M7 zone, Hamilton: Airside Industrial (M7) Zone

What the M7 zone permits

• Airport Storage, Maintenance and Operation Facilities
• Airport Waste Processing Facility
• Airport Waste Transfer Facility
• Catering Service
• Communications Establishment
• Courier Establishment
• Bulk Fuel and Oil Storage Establishment
• Industrial Administrative Offices
• Manufacturing
• Office
• Private Power Generation Facility
• Research and Development Establishment
• Transport Terminal
• Transportation Depot
• Warehouse

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Prohibited manufacturing uses (9.7.2 i), unless accessory to another permitted manufacturing use: agricultural greenhouse; beverage distillation; breweries; dry cleaning plant; manufacturing of asbestos, phosphate or sulphur products; outdoor storage; primary production of chemicals, synthetic rubber or plastic; processing or refining of petroleum or coal; processing, milling or packaging of animal feed; salvage, recycling or scrap yard; slaughtering, eviscerating, rendering or cleaning of meat, poultry or fish or by-products; smelting or extruding of ore or metal; tanning or chemical processing of pelts or leather; vulcanizing of rubber or rubber products; explosives manufacturing; pulp and paper mills.
• Prohibited even as accessory uses (9.7.2 ii, By-law 25-155): Child Care Centre, Dwelling Unit, Rock Crushing Plant.
• Where the property abuts Dickenson Road West: minimum yard 6.0 m and maximum yard 25.0 m (9.7.3 b ii).
• Built form for new development: minimum length of the ground floor facade shall be 60% or more of the front lot line measurement (9.7.3 d).
• Combined gross floor area of any Office and Industrial Administrative Office uses shall not exceed 4,000.0 m² per individual building (9.7.3 e).
• A 3.0 m wide landscaped area shall be provided and maintained abutting a street, except at points of ingress and egress; 6.0 m wide for properties abutting Dickenson Road West (9.7.3 f ii-iii).
• Outdoor storage and outdoor assembly not permitted in a required front yard or required flankage yard; shall not exceed 85% of total lot area; shall be screened from any abutting street by a visual barrier per Section 4.19 (9.7.3 g).
• Outdoor display of goods, materials or equipment permitted only as an accessory use, in a yard abutting a street, no closer than 3.0 m to the lot line (9.7.3 h).
• Maximum combined gross floor area for accessory retail and showroom area: lesser of 25% of the principal use GFA or 500 m² (9.7.3 i).
• Parking in accordance with Section 5 (9.7.3 j).
• Accessory buildings in accordance with Section 4.8 (9.7.3 k).
• Existing single detached, semi-detached and duplex dwellings (9.7.4): additions/alterations increasing interior volume or size permitted up to a maximum 10% of the GFA existing at the date of passing of the by-law, and side yard setbacks of the addition shall be no less than the existing side yard setbacks (in addition to Subsection 4.12 c) and per s.34(10) Planning Act).