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Originally Posted by someone123
The term "industrial" is very loaded and conjures up images that are inconsistent with what most office park businesses actually do in a city like Halifax. There are software companies in places like Burnside, for example (most of them are there because it's cheap - most workers hate it because there's nothing out there). Bayers Lake is even newer, even less industrial, and even more of a planning disaster. The same mistakes have been repeated across North America.
The institutional zoning in Halifax makes even less sense. A lot of it is based on anachronisms like keeping the full original extent of the Commons "public". The only reason why they were public originally was that they were marshland on the edge of a small town in the 1700s (originally for grazing cattle and so on).
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One thing that I like about how the Land Use Bylaw's typically work in Alberta is that each district (zone) has a purpose statement. So each district has a set of guidelines on how it should be applied. One thing that is unique with Calgary's LUB (1P2007) is that instead of having institutional districts, it has what are called 'Special Purpose Districts' - which is the same idea, but each one is different. Here are some examples of what this style of district works:
The S-R (Special Purpose - Recreation District) has purpose statements like:
To: accommodate a range of indoor and outdoor recreation uses; provide for complementary uses located within buildings occupied by indoor and outdoor recreation uses...
Then there is the S-CI (Special Purpose - Community Institution District) which is to: provide for large scale culture, worship, education, health and treatement facilities; provide for a wide variety of building forms located throughout the city...etc.
S-CRI (Special Purpose - City and Regional Infrastructure) has statements like: to provide for - infrastructure and utility facilities; vehicle maintenance, work depots and training centres related to infrastructure development and maintenance; facilities and systems for public transit and uses operated by Federal, Provicincial and Municipal levels of government.
It's an interesting and different way of regulating these types of uses. So typically a 'seniors home' or a church would end up S-CI, whereas DND facilities or the Airport would end up S-CRI.