Zoning · Caledon · Industrial

MS zone, Caledon: Serviced Industrial

Section 8, Tables 8.1 and 8.2 (Subsections 8.2, 8.3, 8.4) of the Town of Caledon Zoning By-law 2006-50.

A general industrial zone on municipal services for factories, warehouses, contractors' yards, vehicle repair and similar businesses, with much larger yard setbacks wherever the lot abuts a Residential zone or a lot with a residential use, and a planting strip along each front lot line.

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What the MS zone permits

  • Adult Video Store
  • Bulk Storage Facility
  • Cannabis-Related Use-Indoor (must comply with Section 4.8)
  • Contractor's Facility
  • Dry Cleaning or Laundry Plant
  • Equipment Storage Building
  • Factory Outlet
  • Gasoline Pump Island, Accessory
  • Industrial Hemp-Related Use-Indoor (must comply with Section 4.8)
  • Industrial Use
  • Light Equipment Rental Establishment
  • Maintenance Garage, Accessory
  • Merchandise Service Shop
  • Motor Vehicle Body Shop
  • Motor Vehicle Compound
  • Motor Vehicle Gas Bar
  • Motor Vehicle Repair Facility
  • Motor Vehicle Towing Facility
  • Open Storage Area, Accessory
  • Outside Display or Sales Area, Accessory
  • Research Establishment
  • Restaurant (must comply with Section 8.4.2)
  • Retail Store, Accessory (must comply with Section 8.4.1)
  • Transportation Depot
  • Warehouse
  • Warehouse, Public Self-Storage
  • Warehouse, Wholesale

Standards

RequirementBy-law
Minimum lot area (interior lot)925 m²
Minimum lot width (interior lot)30 m
Minimum front yard9 m9 m from any other front lot line; 20 m from a front lot line abutting a Residential zone or a lot containing a Residential use. No setback required from a lot line abutting a railroad right-of-way (fn 14).
Minimum interior side yard3 mFrom any other interior side lot line: 3 m on one side and 6 m on the other side (fn 5); 15 m from an interior side lot line abutting a Residential zone or a lot containing a Residential use. No setback required from a lot line abutting a railroad right-of-way (fn 14).
Minimum exterior side yard7.5 m7.5 m from any other exterior side lot line; 15 m from an exterior side lot line abutting a Residential zone or a lot containing a Residential use. No setback required from a lot line abutting a railroad right-of-way (fn 14).
Minimum rear yard7.5 m7.5 m from any other rear lot line; 15 m from a rear lot line abutting a Residential zone or a lot containing a Residential use. No setback required from a lot line abutting a railroad right-of-way (fn 14).
Maximum building height12.2 m
Maximum lot coverage50 %Maximum building area 50% (fn 22: Section 4.2.5 does not apply to transportation depots). A minimum building area of 10% also applies to a Transportation Depot (fn 22, 23).
Minimum landscaped open space10 %

Other provisions in this section

  • Minimum building area for a Transportation Depot: 10% (fn 22, 23); for this calculation building area means the portion of the lot area, excluding any landscaping area, permitted to be covered by building envelopes (fn 23).
  • Section 4.2.5 does not apply to transportation depots (fn 22).
  • Accessory gasoline pump island setbacks: min 6 m from any street line and 4.5 m from any other lot line; where the island has a canopy or roof, the setback is measured to the nearest part of the canopy/roof (fn 16).
  • Accessory outside sales or display area: min 9 m setback from any street line.
  • Accessory open storage area: not permitted in a front yard or exterior side yard, and not closer than 6 m to any lot line unless a chain-link fence at least 1.8 m high is built along that lot line (fn 19); transportation depot restrictions in fn 24 also apply.
  • Maximum net floor area of a factory outlet: 20% of the gross floor area of the industrial use to which it is accessory (fn 6).
  • Planting strip: minimum width 6 m, required along each front lot line (fn 7). Additionally (fn 17): min 9.0 m abutting an arterial road or Provincial Highway; min 12.0 m where truck parking or loading spaces are adjacent to an arterial road or Provincial Highway; min 1.5 m on all interior side yards except where there is a mutual driveway along an interior side lot line.
  • Tullamore Industrial Commercial Secondary Plan Area: planting strip along an arterial road min 12 m; along all internal roads min 8 m (fn 18).
  • Driveway setbacks: min 1.5 m from any other lot line; 4.5 m from a lot line abutting a Residential zone or a lot containing a Residential use (fn 24 applies).
  • Parking space setbacks: min 6 m from any front lot line; 3 m from any other lot line (fn 24 applies).
  • Transportation depot: no parking, storing or staging in a front yard or exterior side yard, in a rear yard adjacent to a rear lot line abutting a Residential zone or lot with a Residential use, or in a side yard adjacent to an interior side lot line abutting a Residential zone or lot with a Residential use (fn 24).
  • No building setback is required from any portion of a lot line abutting a railroad right-of-way (fn 14).
  • Accessory Retail Store (8.4.1): only accessory to a permitted industrial use, selling/displaying products made or assembled on the premises; ground floor only; area not to exceed 500 m2 or 15% of the gross floor area of the industrial use, whichever is less; may be in a free-standing building on the same lot if its net floor area does not exceed 300 m2.
  • Restaurant (8.4.2): area not to exceed 15% of the total gross floor area of all buildings on the lot, to a maximum of 500 m2.
  • Cannabis-Related and Industrial Hemp-Related Uses (Indoor) must comply with Section 4.8.
  • General Provisions of Section 4 and Parking, Loading & Delivery Standards of Section 5 also apply (8.1).

Source: Section 8, Tables 8.1 and 8.2 (Subsections 8.2, 8.3, 8.4), By-law 2006-50 (Town of Caledon), checked 2026-09-12. General provisions elsewhere in the by-law (parking, driveways, accessory buildings) also apply, and a numbered exception on the parcel can change any value here. Treat this as a pre-check, not a sign-off.

Other industrial zones in Caledon: MA, MD, MP, MU, MX