GB zone, Oakville: Greenbelt

What the GB zone permits

• Attached additional residential unit (max one of the footnote-3 accessory uses per dwelling; 2023-024, 2024-111)
• Agriculture
• Bed and breakfast establishment (max one of the footnote-3 accessory uses per dwelling)
• Boarding kennel
• Conservation use
• Day care (max one of the footnote-3 accessory uses per dwelling)
• Detached dwelling (legal uses existing on the lot on December 16, 2004 only; a new dwelling and accessory buildings may be erected only on a lot that legally existed and was vacant on December 16, 2004)
• Home occupation
• Legal uses of land, buildings and structures existing on the lot as of December 16, 2004
• Lodging house (max one of the footnote-3 accessory uses per dwelling)
• Park, public
• Private home day care (max one of the footnote-3 accessory uses per dwelling)
• Short-term accommodation (subject to footnote 3 but excludes attached additional residential units; 2024-111)
• Stormwater management facility

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Table 13.2 fn 1: detached dwellings are permitted only as legal uses existing on the lot on December 16, 2004; a new dwelling and accessory buildings/structures may be erected only on a lot that legally existed and was vacant on December 16, 2004.
• Table 13.2 fn 3: a maximum of one of the accessory uses subject to footnote 3 (attached additional residential unit, bed and breakfast, day care, lodging house, private home day care, short-term accommodation) is permitted in a dwelling.
• Table 13.2 fn 6: short-term accommodation is subject to footnote 3 but excludes attached additional residential units (2024-111).
• Table 13.3 fn 1: minimum lot area for a detached dwelling is 0.3 ha.
• Table 13.3 fn 2: minimum front, flankage, interior side and rear yard for a detached dwelling is 7.5 m (15.0 m for other uses).
• Table 13.3 fn 3: the 12.0 m maximum height does not apply to buildings and structures used for agriculture.
• s.13.4.1 MDS II: no livestock facility may be erected or enlarged unless it complies with the Minimum Distance Separation II Formula.
• s.13.4.2: the MDS formulae used are OMAFRA Publication 707 (2006).
• Not permitted in GB: emergency service facility, golf course, marina, outside miniature golf, private park, wayside pit and quarry, and legal uses existing only as of the effective date of this By-law.