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McGill University Property is governed by ByLaw 95-039, adopted at the Montreal City Council meeting on March 6, 1995. The following are the guidelines, which relate to my site:

A | height restrictions

   The height in meters of the building must not be more than 26 m in order to be in accordance with the height prescribed in Plan 2 of Schedule C entitled "Les limites de hauteur".

B | campus layout

   All projects relating to the main campus must be approved in accordance with section III of the By?law concerning the procedure for the approval of construction, alteration or occupancy projects, and concerning the Commission Jacques?Viger (R.B.C.M., chapter P7), based on the following criteria:

   .1 the preservation of the morphological features of the main campus;

   .2 the preservation of the architectural unity that covering materials, particularly stone, clear glass and copper, confer to the campus;

   .3 the preservation of the importance of vegetation in the development and design of spaces;

   .4 the contribution of the building and exterior landscape to the enclosure of green space on the main campus;

   .5 the contribution to the quality of treatment of all building facades;

   .6 the enhancement of views onto the campus and Mount Royal;

   .7 the integration into the urban landscape perceptible from Mount Royal;

   .8 the building line of a construction, an extension or an addition to an existing facade plane must tend to meet the following building lines:

      ..a. where a proposed building is next to a building, the facade of the proposed building must be in the extension of the benchmark facade plane, which is the facade plane of the adjacent building that represents the largest area;

      ..b. where benchmark facade planes are parallel to each other, the facade of a proposed building must be parallel to the benchmark facade planes and be at mid distance between their extensions.

C | setbacks

   Setbacks and other information is not yet compiled. Soon...


Text taken from "Programme de development", By-Law #95-039 between McGill University and City of Montreal, March 6, 1995. Used with permission form the Planning Office of McGill University.