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55 Queenston Road Design Charrettes: Conceptual Designs for Former City Motor Hotel Site

This event aims to develop conceptual designs for the 55 Queenston Road site, showcasing how new development can accommodate building size, types of uses, and enhance the area's character. It also focuses on minimizing negative effects on neighboring areas and incorporating urban design best practices.

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55 Queenston Road Design Charrettes: Conceptual Designs for Former City Motor Hotel Site

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  1. 55 Queenston Road – City Motor Hotel Site June 26, 2014

  2. Afternoon Design Charrettes - Purpose Developed, with citizens, conceptual designs for 55 Queenston Road (former City Motor Hotel site) that… • illustrate how new development may be accommodated • The size and height of building • The types of uses • enhance the unique character of the area • Views from Main Street East • Lands surrounding the traffic circle • Irregular shaped lot with frontage on Main Street East and Queenston Road • minimizing potential negative effects on adjacent neighbourhoods • Stepping back • Landscaping • Commercial frontage • Residential uses

  3. Urban Hamilton Official Plan 55 Queenston Road – Designated Mixed Use Medium in the Urban Hamilton Official Plan

  4. Opportunities This site provides a great opportunity to: • Increase the population in an area • Increase investment in an area • Increase neighbourhood vitality and improve the public image • Utilize existing services and infrastructure • Access public transit

  5. Intensification – Which has the higher density?

  6. Intensification Las Vegas - 92 units/hectare New Orleans - 96 units/hectare

  7. Past Intensification

  8. Recent Intensification Projects

  9. 55 Queenston Road – Surrounding Area

  10. Nodes and Corridors Planning

  11. B-Line Corridor Land Use Planning Study

  12. Key Concepts • Many Urban design best practises were incorporated into the design concepts, with the following receiving particular attention. • Provide continuous street wall and connect the ground floor to the street by putting active uses on the ground floor. • Step buildings back to reduce shadowing of adjacent properties. • Respond to prominent locations on, and axis of the site. • Create a minimum two storey street wall, stepping back the façade above the base podium. • Provide for vehicular and pedestrian circulation. • Provide parking in the centre of the block.

  13. www.wdgarch.com/portfolio/projects/the-kinzie Height Treviso Condominiums – 319 Hwy #8, Stoney Creek Maximum Building Height is 8 Storeys

  14. Types of Development Mixed Use Residential Ground Floor Commercial

  15. Building Address: • Where is the front door? • Which way do windows face? • Who do they look over? • Where is the back? (Where do they put out the garbage?) Tools for Regulating Building Form

  16. Tools for Regulating Building Form Sun /Shadow Where and when will a building’s shadow fall?

  17. Tools for Regulating Building Form Stepping Back the Building

  18. Tools for Regulating Building Form Parking • How much? • Where is it Located? • Surface • In front • Behind • Beside • Inside • Below

  19. Tools for Regulating Building Form • Landscaping • Private and Public Spaces • Trees • Terraces • Green Roofs • Courtyards • Plazas • Walkways

  20. Contacts Michelle Sergi – Manager Michelle.Sergi@hamilton.ca (905) 546-2424 x1281 Shannon McKie – Planner Shannon.Mckie@hamilton.ca (905) 546-2424 x7491

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