2015-06-29 Attachment 1 to Item 4 General Committee Agenda - Noosa Design Principles

                the view from here
  “WE DROVE OVER THE HILL AND GASPED AS OUR EYES WERE
DRAWN TO THE COLOURED SAND HILLS OF NOOSA’S NORTH SHORE
   MELTING THROUGH THE HEAT HAZE INTO THE GLISTENING
                WATERS OF LAGUNA BAY.”

                                   PRINCIPLES
  Protect vistas with good planning,        Use smart technology to manage
  including well placed and                 parking to avoid unsightly
  appropriately designed development        infrastructure.
  and infrastructure.
                                            Draw attention away from public
  Acknowledge that views and vistas         utilities with a pleasing feature in
  significantly enhance the visitor         preference to screening with them
  experience and thus benefit the local     barriers.
  economy.
                                            Design is a language and a powerful
  Frame and filter views with trees.        form of communication. People can
                                            be engaged through subtle design
  Exclude intrusive signage from vistas.
                                            elements, attention to detail in colour,
  Reduce street light spill by designing    texture, form and finishes.
  lighting to aim downward.