UC zone, Burlington: Uptown Commercial

What the UC 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 Foods Store
• Farmers' Market
• Other Retail Uses
• Standard Restaurant
• Standard Restaurant with Dance Floor (footnote k)
• Fast Food Restaurant
• Convenience Restaurant
• Funeral Home (footnote d)
• Veterinary Services (footnote e)
• Other Service Commercial Uses
• Outdoor Patio (footnote m)
• All Office Uses
• Community Institution
• Hotel
• Convention/Conference Centre
• Banquet Centre
• Caterer
• Car Wash (per Part 1, 2.9)
• Service Station (per Part 1, 2.10)
• Motor Vehicle Sales, Leasing, Rental and Service
• Motor Vehicle Repair Garage
• Retail Propane Facility (per Part 1, 2.7)
• Industrial uses permitted in a GE2 zone (per Part 3, Table 3.2.1)
• Recreational Establishment
• Entertainment Establishment
• Night Club (footnote j)

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Table 7.4.1: separation distance of 30 m from a railway right-of-way for land uses sensitive to railway rights-of-way.
• Table 7.4.1: yard abutting a PC or P zone 6 m; yard abutting a pipeline easement 7 m; building setback abutting a creek block 3 m.
• Table 7.2.1 footnote (d): Funeral Home and Night Club not permitted on a lot abutting a residential or URM zone (Night Club in UC carries footnote j only).
• Table 7.2.1 footnote (e): Veterinary Services - facilities for keeping animals outside are not permitted.
• Table 7.2.1 footnote (j): Night Club maximum capacity shall not exceed 500 persons.
• Table 7.2.1 footnote (k): in buildings containing residential dwelling units, a Standard Restaurant with Dance Floor is only permitted at grade where office uses or uses accessory to residential are on the second storey.
• Table 7.2.1 footnote (m): Outdoor Patio subject to Part 1, Section 2.21, Subsection (v).
• Table 7.2.1: no residential uses (detached, semi-detached, duplex, triplex, fourplex, townhouse, street townhouse, stacked townhouse, apartment building, retirement home, additional residential units) are permitted in the UC zone.
• s.3 Prohibited uses (in addition to Part 1, s.2.22): Propane Cylinder Handling Facility; Bulk Propane Storage Depot; Parking Structures and Parking Lots as a principal use; Video Game/Pinball Machine Arcade; Adult Entertainment Establishment.
• s.4.3 Landscape Buffer (Other Zones): 4.5 m abutting a URM Zone (Street Townhouses excepted).
• s.4.4: lots abutting O2 zoned lands adjacent to the top-of-bank of Sheldon Creek may include the abutting O2 land above top-of-bank in Density, Lot Coverage and Landscape Area calculations, but not to increase maximum retail floor area.
• s.4.5(a) Parking per Part 1, s.2.25, except dwelling units (outside the Appleby Line Corridor Residential Parking Exemption Area, Diagram 1D, and apartment buildings in Primary/Secondary Growth Areas): 1.25 occupant spaces per one-bedroom unit, 1.50 per two-bedroom, 1.75 per three or more bedrooms; visitor parking not required.
• s.4.5(b): enclosed occupant parking at 1.25 spaces per unit for units exceeding a density of 100 units per hectare.
• s.4.5(c): for apartment buildings, driveways and parking spaces set back 2 m from a window of a habitable room in ground-floor or below-grade units; driveways and parking spaces set back at least 6 m from URM zones.
• s.4.5(d): parking of trucks and trailers prohibited except when being loaded/unloaded, for customer use, belonging to a property owner or tenant, or used for charitable purposes.
• Table 7.4.2 (UC): parking lots divided into parking areas of 225 spaces maximum, separated by a 3 m landscape area; within a comprehensive development that landscape area may contain a 2.0 m wide parallel walkway if the landscape area is at least 4.5 m wide.
• Table 7.4.2 (UC): parking lots set back a minimum of 3 m from any street line, reducible to 1 m where a decorative wall or fence not greater than 1.2 m high screens the lot from the street.
• s.4.6 Outside storage: only merchandise displayed for retail sale may be stored outside (not in a truck, trailer or vehicle); perishable waste kept in refrigerated storage inside or in a sealed below-grade deep collection container; non-perishable waste outside on lands abutting a URM zone kept in a solid screen enclosure per Part 1, s.2.2.3.
• s.4.7 Loading: no loading/unloading within 7.5 m of a URM zone; loading docks screened from an adjoining URM zone.
• s.4.8 Drive-through facilities: landscaping to screen street-facing elevations; restaurant external conveyor pick-up systems not permitted in a yard abutting a street and set back 15 m from a URM zone; intercom ordering stations set back 15 m from a URM zone; freestanding facilities for other uses set back 15 m from a URM zone.
• s.4.9 Retail sales: max 15% of the total floor area of an industrial use for display/retail of products made on the premises; may be increased to 25% where total floor area is less than 1000 m2.
• s.4.10 Amenity area: 20 m2 per unit for apartment dwelling units and retirement homes.
• s.4.11: balconies not permitted on building elevations facing Corporate Drive.
• s.4.12 Fencing: on lands abutting a URM zone, fencing along the common boundary with a minimum height of 1.8 m (solid screen or chain-link with dense year-round landscape planting).
• s.4.14: multiple contiguous lots developed under a single comprehensive site plan are deemed one lot for applying zoning regulations.
• s.1: Holding 'H' prefix per Part 11 ss.1.1-1.2; accessory buildings Part 1 s.2.2; patios/decks Part 1 s.2.3; fencing Part 1 s.2.4; swimming pools Part 1 s.2.5; general parking Part 1 s.2.26; parking spaces, driveways and parking structures Part 2 s.1; exceptions in Part 14.