RL6 zone, Oakville: Residential Low 6

What the RL6 zone permits

• Attached or detached additional residential unit
• Bed and breakfast establishment (footnote 1: max one of the footnoted uses per lot)
• Conservation use
• Day care (footnote 1; see s.6.7 additional regulations)
• Detached dwelling
• Emergency service facility
• Home occupation
• Lodging house (footnotes 1 and 2: max 3 lodging units)
• Park, public
• Private home day care (footnote 1)
• Short-term accommodation (footnote 1)
• Stormwater management facility

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Maximum dwelling depth: n/a; maximum lot coverage for the dwelling: n/a (Table 6.3.1, 2017-025).
• Corner lots: minimum lot area 285.0 m² and minimum lot frontage 12.5 m (Table 6.3.1 footnote 3).
• Rear yard reduced to 3.5 m on a corner lot where an interior side yard of 3.0 m is provided (footnote 6).
• Minimum setback from a daylight triangle is 0.7 m (footnote 8, 2016-013).
• Maximum residential floor area is the lesser of 355.0 m² or the floor area available at 75% residential floor area ratio (footnote 7, 2017-025).
• -0 Suffix Zone (s.6.4, where shown on Part 19 Maps): RFAR per Table 6.4.1 by lot area (43% under 557.5 m², 42% 557.50-649.99, 41% 650-742.99, 40% 743-835.99, 39% 836-928.99, 38% 929-1,021.99, 37% 1,022-1,114.99, 35% 1,115-1,207.99, 32% 1,208-1,300.99, 29% 1,301 m² or greater); attic space with headroom over 1.8 m and certain attached garages (height >= 6.0 m with less than 25% of garage area in floor area above) count toward residential floor area (s.6.4.1).
• -0 Suffix Zone: no additional lot coverage for accessory buildings/structures (s.6.4.2(b)); Table 6.4.2 lot coverage rows do not list RL6.
• -0 Suffix Zone front yard (s.6.4.3): minimum front yard is the legally existing yard less 1.0 m (vacant/new lots use the parent zone minimum); maximum front yard for new dwellings is 5.5 m greater than the minimum (2017-025).
• -0 Suffix Zone (s.6.4.4): at least 50% of the length of main walls facing the front lot line must be within the area between the minimum and maximum front yards (new buildings only).
• -0 Suffix Zone (s.6.4.5): balconies and uncovered platforms prohibited above the first-storey floor level.
• -0 Suffix Zone (s.6.4.6): maximum 2 storeys, no floor area above the second storey, maximum height 9.0 m.
• Accessory buildings/structures (s.6.5): must be on the same lot as the primary use and not used for human habitation or an occupation for gain; minimum yards same as the dwelling, except 0.6 m from any lot line when located in a flankage or rear yard with at least 2.0 m separation from the dwelling; maximum height 4.0 m from grade, reduced to 2.5 m when less than 3.5 m from a flankage lot line; maximum lot coverage the greater of 5% of lot area or 42.0 m² building area, additional to the dwelling's lot coverage (2021-068).
• Reduced minimum front yard (s.6.6, 2015-079): a dwelling erected between dwellings legally existing on the effective date in the same block on the same road may use the average front yard of the nearest dwelling on each side where that average is less than the zone minimum.
• Day cares (s.6.7): only where the front or flankage lot line abuts an arterial or major collector road (2015-079); minimum interior side yard 4.2 m; maximum driveway width in a front or flankage yard 6.0 m plus 5.7 m of additional continuous hard surface (notwithstanding s.5.8.2(b) and (c)); playground equipment 1.8 m or taller set back 5.0 m from all lot lines, shorter equipment set back 2.0 m.
• Parking structures (s.6.9): no vehicle repair storage; no setbacks required for portions no more than 1.37 m above the nearest lot line elevation, except 1.0 m where abutting a Residential Zone and 3.5 m for ventilator shafts.
• Separation of dwelling units (s.6.10, 2021-068): proposed rear lot lines in back-to-back townhouse blocks deemed rear lot lines until established; whole lot/block used for compliance for semi-detached, townhouse, back-to-back and stacked townhouse dwellings; for common element condominiums regulations apply to proposed parcels of tied land.
• Section 6.8 (RUC parking regulations) applies only to the RUC Zone, not RL6.
• Table 6.3.1 footnotes 1, 2, 4 and 5 (single storey rear extension, post-1965 subdivision frontage reduction, interior side yard reductions with attached garage) are not referenced in the RL6 column.