Dwelling Unit
“Dwelling Unit” means a unit consisting of one or more rooms which contain toilet and cooking facilities and is designed for use as a single housekeeping establishment.
Lodger
“Lodger” means any person who pays rent, fees or other valuable consideration to a proprietor for living accommodation in which cooking or washroom facilities are shared with other persons.
Lodging House
“Lodging House” means a building or a part of a building containing three to ten lodging units, which does not appear to function as a dwelling unit, although one may be included with the lodging units. It includes, without limitation, a rooming house and a boarding house, a fraternity or sorority house. It does not include a hotel, a crisis care residence, a hospital, a group home, a correctional group home, a bed and breakfast establishment, a nursing home, a flat, an apartment building or a block townhouse. A lodging house may involve shared cooking or washroom facilities. Meals may or may not be provided. Common areas, such as living rooms, may or may not be provided.
Lodging Unit
“Lodging Unit” means one or more rooms within a lodging house used or designed to be used for sleeping accommodations. Lodging units may contain cooking or washroom facilities, but not both. (62-200)
Single Housekeeping Establishment
"Singe Housekeeping Establishment" is not a defined term in the City's Zoning By-law or Licensing By-law, but it has been judicially considered. Following are excerpts from the Court's Analysis.
"A single housekeeping establishment would generally approximate a typical family group of one or two adult persons, together with minor or adult children or a similar social unit either by relationship or some other common bond for living together as a housekeeping establishment, not simply the need by boarders for temporary sleeping quarters for which each pays rent to the landlord/landlady".
"I find that a single housekeeping establishment, when read in context, means a use typical of a single family unit or other similar basic social unit. For example, it could include a group of unrelated persons, one or more of whom are dependent on the other due to physical or related challenges; or one person, or a couple cohabitating with children (not theirs biologically), to whom they stand in loco parentis. There are many examples of such basic social units in today's society which do not follow the traditional family model. However, they involve more between them as a unit than simply short-term temporary sleeping quarters and shared facilities on a rental basis."
