C3 zone, Mississauga: General Commercial

What the C3 zone permits

• Retail store
• Motor vehicle sales, leasing and/or rental facility - restricted (see also Subsection 2.1.2)
• Motor vehicle rental facility
• Restaurant
• Convenience restaurant (see also Subsection 2.1.29 drive-through)
• Take-out restaurant
• Veterinary clinic
• Animal care establishment
• Funeral establishment (see also Table 2.1.2.2.2)
• Service establishment
• Commercial school
• Financial institution (see also Subsection 2.1.29 drive-through)
• Medical office
• Office
• Overnight accommodation
• Banquet hall/conference centre/convention centre
• Recreational establishment
• Entertainment establishment
• Private club
• University/college

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Uses not permitted in the C3 column of Table 6.2.1 (no mark): gas bar, motor vehicle service station, motor vehicle wash facility - restricted, motor vehicle repair facility - restricted, parking lot, apartment, and dwelling unit located above the first storey of a commercial building.
• Minimum lot frontage: no value stated in the C3 column of Table 6.2.1.
• Maximum front yard and maximum exterior side yard: no value stated in the C3 column.
• Landscaped buffer (line 12.0, see also Subsection 2.1.25): minimum depth 4.5 m from a lot line that is a street line; 3.0 m from a lot line abutting an Institutional, Office, Downtown Core, Employment, Buffer or Utility Zone; 1.5 m from a lot line of a Commercial Zone that abuts another Commercial Zone; 4.5 m from any other lot line. Minimum contiguous amenity area: none stated.
• Subsection 2.1.25: landscaped buffer may be reduced to 0.0 m where it abuts a sight triangle or a 0.3 m reserve abutting a sight triangle, and is not required along a shared property line where a driveway, condominium road, aisle or parking area is shared with the abutting lands.
• Lines 13.0 (parking/loading not between streetwall and street line), 14.0 and 15.0 (maximum streetwall lengths), 16.0 (main front entrance in the streetwall) and 17.1 (exemption from Subsection 2.1.14 centreline setbacks) carry no mark or value in the C3 column, so they do not apply to C3; the centreline setback provisions of Subsection 2.1.14 therefore apply where a lot abuts a designated right-of-way.
• Subsection 6.1.3.1: a drive-through is permitted accessory to a financial institution in a C3 zone (subject to the street location restrictions of Subsection 2.1.29 and Schedules 2.1.29(1)/(2)).
• Subsection 6.1.4.1: an outdoor garden centre is permitted accessory to a Retail use in a C3 zone.
• Subsection 2.1.17: all buildings, structures, parking areas, driveways and paved areas must be set back from lands zoned G1 or G2 by the greater of 5.0 m or the required yard.
• Site-specific exception zones C3-1 through C3-66 exist (Section 6.2.4); their regulations override this table where they apply.