Residences
Units must be used as private residences for Members, their households and other persons allowed by this by-law.

Principal Residence
Each Member must use the Member’s Co-op unit as the Member’s principal residence and personally occupy it. A Member may not be absent from the Co-op unit for a total of more than three months in any year without the permission of the Board of Directors. The unit must remain the Member’s principal residence while the Member is absent. Members will be considered absent from their units even if they visit them for short periods. Members who receive housing charge subsidy from the Co-op should check section 8.7 (a) Sub-Occupancy and Absence from Unit—Housing charge subsidy.
 
Related Uses
a) “Related uses” are typical home business uses that are related or incidental to the use of a unit as a Member’s principal residence. Members can have one or more related uses, if: 

• the use is permitted by government requirements, including zoning by-laws

• the use does not create disturbance beyond what is appropriate in a residential community like the Co-op, such as by too much noise or too many visitors

• the use does not involve excessive demands on Co-op utilities and services, such as electricity, and

• Co-op by-laws are obeyed.

 
b) Related uses do not include using a unit as a rooming house, or boarding house, or providing food or lodging for others or renting space or anything similar. Those uses are prohibited except for sub-occupancy and sharing permitted under this by-law. 
 
c) A Member must have all insurance that is reasonable for a related use including any insurance that is needed to meet government requirements. The Member must give the Co-op a current copy of the insurance policy and any changes, on an annual basis, or when requested. The Member will obey any directions by the Co-op about the insurance so that it will protect the Co-op in addition to the Member. The Member will be responsible for any claims against the Co-op, Co-op staff, contractors and other Members and occupants that are connected to any related use by the Member. 

No Transfer of Membership or Occupancy Rights
Members cannot transfer their Membership or their occupancy rights to anyone else.
 
No Profit from Unit
a) Members must not profit, directly or indirectly, when they leave the Co-op 
b) Members must not profit from sub-occupancy 
C) Members must not profit, directly or indirectly, when they allow others to use their unit. This includes sub-occupancy of the unit when the Member is away or any sharing arrangement. 
Examples of profit are key money and placing too great a value on the furnishings of a unit. Profit does not include guests or sub-occupants paying their fair share of the housing charges and other household costs if it is not a hidden profit on the housing charges.
 
Co-op’s Insurance
Members must not break any obligation that the Co-op has to its insurance companies. The use of a Member’s unit must not increase the Co-op’s insurance costs or any other cost or liability of the Co-op.