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5.3 Design Guidelines

5.3.2 BUILDING TYPE STANDARDS AND
GUIDELINES
In order to provide for a variety of household and business types
and to create a varied and complex urban environment, this Plan
provides for a diversity of building types, from row houses, and
courtyard buildings to urban block buildings, liner buildings with
garages, and podium high-rises. The standards for each block
type mandate the permitted building types to be used. Once a
particular building type is selected, development must adhere
to the type-specific standards and guidelines. These include
maximum facade width, lot width, pedestrian access, parking,
outdoor space, landscape, frontage types, and building massing
(see Figure 5.8, Key Building Type Elements.
All building types should be designed to encourage activation
of the public realm and provide private outdoor spaces,
such as gardens, courtyards, and porches for residents. The
selected building types for each use will be chosen at the
time of development. The building types provided in this Plan
define the standards and guidelines that are applicable to
the development. While there is flexibility within the choice of
building types for each use, only certain building types may be
appropriate for a particular development given adjacent uses Plane Break:
and other requirements. The area of the building where the plane of the facade varies in
depth, represents a plane break. Plane breaks can be horizontal (see
A left) or vertical (see B left).

Outdoor Space:
Each building type requires the lot area to be occupied by a certain
percentage of green space area, which can be accommodated in a
variety of ways, see Section 5.8, Open Space Standards).
B

A
Frontage Type
Each building has certain facade conditions that are called frontage
types. Each frontage interacts differently with the street and therefore
is appropriate for different areas and building types (See Section 5.4,
Frontage Standards and Guidelines).

Figure 5.8 Key Building Type Elements

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5.0 Implementation Adopted: August 16, 2016