M6 zone, Hamilton: Light Industrial (M6) Zone

What the M6 zone permits

• Alcohol Production Facility
• Aquaponics
• Artist Studio
• Building and Lumber Supply Establishment
• Building or Contracting Supply Establishment
• Cannabis Growing and Harvesting Facility
• Commercial Motor Vehicle Sales, Rental and Service Establishment
• Commercial Parking Facility
• Communications Establishment
• Conference or Convention Centre
• Contractor's Establishment
• Courier Establishment
• Craftsperson Shop
• Equipment and Machinery Sales, Rental and Service Establishment
• Financial Establishment
• Greenhouse
• Hotel
• Industrial Administrative Office
• Laboratory
• Labour Association Hall
• Manufacturing
• Medical Clinic
• Motor Vehicle Collision Repair Establishment
• Motor Vehicle Service Station
• Motor Vehicle Washing Establishment
• Office
• Personal Service
• Private Power Generation Facility
• Production Studio
• Repair Service
• Research and Development Establishment
• Restaurant
• Surveying, Engineering, Planning or Design Business
• Trade School
• Tradesperson's Shop
• Transport Terminal
• Transportation Depot
• Warehouse
• Uses accessory to the above

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• 9.6.2 i): the following manufacturing uses are prohibited even as accessory uses: manufacturing of asbestos, phosphate or sulphur products; primary production of chemicals, synthetic rubber, plastic, asphalt or cement (mixing, blending, treatment or similar process excepted); processing or refining of petroleum or coal; processing, milling or packaging of animal feed; 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.
• 9.6.2 ii): Child Care Centre, Dry Cleaning Plant, Dwelling Unit and Place of Worship are prohibited, even as accessory uses (By-law 25-155).
• 9.6.3 d): minimum 6.0 m yard from any portion of a lot line abutting a lot line within a Residential Zone or an Institutional Zone.
• 9.6.3 e): maximum building height 11.0 m abutting a Residential or Institutional Zone; may be increased equivalently as the yard increases beyond the 6.0 m minimum of 9.6.3 d).
• 9.6.3 f): any building or structure used for Manufacturing must be set back at least 20.0 m from any lot line abutting a lot line within a Residential or Institutional Zone.
• 9.6.3 g): outdoor training facilities associated with a Trade School are prohibited.
• 9.6.3 h): Medical Clinic limited to a combined total of 3,000 m2 gross floor area on a lot.
• 9.6.3 i): Office use (excluding accessory office) limited to 3,000 m2 gross floor area within an individual building.
• 9.6.3 j): Industrial Administrative Office or Surveying, Engineering, Planning or Design Business limited to less than 10,000 m2 gross floor area on a lot.
• 9.6.3 k) i): minimum 3.0 m wide Landscaped Area abutting a street, except at points of ingress and egress.
• 9.6.3 k) ii): minimum 3.0 m wide Planting Strip where a lot line abuts a lot line within a Residential or Institutional Zone.
• 9.6.3 l): Visual Barrier required along any lot line abutting a lot line within a Residential or Institutional Zone, per Section 4.19.
• 9.6.3 m): Outdoor Storage and Outdoor Assembly permitted only in conjunction with a building; not permitted in a required yard abutting a street, nor in a Front Yard or Flankage Yard along Barton Street/Barton Street East; not to exceed 85% of total lot area; set back minimum 20.0 m from lot lines abutting a Residential or Institutional Zone and screened by a Visual Barrier (Section 4.19); screened from view from any abutting street by a Visual Barrier (Section 4.19).
• 9.6.3 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; total area limited to 25% of the Landscaped Area required by 9.6.3 k) i).
• 9.6.3 o): accessory Retail, Showroom Area and Tasting Room combined gross floor area limited to the lesser of 25% of the principal use GFA or 500.0 m2; retail or accessory retail at a motor vehicle service station limited to 280 m2 GFA.
• 9.6.3 p): Alcohol Production Facility maximum gross floor area 5,000 m2 (By-law 18-219).
• 9.6.3 q): parking in accordance with Section 5 of the By-law.
• 9.6.3 r): accessory buildings per Section 4.8; no accessory building permitted within a front yard or a flankage yard.
• 9.6.3 s): Cannabis Growing and Harvesting Facility: no outdoor storage, outdoor assembly or outside displays (notwithstanding m) and n)); retail sales permitted per 9.6.3 o); buildings/structures must be set back at least 150 m from any lot line abutting a Residential, Institutional or Commercial and Mixed Use Zone (notwithstanding Section 4.12 c)).