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CORPORATION OF THE TOWN OF NEWCASTLE
PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT T.T.EDWARDS,M.C.I.P.,Director
HAMPTON,ONTARIO LOB UO TEL.(416)263.2231
REPORT TO THE GENERAL PURPOSE AND ADMINISTRATION COMMITTEE MEETING
OF SEPTEMBER 16, 1985
REPORT NO. : PD-132-85
SUBJECT: HOUSE NUMBERING POLICY
RECOMMENDATION:
It is respectfully recommended that the General Purpose and
Administration Committee recommend to Council the following:
1 . That Report PD-132-85 be received; and
2. That the attached Policy for assigning street
addresses be approved; and
3. That Staff prepare house numbering plans for all
existing urban or hamlet areas where house numbers do
not presently exist; and
4. That Staff publish a public notice to advise residents
of the availability of house numbers; and
5. That copies of the house numbering plans be forwarded
to the Newcastle Fire Department, Durham Regional
Police, Regional Ambulance Services, Durham Region
Public Works and the Regional Assessment Office.
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BACKGROUND AND COMMENT:
On April 28, 1980, the Town's Planning Committee considered Staff
Report P-80-80 in respect of municipal house numbering. That
report was tabled by resolution PD-168-80 and, as far as Staff are
able to determine, has never been formally dealt with. Said report
was prepared in response to a request from the Regional Works
Department in respect of house number in the Hamlet of Orono. The
subsequent report proposed a number of guidelines for assigning
municipal house numbers for the entire Town. Staff have been using
these guidelines, since that time, when assigning municipal street
addresses to new development.
Prior to the guidelines now in use, By-law No. 1411 , of the former
Town of Bowmanville, had been used by the Corporation. However, a
memorandum of May 13, 1974 noted that the By-law appeared to be
obsolete and that the Building Inspector was, in fact, performing
the task of assigning addresses for the Town.
On August 23, 1974 the Canada Post Office indicated it was planning
to start home delivery in part of the Courtice Area. It therefore,
became necessary for the Corporation to assign street numbers for
postal deliveries. A procedure was recommended for numbering the
proposed delivery area and for future extensions of it.
On January 3, 1975 Planning Staff suggested that the Building
Inspectors and the Planning Department, together with the Post
Office work out a standard system of street numbering. A
recommendation was also made that Building Inspectors should be
responsible for assigning the actual numbers.
In addition to the foregoing background of street numbering in the
Town, a further consideration of this report is that the
Corporation of the Town of Newcastle is comprised of numerous
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Postal Units. These include Courtice, Bowmanville, Newcastle
Village, as well as a number of Hamlets. Within the Courtice area,
in particular, there are existing street addresses for which mail
is processed through the Oshawa Post Office. For reasons of this
nature, it is important that any numbering system be designed to
avoid duplication of street addresses, particularly in the Courtice
area and respect existing numbering systems to minimize confusion
and the need for changes.
The purpose of this report is to formally establish a house
numbering policy in order to permit Staff to proceed with
preparation of house numbering plans and permit assignment of house
numbers to residential houses in urban areas and hamlets as well as
street addresses for commercial and industrial buildings. This has
become increasingly important with recent high levels of
development activity in the Courtice area in particular.
Staff have updated the proposed guidelines to include a number of
other considerations including a statement of intent. In that
regard, it is Staff's recommendation that any house numbering plan
minimize the number of changes to any existing numbering within the
Town by respecting, wherever possible, established street
addresses. Problems will arise from this approach should the Town
wish to assign rural house numbering which, in our opinion,is not
practical , or should urban development extend between designated
urban centres. Elimination of this potential problem would require
establishment of a numbering system unique to Newcastle without
regard for overlapping postal districts, or the impact upon
existing residents and businesses.
In some instances, it may, however, be necessary to adjust existing
numbers where a numbering system has been established which does
not allow for future development patterns. Where Staff are
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proposing any such changes, a further report would be submitted for
the Committee's consideration.
Staff note the proposed policy has been circulated to Regional
Police, Newcastle Fire Department, Newcastle Public Works
Department and Regional Ambulance Services and discussed with
Canada Post Officials. No objections have been received from any
of thes agencies. We would also point out, for Council ' s
information, that house numbering is no longer critical to Canada
Post inasmuch as new developments will not be receiving door to
door delivery. The system is, therefore, of most benefit to
emergency services and for the personal convenience of the
residents.
It is therefore respectfully recommended that the Committee approve
the attached guidelines as the Town's Policy for assigning street
addresses.
Respectf itted,
T.T. Edwards, M.C.I .P.
Director of Planning
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ATTACHMENT NO. 1 TO REPORT PD-132-85
GUIDELINE FOR ASSIGNING MUNICIPAL STREET ADDRESSES
PURPOSE: The purpose of assigning municipal street addresses is
to facilitate the speedy and efficient delivery of
services such as mail delivery and emergency services
such as fire, police and ambulance through the
establishment of a standard reference system.
INTENT: It is the intent of this policy to minimize disruption
to residents by retention, wherever practical , of
existing commonly used street addresses.
PRINCIPLES: 1) On continuous arterial , concession roads, or line
roads, a basic numbering grid shall be
established. For north-south roads the base
reference point shall be Lake Ontario waterfront.
For east-west roads, the base reference point
shall be the Newcastle/Oshawa Townline. This grid
is for reference purposes only and it is not
intended that street addresses be assigned to
rural properties other than those located within
hamlets, estate residential subdivisions or rural
industrial parks. For the east/west grid, numbers
will be assigned on the basis of one (1) number
per 15m of frontage and on the north/south grid,
one (1) number for every 7.5m of frontage to
permit use of a conciession recognition prefix.
2) Exceptions to the grid system will , however, be
found on streets originating within the urban
areas of Courtice, Bowmanville and Newcastle
Village where existing numbering systems would
require extensive revision and should, therefore,
remain unchanged. Where these existing numbering
systems affect continuous arterial , concession or
line roads, those numbers would be continued and
the grid adjusted for those roads only. Those
roads affected would be the Newcastle/Oshawa
Townline, Regional Road 57, Regional Road 14
(Liberty Street) , Regional Road 17 (Mill Street) ,
and Regional Road 42 (Clarke/Darlington Townline).
These roads would have a base reference point of
Highway No. 2 and would be numbered north and
south of Highway No. 2 in accordance with the
existing numbering system. East/west exceptions
to the grid system will be found in Bowmanville
and Newcastle Village where the existing numbering
system would be continued along east/west
arterial , concession or line roads to the urban
boundaries. In all other instances, numbers will
be assigned in accordance with the grid.
3) Generally, street addresses will be assigned using
even numbers on the north and west sides of the
streets and odd numbers on the south and east
sides. Odd and even numbers will not be
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GUIDELINE FOR ASSIGNING MUNICIPAL STREET ADDRESSES
transposed along the length of a street or
crescent regardless of any change in direction.
Numbering should match on the two sides of a
street and, therefore, some numbers may be deleted
on the inside of curved streets to accomplish
this. (See appendices A to D)
4) All streets are numbered from their south or east
entrance and existing or lower numbers are
provided for where proposed streets or development
is anticipated. At least one number is left for
each intersection road allowance.
5) On internal streets in new urban residential or
commercial areas, buildings are numbered
consecutively. In other residential or commercial
areas, numbers are assigned on the basis of one
(1) number per side each 12 m. On internal
streets in industrial areas, a number shall be
assigned per side for every five (5) inetres of
frontage in anticipation of changing development
patterns.
6) A building centrally located on a lot to which two
(2) numbers have been assigned, is given the
higher number.
7) Cul-de-sacs are numbered as in (3) and (4) with
the change from odd to even numbers occuring as
close as possible to the limit of the turning
circle.
8) New plans of subdivision shall have street
addresses assigned consecutively one number for
each lot in accordance with (3) and (4)
recognizing lot types.
9) Where existing numbering systems do not adequately
allow for infilling letters of the alphabet
together with the next lower street number, shall
be used.
1U) Where buildings are located on a corner lot, the
number will be assigned based upon orientation of
the building entrance not vehicle access.
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