C3 zone, Oakville: Core Commercial

What the C3 zone permits

• Art gallery
• Business office
• Commercial school
• Community centre
• Conservation use
• Day care
• Drive-through facility (only on a lot abutting a major arterial road; note 1)
• Dry cleaning depot
• Dry cleaning/laundry establishment
• Emergency service facility
• Financial institution
• Food bank
• Food production
• Library
• Medical office
• Motor vehicle repair facility (only accessory to a retail store; note 6)
• Motor vehicle service station
• Motor vehicle washing facility
• Museum
• Outside display and sales area
• Outside miniature golf
• Park, public
• Pet care establishment
• Place of entertainment
• Place of worship (max lot area 2.5 ha; max 50% of net floor area on the lot; note 4)
• Rental establishment
• Restaurant
• Retail propane and transfer facility (not permitted on a lot abutting any Residential Zone; note 3)
• Retail store
• School, private
• Service commercial establishment
• Sports facility
• Stormwater management facility
• Veterinary clinic

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Minimum lot area is 4.0 ha (40,000 m²) (Table 9.3).
• Maximum front yard 17.5 m and maximum flankage yard 17.5 m (Table 9.3).
• Table 9.3 note 1: for a new building, or floor area added in a front/flankage yard to a building legally existing on the effective date, on a corner lot at the intersection of two arterial roads, two collector roads, or an arterial and a collector road, 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).
• Maximum number of storeys: n/a (Table 9.3).
• Maximum percentage of net floor area on a lot occupied by a single premises: n/a (Table 9.3).
• Maximum total net floor area for all uses other than retail stores on a lot: 67% (Table 9.3).
• Maximum net floor area for all retail and service commercial uses on a lot: n/a (Table 9.3).
• Minimum landscaping coverage: 10% (Table 9.3).
• s.9.4 Main wall proportions (new buildings only): 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 main walls oriented toward the flankage lot line must be within the area between the minimum and maximum flankage yards; does not apply to additions to buildings legally existing on the effective date.
• Table 9.2 note 1: drive-through facility permitted only on a lot abutting a major arterial road.
• Table 9.2 note 3: retail propane and transfer facility not permitted on a lot abutting any Residential Zone.
• Table 9.2 note 4: place of worship - maximum lot area 2.5 ha; maximum 50% of the total net floor area on the lot.
• Table 9.2 note 6: motor vehicle repair facility permitted only accessory to a retail store.
• Not permitted in C3: commercial parking area, emergency shelter, funeral home (Table 9.2).