UCR2 zone, Burlington: Uptown Commercial/Residential 2

What the UCR2 zone permits

• Convenience/Specialty Foods Store
• Other Retail Uses
• 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
• Farmers' Market
• Standard Restaurant
• Standard Restaurant with Dance Floor (footnote k: in buildings with dwelling units, only at grade where office or residential-accessory uses are on the second storey)
• Fast Food Restaurant
• Convenience Restaurant
• Funeral Home (footnote d: not on a lot abutting a residential or URM zone)
• Veterinary Services (footnote e: no outdoor animal-keeping facilities)
• Other Service Commercial Uses
• Outdoor Patio (footnote m: subject to Part 1, s.2.21(v))
• All Office Uses
• Community Institution
• Hotel
• Convention/Conference Centre
• Banquet Centre
• Caterer
• Car Wash (per Part 1, s.2.9)
• Service Station (per Part 1, s.2.10)
• Motor Vehicle Sales, Leasing, Rental and Service
• Motor Vehicle Repair Garage
• Retail Propane Facility (per Part 1, s.2.7)
• Recreational Establishment
• Entertainment Establishment
• Night Club (footnotes c, j: not in a building with dwelling units; max capacity 500 persons)
• Townhouse (footnote g)
• Street Townhouse (footnote g)
• Stacked Townhouse (footnote g)
• Apartment Building (footnote g)
• Retirement Home (footnote g)
• Additional Residential Units (footnote l: subject to Part 1, s.2.21(u))

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Holding 'H' prefix: uses per Part 11 s.1.1; development premature until 'H' removed per Part 11 s.1.2 (s.1(a)).
• Accessory buildings per Part 1 s.2.2; patios and decks Part 1 s.2.3; fencing and privacy screens 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 (s.1(b)-(h)).
• Footnote (g), Table 7.2.1: dwelling units not permitted on the ground floor within 100 m of Appleby Line; max 30% of ground floor area may be facilities ancillary to residential use.
• Prohibited uses (s.3), in addition to Part 1 s.2.22: propane cylinder handling facility, bulk propane storage depot, parking structures/parking lots as a principal use, video game/pinball arcade, adult entertainment establishment; residential uses subject to Part 2 s.2 Prohibited Uses.
• Separation distance 30 m from a railway right-of-way for land uses sensitive to railways (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 7.4.1).
• Minimum building height 2 storeys; second storey floor area at least 50% of the first storey; sub-2-storey buildings legally existing at April 28, 2008 (By-law 2020.205) deemed to conform (Table 7.4.1 note e).
• Lots abutting Sheldon Creek O2 lands may count the O2 area above top-of-bank toward density, lot coverage and landscape area, but not to increase maximum retail floor area (s.4.4).
• Parking for apartment buildings: driveways and parking spaces set back 2 m from a habitable-room window on the ground floor or below grade; driveways and parking spaces set back at least 6 m from URM zones (s.4.5(c)).
• Parking of trucks and trailers prohibited except when being loaded/unloaded, for customer use, belonging to an owner or tenant, or used for charitable purposes (s.4.5(d)).
• Table 7.4.2 (UCR2): parking lots divided into areas of max 150 spaces separated by a 3 m landscape area (may contain a 2.0 m walkway if the landscape area is at least 4.5 m wide); parking lots set back min 3 m from any street line, reducible to 1 m with a decorative wall or fence not over 1.2 m high; no parking lot or driveway within 3 m of a habitable-room window in a basement or ground-floor dwelling unit (2 m for apartment buildings).
• Outside storage: only merchandise displayed for retail sale, not in a vehicle; perishable waste refrigerated indoors or in a below-grade sealed deep collection system; non-perishable waste abutting a URM zone within a solid screen enclosure per Part 1 s.2.2.3 (s.4.6).
• Loading/unloading not within 7.5 m of a URM zone; loading docks screened from an adjoining URM zone (s.4.7).
• Drive-throughs: landscaping to screen street-facing elevations; restaurant external conveyor pick-up not in a yard abutting a street and set back 15 m from a URM zone; intercom ordering stations 15 m from a URM zone; other freestanding drive-through facilities 15 m from a URM zone (s.4.8).
• Retail sales in an industrial use: max 15% of total floor area, or 25% where total floor area is under 1000 m2 (s.4.9).
• Amenity area: 20 m2 per unit for apartment dwelling units and retirement homes (s.4.10).
• Balconies not permitted on building elevations facing Corporate Drive (s.4.11).
• Fencing along a common boundary with a URM zone: minimum 1.8 m, solid screen or chain-link with dense year-round planting (s.4.12).
• Multiple contiguous lots developed under one comprehensive site plan are deemed one lot for zoning purposes (s.4.14).
• Office footnote (f) (ground-floor restriction) applies to UCR1 only, not UCR2.