MU2 zone, Oakville: Main Street 2

What the MU2 zone permits

• Attached or detached additional residential unit
• Apartment dwelling (fn 3: not in first 9.0 m of building depth on first storey, except ancillary residential up to 15% of front main wall length)
• Art gallery (fn 7)
• Business office (fn 6, 7)
• Commercial parking area
• Commercial school (fn 7)
• Community centre
• Conservation use
• Day care
• Detached dwelling (fn 2: only where legally existing on effective date)
• 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)
• Home occupation (fn 5)
• Library
• Live-work dwelling (fn 2: only where legally existing on effective date)
• Long term care facility (fn 3)
• 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)
• Rental establishment (fn 7)
• Restaurant (fn 7)
• Retail store (fn 7)
• Retirement home (fn 3)
• School, private
• School, public
• Semi-detached dwelling (fn 2: only where legally existing on effective date)
• 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)
• Veterinary clinic (fn 7)

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Stand-alone residential buildings are not permitted on lots with a front or flankage lot line abutting Lakeshore Road (Table 8.2 fn 1a).
• Residential dwelling units on the first storey must have the main front entrance oriented towards a public road (Table 8.2 fn 1b).
• Apartment dwellings, long term care facilities and retirement homes are prohibited in the first 9.0 m of building depth on the first storey, measured from the main wall facing the front lot line; an ancillary residential use may occupy up to 15% of the length of that main wall (Table 8.2 fn 3).
• Only one of home occupation, private home day care or short-term accommodation is permitted in a dwelling or its additional residential unit (Table 8.2 fn 5).
• 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 depth on the first storey (Table 8.2 fn 6).
• Uses marked fn 7 (art gallery, offices, commercial school, dry cleaning, financial institution, food bank, food production, outside display, pet care, place of entertainment, rental establishment, restaurant, retail store, service commercial, sports facility, taxi dispatch, veterinary clinic) have a maximum net floor area of 1,400.0 m2 per premises, applying only to the portion on the first storey.
• Emergency shelter is prohibited within a single use building (Table 8.2 fn 8).
• Maximum front and flankage yards (5.0 m) apply only to the first 12.0 m of building height and do not apply where an urban square of at least 300.0 m2 with a minimum length of 10.0 m is provided along the main wall (Table 8.3.1 fn 1, 3).
• Maximum front and flankage yard is 5.0 m where a dwelling occupies the entire first storey on a lot fronting any public road other than Lakeshore Road West, Lakeshore Road East or Kerr Street (Table 8.3.1 fn 2).
• Interior side and rear yards abutting a Residential, I or CU Zone lot increase from 3.0 m to 7.5 m for the portion of a building above 13.5 m in height (Table 8.3.1 fn 4).
• Buildings legally existing on the effective date need not meet the minimum storeys, minimum height or minimum first storey height (Table 8.3.1 fn 7).
• Detached, semi-detached and townhouse dwellings (Table 8.3.2): lot area and frontage as legally existing; front yard as legally existing less 1.0 m; flankage yard 3.0 m; interior side yard 1.2 m; rear yard 7.5 m; max 3 storeys and 12.0 m; detached lot coverage 35%; accessory buildings per Section 6.5; Section 6.6 additionally applies to a dwelling erected between dwellings that legally existed (fn 1); Section 6.10 applies for semi/townhouse yard compliance (fn 2).
• Transformer and telecommunications vaults and pads may not be located in the front yard or flankage yard between the main wall and the lot line, notwithstanding s.4.10(b) (s.8.4a).
• Stairs and air vents for a parking structure are not permitted in a front or flankage yard (s.8.4b).
• Sections 8.3, 8.4 and the Table 8.2 additional regulations do not apply to any portion of a built heritage resource designated under the Ontario Heritage Act or listed on the Heritage Register and legally existing on the effective date (s.8.5).
• Surface parking (excluding driveways) is not permitted in any yard between a building and Lakeshore Road East/West, Kerr Street, Randall Street, Oak Park Boulevard, Old Bronte Road or Khalsa Gate (s.8.6a).
• On a Mixed Use lot on Map 19(19a), maximum surface parking area coverage is 50% (s.8.6b).
• Maximum driveway width for a detached, semi-detached or townhouse dwelling is 6.0 m on a lot with lot frontage of 15.0 m or more, notwithstanding s.5.8.2 (s.8.6c).
• Parking of motor vehicles is prohibited in all storeys of an above-grade parking structure within the first 9.0 m of building depth from the main wall facing Lakeshore Road West/East, Kerr Street, Randall Street, Old Bronte Road, Oak Park Boulevard or Khalsa Gate (s.8.6d).
• 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 parking structure's main wall facing the front lot line (s.8.6e).
• Minimum first storey height does not apply to parts of a parking structure's first storey occupied solely by parking area (s.8.6f).
• A basement used for storage accessory to a permitted use in the same building does not limit uses above grade (s.8.7).
• New buildings: at least 75% of the length of main walls facing the front lot line must sit within the area defined by the minimum and maximum front yards, and likewise 75% of main walls facing the flankage lot line within the min/max flankage yards; does not apply to additions to buildings legally existing on the effective date (s.8.8).