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Allen-Sheppard Urban Design Guidelines
Published by City of Toronto
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- Type
- Guide
- Published by
- City of Toronto
- Date
- June 2004
- Also called
- Allen-Sheppard
- For
- designer
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 30
Overview
Allen-Sheppard is a City of Toronto urban design guideline and development framework, dated June 2004, for about 138 hectares around Allen Road and Sheppard Avenue West, including Downsview Subway Station and the edge of Downsview Park. Part of the North York Design Guidelines, it sets a structure plan of streets, parks and open spaces and urban design objectives under natural environment, green space, public realm, neighbourhoods and edges, and building fit and transition, then describes quadrants and precincts with their storey ranges.
What it covers
- Location
- Guidelines
- Urban Design Objectives
- Natural Environment:
- Green Space and Special Places:
- The Public Realm:
- Neighbourhoods, Precincts and Edges:
- Building Fit and Transition:
- Quadrants and Precincts
- Northeast Quadrant
- Southeast Quadrant
- Northwest Quadrant
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