500 C5

550 CITY CENTRE COMMERCIAL ZONE (C5)

Permitted Uses

550.01 The following uses and no others shall be permitted in the C5 zone:

Adult Entertainment Use, limited to:

(1) taking place in conjunction with a shopping centre use;

(2) customer access to and from the premises being restricted to an enclosed pedestrian mall; and

(3) film viewers placed in enclosed spaces not less than 28 m² with at least one side of the enclosure remaining open and unobstructed for a distance of 2.0 m measured vertically from the floor, and at least two other sides open for a distance of at least 75.0 cm measured in the same way.

Adult Video Store, limited to:

(1) taking place in conjunction with a shopping centre use;

(2) customer access to and from the premises being restricted to an enclosed pedestrian mall; and

(3) film viewers placed in enclosed spaces not less than 28 m² with at least one side of the enclosure remaining open and unobstructed for a distance of 2.0 m measured vertically from the floor, and at least two other sides open for a distance of at least 75.0 cm measured in the same way.

Assembly Use

Civic Use

Commercial Use

Community Service Use

Exotic Entertainment Establishment, limited to: (B/L 504-97)

(1) taking place in conjunction with a shopping centre use; and

(2) customer access to and from the premises being restricted to an enclosed pedestrian mall.

Indoor Sports Use

Information Technology Use (B/L 1047-2001)

Mobile Food Vending Cart

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Office Use

Off Street Parking Use

Residential Use, limited to a residential use in conjunction with another permitted use

Restaurant Use (B/L 1232-2003)

Second Hand Goods Use

Shopping Centre Use

Tourist Accommodation (Type A) Use (B/L 1232-2003)

Video Game Arcade Use, limited to taking place in conjunction with a shopping centre use and customer access restricted to the enclosed pedestrian mall.

Conditions of Use

550.02 A residential use, other than lobbies or entrance areas, shall:

(1) not be located on the first storey;

(2) not be located on the same storey as another permitted use unless the residential use is separated by a firewall with no circulation shared with other permitted uses;

(3) only be permitted where each dwelling unit is provided with a private, indoor storage area having a minimum capacity of 3.0 m³ and no dimension less than 1.2 m; and

(4) only be permitted where all required residential off street parking is separate from commercial parking.

550.03 A second hand goods use or thrift store shall not be located within a 300 m radius of another second hand goods use or thrift store. (B/L 913-2000)

550.04 Storage shall take place entirely within a wholly enclosed building, except storage related to seasonal garden centres subject to the following regulations: (B/L 438-97)

(1) shall not exceed 3.0 m in height;

(2) shall be sited in accordance with the setbacks as specified for storeys not containing residential uses in Section 550.08;

(3) shall be limited to that part of the lot surfaced with asphalt or concrete;

(4) shall not include storage of material or goods likely to produce or give off dust or other particulate matter that may become wind-borne; and

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(5) where fenced, shall be limited to decorative fencing, a landscape screen with a minimum width of 1.5 m or a combination thereof.

Density

550.05 The maximum floor space ratio shall be 1.25 provided that this may be increased to a maximum of 2.75 as follows:

(1) 0.05 times each 1% of the lot area constructed as a pedestrian landscaped area, not to exceed 0.5;

(2) 1.0 times the ratio of underground parking to required off street parking, not to exceed 1.0.

Lot Coverage

550.06 The maximum lot coverage shall be 95%.

Height of a Building or Structure

550.07 The maximum height of any building or structure shall be 15.0 m.

Setbacks

550.08 Buildings and structures shall be sited in accordance with the following minimum setbacks:

Buildings and Structures for	Exterior Lot Line	Interior Lot Line
Storeys containing Residential Uses	0.0 m	7.5 m
Storeys not containing Residential Uses	0.0 m	3.0 m, except (a) 0.0 m where abutting a C or I zone (b) 6.0 m where adjacent to a lane

 

Setbacks Between Buildings

550.09 Where an exterior wall of a dwelling unit faces another wall or corner of the same building or of another building on the same lot, the buildings shall be sited to provide a continuous 90º horizontal arc, unencumbered by any buildings or structures on the same lot, of a radius not less than:

(1) 15.0 m from the centre of any window in a living room;

(2) 12.0 m from the centre of any window in a habitable room other than a living room or a kitchen; and

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(3) 3.0 m from the centre of any other window except a kitchen window.

Building Width and Length

550.10 No storey of a building or structure that contains a residential use shall have any building face exceeding a width or length of 30.0 m without an architectural break in any one continuous vertical plane. For the purposes of this Section, an architectural break means a feature or features altering the appearance of a building face in either the horizontal or vertical direction, in at least one of the following ways:

(1) An outward extension of the building face by at least 1.2 m;

(2) Walls recessed at least 1.2 m or angled not less than 30^o; or

(3) Balconies or walls stepped back at least 1.0 m in successive storeys.