I am afraid Milton is slowly turning into a carbon copy of the sprawl to our East. Is that what we want?
In order for Milton to be unique, we really need to come up with a vision and then implement it. Councillor Mowbray keeps bringing it up, calling it “urban design regulations”.
Call it what you like, but a collection of perfectly laid out subdivisions can still turn into an ugly sprawl. I would like to see Milton turn itself into a sought-after community people pay a premium to move to. That requires planning.
Zeeshan,
At the simplest level Urban Design concerns the arrangement, appearance and functionality of towns and cities, and in particular the shaping and uses of urban public space.
UD promotes a pedestrian friendly environment, a street-scape that relates to the human form, right down to the street furniture and the relationship of those pieces to each other to create opportunities for human connections.
People first, in other words.
A “perfect grid” is irrelevant, and isn’t prefect anyway, unless it’s made for human beings to interact.
You might like to check out Form Based Codes. Form relates to function relates to….here is one link:
http://www.slideshare.net/CNU17/achieving-sustainability-using-formbased-codes-and-the-transect-parolek-cnu-17
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