Chapter 2: Enabling Growth

In the Plan, the Urban Form and Building Scale Maps form the basis of where growth and activity will be realized within the South Shaganappi Communities. These maps provide guidance for the type and scale of future development; the two maps are intended to be read together.

Map 3: Urban Form

In the Plan, Map 3: Urban Form illustrates the general location of urban form categories and how they apply across the Plan Area. Urban form categories identify and categorize the purpose and general function (land use) such as residential, commercial, industrial, regional campus, parks, civic and recreation and natural areas of different parts of a community. Policies for each urban form category are found in Section 2.2 Urban Form Categories.

Map 4: Building Scale

Map 4: Building Scale illustrates the maximum potential height and size buildings can be in a specific area within the South Shaganappi Communities. Policies for each scale category are provided in Section 2.3 Scale Modifiers which outline building heights, massing, and other design considerations.

Use the vertical slider to scroll from left to right to view Map 3: Urban Form or Map 4: Building Scale.

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LEGEND ITEMS – URBAN FORM

Neighbourhood Local

Areas with a range of different types of homes and home-based businesses.

Neighbourhood Connector

Areas with a range of different types of homes along higher-activity streets.
These areas include mostly residential development but also include limited opportunities for small, local-serving commercial/ businesses

Neighbourhood Flex

Areas with a range of different types of homes as well as a range of commercial/businesses, and buildings that face the street.

Neighbourhood Commercial

Areas with a range of commercial/businesses located on the ground floor of a building.

Commercial Corridor

Areas with a range of commercial/businesses that are usually concentrated at large nodes or along major corridors.

Commercial Centre

Hubs and corridors that support regional commercial activity.

Natural Areas

Provide a range of ecological functions and benefits and may include a range of amenities related to ecological features.

Parks and Open Space

Areas with publicly accessible outdoor space. May include amenities and civic uses (for example, schools and community associations).

City Civic and Recreation

Areas with indoor and/or outdoor recreation or other civic facilities on public land.

Private Institutional and Recreation

Areas with indoor and/or outdoor recreation facilities on private land which may include a range of programmed spaces.

Regional Campus

Areas that are large sites used for regional institutional or transportation functions regulated by the provincial or federal government.
Typically serviced by internal street networks and comprised of multiple buildings.

Comprehensive Planning Site

Identify additional planning or supplementary site design to support future planning applications.
Usually used on larger sites. If a property/landowner wants to apply to redevelop a site marked ‘Comprehensive Planning Site’, they need to provide a site plan with a vision for the entire site as part of their planning application

Active Frontage

Areas where the main or ground floor of a building must include commercial/businesses such as retail and/or restaurants that face the sidewalk or street and generate frequent pedestrian activity in and out of the building or business entrance.

No Urban Form Category

LEGEND ITEMS – BUILDING SCALE

Limited

Buildings of up to three storeys.
Examples consist of small-scale homes such as single-detached homes, semi-detached homes, and rowhomes/townhomes.

Low-Modified

Buildings of up to four storeys.
Examples include small-scale homes, apartments, stacked townhouses or mixed-use buildings.

Low

Buildings of up to six storeys.
Examples include apartments, stacked townhouses or mixed-use buildings.

Mid

Buildings of up to 12 storeys.
Examples include apartments, offices and mixed-use buildings.

High

Buildings of up to 26 storeys.
Examples include tower and podium or point tower buildings.

Highest

Buildings of 27 storeys or more.

No Building Scale

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Consult the South Shaganappi Communities Local Area Plan for the most up-to-date version of the Urban Form and Building Scale maps.

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