RH3 zone, Burlington: High Density Residential RH3

What the RH3 zone permits

• Apartment Building
• Retirement Home

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Lot Area minimum stated as 0.1 ha (= 1,000 m2) (Table 2.14.1)
• Minimum density (excluding Retirement Home): 50 units per hectare (Table 2.14.1)
• Yard abutting R1, R2, R3, LN3, LN4, LN5, LN6 zone: RH3 column shows '* * *' (no numeric value stated in Table 2.14.1)
• Amenity Area: 25 m2 per unit, 100 m2 minimum (Table 2.14.1)
• Yard abutting a pipeline easement: 7 m; yard abutting a railway right-of-way: 30 m; building setback abutting a creek block: 7.5 m, or 4.5 m if the block includes a 3 m buffer (Table 2.14.1)
• Landscape Area along a street is not required in an RH3 zone (s.14.2)
• Landscape Buffer: 6 m abutting R1, R2, R3, LN3, LN4, LN5, LN6 zones; 3 m abutting R4, R5, LN3, LN7 zones; 3 m abutting RM1 to RM5, LN3, LN8 zones (s.14.2)
• Parking per Part 1, Subsection 2.25 Off-Street Parking and Loading Requirements (s.14.3(a))
• Enclosed occupant parking in RH3: 100% for units exceeding a density of 100 units per hectare (s.14.3(b))
• RH3 parking lot may be set back 1 m from a street line (instead of the general 4.5 m in s.1(h)) if screened by a decorative wall or fence 1 m to 1.2 m high (s.14.3(c)(i))
• RH3 apartment building 3 storeys or less: parking spaces and driveways set back 2 m from a wall containing habitable room windows, in place of the general 3 m (s.14.3(c)(ii))
• RH3 apartment building 4 storeys or more: parking spaces and driveways set back 4 m from a window of a habitable room in a basement or ground floor unit, in place of the general 9 m / 6 m (s.14.3(c)(iii))
• General rule (s.1(i)(i)), still applicable to a Retirement Home: for apartment buildings up to 3 storeys, driveways and parking lots set back 3 m from a wall containing windows of habitable rooms, except where the parking space and 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
• General rule (s.1(i)(ii)), still applicable to a Retirement Home: for buildings 4 storeys or more, driveways set back 9 m and parking spaces 6 m from a window of a habitable room in a ground floor or basement dwelling unit; driveways and parking spaces set back 6 m from an R1, R2, R3, LN3, LN4, LN5, LN6 zone
• Enclosed parking structure more than 1.6 m above finished grade must meet principal building yard requirements; below grade or up to 1.6 m above grade must be set back 3 m from a street line; must not encroach into a required landscape buffer abutting a residential zone (s.1(j))
• Waste stored outside must be kept within a solid screen enclosure (s.14.4)
• Holding 'H' prefix: uses per Part 11 s.1.1; development deemed premature until 'H' removed per Part 11 s.1.2 (s.1(a))
• Accessory buildings, patios/decks, fencing, swimming pools, lands adjacent to Lake Ontario/Burlington Bay: refer to Part 1 Subsections 2.2, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, 2.30 (s.1(b)-(f))
• Prohibited: parking/storing motor vehicles over 3,000 kg GVW, 6 m length or 2.6 m height (except recreational vehicles); stake-body vehicles; recreational vehicles or utility trailers over 3.6 m combined height; any vehicle/boat/trailer in a landscaped open space area (s.2, plus Part 1 s.2.22)
• Stacked townhouses, back-to-back townhouses, street townhouses, community institutions, lodges/private clubs and additional residential units are NOT permitted in RH3 (Table 2.13.1)
• Exceptions to zone designations: see Part 14