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Parking will be encouraged to locate in multi-level structures.

Where parking is provided at street level, it shall not be located within any front yard or sideyard facing a street.

Parking for commercial developments fronting Ottawa Street and west of Ottawa Street may be located in front yards or side yards facing a street, provided that adequate landscaping shall be provided to soften the visual impact of the parking area from the road.

Landscaping

Parking areas visible from a street, lane or adjacent residential development should be screened with substantial landscaping, aud interplanting of the parking areas with trees is required. Retention of mature trees to integrate into the overall landscaping is encouraged.

All vegetation used for landscaping shail be mature and of a quality acceptable to the Municipality. All planting must comply with the standards of, or standards similar to those of, the B.C.N.T.A.

All materials other than vegetation, used for landscaping shall be “non~skid" type and of durable quality.

All iandscaping fronting a street shall use trees whenever possible. Solid fences in place of landscaping screens along borders shall not be permitted.

Signage

Not withstanding any provision of the "Sign Bylaw, 1985, No.2095", all signs and signage should be architecturally coordinated with the overall design of buildings and landscaping. Free standing signs may be permitted only when all buildings in a development are set back at least six (6) meters (19.7 feet) from a street.

Free standing signs shall not exceed 2.4 meters (8 feet) in height, except that free-standing signs facing Lougheed Highway shall not exceed 6.5 metres (21.3 feet) in height..

Implementation

To facilitate implementation of these guidelines, any Development Permit issued for property within this Development : Permit Area XII, may, subject to the restrictions of the Municipal Act and unless otherwise specified in the above guidelines, vary or supplement the bylaws regulating zoning, parking, works and services, drainage, signs, screening, landscaping and subdivision.

Minor variations which do not change the intent of the guidelines may be permitted without an amendment of the Development Permit Area guide subject to the approval of the Director of Community Pla JEM PAGE