Zoning Dictionary

Category: Lot Building Size/Location

Point of Intersection

The point at which two street lines abutting a corner lot intersect or if the two street lines meet in a curve then it is the point at which the production of the two lot lines abutting the two streets intersect. To access the...
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Privacy Fence

A fence that will visually isolate, conceal or seclude objects, things, places or people.

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Rehabilitation

The act or process of returning a property or structure to a state of utility, through repair or alteration, which makes possible an efficient contemporary use, while preserving those portions or features of the property that are significant historically, architecturally, or culturally.

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Screening

A continuous fence, wall, compact evergreen hedge or combination thereof, supplemented with landscape planting, that would effectively screen the property which it encloses, and is broken only by access drives and walks. A method of reducing the impact of noise and/or unsightly visual intrusions with less offensive or more harmonious elements, such as plants, berms, […]

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Separation Distance

The shortest distance between buildings on abutting lots.

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Setback

The horizontal distance from the center line of the street right-of-way, measured at right angles to such center line, to the nearest part of any building or structure on the lot. With reference to a road, the distance between the center line of a street allowance and the nearest building line and with reference to […]

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Setback, Average

The mean setback from a street right-of-way of buildings on both sides of a lot.

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Setback, Front, Rear, Side Yard

The horizontal distance measured at right angles to the boundary of the parcel, lot or block of land, between the main wall of the building and the main boundary.

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Shoreline Buffer

Means a natural area adjacent to a shoreline that is maintained in its natural state.

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Sight Triangle

The triangular space formed by the street lines of a corner lot and a line drawn from a point in one street line to a point in the other street line, each such point being 12 metres from the point of intersection of the street lines (measured along the street lines). Where the two street […]

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