ZONING BY-LAW 17-91
SECTION 5
DEFINITIONS
Updated and
consolidated to
By-Law No. 16-95 passed
Definitions: Hunt Camp,
By-Law No. 10-04 passed
Definitions: Grade, Grade
Established, Hot Tub, revise Height of Buildings
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Saved: By-Laws/Zoning Definitions
5.1
ACCESSORY
A use, separate
building or structure, which is usually incidental, subordinate, exclusively
devoted to and located on the same lot as the principal use, building or
structure but not including a building or structure which is used as a dwelling
unless specifically permitted.
5.2
AGRICULTURAL
BUILDING
Any building or structure
customarily used in connection with a farm other than a residence.
5.3
AGRICULTURAL
USE
Any agricultural use or uses,
structures or buildings accessory thereto, including field crops, animal
husbandry, tree nurseries and any other use customarily carried on in the field
of general agriculture, including the sale on the premises of produce grown or
raised on the premises.
5.4
ATTACHED
A building otherwise complete
in itself, which depends, for structural support or complete enclosure, upon a
division wall or walls shared in common with adjacent building or buildings.
5.5
AUTOMOBILE
SERVICE STATION
A building or place where
gasoline, oil, grease, antifreeze, tires, tubes, tire accessories, electric
light bulbs, sparkplugs and batteries for motor vehicles are stored or kept for
sale, or where motor vehicles may be oiled, greased or washed or have their
ignition adjusted, tires inflated or batteries charged, or where only minor or
running repairs essential to the actual operation of motor vehicles are
executed or performed.
5.6
BED
AND BREAKFAST ESTABLISHMENT
Bed and Breakfast
Establishment shall mean a one family dwelling in which no more than 3 guest
rooms are made available for temporary accommodation of the traveling or
vacationing public. Such an
establishment may offer light meals to those persons temporarily residing at
the establishment. A Bed and Breakfast
Establishment shall not include a Restaurant or a Tourist Establishment.
5.7
BOATHOUSE
Any building space or enclosure in which one or more boats, ships or float planes
are stored, kept or repaired.
5.8
BUILDING
A structure
consisting of a wall, roof and floor or any of them or a structural system
serving the same purpose and including any tents, awnings and carports.
5.9
BUILDING
SUPPLY AND LUMBER OUTLET
A building or structure in
which building or construction and home improvements materials are offered or
kept for sale at retail and may include the fabrication of certain materials
related to home improvements but does not include any use or activity otherwise
defined or classified herein.
5.10
BULK
FUEL DEPOT
Lands, buildings and
structures for the storage, distribution of fuels and oils but not including
retail sales or key lock operations.
5.11
BUSINESS,
PROFESSIONAL OFFICE OR ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE
A building or part of 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 treatment and
may include the administrative offices of a non-profit or charitable
organization.
5.12
CABIN
A cabin for sleeping that is
not a dwelling unit as herein defined.
5.13
CABIN
ESTABLISHMENT
A tourist establishment
comprised of 2 or more cabins arranged singled or in pairs and which does not
provide cooking facilities.
5.14
CAMPING
ESTABLISHMENT
A tourist establishment
consisting of at least 5 camping sites and comprising land used or maintained
as grounds for the camping or temporary parking of trailers, motorized mobile
homes, truck campers, campers or tents, and licensed under the Tourism Act.
5.15
An area within a camping
establishment of at least 186 sq m that is occupied on a temporary basis only,
by the trailer, motorized home, truck camper, camper or tent, but not a mobile
home.
5.16
CEMETERY
The land that is
set apart or used as a place for the internment of the dead or in which human
bodies have been buried.
5.17
CHIEF
BUILDING OFFICIAL
An official employed by the
Township appointed under the Building By-Law or pursuant to the provisions of
the Building Code Act, R.S.O. 1980, c.51, as amended, and shall include any
Inspector likewise employed and appointed.
5.18
COMMERCIAL
NURSERY AND/OR GREENHOUSE
A building and/or land for the
growing of flowers, fruits, vegetables, plants, shrubs, trees and/or similar
vegetation which is sold directly from such building or lot at retail.
5.19
CONTRACTOR’S
YARD
A yard of any general
contractor or builder where equipment and materials are stored or where a
contractor performs shop or assembly work but does not include any other yard
or establishment otherwise defined or classified herein.
5.20
CONVENIENCE
STORE
A retail commercial
establishment, not exceeding 140 sq m of gross floor area, supplying groceries
and other daily household necessities to the immediate surrounding area.
5.21
CORPORATION
The Corporation of
the
5.22
COTTAGE
A building within a cottage
establishment to accommodate 1 or more guests which contains at least 2 rooms;
which is at least partially furnished; and which provides facilities to permit
the guest to prepare and cook food.
5.23
COTTAGE
ESTABLISHMENT
A tourist establishment
comprising 2 or more cottages owned or leased by the same person.
5.24
COUNCIL
The Council of the
Corporation of the
5.25
DAY
NURSERIES
A day nursery operated for
pre-school age children within the meaning of the Day Nurseries Act, R.S.O.
1980, c.111, as amended.
5.26
DOCK
A structure for the mooring of
boats attached to or forming part of the mainland, not to exceed a height of 1
m above the high water mark.
5.27.
DWELLING
A building or part of a
building occupied or capable of being occupied, in whole or in part as the
home, residence or sleeping place of 1 or more persons either continuously,
permanently, temporarily or transiently but shall not include a mobile home
having less than 80 sq m in area.
5.28 DWELLING, ACCESSORY
A use, separate building, or
structure, which is usually incidental, subordinate, exclusively devoted to and
located on the same lot as the principal use, building or structure but not
including another dwelling.
5.29
DWELLING,
APARTMENT
A separate building
containing 3 or more dwelling units.
5.30
DWELLING,
CONVERTED
A building originally
constructed as a single detached dwelling unit of at least 225 sq m of gross
floor area which has been converted by partition and/or the addition of
sanitary and cooking facilities into more than 1 dwelling unit but less than 5
dwelling units.
5.31
DWELLING,
DETACHED
A detached building
containing 1 dwelling unit only.
5.32
DWELLING,
DUPLEX
The whole of a 2 storey building
divided horizontally into separate dwelling units, each of which has an
independent entrance either directly or through a common vestibule.
5.33
DWELLING,
SEMI-DETACHED
The whole of a building
divided vertically into 2 separate dwelling units.
5.34
DWELLING,
TOWNHOUSE
A dwelling unit in a building
divided vertically into no less than 3 nor more than 8 dwelling units attached
by common walls extended from the base of the foundation to the roof line, each
dwelling unit have a separate entrance at grade.
5.35
DWELLING
UNIT
A room or rooms in
which a kitchen, living quarters and sanitary conveniences are provided for the
exclusive use of the residents and with a private entrance from outside the
building or from a common hallway or stairway inside.
5.36
DWELLING
UNIT, ACCESSORY
A separate dwelling
unit which is contained in a building which was originally designed as a single
family dwelling and continues to be occupied by the owner.
5.37
ESTABLISHED
BUILDING LINE
The average
distance from the street line or shoreline to existing buildings in any block
where more than half the frontage has been built upon, at the date of passing
of this by-law.
5.38
FARM
Any farming or agricultural
use and includes apiaries; aviaries; berry or bush crops; breeding, raising,
training or boarding of horses or cattle; commercial greenhouses; farms devoted
to the hatching, raising and marketing of chickens, turkeys, or other fowl or
game birds, animals, fish or frogs; farms for grazing; flower gardening; field
crops; goat or cattle dairies; growing, raising, picking, treating and storing
of vegetables or fruit produce produced on the premises; nurseries; orchards;
riding stables; the raising of sheep or goats; the raising of swine; tree
crops; market gardening; bee keeping; wood lots; such uses or enterprises as
are customarily carried on in the field of general agriculture. “Farm” includes a single family dwelling house, and such principal or main buildings and structures
as a barn or silo, as well as accessory buildings and structures which are incidental
to the operation of the farm.
5.39
FARM,
SPECIALIZED
Any land on which the
predominant economic activity consists of raising chickens, turkeys, or other
fowl, the raising of fur bearing animals, the raising of swine, goats, horses,
or cattle on feed lots, the raising or boarding of dogs or cats or the growing
of mushrooms.
5.40
FINISHED
GRADE
The average
elevation of the finished surface of the ground at ground level on any one side
of a building or structure.
5.41
FLOOR
AREA, GROSS
The total floor area, as
hereinafter defined, exclusive of any portion of the building or structure
below finished grade measured between the exterior faces of the exterior walls
which is used for heating, the storage of goods or personal effects, laundry
facilities, recreational areas, the storage or parking of motor vehicles,
exclusive of any private garage, carport, basement, walkout basement, cellar,
porch, verandah, deck or sunroom unless such sunroom is habitable during all
seasons of the year.
5.42
FLOOR
AREA, GROUND
The maximum ground floor area
of a building measured by the outside walls, excluding, in the case of a
dwelling house, any private garage, carport, porch, verandah, deck or sunroom
unless such sunroom is habitable at all seasons of the year.
5.43
GARAGE,
PRIVATE
A detached accessory building
or portion of a dwelling house which is designed or used for the sheltering of
a private motor vehicle and storage of household equipment incidental to the
residential occupancy and which is fully enclosed and roofed and excludes a
carport or other open shelter.
5.44
GOLF
COURSE
A public or private
area operated for the purpose of playing golf, and include a par 3 golf
course, club house and recreational facilities, accessory driving ranges and
miniature golf courses, and similar uses.
5.45
GRADE
The level of the
ground adjacent to the outside wall of a building or structure.
5.46
GRADE,
ESTABLISHED
The average surface elevation
at the outside walls of any building or structure, which is determined by
taking the arithmetic mean of the levels of the finished ground surface at
every location of change of grade at the outside walls of the building or
structure.
5.47
GROUP
HOME
A single detached dwelling
unit in which not more than 10 persons, having physical, social or mental
handicaps reside in a household under the appropriate supervision of
supervisory personel, who may also reside in the
dwelling unit, and which is licensed and/or approved for funding under
provincial statutes and in compliance with municipal by-laws. A dwelling unit occupied for the purpose of
providing shelter for persons on parole or released from penal institutions, or
for persons ordered to reside there as a result of a conviction of a criminal
offence is not a group home.
5.48
GUEST
CABIN
A single storey
accessory structure which is not attached to the main dwelling on a lot, which
is maintained for the accommodation of an individual or individuals where
facilities for cooking are not provided.
5.49
HEAVY
EQUIPMENT SALES AND RENTAL
A building or part of a
building or structure in which heavy machinery and equipment are offered or
kept for sale, rent, lease or hire under agreement for compensation, but shall
not include any other establishment defined or classified in this by-law.
5.50
HEIGHT
OF BUILDINGS
The vertical distance, measured
between the average established grade at all points around a building, and:
a) in
the case of a flat roof, the highest point of the roof surface;
b) in
the case of a mansard roof, the deck roof line; and,
c) in the case of a gable, hip or gambrel roof, the average
height between the eaves and ridge.
Accessory roof constructions,
such as chimneys, towers, steeples or television antennas, shall be disregarded
in calculating the height of a building.
5.51
HIGH
WATER MARK SETBACK
Shall mean the horizontal
distance from the normal or maintained high water mark of a lake, river or
stream to the nearest part of any building or structure for which a setback is
required.
5.52
HOME
INDUSTRY
Any occupation of an
industrial nature conducted entirely within a building or part of a building
accessory to a single detached dwelling house.
5.53
HOME
OCCUPATION
An occupation carried on by
the occupant of a dwelling on his premises as a secondary use in connection
with which there is no display, no stock in trade nor
commodity sold upon the premises and may include a Day Nursery or a Bed and
Breakfast Establishment.
5.54
HOTEL
A building or part of a
building that contains a general kitchen and dining room and other public
rooms, the remaining rooms of which contain no provision for cooking, and are
usually hired by transients as places of abode; and includes a hostel for men
or women.
5.55
HOT
TUB
A structure that is
designed to contain water that is heated above normal body temperature for rest
and relaxation.
5.56
HUNT
CAMP
Shall mean a building or
structure having an area of 140 sq m or less and which may include facilities
for the preparation of food and the overnight accommodation of hunters on a
temporary basis, during the hunting and fishing seasons only, but shall not
include any other use or establishment as may be otherwise defined or
classified in this by-law.
5.57
IMPROVED
5.58
LANDSCAPED
OPEN SPACE
The open unobstructed space
from ground to sky at grade on a lot accessible by walking and which is
suitable for the growth and maintenance of grass, flowers, trees, bushes and
other landscaping and includes any surfaced walk, patio or similar area but
does not include any driveway or ramp, whether surfaced or not, any curb,
retaining wall, parking area or any open space beneath or within any building
or structure.
5.59
LAUNDROMAT
A building or structure where
the service of coin operated laundry machines, using only water, detergents and
additives, are made available to the public for the purpose of laundry
cleaning. This shall include a dry
cleaning establishment.
5.60
LIGHT
EQUIPMENT SALES AND RENTAL ESTABLISHMENT
A building or structure or
part of a building or structure in which light machinery and equipment such as
air compressors and related tools and accessories; augers; automotive tools;
cleaning equipment; light compaction equipment; concrete and masonry equipment;
electric tools and accessories; fastening devices such as staplers and tackers; floor and carpet tools; gasoline generators; jacks
and hydraulic equipment; lawn and garden tools; ladders; moving equipment;
painting and decorating equipment; pipe tools and accessories; plumbing tools
and accessories; pumps; hoses; scaffolding; welding equipment; and, other
similar tools and appurtenances are offered or kept for rent, lease or hire
under agreement for compensation, but shall not include any other establishment
defined or classified in this by-law.
5.61
A parcel or tract of land described
in a deed or other legal document which is legally capable of being conveyed.
5.62
The total horizontal area
within the lot lines of a lot.
5.63
A lot situated at the
intersection of 2 or more streets, or at the intersection of a street and a
railway right-of-way, or a lot abutting on 1 or more parts of the same street,
in which an interior angle of less than 135 degrees is contained, between the
front and side lot lines abutting by the said street or streets.
5.64
The percent of the
lot area covered by buildings or structures excluding parking areas, driveways
and walkways.
5.64(a) LOT FRONTAGE
Means the horizontal distance between the interior
and/or exterior lot lines, with
such distance being
measured perpendicularly to the line joining the middle of the front lot line
with the middle of the rear lot line and a point therein 8 m from the front lot
line. In the case of a corner lot with a
daylighting triangle, the exterior lot line shall be
deemed to extend to its hypothetical point of intersection with the extension
of the front lot line for the purposes of calculating lot frontage.
5.65
A lot line which
does not abut a street.
5.66
Any boundary of a
lot.
5.67
The side lot line which abuts
an improved public street or an unopened road allowance on a corner lot.
5.68
The lot line that abuts the
street, but in the case of any lot having water access, the front lot line
shall be the lot line abutting the high water mark of the navigable waterway,
or the lot line abutting the Crown Shoreline Reserve and:
a) in
the case of a corner lot or through lot, the shorter lot line that abuts a
street or navigable waterway shall be deemed to be the front lot line and the
longer lot line that abuts a street or navigable waterway shall be deemed the
exterior side lot line, but,
b) in
the case of a corner lot or through lot with 2 lot lines of equal length
abutting streets, the lot line that abuts the wider street shall be deemed to
be the front lot line, but where the streets are of equal width, the lot line
which abuts a Provincial Highway shall be deemed to be the front lot line, and
in the case of both streets being under the same jurisdiction and of the same
width, the owner of the lot may designate which street line shall be the front
lot line.
5.69
The lot line farthest from or
opposite to the front lot line.
5.70
A lot line other
than a front or rear lot line.
5.71
LOT
LINE, THROUGH
A lot bounded on opposite
sides by streets.
5.72
MANUFACTURING,
PROCESSING, ASSEMBLY AND/OR
FABRICATING
PLANT
Shall mean a building used for
the assembly or development of a product.
5.73
An establishment or premises,
containing docking facilities, where boats or boat accessories are berthed,
stored, serviced, repaired or kept for sale or rent and where facilities for
the sale of marine fuels and lubricants may be provided.
5.74
MARINE
FACILITY
An accessory
structure which is used to take a boat into or out of a navigable waterway, or
to moor a boat. This
definition includes a launching ramp, boat lift, or dock but does not include
any building or any boat servicing, repair, or sales facility.
5.75
MOBILE
HOME
Any dwelling that is designed
to be mobile, and constructed or manufactured to provide a permanent residence
for one or more persons certified in accordance with C.S.A. Standard Z240, but
does not include a travel trailer or tent trailer or trailer otherwise
designed.
5.76
MOTEL
A structure
containing a series of living or sleeping units with individual interior
sanitary conveniences, including motor courts or tourist courts. All required
parking is at grade and direct access is available from the parking area to the
individual units.
5.77
MOTOR
VEHICLE
An automobile, truck,
motorcycle, and any other vehicle propelled or driven otherwise than by
muscular power, but does not include the cars of electric or steam railways, or
other motor vehicles running only upon rails, or a motorized snow vehicle,
traction engine, farm tractor, self-propelled implement of husbandry or road
building machine within the meaning of the Highway Traffic Act, R.S.O. 1980,
c.198, as amended.
5.78
MOTOR
VEHICLE, COMMERCIAL
Any commercial
motor vehicle within the meaning of the Highway Traffic Act, R.S.O. 1980,
c.198, as amended.
5.79
MOTOR
VEHICLE BODY SHOP
A building or structure used
for the painting or repairing of motor vehicle bodies, exterior and
undercarriage, and in conjunction with which there may be towing service and
motor vehicle rentals for customers while the motor vehicle is under repair,
but shall not include any other establishment otherwise defined or classified
in this by-law.
5.80
MOTOR
VEHICLE DEALERSHIP
A building or structure where
a franchised dealer displays motor vehicles for sale or rent and in conjunction
with which there may be used motor vehicle sales or rentals, a motor vehicle
repair garage, a motor vehicle service station, a motor vehicle gasoline bar or
a motor vehicle body shop, but shall not include any other establishment
otherwise defined or classified in this by-law.
5.81
MOTOR
VEHICLE REPAIR GARAGE
A building or structure where
the exclusive service performed or executed on motor vehicles for compensation
shall include the installation of exhaust system, repair of the electrical
system, transmission repair, brake repair, radiator repair, tire repair and
installation, rustproofing, motor vehicle diagnostic
centre, major and minor mechanical repairs or similar use and in conjunction
with which there may be a towing service, a motor vehicle service station and
motor vehicle rentals for the convenience of the customer while the motor
vehicle is being repaired, but shall not include any other establishment
otherwise defined or classified in this by-law.
5.82
MOTOR
VEHICLE SERVICE STATION
A building or structure where
gasoline, oil, grease, antifreeze, tires, tubes, tire accessories, electric
light bulbs, sparkplugs, batteries and automotive accessories for motor
vehicles and new retail goods are stored or kept for sale to the general
public, or where motor vehicles may be oiled, greased or washed, or have their
ignition adjusted, tires inflated or batteries charged, and where mechanical or
running repairs essential to the actual operation of motor vehicles are
executed or performed. Such shall
require public washrooms.
5.83
MUNICIPAL,
PROVINCIAL WORKS GARAGE
Any land, building and/or
structure owned by the Corporation of the
5.84
NON-COMPLYING
A lot, building or
structure on a lot that does not fulfill the requirements of the zone
provisions for the zone in which the lot, building or structure is located.
5.85
NON-CONFORMING
An existing use or activity of
any land, building or structure which does not conform with the permitted uses,
or activities of this By-law for the Zone in which such existing land, building
or structure is located, so long as it continues to be used or enjoyed for that
purpose.
5.86
NURSERY
OR GREENHOUSE, COMMERCIAL
A building or structure, and
lands associated therewith, for the growing of flowers, fruits, vegetables,
plants, shrubs, trees or similar vegetation together with gardening tools and
implements which are sold at retail from such building or lot to the general
public.
5.87
NURSING
HOME
Any premises maintained and
operated for persons requiring nursing care, and which is licensed under The
Nursing Homes Act, R.S.O., 1980, c.302, as amended.
5.88
OPEN
STORAGE
Any accessory
storage outside of a principal or main building or structure on the lot.
5.89
PARK,
PRIVATE RECREATION
An open space or recreational
area, other than a public park, operated on a commercial and/or private member
basis, and which includes one or more of the following facilities or
activities:
a) Areas for walking, riding and cross-country
skiing but does not include the racing of animals, motor vehicles, motor cycles
or snowmobiles;
b) Swimming and wading areas;
c) Accessory
recreational or playground areas such as picnic areas, tennis courts, lawnbowling greens, outdoor skating rinks, athletic fields,
swimming
pools and similar uses;
d) Buildings
and structures accessory to the foregoing including a
refreshment booth or pavilion, and administrative offices;
and,
e) An accessory club house; and
f)
Parking lots accessory to the foregoing.
5.90
PARK,
PUBLIC
Any open space or recreational
area, owned or controlled by the Corporation or by any
Board, Commission or other Authority established under any statute of the
5.91
PARKING
AREA
An area or areas of land or a
building or part thereof which is provided and maintained upon the same lot or
lots upon which the principal use is located for the purpose of parking motor
vehicles.
5.92
PARKING
LOT
A parking area
forming the principal use of a lot.
5.93
PARKING
SPACE
An area having a minimum width
of 3 metres and a minimum area of 18.5 square metres, exclusive of any aisles, ingress or egress lanes,
for the parking or storage of motor vehicles.
5.94
PERSON
Any human being, association,
firm, partnership, incorporated company, corporation, agent or trustee, and the
heirs, executor or other legal representatives of a person to whom the contest
can apply according to law.
5.95
PIT
A place where unconsolidated
gravel, stone, sand, earth, clay, fill, mineral or other material is being or
has been removed by means of an excavation to supply materials for
construction, industrial or manufacturing purposes, but does not include a
wayside pit.
5.96
PLACES
OF WORSHIP
Churches, chapels, temples,
parish halls and synagogues including offices for the administration of the
religious institution, convents, seminaries, monasteries, rectories, parsonages
and parish houses.
5.97
PLANTING
STRIP
An open
unobstructed space free of buildings or structures which is used for the
growing and maintenance of grass, flowers, shrubs or other landscaping.
5.98
PORTABLE
PROCESSING PLANT
Any equipment for the
crushing, screening or washing of sand and gravel aggregate materials, but not
including a concrete batching plant or an asphalt plant, which equipment is
capable of being readily drawn or readily propelled by a motor vehicle and
which equipment is not considered permanently affixed to the site.
5.99
Any building which
is carried on the principal purpose for which the building lot is used and
shall include a barn or silo used in conjunction with a farm.
5.100
PRIVATE
CLUB
A non-profit,
non-commercial organization, which carries on social, cultural, athletic and/or
recreational activities.
5.101
PRIVATE
ROAD
A private
right-of-way over private property which affords access to abutting lots.
5.102
PROVINCIAL
HIGHWAY
A street under the
jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications.
5.103
PUBLIC
AUTHORITY
Any Federal, Provincial,
County or Municipal agencies, and includes any commission, board, authority or
department established by such agency and shall include Ontario Hydro, and
5.104
QUARRY
A place where consolidated
rock has been or is being removed by means of an open excavation to supply
material for construction, industrial or manufacturing purposes, but does not
include a wayside quarry or open pit metal mine.
5.105
RESORT
A tourist establishment that
operates throughout all or part of the year and that has facilities for serving
meals and furnishes equipment, supplies or services to persons in connection
with angling, hunting, camping or recreational purposes and may include a
Liquor Licensed Premises.
5.106
RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
The preservation,
protection and improvement of the components of the natural environment through
a comprehensive management and maintenance programme
administered by a public authority for individual or public use.
5.107
RESTAURANT
A building or part
of a building where food is offered for sale or sold to the public primarily
for immediate consumption.
5.108
RETAIL
STORE
A building where goods, wares,
merchandise, substances or articles, are offered or kept for sale at retail or
rental and includes storage on or about the store premises of limited
quantities of such goods, wares, merchandise, substances, or articles
sufficient only to service such stores but does not include any retail outlet
otherwise classified or defined in this By-law.
5.109
An area of land
which is used as an educational centre for horse training, handling, care, or
for the lodging of horses.
5.110
SALVAGE
OR WRECKING YARD
A place where motor vehicles
and parts are wrecked, disassembled, repaired and resold; a place where
second-hand goods, including waste paper, bottles, automobile tires, clothing,
other scrap materials and salvage are collected to be sorted and a place where
used lumber and used building materials are stored for sale or resale.
5.111
SCHOOL
A public school, a
separate school, a university, a community college or a private school
authorized by the
5.112
SERVICE
SHOP
A building or part of a building, not otherwise defined or classified in this
By-law, for the servicing or repairing of articles, goods or materials, as well
as facilities for accessory retail sales.
5.113
SERVICE
SHOP, PERSONAL
A building, or part of a
building, in which persons are employed in furnishing services and otherwise
administering to the individual and personal needs of persons, such as a
barber’s shop, a ladies hairdressing establishment and a shoe repair shop.
5.114
SETBACK
The horizontal distance from
the centre line of the street right-of-way, measured at right angles to such
centre line, or in the case of a lot having frontage on a navigable waterway
take the horizontal distance from the high water mark to the nearest part of
any building or structure or excavation on the lot.
5.115
STREET
A highway as defined under The
Highway Traffic Act, (R.S. 1980), or the Municipal Act or a road which has been
assumed and is maintained by the Corporation of the
5.116
STREET
LINE
The limit of the street or
road allowance and is the dividing line between a lot and street or road.
5.117
STRUCTURE
Anything man-made that is
fastened to or into the earth or another structure or rests on the earth by its
own mass or is attached to a building including a septic system, holding tanks
and heat pumps.
5.118
SUMMER
CAMP
A camp which is privately
owned and operated, or a camp which is operated by a charitable corporation
approved under The Charitable Institutions Act, R.S.O., 1980, c.64, as amended,
or a camp within the meaning of the regulations made under The Public Health
Act, R.S.O., 1980, c.409, as amended.
5.119
TENT
Any kind of temporary shelter
for sleeping that is not permanently affixed to the site and that is capable of
being easily moved and is not considered a structure.
5.120
TOURIST
ESTABLISHMENT
Any premises
operated to provide sleeping accommodation for the travelling
public or sleeping accommodation for the use of the public engaging in
recreational activities, and includes the services and facilities in
connection with which sleeping accommodation is provided including a resort and
a cottage establishment but does not include:
a) A camp operated by a charitable corporation
approved under The Charitable Institutions Act, R.S.O.,1980,
c.64, as amended;
b) A summer camp within the meaning of the
regulations made under The Health Protection and Promotion Act, S.O., 1983, as
amended; or
b) A
club owned by its own members and operated without profit or gain.
5.121 TOWNSHIP
The Corporation of the
5.122 TRAILER
A vehicle that is at any time
drawn upon a highway by a motor vehicle and, for the purposes of this By-law
does not include a mobile home.
5.123
TRAILER,
TRAVEL OR TENT
Any trailer which is designed
to be temporarily utilized for living, shelter and sleeping accommodation, with
or without cooking facilities and which has running gear and towing equipment
that is permanently attached and has a current licence
and is not permanently affixed to the ground.
5.124
TRUCK
CAMPER
Any unit so constructed that
it may be attached upon a motor vehicle, as a separate unit, and capable of
being temporarily utilized for the living, sleeping or eating accommodation of
persons.
5.125
USE
a) Any purpose for which a building or other structure or a
parcel of land may be designed,
arranged, intended, maintained, or occupied; or,
b) Any activity, occupation, business or operation carried
on, or intended to be carried on, in a
building or other structure or on a parcel of land.
5.126
VEHICLE
A motor vehicle, trailer,
traction engine, farm tractor, road building machine and any vehicle drawn,
propelled or driven by any kind of power, including muscular power, but does
not include a motorized snow vehicle or the cars of electric or steam railways
running only upon rails.
5.127
The
premises of a veterinary surgeon where animals are treated or kept.
5.128
WAREHOUSE
A building or part of a
building used for the storage and distribution of goods, wares, merchandise,
substances or articles and may include facilities for a wholesale or retail
commercial outlet, but shall not include a truck or transport terminal or yard.
5.129
WASTE
DISPOSAL AREA
A place where
garbage, refuse, domestic or industrial waste, exclusive of liquid industrial
waste, is disposed of or dumped.
5.130
WATERCOURSE
A waterbody or the natural channel for a perennial or
intermittent stream of water including a river or stream.
5.131
WAYSIDE
PIT OR QUARRY
A temporary pit or quarry
opened and used by a public road authority solely for the purpose of a particular
project or contract of road construction and not located on the road
right-of-way.
5.132
WORKSHOP
A building or structure where
manufacturing is performed by tradesmen requiring manual or mechanical skills
and may include a carpenter’s shop, a locksmith’s shop, a gunsmith’s shop, a
tinsmith’s shop, a commercial welder’s shop, or similar uses.
5.133
YARD
Any open unoccupied space
appurtenant to a building measured from the closest supporting structure of the
building to the lot line.
5.134
YARD,
EXTERIOR SIDE
A yard extending from the
front yard to the rear yard between the exterior side lot line and the nearest
wall of any building on the lot for which the yard is required.
5.135
YARD,
FRONT
A yard extending
across the full width of the lot between the front lot line and the nearest
wall of any building or structure on the lot for which the yard is required.
5.136
YARD,
REAR
A yard extending across the
full width of the lot between the rear lot line and the nearest wall of any
building on the lot for which the yard is required.
5.137
YARD,
REQUIRED
The minimum yard required by
the provisions of the By-law.
5.138
YARD,
INTERIOR SIDE
A yard extending from the
front yard to the rear yard between the interior side lot line and the nearest
wall of any building on the lot for which the yard is required.
5.139 ZONE
The category of use or activity of land, buildings,
structures or activities permitted this By-law.
5.140 ZONE PROVISIONS
The permissible uses, the
minimum area and dimensions of lots, the minimum dimensions of yards, the
maximum lot coverage, the minimum setback, gross floor area, the minimum
landscaped open space, the maximum height of buildings, minimum parking
requirements, and all other Zone provisions are set out within the By-law for
the respective Zones.