STAGE I
OPEN BRACE
multi - stores
car park
A2
MACAU FERRY BERTHS
FFICE
NOTATION
COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT AREA BOUNDARY. -
HIGH LEVEL PEDESTRIAN CIRCULATION---
HIGH BUILDINGS (7 STOREYS AND ABOVE)---
LOW BUILDINGS STOREYS AND BELOW)-
PERMANENT OPEN
SPACE —— -
́AREAS RESERVED FOR ACTIVE RECREATION
AND AMENITY WITHIN THE CITY
GOVERNMENT AND CIVIC BUILDINGS,-
COMMERCIAL AND OFFICE BUILDINGS‒‒‒‒
*)
(IN CERTAIN-COMMERCIAL AND OFFICE BUILDINGS
UPPER FLOORS MAY BE USED FOR DOMESTIC PURPOSES SUCH AS HOTELS AND RESIDENTIAL PLATS, PROVIDED SUCH USE DOES NOT INFRINGE THE CONDITIONS OF CROWN LEASE OR OTHER ENACTMENTS.)
PROPOSED GOVT PIER
STAGE
82
84
LYNDHURS
TERRAC
ROA
HARBOUR SERVICES)
(DENGER FERRY PIER
CENTRAL
MARKET
possible
bidg line
FIRE BRIGADE
BLDG
QUEEN
VICTORIA
R
(INSIDE HARBOUR SERVICES} PASSENGER FERRY PIER
FERRY
PIER
possible future and berth for vehicular ferry
VEHICULAR
CI
bas Buiši - storey car park
station one
BELLE
C
EXISTING USE
MULTI - STOREY CAR PARKS
GOVERNMENT RESERVE
4.
2
NOTES
THE AREA DESIGNATED AS COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT AREA IN THE CENTRAL DISTRICTS OF THE CITY OF VICTORIA COMPRISES ALL THE CENTRAL RECLAMATION LANDS TOGETHER WITH THE ROYAL HAVY AND THE WAR DEPARTMENT RELEASED LANDS.
THE LAYOUT OF THE AREA IS TO BE PREPARED IN DETAIL; A PEDESTRIAN DECK IS TO BE ESTABLISHED AT APPROXIMATELY 19 FT. ABOVE GROUND LEVEL, GROUND
LEVEL AND AN INTERMEDIATE LEVEL OF ABOUT 9 FT ARE TO BE USED GENERALLY FOR CAR PARKING AND THE SERVICING OF BUILDINGS; BUILDINGS ERECTED WITHIN THE DOCKYARD AREA ARE TO BE LOCATED GENERALLY AS SHOWN ON THE LAYOUT AND ARE TO EXTEND TO A HEIGHT ABOVE THE PEDESTRIAN DECK REPRESENTED BY THE NUMBER OF STOREYS MARKED ON THE DETAILED PLANS; SUCH BUILDINGS ARE TO BE USED FOR COMMERCIAL AND RESIDENTIAL PURPOSES AND TO FORM A MAJOR EXTENSION OF THE BUSINESS,CULTURAL AND ENTERTAINMENT FACILITIES OF THE CITY. CHANGES IN DETAIL ARE TO BE ANTICIPATED AS DEVELOPMENT PROCEEDS BUT THE PRINCIPLES OUTLINED ABOVE ARE TO BE MAINTAINED.
In that report the Director of Public Works wrote: "The City of Victoria is at once the centre of business and banking life, of com- mercial transactions, of professional, administrative and cultural activity
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and, with the opening of the new hotels now under construction, will make a strong
bid to re-assert its supremacy in the tourist and enter- tainment fields.
"Its function is essentially one of personal contact between shopper and salesman, wholesaler and retail- er, professional man and client, banker and businessman, actor and audience, civil servant and public.
"This City is a western one in- habited largely by Orientals; a city of skyscrapers fighting each other for light and air, it contains the unique characteristics of an Oriental city; a 'happy' mixture of noise and con- fusion, movement and crowdedness; rickshaw vieing with Cadillac, haw ker stall with emporium, shopper with clerk, pedestrian with motorist; each intent on his own affairs.
"The Board has been concerned not to destroy what is good in these characteristics out at the same time has wished to ensure that crowded- ness does not deteriorate into conges-
THE HONG KONG & FAR EAST BUILDER
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VOLUME 17, NUMBER 6
STAGE I
SMALL BOAT CAMBER
high level promenade
entertainment
car parking
PROPOSED PUBLIC PIER
AT**E*R
TOME, XP.
AR
FERRY
CAR PARK
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