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

3.110 ROAD, shall have the meaning attributed to it in the definition of Street.

3.117 SETBACK, shall mean the horizontal distance between the centerline of the road and the nearest part of any main wall of any building or structure, measured at right angles to such centerline, and extending the full width of the lot.

3.121 STREET or HIGHWAY or PUBLIC ROAD, shall mean a common and public street, road, alley, lane, highway or commons vested in the Municipality, the County, the Province of Ontario or any other public authority having jurisdiction over the same and includes a bridge or any other structure forming part of a street on, over or across which a street passes, but does not include a private road.

3.122 STREET LINE, shall mean the limit of a street allowance and is the boundary or dividing line between a street and a lot.

3.123 STRUCTURE, shall mean anything that is erected, built or constructed of parts joined together and which is fixed to or supported by or incorporated within the soil, any other structure or both, but not including a parking area, permitted outside storage of goods and materials, a terrace or patio, or a sign. A fence, a deck attached to a dwelling and a private outdoor swimming pool including any associated deck, will be considered as structures.

3.131a TRANSPORT TERMINAL means premises used to dispatch, park, repair, service, or store freight-carrying trucks including a semi-trailer, tractor trailer, transport trailer, transport truck, truck tractor, or truck 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, truck terminal or truck or transportation terminals is a transport terminal. A motor vehicle dealership, outdoor storage yard or parking area is not a transport terminal.

TRANSPORT STORAGE AREA means that portion of a transport terminal located outdoors and being used to load, manoeuvre, park, repair, service, store, or unload a transport truck or transport trailer. It does not include any landscaped open space.

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, motor home, trailer or recreational vehicle, tent trailer, travel trailer, or truck camper 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.

3.132 USE, (when used as a noun), shall mean the purpose for which any land, building or structure is designed, arranged or intended to be occupied or used, or for which it is occupied, used or maintained.

3.133 VEHICLE, includes a motor vehicle, trailer, traction engine, farm tractor, road-building machine, motorized snow vehicle and any vehicle drawn, propelled or driven by any kind of power, including a muscular power, but does not include a wheelchair.

3.134 VEHICLE, COMMERCIAL, shall mean a motor vehicle having permanently attached thereto a truck or delivery body and includes an ambulance, hearse, casket wagon, fire apparatus, police patrol vehicle, motor bus and tractor used for hauling purposes on the highway.

3.135 WAREHOUSING AND SUPPLY AND STORAGE USE, shall mean a building or structure used for the storage of any goods, wares, merchandise, substance, article or thing, and shall include whatever treatment or packaging that may be necessary for storage.

3.137 WHOLESALE AND WHOLESALING BUSINESS, shall mean a lot, building or structure used for the resale of goods to persons in large quantities.

3.138 YARD, shall mean an open space on the same lot with a main building or structure, unoccupied, uncovered, and unobstructed from the ground upward except by such accessory buildings, structures or uses as are specifically permitted elsewhere in this By-law. In determining yard measurements, the minimum horizontal distance between the main building or structure and the respective lot lines measured perpendicular from the lot line shall be used:

1. Front Yard shall mean a yard extending across the full width of a lot between the front lot line and the nearest wall of the main building or structure on the lot;

2. Rear Yard shall mean a yard extending across the full width of a lot between the rear lot line and the nearest wall of the main building or structure on the lot;