C6 (By-law 150-85) zone, Cambridge: Commercial C6 (Regional Power Centre)

What the C6 zone permits

• Any other retail commercial establishment described in s.3.3.2.1 (no size limit in the use table) (s.3.3.3.1(a)(iv))
• Business and professional offices only as described in s.3.4.2.1(b): an office building with at least 1,860 m2 of gross floor area for printing/publishing/broadcasting, data services, a branch bank or trust company, a food services establishment of up to 500 m2 that is not free-standing, professional consultants and similar offices, or executive/administrative offices of listed businesses. s.4.1.72.1(c) (PDF p.184) replaces s.3.3.3.1(b)(ii) for the C6 lands; the dot table itself shows a dot for C6 in row (b)(ii) (PDF p.131).
• Food services establishment, including a cart (see s.3.3.1.8) (s.3.3.3.1(b)(iii))
• Hotel or motel (s.3.3.3.1(b)(v))
• Funeral home (s.3.3.3.1(b)(vi))
• Automobile service station or gas bar (s.3.3.3.1(b)(vii))
• Any other service commercial establishment described in s.3.3.2.2 (s.3.3.3.1(b)(viii))
• Place of amusement as described in s.3.3.2.4, except an amusement arcade (s.3.3.3.1(c)(i))
• Amusement arcade, if located in an enclosed shopping mall not closer than 500 m to a public or separate elementary or secondary school (s.3.3.3.1(c)(ii))
• Recreation centre as described in s.3.3.2.5 (s.3.3.3.1(c)(iii))
• Any other commercial-recreational establishment described in s.3.3.2.3 (s.3.3.3.1(c)(iv))
• Regional power centre (s.3.3.3.1(d)(ii))
• Day nursery or day care centre (s.3.3.3.1(d)(xiii); also s.2.1.18.2, which excludes C5)
• A use permitted in all zones under s.2.1.1 (s.3.3.3.1(d)(xiv))
• A use, building or structure accessory to a permitted use (s.3.3.3.1(d)(xv))

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Outside display (s.3.3.1.1, PDF p.123): except garden centres, fruit and vegetable stands, motor vehicle/trailer sales and licensed outdoor vendors, goods may be displayed or stored outside only within 3 m of the front wall of the principal building and only as a retail sales area.
• Hotels and motels (s.3.3.1.2, PDF p.123): a 7.5 m side or rear yard is required where the principal entrance is through that yard or a wall facing it has a window to a habitable room.
• Motor vehicle repair shops (s.3.3.1.6, PDF pp.124-125): derelict vehicles screened by a solid fence or wall at least 2 m high; used vehicles may be sold only as an accessory use, max two per service bay.
• Drive-through facilities (s.3.3.1.9, PDF p.126): at least 30 m from an abutting residential or institutional zone boundary (15 m with a 1.8 m noise wall or building wall between), minus the abutting zone's required interior side or rear yard.
• Suffix (O) (s.2.1.6, PDF p.65): a commercial zone shown with (O), e.g. C2(O), may be used for no commercial purpose other than business and professional offices.
• Garbage (s.2.1.16, PDF p.73): refuse stored only inside a building or in a container in a side or rear yard, and in any commercial zone (and M1/M2) the container must be screened from view.
• Planting strips and fencing (s.2.4.1-2.4.2, PDF pp.99-100): a commercial or industrial use next to any residential, institutional or open space zone, park, walkway or school needs, along the rear and interior side lot lines, either a 3 m planting strip with a 1.5 m visual screen (plants or berm) plus a 1.5 m chain link or wrought iron fence, or a 1.5 m sodded/planting strip with a 1.5 m solid fence or wall; fences limited to 0.9 m within 3.0 m of the street line (s.2.4.4).
• Site A retail store sizes (s.3.3.3.4(b), PDF p.137): at full build-out, at least 60% of GRCFA for retail commercial establishments must be in stores of at least 1,858 m2 (20,000 sq ft) and at most 40% in stores of at least 627 m2 (6,750 sq ft); of the latter, up to ten stores may be as small as 488 m2 (5,250 sq ft). Before full build-out, the 40% share is calculated as 0.4 x (total permitted GRCFA minus GRCFA devoted to food services establishments, banks and other financial establishments).
• Site B (s.3.3.3.4(c), PDF p.137): all of Site B's permitted GRCFA must be in a single establishment.
• Sites A, B and C are not described anywhere in the text: not in s.3.3.3.4, not in the s.1.1.1 definition, and not in s.4.1.72, which mentions Site A only as the access off Pinebush Road and Conestoga Boulevard (PDF pp.185-187). Which site a lot is on has to come from the City or the site plan. Under s.3.3.3.4(a) Site C may have no retail floor area at all.
• Residential uses (summary): none listed for C6.
• Minimum building height (s.2.1.9.1, PDF p.67): within the shaded core areas on Special Area Zoning Maps Z4, Z5 and Z6, any new building or structure must be at least 6 m high.
• Prefix (H) holding zone (s.2.1.4, PDF p.63): until the (H) is removed by amendment, only farming (no intensive animal, fur or fish farming), market gardening, landscape gardening and s.2.1.1 uses are allowed.
• Prefix (F) floodplain (s.1.1.2.2(b)(iii) PDF p.51; s.2.1.8, PDF pp.66-67): land below the regulatory flood line; no new habitable room below the flood line, no hospital/home for the aged/group home/domiciliary hostel more than 1 m below it or with access below it, no bulk storage of dangerous, flammable, explosive, toxic, corrosive or buoyant materials below it; Grand River Conservation Authority approval also required. s.2.1.8.2 applies the same rules to land below the flood line outside the Special Policy Area (Map Z3) and to all OS1 land. (The text layer of PDF p.67 is missing s.2.1.8.2; read from the page image.)
• Compound zones (s.2.1.3, PDF pp.62-63): where two zone symbols apply (e.g. C1RM1), land may be used for any use permitted in either zone or a combination; where C5 is combined with another zone, the C5 yard and frontage/area rules (s.3.3.3.2(b), (c)(ii)-(iii), (f)(ii)-(iii)) apply to the service station/gas bar; in a commercial/residential mixed-use building the residential site rules of s.3.1.2 apply if residential gross floor area exceeds two-thirds of the building, otherwise the commercial rules of s.3.3.3.2/3.3.3.3 apply; parking and loading must be provided for every use.
• Uses permitted in all zones (s.2.1.1, PDF p.61): public uses and public/private utilities (subject to the zone's coverage, setback, yard, parking, loading and landscaping rules), private home day care in a dwelling unit, a bachelor or one-bedroom caretaker unit in a non-residential building in an N-class or M-class zone (not on the ground floor of a building in a commercial zone), wayside pits/quarries, and crisis intervention homes.
• Setbacks from specified roads (s.2.1.19, PDF pp.75-79): on roads in the Table of Designated Road Allowances, no building may be closer to the original centreline than the required front, exterior side or rear yard plus half the designated road allowance (e.g. 20.117 m to 70.841-122.968 m allowances); s.2.1.19.2 adds fixed extra distances on parts of Adam St. and Cooper St.
• Corner lot sight triangle (s.2.1.14, PDF p.72): nothing over 0.75 m high within the 15 m x 15 m triangle at street intersections, except in the shaded core areas of Maps Z4-Z6.
• Yard encroachments (s.2.1.15, PDF pp.72-73): required yards must be open to the sky except listed projections (e.g. eaves, sills, chimneys 0.5 m into any yard; fire escapes 1.6 m into rear yards; wheelchair ramps 5.0 m into front, exterior side and rear yards).
• Propane facilities (s.2.5.1, PDF p.102): no propane storage, handling or transfer within 30 m of a residential zone, none in a required front, exterior side or interior side yard (except the C5 dispenser-island allowances), none within 5 m of a hydro transmission line.
• Airport height limits (s.2.1.10, PDF pp.67-68) and Minimum Distance Separation from livestock barns/manure storage (s.2.1.21, PDF p.80) apply in all zones.
• Regional power centre definition (s.1.1.1, PDF pp.42-43): the C6 use is the regional power centre at the southeast corner of Highway 401 and Hespeler Road. It must include at least one retail store of 3,716 m2 (40,000 sq ft) or more, must not be built as an enclosed shopping mall, and may be held in more than one ownership. At full build-out at least 60% of the retail floor area must be in large stores and at most 40% in medium and smaller stores, as set out in s.3.3.3.4(a)-(c).
• Regional Power Centre exception (s.4.1.72, PDF pp.184-187, By-law 277-05), which applies to the C6, (H)C6 and (H1)C6 lands: parking stalls at 90 degrees at least 2.7 m wide; 2 loading spaces per 10,000 m2 of gross leasable commercial floor area or part of it; offices only as described in s.3.4.2.1(b); separately owned parcels need 60 m frontage, 2.0 ha and a 7.5 m building setback from parcel lines, with parking per s.2.2 and planting strips per s.2.4; until the (H1) is removed, GRCFA on the (H1)C6 lands is capped at 50,683 m2. The (H1) comes off once road land on Pinebush Road is conveyed to the Region, MTO confirms the Highway 401/Hespeler Road interchange works are secured, and site plan approval with listed traffic works is in place.