{"id":19834,"date":"2025-09-09T13:42:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/?p=19834"},"modified":"2026-06-07T10:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T14:58:09","slug":"member-absences-and-sub-occupancy-sublets-in-woodsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/member-absences-and-sub-occupancy-sublets-in-woodsworth\/","title":{"rendered":"Principal residence, absence, sublets, home businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Principal residence and absence<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Member Absences: Each member must use their co-op unit as their principal residence and personally live in it.<\/li>\n<li>Absence limit: Members may not be away from their unit for more than 10 consecutive months without Board approval.<\/li>\n<li>Unit status during absence: Even while away, the unit must remain the member\u2019s principal residence.<\/li>\n<li>Short visits don\u2019t reset the clock: Members will still be considered absent if they only return for short visits during a longer absence.<\/li>\n<li>See Occupancy Bylaw, Article 6.2<\/li>\n<li>Subsidy recipients: Members receiving a housing charge subsidy may face additional limits on absences under government rules or co-op by-laws. If this applies to you, please review Housing Charge Subsidy Bylaw, especially Article 1.3.<\/li>\n<li>Proof of residency &#8211; see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/proof-of-principal-residence-for-internal-membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ID requirements as proof of principal residence<\/a><br \/>\n(Membership Bylaw &#8211; Member Approval and Unit Allocation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Sub-Occupancy (Sublets)<\/h2>\n<p>If you need to leave your unit temporarily, you may allow someone to occupy your unit as a sub-occupant, but you must follow the Occupancy Bylaw procedures.<\/p>\n<h5>Rules and Approvals<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Agreement required:<\/strong> All co-op members in your household and all sub-occupants must sign a Sub-Occupancy Agreement approved by the co-op before the sub-occupancy begins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Board approval:<\/strong> Any sub-occupancy longer than 1 month must be approved by the Board of Directors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Length of stay<\/strong>: Normally, sub-occupancy cannot last more than 3 months. In unusual cases, the Board may approve a longer term \u2014 but never more than 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>Members who receive <strong>housing charge subsidy<\/strong>, and who are thinking about sub-occupancy or other absence from the co-op, should find out what effect it may have on their housing charge subsidy. (Occupancy Bylaw, Article 3.7.4 The assisted household may not sublet its unit.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>No profit:<\/strong> Article 6.5. (b) says that says that 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.<br \/>\n(c) 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.<\/p>\n<h5>Required Forms<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/sub-occupancy-request-form\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Request Form<\/a><br \/>\nFirst step in approval.<br \/>\nMust be completed and signed by all household members and the sub-occupant(s). Submit to Management for Board approval.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/sub-occupancy-agreement-occupancy-bylaw-82\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sub-Occupancy Agreement<\/a><br \/>\nMust be signed before the sub-occupancy starts.<br \/>\nAll household members and sub-occupants must sign, with Management as witness. Filed with Management.<\/p>\n<h2>Reminder &#8211; no short-term rentals<\/h2>\n<p>It is against the Occupancy By-law to use your unit for Airbnb, Bed &amp; Breakfast, or similar rentals. This rule applies to all co-op units. \u00a0(Occupancy Bylaw, Article 6.3 (b))<\/p>\n<p>You may have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/category\/long-term-guests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long-term guests<\/a> living with you in your unit but they can only pay their fair share of costs.<\/p>\n<h2>Home businesses<\/h2>\n<p>Related uses\u201d are typical home business uses that are related or incidental to the use of a unit as a member\u2019s principal residence. Members can have one or more related uses, if:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 the use is permitted by government requirements, including zoning by-laws<br \/>\n\u2022 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<br \/>\n\u2022 the use does not involve excessive demands on co-op utilities and services, such as electricity, and<br \/>\n\u2022 co-op by-laws are obeyed.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/by-laws\/occupancy-bylaw-82\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Occupancy Bylaw<\/a>, Article 6.3.<br \/>\n(a) Related Uses<br \/>\n(c) Insurance and liability for related uses<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal residence and absence Member Absences: Each member must use their co-op unit as their principal residence and personally live in it. Absence limit: Members may not be away from their unit for more than 10 consecutive months without Board approval. Unit status during absence: Even while away, the unit must remain the member\u2019s principal &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/member-absences-and-sub-occupancy-sublets-in-woodsworth\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Principal residence, absence, sublets, home businesses&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[599],"tags":[606],"class_list":["post-19834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-principal-residence-and-sublets","tag-occupancy-standards"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woodsworthcoop.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}