RM4 zone, Oakville: Residential Medium 4

What the RM4 zone permits

• Apartment dwelling
• Conservation use
• Day care (accessory; max one footnote-1 accessory use per dwelling; subject to s.6.7)
• Emergency service facility
• Home occupation
• Long term care facility
• Park, public
• Private home daycare (accessory; max one footnote-1 accessory use per dwelling)
• Retirement home
• Short-term accommodation (accessory; max one footnote-1 accessory use per dwelling)
• Stormwater management facility

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Minimum separation distance between buildings containing dwelling units: 2.4 m (Table 6.3.8)
• Minimum setback from a daylight triangle: 0.7 m (Table 6.3.8 note 1, 2016-013)
• Table 6.3.8 RM4 column applies to apartment dwellings; townhouse, stacked townhouse, back-to-back townhouse and additional residential units are not permitted in RM4 (Table 6.2.2)
• Footnote 1 uses (day care, private home daycare, short-term accommodation): a maximum of one such accessory use per dwelling (Table 6.2.2 note 1)
• Accessory buildings/structures (s.6.5): same minimum yards as the dwelling, except 0.6 m from any lot line when located in a flankage or rear yard and at least 2.0 m from the dwelling; max height 4.0 m from grade, reduced to 2.5 m where less than 3.5 m from a flankage lot line; max lot coverage the greater of 5% of lot area or 42.0 m2 building area, additional to the dwelling's coverage; not for human habitation or occupation for gain
• Reduced minimum front yard (s.6.6): a dwelling erected between dwellings legally existing on the effective date in the same block may use the average of the front yards of the nearest dwelling on each side where that average is less than the zone minimum (2015-079)
• Day cares (s.6.7): only on a lot whose front or flankage lot line abuts an arterial or major collector road; minimum interior side yard 4.2 m; maximum driveway width in a front/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 2.0 m
• Parking structures (s.6.9): no vehicle repair storage; no setback 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): the entire lot/block designated for semi-detached, townhouse, back-to-back or stacked townhouse dwellings is used for compliance; common element condominium regulations apply to proposed parcels of tied land until formally established
• -0 Suffix Zone provisions (s.6.4) apply only where the -0 suffix is mapped: max residential floor area ratio for detached dwellings per Table 6.4.1 (43% under 557.5 m2 down to 29% at 1,301 m2 or greater); min front yard = existing yard less 1.0 m (parent zone minimum for vacant/new lots); max front yard = min + 5.5 m; 50% of front main walls within the min/max front yard band; balconies prohibited above first storey; max 2 storeys and 9.0 m height; no additional accessory building lot coverage
• s.6.8 parking regulations apply only to the Residential Uptown Core (RUC) Zone, not RM4