Mixed Uses and Parking

• Encourage throughout downtown the Argyle Street example:
  • mix of uses (including residential) within block
  • small lots
  • numerous entries
  • variety of streetscape

• redevelop areas of large impermeable structures to more permeable street grid:
  • (e.g. Cogswell Interchange)
  • redesign street levels of massive blocks
  • (e.g. Scotia Square)

• encourage residential uses

• reduce need for parking by:
  • increasing population on peninsula
  • developing and improving alternative transportation
  • promoting alternate modes of travel

• Provide parking in form of built structures and on-street parking:
  • face parking structures with institutional and retail uses
  • have active ground level uses
  • where surface parking is required, do not separate building from street or sidewalk

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