Design Guideline Reference Manuals

The Development Design Guidelines (DDG) Manual was approved in 2003, and is intended to establish basic community design standards for new communities - ensuring that these areas maximize their potential and develop as attractive and functional places in which to live and work.

• ​Click here for more information on the Community Design process.
• Click here to view the Architectural Control Guidelines.​
• Click here​ for Brampton Transit Supportive Mid-rise De​velopment Guidelines - Draft 2015
• Click here​ for the Brampton Urban Design Guidelines - Draft 2023.

Brampton Transit Supportive Mid-Rise Development Guidelines provide the density to support transit, with well-designed, mid-rise buildings that contribute to the public life of a street and give spatial containment and a sense of place to the public realm.

As the Flower City of Canada, Brampton focuses a great deal of effort on developing distinctive gateways and street corridors that clearly distinguish the key entries to the City and provide attractive windows into our communities. The first gateway pilot project was completed on Hurontario Street at the south City limits in 1991 (see photo to left) and to build on this initial success, a program was formalized in 2001 to develop other prime gateway locations throughout the City. As of December, 2009, three other gateways have been completed and two are scheduled for construction over the next year.

Download the Gateway Beautification Program

The Landscape Development Guidelines were developed to assist landowners, developers, and consultants in the development of public open space within Brampton, including but not limited to, parks, streetscapes, buffers, recreational trail systems, cemeteries, woodlands, valley lands, hazard lands, natural heritage systems and NHS blocks, engineered channels, and stormwater management facilities. This document builds on the City’s vision, as described in the Strategic Plan and the Development Design Guidelines, by clearly outlining the process and minimum design requirements necessary to complete the open space components associated with all new development.

The Outdoor Wayfinding and Signage Program, was introduced and approved by Council in June 2007. It was developed to:

• present a unified, consistent and attractive design treatment for all corporate outdoor signage across the City
• establish a distinct identity that reinforces Brampton’s reputation as Canada’s Flower City
• assist residents and visitors to finding their way around Brampton

The principle agenda is prescribed in the Outdoor Master Wayfinding Program, Design Intent Drawings for the Sign Type Array. These guidelines address hierarchy and typology to provide sign and site-specific information for consistent typography, colour selection, graphics character and construction methods for all civic signage across the City.