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1 Yonge Street Urban Design Guidelines
Published by City of Toronto
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- Type
- Guide
- Published by
- City of Toronto
- Date
- June 2004
- Also called
- 1 Yonge Street
- For
- designer
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 6
Overview
Toronto's urban design guidelines for 1 Yonge Street, a six-page chapter of the City's Urban Design Guidelines series dated June 2004. They apply at the foot of Yonge Street at Queens Quay. A site planning section on open space is followed by built form guidelines on stepping heights, tower orientation and shape, noise buffering, the Gardiner Expressway and a continuous colonnade, and by Maps A to E and Figure F showing massing, height limits, setbacks, development parcels and the sunlight angular plane.
What it covers
- Location
- Guidelines
- Site Planning
- Built Form
- Potential Massing
- Height Limits
- Building Setbacks
- Development Parcels
- Sunlight Angular Plane
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