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By-law 647-2025 — Townhouses, Conversion of Internal Common Areas and Overcladding Encroachments

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

Alias
647-2025
Form ref
Planning Act
Applies to
designer
Instruments
Planning Act · Zoning By-law 569-2013

City of Toronto By-law 647-2025, an amendment to Zoning By-law 569-2013 for lands in the residential and residential apartment zone categories. It opens the residential apartment commercial zone to townhouses as infill and sets their lot area, frontage, unit width, height and amenity space; adds regulations on converting internal common areas to dwelling units in both zone categories; and allows cladding added to an original exterior main wall surface, with architectural features such as a pilaster, cornice, sill or belt course, to encroach into a minimum building setback.

What it covers

  • Conversion of internal common areas to dwelling units
  • Exemptions applying to converted dwelling units
  • Exterior main wall surface
  • Architectural features
  • Minimum lot area for each dwelling unit in a residential building
  • Minimum lot frontage
  • Minimum width of a dwelling unit in a townhouse
  • Maximum height for a townhouse
  • Amenity space for residential buildings
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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.
Document date
June 26, 2025
Tags
by-lawzoningzoning-amendmenttownhousesovercladdingunit-conversion
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