Community Design
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All members of the community—residents, business owners, workers, visitors, and investors— need places and spaces that are both functional and appealing.
Quality design of the built environment can: protect existing investments; achieve sustainable environments; create safe, comfortable, and pleasant places where people want to live, work and recreate; and add value to the community.
Purpose
The Community Design Element:
- Distinguishes Ontario as home to a unique, highly aesthetic built environment that fosters enjoyment, financial benefit, and wellbeing for the entire community.
- Articulates design qualities that will create locally and regionally significant places.
- Utilizes community design to help achieve the Vision in the areas of economic development, land use, housing, community health, infrastructure, and transportation.
Principles
The City believes:
- Quality design of buildings, streets, public spaces, City gateways, and open spaces is vital to prosperity and makes Ontario a place where people want to be.
- Strategically located urban districts that are designed around transportation systems help define Ontario’s regional identity.
- Ontario’s unique history and heritage – expressed in its streets, landscaping and buildings – help define the community’s identity.
- Well maintained property and infrastructure are required to protect and encourage community investment.
- A diverse mix of residential and commercial neighborhoods, centers, corridors, and districts is vital to achieving the Vision.