RA6 zone, Mississauga: RA6 Mixed Use

What the RA6 zone permits

• Apartment (see 4.16.1.4 and 4.16.1.5: min 10% of GFA for additional uses; no dwelling units on the first storey)
• Long-Term Care Building (see also 4.1.15.2)
• Retirement Building
• Additional uses required in accordance with Section 4.16 (Article 4.16.1.1 list): Public School, Private School, Place of Religious Assembly, Day Care, Essential Emergency Service, Community Centre / Community Athletic Field / Public Walkway / Library, Temporary Tent and/or Stage, Community Garden, Parking/Security Attendant Booth, Transit Terminal and/or Transit Corridor, Home Office, Short-Term Accommodation, Seasonal Outdoor Patio, Seasonal Outdoor Retail Sales and Display, Permanent Outdoor Patio, Retail Store, Restaurant, Take-out Restaurant, Veterinary Clinic, Service Establishment, Financial Institution, Medical Office, Medical Office - Restricted, Office, Recreational Establishment, Entertainment Establishment, Private Club, Repair Establishment
• Guest units (4.1.15.5) - only in an apartment with 75+ dwelling units, long-term care building with 75+ beds, or retirement building with 75+ retirement dwelling units; max 5 guest units, max 30 m2 each, no kitchen, no additional parking required
• Accessory buildings and structures per Table 4.1.2.2 (4.1.2.1)

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Maximum tower floor plate: 1 000 m2 for a building less than 12 storeys; 750 m2 for a building 12 storeys or more (rows 4.1-4.2; per 4.16.1.7 each tower on a shared podium is a separate building for floor plate calculation)
• Minimum above-grade separation between the exterior of towers on the same lot, exclusive of projections: 25.0 m (row 8.0)
• Street frontages: a minimum 40% of the area of the first storey streetwall of a building containing an additional use (4.16.1.1) must be glazing (row 9.1); each individual unit containing an additional use with a first storey streetwall must provide pedestrian access facing a street line (row 9.2); row 9.3 deleted by 0055-2026; row 9.4 (first storey dwelling unit sidewalk access) n/a
• Balconies: maximum projection from the outermost face of the podium 0.0 m; maximum encroachment into a required yard 0.0 m; maximum projection from the outermost face of the tower 1.8 m (rows 10.1-10.3; see also 4.1.15.6)
• Canopies and/or awnings on the first storey may encroach into a required yard provided a minimum 2.0 m setback from the lot line is kept (row 10.4); first-storey dwelling unit stairs encroachment n/a (row 10.5)
• Minimum parking spaces: per Part 3 of the By-law (row 11.1, note 4); no number stated in this section
• At-grade parking spaces, aisles and parking structures are not permitted between a wall of a building/structure and a lot line abutting a street (row 11.2)
• Minimum setback from surface parking spaces and aisles to any lot line that is not a street line: 3.0 m (row 11.3; see 4.1.7, 4.1.8)
• Minimum setback from a parking structure above or partially above finished grade to any non-street lot line: 4.5 m (row 11.4); from a parking structure completely below finished grade, inclusive of external access stairwells and vents: 3.0 m (row 11.5)
• At-grade waste enclosure and loading space not permitted between a building wall and a lot line abutting a street (row 11.6); minimum setback from an at-grade waste enclosure and loading space to any non-street lot line: 4.5 m (row 11.7)
• Driveways, condominium roads and aisles may be shared with abutting lands in the same zone and/or zoned for back to back and stacked townhouses, townhouses or apartments (row 12.1)
• Minimum depth of landscaped buffer along all non-street lot lines: 3.0 m; 4.5 m where abutting lands with an Open Space and/or Greenlands Zone (rows 13.1-13.2; see 4.1.15.4 and 2.1.25)
• Minimum amenity area: 3.0 m2 per dwelling unit; minimum 55.0 m2 of amenity area outside in a contiguous area (rows 13.3-13.4)
• Accessory buildings and structures permitted per Table 4.1.2.2 (row 14.0; 4.1.2.1)
• Minimum depth of a first-storey unit containing an additional use (4.16.1.1): 10.0 m (4.16.1.2)
• Minimum height of a first-storey unit containing an additional use (4.16.1.1): 4.5 m (4.16.1.3)
• A minimum of 10% of the overall gross floor area on a lot must be for additional uses listed in 4.16.1.1 (4.16.1.4)
• Dwelling units are not permitted on the first storey of an apartment, long-term care building or retirement building (4.16.1.5)
• Subsection 2.1.14 does not apply to the RA6 zone (4.16.1.6)
• Where a podium connects two or more towers, each tower is a separate building for calculating tower floor plate (4.16.1.7)
• 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 lands (4.1.9A.2)
• 65 site-specific exception zones RA6-1 to RA6-65 exist (Section 4.16.2); their texts override this table where applicable
• Table row values marked (3) are subject to Subsections 4.1.7 and 4.1.8; maximum height (2) subject to 4.1.21; long-term care building (1) subject to 4.1.15.2