C1 zone, Oakville: Neighbourhood Commercial

What the C1 zone permits

• Art gallery
• Business office
• Commercial school
• Community centre
• Conservation use
• Day care (only on a lot abutting a major arterial road, note 1)
• Drive-through facility (only on a lot abutting a major arterial road, note 1)
• Dry cleaning depot
• Emergency service facility
• Emergency shelter (prohibited on the first storey of a building, note 7)
• Financial institution
• Food bank
• Food production
• Library
• Medical office
• Museum
• Outside display and sales area
• Park, public
• Pet care establishment
• Place of worship (max lot area 2.5 ha; max 50% of total net floor area on the lot, note 4)
• Restaurant
• Retail store
• School, private (only on a lot abutting a major arterial road, note 1)
• Service commercial establishment
• Sports facility
• Stormwater management facility
• Veterinary clinic

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Maximum front yard 17.5 m and maximum flankage yard 17.5 m (Table 9.3).
• Minimum rear yard is 7.5 m both generally and where abutting a lot in any Residential, Institutional (I) or Community Use (CU) Zone or a railway corridor (Table 9.3).
• Maximum 50% of the net floor area on a lot may be occupied by a single premises (Table 9.3).
• Maximum net floor area for all retail and service commercial uses on a lot: 2,500.0 m2; no maximum for total net floor area of uses other than retail stores (Table 9.3).
• Table 9.3 note 1: on a corner lot at the intersection of two arterial roads, two collector roads, or an arterial and a collector road, for a new building or an addition of floor area in the front or flankage yard to a building legally existing on the By-law's effective date, the maximum front or flankage yard is 10.0 m for the first 33% of the length of the front and flankage lot lines measured from their point of intersection (or the intersection of their projections) (2015-018, 2017-025).
• Section 9.4 Main Wall Proportions (new buildings only, not additions to buildings legally existing on the effective date): at least 35% of the length of all main walls oriented toward the front lot line must be within the area between the minimum and maximum front yards; at least 35% of the length of all main walls oriented toward the flankage lot line must be within the area between the minimum and maximum flankage yards.
• Table 9.2 note 1: day care, drive-through facility and private school are permitted only on a lot abutting a major arterial road.
• Table 9.2 note 4: place of worship - maximum lot area 2.5 ha; a place of worship may occupy at most 50% of the total net floor area on the lot.
• Table 9.2 note 7: emergency shelter is prohibited on the first storey of a building (PL240317 / PL140317).
• Uses not permitted in C1 (Table 9.2): commercial parking area, dry cleaning/laundry establishment, funeral home, motor vehicle repair facility, motor vehicle service station, motor vehicle washing facility, outside miniature golf, place of entertainment, rental establishment, retail propane and transfer facility.