CN2 zone, Burlington: Neighbourhood Commercial CN2

What the CN2 zone permits

• Convenience/Specialty Food Store
• Other Retail Stores
• Convenience Restaurant
• Funeral Home (at 1010 and 1020 Botanical Drive only, note g)
• Veterinary Services (keeping of animals outside not permitted, note a)
• Other Service Commercial Uses
• Banks, Trust Companies, Credit Unions
• Outdoor Patio (subject to Part 1, Section 2.21(v), note k)
• All Office Uses
• Community Institution
• Motor Vehicle Service Station (per Part 1, 2.10)
• Retail Propane Facility (per Part 1, 2.7)
• Dwelling Units on second and third floors

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Lot area stated as 0.05 ha (= 500 m2) in Table 4.7.1
• Yard abutting a residential zone: 9 m (Table 4.7.1)
• Building setback abutting a creek block: 7.5 m, or 4.5 m if the block includes a 3 m buffer (Table 4.7.1)
• Yard abutting a Pipeline Easement: 7 m (Table 4.7.1)
• Yard abutting a PC or P zone: 6 m (Table 4.7.1)
• Yard abutting a railway right-of-way: none required; separation distance of 30 m from a railway right-of-way for land uses sensitive to railway rights-of-way (Table 4.7.1)
• Floor area (non-residential uses only): 300 m2 max per retail use; 1200 m2 max per use for all other uses (s.7.2)
• Loading/unloading not within 7.5 m of a residential zone; loading docks screened from view from an adjoining residential zone (s.7.3)
• Landscape area: 3 m abutting a street, 3 m abutting an O2 or O3 zone, 3 m abutting a PC or P zone (s.7.4)
• Landscape buffer: 6 m abutting a residential zone (s.7.4)
• Separation distance: Standard Restaurant 15 m from a residential zone; Fast Food Restaurant 30 m from a residential zone (s.7.5)
• Outdoor storage: only merchandise displayed for retail sale may be stored outside (not in a truck, trailer or vehicle); perishable waste kept in refrigerated storage inside a building or in a sealed below-grade deep collection container; non-perishable waste stored outside on lands abutting a residential zone must be in a solid screen enclosure per Part 1, s.2.2.3 (s.7.6)
• Restaurant drive-throughs: landscaping to screen drive-through elevations facing 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.7.7)
• Parking per Part 1, s.2.25 Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements; parking of trucks and trailers prohibited except while loading/unloading, for customer use, belonging to the property owner or tenant, or used for charitable purposes (s.7.8)
• Contiguous lots developed under a single comprehensive site plan are deemed one lot for applying zoning regulations (s.7.9)
• Amenity area: minimum 20 m2 per unit where dwelling units are on the second or third floors (s.7.10)
• Fencing: on lands abutting a residential zone, fencing along the common boundary with a minimum height of 1.8 m, solid screen or chain-link plus landscape planting forming a dense year-round screen (s.7.11)
• Prohibited uses in addition to Part 1, s.2.22: parking lot, taxi cab garage, recreational vehicle/utility trailer sales and service, adult entertainment establishment (s.3)
• Funeral home permitted only at 1010 and 1020 Botanical Drive (Table 4.2.1 note g)
• Veterinary services: keeping of animals outside not permitted (Table 4.2.1 note a)
• Outdoor patio subject to Part 1, s.2.21(v) (Table 4.2.1 note k)
• Holding 'H' prefix: uses per Part 11, s.1.1; development premature until 'H' removed per Part 11, s.1.2 (s.1(a))
• Subject to Part 1 (General Conditions and Provisions) and Part 14 (Exceptions to Zone Designations) (s.1)