Part 5 - Land Use Districts / Commercial/Industrial
TCC
This part outlines specific regulation that applies to the City’s Land Use Districts.
5.9 TCC - Trail Corridor Commercial District
- Application
This section applies to the areas designated as Trail Corridor Commercial (TCC) District on the Land Use District Map, Schedule A of this Bylaw. - Purpose
The purpose of the TCC District is to enable development that provides the opportunity along the trail corridor areas for the exchange of the widest variety of goods and services to the community and the surrounding region. This District encourages transit-supportive mixed-use development. This area may also include Professional Office means an office use providing professional services. Typical development includes offices providing accounting, architectural, employment, engineering, insurance, investment, legal, real estate, planning, secretarial, broadcasting studios, and travel agent services. This use does not include health service or government service., medium-density residential, high-density residential, or mixed-use buildings. - Permitted and Discretionary Uses
| Permitted Uses | Discretionary Uses | |
|---|---|---|
| (i) | a) Animal Grooming means a development entirely located within an enclosed building for the grooming of a domestic pet. This does not include animal service. | b) Auction (General) means a development used for the auctioning of goods, vehicles, and equipment, including the temporary storage of such goods and equipment, not including auction (agriculture). |
| (ii) | a) Animal Health means a development used for the medical care, treatment, and incidental overnight accommodation of a domestic pet, but not livestock. Typical development includes a veterinary clinic or animal hospital, not including animal service. | b) Automotive (Sales) means a development used for the sale of a vehicle, recreation vehicle, or recreation equipment and may include an automotive (service) component. Typical development includes a car or motorcycle dealership, not including automotive (specialty) or heavy vehicle and equipment (sales and service). |
| (iii) | a) Art Gallery/Studio means a public or private facility which is used for the production or sale of or as a repository of works of individual art pieces not mass produced, including paintings, photographs, drawings, etchings, pottery, or sculptures. | b) Automotive (Service) means a development used for the service and repair of a vehicle, recreation vehicle, or recreation equipment or their components. Typical development includes automotive painting, collision repair, and service shops, not including automotive (specialty) or heavy vehicle and equipment (sales and service). |
| (iv) | a) Catering Service means a development where food and beverages, to be served off the premises, are prepared for sale to the public. which uses up to three vehicles | b) Automotive (Specialty) means a development used for the sale and installation of accessory components for a vehicle, recreation vehicle, or recreation equipment. Typical development includes vehicle wrap, window tint, decal shop, audio or visual equipment, not including automotive (sales), automotive (service), and heavy vehicle and equipment (sales and service). |
| (v) | a) Dwelling or Dwelling Unit means a self-contained residence comprising cooking, washroom, living, and sleeping facilities with a separate private entrance from the exterior of a building or from a common hall, lobby, or stairway inside a building, but does not include any part of a hospital, hotel, or recreation vehicle. above a non-residential use | b) Broadcasting Studio means a development used for the production or broadcast of audio or visual programming, including radio, music, television, and movie programs. |
| (vi) | a) Equipment Service means a development that provides repair services for household goods, equipment, and appliances. Typical uses include radio, television, and appliance repair shops, and furniture refinishing and upholstery shops. | b) Car Wash means a development used for the cleaning of vehicles. |
| (vii) | a) Establishment (Brew Pub) means a development where food and beverages are prepared and served for consumption by the public, and alcoholic beverages, excluding spirits, are brewed on the premises as an accessory use. This use may include accessory retail sales on or off the premises. This use does not include establishment (drinking) or establishment (restaurant). | b) Conference and Banquet Facility means a development that provides auditorium, banquet, exhibition, gymnasium, meeting, or seminar facilities. This use does not include establishment (gaming). |
| (viii) | a) Establishment (Drinking) means a development licensed to serve alcoholic beverages for consumption on the premises, and may include up to 10 video lottery terminals as an accessory use. This use does not include establishment (brew pub) or establishment (restaurant). | b) Construction Service means a development used to provide landscaping, electrical, plumbing, heating, painting, woodworking, or similar contractor services to households or to general contractors. This use does not include equipment rental. |
| (ix) | a) Establishment (Entertainment) means a development where live performances or motion pictures are shown. Typical development includes a cinema, theatre, or music hall, not including establishment (adult). | b) Daycare Facility means a development used to provide care and supervision to seven or more children or adults. Typical development includes daycare centres, preschools, kindergartens, and adult support programs. |
| (x) | a) Establishment (Restaurant) means a development where food and beverages are prepared and served for consumption by the public. Typical development includes restaurants, fast-food restaurants, and takeout restaurants, not including establishment (brew pub) or establishment (drinking). | b) Drive-through means part of a development designed to serve customers remaining in their vehicles. |
| (xi) | a) Funeral Home means a development used for the arrangement of funerals or holding of funeral services, and may include the preparation of the deceased for burial or cremation. This use does not include a religious assembly. | b) Dwelling (Apartment) means a building containing three or more principal dwelling units with a common entrance from the exterior. |
| (xii) | a) Government Service means a development where municipal, provincial, or federal government services are provided directly to the public, and includes development required for the public protection of persons or property. Typical development includes a police station, fire station, courthouse, post office, transit service, public museum, library, school board or social services office. | b) Equipment Rental means a development used to rent household equipment or light machinery to the public. This use does not include fleet service. |
| (xiii) | a) Group Home means a development consisting of the use of a residential dwelling for care and supervision of occupants. A group home is intended to provide room and board for occupants requiring specialized or personal care, guidance, or supervision. The residential character of the development shall be primary, with the occupants living together as a single housekeeping group, and using cooking facilities shared in common. This does not include transitional accommodation. | b) Establishment (Gaming) means a development that provides patrons the opportunity to engage in games of chance and skill. Typical development includes a racetrack with a betting facility (either on-site or off-site), a casino, and a bingo hall. |
| (xiv) | a) Health Service means a development used for the provision of physical and mental out-patient health care, and social or counselling services. Services may be of a preventative, diagnostic, treatment, therapeutic, rehabilitative, or counselling nature. Typical development includes medical and dental offices, health and physiotherapy clinics, or massage therapy clinics. | b) Home-Based Business (Level Two) means an Accessory Development in a dwelling unit or an accessory building, for a business that is operated by a permanent resident of the dwelling unit, and may include one employee who does not reside on the property. This use does not include animal service, automotive (service), automotive specialty, fleet service, or a dry cleaner. |
| (xv) | a) Hotel means a commercial development used to provide temporary sleeping accommodation to the public, and which may also contain a restaurant, drinking establishment, or conference and banquet facility. Typical development includes a hotel, hostel, or motel. | b) Parking Lot means a development which provides for the access, maneuvering, and parking of vehicles., for Off-Site means a location other than the site which is the subject of a development. parking only |
| (xvi) | a) Personal Service means a development used to provide services related to the care and appearance of an individual, including the cleaning and repair of clothing, but does not include health service or establishment (adult). Typical development includes dry cleaner, hair salon, tanning salon, laundromat, tailor, shoe repair, and aesthetician services. | b) Public Utility Building means a development in which the owner or operator of a public utility maintains or houses any operation in connection with the distribution of a public utility, but does not include any development for the production of electric power or gas. |
| (xvii) | a) Professional Office means an office use providing professional services. Typical development includes offices providing accounting, architectural, employment, engineering, insurance, investment, legal, real estate, planning, secretarial, broadcasting studios, and travel agent services. This use does not include health service or government service. | b) Recycling Depot means a development for collecting, sorting, and temporarily storing recyclable materials, including bottles, cans, paper, boxes, and small household goods, not including automotive wrecker. |
| (xviii) | a) Recreation (Indoor) means a development used for sports or recreation within an enclosed building. Typical development includes a health and fitness club, swimming pool, bowling alley, amusement arcade, athletic field, rink, or court, not including conference and banquet facility or establishment (gaming). | b) Religious Assembly means a development used for worship and related religious, philanthropic, or social activities, and includes accessory rectories, manses, meeting rooms, and food preparation and service facilities. Typical uses include churches, chapels, mosques, temples, synagogues, parish halls, convents, or monasteries. |
| (xix) | a) Retail (General) means a development for the retail sale of a wide range of consumer goods and services with a floor area less than 4,000.00 m² (43,055.64 sq. ft.), but does not include a warehouse store (retail). Typical development includes a grocery store, variety store, clothing store, sporting goods store, furniture store, jewelry store, financial institution, pharmacy, or liquor store. | b) Residential Sales Centre means a dwelling unit or temporary building used to exhibit dwelling units for sale, rent, or raffle. Typical uses include show or raffle homes. |
| (xx) | a) School (Commercial) means a commercial development used for training and instruction in a trade, skill, or service. Typical development includes trade, secretarial, business, hairdressing, driver training, music, or academic tutoring schools, not including school (elementary or secondary) or school (post-secondary). | b) Retail (Adult) means a development where more than 30% of the gross floor area is for the display or retail sale of sexually explicit goods, intended to be used for sexual pleasure. This does not include retail (cannabis), retail (general), or establishment (adult). |
| (xxi) | a) School (Post-Secondary) means a development offering public or private education or instruction to individuals beyond a secondary school. Typical development includes colleges and universities, not including school (commercial). | b) Retail (Cannabis) means a development used for the retail sale of cannabis that is authorized by provincial or federal legislation. This does not include a cannabis production and distribution facility or a cannabis production and distribution facility (micro). |
| (xxii) | a) Service Station means a development used for the sale of vehicle fuels, electric charging, lubricating oils, and other automotive fluids and incidental goods. | b) Storage Facility (Indoor) means a development containing non-portable storage units constructed within a single, wholly enclosed building with a common exterior entrance. |
| (xviii) | a) Shopping Centre means a development comprised of three or more separate commercial or mixed-use buildings that operate as a unit and share a common parking area. | b) Accessory means subordinate, incidental to, and exclusively devoted to a principal use or principal building. Development to any Permitted Use or Discretionary Use |
| (xxiv) | a) Supportive Living Accommodation means a development, in a multiple-dwelling or sleeping-unit form, that provides residents with access to on-site professional care and daily living support, and is recognized, authorized, licensed, or certified by a public authority. | |
| (xxv) | a) Warehouse Store (Retail) means a development with a gross floor area of 4,000.00 m² (43,055.64 sq. ft.)or greater for the wholesale or retail sale of goods. Typical development includes a large grocery store, big box store, or home improvement store. |
- Building Height
- The maximum building height is 19.65 ft..
- Building Setbacks
- Front yard
Setback means the distance from the foundation wall of a building to the property line at right angles or radially to it. Where there is no foundation wall, the distance shall be measured from the exterior wall at grade, not including cantilevered wall sections or architectural projections.
- The minimum front yard building setback is 19.65 ft..
- Side yard setback
- The minimum side yard building setback is:
- 11.48 ft. for a development adjacent to a Non-Residential District includes a Commercial District, Industrial District, Special District, and any non-residential component of a Mixed-Use District. or use; and
- 19.65 ft. for a development adjacent to a Residential District or use.
- Notwithstanding section (A), a 0.00 m side yard building setback may be approved when traffic circulation or deliveries would not be adversely affected.
- The minimum side yard building setback is:
- Rear yard setback
- The minimum rear yard building setback is:
- 0.00 m for developments adjacent to a Non-Residential District or use; and
- 19.65 ft. for developments adjacent to a Residential District or use.
- The minimum rear yard building setback is:
- Front yard
Setback means the distance from the foundation wall of a building to the property line at right angles or radially to it. Where there is no foundation wall, the distance shall be measured from the exterior wall at grade, not including cantilevered wall sections or architectural projections.
- Residential Use
- There must be a direct access to a public right-of-way or an alternate means of access, to the satisfaction of the Development Authority has the same meaning as set out in the MGA., from a building used for residential purposes.
- Design, Character, and Appearance
- In addition to the requirements in sections 3.12 ‘Design, Character, and Appearance of a Building’ and 3.80 ‘Design, Character, and Appearance of Non-Residential Buildings,’ all buildings in this district must be finished as follows to the satisfaction of the Development Authority:
- Building exteriors shall be concrete, cementitious boards or panels, exposed aggregate, stucco, glass, brick, brick veneer, natural stone, wood, or metal accents;
- Notwithstanding section (i), alternative building materials may be considered if, in the opinion of the Development Authority, the proposed materials meet the overall character of the District;
- Façade means the exterior, outward face of the building. visible from public rights-of-way, Residential District includes the LDR, SLR, LLR, FBR, MDR, HDR, MID (areas A and B), and ICC (Area A) Districts., Residential Use means congregate living (level one), congregate living (level two), dwelling (apartment), dwelling (duplex), dwelling (manufactured home), dwelling (secondary), dwelling (semi-detached), dwelling (single detached), dwelling (townhouse - complex), dwelling (townhouse - plex), dwelling (townhouse - single), dwelling unit above a non-residential use, group home, secondary suite (garage), secondary suite (garden), secondary suite (internal), supportive living accommodation, or townhousing., Natural Area means land or water, identified as environmentally sensitive, that requires protection and stewardship. Examples include wetlands, watercourses, ravines, forests, meadows, grasslands, and riparian areas., or Park means land that is intended to be used by the public for active and passive recreation, or general enjoyment. shall be of a higher standard of design;
- Buildings shall feature at-grade windows and entryways placed at regular intervals;
- Windows are encouraged to be located along abutting Public Roadway means a road as defined in section 616 of the MGA and does not include a private roadway or highway., Private Roadway means a vehicle thoroughfare created for the purpose of vehicular access and circulation. It may include common property pursuant to the Condominium Property Act, RSA 2000, c. C-22, or be part of a lot, subject to a mutual access agreement. Private roadways include drive aisles., and pedestrian walkways, excepting those areas that are used for loading areas, or garbage and recycling storage; and
- Buildings are encouraged to be oriented to, and have their main entrances face, a public roadway.
- Building exteriors shall be concrete, cementitious boards or panels, exposed aggregate, stucco, glass, brick, brick veneer, natural stone, wood, or metal accents;
- In addition to the requirements in sections 3.12 ‘Design, Character, and Appearance of a Building’ and 3.80 ‘Design, Character, and Appearance of Non-Residential Buildings,’ all buildings in this district must be finished as follows to the satisfaction of the Development Authority:
Last edited: February 3, 2026