RA4 zone, Mississauga: Apartments (RA4)

What the RA4 zone permits

• Apartment (see Articles 4.1.15.1 and 4.1.15.2)
• Long-Term Care Building (see Articles 4.1.15.1 and 4.1.15.2)
• Retirement Building (see Articles 4.1.15.1 and 4.1.15.2)
• Additional uses within an apartment building, first storey only: retail store, service establishment, financial institution, office, medical office - restricted (Article 4.1.15.1)
• Guest units, max 5, only in an apartment with 75+ dwelling units, long-term care building with 75+ beds or retirement building with 75+ retirement dwelling units (Article 4.1.15.5)
• Accessory buildings and structures per Subsection 4.1.2 / Table 4.1.2.2

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Minimum floor space index - apartment zone: 1.0 (row 4.0); maximum 1.8 (row 5.0)
• Maximum encroachment into a required yard of a balcony above the first storey, sunroom, window, chimney, pilaster, cornice, balustrade or roof eaves: 1.0 m (row 11.1)
• Maximum encroachment into a required yard of a porch, first-storey balcony, staircase, landing or awning: 1.8 m, provided each has a maximum width of 6.0 m (row 11.2)
• Maximum projection of a balcony above the first storey from the outermost face of the building: 1.0 m (row 11.3)
• Minimum above-grade separation between buildings, by height of that portion of dwelling: <=13.0 m: 3.0 m; >13.0 to <=20.0 m: 9.0 m; >20.0 to <=26.0 m: 12.0 m; >26.0 m: 15.0 m (row 12.0)
• Minimum parking spaces: required per Part 3 of the By-law (row 13.1, note 4); tandem parking on a driveway is not permitted in RA1 to RA7 zones (4.1.9.3); Article 4.1.9A.1 does not apply to RA1 to RA7 (4.1.9A.2)
• Minimum setback from surface parking spaces or aisles: 4.5 m to a street line; 3.0 m to any other lot line (rows 13.2, 13.3)
• Minimum setback from a parking structure above or partially above finished grade to any lot line: 7.5 m; completely below grade (incl. external access stairwells): 3.0 m (rows 13.4, 13.5)
• Minimum setback from a waste enclosure/loading area: 10.0 m to a street line; 10.0 m to a zone permitting detached and/or semi-detached dwellings (rows 13.6, 13.7)
• Condominium roads and aisles may be shared with abutting lands zoned for back to back and stacked townhouses, townhouses or apartments (row 14.1)
• Minimum depth of landscaped buffer abutting a street line and/or lands with an Open Space, Greenlands or Residential Zone (except an Apartment Zone): 4.5 m; along any other lot line: 3.0 m (rows 15.2, 15.3; see 4.1.15.4 and 2.1.25)
• Minimum amenity area for dwelling units existing before April 29, 2026: the greater of 5.6 m² per dwelling unit or 10% of the site area (row 15.4)
• Minimum amenity area for new dwelling units constructed on or after April 29, 2026: 3.0 m² per dwelling unit (row 15.4.1; see 4.1.15.7)
• At least 50% of total required amenity area must be in one contiguous area; minimum 55.0 m² of amenity area outside at grade (rows 15.5, 15.6)
• Accessory buildings and structures permitted per Table 4.1.2.2 (4.1.2.1, note 7)
• Additional uses (retail store, service establishment, financial institution, office, medical office - restricted) must be inside an apartment building, not above the first storey; no additional on-site parking required (4.1.15.1)
• Guest units: max 5, max 30 m² each, no kitchen, no additional parking required; only in an apartment with 75+ units, long-term care building with 75+ beds or retirement building with 75+ retirement units (4.1.15.5)
• 64 site-specific exception zones RA4-1 to RA4-64 exist (Section 4.15.5); exception text overrides the base zone