Principle

Create safe, comfortable, and inviting streets, designed for people.

Streets are typically associated with motorized traffic and underground utilities. However, they are also important public spaces where much of a city’s pedestrian life takes place. While policies related to St. Albert’s street network are provided in Section 8 of Flourish, the following streetscape policies ensure that streets are also great places for residents and visitors. Designing streets for people encourages more walking, more social interaction, and a greater sense of community, contributing to neighbourhoods that feel safe and comfortable while supporting local businesses. The following policies support the design and development of people-focused streets.

Policies

12.2.1.

Accommodate new power infrastructure, commonly located within public rights-of-way, below grade where feasible, thereby maximizing space for pedestrians.
 

12.2.2.

Ensure streetscapes contribute to the ongoing greening of the city through the provision and maintenance of municipal boulevards, associated street trees, and other landscaping.
 

12.2.3.

Encourage and support pedestrian activity by providing amenities such as street furniture, pedestrian-scale lighting, transit shelters, and clearly marked and controlled pedestrian crossings.
 

12.2.4.

Ensure streetscape design supports a consistent streetscape character.
 

12.2.5.

Support the integration of public art into streetscapes design, through elements such as street furniture, paving, and tree grates.
 

12.2.6.

Encourage development that is oriented to and faces public streets.
 

12.2.7.

Encourage development to have active uses at grade and minimize blank walls adjacent to streets and other public spaces.
 

12.2.8.

Minimize surface parking areas beside public streets and, where required, mitigate the impacts of parking areas on the public realm through design and landscaping.

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