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The front of buildings with openings onto the space that generate activity and engagement between the building interior and the space outside, particularly entrances. Building frontage where there is an active visual engagement between those on the street and those on the ground floors of buildings.
A principal building entrance, not including emergency egress doors, garage doors, service doors, loading doors or doors giving access to storage areas. In the case of a residential use building, a door that is clearly intended and designed to be the principal entrance or one of the principal entrances for use on a permanent basis […]
Activity centres within cities and towns are a focus for enterprises, services, shopping, employment and social interaction. They are where people meet, relax, work and often live. Usually well-served by public transport, they range in size and intensity of use from local neighbourhood strip shopping centres to traditional town centres and major regional centres. An […]
The capacity of a building or space to respond to changing social, technological, economic and market conditions and accommodate new or changed uses. The potential to modify the spaces of a home by altering the fabric of the building to cater for the different needs of an individual’s or family’s life cycle (e.g. a study […]
Buildings that lack individual architectural merit but contribute to the overall character of an area or district.
That portion of a block consisting of all of the lots fronting on a single street. The land fronting one side of a street between streets that intersect, meet or cross the aforesaid street. Means a group of adjacent lots or parcels whose front lot lines all face a common abutting street and that are […]
All of the property fronting on one side of a street that is between intersecting or intercepting streets, or that is between a street and a water feature, or end of a dead end street. An intercepting street determines only the boundary of the block frontage on the side of the street which it intercepts
An urban design term for visible water.
That property immediately contiguous to a vehicular bridge where motor vehicles enter and exit the bridge. Certain uses and activities, if oriented and available exclusively to bridge traffic, shall be considered incidental and accessory to the vehicular bridge plaza and terminal: toll booths, inspection and weigh stations, customs and immigration facilities, duty-free retail stores, motor […]
A line along which a building façade (or main wall) must to be located. Projections and encroachments may cross the minimum build-to line.
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