Zoning Dictionary

Category: Residential Uses

Mobile Home, Double Wide

A mobile home which is manufactured in two parts which when assembled on a lot becomes a single structural unit having a width of six metres or more and a length of not less than ten metres.

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Mobile Home, Single Wide

A mobile home having a width greater than four metres and less than 6 metres and a length not less than ten metres and not greater than twenty-one metres.

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Model Home

A finished, residential unit, including units in a multifamily structure and mobile homes for which a certificate of occupancy could be obtained, located in a residentially zoned district but utilized as an example of a product offered for sale to purchasers (by a realtor, builder, developer or contractor). The dwelling house may be furnished but […]

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Modular Home

Any dwelling that is designed in more than one unit and is designed to be made mobile on a temporary basis, and constructed or manufactured to provide a permanent residence for one or more persons, but does not include a mobile home, recreational travel trailer or recreational motor vehicle as defined herein. A dwelling unit […]

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Neighbourhood Care Home

A building or portion thereof used for the boarding or other residential accommodation of the care or treatment of more than six but not more than twelve (12) persons and in which care is not provided to any persons not resident in the care home and that complies with the relevant licensing requirements.

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Net Residential Density

Net density is calculated by dividing residential unit yield by net residential land area, where net residential land area includes only those private lands which support residential units. It therefore excludes local roads parks, and other public or private uses.

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Non-Ground Oriented Housing

Housing forms without access to the ground directly from a dwelling unit, such as an apartment building.

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Office At Home

A home occupation in which a part of a dwelling unit is used as the resident’s office.

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Outdoor Living Area

An outside space immediately adjacent to and accessible from a dwelling such as a porch, deck, balcony or roof deck, which shall be available to occupants of such dwelling for leisure activities.

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Pepper Potting

The interspersing of affordable housing units amongst housing of another type (i.e. privately-owned housing) to provide sustainable mixed tenure developments

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