Quinte West: questions buyers ask
What records explain additional residential units at a Quinte West home?
Section 4.2 of the City's Zoning By-law 14-86, as amended by By-laws 25-025 and 25-075, in the consolidation to By-law 26-009.
Sources checked October 29, 2026
The rule in Quinte West
Up to 4 homes on a lot
Quinte West zoning by-law 14-86 s.4.2 (as amended by 25-025 and 25-075): permits up to three additional residential units on a lot with a single detached, semi-detached, duplex or townhouse dwelling in a settlement area on municipal water and sewers (no more than two in a detached accessory structure), and one outside a settlement area; one parking space per unit; none in a floodplain or on a private or unmaintained road.
From Quinte West by-law 14-86 s.4.2 (as amended by 25-025 and 25-075), checked 29 Oct 2026
- The recordAdditional residential units
- Where to read itZoning By-law 14-86, consolidated to By-law 26-009
- The free check reads itPick “Extra units allowed”
What the record shows
Section 4.2 of Zoning By-law 14-86 permits at most three additional residential units on a lot with a single detached, semi-detached, duplex or townhouse dwelling in a settlement area served by municipal water and sewers: three inside the main dwelling, two inside and one in a detached accessory structure, or one inside and two in the accessory structure, never three in a detached accessory building. A duplex counts as two units and may have two additional units. Outside a settlement area, on private services or on municipal water with a private sewage system, one additional unit is permitted, inside the dwelling or in one detached accessory structure.
Each additional unit needs one parking space beyond the main home's, tandem parking allowed, and the lot needs frontage on a municipal road maintained year round; a privately serviced lot needs at least 0.4 hectares, and no unit is permitted where a garden suite exists. No additional unit is permitted in a floodplain or an area cut off to people and vehicles during floods, on a private or unmaintained road, or in the Oak Lake area-specific policy lands. A unit in a detached building sits in the side or rear yard (front yards are allowed in the rural, agricultural and rural residential zones and on waterfront lots), at most 4.5 metres high, or 7 metres subject to the zone's yards. A permission in the zone does not make an existing basement apartment lawful; the building permit and its inspections are the records that do.
Where to read it yourself
- Zoning By-law 14-86, consolidated to By-law 26-009: section 4.2, additional residential units, and the definition added by By-law 25-025 (PDF)
What OfferDue covers in Quinte West
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
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