By-law 2009-189 · General Urban zone

GU · General Urban

GU is the Town of Oakville's General Urban zone under Zoning By-law 2009-189 in North Oakville. It applies to 256 zone polygons covering about 213 hectares, mostly in Glenorchy, Joshua's Meadows, Sixteen Hollow. 233 of them carry a special provision and 4 carry a holding symbol. The rules for the zone are in the by-law's General Urban zone regulations.

Last checked September 24, 2026Town of OakvilleHow we know

Publisher: Town of Oakville
Source dataset: Zoning By-law 2009-189 (open data layer)
Official record: General Urban zone regulations, Zoning By-law 2009-189 (PDF)
Retrieved: September 24, 2026
Licence: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence — Town of Oakville. Terms
From the source: the zone code and the Town's name for it · special provision and holding symbols on each polygon
Derived by OakvilleIQ: polygon count and hectares · communities and wards, by polygon location · the simplified outlines on the map
OakvilleIQ’s words: the summary sentence
Kept current: Rebuilt from the Town's By-law 2009-189 layer; a weekly check warns when the record is more than 90 days old.

GU zone polygons (By-law 2009-189)Outlines are the Town’s Official Plan communities.

Where GU applies

Polygons by the Town’s Official Plan community, with the OakvilleIQ neighbourhood page where one covers it.

Glenorchy · Glenorchy169
Joshua's Meadows · Joshua's Meadows80
Sixteen Hollow · Sixteen Hollow7

Wards: Ward 7 (189), Ward 6 (67).

Special provisions, holding symbols

A special provision (sp) changes the zone’s rules for that site; a holding symbol (H) keeps development from proceeding until the Town lifts it. Both are set out in the by-law, which is the only place their terms are written.

Special provisions on GU land

sp:3 (×65), sp:101 (×37), sp:42 (×20), sp:124 (×19), sp:68 (×11), sp:36 (×10), sp:105 (×10), sp:44 (×8), sp:33 (×7), sp:49 (×7), sp:54 (×6), sp:80 (×5), sp:114 (×4), sp:117 (×4), sp:141 (×4), sp:23 (×3), sp:131 (×3), sp:32 (×2), sp:111 (×2), sp:144 (×2), sp:66, sp:112, sp:120, sp:134

Holding symbols

H62 (×2), H69, H54

What the zone permits

The permitted uses, setbacks, lot coverage and heights for GU are set out in General Urban zone regulations of Zoning By-law 2009-189. OakvilleIQ does not paraphrase them: a site-specific special provision, a holding symbol or a later amendment can change what applies to one lot, and only the Town’s zoning certificate is binding. Zoning By-law 2009-189 governs North Oakville only; the same code south of Dundas Street, where one exists, is a different zone under By-law 2014-014.

Sources

Every factual claim above traces to one of these documents.

Town of Oakville
General Urban zone regulations, Zoning By-law 2009-189 (PDF)
Retrieved September 24, 2026
Town of Oakville
Zoning By-law 2009-189 (open data layer)
Retrieved September 24, 2026
Town of Oakville
Zoning By-law 2009-189
Retrieved September 24, 2026
Town of Oakville
Zoning and the zoning certificate of occupancy
Retrieved September 24, 2026

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