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Industrial Development Permit Area Guidelines Checklist
Pursuant with Section 8.6 of the Official Community Plan, industrial developments will be
assessed against the form and character guidelines established by Council and summarised
below.
This checklist is to be prepared by the architect of record for the project to demonstrate the
proposed design was developed in accordance with the form and character guidelines. Please
assess and describe the compliance of the proposed design of the project with respect to the
Key Guideline Concepts and with the Form and Character Guidelines.
Description of the Key Guideline Concepts should be suitable for File Managers to quote in
Development Permit Application Reports to Council. For the Form and Character Guidelines,
clearly describe how the proposed design complies with each of the listed guidelines, or
describes why a guideline is not complied with or why it is inapplicable.
This checklist is to accompany Development Permit Applications and submissions to the ADP.
8.6.1 Key Guideline Concepts Describe how this project and the design complies
1. Provide a street presence with entrances
and architectural interest in building
designs fronting public streets.
2. Loading facilities should be located away
from public streets and into the rear or
the interior of a site.
3. Outdoor storage and less attractive
structures such as accessory buildings
should be screened with fencing or
landscape.
4. The transportation needs of diverse
users should be accommodated through
amenities such as bicycle facilities, and
accessible design for the mobility
impaired.
5. The form and treatment of new buildings
should reflect the desired character and
pattern of development in the area by
incorporating appropriate architectural
styles, features, materials, proportions
and building articulation.
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Guideline 8.6.2 A
Building Design, Massing and Siting
Describe how the proposed design complies with each of the
listed guidelines, or describes why a guideline is not complied
with or why it is inapplicable.
1. Offices, reception, sales, and other
public use areas should be located at the
front of the buildings to face streets.
Design facades so that these areas are
easily identifiable and visible from
streets.
2. Main building entries should be located
and designed to be clearly identified
from streets or entry driveways. Include
glazing as a major component of street-
facing building facades.
3. Whenever possible, overhead service
doors and loading docks should not be
located on a building façade that faces a
street. Design service doors to fit with
the overall design of a building.
4. Buildings with significant areas of non-
reflective opaque materials or blank
walls should incorporate features such
as texture, graphics, reveals, colours or
decorative floodlighting to provide visual
interest. Landscaping should also be
provided to compliment the
architectural details.
5. Developments adjacent to treed slopes,
ravines and watercourses must respect
natural vegetation, use natural
landscaping to retain soils on the site
and may require additional setbacks as
established by agencies having
jurisdiction. Creeks and ravines are
encouraged to be retained in their
natural state. Buildings and structures
should be integrated into natural slopes
and other significant features.
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Guideline 8.6.2 A (Continued)
6. New developments are encouraged to
incorporate Low Impact Development
(LID) techniques into their site planning.
Consider employing techniques such as
rain gardens, vegetated swales,
separation of impervious surfaces,
installing below surface infiltration beds
and tree box filters, and redirecting
water from drain pipes into vegetated
areas.
7. Rooftops of buildings should include
design elements, including landscaping,
to reduce the visual impact from the
street, surrounding uses and structures
such as bridges.
Guideline 8.6.2 B
Vehicle Access, Parking and Circulation
Describe how the proposed design complies with each of the
listed guidelines, or describes why a guideline is not complied
with or why it is inapplicable.
1. Wherever possible, the majority of
parking and all loading areas should be
located between or to the rear of
buildings, with access from lanes or
internal circulation.
2. Divide large surface parking areas into
smaller sections to avoid a monotonous
appearance. Use landscaping strips,
trees, building edges, pedestrian
pathways, and pavement treatment to
enhance the visual appearance of large
parking areas.
3. Parking areas adjacent to public streets
should provide a low level landscaped
buffer between the parking and the
public realm.
4. Consider the use of permeable parking
pavers or shallow concrete swales with
rolled edges as an alternative treatment
for surface drainage.
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Guideline 8.6.2 B (Continued)
5. Above ground parking structures should
not front public streets at grade. Non-
parking uses or special façade
treatments must be provided along
street frontages to enhance the
building’s appearance to the public
realm. On non-street fronting facades,
parking structures should be treated to
avoid long blank walls at grade, such as
massed landscape treatments or
attention to the design detailing on the
façade.
6. Parking control equipment, such as
ticket dispensers and card readers,
should be located at a sufficient distance
from a public street to prevent parking
queues extending onto the street.
Similarly, a minimum distance of one car
length, and preferably two car lengths,
should be provided between an exit gate
and the street edge to accommodate
cars waiting to merge into traffic.
7. Rooftop parking structures should
include design elements, including
landscaping, to reduce the visual impact
from the street, surrounding uses and
structures such as bridges.
Guideline 8.6.2 C
Pedestrian Access
Describe how the proposed design complies with each of the
listed guidelines, or describes why a guideline is not complied
with or why it is inapplicable.
1. Provide well defined and safe pedestrian
access from parking areas and the public
sidewalk to industrial uses. Design the
access to ensure that pedestrian use is
given precedence over vehicular use.
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Guideline 8.6.2 C (Continued)
2. Industrial developments with large
parking areas should provide a direct
pedestrian pathway system through the
parking area to facilitate convenient and
safe pedestrian access between building
entrances, parked cars, and sidewalks of
adjoining streets. Features such as
special landscaping with trees and
benches, overhead weather protection
and distinct paving should be
incorporated where appropriate.
Pedestrian movement should be
designed to avoid any obstruction by
parked vehicles.
3. Where pedestrian pathways intersect
service roads or access roads for access
to parking areas, crosswalks should be
clearly designated through use of
pavement markings, signs, flashing lights
or, where warranted, traffic signals.
Guideline 8.6.2 D
Universally Accessible Design
Describe how the proposed design complies with each of the
listed guidelines, or describes why a guideline is not complied
with or why it is inapplicable.
1. Locate parking spaces allocated for
people with disabilities as close as
possible to the main entrance to a
building.
2. All non-vehicular routes should be fully
accessible. Sidewalks and pathways
should be wide enough for wheelchairs
or scooters and should include a tactile
strip for the visually impaired. Curb-cuts
and curb let-downs should be provided
in appropriate locations to facilitate safe,
convenient, and direct access from
parking spaces to buildings for people
with disabilities.
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Guideline 8.6.2 D (Continued)
3. Building and site design features should
integrate circulation routes and areas for
people with disabilities with general
public use.
Guideline 8.6.2 E
Refuse, Recycling and Service Areas
Describe how the proposed design complies with each of the
listed guidelines, or describes why a guideline is not complied
with or why it is inapplicable.
1. The design of a roof, placement of
mechanical units and satellite dishes,
etc. should take into account views of
the roof from adjacent buildings.
2. Service areas should have differentiated
access to minimize visual impact as well
as conflicts with pedestrians.
3. Refuse receptacles must be located
indoors or within service areas out of
view from pedestrian access. Garbage
and waste material should be stored in
containers that are weatherproof and
animal-resistant.
4. Locate building ventilation systems to
minimize noise and exhaust on
pedestrian areas, adjacent residential
development and outdoor spaces.
5. Mechanical equipment, drive-through
uses, service or car wash bays,
restrooms, vending machines,
unenclosed storage, and public
telephones should be oriented on the
site to face away from adjacent
residential development. Whenever
possible, these uses should not be visible
from an adjacent residential property.
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Guideline 8.6.2 F
Signage
Describe how the proposed design complies with each of the
listed guidelines, or describes why a guideline is not complied
with or why it is inapplicable.
1. All signage must conform to the Maple
Ridge Sign By-Law. In the event of a
conflict between the Maple Ridge Sign
Bylaw and these guidelines, the latter
shall take precedent.
2. Signage design, materials and message
should be integrated and complement
the scale and architectural detail of the
building.
3. In multiple-tenant buildings, signs should
be designed to present a unified
appearance.
Guideline 8.6.2 G
Lighting
Describe how the proposed design complies with each of the
listed guidelines, or describes why a guideline is not complied
with or why it is inapplicable.
1. Pedestrian level lighting is encouraged
along all pedestrian pathways.
2. Lighting should be designed so as to
have no direct source of light visible
from the public right-of-way or adjacent
residential land. Care should be taken to
ensure that lighting glare does not pose
a nuisance to adjacent residences,
pedestrians, or motorists.
Guideline 8.6.2 H
Crime Prevention through Environmental
Design (CPTED)
Describe how the proposed design complies with each of the
listed guidelines, or describes why a guideline is not complied
with or why it is inapplicable.
1. Crime Prevention through
Environmental Design (CPTED) principles
should be incorporated into the design
of all buildings and facilities.
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Guideline 8.6.2 H (Continued)
2. Ensure convenient, safe, identifiable and
universally accessible access routes to
building entrances, lobbies, parking
structures, or other principal areas of
buildings.
3. Design developments to maximize
opportunities for natural surveillance,
allowing people to easily view what is
happening around them during the
course of everyday activities. Design the
interior spaces and exits from any
parking structures for maximum visibility
within the parking area. Entries should
be highly visible, well lit and spaced at
convenient intervals Hidden spaces,
obscured alcoves and blind corners
should be avoided in the design and
layout of the parking facilities.
4. Wherever possible, locate parking next
to uses that generate human activity.
Guideline 8.6.2 I
Bicycle Parking and Storage
Describe how the proposed design complies with each of the
listed guidelines, or describes why a guideline is not complied
with or why it is inapplicable.
1. The provision of bicycle parking facilities,
such as bicycle racks is encouraged.
Bicycle parking should be in well-lit
locations and clearly visible from a main
building entrance and/or public roads.
Bicycle racks should be made of sturdy,
theft-resistant material, securely
anchored to the floor or grounds.
2. Large-scale developments are
encouraged to provide end-of-trip
facilities, such as showers and lockers,
within the development for the
convenience of employees.
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Guideline 8.6.2 J
Landscaping and Open Space
Describe how the proposed design complies with each of the
listed guidelines, or describes why a guideline is not complied
with or why it is inapplicable.
1. Ancillary or accessory buildings,
including structures used for storing
materials, should be visually screened
from public streets with dense
evergreen planting or should be
designed and finished in a manner
consistent with the principal building.
2. For industrial developments with
multiple tenancies, consider providing
amenity spaces for the common use of
employees and visitors. Amenity spaces
for individual tenancies may be
consolidated into large indoor and
outdoor amenity spaces for the common
use of all tenancies. Examples include
outdoor landscaped areas or recreation
spaces.
3. Landscaping both within and outside the
development should:
a) provide definition for pedestrian
corridors
b) provide adequate screening between
private outdoor spaces
c) present a pleasing street image
d) soften the transition between adjacent
land uses
e) create interesting views and focal points
into and out of the site.
4. Provide landscaping of substantial
proportions around property lines,
particularly adjacent to residential
development, to ensure a compatible
and smooth transition to abutting
residential uses.
5. Landscaping should reinforce design
continuity with neighbouring properties
and the streetscape by providing
consistency in street trees, plant
materials, and other landscaping
elements.
6. The scale and location of planting
material should complement and be
consistent with the scale and massing of
buildings.
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Guideline 8.6.2 J (Continued)
7. Energy efficiency and conservation
should be considered in the design of
landscaped areas and in the selection of
plant material. This can be
accomplished through:
a) The use of native and/or drought-
resistant species;
b) designing the landscaping to moderate
the effect of wind;
c) providing shade in summer;
d) allowing daylight into buildings;
e) allowing natural drainage to occur
throughout the site;
f) redirecting water from rooftop runoff
and downspouts into vegetated areas or
rain barrels for later irrigation use.
8. Any portion of a building site left vacant
for future development should be
landscaped consistent with the
landscape plan for the overall site. The
minimum ground surface treatment
should be lawn. Where possible, the
natural state should be retained for
those portions of a property not being
developed.
9. Existing vegetation should be enhanced
with new planting wherever
construction activity has destroyed
vegetation. Replanting with indigenous
or native species is encouraged.
10. Maximize the amount of landscaped
areas and minimize the amount of
impervious paved surfaces to increase
the natural absorption of rainwater on a
site.
11. Chain link fences are to be avoided, and
are discouraged along street frontages.
Where chain link fences are
unavoidable, a dense landscape material
is encouraged adjacent to the landscape
screen.
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Guideline 8.6.2 J (Continued)
12. Fences abutting residential sites should
be constructed with materials consistent
with fences generally used in residential
developments.
Project Information
To be completed by the Architect on record for this project:
File Number ________________________
Date prepared: _______________________
Architect ________________________ ___________________________
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