Residential: Permits the building of houses, including low (single family homes), medium (townhouses) and high density (apartments/condos) buildings.
Commercial: Permits facilities that are built for industry, commerce, trade, recreation, or business use. Sometimes referred to as Employment Use.
Institutional/Public: Normally permits public uses such as city hall, municipal facilities, hospitals, museums, religious buildings, schools, and colleges.
Industrial: Permits industrial or manufacturing use; that likely generate extra noise, traffic, larger areas of land and perhaps air emissions.
Open Space: Any parcel or area of land or water that is essentially unimproved and devoted to outdoor active/passive recreation, public health and safety, and the preservation of natural resources. Protects public access to shorelines of water bodies.
Environmental: Protects sensitive or unstable land from degradation and impacts to sensitive wildlife and vegetation. Allows municipalities to protect the public from the impacts of flood, unstable land and erosion control. .
Crown Land: Cannot be sold because it legally belongs to the public (crown). This includes lands designated as Crown lands, which are not subject to planning rules. Private development is not normally permitted on crown lands. The Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is responsible for managing Crown lands.
Bonus - Mixed use: Mixed-use blends is a relatively new zone, which identifies lands where multiple uses (normally residential & commercial) are permitted to co-exist, where those functions are physically and functionally integrated to encourage pedestrianization and density while reducing sprawl. Meerwise Wais Habibzi
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