Village of Cumberland · zoning
The MU-3 zone in Cumberland.
Coal Valley Estates Mixed-Use. What the bylaw lets you build, how big the lot has to be, and how close to the lines you can go, in plain words with the section for each.
From the zoning bylaw. General information, not legal or planning advice. The adopted bylaw, as the Village of Cumberland reads it, is always the final word.
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MU-3 at a glance
| What you can use it for | P: child care; community care; dwelling units (above, below or behind a first-storey non-residential use, separate entrance); food services (max 150.0 m² (1,615 sq ft)); health services; licensed premises; personal services; professional services internal- and public-facing; indoor recreation; retail sales (max 300.0 m² (3,229 sq ft)). S: accessory buildings & structures; urban agriculture; licence-not-required care; caretaker suite (inside a principal building); farmer's market; home occupation minor, standard and B&B; parking lot; secondary suite (s.6.7); outdoor storage (only with a farmer's market) |
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| Dwelling units | zone totals: 263 units in buildings of one detached unit, 592 in buildings of two or more attached units, 15 caretaker suites (secondary suites not counted); each additional detached dwelling unit max 100.0 m² (1,076 sq ft); FAR n/a; max floor area community care 13,900.0 m² (149,618 sq ft), all other non-residential 7,900.0 m² (85,035 sq ft) (any one non-residential use max 371.6 m² (4,000 sq ft)) |
| Smallest lot for subdivision | one detached or two attached 550.0 m² (5,920 sq ft) (450.0 m² (4,844 sq ft) for up to 50% of lots in a plan) / one detached 15.0 m (49 ft); three or more attached 800.0 m² (8,611 sq ft) / 20.0 m (66 ft); all other uses 2,000.0 m² (21,528 sq ft) / 20.0 m (66 ft) |
| Setbacks (front / side / rear / side on a road) | F 4.5 (6.0 m (20 ft) for a garage/carport of a one-unit building; 0.0 m for professional services and retail; 7.5 m (25 ft) from all lot lines for food, health and licensed premises) / 1.5 / 3.0 / R 4.5 m (15 ft) (food/health/licensed 7.5 m (25 ft) all lines) |
| Height | 15.0 m (49 ft) (10.0 m (33 ft) for a residential building of four or fewer units); first storey min 3.7 m (12 ft) / accessory 4.5 m (15 ft) |
| Lot coverage | one detached or two attached 35%; three or more attached 65%; all other uses 80% / n/a |
| Shops, garages and sheds: setbacks | 3.0 / 1.5 / 3.0 / 1.5 |
| Parking | Table 9.4.1(2) (all other areas): retail 2.5 min–5.0 max per 100 m² (1,076 sq ft); food 2.0–3.5; health 4.0–5.0; licensed 2.0–3.5; personal 1.0–3.0; public-facing professional 2.5–3.0; internal-facing professional min 2.0; indoor recreation min 7.0 per 100 m² (1,076 sq ft); dwellings as R zones |
Metric figures are the bylaw's own. Feet and acres are converted for reading and rounded.
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What the zone page can't tell you
- Whether your lot is actually in this zone. Check the zoning map, not the listing.
- Whether a permit area, floodplain, stream setback or farmland reserve sits over the lot. Each adds steps.
- Whether site-specific rules or a covenant on title change what this table says.
- What council has decided on the street lately.
The lot report answers those for one address.
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