M14 zone, Hamilton: Shipping and Navigation (East Port) (M14) Zone

What the M14 zone permits

• Catering Service
• Courier Establishment
• Equipment and Machinery Sales, Rental and Service Establishment
• Industrial Administrative Office
• Laboratory
• Labour Association Hall
• Manufacturing
• Marina
• Marine Service
• Office
• Private Power Generation Facility
• Repair Service
• Research and Development Establishment
• Transport Terminal
• Warehouse

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• 9.14.2 i): the following manufacturing uses are prohibited even as accessory uses: beverage distillation; breweries; concrete crushing; manufacturing of asbestos, phosphate or sulphur products; primary production of chemicals, synthetic rubber, plastic, asphalt or cement (mixing/blending/treatment excluded); processing or refining of petroleum or coal; processing, milling or packaging of animal feed; rock crushing; salvage yard; slaughtering, eviscerating, rendering or cleaning of meat, poultry or fish or by-products; smelting of ore or metal; tanning or chemical processing of pelts or leather; vulcanizing of rubber or rubber products; explosive manufacturing; pulp and paper mills; waste processing facility; waste transfer facility.
• 9.14.2 ii): Child Care Centre and Dwelling Unit are prohibited, even as an accessory use (By-law 25-155, Aug 6, 2025).
• 9.14.3 b): yard abutting a street must be at least 6.0 m and at most 27.0 m; the 27.0 m maximum does not apply to additional buildings where an existing conforming building has a ground-floor facade of 25% or more of any street line, and on a corner lot applies to only one street lot line (By-law 24-137, Jul 12, 2024).
• 9.14.3 c): maximum gross floor area for an Office use within an individual building is 3,000 m2.
• 9.14.3 d): maximum gross floor area for an Industrial Administrative Office is 10,000 m2 on a lot.
• 9.14.3 e): combined accessory retail and showroom area limited to the lesser of 25% of the principal use's gross floor area or 500.0 m2.
• 9.14.3 f): minimum 6.0 m wide Landscaped Area abutting a street (except ingress/egress); within it, a minimum 3.0 m wide Planting Strip between parking spaces, aisles or driveways and the street.
• 9.14.3 g): Outdoor Storage and Outdoor Assembly only in conjunction with a building; not permitted in a front yard or required flankage yard; not to exceed 85% of total lot area; set back minimum 20.0 m from any lot line abutting a Residential or Institutional Zone and screened by a Visual Barrier per Section 4.19; Outdoor Storage screened from any abutting street by a Visual Barrier per Section 4.19; Outdoor Storage screened from the QEW by a Visual Barrier (continuous planting of trees/shrubs, earth berm, or combination, no maximum height) located not less than 3.0 m from the QEW street line.
• 9.14.3 h): Outdoor Display permitted only as an accessory use, allowed in a yard abutting a street but no closer than 3.0 m to the lot line, and limited to a combined maximum of 25% of the Landscaped Area required by 9.14.3 f) i).
• 9.14.3 i): stockpiles of salt and soils must not be located within 250 m of a lot line abutting a Residential or Institutional Zone, and must be secured under a roofed structure with a minimum of three walls (in addition to clause g).
• 9.14.3 j): parking in accordance with Section 5 of the By-law.
• 9.14.3 k): accessory buildings in accordance with Section 4.8 (By-law 21-189, Oct 13, 2021); no accessory building permitted within a front yard or flankage yard (By-law 18-092, Apr 11, 2018).