwise indicated, a road, lane, or watercourse included on the zoning maps, 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;
- 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 maps in the office of the Chief Building Official; and
- 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;
- Wherever it occurs, the municipal limit of the Township of Pickle Lake is the boundary of the zone adjacent to it.
## SECTION 4 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
## 4.1 Application
The provisions of this section apply in all zones except as may be indicated otherwise.
## 4.2 Accessory Uses
Accessory uses, buildings or structures, are permitted in any yard, in any zone, subject to the provisions of this By-law for the particular zone in which said building, structure, or use is located, and provided that the accessory building, structure or use:
- shall not be used for human habitation, except where a residential use is a permitted accessory use;
- C) in a residential zone, shall not be located in the front yard or the exterior side yard, in the case of a corner lot except for a detached garage or a garden suite which may be permitted in a front yard or exterior side yard;
- b) ·shall not be built closer to the front lot line or side lot line than the minimum distance required by this By-law for the main building on the lot unless otherwise specified;
- in a commercial and industrial zone shall not be built closer to the street than the main building is to that street;
- shall not exceed 10 percent coverage of the total lot area;
- shall not be built closer than 1.0 metre to any lot line except that where a lot abuts a lane an accessory building or structure may be located not less than 0.5 metres from the said lane;
- g) 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 6.0 metres;
- i) shall not be considered an accessory building or structure if located completely underground; and
- h) shall not be considered as an accessory building or structure if attached to the main building in any way;
- j) · may be permitted in the front yard of a lot having frontage on a lake or river.
## 4.3 Automobile Wrecking Yards and Salvage Yards W
Where land is used for the purpose of an automobile wrecking yard or salvage 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 required front, side or rear yards. 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 subject property and shall be a minimum of 6.0 metres in width in compliance with Section 4.5 of this By-law.
## 4.4 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:
- be permitted only within an existing single detached and semi-detached residential dwelling;
- c) be operated by a resident of the dwelling, in which the bed and breakfast establishment is located;
- b) be clearly secondary to the main residential use;
- not contain more than 3 guest bedrooms; and
- e) in the Residential area no outside display or advertising shall be permitted, other than a non-illuminated sign which shall not exceed 1.5m? in area indicating the name of the bed and breakfast establishment.
## 4.5 Buffer Strips
- a) 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;
- c) a buffer strip shall be located within the zone for which it is required. It shall be planted, nurtured and maintained by the owner of the lot on which the buffer strip is located and the replacement of trees and plants shall be made, as necessary; and
- b) where a buffer strip is required in any zone, it shall be of a minimum width as specified in the regulations for that zone;
4. a buffer strip may form part of any required landscaped open space.
## 4.6 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 be located within the main building or within 2.0 metres of the main building, shall not exceed 10 percent of the total floor area of the main building, and shall not exceed a maximum floor area of the 278.0 m?
## 4.7 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 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.
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## 4.8 Dangerous Uses
No land, building or structure shall be used in the Township of Pickle Lake for the industrial 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.
## 4.9 Existing Lots
An existing 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 Bylaw are satisfied; and
- a) such lots can be safely serviced; and
2. such lots have a minimum frontage of 7.5 metres on a publically maintained year round open road.
## 4.10 Garden Suites
- a) Garden suites shall be permitted as accessory temporary residential accommodation for a maximum of 10 years pursuant to Section 39 of the Planning Act, and shall be considered accessory to a permitted single detached or semidetached dwelling;
- c) the garden suite shall be serviced from the main dwelling on the lot, subject to approval from the Health Unit where required; and
3. the garden suite shall not be permitted to separate by consent from the main residential dwelling on the lot;
4. a mobile home may be used as a garden flat.
## 4.11 Group Homes
A group home, licensed by the appropriate Provincial Ministry, shall be permitted within any single detached dwelling, a semi-detached or duplex dwelling, subject to the requirements of this subsection:
- a) a group home shall have a maximum of 4 residents, excluding staff or receiving family; and
- b) save as hereinafter provided, a group home in any zone in which single unit residential uses are permitted shall not be within 2 kilometres of another group home.
## 4.12 Height Exceptions
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, mine headframe, windmill or weather monitoring device.
## 4.13 Home Industry
Where a home industry is permitted in a particular zone, it shall:
- a) have at least one permanent resident of the dwelling unit engaged in the business;
- C) have no extemal display or advertising, other than a non-illuminated sign which is a maximum size of 0.6m?:
3. have not more than one person, other than the owners), employed on a either a part-time or full-time basis;
- d) any external storage of materials, containers or finished products shall be screened, fenced or buffered from view to maintain an attractive appearance;
- 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;
- e) the home industry shall not occupy more than 25% of the floor area of the dwelling unit including the floor area of the basement used for the home industry or, if conducted within an accessory building, the accessory building shall not be more 60.0 m' in area;
7. be located on the same lot as the residential use;
8. have adequate area on the lot for the parking and storage of all vehicles associated with the home industry and ensure that the home industry is suitably separated and buffered from adjacent residential uses.
9. access approval from the Ministry of Transportation will be required for those home industries that front onto a Provincial highway; and
## 4.14 Home Occupations
Where a home occupation is permitted in a particular zone, it shall:
- have at least one permanent resident of the dwelling unit engaged in the business;
- C) have no external storage of materials, containers or finished products and shall be wholly confined to the dwelling unit;
- have no external display or advertisement other than a non-illuminated sign which is a maximum size of 0.6m?
- not change the character of the dwelling as a private residence or create or become a nuisance;
- 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;
- 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;
- access approval from the Ministry of Transportation will be required for those home occupations that front onto a Provincial highway; and
- have not more than one person employed, including a contractor, 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
No person shall erect or use any building or structure in any Commercial or industrial Zone which involves the movement of goods, merchandise of materials, unless loading spaces are provided and maintained in accordance with the following provisions:
- a) one loading space shall be provided for each 278 m? or fraction thereof of the total floor area;
- c) loading spaces shall not have less than 4.5 metres of vertical clearance.
- b) loading spaces shall have dimensions not less than 3.0 metres by 7.5 metres; and
## 4.17 Loading Spaces Standards
Where in this By-law, loading spaces are required or permitted, the following standards shall apply:
- a) adequate driveway space to permit the safe manoeuvring, loading and unloading of vehicles on the lot such that they do not cause an obstruction or a hazardous condition on adjacent streets or sidewalks;
- c) illumination of loading spaces shall be so arranged as to be diverted away from any adjacent Residential or Open Space Zone;
- b) adequate drainage facilities in accordance with the requirements of the municipality;
- d) location of loading spaces to be restricted to the rear yard where a lot has access at both the front and rear to a street or road; and
5. loading spaces and approaches shall be surfaced with concrete, asphalt, crushed stone, gravel or a combination thereof with a stable surface treated to prevent the rains of dust or. loose particles.
## 4.18 Mobile Homes
Mobile homes shall only be permitted where specifically listed as permitted within a particular zone
## 4.19 Non-Compliance with Minimum Lot or Yard Requirements
Where an existing building is located on a lot having less than the minimum frontage or area required by this By-law, or having less than the minimum front yard, side yard, or rear yard required by this By-law, the said building may be enlarged, reconstructed, repaired or renovated provided that:
- the enlargement, reconstruction, repair or renovation does not further reduce the front yard, side yard, or rear yard to which it does not comply; and
- b) all other applicable provisions of this By-law are complied with.
## 4.20 Non-Conforming Uses
The provisions of this By-law shall not apply or prevent:
- a) the use of any lot, building or structure for any purpose prohibited by this By-law use is deemed to be continuous if having ceased for any reason, the use is reestablished within one year;
2. the reconstruction of any existing legal non-conforming building or structure that is damaged or destroyed by causes beyond the control of the owner provided that the dimensions of the original building or structure are not increased, the use of the building or structure is not changed; or
3. the 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;
- d) the strengthening or restoration to a safe condition of any existing legal nonconforming building or structure the improvements are located withing the perimeter of the existing non-conforming building or structure.
## 4.21 Obnoxious Uses
Nothing in this By-law shall be construed to permit the use of land for the erection or use of a building or structure for any purpose:
- a) that is or is likely to become a nuisance or offensive:
2. ії) by reason of the emission of gas, fumes, dust or objectionable odour; or
- i) by the creation of noise or vibrations; or
4. ili) by reason of the unsightly storage of goods, wares, merchandise, salvage, refuse matter or other such material; and
- b) which by the nature of the materials used therein is declared under The Public Health Act, as amended or revised or any regulations thereunder to be a noxious or offensive trade, business or manufacture.
## 4.22 Occupancy of Partially Completed Buildings
No new building, except in the case of an apartment building shall be occupied before the main walls and roof have been erected and the external siding and roofing have been completed, water and sanitary services are installed, kitchen and heating facilities have been installed and an occupancy permit has been issued by the Chief Building Official. Any dwelling unit in an apartment building may be occupied, provided that all of the above conditions are satisfied, notwithstanding that one or more of the dwelling units have not been completed.
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## 4.23 Outdoor Wood Burning Furnaces/Stoves
Outdoor wood burning furnaces or stoves may be permitted provided they are:
- a) properly vented;
- b) c) are located on the property so that the prevailing winds take the smoke away from adjacent residential uses; and
3. separated a safe distance from the main and accessory buildings;
- d) a permit has been issued by the Chief Building Official.
## 4.24 Parking Areas Standards
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 Municipality;
- C) the lights used for illumination of parking areas shall be so arranged as to divert the light away from adjacent lots;
3. 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;
4. parking areas shall be within 90.0 metres of the location which it is intended to serve and shall be situated in the same zone; and
- e) each parking space shall be 3.0 metres by 6.0 metres and shall be provided with unobstructed access to a street by a driveway, aisle or lane.
## 4.25 Parking for the Handicapped
Handicapped parking spaces shall be a minimum of 3.7 metres wide and the minimum number required to be provided shall be as follows:
| TOTAL NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES | REQUIRED NUMBER OF HANDICAPPED SPACES |
|----------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
| -0-9 | |
| 10-99 | 1 |
| 100-199 | 2 |
| 200 plus | 3 |
## 4.26 Parking Requirements
- a) 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 or fifth wheel units;
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- 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;
- d) tandem parking of vehicles is permitted to accommodate the parking requirements for single detached dwellings, semi-detached dwelling units, duplex units, townhouse units, mobile homes, group homes, home occupations and home industries.
- c) 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;
Off-street parking shall be provided in accordance with the following provisions:
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| TYPE OF USE OF BUILDING | MINIMUM PARKING REQUIRED |
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| single detached dwellings, semi- detached dwellings, duplexes and mobile home | 1.5 spaces per dwelling unit rounded to the next highest number |
| multiple unit dwellings, townhouses, apartment dwellings | 1 space per dwelling unit |
| senior citizens apartment house | 1 space per dwelling unit |
| schools | 1 space for each teaching staff member, plus 1 additional space for each 20 m? of auditorium or gymnasium floor space |
| churches | 1 space for every 6 seats or 4.0 metres of bench space of its maximum seating capacity |
| hospital, nursing home | 1 space for every 4 beds |
| libraries | a minimum of 10 spaces or 1 space per 28 m? of building floor space, whichever is greater |
| group homes | 1 space for ever 49 m? of floor area with a minimum of 2 spaces |
| boarding house, rooming house, tourist home and bed and breakfast establishment | 1.5 spaces for every 2 rooms rented |
| bowling alley | 3 spaces per bowling lane |
| curling rink | 4 spaces per curling sheet |
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| TYPE OF USE OF BUILDING | MINIMUM PARKING MASREQUIRED |
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| clinic | 6 spaces per practitioner |
| offices | 1 space per 28 m? of floor area |
| retail or service stores | 1 space per 28 m' of retail floor area |
| auditoriums, restaurants, take-out restaurants, theaters, arenas, community centres, private clubs and other places of assembly | 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 m? of floor area devoted to public use |
| home occupation and home industry | 1 space for each 28 m' of floor area or fraction thereof devoted to said use in addition to the parking required for the dwelling |
| hotels, motels, tavems | 1 space per rental unit, plus 1 additional space for each 9.0 m2 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 m? of floor area or for each 3 employees whichever is greater |
| golf course | 2 spaces per hole |
| golf driving range | 1 space for every 2 persons who can be accommodated at one time |
| riding stable | 1 space for every 4 horses available for public riding |
| marinas | 1 space per 28 m? of retail floor area plus 1 space for each boat slip |
## 4.27 Permitted Encroachments in Yards
Every part of any yard required by this By-law shall be open and unobstructed by any structure, other than fence, deck or patio from the ground to the sky, provided however hat those structures listed in the following table shall be permitted to project into the yards indicated for the distances specified:
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| STRUCTURE | YARD IN WHICH PROJECTION IS PERMITTED | MAX. PROJECTION FROM MAIN WALL PERMITTED. |
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| sills, belt courses, comices, eaves, gutters, chimneys, parapets or pilasters | Any yard | 0.5 metres |
| fire escapes, and exterior staircases | Rear yard only | 1.5 metres |
| window bays | Front and Rear yards only | 1.0 metres |
| balconies | Front and Rear yards for single detached, semi- detached and duplex dwellings; any yard for apartment buildings | 2.0 metres |
| open roofed porches not exceeding one storey in height; covered terraces | Any yard | 2.5 metres including eaves and cornices |
| canopies over entrances | Front and Rear yards only | 3.0 metres |
| gate house | Any yard in a Commercial or Industrial Zone | 1.0 metres from property boundary |
## 4.28 Permitted Public Uses
Notwithstanding anything else in this By-law, the provisions of this By-law shall not apply to the use of any land or to the erection or use of any building or structure by any public authority provided that:
- the lot coverage, setback and yard requirements prescribed for the zone in which such land, building or structure is located are complied with, except electric power facilities;
- any building erected in a residential zone under the authority of this paragraph is designed and maintained in general harmony with residential buildings of the type permitted in the said residential zone; and
- no goods, material, or equipment are stored in the open in a residential zone, or within 30.0 metres of a residential zone;
- any parking and loading regulations are complied with.
## 4.29 Portable Asphalt Plants
Where in this By-law, a portable asphalt plant is permitted in a particular zone, it shall:
- a) not be located within the townsite of Pickle Lake or Central Patricia;
- c) not be located in an area where severe environmental disruption would occur.
3. g not be located within 400 metres of an existing residential use; and
## 4.30 Prohibited Uses
It shall be prohibited to use any land or to erect and use any building or other structure in any zone for the purpose of wrecking yards, automobile salvage yards, a waste disposal site or processing facility, a pit or quarry, the collection of rags, junk, any refuse, scrap iron, or other scrap metals, an abattoir or adult entertainment parlour unless such uses are specifically listed as permitted uses within a particular zone.
## 4.31 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 municipality, Province of 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. 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 municipality.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this clause, buildings and structures accessory to forestry and mining uses, but not for human habitation are permitted in appropriate zones where publicly maintained road frontage is not available.
## 4.32 Service Stations, Public Garages and Gas Bars
- a) · 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;
- c) the maximum width of a curb ramp at the front or side lot line shall not be more than 7.0 metres;
- b) 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;
4. the minimum distance between the ramps shall not be less than 9.0 metres;
5. where the lot is a corner lot, no portion of any canopy or roof shall be located within any sight triangle.
- e) 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; and
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## 4.33 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
2. unless the requirements of the Northwestern Health Unit or designated authority are met for the use of private water supply and sewage treatment services for the servicing of said land, buildings or structures.
## 4.34 Setbacks and Lot Frontage Requirements on Provincial Highways
A building or structure in any zone adjacent to a provincial highway is subject to the setback and lot frontage requirements of the Ministry of Transportation which may be greater than municipal requirements. In general, Ministry setbacks for residential uses along a provincial highway is 7.6 metres and all other uses require a 13.7 metres setback and the minimum lot frontage requirements within a 50 km/h speed zone is 31.5 metres and within an 80 km/h speed zone 45 metres for commercial, industrial, institutional and multiple residential uses. The Ministry of Transportation should be consulted for specific setback, lot frontage and access requirements along provincial highways.
## 4.35 Setback from Navigable and Non-Navigable Watercourses, Hazard Land and Municipal Surface Drains
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this By-law, a building in any zone is required to be no nearer than 15 metres from the top of the bank of any watercourse, or municipal drainage ditch permanent or intermittent, which may or may not be navigable. In the case of hazard lands, no part of any building shall be constructed closer than 15 metres to the nearest point of the area to which the hazardous condition is deemed to exist.
## 4.36 Setback from Waste Disposal Site
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this By-law, a residential building in any zone is required to be setback a distance of 500 metres from existing and former waste disposal sites.
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## 4.37 Setbacks on Roads
Notwithstanding any other provisions of this By-law, a building or structure in any zone on a public road allowance which is less than 20 metres wide, shall be set back 10 metres plus the required minimum front yard for that zone measured from the centre line of the road allowance.
## 4.38 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:
1.
- 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;
- c) a street sign or street light or yard light;
- a sign having an area of not more than 4.7 m? 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;
- d) an authorized sign or signal; or
- e) a public election list or other proclamation of governmental authority.
## 4.39 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.
## 4.40 Temporary Buildings
The temporary use of buildings and structures, including mobile homes, incidental to and necessary for lawful construction work will 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 Municipality.
## 4.41 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; and
- b) the use of tents and trailers for human habitation is prohibited provided, however, that this provision shall not prevent the use of tents or trailers for children's play or for picnics, or for the occasional accommodation of guests in a Residential Zone.
## 4.42 Wayside Pits and Quares
Where in this By-law, a wayside pit and quarry is permitted in a particular zone, it shall:
- a) not be located within 90 metres of an existing residential use; and
2. not be located in an area where environmental disruption would occur.
## 4.43 Yard and Open Space Provision 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.
## SECTION 5 - RURAL ZONE (R) REGULATIONS
## 5.1 Permitted Uses
No land shall be used in the Rural Zone (R) except for the following purposes:
- a) a single detached dwelling
- c) forestry management uses
- b) a mobile home
- d) mining operation and mineral exploration
- f) trapping
- e) wildlife management uses
- g) conservation uses
- i) j) a home occupatione animal kennel →
9. wayside pits and quarries
10. " k) agricultural use
- m) a portable asphalt plant
- 1) peat extraction
- n) accessory uses
## 5.2 Zone Provisions
| a) b) d) e) f) | Minimum Lot Area Minimum Lot Frontage Maximum Lot Coverage Minimum Front Yard Minimum Side Yard Minimum Exterior Side Yard Minimum Rear Yard Maximum Height Minimum Dwelling Unit Area i) mobile home | 4.0 hectares 100.0 metres 10 percent 15.0 metres 15.0 metres LO ACRES |
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| | | 15.0 metres |
| | | 15.0 metres |
| h) | | 10.5 metres |
| i) | її) all other dwelling units | 45 square metres 60 square metres |
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## SECTION 6 - RURAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE (RR) REGULATIONS
## 6.1 Permitted Uses
No land shall be used in the Rural Residential Zone (RR) except for the following purposes:
- a) a single detached dwelling
- c) a modular home
- b) a mobile home
4. bed and breakfast establishment
- f) accessory uses
6. a home occupation
## 6.2 Zone Provisions
| a) Minimum Lot Area | a) Minimum Lot Area | 1.2 hectare |
|----------------------------|----------------------------|------------------|
| Minimum Lot Frontage | Minimum Lot Frontage | 30.0 metres |
| Maximum Lot Coverage | Maximum Lot Coverage | 35 percent |
| Minimum Front Yard | Minimum Front Yard | 15.0 metres |
| Minimum Side Yard | Minimum Side Yard | 7.5 metres |
| Minimum Exterior Side Yard | Minimum Exterior Side Yard | 10.0 metres |
| Minimum Rear Yard | Minimum Rear Yard | 12.0 metres |
| Maximum Building Height | Maximum Building Height | 10.5 metres |
| Minimum Dwelling Unit Area | Minimum Dwelling Unit Area | |
| | mobile home | 45 square metres |
| | all other dwelling units | 85 square metres |
## SECTION 7 - VILLAGE RESIDENTIAL ZONE (VR) REGULATIONS
## 7.1 Permitted Uses
No land shall be used in the Village Residential Zone (VR) except for the following purposes:
- a single detached dwelling
- a modular home
- a mobile home
- a bed and breakfast establishment
- a home occupation
- a group home
- accessory uses
## 7.2 Zone Provisions
- b) Minimum Lot Frontage
- c) Maximum Lot Coverage
- d) Minimum Front Yard
- e) Minimum Side Yard
- f) Minimum Exterior Side Yard
- h) Maximum Building Height
- i)
- Minimum Lot Area
- Minimum Rear Yard
- Minimum Dwelling Unit Area
- i)
- mobile home 45 square metres
- ii) all other dwelling units
0.4 hectare
30.0 metres
35 percent
10.0 metres
7.5 metres
10.0 metres
12.0 metres
10.5 metres
85 square metres
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## SECTION 8 - RESIDENTIAL 1 ZONE (R1) REGULATIONS
## 8.1 Permitted Uses
purposes: No land shall be used in the Residential 1 Zone (R1) except for the following
- a) a single detached dwelling
- C) a duplex dwelling
- b) a semi-detached dwelling
- d) a modular dwelling
5. a home occupation
- e) a bed and breakfast establishment
7. a group home
8. accessory uses
## 8.2 Zone Provisions for a Single Detached Dwelling
465 square metres
- a) Minimum Lot Area
- c) Maximum Lot Coverage
- d) Minimum Front Yard
- e) Minimum Side Yard
- Minimum Lot Frontage
- Minimum Exterior Side Yard
- Minimum Rear Yard
- h) Maximum Building Height
- i) Minimum Dwelling Unit Area
15.0 metres
30 percent
7.5 metres
2.0 metres
4.5 metres, except that where an entrance to a garage faces an exterior side yard, the minimum exterior side yard shall be 6.0 metres
7.5 metres
10.5 metres
80 square metres
## 8.3 Zone Provisions for Semi-Detached Dwellings
744 square metres
- a) Minimum Lot Area
- b) Minimum Lot Area per Unit
- c) Minimum Lot Frontage
- d) Maximüm Lot Coverage
- e) Minimum Front Yard
- Minimum Side Yard
- Minimum Exterior Side Yard
- Minimum Rear Yard
- Maximum Building Height
- Minimum Dwelling Unit Area
Zone Provisions for a Duplex Dwelling
372 square metres
18.0 metres
40 percent
7.5 metres
2.0 metres, no side yard is required for a semi-detached dwelling between the common vertical wall dividing one unit from another
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
7.5 metres
10.5 metres
60 square metres
8.4
650 square metres
| | | Minimum Lot Area | |
|-----|------------------------------------|------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| | | Minimum Lot Frontage | 18.0 metres |
| | | Maximum Lot Coverage | 35 percent |
| | | Minimum Front Yard | 7.5 metres |
| | | Minimum Side Yard | 2.0 metres |
| | | Minimum Exterior Side Yard | 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 |
| | | Minimum Rear Yard | 9.0 metres |
| | h) | Maximum Building Height | 10.5 metres |
| | i) | Minimum Dwelling Unit Area | 80 square metres |
| 8.5 | -Zone Provisions for a Mobile Home | -Zone Provisions for a Mobile Home | |
| | a) | Minimum Lot Area | 465 square metres |
| | b) | Minimum Lot Frontage | 15.0 metres |
| | c) | Maximum Lot Coverage | 30 percent |
| | d) | Minimum Front Yard | 7.5 metres |
| | e) | Minimum Side Yard | 2.0 metres on one side and 4.5 metres on the other side |
| | | 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 |
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## SECTION 9 - RESIDENTIAL MULTIPLE ZONE (R2) REGULATIONS
## 9.1 Permitted Uses
No land shall be used in the Residential Multiple Zone (R2) except for the following purposes:
- a) la double duplex or fourplex dwelling
- c) townhouse or rowhouse dwelling
- b) a triplex dwelling
- d) apartment building
5. a home for the aged or retirement home
6. a boarding house, rooming house, lodging house, tourist house
- g) a home occupation
- h) accessory uses
## 9.2 Zone Provisions for a Double Duplex or Fourplex Dwelling
| | a) | Minimum Lot Area | 744 square metres |
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| | b) | Minimum Lot Frontage | 24.4 metres |
| | C) | Maximum Lot Coverage | 35 percent |
| | d) | Minimum Front Yard | 7.5 metres |
| | e) | Minimum Side Yard | 4.5 metres |
| | 1) | Minimum Exterior Side Yard | 6.0 metres |
| | | Minimum Rear Yard | 9.0 metres |
| | h) | Minimum Landscaped Open Space | 20 percent |
| | | Maximum Dwelling Height | 10.5 metres |
| | | Minimum Dwelling Unit Area | 80 square metres |
| 9.3 | Zone Provisions for a Triplex Dwelling | Zone Provisions for a Triplex Dwelling | Zone Provisions for a Triplex Dwelling |
| | a) | Minimum Lot Area | 690 square metres |
| | | b) Minimum Lot Frontage | 21.0 metres |
| | c) | Maximum Lot Coverage | 35 percent |
| | d) | Minimum Front Yard | 7.5 metres |
| | e) | Minimum Side Yard | 4.5 metres |
| | f) | Minimum Exterior Side Yard | 6.0 metres |
| | g) | Minimum Rear Yard | 9.0 metres |
| | h) | Minimum Landscaped Open Space | 20 percent |
| | i) | Maximum Dwelling Height | 10.5 metres |
| | | Minimum Dwelling Unit Area | 60 square metres |
| 9.4 | Zone Provisions for Street Townhouse or Rowhouse Dwellings | Zone Provisions for Street Townhouse or Rowhouse Dwellings | Zone Provisions for Street Townhouse or Rowhouse Dwellings |
| | | Minimum Lot Area per Unit | 230 square metres |
| | g | Minimum Lot Frontage per Unit | 6.7 metres |
| | c) | Maximum Lot Coverage | 40 percent |
| | d) | Minimum Front Yard | 6.0 metres |
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| | | Minimum Side Yard | 2.0 metres for end units. No interior side yard is required between the common vertical wall dividing one unit from another |
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| | | Minimum Exterior Side Yard | 4.5 metres, except where an entrance to a garage faces an exterior side yard, the minimum exterior side yard shall be 6.0 metres |
| | g) | Minimum Rear Yard | 7.5 metres |
| | | Maximum Dwelling Height | 10.5 metres |
| | i) | Minimum Dwelling Unit Area | 80 square metres |
| 9.5 | Zone Provisions for Block Townhouse or Rowhouse Dwellings | Zone Provisions for Block Townhouse or Rowhouse Dwellings | Zone Provisions for Block Townhouse or Rowhouse Dwellings |
| | | Minimum Lot Area per Unit | 285 square metres |
| | b) | Minimum Lot Frontage | 30.0 metres |
| | | Maximum Lot Coverage | 35 percent |
| | d) | Minimum Front Yard | 7.5 metres |
| | e) | Minimum Side Yard | 7.5 metres |
| | f) | Minimum Exterior Side Yard | 7.5 metres |
| | g) | Minimum Rear Yard | 7.5 metres |
| | h) | Minimum Distance Between any Townhouse Dwelling and an Internal Roadway or Parking Area | 6.0 metres |
| | i) | Minimum Landscaped Open Space | 25 percent |
| | j) | Maximum Dwelling Height | 10.5 metres |
| | | Minimum Dwelling Unit Area | 80 square metres |
| 9.6 | Zone Provisions for Apartment Building | Zone Provisions for Apartment Building | Zone Provisions for Apartment Building |
| | a) | Minimum Lot Area per Unit | 135 square metres |
| | b) | Minimum Lot Frontage | 30.0 metres |
| | c) | Maximum Lot Coverage | 35 percent |
| | d) | Minimum Front Yard | 7.5 metres |
| | | Minimum Side Yard | 6.0 metres, except that where the interior lot line abuts an R1 or R3 |
| | | | Zone, a minimum side yard equal to the building height is required, or whichever is greater |
| | f) | Minimum Exterior Side Yard | 7.5 metres |
| | | Minimum Rear Yard | 7.5 metres, except that where the rear lot line abuts an R1 or R3 Zone, a minimum rear yard equal to the building height is required, or |
| | | Minimum Distance Between Apartment Buildings on the Same Lot | whichever is greater 15 metres |
| i) | Minimum Landscaped Open | Minimum Landscaped Open | 30 percent |
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| j) k) | Space Maximum Dwelling Height Minimum Dwelling Unit Area | Space Maximum Dwelling Height Minimum Dwelling Unit Area | 10.5 metres |
| 1) | i) iii) | Bachelor Unit One Bedroom Unit Two Bedroom or More | 37 square metres 55 square metres 65 square metres Where an apartment building abuts a |
| | Buffer Strip | Buffer Strip | R1 or R3 Zone, a buffer strip shall be provided along the property line having a minimum width of 3.0 metres in compliance with Section 4.5 |
## 9.7 Zone Provisions for a Boarding House, Rooming House, Tourist House
| | Minimum Lot Area | 650 square metres |
|-----|-------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| b) | Minimum Lot Frontage | 18.0 metres |
| c) | Maximum Lot Coverage | 35 percent |
| d) | Minimum Front Yard | 7.5 metres |
| e) | Minimum Side Yard | 2.0 metres |
| f) | Minimum Exterior Side Yard | 4.5 metres, except that where an entrance to a garage faces an exterior side yard, the minimum exterior side yard shall be 6.0 metres |
| | Minimum Rear Yard | 9.0 metres |
| | Minimum Landscaped Open Space | 30 percent |
| i) | Maximum Dwelling Height | 10.5 metres |
| j) | Minimum Dwelling Unit Area | 110 square metres |
| K): | Minimum Guest Room Area | 9 square metres |
## SECTION 10 - MOBILE HOME RESIDENTIAL ZONE (R3) REGULATIONS
## . 10.1 Permitted Uses
No land shall be used in the Mobile Home Residential Zone (R3) except for the following purposes:
- a) a mobile home
- b) a modular dwelling
- c) accessory uses
## 10.2 Zone Provisions
| | Minimum Lot Area | 465 square metres |
|----|----------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------|
| | Minimum Lot Frontage | 12.0 metres |
| | Maximum Lot Coverage | 30 percent |
| | Minimum Front Yard | 7.5 metres |
| | Minimum Side Yard | 2.0 metres on one side and 4.5 metres on the other side |
| f) | Minimum Exterior Side Yard | 4.5 metres |
| 9) | Minimum Rear Yard | 7,5 metres |
| h) | Maximum Dwelling Height | 4.0 metres |
| 1) | Minimum Dwelling Unit Area | 45.0 square metres |
## SECTION 11 - MOBILE HOME PARK ZONE (MHP) REGULATIONS
## 11.1 Permitted Uses
No land shall be used in the Mobile Home Park Zone (MHP) except for the following purposes:
- a) mobile homes within in a mobile home park
- b) accessory uses
## 11.2 Zone Provisions
- a) Minimum Lot Area
- Mobile Home Park
- il) Mobile Home Site Area
- b) Minimum Lot Frontage
- 1) Mobile Home Park
- Mobile Home Site
- C) Maximum Lot Coverage
- Mobile Home Park
- Mobile Home Site 35 percent
- Minimum Front Yard
- Mobile Home Park
- il) Mobile Home Site 6.0 metres
- e) Minimum Side Yard
- Mobile Home Park
- il) Mobile Home Site 1.2 metres
- Minimum Exterior Side Yard
- Mobile Home Park
- ii) Mobile Home Site 2.0 metres
- Minimum Rear Yard
- i)
- Mobile Home Park 9.0 Metres
- )Mobile Home Site 6.0 metres
- Minimum Landscaped Open Space
- Maximum Dwelling Height 4.0 metres
- Minimum Dwelling Unit Area
- 2.0 hectares
- 275 square metres
- 90 metres
- 10 metres
- 45 percent
- 9.0 metres
- 7.5 metres
- 9.0 metres
10 percent
45 square metres
## SECTION 12 - SEASONAL RESIDENTIAL ZONE (SR) REGULATIONS
## 12.1 Permitted Uses
No land shall be used in the Seasonal Residential Zone (SR) except for the following purposes:
- a) a cottage or cabin
- b) accessory uses
## 12.2 Zone Provisions
- a) Minimum Lot Area
- Minimum Lot Frontage
- c) Maximum Lot Coverage
- d) Minimum Setback from Water
- docks, boathouses, pumphouses
- other uses 15.0 metres
- Minimum Front Yard
- Minimum Side Yard 10.0 metres
- Minimum Rear Yard 15.0 metres
- Maximum Dwelling Height 7.5 metres
- Minimum Dwelling Unit Area i)
0.4 hectares
40.0 metres
- 15 percent
- nil
15.0 metres
37 square metres
- e)
- f)
- g)
- h)
## 12.3 Access
Lots with water frontage or water access only must have boat launching, docking and vehicle parking facilities to support the water access.
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## SECTION 13 - HIGHWAY COMMERCIAL ZONE (C1) REGULATIONS
## 13.1 Permitted Uses
No land shall be used in the Highway Commercial Zone (C1) except for the following purposes:
- a) hotel
- C) tourist commercial establishment
- b) motel
- d) commercial or private club
5. recreational vehicle and motor vehicle sales, leasing, equipment and service establishment
6. automobile service station or public garage
7. restaurant
8. tavern
9. retail or service store
10. builders supply outlet
11. contractor's yard
12. bulk storage and sales establishment
13. bus terminal
14. gardening centre
- p) tourist outfitters establishment
16. animal hospital or veterinary clinic
17. grocery store
18. financial institution
19. general or professional office
20. assay laboratory
21. bake shop or bakery
22. community centre
23. taxi service establishment
24. undertaking establishment
25. commercial school
26. aa) flea market
27. entertainment facilities, but not a racetrack for motorized vehicles
28. bb) shopping centre
29. CC) an accessory dwelling unit or mobile home for a caretaker, owner or manager of a permitted use
30. accessory uses, including chipwagon, ice cream truck or catering truck and
## 13.2 Zone Provisions for Commercial Uses
- Minimum Lot Area
- i) Unserviced
- il) Serviced
- Minimum Lot Frontage
- i) Unserviced
- Serviced
0.8 hectare
750.0 square metres
50.0 metres
20.0 metres
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- c) Maximum Lot Coverage
e)
1)
- g) Minimum Rear Yard
- h) Minimum Landscaped Open Space
- k) Buffer Strip
- 1) Unserviced
- 1l) Serviced
Minimum Front Yard
Minimum Side Yard
Minlmum Exterior Side Yard
- Maximium Hoight
- Minimum Floor Area
- 30 percent
50 percant
15.0 metres
7.5 metres
10.0 metres
7.5 metres
20 percent
- 12.0 metros
60 square metres
Where a Highway Commercial Zone (C1) abuts a residential, institutional or open space zone, a buffer strip shall be provided along the property line having a minimum width of 3.0 metres in compliance with Section 4.5
## 13.3 Zone Provisions for Automobile Service Stations and Public Garages
Notwithstanding any other provision of this By-law, where a lot is used for an automobile service station or public garage, the following regulations shall apply:
a)
i)
j)
K)
Minimum Lot Area
i)
)Unserviced
Serviced
Minimum Lot Frontage
i)
Unserviced
Serviced
Maximum Lot Coverage
Minimum Front Yard
Minimum Side Yard
Minimum Exterior Side Yard
Minimum Rear Yard
Minimum Landscaped Open
Space
Maximum Building Height
Minimum Floor Area
Buffer Strip
0.8 hectare
1000 square metres
36.0 metras
25.0 metres
35 percent
15.0 metres
4,5 metres
7,5 metres
7.5 metres
10 percent
- 1) Outside Storage
10.5 metres
40 square metres
Where an automobile service station or public garage 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 in compliance with Section 4.5
Outside storage is prohibited, except merchandise offered for sale
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## 13.4 Zone Provisions for Accessory Dwelling Unit
15.0 metres
- a) Minimum Front Yard
- Minimum Side Yard
- c). Minimum Rear Yard
- Maximum Building Height
- e) Minimum Dwelling Unit Area
15.0 metres
15.0 metres
10.5 metres
45 square metres
## SECTION 14 - GENERAL COMMERCIAL ZONE (C2) REGULATIONS
## 14.1 Permitted Uses
No land shall be used in the General Commercial Zone (C2) except for the following purposes:
- a) retail or service store
- C) financial institution
- b) general or professional office
- d) commercial or private club
- f) gas bar
- e) theatre
7. automobile service station, public garage
8. florist
9. barber shop, beauty salon
10. motor vehicle or recreation vehicle sales, leasing and storage establishment
11. restaurant, tavern
12. bowling alley
- n) community centre
14. pool room or billiard room
15. laundromat or dry cleaning establishment
16. bake shop or bakery
17. undertaking establishment
18. taxi service establishment
19. parking lot
20. post office
- u) a hotel or a motel
- V) tourist home
- W) gift shop or craft shop
- x) grocery store
- y) shoe repair
- Z) commercial school
27. aa) shopping centre
28. CC) accessory manufacturing to a retail or service store provided the manufacturing does not exceed 50 percent of the floor area and the products manufactured are primarily for sale at retail on the premises
29. bb) seaplane base and docking facilities
30. dd) accessory uses, including an accessory apartment dwelling unit above or behind a permitted use
## 14.2 Zone Provisions for Commercial Uses
- b) Minimum Lot Frontage
- c) Maximum Lot Coverage
- d) Minimum Front Yard
- e) Minimum Side Yard
- Minimum Lot Area
465 square metres
15.0 metres
60 percent
1.0 metres
1.0 metres
4.5 metres
| h) i) k) | Minimum Exterior Side Yard Minimum Rear Yard Minimum Landscaped Open Space Maximum Height Minimum Floor Area Buffer Strip | 6.0 metres none 10.5 metres 60 square metres Where a General Commercial Zone (C1) abuts a residential, institutional or open space zone, a buffer strip shall be provided along the property |
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## 14.3 Zone Provisions for Automobile Service Stations and Public Garages
In accordance with the provisions set out in Section 13.3.
## 14.4 Zone Provisions for Seaplane Base and Docking Facilities
0.6 hectare
| | Minimum Lot Area | |
|----|------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| g | Minimum Lot Frontage | 46.0 metres |
| | Maximum Lot Coverage | 30 percent |
| d) | Minimum Front Yard i) abutting a road abutting water | 9.0 metres 20.0 metres |
| e) | Minimum Side Yard | 7.5 metres |
| | Minimum Exterior Side Yard | 10.0 metres |
| | Minimum Rear Yard | 9.0 metres |
| | Maximum Building Height | 9.0 metres |
| | Minimum Floor Area | 55 square metres |
| | Buffer Strip | Where a seaplane base abuts a residential, institutional or open space zone, a buffer strip shall be provided along the property line having a minimum width of 3.0 metres in compliance with Section 4.5 |
## 14.5 Zone Provisions for Accessory Apartment Dwelling Unit
a)
Dwelling units are not permitted in a cellar or basement
b)
Location
Minimum Dwelling Unit Area
Bachelor Unit
One Bedroom Unit
ili)
Two Bedroom or More
Minimum Amenity Area per
Dwelling Unit
37 square metres
55 square metres
65 square metres
9 square metres
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## SECTION 15 - NEIGHBOURHOOD COMMERCIAL ZONE (C3) REGULATIONS
## 15.1 Permitted Uses
No land shall be used in the Neighbourhood Commercial Zone (C3) except for the following purposes:
- a) convenience store
- c) laundromat
3. dry cleaning establishment
- d) florist shop
- e) barber shop
- g) accessory apartment dwelling unit
7. beauty salon
## 15.2 Zone Provisions for Commercial Uses
- a) Minimum Lot Area
- c) Maximum Lot Coverage
- d) Minimum Front Yard
- Minimum Lot Frontage
- Minimum Side Yard
- Minimum Exterior Side Yard
- Minimum Rear Yard
- h) Minimum Landscaped Open Space
15.0 metres
40 percent
7.5 metres
3.0 metres, except where the interior
side yard abuts a Residential Zone or
use, 4.5 metres is required
- 4.5 metres
7.5 metres, except where the rear
yard abuts a Residential Zone or use,
- 9.0 metres is required
- 20 percent
- 1) Maximum Height
- j) Minimum Floor Area
- k) Outside Storage
- 10.5 metres
- 60 square metres
none permitted
465 square metres
- 15.3 Zone Provisions for Accessory Apartment Dwelling Unit In accordance with the provisions set out in Section 14.5.
## SECTION 16 - TOURIST COMMERCIAL ZONE (TC) REGULATIONS
## 16.1 Permitted Uses
No land shall be used in the Tourist Commercial Zone (TC) except for the following purposes:
- tourist camps and cabins
- tourist outfitters establishment
- c) camping ground or trailer park
- d) hunting and fishing camps
- e) marinas
- f) restaurants
- g) lodges
- h) convention centres
- i) → seaplane base and docking facilities
- j) boat launching and docking facilities
- k) accessory uses including accessory dwelling unit or mobile home for the owner, caretaker, manager or proprietor of the tourist commercial establishment
## 16.2 Zone Provisions
- a) Minimum Lot Area
- b) Minimum Lot Frontage
- C) Maximum Lot Coverage
- d) Minimum Front Yard
- e)
- Minimum Side Yard 9.0 metres
- Minimum Exterior Side Yard 9.0 metres
- g)
- h) Minimum Setback from Water
- Minimum Rear Yard 9.0 metres
- i) nil
- docks, boathouses, pumphouses
- ii)
- other uses 9.0 metres
- i) Maximum Building Height 7.5 metres
- i) Minimum Floor Area
- i)
- Guest Cabin 28 square metres
- ii) Other Uses 55 square metres
- 0.8 hectares
30.0 metres
- 25 percent
9.0 metres
## 16.2 Zone Provisions for Accessory Dwelling Unit
In accordance with the provisions set out in Section 13.4.
## 16.3 Access
Lots with water frontage and water access only must have boat launching, docking, vehicular parking facilities and/or float plane access to support the water access.
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## SECTION 17 - INDUSTRIAL ZONE (M1) REGULATIONS
## 17.1 Permitted Uses
No land shall be used in the Industrial Zone (M1) except for the following purposes:
- a) light industrial workshop
- c) an equipment sales and servicing establishment
3. buildings to house automotive sales and service
4. blacksmith or welder's shop
5. г) concrete products factory
- e) carpenter or joiner's shop
7. warehouse and bulk storage
8. forest products processing plant
9. sawmill
10. fish packing and processing plant
11. machine shop
- m) trucking depot and transportation terminal
13. hydro generating or distribution station
14. road maintenance and works yards
15. sewage treatment plant
- 0) communication transmission facility
- 9) water treatment plant
- S) airport and airport related buldings on land associated with the Pickle Lake airport
19. automobile wrecking yard or salvage yard -
20. aircraft repair and maintenance establishment
- V) bulk storage and sales establishment
- 4) contractor's bulding and yard
- W) waste disposal site
- X) abattoir
- z) mining and mineral exploration
- y) manufacturing, processing and assembly
27. aa) weather station
28. cc) wayside pits and quarries
29. bb) aggregate extraction and processing including crushing, screening, washing
30. dd) a portable asphalt plant
31. ff) accessory uses including offices, retail uses and a single detached dwelling unit or mobile home for a owner, manager, caretaker or one person and his amily employed by a manufacturing or industrial operation or permittec use.
32. ee) federal/provincial buldings
## 17.2 Zone Provisions for Industrial Uses
- a) Minimum Lot Area
- i) Unserviced
- ii) Serviced
- 1.2 hectare 4000 square metres
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| b) | Minimum Lot Frontage Unserviced | 40.0 metres |
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| c) | il) Serviced Maximum Lot Coverage 1) Serviced Unserviced | 30.0 metres |
| | | 35 percent 50 percent |
| d) | Minimum Front Yard | 18.0 metres |
| e) | Minimum Side Yard | 10.0 metres |
| 1) | Minimum Exterior Side Yard | 10.0 metres |
| g) | Minimum Rear Yard | 10.0 metres |
| h) | Minimum Yard abutting a Residential, Institutional or Open | |
| i) | Space Use Minimum Landscaped Open Space | 20.0 metres 10 percent |
| k) | Maximum Building Height | 12 metres 140 square metres |
| j) | Minimum Floor Area | |
| 1) | Buffer Strip | Where an industrial use abuts 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 in compliance with Section 4.5 except automobile wrecking yards and salvage yards shall be in compliance with Section 4.3 |
| m) | Retail Use Area | maximum of 5% of the ground floor area or 278 square metres, whichever is the greater Outside operations and storage of |
| n) | Outside Storage | goods and materials including refuse containers are not permitted within 9.0 metres of Residential Zone. Outside operations and storage of goods and materials including refuse |
| | | containers shall be permitted in the required front, rear yard and interior side yard and in the case of a corner lot, not within the required exterior yard setback. Outside operations and storage of goods and materials including refuse containers are to be screened from the view of adjacent streets by means of fencing and/or landscaping features. |
## 17.3 Zone Provisions for Waste Disposal Sites
- a) Minimum Lot Area
- b) Minimum Lot Frontage
- C) Maximum Lot Coverage
- e) Minimum Side Yard
- () Minimum Rear Yard
- i) Buffer Strip
- Minimum Front Yard
- Minimum Yard abutting a Residential, Institutional or Open Space Use
- Maximum Building Height
100.0 metres
1 percent
30.0 metres
30.0 metres
30.0 metres
45.0 metres
10.5 metres where a waste disposal site abuts a residential, institutional or open space zone a buffer strip, together with screening measures shall be provided along the property line having a minimum width of 6.0 metres in compliance with Section 4.5
20.0 hectare
## 17.4 Zone Provisions for Aggregate Extraction and Processing Uses
- 4.0 hectare
100.0 metres
- b) Minimum Lot Frontage
- c) Maximum Lot Coverage
1 percent
15.0 metres
30.0 metres
:30.0 metres
- e) Minimum Setback for Building, Equipment, Machinery, or Stockpiling
- f) Minimum Setback for Blasting Operations
- Minimum Lot Area
- Minimum Excavation Setback
- i) from lot line
- ii) from road allowance
- iii) from abutting lands used for residential, institutional, commercial or recreational uses
- iv) from abutting any lands zoned for Residential uses
- i) from lot line
- from road allowance
- from lands used or zoned for residential purposes
- Buffer Strip
30.0 metres
30.0 metres
30.0 metres
90.0 metres
450 metres
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 in compliance with Section 4.5
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## 17.5 Zone Provisions for Mining Operations
| | Minimum Lots Area | |
|----|----------------------------------------------------------------------|-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| | Minimum Lot Frontage | 200.0 metres |
| c) | Maximum Lot Coverage | 5 percent |
| d) | Minimum Front Yard | 30.0 metres |
| e) | Minimum Side Yard | 30.0 metres |
| | Minimum Rear Yard | 30.0 metres |
| | Minimum Yard abutting a Residential, Institutional or Open Space Use | 150.0 metres |
| | Maximum Building Height | 7.5 metres Where a mining operation abuts a |
| i) | Buffer Strip | Residential, Institutional, Open Space or a Tourist Commercial Zone, a buffer strip 120.0 metres in width is required |
5.0 hectares
## 17.6 Zone Provisions for Accessory Single Detached Dwelling Unit
15.0 metres
- b) Minimum Side Yard
- C) Minimum Rear Yard
- d) Maximum Building Height
- e) Minimum Floor Area
- Minimum Front Yard
15.0 metres
15.0 metres
10.5 metres
45 square metres
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## SECTION 18 - INSTITUTIONAL ZONE (I) REGULATIONS
## 18.1 Permitted Uses
No land shall be used in the Institutional Zone (1) except for the following purposes:
- a) hospital
- c) school or other educational institution
3. medical or dental clinic
- d) church, synagogue, church hall or religious institution
- f) goverment office
- e) library or cultural institution
- g) post office
- h) fire hall
9. arena
10. community centre
11. animal shelter
- m) cemetery
- 1) assembly hall, club or fratemal organization
- n) police station
15. accessory uses
## 18.2 Zone Provisions
- b) Minimum Lot Frontage
- c) Maximum Lot Coverage
- d) Minimum Front Yard
- e) Minimum Side Yard
- f) Minimum Rear Yard
- 9) Maximum Building Height
- Minimum Lot Area
- Unserviced
- i) Serviced
- 1.2 hectares
465 square metres
15.0 metres
50 percent
7.5 metres
3.0 metres
7.5 metres
10.5 metres
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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:
- public and private parks, playgrounds, playing fields and sports and recreation facilities
- c) arena
- b) recreation or community centres
- d) beach
- picnic facilities
- e) curling rink
- g) docks and launching ramp
- campground
- h) conservation area
- j) marina
- 1) golf course
- K) fairgrounds
- m) golf driving range
- n) accessory uses
## 19.2 Zone Provisions
- a) Minimum Lot Area
- b) Minimum Lot Frontage
- c) Maximum Lot Coverage
- d) Minimum Front Yard
- f) Minimum Rear Yard
- g) Maximum Building Height
- h) Minimum Floor Area
- Unserviced
- il) Serviced
- Unserviced
- i) Serviced
- Minimum Side Yard
- 0.4 hectares no minimum required
- 30.0 metres
no minimum required
15 percent
7.5 metres
10.0 metres
10.0 metres
10.5 metres
50.0 square metres
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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:
- forestry management uses
- electric power generation and transmission
- wildlife management, conservation area
- mineral exploration
- public and private parks, including playgrounds, picnic facilities, sportfields, tennis courts, golf course, outdoor natural rinks and docks. 1)
## 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.
- 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
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## SECTION 21 - HOLDING ZONE (H) REGULATIONS
21.1
The Holding Zone (H) limits development on lots to which it applies until such time as Council adopts a by-law, pursuant to Section 35 of the Planning Act, 1990, removing the Holding (H) symbol. When the Holding (H) symbol is removed, the regulations of the parent zone which applies to the lot will come into force.
## 21.2 Permitted Uses
No land with the Holding (H) Zone symbol in place shall be used, except for the following purposes:
- a) existing uses
2. g accessory uses
## 21.3 Zone Provisions
- a) Minimum Lot Area
- b) Minimum Lot Frontage
- e) Minimum Floor Area
- g) Minimum Side Yard
- h) Minimum Rear Yard
- Maximum Lot Coverage
- Maximum Height
- Minimum Front Yard
as existing
as existing
10 percent
10.5 metres
70 square metres
7.5 metres
7.5 metres
7.5 metres
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## SECTION 22 - EXCEPTIONS
The following provisions shall have effect notwithstanding anything else in this By-law and the other provisions of this By-law shall be deemed to be amended insofar as is necessary to give effect hereto:
Exception Numbers (Used with Various Zoning Classifications as Shown on Schedules "A", "B" and "C")
## Provisions
Semi-Detached Dwelling Unit:
| | R1-1 | | |
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| | (Schedule "B") | Minimum Lot Area Minimum Floor Area | 233 square metres per unit 55.5 square metres |
| | RR-1 (Schedule "B" & "C") | Minimum Lot Area Minimum Lot Area | 1.0 hectare |
| 3. | RR-2 (Schedule "C") | Minimum Lot Frontage | 0.4 hectare 60 metres |
| | M1-1 (Schedule "C") | Permitted Uses: | a light industrial workshop inside storage equipment service a welder's shop a carpenter's shop a machine shop an accessory office an accessory dwelling unit |
| | | Minimum Lot Area Minimum Lot Frontage Maximum Lot Coverage Maximum Building Height Minimum Floor Area Minimum Front Yard Minimum Side Yard Minimum Rear Yard | 0.8 hectare 60 metres 35 percent 12.0 metres 90 square metres 6.0 metres 3.0 metres 7.5 metres |
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If no notice of objection is filed with the Clerk within the time provided, this By-law shall come into force and take effect on the date of passing by the Council of the Corporation of the Township of Pickle Lake, in accordance with Section 34 of the Planning Act, 1990
If a notice of objection is filed with the Clerk, this By-law shall become effective on the date of passing hereof, subject to receiving the approval of the Ontario Municipal Board.
Read a first and second time this 26th day of February, 2002.
Read a third time and finally passed this 26i day of February, 2002.
Original Signed - R. Hoffman Mayor - R. Hoffman
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\_Original Signed - C. Hochstetler Acting Clerk - C. Hochstetler
## CONVERSION TABLE (APPROXIMATE)
| Metres | Feet | Square Metres | Square Feet |
|----------|--------|-----------------|---------------|
| 0.5 | 2.0 | 1 | 10 |
| 1.0 | 3.0 | 9.0 | |
| 1.5 | 5.0 | 16.75 | |
| 2.0 | 6.5 | 20.0 | |
| 2.5 | 8.0 | 28.0 | |
| 3.0 | 10.0 | 37.0 | |
| 3.5 | 11.0 | | |
| 4.0 | 13.0 | | |
| 4.5 | 15.0 | | |
| 6.0 | 20.0 | | |
| 7.5 | 25.0 | | |
| 9.0 | 30.0 | | |
| 10.0 | 33.0 | 110.0 | |
| 10.5 | 34.0 | 140.0 | |
| 12.0 | 39.0 | 232.0 | |
| 15.0 | 49.0 | 275.0 | |
| 18.0 | 59.0 | 372.0 | |
| 20.0 | 66.0 | 465.0 | |
| 24.4 | 80.0 | 557.0 | |
| 30.0 | 98.0 | 650.0 | |
| 90 | 295.0 | 700 | |
| 100.0 | 328.0 | 744 | |
| Hectares | Acres |
|------------|---------|
| 0.4 | 1.0 |
| 0.8 | 2.0 |
| 1.2 | 3.0 |
| 4.0 | 10.0 |
| 20.0 | 50.0 |
| 32.0 | 80.0 |
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Conversion Factors:
Metres to Feet multiply by 3.2808 Square Metres to Square Feet multiply by 10.7642 Hectares to Acres multiply by 2.4707
NOTE: The above tables are for convenience only and do not form part of this By-law.
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## ILLUSTRATION OF YARD DEFINITIONS
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## ILLUSTRATION OF LOT DEFINITIONS
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## ILLUSTRATION OF CELLAR AND BASEMENT DEFINITIONS
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FRONT NOTE: The above illustrations are for clarification and convenience and do not iorm part of this By-law.
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