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Richmond Hill Urban Design Guidelines

Published by City of Richmond Hill

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Type: Guide
Published by: City of Richmond Hill
Date: September 2013
For: designer
Building types: All building types
Pages: 201

Overview

The Richmond Hill Urban Design Guidelines, Building a New Kind of Urban, dated September 2013, carrying the Official Plan's vision into design direction for development and redevelopment. This file holds Part I, the town-wide guidelines: placemaking (urban structure, greenway system, skyline, streetscape, heritage, public art), community design (streets and blocks), site design (parking, landscape, lighting, grading, servicing, noise, signage), building design from low-rise and townhouses to tall, retail and institutional buildings, and implementation. Its contents list Part II area-specific guidelines, which are not in this file.

What it covers

Town-wide Design Guidelines
Introduction
Design towards Placemaking
Community Design
Site Design
Building Design
Low-rise Building Design
Townhouse Dwellings
Mid-Rise Buildings and Tall Building Podiums
Tall Buildings
Retail Commercial Buildings
Institutional Buildings
Implementation

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