Invitation to Design Guidelines Workshop

Help Shape Our City

NEWS RELEASE - Distributed June 5, 2024 12:00 PM

Summary

Are you interested in urban design? Want to have input on the form and character of new developments? This is your opportunity to get involved in helping shape our City! The City is updating form and character design guidelines which are used to ensure a high quality of urban design in new developments in the City of Nanaimo. Please join us for an in-person Design Guidelines Workshop on June 19, 2024 at 6:30pm at the Conference Centre (80 Commercial Street, Nanaimo).

Link to Strategic Plan: Maintaining City action plans and key City management plans.

Key Points

The City is updating form and character design guidelines.
Attend a Design Guidelines Workshop on June 19, 2024 to guide the form and character of multi-family, commercial and industrial development in the City of Nanaimo.

Quotes

"The new development permit form and character design guidelines will be an important step towards improving the experience of the City's built environment and promoting good design for new development in Nanaimo. Thank you to all who take the time to contribute ideas towards this valuable project. We want to hear your voices!"

Leonard Krog

Mayor of Nanaimo

City of Nanaimo

Quick Facts

City Plan provides policy guidance for creating form and character design guidelines for new development in Nanaimo.
The design guidelines will also promote energy and water conservation, and the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions in new developments.
Development permit design guidelines provide clarity for developers to understand the City’s expectation for urban design.

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Communications

City of Nanaimo

(250) 754-4251

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