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AMENDMENTS

Amending Bylaws - 2010

Land Use Bylaw 1P2007 has been amended by the following bylaws. With the amending bylaw there is a summary, a link to the report and a link to the amending text. To search for Public Hearing minutes and video related to the item, please visit http://agendaminutes.calgary.ca, and enter the bylaw number in the search bar to the right.

Bylaw 3P2010

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Effective: March 1, 2010

Simplified and clarified the rules regarding Contextual Single Detached Dwellings, affecting: setback, height, roof pitch, building depth, parcel width, balconies and porches.

Bylaw 11P2010

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Effective: April 19, 2010

Added a new Part 12 to the Land Use Bylaw, to support the future creation of new land use districts for the East Village, including the alteration of maps, addition of the East Village — High Rise Building and East Village — Mid Rise Building use definitions, definition of top of bank, addition of the Drinking Establishment — Large into the CC-EIR and CC-ET districts, addition of Night Club in the CC-EIR district, the addition of the East Village Districts to the general requirements of development permits, signs, and Outdoor Café.

Bylaw 14P2010

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Effective: May 17, 2010

Provided for minor textual amendments to the Land Use Bylaw. This included revisions to the Parking Areas Map, exempt developments, notice posting requirements, interpretation of uses and use rules, revision of the Bed and Breakfast, Home Occupation — Class 1, and Home Occupation — Class 2 uses, addition of Hospital, Instructional Facility, Inter-City Bus Terminal, revision of Large Vehicle and Equipment Sales, Outdoor Café, Pet Care Service, and Storage Yard.

The revision of display and sales area in the general industrial rules, addition of Sign — Class C into the I-G district, addition of Utility Building into S-R district.

The revision of Schedule A and the correction of miscellaneous typographical errors.

Bylaw 26P2010

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Effective: May 17, 2010

Added six new land use districts to Part 12, in order to meet the intent and vision for the East Village. This bylaw corrected the error in the previous amending bylaw 11P2010, which omitted Schedule D, which listed the new Centre City East Village Districts.

Bylaw 12P2010

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Effective: June 7, 2010

Provided for minor textual amendments to the Land Use Bylaw in regards to secondary suites.

Amendments included the following: replaced Secondary Suite — Attached Below Grade, Secondary Suite — Attached At Grade and Secondary Suite — Attached Above Grade with the single Secondary Suite use definition, added the two new Secondary Suite — Detached Garage and Secondary Suite — Detached Garden use definitions.

Revised notice posting requirements, the minimum depth of motor vehicle parking stalls. Revised the Main Residential Building definition to exclude Accessory Residential Building(s) that contain Secondary Suite — Detached Garage or Secondary Suite — Detached Garden uses.

Included secondary suites within the Contextual Single Detached Dwelling use definition, added the Secondary Suite — Detached Garage and Secondary Suite — Detached Garden uses to the definition of a Single Detached Dwelling, to the R-C2, R-2 and M-CG districts, to the general rules for multi-residential land use districts.

Revised the rules regarding accessory residential buildings, setbacks for secondary suites. The addition of a building separation requirement, revision of maximum allowable floor area, minimum parcel area, parcel widths, depths, outdoor private amenity space, introduced Secondary Suite as a discretionary use to the R-C1Ls, R-C1s and R-1s districts and as a permitted use in R-2 and R-2M districts, and updated Schedule A.

Bylaw 19P2010

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Effective: June 7, 2010

Amended Table 1 entitled Road Rights-of-Way within the Land Use Bylaw, in order to incorporate future Road Rights of Way, along 10 Avenue SW between 14 Street and Bow Trail.

Bylaw 23P2010

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Effective: June 7, 2010

Provided for minor textual amendments to area specific parking provisions for the Beltline and along 4th street in Mission. The amendments included the revision of the minimum required motor vehicle parking stalls in C-COR1 district, and the General Rules for Centre City Multi-Residential and Commercial districts.

Bylaw 32P2010

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Effective: July 26, 2010

Bylaw 34P2010

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Effective: August 19, 2010

Introduced the three forms of Secondary Suites as discretionary uses in two additional low density residential districts (R-C1N and R-1N) and nine multi-residential districts (M-C1, M-C2, M-H1, M-H2, M-H3, M-X1, M-X2, CC-MH and CC-MHX) that often contain legal, non-conforming, low density building forms. In addition, parcel width, depth and area rules were modified to reflect the inclusion of secondary suites into narrow lot residential districts.

Bylaw 39P2010

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Effective: November 22, 2010

Created a new comprehensive use definition called Retail and Consumer Service to replace the following six commercial use definitions: Beauty and Body Service, Household Appliance and Furniture Repair Service, Personal Apparel Service, Photographic Studio, Retail Store, and Video Store.

Revised the definition of ancillary structures to include building parapets or other structures used to provide screening of rooftop mechanical equipment.

Empowered the Development Authority to apply relaxations to building heights due to grade variations and building design elements; amended the definition of Live Work Unit to include Retail and Consumer Service; and revised the list of uses incorporated with this use when located in the East Village Districts, and added Instructional Facility and Artist's Studio uses to the East Village Districts


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