RM3 zone, Oakville: Residential Medium 3

What the RM3 zone permits

• Stacked townhouse dwelling
• Conservation use
• Day care (subject to footnote 1 and s.6.7)
• Emergency service facility
• Home occupation
• Long term care facility
• Park, public
• Private home daycare (subject to footnote 1)
• Retirement home
• Short-term accommodation (subject to footnote 1)
• Stormwater management facility

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Table 6.3.8: minimum separation distance between buildings containing dwelling units is 2.4 m.
• Table 6.3.8 footnote 1: minimum setback from a daylight triangle is 0.7 m (2016-013).
• Table 6.3.8 RM3 column applies to stacked townhouse dwellings; townhouse, back-to-back townhouse and apartment dwellings and additional residential units are not permitted in RM3 (Table 6.2.2).
• Table 6.2.2 footnote 1: a maximum of one of day care, private home daycare or short-term accommodation is permitted in a dwelling or an associated additional residential unit (2023-024) (2024-111).
• s.6.5.2 accessory buildings: minimum yards same as the dwelling, except 0.6 m from any lot line in a flankage or rear yard if separated at least 2.0 m from the dwelling; maximum height 4.0 m, reduced to 2.5 m if less than 3.5 m from a flankage lot line; maximum lot coverage the greater of 5% of lot area or 42.0 m2, additional to the dwelling's coverage (2021-068).
• s.6.5.1: accessory buildings must be on the same lot as the primary use and must not be used for human habitation or an occupation for gain unless otherwise permitted.
• s.6.6: where a new dwelling is erected between dwellings that legally existed on the effective date of the By-law whose averaged front yards are less than the zone minimum, the minimum front yard is the average of the yards of the nearest dwelling on each side (2015-079).
• s.6.7 day cares: permitted 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 additional continuous hard surface; playground equipment 1.8 m or taller set back 5.0 m from all lot lines, shorter equipment set back 2.0 m.
• s.6.9 parking structures: storage of vehicles for repair prohibited; 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.
• s.6.10 (2021-068): the entire lot or block designated for stacked townhouse dwellings is used to determine zoning compliance; for common element condominiums the regulations apply to the proposed parcels of tied land until formally established.
• s.6.4 -0 Suffix Zone provisions (residential floor area ratio Table 6.4.1, lot coverage Table 6.4.2, front yard, main wall proportionality, balcony prohibition, 2 storeys / 9.0 m) apply only on lands with the -0 suffix and are written for detached dwellings.
• s.6.8 parking regulations apply only to the RUC zone, not RM3.