24.28 FRONT YARD PAVING AND SURFACING IN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS

24.28.1 IN ANY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT:

• .1 A walkway, driveway or access area necessary for access to a parking space may cross a required front yard. That part of the required front yard not used for a walkway, driveway, access area, or, where permitted by this by-law, a parking space, shall be used exclusively as a landscaped open space yard.

• .3 For a single unit dwelling, semi-detached dwelling, duplex dwelling or townhome dwelling unit, the total area of the required front yard occupied by a hard surface for the purpose of a walkway, driveway, access area or a parking space or any combination thereof cannot exceed:

  • .1 for a lot having a width of 9 metres or greater: 50% of the required front yard area; or

  • .2 for a lot having a width of less than 9 metres: 50% of the required front yard area plus 5% for each 1 metre decrease in lot width below 9 metres to a maximum of 70% of the required front yard area.

• .5 All driveways, access areas and parking spaces, shall be paved and maintained with a hard surface consisting of paving brick or block, asphalt, concrete or any combination thereof.