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III. LANDSCAPE/SITE TREATMENT <br />Interior Parking Area Landscaping <br />Usable Outdoor Space <br />Recreation Area Design <br />Fig. 39: Recreation area design for safety <br />includes siting the children's play lot in a <br />central or easily observed area. <br />PUBLIC OPEN SPACE COM <br />PRIVATE OPEN SPACE <br />26. Minimum parking area landscaping at the perimeter <br />and interior areas are specified in Chapter 18.52 of the <br />Tukwila Zoning Code. Design concepts for these areas <br />are shown in figures 11, 12, 13 and 32. <br />27. As much design emphasis should be put into <br />developing outdoor spaces as the buildings themselves. <br />Outdoor space tends to be unusable when it is simply <br />the "leftovers" after buildings are placed on the land. <br />(See Fig. 6) <br />28. Buildings or other substantial structures should be <br />used to reduce the impact of noise sources when such <br />noise would interfere with normal conversation as <br />identified in Federal Environmental Protection Agency <br />guidelines (i.e., 55-65 dBa). <br />29. Outdoor spaces should have a definite functional <br />shape, be internally designed to fulfill that function, and <br />be functionally associated with a specific unit or unit <br />group (see "Defensible Space" in Site Plan guidelines). <br />30. A full range of active and passive recreation <br />opportunities should be provided for the various <br />resident age groups: infant (04), child (5-12), teen (13- <br />18), and adult. <br />31. Infant needs may be satisfied by passive spaces and <br />overlap with child facilities. <br />32. The child group is the critical group for on-site <br />recreation design since members tend to use facilities <br />independent of parental supervision, are not necessarily <br />old enough to travel streets to relatively distant public <br />parks, and make complex demands of recreation spaces. <br />27 <br />