Zoning Dictionary

Category: Residential Uses

Floor Area, Total Residential

The area of a dwelling unit, measured from the inside walls of the unit, including kitchens, bathrooms, stairways internal to the unit, storage rooms within the unit, and the space occupied by interior walls; but not including unfinished basement areas, furnace rooms, balconies, storage rooms external to the unit, hallways, and laundry rooms to which […]

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Garage Apartment

A dwelling unit located above, below or otherwise connected to a garage in a structure that is detached from the primary dwelling unit on a lot.

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Garage Sale

The sale of personal property which is conducted on a premises within a residential district upon which is located a dwelling. A garage, patio or yard sale shall mean a sale in any kind of residential zone of personal property accumulated during the course of ordinary residential living by selling the same to the public. […]

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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, 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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Garden or Tool Shed

An accessory structure designed to store tools, lawn and garden care or maintenance equipment or materials, and which is not designed to contain any habitable space.

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Garden Suite

A small independent building, physically separate from the principal dwelling unit with which it is associated, which is used as a dwelling unit, or for activities accessory to those permitted in the principal dwelling unit such as home occupation and recreation uses in addition to providing parking space(s) for the lot and having its primary […]

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Granny Flat

An additional dwelling unit intended for the sole occupancy of one or two adult persons who are 62 years of age or over. The floor area of the attached granny flat dwelling unit shall not exceed 30 percent of the existing living area of the primary residence or 1,200 square feet in a floor area […]

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Ground Oriented Housing

Housing which is related to the ground by one more direct, non-mechanical means of access.

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Group Home

A residential care facility for not more than 6 persons in care that is operated in a private dwelling house and licensed under the relevant legislation.

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