Employment zones (Part 10)

E4 · Business Commercial

E4 is the Town of Oakville's Business Commercial zone under Zoning By-law 2014-014. It applies to 43 zone polygons covering about 86 hectares, mostly in QEW West Industrial District, QEW East Industrial District, Winston West Industrial District. 16 of them carry a special provision and 2 carry a holding symbol. The rules for the zone are in the by-law's Employment zones (Part 10).

Last checked September 24, 2026Town of OakvilleHow we know

Publisher: Town of Oakville
Source dataset: Zoning By-law 2014-014 (open data layer)
Official record: Employment zones (Part 10), Zoning By-law 2014-014 (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 · growth areas
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 layer; a weekly check warns when the record is more than 90 days old.

E4 zone polygonsOutlines are the Town’s Official Plan communities.

Where E4 applies

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

QEW West Industrial District17
QEW East Industrial District11
Winston West Industrial District6
Burloak Industrial District4
Midtown Core · Midtown Oakville1
Winston Park Industrial District1

Wards: Ward 2 (13), Ward 3 (10), Ward 1 (9), Ward 6 (9), Ward 4 (2).

Special provisions, holding symbols and growth areas

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 E4 land

sp:153 (×2), sp:341 (×2), sp:15, sp:143, sp:207, sp:217, sp:238, sp:262, sp:267, sp:282, sp:311, sp:347, sp:373, sp:407

Holding symbols

H7, H4

What the zone permits

The permitted uses, setbacks, lot coverage and heights for E4 are set out in Employment zones (Part 10) of Zoning By-law 2014-014. 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.

Sources

Every factual claim above traces to one of these documents.

Town of Oakville
Employment zones (Part 10), Zoning By-law 2014-014 (PDF)
Retrieved September 24, 2026
Town of Oakville
Zoning By-law 2014-014 (open data layer)
Retrieved September 24, 2026
Town of Oakville
Zoning By-law 2014-014
Retrieved September 24, 2026
Town of Oakville
Zoning and the zoning certificate of occupancy
Retrieved September 24, 2026

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence — Town of Oakville. Licence. Records checked September 24, 2026.

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