All construction visible from the street requires a Heritage Permit. Visible materials should conform to the following standards:

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Commercial Core

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Appropriate Materials

Exterior Finish:
-- Smooth red clay face brick, with smooth buff clay face brick as accent.
-- Cut stone or reconstituted stone for trim.
-- Stucco is acceptable where not visible from the street.

Shop Fronts:
-- Wood frames, glazing bars, and panels with glazed wood doors are preferred.
-- Metal shop fronts, detailed and proportioned to be compatible with heritage shop fronts, are acceptable.

Windows:
-- Wood frames, double hung, 1 light over 1, or 2 over 2.
-- Verticle proportion, ranging from 3:5 to 3:7.

Flashings:
-- Original flashings would have been galvanized metal or copper. These are encouraged.
-- Pre-finished metal in an appropriate colour is acceptable.

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Inappropriate Materials:

Exterior Finish:
-- Concrete block; calcite or concrete brick.
-- Textured, clinker or wire-cut brick.
-- Precast concrete panels or cast-in-place concrete.
-- Pre-fabricated metal or pastic siding.
-- "Stock" precast concrete window sills.
-- Stone or ceramic tile facing.
-- Stucco on walls visible from the street.

Shop Fronts:
-- Stock aluminum shop fronts or curtainwall.
-- Flat metal spandrel panels.
-- Frameless structural glass.

Windows:
-- Metal, plastic, or fiberglass frames.
-- Fixed glazing.
-- Casement, awning, hopper or sliding openers.
-- "Snap in" or other simulated glazing bars.

Flashings:
-- Pre-finished metal in appropriate colours.

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House-Form-Area

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Appropriate Materials:

Exterior Finish:
-- Smooth red clay face brick, with smooth buff clay face brick as accent.
-- Wood clapboard, 4" to the weather.
-- Smooth, painted, wood board and batten siding.

Exterior Detail:
-- Cut stone or reconstituted stone for trim in brick buildings.
-- Wood shingles, stucco or terra-cotta wall tiles in gable ends.
-- Painted wood porches, railings, decorative trim, shutters, fascias and soffits.
-- Painted wood gingerbread bargeboards and trim, where appropriate to the design.

Roofs:
-- Hipped or gable roof with minimum 6:12 slope; with cedar, slate, simulated slated, or asphalt shingles of an appropriate colour.
-- Standing seam metal roofing.
-- Skylights in the form of cupolas or monitors are acceptable.

Doors:
-- Wood doors and frames, panel construction, may be glazed.
-- Transom windows and paired sidelights.
-- Wood french doors for porch entrances.
-- Single-bay wood panelled garage doors.

Inappropriate Materials:

Exterior Finish:
-- Concrete block; calcite or concrete brick.
-- Textured, clinker or wire cut brick.
-- Precast concrete panels or cast-in-place concrete.
-- Pre-fabricated metal or plastic siding.
-- Stone or ceramic tile facing.
-- "Rustic" clapboard or board and batten siding; Wood shake siding.

Exterior Detail:
-- Prefinished metal fascias and soffits.
-- "Stock" suburban pre-manufactured shutters, railings and trims.
-- Unfinished pressure-treated wood decks, porches, railings, and trim.

Roofs:
-- Low sloped or flat roofs.
-- Non-traditional metal roofing such as pre-finished or corrugated metal.
-- Modern skylights.

Doors:
-- "Stock" suburban door assemblies.
-- Flush doors.
-- Sidelights on one side only.
-- Aluminum storm and screen doors.
-- Sliding patio doors.
-- Double-bay, slab or metal garage doors.

Windows:
-- Large "picture" windows.
-- Curtain wall systems.
-- Metal, plastic, or fiberglass frames.
-- Metal or plastic cladding.
-- Awning, hopper or sliding openers.
-- "Snap-in" simulated glazing bars.

Flashings:
-- Pre-finished metal in inappropriate colours.