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City-Wide Corridor Planning Principles and Design Guidelines
Published by City of Hamilton
This is the City of Hamilton’s document, as published on its website on 19 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice
- Type
- Guide
- Published by
- City of Hamilton
- Date
- April 2012
- For
- designer
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 25
- Instruments
- Urban Hamilton Official Plan
Overview
The City of Hamilton's April 2012 planning principles and design guidelines for the primary and secondary Corridors of the Urban Hamilton Official Plan, among them Main-King-Queenston, James-Upper James, Rymal Road and Ottawa Street. Part A sets out the policy background and intensification; Part B gives corridor planning principles and design guidelines on building height tied to property depth and street width, landscaping, parking and loading, the relationship to the street, side yards, long buildings, land assembly, shadow impacts and precinct site development.
What it covers
- Part A – Introduction and Background
- Part B – Corridor Planning Principles and Design Guidelines
- Planning for Hamilton’s Corridors
- Corridor Planning Principles
- Corridor Design Guidelines
- Maximum Building Height
- Minimum Building Height
- Parking and Loading
- Relationship to the Street
- Side Yards, Side Walls and Side Step Backs
- Land Assembly
- Shadow Impacts
- Precinct Site Development
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