HMU1 zone, Brampton: Hurontario Corridor Mixed-Use One

What the HMU1 zone permits

• A retail establishment with a gross floor area of less than 1,500 square metres
• A service shop
• A personal service shop
• A bank, trust company or finance company
• A dry cleaning and laundry distribution station
• A laundromat
• A dining room restaurant or a take-out restaurant
• A printing or copying establishment
• A commercial school
• A community club
• A health centre
• A taxi or bus station
• An art gallery, museum or art/photo studio
• A convenience store or grocery store
• A travel agency
• An office
• A hotel or motel
• A shopping centre
• A banquet hall
• A place of commercial recreation
• A supermarket with a gross floor area of 930 square metres or less that forms part of a mixed use development
• An animal hospital
• Movie theatres
• A place of worship
• A day nursery
• A private or public school
• A library
• An apartment dwelling, provided the first-storey floor area of any building with a wall adjacent to Hurontario/Main Street or Steeles Avenue East is used for commercial purposes (entrances, lobbies and accessory uses are still allowed, provided entrances or lobbies occupy no more than 30% of the street-facing wall)
• A nursing home
• A retirement home
• A seniors residence
• A supportive housing facility
• A live work townhouse dwelling
• A townhouse dwelling, only as part of a mixed-use development
• A mixed use development
• A community centre
• Purposes accessory to the other permitted uses

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Amending by-law 82-2012 printed in the section header.
• Prohibited uses (29.2.2): adult video store, adult entertainment parlour, amusement arcade, body art and/or tattoo parlour, massage or body rub parlour, outside storage of goods, materials or machinery, drive-through facility, gas bar, service station, motor vehicle repair shop, motor vehicle body shop, motor vehicle sales establishment, motor vehicle washing establishment.
• Apartment dwellings: the first-storey floor area of any building with a wall adjacent to Hurontario/Main Street or Steeles Avenue East must be commercial; entrances, lobbies and uses accessory to the apartment dwelling are nonetheless permitted provided entrances or lobbies occupy no more than 30% of the street-facing wall (29.2.1 c(1)).
• Townhouse dwellings are permitted only as part of a mixed-use development (29.2.1 c(6)).
• Continuous street wall (29.2.3 c): a building wall at grade must occupy at least 75% of the available frontage facing a public street with a minimum right-of-way width of 26 m; available frontage excludes required side yard setbacks and approved access locations.
• Minimum building height 11.0 m or 3 storeys (29.2.3 d).
• Minimum street line setback 0 m, plus an additional 2.5 m from the exterior wall for the portion of the building 22.0 m or greater above grade (29.2.3 b).
• Any portion of a building 22.0 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, notwithstanding any other provision (29.2.3 f).
• Minimum ground floor height 4.0 m for all non-residential uses (29.2.3 g).
• Windows and doors at grade (29.2.3 h): on any wall adjacent to a streetline, at least 70% of the gross wall area below 4.0 m above grade must be windows and/or doors.
• Rooftop mechanical equipment must be screened in an articulated manner (29.2.3 i).
• Loading, unloading and waste disposal facilities may not be on a wall facing a Residential Zone or a public road (29.2.3 j).
• All garbage, refuse and waste containers must be in a climate-controlled area within the same building as the use (29.2.3 k).
• Surface parking only in a rear and/or interior side yard, and not exceeding 10% of total lot area (29.2.3 l i).
• Surface parking is not permitted between a building and Hurontario Street or at intersections (29.2.3 l ii).
• Setback of 0 m to any portion of a parking garage located below grade (29.2.3 l iii).
• Above-ground parking structures fronting a public street must have a minimum ground floor height of 4 m (29.2.3 l iv).
• Parking rates (29.2.3 l v): residential minimum 1.0 space per dwelling unit plus 0.15 visitor spaces; commercial minimum 1 space per 32 m² of gross commercial floor area or portion thereof; institutional and other uses per the general parking provisions.
• Bicycle parking must be on the same lot as the use; at most 50% of required bicycle spaces may be vertical; where more than 50 spaces are required, at least 25% must be inside a building/structure, a secure area, or bicycle lockers; four or more spaces in a common area need securely anchored racks (29.2.3 m i-iv).
• Bicycle space dimensions (29.2.3 m v): horizontal minimum 1.8 m long by 0.6 m wide; vertical minimum 1.5 m long by 0.5 m wide.
• Bicycle parking rates (29.2.3 m vi): residential 0.50 spaces per dwelling unit; commercial 1 space per 500 m² of gross commercial floor area or portion thereof.