Draft - Official Community Plan - Surrey 2050

Appendix 2 – Surrey 2050

DP1.1 COMMON GUIDELINES

Building Massing Within a development the following elements shall be considered in the Building Form: 112. ALL TYPES: Create a comparable building scale and massing with the established and/or known future neighbourhood.

113. ALL TYPES: Follow incremental develop- ment of an area over time to avoid sudden large-scale changes. 114. ALL TYPES: Orient and shape buildings to reduce shadow impacts on outdoor spaces. (illustr.) 115. ALL TYPES: Create building forms with a strong street enclosure, particularly at cor- ners. 116. ALL TYPES: Locate higher building forms along more prominent streets and at corners.

117. ALL TYPES: Address prominent and axial sites by shaping buildings for their visual prominence and potential as reference points or landmarks.

118. ALL TYPES: Reduce the visual impact and massing of enclosed elevator shafts with architectural treat- ments. 119. ALL TYPES: Express vertical circulation (e.g. stairs and atria) as an architectural element. 120. ALL TYPES: Enhance large, flat expanses of roof (whether actively used or not) with texture, colour and/ or landscaping.

121. ALL TYPES: Orient buildings to line streets including angled and curved streets. (illustr.) 122. ALL TYPES: For wider streets (e.g. arterials), create a higher podium to respond to street enclosure proportion. 123. ALL TYPES: Where higher density forms are proposed adjacent to or across the street from single family areas, design and scale the building size and massing down to that of the single family forms. 124. ALL TYPES: Locate elevators internal to the building and incorporate the mechanical penthouse into roof forms.

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