Vision for a Northdale Village

• Transit oriented Mixed – used development
• World class design
• Green roof components
• Housing, employment, neighbourhood – serving retail opportunities
• First class team of architects and design professionals
• Project will serve as a model of outstanding transit oriented development

Shared Benefits - For The University:

• Accommodates residents, academic and student housing space needs
• Promotes efficient use of resources
• Allows for mixed use commercial development
• Creating a vibrant “town center” for those who work, study, live in the area

Shared Benefits - For the Community:

• Concentrates new development in targeted locations close to the core of the campus, away from surrounding residential neighbourhoods
• Provides neighbourhood serving retail services
• Enhances the public environment and pedestrian experience through landscaping and streetscape improvements
• Carefully balanced plan and proposed conditions premised on Grow Up, Not Out
• Establishes framework for predictable, planned growth guided by smart growth and transit oriented development principles advanced by Ontario Smart Growth
• Provides neighbourhood serving retail services
• Creates opportunities for new business development
• Sustains and promotes a world class University City

Streetscape Design

• Recognize the University’s presence in the area bounded by Columbia St., King St., University Ave. And Lester St.
• Implementation of streetscape elements where campus uses and activities are more intense
• Utilize elements that enhance the presence of the University and respond to the needs of pedestrians, bicycles and automobiles and they move through and within the area

Safe Community Principles 

• Enhance security and encourage positive surveillance through the use of streetscape elements
• Have Waterloo regional police set up a storefront office within the area