5.4.2 Overall integration of projects

• Borough by-laws shall require that a construction or extension project on a site bordering a public thoroughfare that provides access on both sides to adjacent sites and along or through which a borough boundary runs, must take the following elements into account :
  • The project must be compatible with respect to height, alignment, siting, landscaping of the front yard, location of parking lot accesses, cladding and signage with the building and area facing or beside it, and with the provisions in effect in the other borough.

5.4.3 Restricting certain uses

• Borough by-laws must require that the provisions restricting certain uses take into account establishments of the same type located in another borough where restrictions are in effect for that use, when they apply to adjacent areas located in two boroughs.

5.4.4 Controlling nuisances

• Borough by-laws must require that outdoor storage be hidden behind an opaque screen, preferably of vegetation, so as not to be visible from an adjacent lot in another borough, when housing is permitted on that lot.
• Borough by-laws must require that the emissions of dust, odours, smoke, vibrations, light or noise, or the effects on traffic, of a lot that are inherent to the land use of a lot be limited if the lot is adjacent to or facing a lot designated for residential use and situated in another borough.