Some of the goals for the Oread Neighborhood Design Guidelines are shown in this page from a draft version of the document.

After years of drafting and public meetings, the city’s first historical design guidelines for a residential area will go before the City Commission for review.

At their meeting Tuesday, commissioners will decide whether to adopt the Oread Neighborhood Design Guidelines, which would cover an approximately 190-acre area between the University of Kansas and downtown.

The 132-page document lays out rules for new development or redevelopment, detailing how features such as parking, site design and architecture should look to preserve the historical character of the neighborhood.

Only a few pages of the document specifically address parking, but those rules were met with some opposition from those who manage rental properties — duplexes, boarding houses or other multi-dwelling residences — in the neighborhood.

The guidelines prohibit the addition of “stacked” parking in alleyways, in which one car is parked directly in front of another. While not retroactive, the new parking rules in the guidelines would allow for less potential parking, and by extension fewer potential tenants, should a property be redeveloped in the future.

Other goals of the guidelines, developed during public workshops, include recognizing the different densities in the neighborhood and ensuring that additions, alterations and infill development are compatible. The guidelines create six overlay districts, comprised of two historic districts, a commercial district, and a low, medium and high density district.

Both the Historic Resources Commission and the Planning Commission considered the guidelines over the summer and voted unanimously to recommend them for approval.

In other business, the commission will:

•Consider recommendations from the Historic Resources Commission to designate the following properties as landmarks on the Lawrence Register of Historic Places: 1106 Rhode Island St., 819 Avalon Road, 1028 Rhode Island St.

•Consider hiring Desman Design Management to conduct a comprehensive study of the parking system serving downtown, East Lawrence and neighborhoods surrounding the University of Kansas. The study would cost the city about $80,000.

Commissioners convene at 5:45 p.m. at City Hall, 6 E. Sixth St.