DRM zone, Burlington: Downtown Residential Medium-Density Zone

What the DRM zone permits

• Detached dwelling (subject to DRL zone regulations)
• Semi-detached dwelling (subject to RM1 zone regulations)
• Duplex dwelling
• Triplex dwelling
• Fourplex dwelling
• Townhouse
• Street townhouses
• Stacked townhouses
• Back-to-back townhouses
• Apartment building
• Retirement home
• Offices in an existing building
• Offices on the ground floor of a residential building
• Additional residential units (subject to Part 1, Section 2.21(u))

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• All uses are 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, Sections 1.1-1.2 (s.1).
• Refer to Part 1 s.2.30 for lands adjacent to Lake Ontario/Burlington Bay; Part 2 Subsection 1 for L-shaped dwelling side yards, parking spaces and driveways, and parking structures (s.1(b)-(e)).
• All residential uses in Table 6.2.2 are subject to Part 2, Subsection 2 'Prohibited Uses' (footnote (a)).
• Detached dwellings are subject to DRL zone regulations; semi-detached dwellings are subject to RM1 zone regulations (Table 6.2.2 footnotes (b), (d)).
• Additional residential units are subject to Part 1, Section 2.21(u) (Table 6.2.2 footnote (f)).
• Prohibited uses (s.3), in addition to Part 1 s.2.22: warehouse club, lumber sales, swimming pool sales/service, RV and utility trailer sales/service, boat/motorcycle/snowmobile sales/service, heavy machinery sales/service, car wash, video game/pinball arcade, propane cylinder handling facility, bulk propane storage depot, adult entertainment establishment.
• Building setback abutting a creek block: 7.5 m; 4.5 m if the block includes a 3 m buffer (Table 6.7.2).
• Yard abutting a pipeline easement: 7 m rear yard; 3 m side yard (Table 6.7.2).
• Yard of a back-to-back townhouse, stacked townhouse or apartment building abutting an R1, R2, R3 or DRL zone: 12 m (Table 6.7.2).
• Density for townhouse, stacked townhouse, back-to-back townhouse or apartment: minimum 26 units/ha, maximum 50 units/ha (s.7.2).
• Parking per Part 1, Subsection 2.25 'Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements' (s.7.4(a)).
• Parking lots may be set back 1 m from a street line if screened by a decorative wall 1 m to 1.2 m high (s.7.4(b)).
• Stacked townhouses: driveways and parking spaces set back 3 m from a building wall containing habitable-room windows, unless the space/driveway is for the exclusive use of the unit occupant; parking spaces set back 6 m and driveways 3 m from R1, R2, R3 and DRL zones (s.7.4(c)).
• Landscape area: townhouse 25% of lot area (s.7.5).
• Fencing on lands abutting a residential or DRL zone: minimum 1.8 m along the common boundary, solid screen or chain-link plus landscape planting forming a dense year-round screen (s.7.6).
• Amenity area for apartments and stacked townhouses: 15 m² per efficiency unit, 20 m² per one-bedroom unit, 35 m² per two-or-more-bedroom unit (s.7.7).
• Amenity area for back-to-back townhouses: 25 m² per unit; must include at least one common amenity area of minimum 100 m² or 6 m² per unit total, whichever is greater (may include gazebo/arbour/pergola/playground equipment, not other accessory buildings, unitary equipment, mailboxes or utility boxes); each unit must have an individual balcony of 5.5 m² separated by a wall or privacy screen, projecting max 1.8 m from the front wall (s.7.7).
• Offices in an existing building / on the ground floor of a residential building are shown as permitted in the DRM column without footnote (e); footnote (e) conditions (existing building south of Ontario Street, 3 m landscape buffer, 50% landscaped front/street side yard, 1.8 m fencing, no outdoor storage) apply to the DRL column.