Queen Street Urban Design Guidelines - City of Sault Ste Marie
Queen Street Urban Design Guidelines - City of Sault Ste Marie
Queen Street Urban Design Guidelines - City of Sault Ste Marie
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3.2.3 CREATE A GREEN COMMUNITY<br />
Efforts to promote green buildings and<br />
incorporate green infrastructure should be<br />
considered when investing public funds.<br />
Developing incentives to upgrade building to<br />
make them more energy effi cient or programs<br />
to replace old appliances to ones that meet the<br />
energy star rating system are some examples<br />
<strong>of</strong> things that can be done to make <strong>Sault</strong> <strong>Ste</strong>.<br />
<strong>Marie</strong> greener. Energy effi cient infrastructure<br />
such as LED for signage or photovoltaic<br />
streetlights should be encouraged when making<br />
upgrades to the public realm. Evaluation <strong>of</strong> such<br />
expenditures should be inclusive <strong>of</strong> life cycle<br />
costing, embodied energy and environmental<br />
impact <strong>of</strong> such technologies.<br />
3.2.4 CREATE A SAFE COMMUNITY<br />
Ensure the proper design and effective use <strong>of</strong><br />
the Downtown built environment to enhance<br />
the safety and well-being for all members <strong>of</strong><br />
the community. Ensures that buildings and<br />
infrastructure are designed to take advantage<br />
<strong>of</strong> natural surveillance, that built form supports<br />
the desired activity, access to unprotected<br />
or undesirable spaces is controlled, and that<br />
regular maintenance <strong>of</strong> landscaping, lighting<br />
treatment and other features and facilities<br />
reinforces a sense <strong>of</strong> ownership<br />
and responsibility.<br />
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.....INTRODUCTION.....URBAN DESIGN FRAMEWORK.....DESIGN GUIDELINES.....CASE STUDIES.....DESIGN REVIEW PROCESS.....RECOMMENDATIONS<br />
CITY OF SAULT STE. MARIE.....SEPTEMBER 2006<br />
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