Downtown Form-Based Code - City of Overland Park

404. Townhouse/Small Apartment FrontageILLUSTRATIONS AND INTENTNote: These are provided as illustrations of intent. The illustrations and statements onthis page are advisory only and do not have the power of law. Refer to the standardson the following pages for the specific prescriptions and restrictions of the BuildingEnvelope Standard.The townhouse/small apartment building envelope standard is of moderateintensity, often created by a series of smaller attached structures, single-familyresidential, stacked flats, service commercial, or live-work arrangements. Thisstandard has regular street-space entrances, as frequently as 18 feet. Thecharacter and intensity of this frontage varies with the siting/location of therequired building line—the buildings may be placed up to the sidewalkwith stoops (at the RBL), or further back with front porches and/or smalldooryard gardens (at the RBL2). Similarly, the tree lawns may be founduncovered and continuous or partially covered in the street-space, dependingon the street intensity.Similar to the scale of the townhouse and row house, a small apartment canalso be used to transition the urban form and intensity to abutting single-familyneighborhoods.September 2011Overland Park Form-Based Code27