Zoning Dictionary

Letter: E

Essential Services

The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance by public utilities or municipal or other governmental agencies, of underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam or water transmission or distribution systems, collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, including poles, wires, mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals, hydrants and other similar […]

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Established Building Line

The average distance from the street line or shoreline to existing buildings measured 100 metres on either side of the lot where more than half the frontage has been built upon, as of the date of passing of this By-law. The average distance from the street line of existing buildings on one side of continuous […]

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Established Building Line, Rural

The average setback from the street line of existing buildings when at least five buildings have been erected on any one side of a continuous 600 feet of land with street frontage prior to the date of passing of this By-law.

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Established Front Yard Depth

The average setback of the main front wall of the building or structure from the street line on that side of the street in the block in which the building is to be erected, as measured at the time of the passing of this By-law. Where the front wall of an enclosed verandah or porch […]

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Estuary

Means any part of a river whose level is periodically or intermittently affected by coastal tides, or any lake or other partially enclosed body of water that is periodically or intermittently open to the sea.

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Evergreen

Those trees, including broad-leaved and conifer evergreens, that maintain their leaves year-round. A plant with foliage that persists and remains green year-round.

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Exactions

An exaction is a condition on a portion of land, infrastructure, or fees that the local government requires from a land developer in return for subdivision or development approval. A contribution or payment required as an authorized precondition for receiving a development permit.

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Excavation

The space created by the removal of soil, rock or fill for the purposes of construction. Removal or recovery by any means whatsoever of soil, rock, minerals, mineral substances or organic substances other than vegetation, from water or land on or beneath the surface thereof, or beneath the land surface, whether exposed or submerged.

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Existing

Legally existing, being a reality or an actuality as of the date of passing of this By-law.

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