SLIDE 32 The following building parameters have been established to support the creation of an urban form that is comfortable for people, enhances the public realm, and establishes a signature identity of a compact, visually engaging urban environment.
Reduction of Apparent Face
The apparent face length of both the major and minor facades of larger buildings must be reduced by incorporating face offsets, notches and other massing reduction strategies to support the creation
- f buildings that will be pedestrian scaled and visually
well proportioned. A major change in height must be incorporated between distinct building masses or faces generated by a reduction in apparent face length in
- rder to encourage the expression of vertical forms
for towers and to reduce the overall perceived bulk of buildings.
Vertical Tower Form
Tall buildings should be expressed as vertical shafts coming down to the ground, while taking care to create a pedestrian scale at their base. attached low-rise massing is encouraged for wind protection and should be architecturally integrated with the tower.
Streetwall Calculation
In order to meet the streetwall requirements, buildings must be built up to the setback line at no less than the indicated minimum percentage of street frontage at the minimum streetwall height above sidewalk grade indicated on the Streetwall Plan ( Figure 1.63). Streetwall standards and calculations apply to each building, as opposed to being aggregated over the length of a block.
Allowable Variations to Streetwall Facade
Up to fifty percent (50%) of the streetwall facade may be recessed, up to a maximum of 1 meter, and still count towards the indicated streetwall requirement.
Articulated Tops
To encourage a high degree of articulation at tops
- f buildings, and to facilitate habitable roof-tops
buildings may project 4.3 meters beyond the indicated maximum height for an area of forty percent (40%) of the last habitable floor below the height limit. Roof-top projections must be setback a minimum of 3 meters from the building streetwall.
Performance vs. Prescriptive
