V3 zone, Vaughan: Vaughan Metropolitan Centre Neighbourhood Zone

What the V3 zone permits

• Business service
• Clinic
• Financial institution
• Health and fitness centre
• Micro-manufacturing (subject to Part 5 specific use provisions)
• Pet services establishment
• Place of entertainment
• Personal service
• Restaurant
• Restaurant, take-out
• Retail, convenience
• Office (only in the areas shown on Schedule B-1, Table 10-2 note 3)
• Apartment dwelling
• Block townhouse dwelling
• Independent living facility (subject to Part 5)
• Live-work dwelling
• Multiple-unit townhouse dwelling
• Podium townhouse dwelling
• Retirement residence
• Street townhouse dwelling
• Supportive living facility
• Community facility
• Community garden (subject to Part 5)
• Emergency service
• Long term care facility
• Place of worship (subject to Part 5)
• Public parking
• School
• Urban square
• Home occupation (accessory; subject to Part 5)
• Outdoor patio (accessory; subject to Part 5)
• Temporary sales office (accessory; subject to Part 5)
• Short-term rental (accessory; subject to Part 5)
• Existing uses, buildings and structures that do not otherwise conform (only if legally existing on the effective date; GFA capped at existing GFA, Table 10-2 note 2)

Standards

Other provisions in this section

• Required build-to zone: 3 m to 7.5 m from the street line, applying to a minimum of 75% of the street frontage (minimum 60% on a corner lot); on any other portion of the lot only the minimum setback applies (Table 10-3 note 5).
• Urban squares, driveways and walkways are permitted within the build-to zone provided their cumulative total does not exceed 25% of the total build-to zone requirement (Table 10-3 note 3).
• Minimum height: as shown on Schedule A; does not apply to an above grade parking structure (Table 10-3 note 1).
• Minimum ground floor height: 3.5 m; where lands are subject to active use frontage (required or convertible) on Schedule B-1, the minimum ground floor height is 5.0 m for any portion of a main wall facing a street line (Table 10-3 note 7; Section 4.2(8)).
• Minimum street wall: 8 m (street wall is the height of the portion of a building within the required build-to zone).
• Minimum floor space index: as shown on Schedule A.
• Podium and tower requirements apply to any building higher than 14.0 m in the V3 Zone: minimum podium height 10.5 m; maximum podium height 14 m; minimum tower step-back 3 m.
• Residential towers: minimum tower separation 25 m; minimum tower setback from any rear lot line and interior side lot line 12.5 m; maximum residential tower floor plate 750 m2.
• Office towers: minimum tower separation 20 m; minimum tower setback from a rear lot line or interior side lot line 10 m.
• Active Use Frontage (Required) and Active Use Frontage (Convertible) apply where shown on Schedule B-1, in accordance with Section 4.2.
• Active use frontage (required), Section 4.2(7): a minimum of 70% of the ground floor frontage so shown on Schedule B-1 must consist of business service, clinic, community facility, personal service, restaurant or take-out restaurant, and/or retail uses.
• Minimum landscape strip on an interior side or rear lot line abutting the V3 Zone: no requirement; abutting an Open Space Zone: 3 m; abutting a street line: 3 m.
• Office uses are permitted in the V3 Zone only in the areas shown on Schedule B-1 (Table 10-2 note 3).
• Existing non-conforming uses, buildings and structures are permitted only if legally existing and used on the lot on the effective date of the By-law, and their maximum gross floor area is the gross floor area existing at that date (Table 10-2 note 2).
• Micro-manufacturing, independent living facility, community garden, place of worship, home occupation, outdoor patio, temporary sales office and short-term rental are subject to the specific use provisions in Part 5 (Table 10-2 note 1). For example Section 5.10 permits micro-manufacturing only in association with a retail use, caps it at 15% of the total area of the principal use, and prohibits an associated obnoxious use, outside storage or outdoor patio unless expressly permitted by the zone.
• Not permitted in V3: art studio, commercial school, hotel, place of assembly, retail (other than convenience retail), shopping centre, supermarket, theatre, research and development, day care centre, post-secondary school, outdoor display area.