3.2.10 Large Format Commercial Buildings
incorporate architectural detailing, entrance features, recesses and projections. • Branding and signage, throughout the Large Format Area should be contextualized to fit the character of the rest of the Central Area. Building facades that are painted with corporate branding colours are discouraged and should not be permitted where fronting onto or flanking Broadway Street, or where visible from Broadway Street. • When possible, larger format building should be broken down into an appearance of multiple smaller buildings. Opportunities to provide more compact building forms should be considered. This will more closely resemble the contextual urban fabric of Tillsonburg. • Smaller retail units should line part of the principal building and have display windows and separate entrances.
• It is recommended that the Town of Tillsonburg explore strategies to retain existing, and attract new, large format commercial tenants and major anchor stores within the Central Area. Building Design • Strategic measures can more wholly integrate large format commercial buildings into Tillsonburg’s fabric, resulting in a more continuous and lively streetscape throughout the Large Format Area. • All street frontages should contain storefront glazing and entrances that are reflective of the areas fine grain fabric. Expansive blank facades are strongly discouraged. • Large facades should be designed to incorporate bays that reflect the traditional width of a storefront, thereby maintaining an appropriate scale of development. The bays should break up the facade to
All street frontages should contain storefront glazing and entrances that are reflective of the areas fine grain fabric. Expansive blank facades are strongly discouraged.
Strategic measures can more wholly integrate large buildings into the urban fabric of Tillsonburg’s Central Area.
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