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

LOADING COMPOUND is an industrial activity and means a lot used for the marshalling, sorting, loading and unloading of automobiles, trucks, and other vehicles for shipment to other destinations, within a defined or enclosed area, and which may contain fixed ramps or other such devices for the purpose of loading or unloading automobiles, trucks and other vehicles. An outdoor storage yard, parking area, or transport storage area is not a loading compound.

TRANSPORT TERMINAL is an industrial activity and means premises used to dispatch, park, repair, service, or store freight-carrying trucks and trailers including a transport truck and a transport trailer, and may include as an accessory use, the loading or unloading of goods or freight to or from, or transferring of goods or freight between, said trucks and trailers. A truck transportation facility or truck terminal is a transport terminal.A loading compound, motor vehicle dealership, outdoor storage yard, parking area, or towing facility is not a transport terminal.

TRANSPORT STORAGE AREA means that portion of a transport terminal located outdoors used to load, manoeuvre, park, repair, service, store, or unload a transport truck or transport trailer. A loading compound, loading space, motor vehicle dealership, outdoor storage yard, parking area, or towing facility is not a transport storage area.

WAREHOUSE means a building used for the storage of parts, materials, equipment or other goods and products and may include their loading, unloading, packaging, repacking, or unpacking. A self-storage facility or transport terminal is not a warehouse.

YARD means an open space, which is located on the same lot as a building or other structure and is unoccupied and unobstructed from ground to sky except for any encroachments not prohibited by this by-law.

EXTERIOR SIDE YARD means the side yard of a corner lot between an exterior side lot line and the nearest wall of a main building on such lot.

• EXTERIOR SIDE YARD means the side yard of a corner lot between an exterior side lot line and the nearest wall of a main building on such lot.

• LANDSCAPED OPEN SPACE YARD means a yard used for landscaped open space, patios, terraces, decks, and pedestrian walkways.

• OUTDOOR STORAGE YARD means a yard which has a minimum area of 10.0 m2 and is used for storage. A loading compound, parking area, transport storage area, or transport terminal is not an outdoor storage yard.

• REAR YARD means a yard extending across the full width of a lot between the rear lot line or the intersection of the side lot lines, and the nearest wall of a main building on such lot.

• REQUIRED YARD means for the purpose of Section 5.35 any of required front yard, required rear yard, required side yard, or required landscaped open space yard.

• SIDE YARD means a yard extending from the front yard to the rear yard between the side lot line and the nearest wall of the main building on such lot.

SECTION 5 – GENERAL PROVISIONS

5.1 APPLICATION

5.1.1 The provisions in this Section apply to all lands, buildings, and structures subject to this by-law, unless otherwise stated in this by-law.

5.67 REQUIRED YARD IN MANUFACTURING DISTRICTS

5.67.1 In any MD1. or MD2. zoning district, a required yard shall be maintained exclusively as a landscaped open space yard, save and except that an access area may cross a required yard.

5.67.3 Within a required yard, a refuse container, a loading space, an outdoor storage yard, or the display, loading, parking, repairing, servicing, storing or unloading of a commodity, equipment, material, motor vehicle, transport truck, or transport trailer is prohibited.