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KMS zone, Vaughan: Main Street Mixed-Use - Kleinburg Zone

Part 8, Section 8.3 (s.8.3.1 Table 8-4; s.8.3.2 Table 8-5) of the City of Vaughan Zoning By-law 001-2021.

The Kleinburg main street zone allows small-scale shops, offices, restaurants and services with apartments above them on lots along Kleinburg's historic main street, with low building heights and buildings kept close to the street.

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What the KMS zone permits

  • Art studio
  • Business service (max 10,000 m² GFA per lot combined with other note-5 uses)
  • Clinic
  • Commercial school
  • Financial institution (note 5)
  • Funeral services
  • Health and fitness centre (note 5)
  • Hotel (small scale)
  • Micro-manufacturing (subject to Part 5 specific use provisions)
  • Office
  • Personal service (note 5)
  • Pet services establishment (note 5)
  • Place of assembly
  • Restaurant (note 5)
  • Restaurant, take-out (note 5)
  • Retail (note 5)
  • Retail, convenience (note 5)
  • Service or repair shop (note 5)
  • Supermarket (note 5)
  • Veterinary clinic
  • Apartment dwelling (not permitted within the ground floor frontage, except up to 15% of the ground floor frontage for lobby/common areas)
  • Independent living facility (subject to Part 5)
  • Single detached dwelling (only if legally existing on the lot on the By-law's effective date)
  • Supportive living facility
  • Community facility
  • Community garden (subject to Part 5)
  • Day care centre
  • Emergency service
  • Long term care facility
  • Place of worship (subject to Part 5)
  • Public parking
  • Urban square
  • Bed and breakfast (accessory; subject to Part 5)
  • Home occupation (accessory; subject to Part 5)
  • Outdoor display area (accessory; subject to Part 5)
  • Outdoor patio (accessory; subject to Part 5)
  • Seasonal outdoor display area (accessory; subject to Part 5)
  • Secondary suite (accessory; subject to Part 5)
  • Short-term rental (accessory; subject to Part 5)
  • Temporary sales office (subject to Part 5)
  • Agriculture (only if legally existing on the lot on the By-law's effective date)

Standards

RequirementBy-law
Minimum lot area (interior lot)742.5 m²742.5 m²; Table 8-5 note 1: the requirement is the lesser of 742.5 m² or the existing condition as of the By-law's effective date
Minimum lot width (interior lot)16.5 m16.5 m; Table 8-5 note 1: the requirement is the lesser of 16.5 m or the existing condition as of the By-law's effective date
Minimum front yard2 m
Minimum interior side yard1.8 m
Minimum rear yard15 m
Maximum building height9.5 m
Maximum lot coverage30 %
Minimum landscaped open space10 %
Maximum floor space indexNo requirement

Other provisions in this section

  • Maximum front yard 6 m (Table 8-5 note 1: the lesser of 6 m or the existing condition as of the By-law's effective date).
  • Maximum exterior side yard 4.5 m (no minimum exterior side yard stated in Table 8-5).
  • Minimum height: no requirement; minimum floor space index: no requirement.
  • Surface parking is permitted in the rear yard only (Table 8-5, Specified Parking Area Requirements).
  • Minimum 3 m wide landscape strip required along an interior side lot line or rear lot line that abuts a Residential Zone or an Open Space Zone (Table 8-5).
  • Table 8-4 note 5: the maximum gross floor area on each lot for all note-5 uses combined (business service, financial institution, health and fitness centre, personal service, pet services establishment, restaurant, take-out restaurant, retail, convenience retail, service or repair shop, supermarket) is 10,000.0 m².
  • Table 8-4 note 4: apartment dwellings are not permitted within the ground floor frontage of the lot, except that up to 15% of the ground floor frontage may be used for lobby or common areas associated with the dwelling.
  • Table 8-4 note 1: micro-manufacturing, independent living facility, community garden, place of worship, bed and breakfast, home occupation, outdoor display area, outdoor patio, seasonal outdoor display area, secondary suite, short-term rental and temporary sales office are subject to the specific use provisions of Part 5.
  • Single detached dwellings and agriculture are permitted only where legally existing and used on the lot on the effective date of the By-law ('E').
  • Theatre, block townhouse, live-work, multiple-unit townhouse and street townhouse dwellings are not permitted in the KMS Zone (blank in Table 8-4).
  • s.8.3.2(1)-(2) (townhouse standards per RM1/RT1/RT2) apply only to the WMS and MMS Zones, not KMS; s.8.3.2(3): Table 8-5 applies to all uses permitted in KMS.

Source: Part 8, Section 8.3 (s.8.3.1 Table 8-4; s.8.3.2 Table 8-5), By-law 001-2021 (City of Vaughan), checked 2026-09-12. General provisions elsewhere in the by-law (parking, driveways, accessory buildings) also apply, and a numbered exception on the parcel can change any value here. Treat this as a pre-check, not a sign-off.

Other mixed use zones in Vaughan: CMU, EMU, GMU, HMU, LMU, MMS, MMU, V1, V2, V3, V4, WMS