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MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DESIGN GUIDELINES AND STANDARDS <br /> <br />4. Planting for Visibility and Security <br /> <br /> a, Intent <br /> The folloWing standards are intended to: <br /> i. Use planting patterns to aid surveillance and minimize the potential for <br /> crime. <br /> <br /> ii. Maintain visibility of doors and windows from the street and from within the <br /> development. <br /> <br /> b. Design Guidelines and Standards <br /> <br /> i. Planting patterns shall not obstruct sight lines or create isolated areas, <br /> especially near pedestrian walking paths. <br /> <br /> ii. Shrub/groundcover height near buildings should be less than thirty inches <br /> (30"). <br /> <br />5, Site Perimeter Landscaping Abutting Street Edges <br /> a. Intent <br /> <br /> Provide an attractive, shaded environment along street edges that gives visual <br /> relief from continuous hard street edges, provides a visual cohesion along <br /> streets, helps buffer automobile traffic, focuses views for both pedestrians and <br /> motorists, and increases the sense of neighborhood scale and character. <br /> <br /> b. Design Guidelines and Standards <br /> <br /> i. Landscaped Building Setbacks. Building setback areas along all public <br /> streets and private drives shall be landscaped with a minimum of one (1) <br /> deciduous tree per forty linear feet (40') of frontage. <br /> <br />6, Site Perimeter Landscaping Abutting Adjoining Parcels <br /> a, Intent <br /> <br /> Reduce the on- and off-site visual impacts of paved areas and buildings; and <br /> create attractive site edge treatment while avoiding landscaping that "walls-off" <br /> the multi-family development from adjacent lower-intensity land uses. <br /> <br /> b, Design Guidelines and Standards <br /> <br /> Each perimeter boundary (other than a street edge) shall be landscaped with a <br /> combination of evergreen (conifers) and shade trees at a ratio of 1 tree per 40 <br /> linear feet of edge, with fractional requirements rounded up. <br /> <br /> c, Design Incentive <br /> <br /> Up to a ten. percent (10%) density bonus may be granted for perimeter <br /> boundary landscaping provided at a ratio of eight (8) evergreen (conifers), two <br /> (2) shade and one (1) .ornamental tree per 100-linear feet of edge, with <br /> fractional requirements rounded up. This incentive may not be combined with <br /> the incentive for additional landscaping. <br /> <br />CITY OF OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS 39 OCTOBER 7, 2002 <br /> <br /> <br />