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street network, building form and facilities should be inherently flexible to accommodate changing uses and demands across the site and within buildings over time.
  16.       Development should command high standards of urban design, sustainability, architecture and social inclusion reflecting the character of the national capital and providing a model for city development in Australia in the 21st century.

Urban structure
Reinforce Constitution Avenue as the base of the National Triangle and the Russell apex with appropriate urban form.
Create a street grid, sympathetic to Griffin's intended pattern of streets and city blocks that provides a high level of integration with the street and path network of City, Reid and Campbell and link these areas with Lake Burley Griffin and Kings and Commonwealth Parks.
Figure 72: Constitution Avenue and Anzac Parade – Indicative urban structure (1)
Figure 73: Constitution Avenue and Anzac Parade – Indicative urban structure (2)

Figure 74: Constitution Avenue and Anzac Parade – Indicative main pedestrian connections

Landscape structure
Landscape planting should reinforce the urban structure of Constitution Avenue and its integration with the setting of the Central National Area and the Lake Burley Griffin parklands.
A formal treatment should be applied to the main avenues including Constitution, Kings and Commonwealth Avenues, as well as Parkes Way. Continuous street trees should define the pattern of major and minor streets.
The visual impact of parking on the public domain should be minimised by integrating parking layouts with street tree plantings and pavement design.
Figure 75: Constitution Avenue and Anzac Parade – Landscape structure
Figure 76: Constitution Avenue and Anzac Parade – Indicative landscape structure

Public transport, access and circulation
Allow for an integrated public transport system with Constitution, Kings and Commonwealth Avenues and London Circuit as the principal public transport route.
Provide a hierarchy of pedestrian routes ranging from Constitution, Commonwealth and Kings Avenues and London Circuit as urban boulevards, major streets (including Coranderrk Street and Blamey Crescent and Sellheim Avenue), minor streets, laneways and arcades.
Ensure safety and comfort for pedestrians, with intersections designed to minimise slip lanes for fast turning traffic.
Provide on‑street parking on all streets where practicable.
Access to the western portion of Block 7 Section 3 Parkes from Block 6 Section 3 Parkes must be maintained to allow access to Commonwealth Park via underpass from the northern side of Parkes Way.

Figure 77: Constitution Avenue and Anzac Parade – Indicative public transport, access and circulation

Road hierarchy
The road hierarchy provides a legible and connective framework for moving throughout the area with:
       * Constitution, Commonwealth and Kings Avenues and Parkes Way having the role of principal routes for through traffic and pedestrians connecting other parts of the city to the area
       * major connecting