MU3 zone, Oakville: Urban Centre

What the MU3 zone permits

• Apartment dwelling (footnote 3: prohibited in first 9.0 m of building depth on the first storey; ancillary residential on first storey may occupy max 15% of front main wall length)
• Art gallery (footnote 7: max 1,400.0 m² net floor area per premises on first storey)
• Business office (footnotes 6, 7)
• Commercial parking area
• Commercial school (7)
• Community centre
• Conservation use
• Day care
• Dormitory (footnote 4: only accessory to and on the same lot as a post-secondary or private school)
• Dry cleaning depot (7)
• Dry cleaning/laundry establishment (7)
• Emergency service facility
• Emergency shelter (footnote 8: prohibited within a single use building)
• Financial institution (7)
• Food bank (7)
• Food production (7)
• Home occupation (5)
• Hotel (7)
• Library
• Long term care facility (3)
• Medical office (6, 7)
• Motor vehicle rental facility
• Museum
• Outside display and sales area (7)
• Park, public
• Pet care establishment (7)
• Place of entertainment (7)
• Place of worship
• Post-secondary school
• Private home day care (5)
• Public hall (7)
• Rental establishment (7)
• Restaurant (7)
• Retail store (7)
• Retirement home (3)
• School, private
• School, public
• Service commercial establishment (7)
• Short-term accommodation (5)
• Sports facility (7)
• Stormwater management facility
• Taxi dispatch (7)
• Veterinary clinic (7)

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Maximum front yard 5.0 m and maximum flankage yard 5.0 m; applies only to the first 12.0 m of building height measured along the main wall facing the front/flankage lot line (Table 8.3.1 footnotes 1, 3)
• Maximum front/flankage yard does 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 facing the front or flankage lot line (Table 8.3.1 footnote 1)
• Table 8.3.1 footnote 2 (maximum front and flankage yard 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) is printed with the table but is not referenced in the MU3 column; the MU3 maximum yards cite only footnotes 1 and 3
• Minimum number of storeys 6 and minimum height 19.5 m; minimum first storey height 4.5 m (buildings legally existing on the effective date exempt, footnote 7)
• Minimum first storey height does not apply to parts of the first storey of a parking structure solely occupied by parking area (s.8.6(f))
• Adjacent to a Residential Low (RL) Zone lot: maximum 3 storeys and 12.0 m height, and a mechanical penthouse shall not exceed 3.0 m above the roof it sits on, notwithstanding s.4.6.4(a) (Table 8.3.1 footnote 6)
• Stand-alone residential buildings not permitted on lots with a front or flankage lot line abutting Lakeshore Road; first-storey dwelling units must have their main front entrance oriented to a public road (Table 8.2 footnote 1)
• Detached, semi-detached and townhouse dwellings, live-work dwellings, bed and breakfast establishments, funeral homes and additional residential units are not permitted in MU3 (Table 8.2). Table 8.3.2 (detached/semi/townhouse regulations: lot area, frontage and front yard as legally existing less 1.0 m; flankage 3.0 m; interior side 1.2 m; rear 7.5 m; max 3 storeys/12.0 m; 35% lot coverage for detached; s.6.5 for accessory buildings; s.6.6 for infill between existing dwellings; s.6.10 for yard compliance) applies only to such dwellings where permitted
• Business office and medical office (footnote 6): on a lot with frontage greater than 20.0 m, limited to a cumulative maximum width of 50% of the building in the first 9.0 m of depth on the first storey
• Uses marked footnote 7 have a maximum net floor area of 1,400.0 m² per premises, applying only to the portion on the first storey
• Home occupation, private home day care and short-term accommodation: maximum one of these per dwelling (Table 8.2 footnote 5)
• Transformer and telecommunications vaults/pads not permitted in the front yard or flankage yard between the main wall and the lot line; parking structure stairs and air vents not permitted in a front or flankage yard (s.8.4)
• Sections 8.3, 8.4 and the Table 8.2 additional regulations do not apply to any portion of a designated or listed built heritage resource legally existing on the effective date (s.8.5)
• Surface parking (excluding driveway) 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.8.6(a))
• On a Mixed Use Zone lot on Map 19(19a), maximum surface parking area coverage is 50% (s.8.6(b))
• Lots with frontage of 15.0 m or more: maximum driveway width 6.0 m for detached, semi-detached and townhouse dwellings, notwithstanding s.5.8.2 (s.8.6(c))
• Parking of motor vehicles prohibited in all storeys of an above-grade parking structure for 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.8.6(d))
• On a corner lot, a driveway to a parking structure crossing the 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.8.6(e))
• 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 be within the area defined by the minimum and maximum front yards, and likewise 75% for flankage; does not apply to additions to buildings legally existing on the effective date (s.8.8)