Parkway

(November 1992)

(March 2007)

1.

The Rural Parkway-Wooded is characterized as a "cut through the forest" quality created by the regularity of the forest edge and by the relative closeness of the forest to the roadway. However, where the opportunity to separate the bikeway exists, it should be seen to enter the forest; not just make the road right-of-way wider.

2.

The edges of this type of Parkway are defined by the "loose" or "feathered" landscape edge which may include rural fencing. In this type of Parkway visibility into developments is expected and therefore the controls focus on establishing a relatively consistent building setback, controlled signage and mitigiating the negative impact of loading areas and other unsightly elements of development.

3.

Fencing should allow for feathering, undulation and fragmentation of the landscape edge to occur so that the fence is sometimes in front of and sometimes behind random groupings of indigenous coniferous and deciduous plant materials. Open views to pastoral settings should be retained. There are frequent views through the landscape to the rural development beyond. There are view opportunities to the valley below.