CS5 (By-law 150-85) zone, Cambridge: Shopping Centre CS5 (Local)

What the CS5 zone permits

• Neighbourhood grocery store with not more than 300 m2 of gross leasable commercial floor area (s.3.3.3.1(a)(i))
• Neighbourhood variety store with not more than 300 m2 of gross leasable commercial floor area (s.3.3.3.1(a)(ii))
• Any retail commercial establishment with not more than 300 m2 of gross leasable commercial floor area (s.3.3.3.1(a)(iii))
• 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))
• Hairdressing establishment (s.3.3.3.1(b)(i))
• Any business and professional office described in s.3.3.2.2 (subject to s.3.3.1.4) (s.3.3.3.1(b)(ii))
• Food services establishment, including a cart (see s.3.3.1.8) (s.3.3.3.1(b)(iii))
• Laundry or dry cleaner's establishment, but not a dry cleaning plant (s.3.3.3.1(b)(iv))
• 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))
• Local shopping centre (subject to s.3.3.1.4) (s.3.3.3.1(d)(vi))
• Auto service mall (s.3.3.3.1(d)(vii))
• 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))
• Dwelling units in a commercial building (s.3.3.1.3(c), PDF pp.123-124; subject to s.2.1.3.2): no dwelling unit on the ground floor; each unit with a separate private entrance from outside or a common hallway; gross residential floor area not more than two-thirds of the building's total gross floor area; one parking space per dwelling unit reserved for residential tenants
• Living quarters for the watchman or caretaker of a shopping centre (s.3.3.1.3(a), PDF p.123)

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Shopping centres only (s.3.3.1.7, PDF p.125): no land in a CS-class zone may be used except for a shopping centre as defined in s.1.1.1, with floor area within the s.3.3.3.3 limits and used only for the uses the s.3.3.3.1 table lists for the zone.
• Local shopping centres in CS5 (s.3.3.1.4(a)-(b), PDF p.124): not more than 50% of the gross leasable commercial floor area may be business and professional offices, and at least three separate leasable units must be provided for different tenants.
• 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).
• Landscaped strip at the street (s.2.4.3, PDF p.100): a strip at least 3 m wide must be kept along the front and exterior side lot lines (except where crossed by a driveway) of a lot used for commercial or industrial purposes in a C2, C3, C4 or C5 zone or any CS-class or M-class zone.
• 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.
• Residential uses (summary): dwelling units above the ground floor under s.3.3.1.3(c) (CS5 is the only CS zone named there), plus a caretaker's living quarters under s.3.3.1.3(a).
• 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.