2.7 OPPORTUNITYSITES
Tillsonburg’s Central Area contains a rich inventory of buildings, which frame its streetscapes, promoting a sense of vitality and creating animation. However, portions of its streetscape frontages are lined with large surface parking lots, which detract from the quality of the built environment. Through future development, opportunities exist to transform these spaces into new buildings with active streetscape frontages. Opportunity Sites are prominent vacant sites with significant potential to provide positive contributions to the built environment. Soft sites are under-utilized sites which have the potential to accommodate a more appropriate use. For example, with respect to the Canadian Tire site on the north side of Bridge Street between Broadway Street and Lisgar Avenue, an opportunity exists to improve pedestrian connections through the site, easing accessibility between the Central Business District to the west and residential areas to the north and east by mitigating the impacts of significant grade changes along both Bridge Street and Lisgar Avenue. Refer to Appendix C: Urban Structure Mapping for larger versions of all urban structure maps.
The pedestrian arcade adjacent to the Tillsonburg Central Library provides a mic-block connection between Broadway and Bidwell Streets.
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Tillsonburg Central Area Design Study
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