Source:
2024 Draft Zoning By-law Amendment: Commercial Use Permissions in the Residential Zone Category.
2025 Proposal is remains unchanged from 2024
| Permitted Uses * Permitted Uses on 2nd Floor | Description Chapter 800 Zoning By-Law Definitions |
| Art Gallery | Exhibition, collection or preservation of works of art for public viewing. |
| Artist Studio | Creating art or craft. |
| Automated Banking Machine | Device at which customers can complete self-serve financial transactions. Note: Must be Located in a building. |
| Custom Workshop | Producing or making custom-made goods in limited quantities, using techniques that do not involve mass-production. |
| Eating Establishment | Where food or beverages are prepared and offered for sale to patrons for immediate consumption on the premises while they are seated, may include incidental take-out service. |
| Education Use* | Education or training, other than: post-secondary school;school regulated under the Education Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.E.2, as amended; orreligious education use. |
| Market Garden | Growing and harvesting vegetables, fruits, flowers, shrubs, trees or other horticultural products for the purpose of sale. Note: may not be used for growing and harvesting shrubs or trees for the purpose of sale. |
| Massage Therapy* | Massage therapy by licensed or registered persons. A body rub service or wellness centre is not a massage therapy. |
| Medical Office* | No definition |
| Office | No definition |
| Outdoor Patio | Outdoor patron area that is ancillary to a non-residential use. |
| Outdoor Sale and Display | No definition |
| Performing Arts Studio | means premises used for the rehearsal of performing arts, such as music, dance or theatre. |
| Personal Service Shop | Personal grooming services or for the cleaning or care of apparel. |
| Production Studio | Producing live broadcasts, motion pictures, or audio or video recordings or transmissions. The mass reproduction of film or recordings is not a production studio |
| Pet Services | Provide for the grooming of domestic animals. A veterinary hospital or a kennel are not pet services. |
| Recreation Use | Sports, physical play or exercise, such as a fitness club, bowling alley, billiards hall or pool hall, swimming pool or skating rink. An amusement arcade and a sports place of assembly is not a recreation use. Note: recreation use must enclosed and located in the building and can not include a commercial swimming pool |
| Religious Education Center | Religious organization for religious education, other than: a post-secondary school; or a school regulated under the Education Act, R.S.O. 1990, c.E.2, as amended |
| Retail Service | Photocopying, printing, postal, or courier services are sold or provided. Note: Postal or courier service not permitted. |
| Retail Store | Goods or commodities are sold, rented or leased. |
| Service Shop | Servicing, repairing or refurbishing goods, other than vehicles. A personal service shop is not a service shop. |
| Take-out Eating Establishment | Where food or beverages are prepared and offered for sale to patrons for consumption off the premises. |
| Wellness Centre* | Therapeutic and wellness purposes. A massage therapy, medical office or body rub service is not a wellness centre. (e.g. naturopathy, reiki). |