What records explain additional residential units at a Barrie home?

The City's page says its zoning allows up to four residential units per lot in residential zones, that is, up to three additional residential units added to a single detached, semi-detached or townhouse dwelling or placed in an accessory building. The standards for detached units sit in section 5.2.9 of Zoning By-law 2009-141 for the R1 to R4, RM1 and RM2 zones, and in section 14.5.2 for the R5 and NMU zones; By-law 2024-043 reduced the parking rate for these units to one space per dwelling unit.

The page also says the property must not be in a hazard zone, that a property in a conservation authority's regulated area needs that authority's permit before a building permit, and that the City's Additional Residential Units Registration By-law requires every additional unit to be registered; the City keeps a map of registered units. A permission in the zone does not make an existing basement apartment lawful; the City's permit and registration records are where that is answered.

• Additional residential units: the City's page: four units per lot, zones, parking, permits and registration

Extra units allowed is in the free check as a summary of the City's rule, from our hand-kept table of city rules, and the full report reads the lot's zone where the City's zoning map is open data we can use; where it isn't, the report's line says where the City publishes it. Neither is confirmation that a particular unit holds a permit or may be occupied.

Free check: pick “Extra units allowed” See the sample report