Radium Hot Springs Draft Official Community Plan - Flipbook - Page 100
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d) Vegetated and stormwater buffers
between adjacent parallel parking
areas is encouraged; and
e) Parking areas must prioritize a direct,
buffered pedestrian route from the
public street to the building.
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Parking should not be
located on-street.
6.10.4. Locate loading and service bays to the
rear-facing side of the building.
BUILDING DESIGN
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6.10.5. Buildings with facades longer than
15m should use building articulation to
break up long facades and make them
more visually interesting.
6.10.6. Buildings with 昀椀rst-storey commercial
uses should support a high-quality
pedestrian environment by creating a
smaller pattern of storefront / facade
widths using smaller frontages, with
individual storefront widths not
exceeding 15m.
6.10.7.
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Blank walls along streets should be no
more than 10 m in length divided by
windows or doors with glass.
6.10.8. Street-facing ground 昀氀oors should have
a minimum of 50% windows and doors
with glass that give pedestrians a clear
view into the ground 昀氀oor use.
6.10.9. Window signage must not cover
more than 50% of each window area,
except if required due to licensing
requirements (e.g. Cannabis).
BUILDING DETAILS & MATERIALS
6.10.10. Windows and doors along a street wall
should have vertical proportions (i.e.
taller than they are wide), and where
windows and door openings along
a street wall are wider than they are
tall, they should be broken up with
vertical elements such as Mullions or
Muntins, etc.
6.10.11. Awnings should be used to create a
comfortable sense of enclosure for
pedestrians and provide weather
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protection by being placed:
a) At a minimum height of 2.4m above
the sidewalk;
b) At a minimum projection of 1.8m
from the building face;
c) At a maximum 0.5m from the face of
the curb; and
d) Should not interfere with existing
street tress or street lights (i.e. trees
should not be removed or pruned to
accommodate awnings).
6.10.12. Building materials should consist of
FireSmart, non-combustible siding such
as 昀椀ber cement board, metal panels,
or stone veneer, with any exposed
wood limited to heavy timbers used as
architectural accents and not as siding
or cladding.
NEIGHBOURHOOD, STREETS & PUBLIC REALM
6.10.13. Sidewalks or a multi-modal pathway
should be on both sides of the street.
Where a sidewalk or pathway on
both sides is not possible, one side
should designed as a wider sidewalk
or pathway and connected through
traf昀椀c calming and crosswalks to the
other side.
6.10.14. Multi-modal pathways on streets
in the Highway Tourist DPA should
be physically protected from
vehicular traf昀椀c by fencing or
protective landscaping.
6.10.15. Amenity Zones should include
a) Trees,
b) Benches,
c) Bike racks,
d) Lighting, and
e) Garbage and recycling bins.
6.10.16. Where practical, create intersection
bump-outs at all intersections to
shorten pedestrian crossing length, and
integrate landscaping and potentially
public art, while not restricting safe
vehicular visibility at the intersection.
VILLAGE OF RADIUM HOT SPRINGS Official Community Plan - Bylaw 527
