Intensification Area Urban Design Guidelines - City of Barrie

5.3.1 Boulevard Design
The boulevard conditions that currently exist in the Established
Neighbourhood Streets reflect a suburban condition,
characterized by narrow sidewalks, large landscaped setbacks,
and frequent curb-cuts. Where opportunities for
intensification exist within the Established Neighbourhood
Streets, the design of the boulevard should create a more
urban condition.
For general guidelines related to boulevard design, please
refer to Section 3.2.2.
Boulevards in Established Residential Streets should reflect a more urban
condition, including wide sidewalks, street furniture, street trees, and spillout
retail where appropriate.
5.3.2 New Residential Buildings
As intensification occurs within Established Residential
Streets, there will be opportunities for higher density forms
of residential development, including town houses, walk-up
apartments, and where feasible, mixed-use buildings with
retail at grade.
a) Rear yard parking accessed from a lane is preferred over
front yard parking to allow for greater flexibility in the
design of the front façade and front yard.
b) For residential units on the ground floor with direct access
from the street, privacy should be enhanced through the
creation of a private and/or semi-private outdoor amenity
space.
c) The minimum lot frontage for townhouse units with front
attached garages should be 6 metres with the garage not
exceeding 50% of the width of the building’s frontage. The
end units are recommended to be wider to balance the
proportion of house and garage to overall frontage.
d) End units in a townhouse should place windows and
entrances facing the public street and along pedestrian
walkways to encourage these areas to be visible, active
and safe.
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e) Public walkways within townhouse developments should
provide safe and direct access between public streets,
parking and other site areas.
f) Common open space such as children’s playgrounds
should be provided, where possible and where public
facilities are not available nearby.
For general guidelines related to building design, please refer
to Section 4.3.
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