R5 zone, Burlington: Low Density Residential R5 (cluster homes)

What the R5 zone permits

• Cluster homes
• Additional residential units (footnote (a), Table 2.3.1; see Part 1 Section 5.14)

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Table 2.6.2 other yards: building setback abutting a creek block 7.5 m (4.5 m if the block includes a 3 m buffer); yard abutting a pipeline easement 7 m; yard abutting a railway right-of-way 30 m.
• Section 6.2: landscape area of 4.5 m abutting a street; landscape buffer of 3 m abutting R1, R2, R3, LN3, LN4, LN5, LN6 zones.
• Section 6.3: parking per Part 1, Subsection 2.25 'Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements'.
• Section 6.4: privacy fencing (solid screen fence, or chain-link plus dense year-round landscape planting) at least 1.8 m high required on the common boundary with adjacent residential properties.
• Section 6.5(a): building height measured and limited per Part 1, Subsection 2.31 'Residential Building Height' (Table 2.31.1 B) — 11.5 m peaked roof / 7 m flat roof at 2 storeys); Section 6.5(b) caps height at 2 storeys.
• Section 1(i): for cluster homes, driveways and parking lots set back 3 m from a building wall containing habitable-room windows (not applicable where the space/driveway is for the exclusive use of the unit occupant); parking spaces set back at least 6 m from an R1, R2, R3, LN3, LN4, LN5, LN6 zone.
• Section 1(h): parking lots set back 4.5 m from a street line.
• Section 1(j): an enclosed parking structure more than 1.6 m above finished grade is subject to the same yard requirements as a principal building; one below grade and up to 1.6 m above grade must be set back 3 m from a street line; no parking structure may encroach into a required landscape buffer abutting a residential zone.
• Section 1(a): where the zone carries an 'H' holding prefix, permitted uses are per Part 11 s.1.1 and development is premature until the 'H' is removed per Part 11 s.1.2.
• Section 1(b)-(f): accessory buildings (Part 1 s.2.2), patios and decks (s.2.3), fencing and privacy screens (s.2.4), swimming pools (s.2.5), and lands adjacent to Lake Ontario/Burlington Bay (s.2.30) are governed by Part 1.
• Section 2 prohibited uses: parking/storing a motor vehicle (other than a recreational vehicle) over 3000 kg registered GVW, 6 m long or 2.6 m high; any stake-body vehicle; a recreational vehicle or utility trailer with load exceeding 3.6 m combined height; and any vehicle, trailer, boat or similar conveyance within a landscaped open space area (plus Part 1 s.2.22).
• Exceptions to the zone designation are in Part 14.