Zoning Dictionary

Letter: M

Mineral Resource Notification Area

An area within one-half mile of a mineral resource in which notification of property owners and clustering away from the mineral resource are required.

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Mineral Resource Recovery Area

An area which is underlain by a mineral resource under which mineral resource recovery is a principal permitted use.

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Minerals, Non-metallic

Minerals which lack the common properties of metallic minerals, such as metallic lustre or high specific gravity and are generally of value for intrinsic properties of the mineral itself and not as a source of metal. They are generally synonymous with non-aggregate industrial minerals such as asbestos, gypsum, nelpheline syenite, peat and rock salt.

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Mini-mall

A shopping center of between 80,000 to 150,000 square feet on a site of eight to fifteen acres where tenants are located on both sides of a covered walkway with direct pedestrian access to all establishments from the walkway.

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Mini-storage Warehouse

A building containing separate, individual self-storage units divided from the floor to the ceiling by a wall with an independent entrance from the exterior of the building, designed to be rented or leased on a short-term basis to the general public for private storage of personal goods, materials and equipment. A fully enclosed, single story, […]

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Miniature Golf Course

An area of land or a building, structure or premises or part thereof operated for profit or gain as a commercial place of amusement in which facilities are provided to simulate the game of golf or any aspect of the game on a small scale, but does not include a golf ball driving range.

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Mining

The extraction of any material, other than sand, gravel or other forms of aggregate, from the ground, and the processing thereof, which may include refining, smelting, or any other form of processing. The removal of sand, gravel, earth, rock, stone or mineral bearing substance from the ground for the purposes of obtaining any mineral thereform. […]

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Minor Variance

A relatively small departure from the provisions of a Comprehensive Zoning By-law or any other by-law that maintains the general intent and purpose of the By-law and of the Official Plan.

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