CBD zone, Oakville: Central Business District

What the CBD zone permits

• Attached or detached additional residential unit
• Apartment dwelling (fn 1: not stand-alone residential on lots with front or flankage lot line abutting Lakeshore Road; first-storey units must have main front entrance facing a public road)
• Art gallery (fn 7)
• Bed and breakfast establishment (fn 5)
• Business office (fn 6, 7)
• Commercial parking area
• Commercial school (fn 7)
• Community centre
• Conservation use
• Day care (fn 5)
• Detached dwelling (fn 2: only where legally existing on effective date of by-law)
• Dormitory (fn 4: only accessory to and on same lot as a post-secondary or private school)
• Dry cleaning depot (fn 7)
• Dry cleaning/laundry establishment (fn 7)
• Emergency service facility
• Emergency shelter (fn 8: prohibited within a single use building)
• Financial institution (fn 7)
• Food bank (fn 7)
• Food production (fn 7)
• Funeral home
• Home occupation (fn 5)
• Hotel (fn 7)
• Library
• Live-work dwelling (fn 2: only where legally existing on effective date of by-law)
• Long term care facility (fn 1)
• Medical office (fn 6, 7)
• Museum
• Outside display and sales area (fn 7)
• Park, public
• Pet care establishment (fn 7)
• Place of entertainment (fn 7)
• Place of worship
• Post-secondary school
• Private home day care (fn 5)
• Public hall (fn 7)
• Rental establishment (fn 7)
• Restaurant (fn 7)
• Retail store (fn 7)
• Retirement home (fn 1)
• School, private
• School, public
• Semi-detached dwelling (fn 2: only where legally existing on effective date of by-law)
• Service commercial establishment (fn 7)
• Short-term accommodation (fn 5)
• Sports facility (fn 7)
• Stormwater management facility
• Taxi dispatch (fn 7)
• Townhouse dwelling (fn 2: only where legally existing on effective date of by-law)
• Veterinary clinic (fn 7)

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Table 8.2 fn 1: stand-alone residential buildings not permitted on lots with a front or flankage lot line abutting Lakeshore Road; first-storey residential units must have their main front entrance oriented to a public road (2021-068).
• Table 8.2 fn 2: detached, semi-detached, townhouse and live-work dwellings permitted only where the use legally existed on the lot on the effective date of the by-law.
• Table 8.2 fn 4: dormitory only accessory to and on the same lot as a post-secondary school or private school.
• Table 8.2 fn 5: only one of bed and breakfast, day care, home occupation, private home day care or short-term accommodation is permitted in a dwelling or associated additional residential unit (2023-024, 2024-111).
• Table 8.2 fn 6: on a lot with lot frontage greater than 20.0 m, business offices and medical offices are limited to a cumulative maximum of 50% of the building width in the first 9.0 m of building depth on the first storey, measured from the main wall facing the front lot line.
• Table 8.2 fn 7: uses so marked (retail, restaurant, office, etc.) have a maximum net floor area of 1,400.0 m2 per premises, applying only to the portion on the first storey.
• Table 8.2 fn 8: emergency shelter prohibited within a single use building (PL140317).
• Table 8.3.1: maximum front yard and maximum flankage yard 3.0 m; not applicable where an urban square of at least 300.0 m2 with a minimum length of 10.0 m is provided along the main wall facing the front or flankage lot line (fn 1).
• Table 8.3.1 fn 2: maximum front and flankage yard is 5.0 m where a dwelling occupies the entire first storey on a lot fronting a public road other than Lakeshore Road West, Lakeshore Road East or Kerr Street (2015-079).
• Table 8.3.1: minimum 2 storeys, minimum height 7.5 m, minimum first storey height 4.5 m; buildings legally existing on the effective date that do not comply are permitted (fn 7).
• Table 8.3.1 fn 6: adjacent to a lot in any Residential Low (RL) Zone, maximum 3 storeys and 12.0 m height, and notwithstanding s.4.6.4(a) a mechanical penthouse shall not exceed 3.0 m measured from the top of the roof it sits on.
• Table 8.3.2: accessory buildings and structures for detached, semi-detached and townhouse dwellings are governed by Section 6.5.
• Table 8.3.2 fn 1: Section 6.6 additionally applies to any dwelling erected between dwellings that legally existed on the effective date (2015-018); fn 2: Section 6.10 applies for determining yard compliance for semi-detached and townhouse interior side yards.
• s.8.4(a): notwithstanding s.4.10(b), transformer and telecommunications vaults and pads shall not be located in the front yard between the main wall and the front lot line, or in the flankage yard between the main wall and the flankage lot line.
• s.8.4(b): stairs and air vents associated with a parking structure are not permitted in a front yard or flankage yard.
• s.8.5: Sections 8.3, 8.4 and the additional regulations of Table 8.2 do not apply to any portion of a built heritage resource designated under the Ontario Heritage Act or listed on the Town of Oakville Heritage Register that legally existed on the effective date.
• s.8.6(a): a surface parking area (excluding a driveway) is not permitted in any yard between a building and Lakeshore Road East, Lakeshore Road West, Kerr Street, Randall Street, Oak Park Boulevard, Old Bronte Road or Khalsa Gate.
• s.8.6(b): on a lot in a Mixed Use Zone on Map 19(19a), maximum surface parking area coverage is 50%.
• s.8.6(c): notwithstanding s.5.8.2, on a lot with lot frontage of 15.0 m or more, maximum driveway width for a detached, semi-detached or townhouse dwelling is 6.0 m (2015-018).
• s.8.6(d): parking of motor vehicles is prohibited in all storeys of an above-grade parking structure for the first 9.0 m of building depth measured from the main wall facing Lakeshore Road West, Lakeshore Road East, Kerr Street, Randall Street, Old Bronte Road, Oak Park Boulevard or Khalsa Gate (2015-018).
• s.8.6(e): on a corner lot, a driveway to a parking structure crossing a flankage lot line must be set back at least 9.0 m from the main wall of the parking structure facing the front lot line (2015-018).
• s.8.6(f): the minimum first storey height in Table 8.3.1 does not apply to parts of the first storey of a parking structure occupied solely by parking area (2015-018).
• s.8.7: nothing in Part 8 limits uses above grade where a basement is used for storage accessory to a permitted use in the same building (2015-018).
• s.8.8: for new buildings built after the effective date, at least 75% of the length of all main walls facing the front lot line must be within the area defined by the minimum and maximum front yards, and at least 75% of main walls facing the flankage lot line within the minimum and maximum flankage yards; does not apply to additions to legally existing buildings.