APPENDIX E – City of Windsor Official Plan Excerpts

   

railway company prior to the finalization of any noise and vibration abatement study or development proposal.

7.3.3 Instructure Provision Policies

INFILLING

GIVEN

PRIORITY

7.3.3.1

Council shall encourage the development of existing serviced, underutilized or undeveloped lands within Windsor prior to the extension of municipally owned and/or operated infrastructure to vacant areas within Windsor.

CHAPTER 8 URBAN DESIGN

8.3 Design For People

8.3.1 Objectives

PEDESTRIAN SCALE

8.3.1.2

To foster development that provides a pedestrian scale.

SENSE OF PLACE

8.3.1.3

To foster a sense of place within Windsor and its neighbourhoods.

8.5 Ecological Design

ENERGY CONSERVATION

8.5.2.8

Council will encourage energy conservation through various guidelines that promote:

  • b) a compact, transit-oriented pattern of development that clusters compatible uses within close proximity to one another at densities that make transit service a viable investment;

  • d) the conversion and reuse of buildings;

8.7 Built Form

8.7.1 Objectives

COMPLEMENTARY DESIGN

8.7.1.2

To achieve a complementary design relationship between new and existing development, while accommodating an evolution of urban design styles.

UNIQUE CHARACTER

8.7.1.5

To enhance the unique character of a district, neighbourhood, prominent building or grouping of buildings.

8.7.2 Policies

INFILL DEVELOPMENT

8.7.2.3

Council will ensure that proposed development within an established neighbourhood is designed to function as an integral and complementary part of that area’s existing development pattern by having regard for:

  1. massing;

  2. building height;

  3. architectural proportion;

  4. volumes of defined space;

  5. lot size;

  6. position relative to the road; and

  7. building area to site area ratios.