UOP zone, Burlington: Uptown Office Park

What the UOP zone permits

• Convenience Restaurant
• Funeral Home (d: not permitted on a lot abutting a residential or URM zone)
• Outdoor Patio (m: subject to Part 1, Section 2.21(v))
• All Office Uses
• Community Institution
• Industrial uses permitted in a GE2 zone, per Part 3, Table 3.2.1
• Recreational Establishment

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Lot Area stated as 0.2 ha (= 2,000 m²); Lot Width 30 m (Table 7.4.1)
• Front Yard is a MAXIMUM of 22 m; Street Side Yard is a MAXIMUM of 22 m (Table 7.4.1) - no minimum front or street side yard is stated
• Minimum Floor Area Ratio 0.5:1 (Table 7.4.1)
• Density in units/ha: not applicable (* * *) in the UOP zone; no residential dwelling types are permitted in UOP per Table 7.2.1
• Minimum building height 2 storeys; second storey of any two-storey building must be at least 50% of the first-storey floor area (Table 7.4.1 footnote e); sub-two-storey buildings legally existing at passage of By-law 2020.205 (April 28, 2008) deemed to conform for the life of the building
• 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 7.4.1)
• Landscape Area: 25% in the UOP zone (s.4.3)
• Landscape Buffer: 6 m abutting a URM zone in the UOP zone (s.4.3)
• Lots abutting O2 lands adjacent to the top-of-bank of Sheldon Creek may include the O2 area above the top-of-bank in Density, Lot Coverage and Landscape Area calculations, but not to increase maximum retail floor area (s.4.4)
• Parking per Part 1, Subsection 2.25 as amended by s.4.5; enclosed occupant parking 1.25 spaces/unit for units exceeding 100 units/ha (s.4.5(b)); driveways and parking spaces set back at least 6 m from URM zones, and 2 m from ground-floor/below-grade habitable-room windows for apartment buildings (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))
• Parking lots set back minimum 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, applies to UOP)
• Outside storage limited to merchandise displayed for retail sale, not stored in a vehicle; perishable waste kept refrigerated indoors or in a below-grade sealed deep-collection container; nonperishable waste stored outside on lands abutting a URM zone must be 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-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; other freestanding drive-through facilities set back 15 m from a URM zone (s.4.8)
• Industrial uses: maximum 15% of total floor area for display and retail sale of products made on the premises, increased to 25% where total floor area is less than 1,000 m² (s.4.9)
• Amenity area of 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 the common boundary with a URM zone, minimum 1.8 m high, solid screen or chain-link with dense year-round landscape planting (s.4.12)
• Multiple contiguous lots developed under a single comprehensive site plan are deemed one lot for zoning purposes (s.4.14)
• Prohibited uses in addition to Part 1, s.2.22: propane cylinder handling facility, bulk propane storage depot, parking structures/lots as a principal use, video game/pinball arcade, adult entertainment establishment (s.3)
• 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 per 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 (s.1)
• Subject to Part 1 (General Conditions and Provisions) and Part 14 (Exceptions to Zone Designations)