500 C7

580 DOWNTOWN ABBOTSFORD COMMERCIAL ZONE (C7) (B/L 1150-2002)

Permitted Uses

580.01 The following uses and no others shall be permitted in the C7 zone:

Assembly Use, limited to:

auditoriums;

banquet and reception rooms;

child care centre use;

seniors centre;

social halls limited to lots described as Lots 12, 13, and 23 Section 22 Township 16 NWD Plan 464A and known municipally as 2513 West Railway Street (B/L 1248-2003)

Civic Use, limited to:

federal and provincial offices, excluding remand centres, prisons, detention and parole facilities;

municipal offices and related facilities;

museums, community centres, performing and visual arts centre, and commercial uses accessory thereto; and

park uses

Commercial Use, excluding:

bankruptcy and/or liquidation sales;

body rub parlour;

building supplies sales;

Cheque cashing other than a financial institution regulated under the Financial Institutions Act or the Bank Act;

collection depots for bottles and paper;

escort services;

personal loan services other than those regulated by the Financial Institutions Act or the Bank Act;

repair use, unless accessory to a retail sales use and where the repair use occupies less than 20% of the floor area

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sex or drug paraphernalia sales other than contraceptive devices;

tattooing and/or body piercing;

thrift stores;

vehicle and marine sales, leasing and servicing

Indoor Sports Use, excluding:

billiard halls

Information Technology Use

Mobile Food Vending Cart

Office Use, excluding:

Cheque cashing or personal loan services other than those regulated under the Financial Institutions Act or the Bank Act; and

detoxification centres, drug or alcohol addiction counseling or treatment centres, needle exchanges, safe injection sites, rehabilitation centres or any type of similar uses or facilities

Off Street Parking Use

Residential Use, limited to a residential use in conjunction with another permitted use; excluding emergency shelter use and second-stage housing

Restaurant Use, excluding: drive-through restaurant, unless accessory to restaurant use providing indoor seating for a minimum 50 patrons; and restaurant use containing more than two billiard table or more than two amusement devices of any description. (B/L 1232-2003)

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

Conditions of Use

580.02 Commercial school use or indoor sports use shall not be located on the first storey or at street level for parcels with frontage:

(1) on Essendene Avenue between Pauline Street and West Railway Street, or

(2) on Montrose Avenue between Hazel Street and South Fraser Way.

 580.03 No more than 25% of each block face at the first storey or at street level:

(1) along Essendene Avenue between Pauline Street and West Railway Street, or

(2) along Montrose Avenue between Hazel Street and South Fraser Way

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shall be used for permitted office use.

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

(1) not be located on the first storey or at street level;

(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 at least 90% of required residential off street parking is provided either underground or above the first storey, and is separate from commercial parking.

 580.05 A tourist accommodation use shall have a minimum of 75 rooms

580.06 Despite the provisions of Sections 150.19 and 150.20, the minimum floor area of a dwelling unit shall be:

(1) 65 m² for each studio or one bedroom unit;

(2) 80 m² for each two bedroom unit; and

(3) 120 m² for each three bedroom or larger unit.

 580.07 Storage must be accessory to a permitted use and:

(1) not occupy more than 20% of the main floor area or be within 6 m of a window facing a street at street level; and

(2) shall take place entirely within a wholly enclosed building.

580.08 Despite the provisions of Section 580.07, storage related to seasonal garden centres is subject to the following regulations:

(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

(5) where fenced, shall be limited to:

(a) decorative fencing; or

(b) a landscape screen with a minimum width of 1.5 m: or

(c) fencing with a landscape screen with a minimum width of 1.5 m.

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Density

580.09 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

580.10 The maximum lot coverage shall be 95%.

Height of a Building or Structure

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

Setbacks

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

Building Width and Length

580.13 No storey of a building or structure that contains a residential use shall have any building face exceeding a width or length of 15.0 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