EXCERPTS FROM ZONING BY-LAW 8600

SECTION 3 – DEFINITIONS

3.10 DEFINITIONS

MOTOR VEHICLE means vehicle propelled, driven or pulled by other than muscular power. It does not include a power-assisted bicycle as defined in the Highway Traffic Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8.or a train.

AUTOMOBILE means a motor vehicle having a maximum gross weight of 3,000.0 kg. It does not include a bus, combination truck or vehicle of the tractor trailer or semi-trailer type, construction equipment, or farm tractor, or any other motorized farm implement.

TRANSPORT TRAILER means a trailer or a semi-trailer as defined in the Highway

Traffic Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. H.8. A tractor trailer or truck trailer is a transport trailer. A cabin trailer, camping trailer, house trailer, mobile home, recreational vehicle, tent trailer or travel trailer is not a transport trailer.

TRANSPORT TRUCK means a motor vehicle used to pull a transport trailer and includes the tractor unit of a tractor-trailer combination or a semi-trailer truck or semi-tractor unit of semi-trailer combination. A truck tractor is a transport truck.

TOWING FACILITY means a premises used to provide services related to the towing, hauling or recovery of a motor vehicle, trailer, or goods contained within said motor vehicle or a trailer and an outdoor storage yard for the storage of a motor vehicle, trailer or goods contained within said motor vehicle or trailer towed or hauled to the premises. A contractor’s office, loading compound, material transfer centre, salvage operation, transport storage area, or transport terminal is not a towing facility.

USE

1. when used as a noun means the purpose for which a building, lot, premises or structure is designed, maintained or occupied.

when used as a verb means anything done by any person or permitted, either directly or indirectly by any person, for the purpose of making use of a building, lot, premises or structure.

ACCESSORY USE means a use which is customarily incidental, subordinate and exclusively devoted to the main use and is carried on with such main use on the same lot.

INDUSTRIAL USE means, unless specifically prohibited, one or any combination of the following:

1. One or more main use identified as an industrial activity in Section 3.10