APPENDIX D – Zoning By-law 85-18 Excerpts

SECTION 3 – DEFINITIONS

3.1 ACCESSORY, when used to describe a use, building or structure, shall mean a use, a building or a structure that is normally incidental, subordinate and exclusively devoted to a main use, building or structure and that is located on the same lot therewith, and includes a private garage which is not attached to the main building in any way.

3.16 BERM, shall mean an earthen work or mound of earth of a specified height and width, and exhibiting sloping, landscaped sides, which is intended to act as a barrier or buffer strip. The height of a berm shall be the vertical distance in metres between the base and the highest point of the berm. The slope of the slides of the berm shall be stable and not prone to shifting and will be dependent upon the required height of the berm and shall in no case be greater than 45 degrees (2:1) to the horizontal.

3.18 BUFFER STRIP, shall mean an area used for no other purpose than for the erection of a solid fence, earth berm or the planting and maintaining of a continuous row of natural evergreen trees or a continuous unpierced hedgerow of natural shrubs, not less than two (2.0) metres (6.56’) height, which will provide a year round visual barrier, and the remainder of which is used for landscaping and the planting of ornamental shrubs, flowering shrubs, flowerbeds, or a combination thereof. Any fence shall be decorative in nature and be designed and constructed to resist wind damage (e.g. alternating slats).

3.19 BUILDING, shall include any structure whether temporary or permanent, used or intended for sheltering any use or occupancy but shall not include a fence, trailer, camping trailer, truck camper, motor home, or tent.

3.20 BUILDING, MAIN or MAIN STRUCTURE, shall mean the building or structure designed for or in which is conducted the principal use of the lot on which it is situated. For clarity a dwelling accessory to an agricultural use is not a “main building” for the purpose of this By-law.

3.27 COMMERCIAL USE, shall mean the use of land or buildings for the purposes of offices, or the retail buying or selling of commodities, or both, and the supply of services.

3.48 FLOOR AREA, shall mean the sum of the areas of all of the floors of a building or structure measured from the outside of all outside walls or from the centerline of common or party walls, exclusive of any attached accessory building, terrace, veranda, unfinished attic, basement, cellar, open or enclosed porch or sunroom, unless such sunroom or enclosed porch is an integral part of the building and habitable in all seasons, and excluding any floor area with a ceiling height of less than two (2.0) metres (6.5’).

3.59 HIGHWAY, shall have the meaning attributed to it in the definition of Street.

3.63 INDUSTRIAL USE, shall mean the use of any land, building or structure for the purpose of manufacturing, processing, assembling, making, preparing, inspecting, ornamenting, finishing, treating, altering, repairing, warehousing, storing, packaging or adapting for sale any goods, substance, article or thing, or any part thereof, and the storage of building and construction equipment and materials, as distinguished from the buying and selling of commodities and the supplying of personal services. Transportation terminals would also be considered an “Industrial Use”.

3.63a INDUSTRIAL USE, LIGHT, shall mean an industrial use which is carried out within enclosed buildings, save and except for the following prohibited uses:

  1. Slaughtering, the processing of poultry or fish, fat rendering or vegetable oil mill, feeding pen, stockyard, feed manufacture, flour mill, bone distillation;

  2. Leather tannery;

  3. Sawmills veneer and plywood mills, pulp and paper mill, wood distillation;

  4. Iron and steel mill, blast furnace, smelting and refining of metals and ores, boiler and plate works, manufacture of railroad rolling stock;

  5. Mineral extraction, pits and quarries and manufacture of cement, lime, gypsum products, concrete or concrete products, clay and clay products, plaster of paris, brick refractory, mineral wool manufacturing, concrete or asphalt batching plant, asbestos products manufacturing, abrasives manufacturers;

  6. The manufacturing of explosives and ammunition, acid, alkalies, asphalt, fertilizer, plastics, resins, soap and cleaning compounds, petroleum refineries, coke oven, coal and tar distillation;

  7. A bulk fuel depot;

  8. An automobile repair garage, an automobile body repair shop;