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No person shall erect a residential building on a lot in a Residential district in which the main window of the living area of a dwelling unit in the building is closer than: 15 meters to the main window of the living area of another dwelling unit on the same lot; or, 11 meters to […]
The Downtown District is established to provide special guidance pertaining to the landscaping, architecture, color palette, external parking, pedestrian and traffic circulation, signs and all specific design features in the downtown area of the City. The Downtown District shall generally include the downtown business district of the City. It is the purpose of this By-law […]
To promote a unifying and compatible architecture in the Downtown, the following guidelines are established: The architecture can be developed in either a historic or contemporary vein. New buildings should blend with acceptable existing buildings in the District. These buildings and structures may generally include, but are not limited to, the following features: Wide wooden […]
The exterior of all buildings constructed must conform to the following: Front exteriors of stone, brick, architectural reinforced concrete, glass and metal combinations, colour coated metal, ceramic or glazed tile, colour coated block; and sides and rear of buildings shall be of wood, masonry, architectural metal asbestos cement or material of similar standards except where […]
No person shall, in any block within a housing project, erect dwellings more than 20% of which are alike in external design. External shall not be deemed to differ by reason of the addition of minor projections, extensions, recesses, type of style of roof, colour, texture or type of material used, or by a reversal […]
No fence may be erected within the city and within a residential district which does not comply with the following specifications: Any fence erected in a required front yard shall be at least 50% open, and no fence erected in a required front yard may exceed four feet in height measured from ground level. A […]
No point on any external wall of any garden apartment shall be nearer to any point on any opposing external wall of the same building than a horizontal distance equal to the number of feet obtained by multiplying the number of storeys comprised in the garden apartment by ten. For the purposes of this section, […]
No building shall exceed sixty feet in height provided that where in a multiple dwelling the area of the lowest floor thereof does not exceed forty percent of the site coverage of the multiple dwelling, the multiple dwelling may...
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There shall be a twenty (20) foot minimum setback requirement from the property line of lots facing a street, provided, however, that no point of the building shall project into an imaginary plane established by an angle of seventy (70) degrees as projected from a point along the centre line of the street. The point […]
No multiple dwelling of any kind or part thereof that is not wholly below grade except roof projections, entrance canopies, steps and balconies shall be nearer to the street boundary of the lot or parcel upon which the multiple dwelling stands than a horizontal distance to be determined as follows by reference to the number […]
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