UE zone, Burlington: Uptown Employment (UE)

What the UE zone permits

• Convenience/Specialty Foods Store (a: ground floor and below-grade floors only, in buildings with a minimum floor area of 3000 m2)
• Other Retail Uses (a)
• Standard Restaurant (a)
• Standard Restaurant with Dance Floor (a, k)
• Fast Food Restaurant
• Convenience Restaurant (a)
• Funeral Home (d: not on a lot abutting a residential or URM zone)
• Veterinary Services (a, e: no outdoor animal-keeping facilities)
• Other Service Commercial Uses (a)
• Outdoor Patio (m: subject to Part 1, s.2.21(v))
• All Office Uses
• Community Institution
• Hotel
• Convention/Conference Centre
• Banquet Centre
• Caterer
• Industrial uses permitted in a GE2 zone, per Part 3, Table 3.2.1
• Recreational Establishment
• Entertainment Establishment
• Night Club (a, j: maximum capacity 500 persons)

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Table 7.4.1: 30 m separation distance 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.
• s.4.2 (UE & URH): maximum floor area for all retail and service commercial uses shall not exceed 50% of total building floor area.
• s.4.3 landscape buffer (Other Zones): 4.5 m abutting a URM zone (street townhouses excepted).
• s.4.4: lots abutting O2 lands at the top-of-bank of Sheldon Creek may include the O2 area 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 1-bedroom unit, 1.50 per 2-bedroom, 1.75 per 3+ bedroom; visitor parking not required.
• s.4.5(b): enclosed occupant parking at 1.25 spaces per unit for units exceeding 100 units/ha.
• 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 dwelling units, and 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 the owner/tenant, or used for charitable purposes.
• Table 7.4.2 (UE): parking lots divided into parking areas of 150 spaces maximum 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).
• Table 7.4.2 (UE): parking lots set back at least 3 m from any street line, reducible to 1 m where a decorative wall or fence not over 1.2 m high screens the lot from the street.
• Table 7.4.2 (UE): on lands abutting Appleby Line, parking lots between a building and a lot line intersecting Appleby Line limited to 40 m in width within 20 m of Appleby Line.
• s.4.6 outside storage: only merchandise displayed for retail sale may be stored outside (not in a truck/trailer/vehicle); perishable waste in refrigerated storage inside or in a below-grade sealed deep-collection container; non-perishable waste stored outside on lands abutting a URM zone must be in a solid screen enclosure per Part 1 s.2.2.3.
• s.4.7: loading/unloading not within 7.5 m of a URM zone; loading docks screened from view from an adjoining URM zone.
• s.4.8 drive-throughs: landscaping to screen drive-through elevations facing a street; 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; other freestanding drive-through facilities set back 15 m from a URM zone.
• s.4.9 retail sales: up to 15% of the total floor area of an industrial use may be used for display and retail sale of products made on the premises; up 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: on lands abutting a URM zone, fencing at least 1.8 m high along the common boundary (solid screen fence or chain-link plus dense year-round planting).
• s.4.14: multiple contiguous lots developed under one comprehensive site plan are deemed one lot for zoning purposes.
• s.3 prohibited uses (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.
• s.1: Holding (H) prefix per Part 11 s.1.1/1.2; accessory buildings Part 1 s.2.2; patios/decks Part 1 s.2.3; fencing Part 1 s.2.4; pools Part 1 s.2.5; general parking Part 1 s.2.26; parking spaces, driveways and structures Part 2 s.1; exceptions Part 14.
• Table 7.2.1 footnote (a): retail/service commercial uses so marked are permitted only on the ground floor and below-grade floors in buildings with a minimum floor area of 3000 m2; footnote (k): in buildings with dwelling units, a standard restaurant with dance floor is only permitted at grade where office or residential-accessory uses occupy the second storey.