General zoning requirements
  4. (1) Where a lot line abuts a reserve of 0.3 metres or less that has been established to restrict or control access to an abutting street, the lot is considered to have frontage on a public street. (2) Where the lot line abuts a reserve of 0.3 metres or less that has been established to restrict or control access to an abutting street, the reserve is part of the lot for the purposes of calculating required setbacks and density. (3) A unit within a plan of condominium on which a back-to-back townhouse, street townhouse or rear lane townhouse is situated shall be treated as one lot. (4) For an apartment or mixed-use building, a minimum of four square metres per dwelling unit of outdoor communal amenity space shall be provided at grade, as a rooftop amenity area or both on the podium. (5) The outdoor communal amenity space referred to in subsection (4) shall be aggregated into areas of not less than 50 square metres that have a minimum width of six metres. (6) For a residential use, the minimum required private outdoor amenity area per residential unit is six square metres and shall be provided in a yard, patio, terrace or balcony. (7) Despite subsections (4) and (6), for an ancillary residential use, the minimum required amenity area shall be three square metres for the first bedroom and two square metres for each additional bedroom in the dwelling unit, to be provided on, (a)  a balcony or outdoor patio; (b)  a swimming pool; (c)  communal indoor recreational space; (d)  communal indoor social space; or (e)  outdoor rooftop amenity space. (8) There are no minimum amenity requirements for a retirement home or long-term care home. (9) The minimum landscape buffer abutting a residential zone is three metres. (10) There is no maximum height restriction for roof-mounted wind and solar energy installations. (11) Transformer and telecommunications vaults and pads shall not project towards a public street beyond the main wall of the building. (12) One parking space is required per 40 square metres of gross floor area. (13) Despite subsection (12), 1.  a post-secondary school shall have one parking space per 200 square metres of gross floor area, 2.  an apartment building, hybrid apartment building, stacked townhouse and multiple, triplex and quattroplex dwellings shall have a minimum of one parking space per dwelling unit plus 0.25 visitor parking spaces per unit, 3.  a mixed-use building shall have one parking space per dwelling unit plus the greater of 0.25 parking spaces per residential dwelling unit for visitor parking or one parking space per 25 square metres of gross floor area for the non-residential component in a mixed-use building, 4.  a hospice facility shall have the lesser of one parking space per 40 square metres of gross floor area or 0.5 parking spaces per bed, 5.  an ancillary residential use shall have 0.1 parking spaces per bedroom and 0.05 visitor parking spaces per bedroom, and 6.  when a non-residential use forms part of a post-secondary school, a minimum of one parking space per 200 square metres of gross floor area is required. (14) The minimum at grade parking area setback from a lot line is 1.2 metres. (15) Despite subsection (14), there is no minimum at grade parking area setback from a street line, unless a parking area abuts a sidewalk, in which case the minimum setback is 1.5 metres. (16) Parking for a post-secondary school shall be on the main campus or on lands within 800 metres of the main campus. (17) An underground parking structure is permitted to extend under a public street, public lane, laneway, park, amenity area or greenway. (18) Where an underground parking structure extends beyond the lot line of the lot it is intended to serve, the required parking for uses within that lot are also permitted to be located in the portion of the underground parking structure that extends beyond the lot boundary. (19) Where a wall, column or other obstruction is located abutting or within any parking space, the following requirements apply: 1.  The minimum width of the parking space shall be increased by 0.3 metres for each side that is obstructed. 2.  Obstructions within 1.15 metres of either stall end do not require an increase in parking space width, provided the obstruction projects no more than 0.15 metres into the parking space. (20) Where a wall, column or other obstruction is located abutting or within any parking space, it must be set back a minimum of 0.4 metres from the drive aisle. (21) The minimum bicycle parking space requirement can be satisfied using vertical or horizontal bicycle parking spaces. (22) At least 10 per cent of the required bicycle parking shall be provided at grade and adjacent to the main building entry. (23) The minimum vertical bicycle parking space dimensions are as follows: 1.  The minimum width is 0.9 metres. 2.  The minimum length is 1.2 metres. 3.  The minimum vertical clearance is two metres. (24)  For apartments and stacked townhouses where the number of required parking spaces is 100 or more, 25 per cent of required parking spaces shall have a level two roughed-in electric vehicle charging station. (25)  For non-residential uses where the number of required parking spaces is 100 or more, (a)  20 per cent of required parking spaces shall have a level two roughed-in electric vehicle charging station; and (b)  one per cent of all required parking spaces shall have an electric vehicle charging station installed.