RAL2 zone, Burlington: Alton Community Residential RAL2

What the RAL2 zone permits

• Detached dwelling
• Semi-detached dwelling
• Day care centre (Table 2.21.1 note (h): only fronting on a street with a deemed width of 26 m or greater, subject to RAL1 detached-dwelling regulations; no parking within 3 m of a residential property in a residential zone)
• Additional residential units (Table 2.21.1 note (i): subject to Part 1, Section 2.21, Subsection (u))

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Yard abutting a pipeline easement: 7 m (Table 2.23.1, Other Yards)
• Yard abutting a railway right-of-way: 30 m (Table 2.23.1, Other Yards)
• Rear dwelling setback abutting a creek block: 7.5 m, or 4.5 m if the block includes a 3 m buffer; side building setback abutting a creek block: 3 m (Table 2.23.1)
• Lot coverage maximum of 50% includes detached garages, accessory buildings and accessory structures (s.23.2)
• Parking per Part 1, Subsection 2.25 Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements (s.23.3)
• Encroachments (s.23.4, in addition to Part 1 s.2.13): covered porches may encroach up to 1.5 m into the front yard and street side yard; where the side yard is less than 1.2 m the encroachment must stay at least 60 cm from the lot line; eaves and roof overhang may encroach a further 0.5 m beyond a covered porch encroachment into the front and street side yard
• Maximum driveway width 3 m, notwithstanding Part 1 s.2.24; one additional walkway up to 1.5 m wide is permitted (s.23.6)
• Building height per Part 1, Subsection 2.31 Residential Building Height (s.23.5)
• Holding 'H' prefix: uses per Part 11 s.1.1; development premature until the H is removed per Part 11 s.1.2 (Part 2 s.1(a))
• Accessory buildings, patios and decks, fences and privacy screens, swimming pools, and lands adjacent to Lake Ontario/Burlington Bay are governed by Part 1 Subsections 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5 and 2.30 respectively (Part 2 s.1(b)-(f))
• L-shaped detached dwelling without attached garage/carport forming one side and one end of a 4.5 m x 6.5 m parking space: side yard as for a detached dwelling with attached garage (Part 2 s.1(g))
• Parking lots set back 4.5 m from a street line (Part 2 s.1(h))
• Enclosed parking structures more than 1.6 m above grade follow principal-building yards; below grade/up to 1.6 m above grade set back 3 m from a street line; may not encroach a required landscape buffer abutting a residential zone (Part 2 s.1(j))
• Prohibited (Part 2 s.2 and Part 1 s.2.22): parking/storing a motor vehicle (other than an RV) over 3000 kg GVW, 6 m long or 2.6 m high; vehicles with a stake body; RVs or utility trailers with load exceeding 3.6 m combined height; any vehicle, trailer, boat or similar conveyance within a landscaped open space area
• Semi-detached dwellings in RAL3/RAL4 are subject to RAL2 regulations (Table 2.21.1 note (a)); townhouses/stacked townhouses in RAL3/RAL4 need a 12 m yard abutting an RAL2 zone (notes (d), (e))
• Exceptions to zone designations are in Part 14 (Part 2 s.1)