CR zone, Burlington: Regional Commercial (CR)

What the CR zone permits

• Department store
• Flea market
• Large building supplies/garden store
• Large furniture and appliance store
• Large home and auto supplies store
• Warehouse club
• Supermarket/grocery store
• 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, s.2.21(v))
• All office uses
• Community institution
• Hotel
• Convention/conference centre
• Banquet centre
• Caterer
• Motor vehicle service station per Part 1, s.2.10
• Motor vehicle sales, leasing, rental and service
• Motor vehicle repair garage
• Motor vehicle parts and accessory sales
• Retail propane facility per Part 1, s.2.7
• Recreational establishment
• Entertainment establishment
• Video game/pinball machine arcade
• Night club (footnote b: maximum capacity 1000 persons)
• Dwelling units on second and third floors

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Not permitted in CR (Table 4.2.1): car wash, apartment building per RH4 zone, industrial uses permitted in a GE2 zone.
• Prohibited uses (s.3, in addition to Part 1 s.2.22): parking lot, taxi cab garage, recreational vehicle/utility trailer sales and service, adult entertainment establishment.
• Yard abutting a residential zone: 15 m minimum (Table 4.4.1).
• Yard abutting a Provincial Highway: 12 m minimum (Table 4.4.1).
• Yard abutting an O3 zone: 7.5 m minimum (Table 4.4.1).
• Building setback abutting a creek block: 7.4 m, or 4.5 m if the block includes a 3 m buffer (Table 4.4.1).
• Yard abutting a railway right-of-way: 30 m for uses sensitive to railway rights-of-way; on Plains Road East abutting the CNR right-of-way, 21.5 m provided a 2.5 m high earth berm is installed (Table 4.4.1 footnote a).
• Yard abutting a pipeline easement: 7 m minimum (Table 4.4.1).
• Yard abutting a PC or P zone: 6 m minimum (Table 4.4.1).
• Separation distances from a residential zone (s.4.3): standard restaurant 15 m; fast food restaurant 30 m; night club 45 m.
• Landscape area (s.4.4): 6 m abutting the Queen Elizabeth Way, 6 m abutting all other streets, 6 m abutting a creek block or O3 zone, 3 m abutting a PC or P zone.
• Landscape buffer abutting a residential zone: 9 m (s.4.4).
• Loading/unloading shall not take place within 30 m of a residential zone; docks must be screened from view from a street or adjoining residential zone (s.4.5).
• Outdoor storage (s.4.6): only merchandise displayed for retail sale may be stored outside, not in a truck, trailer or vehicle; perishable waste must be refrigerated inside a building or kept 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.
• Parking per Part 1 s.2.25; 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 (s.4.7(a)-(b)).
• Truck and trailer parking prohibited except while loading/unloading, for customer use, belonging to the owner/tenant, or used for charitable purposes (s.4.7(c)).
• Parking areas: maximum 190 spaces each, separated from adjoining parking areas by a 3 m landscape area (may contain a 2.0 m 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.4.7(d)).
• Contiguous lots developed under a single comprehensive site plan are deemed one lot for applying zoning regulations (s.4.8).
• Dwelling units on the second or third floors above commercial uses require a minimum amenity area of 20 m² per unit (s.4.9).
• Restaurant drive-throughs (s.4.10): landscaping must screen drive-through building elevations facing a street; external conveyor pick-up systems not permitted in a yard abutting a street and must be set back 15 m from a residential zone; intercom ordering stations set back 15 m from a residential zone.
• Holding 'H' prefix: uses per Part 11 s.1.1; development deemed premature until the H is 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).