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and provide passive surveillance.
Ground level frontages will present an attractive pedestrian‑oriented frontage providing active uses for a minimum of 30 percent of the street frontage. Key active frontages are to have a minimum of 75 percent active uses.
Residential uses, except for home offices, should be avoided at street level at those locations identified as having an active frontage in Figure 82.
Blank walls are discouraged. Pedestrian entries should be clearly visible from the public domain.
Figure 82: Constitution Avenue and Anzac Parade – Indicative active frontage

Building height and form
Provide climate protection to areas where retailing and service based developments form the predominant ground level use at the street.
Buildings above 25 metres in height are to be the subject of wind testing, including down draught conditions and turbulence, to ensure the development does not have adverse impacts on building entrances and the public domain.
Buildings heights will generally be medium rise up to 25 metres above adjacent kerb levels to retain the landscape backdrop of the inner hills of Central Canberra.
Buildings to a maximum height of RL600 are permitted in the locations identified in Figure 83. Buildings to RL600 are contingent on meeting applicable heritage requirements. To ensure that a balanced building massing and portal effect is maintained at the southern end of Anzac Parade, buildings on the second site to be developed must be equal in height to those of the first site to be redeveloped. This is applicable only to buildings in the area subject to the maximum RL600 height limit.
buildings in the area subject to the maximum RL600 height limit on
A landmark building to RL 617 adjacent to Commonwealth Avenue will be subject to consultation.
Minor building elements that extend building heights above 25 metres will be considered where this enhances the architectural quality of the building, and fosters energy efficiency, indoor amenity and appropriate urban scale.
Building height should transition down in scale to a maximum of 3 storeys (generally 12 metres above natural ground level) to be sympathetic to scale of adjoining suburbs of Reid and Campbell.
Figure 83: Constitution Avenue and Anzac Parade – Indicative building height and form
Development should generally be constructed to the street boundary to define and enclose streets and create continuous street frontage while allowing variations in individual buildings and uses. Development on the northern side of Constitution Avenue will be set back a minimum of 6.5 metres from the block boundary.
Where buildings are required to be set back to achieve security stand‑off distances, continuity of the building line should be reflected in the design of passive security measures (for example, building plinth walls on the street boundary).
Where fronting residential