CC1 zone, Burlington: Community Commercial CC1

What the CC1 zone permits

• Department Store
• Large Home and Auto Supplies Store
• Supermarket/Grocery Store (footnote (e): floor area maximum per unit does not apply)
• Convenience/Specialty Food Store
• Farmers' Market
• Other Retail Stores
• Standard Restaurant
• Standard Restaurant with Dance Floor (footnote (j): in buildings with dwelling units, only at grade where offices or residential-accessory uses are on the second storey)
• Fast Food Restaurant
• Convenience Restaurant
• Elevated Parking Facility
• Funeral Home
• Veterinary Services (footnote (a): no keeping of animals outside)
• Other Service Commercial Uses
• Banks, Trust Companies, Credit Unions
• Outdoor Patio (footnote (k): subject to Part 1, Section 2.21(v))
• All Office Uses
• Community Institution
• Hotel
• Convention/Conference Centre
• Banquet Centre
• Caterer
• Car Wash per Part 1, 2.9
• Motor Vehicle Sales, Leasing, Rental, and Service
• Motor Vehicle Repair Garage
• Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessory Sales
• Retail Propane Facility per Part 1, 2.7
• Recreational Establishment
• Entertainment Establishment
• Dwelling Units on second & third floors
• Apartment Building per RH4 zone (footnote (f): only on CC1 lands on the south side of Plains Road East, east of Daryl Drive; retail and service commercial permitted in basement, ground and second floor of the apartment building)

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Lot area stated as 2 ha (= 20,000 m2); lot width 150 m (Table 4.6.1).
• Yard abutting a residential zone: 9 m (Table 4.6.1).
• Building setback from a creek block: 7.5 m (Table 4.6.1).
• Yard abutting a pipeline easement: 7 m (Table 4.6.1).
• Yard abutting a PC or P zone: 6 m (Table 4.6.1).
• Yard abutting a railway right-of-way: none required; separation distance 30 m for land uses sensitive to railway rights-of-way (Table 4.6.1).
• s.6.3 Floor area: retail uses between 1800 m2 and 5600 m2 in floor area, where food products are not the principal goods retailed, shall not occupy more than 30% of the total floor area.
• s.6.4 Landscape area (widths, not a percentage): 6 m abutting a street; 3 m abutting an O2 or O3 zone; 3 m abutting a PC or P zone. Landscape buffer abutting a residential zone: 9 m in a CC1 zone.
• s.6.5 Separation distance: standard restaurant 15 m from a residential zone; fast food restaurant 30 m from a residential zone.
• s.6.6 Drive-throughs: landscaping to screen the building from the street where drive-through facilities face a street; external conveyor pick-up systems not permitted in a yard abutting a street and set back 15 m from a residential zone; intercom ordering stations set back 15 m from a residential zone.
• s.6.7 Loading/unloading not within 20 m of a residential zone; loading docks screened from an adjoining residential zone.
• s.6.8 Outside storage: only merchandise displayed for retail sale (not stored in a truck, trailer or vehicle); perishable waste in refrigerated storage inside a building or in a sealed, lockable, primarily below-grade deep collection system; non-perishable waste stored outside on lands abutting a residential zone must be within a solid screen enclosure per Part 1, s.2.2.3.
• s.6.9(a) Parking per Part 1, Subsection 2.25 (Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements).
• s.6.9(b) Visitor parking not required where a permitted freestanding residential use shares the lot with a permitted non-residential use comprising at least 30% of the lot area.
• s.6.9(c) Parking of trucks and trailers prohibited except while loading/unloading, for customer use, belonging to a property owner or tenant, or used for charitable purposes.
• s.6.9(d) In a CC1 zone, parking areas shall contain a maximum of 190 parking spaces and be separated from adjoining parking areas by a 3 m landscape area; that landscape area may contain a 2.0 m wide parallel walkway if the landscape area is at least 4.5 m wide; where more than one parking area is required the average parking area size shall be 150 spaces; connecting driveways may cross a landscape area.
• s.6.10 Contiguous lots developed under a single comprehensive site plan are deemed one lot for applying zoning regulations.
• s.6.11 Amenity area: minimum 20 m2 per unit where dwelling units are on the second or third floors above commercial uses.
• s.6.12 Fencing: on lands abutting a residential zone, a fence at least 1.8 m high along the common boundary (solid screen fence or chain-link plus landscape planting forming a dense year-round screen).
• s.3 Prohibited uses (in addition to Part 1, s.2.22): parking lot, taxi cab garage, recreational vehicle/utility trailer sales & service, adult entertainment establishment.
• Uses not permitted in CC1 per Table 4.2.1: flea market, large building supplies/garden store, large furniture and appliance store, warehouse club, motor vehicle service station, video game/pinball arcade, night club, GE2 industrial uses.
• s.1 General: subject to Part 1 (General Conditions and Provisions) and Part 14 (Exceptions to Zone Designations); an 'H' holding prefix defers development until removed per Part 11, ss.1.1-1.2.