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By-law 1509-2025 — Commercial Use Permissions Along Major Streets in the Residential Zone Category

Published by City of Toronto under Zoning By Law 569 2013 2

Alias
1509-2025 (Major Streets)
Form ref
Planning Act
Applies to
designer
Instruments
Planning Act · Zoning By-law 569-2013

City of Toronto By-law 1509-2025, an amendment to Zoning By-law 569-2013 adding small-scale commercial uses to the purpose of the residential zone category and, zone by zone through R, RD and the rest, permitting an art gallery, artist studio, automated banking machine, custom workshop and similar uses on lots abutting a major street. Conditions cover interior floor area of an establishment, the storey a use may occupy, waste storage, outdoor patios, market gardens, recreation uses, retail stores in apartment buildings, and converting a residential parking space to non-residential use.

What it covers

  • Purpose of the residential zone category
  • Art gallery and other commercial and non-residential uses on major streets
  • Retail stores in apartment buildings
  • Automated banking machines
  • Outdoor sales or display – abutting a major street
  • Outdoor patio
  • Market gardens
  • Recreation use
  • Conversion of parking space in a residential building to non-residential use
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Publisher
City of Toronto
Category
By-laws · zoning
Published under
Zoning By Law 569 2013 2 — the municipality's own heading
Covers note
An amendment by-law with numbered clauses rather than titled sections — these are the printed titles of the regulations it enacts.
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