M1 (By-law 150-85) zone, Cambridge: Industrial M1 (Business Park)

What the M1 zone permits

• Industrial business park uses (s.3.4.3.1(a); defined in s.3.4.2.1: enclosed general industrial uses with no outdoor storage, office buildings of at least 1,860 m2 GFA for listed office/service tenants, and hotels with at least 50 guest rooms)
• General industrial uses (other than a motor vehicle repair shop or auto body repair shop, an auto service mall, an establishment for the display, sales and service of motor vehicles and motorized equipment, a bonded customs warehouse or a courier or delivery service) where no outdoor storage is provided and all operations are entirely within wholly enclosed buildings (s.3.4.3.1(b))
• Factory sales outlet in accordance with s.3.4.1.1 (s.3.4.3.1(j))
• Offices in accordance with s.3.4.1.2 (s.3.4.3.1(k))
• Day nursery or day care centre (s.3.4.3.1(l))
• A use permitted in all zones under s.2.1.1, including a bachelor or one-bedroom caretaker dwelling unit in a non-residential building under s.2.1.1.4 (s.3.4.3.1(m))
• Accessory use, building or structure (s.3.4.3.1(n))

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Factory sales outlets (s.3.4.1.1, PDF p.139): a manufacturer may sell its own products at retail from an outlet inside the plant building of no more than 20% of the building's total floor area.
• Offices for an industrial use (s.3.4.1.2, PDF p.139): may be in the same building, a separate building on the same lot under single ownership or condominium, an industrial mall, an M1 office building, or temporarily in a trailer.
• Motor vehicle repair and auto body repair shops (s.3.4.1.3, PDF pp.139-140): derelict vehicles screened by a 2.0 m solid fence or wall; no retail fuel sales; used vehicles only as an accessory use, max two per service bay.
• Outdoor storage (s.3.4.1.4, PDF p.140): no outdoor storage between the street line and the regulatory building line or within the minimum exterior side yard, and storage beyond those lines must be screened; in M7 all outdoor storage must be enclosed by a solid fence, wall or berm at least 2.5 m high.
• Vacant industrial land (s.3.4.1.5, PDF pp.140-141) may be used without buildings for farming (no intensive animal, fur or fish farming), market gardening, landscape gardening or non-commercial recreation.
• Front and exterior side yards (s.3.4.1.7, PDF p.141): 6.0 m, or 12.0 m in an M1 zone and in the listed areas (north of Highway 401 and west of Speedsville Rd; Highway 401/Hespeler Rd/Eagle St/CN tracks; Highway 401/east city limits/proposed east-west arterial/Hespeler Rd (with an exception on the east side of Hespeler Rd); Dundas St/Elgin St N/Samuelson St/Clyde Rd/east city limits/Moffatt Creek; north side of Maple Grove Rd east of Fountain St and south and west of Middle Creek).
• Drive-through facilities (s.3.4.1.10, PDF p.142): at least 30 m from an abutting residential or institutional zone (15 m with a 1.8 m noise wall or building wall between), minus that zone's required interior side or rear yard.
• Places of worship (s.3.4.1.11, By-law 160-10, PDF p.142): lands in the regeneration and transition areas on Map Z9 may also be used for a place of worship under the N-class regulations of s.3.2.
• 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.
• 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).
• General industrial uses (s.3.4.2.2, PDF pp.144-146) include: manufacturing, processing, fabrication, assembly, testing, warehousing (including bonded customs warehouses) and storage, but not heavy industry, impounding yards, transport terminals, batching plants, builder's/contractor's yards or wrecking/salvage/junk yards; data services; CAD/CAM; advanced technology; industrial R&D; quality control labs; printing/publishing; dry cleaning plants; motor vehicle repair and auto body shops (not M1/M2); caterers; lumber yards; contractor's establishments; courier/delivery services (not M1/M2); propane transfer facilities; employee training/recreation; listed offices, food services, fitness, banks and similar uses in an industrial mall (max 2,500 m2 per establishment, and the s.3.4.2.2(p)(iv) uses max 25% of the building's GLCFA); trade union halls; heavy truck and equipment sales/service of at least 5,600 kg GVW (not M1/M2); trades training; auto service malls (s.3.4.1.9); tire storage/recycling at least 500 m from a residential zone; small equipment and business machine sales/rental/service; landscaping and garden centres; veterinary clinics and pet boarding/grooming; arts and crafts instruction and craftsperson shops; rental establishments; security/janitorial services; public beverage making; motor vehicle lease/rental without trailers (not M1/M2); automotive parts sales; photocopying; recording studios; call centres.
• Hotels in M1 (s.3.4.1.8, PDF pp.141-142): 7.5 m side or rear yard where the hotel entrance is through that yard or a wall facing it has a window to a habitable room.
• Garbage containers must be screened from view in M1 and M2 zones (s.2.1.16, PDF p.73).
• Residential uses (summary): none, except a bachelor or one-bedroom caretaker unit in a non-residential building under s.2.1.1.4.
• 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.