Zoning · Caledon · Mixed use

PD zone, Caledon: Planned Development (PD-1)

Section 13.5, Table 13.5 (Subsection 13.5.2) of the Town of Caledon Zoning By-law 2006-50.

A planned mixed-use area (exception PD-1) that allows townhouses, stacked townhouses and live-work units together with a wide range of commercial or industrial uses, with the dimensional standards borrowed from other zones (RT-665/RT-667/RT, CCV, MP-677/MP) depending on the use.

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What the PD zone permits

  • Adult Day Centre
  • Animal Hospital
  • Antique and Collectibles Store
  • Apartment, Accessory
  • Art Gallery
  • Artisan Operation
  • Artist Studio and Gallery
  • Assembly and Packaging Use
  • Bakery
  • Business Office
  • Clinic
  • Communication Equipment Outlet
  • Convenience Store
  • Cultural Centre
  • Custom Computer Assembly and Service Outlet
  • Day Care, Private Home
  • Day Nursery
  • Dry Cleaning or Laundry Outlet
  • Dwelling, Freehold Townhouse
  • Dwelling, Stacked Townhouse
  • Dwelling, Townhouse
  • Equipment Storage Building
  • Factory Outlet
  • Financial Institution
  • Fitness Centre
  • Funeral Home
  • Furniture Showroom
  • Government Office
  • Grocery Store
  • Hotel
  • Industrial Supply Outlet
  • Laboratory, Medical
  • Landscaped Buffer
  • Library
  • Live-Work Unit
  • Medical Centre
  • Merchandise Service Shop
  • Museum
  • Nature Trail
  • Patio, Outdoor
  • Personal Service Shop
  • Pharmacy
  • Place of Assembly
  • Place of Worship
  • Planting Strip
  • Play Facility Area
  • Printing and Processing Service Shop
  • Private Club
  • Recreation, Non-Intensive
  • Research Establishment
  • Restaurant
  • Retail Store
  • Retail Store, Accessory
  • Sales, Service and Repair Shop
  • Specialty Food Store/Specialty Restaurant
  • Training Facility
  • Veterinary Hospital
  • Warehouse
  • Warehouse, Public Self-Storage
  • Warehouse, Wholesale

Other provisions in this section

  • Uses in the zone must be one of two combinations: (a) landscaped buffer, planting strip, street, nature trail, non-intensive recreation, freehold townhouse, townhouse, stacked townhouse and live-work units; or (b) landscaped buffer, planting strip, street, nature trail, non-intensive recreation with commercial uses or industrial uses.
  • Stacked townhouse (zone-specific definition): a building divided vertically and horizontally into 6 or more separate dwelling units, each with an independent entrance directly from outside.
  • Work component of a live-work unit may only contain: adult day centre, accessory apartment, art gallery, artist studio, bakery, business office, convenience store, private home day care, dry cleaning or laundry outlet, personal service shop, pharmacy, specialty food store/specialty restaurant, training facility.
  • Specialty Food Store/Specialty Restaurant (zone-specific definition): a business specializing in a specific type or class of food; seating for no more than 10 persons; excludes a restaurant or on-site food preparation involving frying.
  • Training Facility in a live-work unit: for-profit training not under an Education Act Board; limited to 10 students at any one time; must not cause nuisance to adjacent uses; excludes any cannabis or industrial hemp use.
  • 'Commercial uses' and 'industrial uses' are defined by specific lists in Table 13.5 (commercial list a) to rr); industrial list: business office, equipment storage building, factory outlet, financial institution, merchandise service shop, place of assembly, place of worship, research establishment, restaurant, accessory retail store, training facility, warehouse, public self-storage warehouse, wholesale warehouse).
  • Stacked townhouses: unless stated otherwise in this zone, the zone standards of the RT-667 zone apply.
  • Freehold townhouses and townhouses: unless stated otherwise in this zone, the zone standards of the RT-665 zone apply, and where RT-665 lists no standard, the RT zone standards apply.
  • Outdoor Amenity Space (zone-specific definition): outdoor area on a lot with a residential use used exclusively for enjoyment of the outdoors (rear yard, covered or uncovered porch, courtyard, balcony or deck); it must be located in the rear yard.
  • Minimum building height of 7.5 m for any stacked townhouse, freehold townhouse or townhouse dwelling.
  • Live-work units: ground floor uses restricted to either one live-work use or the ground floor of a townhouse dwelling, not a combination; all garbage must be stored internally; the unit must front onto a street; access to the work component must be barrier-free.
  • Live-work units: unless stated otherwise, RT-665 zone standards apply, and where RT-665 lists no standard, RT zone standards apply.
  • Commercial uses must be located and mitigated per satisfactory studies submitted through a Planning Act application.
  • Commercial use minimum setback of 30 m from any lot containing a residential use or a residential zone, unless a street separates them with a 10 m landscaped buffer or planting strip between the commercial use and the street.
  • Delivery spaces, loading spaces, commercial motor vehicle parking and overhead/service bay doors must not be located between a commercial or industrial building and a lot containing a residential use or a residential zone.
  • Commercial uses: unless stated otherwise, the Village Core Commercial (CCV) zone standards apply; where a commercial use forms part of a live-work unit, RT-665 (then RT) standards apply; where a commercial use is also listed as an industrial use, MP-677 (then MP) standards apply.
  • Industrial uses (including warehouse, wholesale warehouse and public self-storage warehouse) must be located and mitigated per satisfactory studies submitted through a Planning Act application, including a Land Use Compatibility Assessment and Noise Report.
  • Industrial use minimum setback of 30 m from any lot containing a residential use or a residential zone, unless a street separates them with a 10 m landscaped buffer or planting strip between the industrial use and the street.
  • All trailer and tractor maneuvering, loading, staging, parking and storing must be set back a minimum of 70 m from a lot containing a residential use or a residential zone.
  • Financial institutions and restaurants must comply with Section 8.4.2; an accessory retail store must comply with Section 8.4.1.
  • Industrial uses: unless stated otherwise, the Prestige Industrial – Exception 677 (MP-677) zone standards apply, and where MP-677 lists no standard, the MP zone standards apply; where an industrial use forms part of a live-work unit, RT-665 (then RT) standards apply; where an industrial use is also listed as a commercial use, MP-677 (then MP) standards apply.
  • No air conditioners, heat pumps or mechanical systems may be located in the front yard or exterior side yard.
  • General Provisions of Section 4 and Parking, Loading & Delivery Standards of Section 5 also apply (Section 13.5.1).

Source: Section 13.5, Table 13.5 (Subsection 13.5.2), 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.