Zoning Dictionary

Category: Residential Uses

Lifetime Neighborhood

A lifetime neighbourhood is designed to be welcoming, accessible and inviting for everyone, regardless of age, health or disability, is sustainable in terms of climate change, transport services, housing, public services, civic space and amenities making it possible for people to enjoy a fulfilling life and take part in the economic, civic and social life […]

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Live Aboard Vessel (see Also Houseboat)

A vessel intended primarily for use in navigation and used incidentally as living quarters, which may or may not be dependent upon shore facilities. Liveaboard vessels could include houseboats, sail boats, fish boats or any other vessel.

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Living Area

Living Area. The total gross building area of a residential structure excluding the following: garage area; basement area where the floor to ceiling height is less than 6 feet 8 inches; attic area, and other building area, that is not accessible by a stairway or where the floor to ceiling height is less than 5 feet; […]

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Lock-Off Unit

A smaller dwelling unit within a larger principal dwelling unit, which must have separate external access and shared internal access, and which can be locked off from the larger dwelling unit, but does not include a secondary suite.

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Lodger

A person who resides with a family, is not related, and receives room, or room and board.

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Lodging Unit

Living quarters for a family that do not contain independent kitchen facilities, provided, however, that dwelling units occupied by transients on a rental or lease basis for periods of less than one week shall be construed to be lodging units even though they contain independent kitchen facilities.

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Loft

A dwelling unit in a building originally constructed for other than primarily residential use containing one or more rooms or enclosed floor space arranged for living, eating, sleeping and/or home occupations; such units shall include bathroom and kitchen facilities as required by applicable codes.

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Manufactured Home

A factory-built structure which bears the seal of the state/province, federal agency or its agent, and which in the traveling mode, is eight (8) body feet or more in width or forty (40) body feet or more in length, or, when erected on site, contains three-hundred-twenty (320) or more square feet, equipped with the necessary […]

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Manufactured Housing Development

A site with required improvements and utilities for the long-term placement of manufactured homes for dwelling purposes. Services and facilities for residents of the development may also be included on site.

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Manufactured Housing Subdivision

A development containing lots intended primarily for the individual placement of manufactured homes for dwelling purposes.

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