M4 zone, Hamilton: Business Park Support (M4) Zone

What the M4 zone permits

• Artist Studio
• Building and Lumber Supply Establishment
• Building or Contracting Supply Establishment
• Commercial Motor Vehicle Sales, Rental and Service Establishment
• Communications Establishment
• Conference or Convention Centre
• Contractor's Establishment
• Courier Establishment
• Craftsperson Shop
• Equipment and Machinery Sales, Rental and Service Establishment
• Financial Establishment
• Hotel
• Industrial Administrative Office
• Laboratory
• Labour Association Hall
• Manufacturing
• Medical Clinic
• Motor Vehicle Collision Repair Establishment
• Motor Vehicle Service Station
• Office
• Personal Service
• Private Power Generation Facility
• Production Studio
• Repair Service
• Research and Development Establishment
• Restaurant
• Retail
• Surveying, Engineering, Planning or Design Business
• Trade School
• Tradesperson's Shop
• Transport Terminal
• Transportation Depot
• Warehouse
• Motor Vehicle Washing Establishment (only as an accessory use to a Motor Vehicle Service Station, 9.4.2 iii)

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• 9.4.2 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 (not including mixing, blending, treatment or similar process); 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; explosives manufacturing; pulp and paper mills.
• 9.4.2 ii): Child Care Centre, Dry Cleaning Plant, Dwelling Unit and Place of Worship are prohibited, even as accessory uses (By-law 25-155).
• 9.4.2 iii): a Motor Vehicle Washing Establishment is permitted only as an accessory use to a Motor Vehicle Service Station (By-law 19-062).
• 9.4.3 b): yard abutting a street minimum 6.0 m and maximum 27.0 m; the maximum does not apply to additional buildings where an existing conforming building's ground-floor facade is 25% or more of any street line; on a corner lot the maximum applies to only one street lot line.
• 9.4.3 c): minimum 6.0 m yard from any lot line abutting a lot line within a Residential Zone or an Institutional Zone.
• 9.4.3 d): maximum building height 11.0 m abutting a Residential or Institutional Zone, which may be equivalently increased as the yard increases beyond the 6.0 m minimum in 9.4.3 c).
• 9.4.3 e): any building or structure used for Manufacturing must be set back a minimum 20.0 m from any lot line abutting a lot line within a Residential or Institutional Zone.
• 9.4.3 f): outdoor training facilities associated with a Trade School are prohibited.
• 9.4.3 g): Medical Clinic limited to a combined total of 3,000 m2 gross floor area on a lot.
• 9.4.3 h): Office use within an individual building (excluding accessory office) limited to a maximum 3,000 m2 gross floor area.
• 9.4.3 i): an Industrial Administrative Office or a Surveying, Engineering, Planning or Design Business limited to a gross floor area of less than 10,000 m2 on a lot.
• 9.4.3 i) (second, By-law 24-137): total combined gross floor area of any Office, Industrial Administrative Office and Surveying, Engineering, Planning or Design Business uses shall not exceed 4,000.0 m2 per individual building.
• 9.4.3 j) i): Financial Establishment, Personal Service, Restaurant and Retail are permitted only on the ground floor of a building or at grade on any lot.
• 9.4.3 j) ii): an individual Retail Establishment is restricted to a maximum gross floor area of 500.0 m2.
• 9.4.3 k): minimum 6.0 m wide Landscaped Area abutting a street (except at points of ingress and egress); within it a minimum 3.0 m wide Planting Strip between parking spaces, aisles or driveways and the street; minimum 3.0 m wide Planting Strip where a lot line abuts a Residential or Institutional Zone.
• 9.4.3 l): a Visual Barrier per Section 4.19 must be provided along any lot line abutting a lot line within a Residential or Institutional Zone.
• 9.4.3 m): Outdoor Storage and Outdoor Assembly permitted only in conjunction with a building; not permitted in a Front Yard or required Flankage Yard; not permitted in a Flankage Yard along Barton Street/Barton Street East, Dickenson Road East, Fruitland Road, Garner Road West, Highway No. 5 West, Highway No. 6, Rymal Road East, Shaver Road, South Service Road, Stone Church Road East, Trinity Church Road Extension, Trinity Road, Upper Ottawa Street or Wilson Street West; shall not exceed 85% of total lot area; minimum 20.0 m setback from a lot line abutting a Residential or Institutional Zone and screened by a Visual Barrier (Section 4.19); screened from any abutting street by a Visual Barrier (Section 4.19).
• 9.4.3 n): 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; combined area limited to a maximum 25% of the Landscaped Area.
• 9.4.3 o): accessory retail and showroom area limited to the lesser of 25% of the gross floor area of the principal use or 500.0 m2; retail or accessory retail associated with a motor vehicle service station limited to 280 m2 gross floor area.
• 9.4.3 p): parking in accordance with Section 5 of the By-law.
• 9.4.3 q): accessory buildings per Section 4.8; no accessory building permitted within a front yard or flankage yard except a structure for security purposes.