Zoning Dictionary

Category: Residential Uses

Habitable Room

Any room in a building used for a residential nesting table activity and in a care centre or healthcare facility with an overnight stay facility, excluding a laundry, bathroom, toilet or any room used solely as an entrance hall, passageway, garage, or other space of a specialised nature occupied neither frequently nor for extended periods. […]

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Home Occupation

An occupation conducted for gain in a dwelling unit by the resident or residents. The use of part of a dwelling or part of any accessory building for pursuits compatible with a domestic household and which is carried on by members of the one family residing in the dwelling house provided that: the use is […]

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Home Profession

The use of a part of a dwelling unit for a service or profession by at least one of the permanent residents of such dwelling unit and which is clearly secondary to the main use of the dwelling unit. The home professions permitted in the residential areas are: legal, medical, surveying, engineering, architectural, planning, accounting, […]

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Homecraft

A craft or occupation conducted as an accessory use subordinate to the principal residential use of a dwelling unit.

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Houseboat

A watercraft used as a dwelling and moored in the same general area at least eight (8) hours a day for ten (10) days in any month.

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Household Sale

The sale by the occupant of a dwelling unit, on his own premises, of household goods belonging to him.

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Industrialized Housing

A residential structure designed for use and occupancy of one or more families, constructed using one or more modules or constructed using one or more modular components built at a location other than the permanent residential site, designed to be used as a permanent residential structure when the modules or modular components are transported to […]

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Joint Living and Working Quarters

A residential occupancy of one or more rooms or floors used as a dwelling unit with adequate work space reserved for, and regularly used by, one or more persons residing there.

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Laneway House

A dwelling unit in a building located at the rear of a lot which fronts onto a lane at the rear lot line, and which may or may not be attached to a garage. A detached dwelling unit constructed in the rear yard of a site on which is situated a single detached dwelling with […]

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Lifetime Homes

A type of housing which is accessible and convenient for a large segment of the population from young children to frail older people and those with temporary or permanent physical or sensory impairments.

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