Burloak Office Park Urban Design Guidelines

The Burloak Office Park is being developed as a business environment for companies who wish to locate in a comprehensively planned, designed and developed Office Park of high quality.

Located in the City of Burlington between Burloak Drive, Sheldon Creek, Upper Middle Road and Mainway, the Burloak Office Park will be oriented towards individual companies needing both large and small landholdings and is expected to contain.a broad spectrum of office and research centre uses, computer centres and training facilities. A smaller component of uses such as service and convenience, commercial and hotels, are anticipated to contribute support facilities to businesses, their employees and recreational uses of the Office Park campus.

Quality in the Office Park shall be defined by the care taken in the Site Planning, Building Design and Landscaping both at the scale of the overall Office Park as well as individual company properties. In addition, the establishment of design principles suited for all the individual sites in the Office Park especially those highly visible at key locations like entrances will ensure a high quality of Architecture to complement the natural landscape.

As with all successful Office Parks, both first impressions and user satisfaction will be extremely important. These Design Guidelines will serve to initiate the process of developing and implementing an Office Park with its own identity, character and quality. The Design Guidelines are also intended to complement the numerous reports and documents which are part of the planning process for this site and, while maintaining flexibility, to provide additional guidance to the development process. The purchasers of land in the Office Park shall be partners in this process, the end result of which will be an attractive business environment for their company, a healthy workplace setting for their employees, and the enhancement of the value of their property.