Urban Design

The Beaumont Urban Design Guidelines

The Beaumont Urban Design Guidelines ensure the ongoing development of attractive buildings that reflect Beaumont’s French heritage and our evolving role as an urban center. The guidelines provide direction on how traditional and contemporary French character can be encouraged as our city grows.

The Beaumont Urban Design Guidelines replaced the French Village Design Guidelines providing a clear and direct implementation approach for urban design elements in Beaumont. The Beaumont Urban Design Guidelines incorporates winter design principles and considers various building typologies such as mixed uses, commercial, civic and institutional built forms. It also allows for a more streamlined approval process that integrates the design elements with the development permit applications.

The design guidelines are applicable city-wide, but the required elements are different depending on whether the development is located within Centre-Ville or outside of Centre-Ville and what type of building is being constructed. The guidelines are based on the form of the building itself and not the type of uses within the building or the zoning of the development.

The Beaumont Urban Design Guidelines (BUDG) includes three documents:

BUDG Introduction [pdf]
Outlines the purpose, goals and design principles of the design guidelines. It lays out the traditional and contemporary French character and how these are applied in Beaumont. It also explains how BUDG is being applied and implemented in Centre-Ville and Beaumont-wide.

Beaumont-Wide Urban Design Guidelines [pdf]
Provides guidance on all lands and building typologies within the City of Beaumont (except Centre-Ville, as established in the Municipal Development Plan) with an emphasis on contemporary French architecture in civic/institutional buildings and contemporary architecture in other building types.

Centre-Ville Urban Design Guidelines [pdf]
Provides guidance on all lands and building typologies within the Centre-Ville area established in the Municipal Development Plan and the Our Centre-Ville Area Redevelopment Plan. Centre-Ville is the heart of Beaumont, and has an emphasis on traditional French architecture along our main street area (50 Street and 50 Avenue) and in civic/institutional buildings. Other buildings within Centre-Ville may use more contemporary forms of architecture, although traditional French architecture is encouraged.