Zoning Dictionary

Category: Parking/Access/Loading

Entrance Setback

The least horizontal distance permitted between an intersection of street lines and the nearest portion of any entrance, measured along the limit of the traveled portion of the street or lane.

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Entrance Width

The maximum horizontal distance permitted between the extremities of an entrance, measured along the limit of the traveled portion of the street or lane.

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Garage, Attached

A private garage accessory to a dwelling on the same lot and attached thereto by a common wall and/or common roof structure; provided, however, for the purposes of determining line of setback and sideyard, an attached garage will be considered part of the main building. Also for the purposes of this definition, a wall or […]

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Garage, Dual

The whole of a building that is divided vertically along a lot line into 2 separate private garages.

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Garage, Private

An accessory building designed or used for the storage of not more than four vehicles owned and used by the occupants of the building to which it is accessory. A detached accessory building or portion of a dwelling house which is designed or used for the sheltering of a private motor vehicle and storage of […]

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Group Parking

A building, structure or area of land used for parking that serves more than one dwelling unit.

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High Contaminant Generating Car Park

Formal vehicle parking areas on a site (including that which is an accessory activity to the main use of the site) that are: exposed to rainfall; and designed for a total of more than 30 vehicles. The parking area include associated accessways (manoeuvring, entries and exits) but excludes any parking or accessways located within an […]

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Interior Parking Bay

All parking bays that do not qualify as a perimeter parking bay.

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Island

An Island is one of the following: A land area totally surrounded by water; or, In parking lot design, built-up structures, usually curbed, placed at the end of parking rows as a guide to traffic and also used for landscaping, signing or lighting.

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Lane

A public or private right-of-way which affords a secondary means of access to the lots abutting thereon. A subsidiary thoroughfare providing access from within a lot, primarily from parking or loading spaces to a public street. A subsidiary public thoroughfare for the sole use of pedestrians and connecting public streets, open space or public buildings. […]

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