Planning 2018-05-24 Item 4 - Tukwila South Overlay Residential Development Standards and Guidelines - Attachment C: Multi-Family Design Manual

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I. SITE PLANNING Site Design Quality Fig. 4: Buildings and landscaping are sited to reduce the prominence of large paved areas. 6. Site planning and building architecture must provide a high quality project design. Landscaping should not be needed to hide mediocre building design, but further enhance an already good design, and result in a high quality project. 7. Site design should be integrated with the neighborhood. Project design integration should include coordination of circulation, landscaping, envy a recreation spaces, and building location with the surrounding area. A visual distinction using landform, landscaping, or materials may separate a project from the general neighborhood. However, high "fortress" walls should be avoided and buildings should not turn their backs to the street. Central island visuahy breaks up lot with landscaping and a (maitre as cars enter theparldng area. Fig. 5: Parking is located to the side of the project to minimize an auto dominated streetscape. 8. Walls, shrubs, and other visual obstructions between street frontage and building architecture should be limited to a maximum 3.5 ft. height to allow easy surveillance by Police Department car patrols. Higher fencing may be installed if it uses visually open materials such as wrought iron bars and 3 inch spaced grape stake fences. 9. Minimize the prominence of street front parking areas by using architecture and landscaping to break up or screen these sterile asphalt pads, moving parking to the side or rear, and breaking up large parking areas into smaller (i.e., 20-40 space) groupings. Vehicles should be treated as a means of transportation; not emphasized as a prominent design feature. (Fig. 11, 12, and 23) 4 22