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MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DESIGN GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS v. Provide safe, identifiable pedestrian circulation patterns within and between developments. vi. Incorporate landscaping details into pedestrian systems to provide visual interest and complement neighborhood character. 2. Vehicle Access and Circulation a. Internal Drive Hierarchy The organization of the internal drive system in a multi-family development should provide a hierarchy of three types of drives: i. Low-volume, residential drives that serve individual building clusters, which feed into ii. Collector drives that distribute traffic within the development and connect separate building clusters, which then access iii. Through-access drives that typically connect to the development's perimeter and to the public street system. b. internal Drive Design Residential and collector drive design within a multi-family development should be designed to encourage building clusters that define identifiable neighborhoods within the multi-family development. The internal drive network should respond to topography, intended traffic speed, pedestrian usage and safety, and views. Excessively straight and wide drives encourage high traffic speed and do not have a residential scale. Accordingly, internal drive.design within a multi-family development's boundaries shall comply with the following guidelines and standards: i. The internal drive system should be arranged to utilize both parallel and perpendicular streets in identifiable blocks or clusters, as well as occasional curvilinear or diagonal streets, except where sensitive natural areas would be unduly disturbed by such a pattern. "T" intersections are also encouraged in locations where views of important public spaces or natural or open areas can be highlighted. ii. To the maximum extent practicable, drives should follow the natural contours of the site. iii. Internal drives should be a minimum twenty-four feet (24') wide, but the city may require such drives to be a minimum twenty-eight feet (28') wide where specific site conditions, including proposed on-street parking, indicate that greater widths are necessary. c. Primary Vehicle Access Primary vehicle access to a multi-family development shall be from thoroughfare or collector streets. To the maximum extent practicable, unless required for emergency access, a multi-family development shall not have primary vehicle access from a local street that also serves single-family residences. Large multi- family developments shall have multiple primary access points from thoroughfare streets as follows: i. Developments with 200-350 dwelling units shall provide a second primary access into the development. CITY OF OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS 25 OCTOBER 7, 2002