DC1 zone, Brampton: Downtown Commercial One

What the DC1 zone permits

• A retail establishment with or without outdoor display and sales, but not including a drive-through facility
• A grocery store or supermarket with or without outdoor display and sales, but not including a drive-through facility
• A service shop, but not including a drive-through facility
• A personal service shop, but not including a drive-through facility, a body art and/or tattoo parlour, or a massage or body rub parlour
• A bank, trust company, or financial company, but not including a drive-through facility
• An office
• A dry cleaning and laundry distribution station, but not including a drive-through facility
• A laundromat, but not including a drive-through facility
• A parking lot
• A dining room restaurant, a convenience restaurant, or a take-out restaurant, none of which shall include a drive-through facility
• A printing or copying establishment
• A commercial school
• A temporary open air market
• A place of commercial recreation
• A community club
• A health or fitness centre
• A theatre
• An art gallery or studio
• A hotel or motel
• An animal hospital
• An administrative office of any public authority
• An apartment dwelling, provided the first-storey floor area within 6.0 metres of the streetline is used for commercial purposes (entrances and lobbies allowed if they occupy no more than 30% of the wall facing the street line)
• A place of worship
• Purposes accessory to the other permitted purposes

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Prohibited uses (28.2.2): adult video store, adult entertainment parlour, amusement arcade, body art and/or tattoo parlour, massage or body rub parlour
• Apartment dwellings only permitted where the first-storey floor area within 6.0 m of the streetline is commercial; entrances and lobbies may occupy no more than 30% of the wall facing the street line (28.2.1(b))
• Maximum streetline setbacks as shown on Schedule B-1 (28.2.3(b))
• Windows and doors at grade: on any wall adjacent to a streetline subject to Condition A on Schedule B-1, at least 70% of the gross area of the wall below 4.6 m above grade must be windows and/or doors (28.2.3(e))
• Minimum building height (Schedule B-3) applies only to the portion of the building within 12.0 m of any streetline (28.2.3(f))
• Articulated roofs: the highest point of the roof must be at least 2.0 m higher than where the roof meets any exterior wall (28.2.3(g))
• Rooftop mechanical equipment must be at least 5 m from any exterior wall and occupy no more than 35% of the roof area (28.2.3(h))
• All motor vehicle parking on a lot must be within a parking garage (28.2.3(i)(i))
• No above-grade portion of a parking garage may be within 6.0 m of any exterior wall adjacent to a streetline (28.2.3(i)(ii))
• No setback from any lot line is required for the below-grade portion of a parking garage (28.2.3(i)(iii))
• No portion of a parking garage may be closer to an interior side or rear lot line than any other building on the lot (28.2.3(i)(iv))
• Any portion of a building 15.0 m or greater above grade with windows for a dwelling unit must be at least 6.0 m from an interior side or rear lot line (28.2.3(j))
• Outdoor display and sale of goods permitted as an accessory use if the display area is publicly accessible and occupies no more than 25% of the gross floor area of the use it is accessory to (28.2.3(k))
• Loading, unloading and waste disposal facilities may not be on the wall facing, or in the yard adjacent to, a Residential Zone or a public road (28.2.3(l))
• All garbage, refuse and waste containers must be in a climate controlled area within the same building containing the use (28.2.3(m))