SECTION 6: RURAL Ru ZONE

6.1 "Permitted Uses"

(a) Agricultural uses, including all livestock uses, aerodromes, commercial greenhouses, farm greenhouses, home professions, bed and breakfast businesses, home occupations and home industries including sawmills;

(b) One single detached dwelling or mobile home in conjunction with and on the same lot as an agricultural operation;

(c) One single detached dwelling (new or existing) on one lot; home occupations, home professions, and bed and breakfast businesses;

(d) Institutional uses; religious retreats; hunting lodges; private clubs; seasonal camps; public parks; redevelopment and residential intensification (see also Sections 5.2(b)(i) and (ii));

(e) Conservation, forestry and wildlife uses, resource management uses; kennels;

(f) Uses, buildings and structures including one guest sleeping cabin (see also Sections 2.84 and 6.6) on one lot accessory to the foregoing permitted uses.

6.2 "Zone Requirements for Agricultural and Residential Uses Permitted in Clauses (a) and (b) of Subsection 6.1"

(a) Minimum Lot Frontage 100 metres (300 feet) or as existing

(b) Minimum Lot Area 4 hectares (10 acres) or as existing

(c) Maximum Lot Coverage 20 percent

(d) Minimum Front Yard and Exterior Side Yard and Setback from:

(i) a Township Road As existing or the greater of a 15 metre (50 ft.) yard or a 25 metre (83 ft.) setback from the centre line of the travelled road, but in no case shall this distance be less than the 15 metre (50 ft.) yard

(ii) a Provincial Highway As existing or see Section 5.34

(e) Minimum Interior Side Yard

(i) 5 metres (15 feet) for residential uses;

(ii) 10 metres (30 feet) for all other uses.

(f) Minimum Rear Yard 12 metres (40 feet)

(g) Minimum Floor Area for one 56 square metres

Single Detached Dwelling or (600 square feet)

Mobile Home

(h) Maximum Height for one Single 2-1/2 storeys

Detached Dwelling or Mobile Home


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6.3 "Zone Requirements for Dwellings, Mobile Homes, and Institutional Uses Permitted in Clauses (c) and (d) of Subsection 6.1"

(a) Minimum Lot Frontage 45 metres (150 feet), or as existing

(b) Minimum Lot Area 0.8 hectares (2 acres), or as existing

(c) Maximum Lot Coverage 30 percent

(d) Minimum Front Yard and

Exterior Side Yard

and Setback from:

(i) a Township Road As existing or the greater of 15 metre (50 ft.) yard or a 25 metre (83 ft.) setback from the centre line of the travelled road, but in no case shall this distance be less than the 15 metre (50 ft.) yard

(ii) a Provincial Highway As existing or see Section 5.34

(e) Minimum Interior Side Yard 5 metres (15 feet)

(f) Minimum Rear Yard 12 metres (40 feet)

(g) Minimum Floor Area 56 square metres (600 square feet)

(h) Maximum Height 2-1/2 storeys

6.4 "Separation of Noisy and Odorous Uses"

(a) No building or structure used for the raising, slaughtering or keeping of livestock, poultry or furbearing animals; kennels; feed lot area; or manure storage shall be located closer than:-

(i) 300 metres (1,000 feet) to any Residential Zone;

(ii) 150 metres (500 feet) to any dwelling unit on an adjacent lot;

(iii) 30 metres (100 feet) to any street line or side lot line.

(b) No dwelling unit shall be located within 150 metres (500 feet) of any permitted building or structure on an adjacent lot used for the raising, slaughtering or keeping of livestock, poultry or furbearing animals; kennels; feed lot area; manure storage; or home industry sawmill.

6.5 "Zone Requirements for Sawmills Permitted in Clause (a) of Subsection 6.1"

Small home industry sawmills approved by the Ministry of the Environment and Energy shall be subject to the provisions of Subsection 5.14, shall require a building permit and have a minimum setback of 150 metres (500 feet), and shall not be located closer than 300 metres (1,000 ft.) to any Residential Zone or 150 metres (500 ft.) to any dwelling unit on an adjacent lot.

6.6 "Zone Requirements for Guest Sleeping Cabins (see also Section 2.84) Permitted in Clause (f) of Subsection 6.1"

(a) Minimum Front Yard and

Exterior Side Yard

and Setback from:

(i) a Township Road As existing or the greater of a 15 metre (50 ft.) yard or a 25 metre (83 ft.) setback from the centre line of the travelled road, but in no case shall this distance be less than the 15 metre (50 ft.) yard

(ii) a Provincial Highway As existing or see Section 5.34

(b) Minimum Interior 5 metres (15 feet)

Side Yard

(c) Minimum Rear Yard 12 metres (40 feet)

(d) Maximum Floor Area 23 square metres

(250 square feet)

(e) Maximum Height 4.5 metres (15 feet)


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