Dunnville Secondary Plan - Urban Design Guide - Haldimand County

3.5 Demand Design Excellence
Principle: The County and Dunnville should require
excellence in the design of all aspects of the urban
environment: buildings, streets, parks and open
spaces.
As Dunnville intensifies, greater demand will be
placed on the built environment. It is critical that all
new projects, whether buildings or public spaces,
be of the highest quality. One of the key goals to
intensification and redevelopment should be to
achieve superb architecture, landscape architecture
and urban design that improves the public realm.
New works should respect and fit within their
context and improve their overall setting.
For the County to demand high quality projects is to
recognize the importance of the built environment
to the fundamental economic and competitive
advantage downtown Dunnville holds. As growth
occurs so will the need for design excellence. It
does not serve the County to accept mediocrity.
Any effort to elevate the importance of design in the
public eye is worthy.
All projects—new residential, commercial or mixed-use buildings,
streetscape, or public open spaces—should demonstrate exceptional design
quality that reinforce and strengthen Dunnville’s character and image.
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