Residential zones (Part 6)

RL8 · Residential Low (RL8)

RL8 is the Town of Oakville's Residential Low (RL8) zone under Zoning By-law 2014-014. It applies to 337 zone polygons covering about 236 hectares, mostly in West Oak Trails, River Oaks, Iroquois Ridge (North). 89 of them carry a special provision and none carry a holding symbol. The rules for the zone are in the by-law's Residential zones (Part 6).

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: Residential zones (Part 6), 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.

RL8 zone polygonsOutlines are the Town’s Official Plan communities.

Where RL8 applies

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

West Oak Trails · West Oak Trails132
River Oaks · River Oaks83
Iroquois Ridge (North) · Iroquois Ridge59
Bronte · Bronte29
Glen Abbey · Glen Abbey16
Old Oakville · Old Oakville9
College Park · College Park5
Clearview · Southeast Oakville3
Iroquois Ridge (South) · Falgarwood1

Wards: Ward 4 (146), Ward 5 (85), Ward 6 (63), Ward 1 (29), Ward 2 (10), Ward 3 (4).

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 RL8 land

sp:33 (×28), sp:103 (×14), sp:46 (×7), sp:129 (×6), sp:45 (×5), sp:216 (×5), sp:166 (×3), sp:344 (×3), sp:388 (×3), sp:109 (×2), sp:111 (×2), sp:318 (×2), sp:123, sp:124, sp:167, sp:189, sp:209, sp:236, sp:240, sp:276, sp:423

What the zone permits

The permitted uses, setbacks, lot coverage and heights for RL8 are set out in Residential zones (Part 6) 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
Residential zones (Part 6), 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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