Dunnville Secondary Plan - Urban Design Guide - Haldimand County

Built Form
• Organize sites to promote future infill
development. Introduce an internal street
and block pattern into large sites to facilitate
intensification over time in an urban way.
• Encourage a wider range of mixed uses within
larger developments.
• Encourage building design and architectural
styles which reinforce the built form character and
architectural styles of Dunnville.
• Tree planting, soft landscaping, street furniture
and surfacing material changes should be used to
define, improve and reinforce pedestrian routes.
• Address sustainability through: tree-planting and
soft landscapes that maximize site vegetation
to increase bio-mass and creates comfortable
micro-climates and stormwater drainage systems
that maximize ground water recharge; minimize
mechanical off-site run-off; minimize the need
for irrigation through rain harvesting; maximize
areas of permeable paving or soft landscape.
The County will review their current engineering
standards to determine if these design options are
feasible or appropriate.
Access and Parking
• Emphasize the pedestrian experience. Create
linkages and connections between commercial
areas and adjacent neighbourhoods or
communities and provide uninterrupted
pedestrian walkways of a substantial width along
building faces and through parking areas.
• Locate primary entrances towards Broad Street,
Ramsey Drive, Taylor Road and North Shore
Drive. Provide direct pedestrian access from
public sidewalk to building entrances.
• Buildings should frame streets and public open
spaces.
• Surface parking should be minimized and
generally limited wherever possible. Where
surface parking is provided, the main parking area
should be located within the interior of the site
and to the rear and side of buldings.
• Screen servicing and loading access from the
pedestrian boulevards with fencing or landscape
buffers.
Urban Design Guidelines Dunnville Secondary Plan and Special Flood Plain Policy Update / 31