City of Windsor – Transport Terminal Land Use Study – 2020 November 16

PARKING SPACE means an area used for the parking of an operable motor vehicle. It includes a visitor parking space and an accessible parking space. A bicycle parking space, a loading space or a stacking space is not a parking space.

PREMISES means a lot, building, structure, or any combination thereof where a use is carried on.

REPAIR SHOP - HEAVY means a building used for any maintenance, repair, or servicing activity, including an automobile collision shop, automobile detailing service, or automobile repair garage, and, as an accessory use, the fabrication of parts necessary for the maintenance, repair, or servicing activity offered. All activities must be conducted entirely within an enclosed building. A heavy repair shop is a repair shop - heavy.

SCREENING FENCE means a fence designed and used to visually separate different property uses and to block off views and which is continuous or effectively continuous throughout its entire length in accordance with the provisions of the Fence By-law.

SELF-STORAGE FACILITY means a building divided into individual self-contained storage units, which are available to the general public exclusively for the storage of their goods and chattels. A warehouse is not a self-storage facility.

STRUCTURE means anything, including any component part, that is erected, built, or constructed and affixed to or supported by the ground.

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.

TOWING SERVICE means 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. The outdoor storage of a motor vehicle, trailer or goods contained within said motor vehicle or trailer towed or hauled to the premises is prohibited.

USE

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

  2. 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.

ANCILLARY USE means a use, other than an accessory use, which complements or otherwise provides a service to the main use of the zoning district in which it is located.

MAIN USE means the principal use or uses of a building, lot, premises, or structure.

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

  2. One or more of the following main uses:

Automobile Collision Shop

Automobile Detailing Service

Automobile Repair Garage

Bakery

Confectionary

Contractor’s Office

Medical Appliance Facility

Repair Shop – Heavy

Research and Development Facility

Warehouse

Welding Shop

Wholesale Store

3. One or more of the following activities as a main use:

Assembling          Constructing              Manufacturing

Packaging            Processing                 Producing

Shipping