CC2 zone, Burlington: Community Commercial CC2

What the CC2 zone permits

• Convenience/Specialty Food Store
• Other Retail Stores
• Standard Restaurant
• Standard Restaurant with Dance Floor (footnote j: in buildings with dwelling units, only at grade where office or residential-accessory uses occupy the second storey)
• Fast Food Restaurant
• Convenience Restaurant
• 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, Subsection (v))
• All Office Uses
• Community Institution
• Caterer
• Motor Vehicle Service Station per Part 1, 2.10
• Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessory Sales
• Retail Propane Facility per Part 1, 2.7
• Recreational Establishment
• Entertainment Establishment
• Dwelling Units on second & third floors

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Yards (Table 4.6.1): yard abutting a residential zone 6 m; building setback from a creek block 7.5 m; yard abutting a Pipeline Easement 7 m; yard abutting a PC or P zone 6 m; yard abutting a railway right-of-way none required; separation distance from a railway right-of-way 30 m for land uses sensitive to railway rights-of-way.
• Landscape area (s.6.4): 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: 6 m in a CC2 zone.
• Separation distance (s.6.5): Standard Restaurant 15 m between the use and a residential zone; Fast Food Restaurant 30 m between the use and a residential zone.
• Restaurant drive-through facilities (s.6.6): landscaping to screen the building from the street where drive-throughs are in or adjacent to street-facing elevations; 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.
• Loading/unloading (s.6.7): not within 20 m of a residential zone; docks screened from view from an adjoining residential zone.
• Outside storage (s.6.8): only merchandise displayed for retail sale may be stored outside (not 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 kept within a solid screen enclosure per Part 1, s.2.2.3.
• Parking (s.6.9): per Part 1, s.2.25 Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements; visitor parking not required where a permitted freestanding residential use shares a lot with a non-residential use occupying at least 30% of the lot area; parking of trucks and trailers prohibited except while loading/unloading, for customer use, belonging to the owner/tenant, or used for charitable purposes.
• Contiguous lots (s.6.10): multiple contiguous lots developed under a single comprehensive site plan are deemed one lot for applying zoning regulations.
• Amenity area (s.6.11): dwelling units on the second or third floors above commercial uses require a minimum amenity area of 20 m2 per unit.
• Fencing (s.6.12): on lands abutting a residential zone, fencing 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).
• Prohibited uses (s.3, in addition to Part 1, s.2.22): parking lot; taxi cab garage; recreational vehicle, utility trailer sales & service; adult entertainment establishment.
• Holding zone (s.1(a)): where the designation is preceded by 'H', permitted uses per Part 11, s.1.1 and development is premature until the 'H' is removed per Part 11, s.1.2.
• All uses subject to Part 1 (General Conditions and Provisions) and Part 14 (Exceptions to Zone Designations).