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- 648-2025
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- Planning Act
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- Instruments
- Planning Act · Zoning By-law 569-2013
City of Toronto By-law 648-2025, an amendment to Zoning By-law 569-2013 that replaces the terms duplex, triplex and fourplex with detached houseplex and semi-detached houseplex across the residential zone category, and rewrites the standards attached to them in the R, RD, RS and RT zones. It covers conversion of a detached or semi-detached house, vacant lawfully existing lots, front and side yard landscaping, garage entrance width and elevation, driveway width, wall mounted equipment, building depth and length, platforms above the second storey, and bedrooms per dwelling unit.
What it covers
- Conversion of detached house to a detached houseplex
- Conversion of a portion of a townhouse to multiple units
- Vacant lawfully existing lot
- Front yard landscaping for certain types of residential buildings
- Side yard landscaping for certain types of residential buildings on corner lots
- Maximum width of garage entrance in front wall on certain lots
- Elevation of garage entrance in certain types of residential buildings
- Driveway width for certain residential building types with three or more dwelling units
- Public utility equipment in a front yard
- Maximum building depth if required lot frontage is in specified range
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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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by-lawzoningzoning-amendmenthouseplexmultiplexresidential