Multifamily Site Design
Apartments, condos, mixed-use, and the parking, infrastructure, and shared spaces that turn density into a place worth living. Bailey designs multifamily sites where the building footprint, the parking field, and the common areas all work as one system from the start.
Not single-family with smaller lots.
Multifamily isn't single-family with smaller lots. Density changes everything — the parking math, the fire access, the refuse routing, the stormwater, the mail kiosk, the pedestrian path from the unit door to the pool. The building footprint dictates the site plan, not the other way around, and every design decision ripples through the rest of the site. Bailey designs multifamily projects with that interdependence in mind, from garden-style walk-ups at twelve units per acre to mid-rise podium buildings at forty.
Apartment Complexes
Garden-style walk-ups, stacked flats, and the building cluster as the primary unit of design.
Read more → 02Condominium Developments
For-sale multifamily — phasing for sales velocity, private outdoor space, and HOA-managed common areas.
Read more → 03Mixed-Use Projects
Vertical and horizontal mixed-use — separating residential, retail, and service circulation under one roof or across one parcel.
Read more → 04Residential Infrastructure
Water, sewer, storm, and dry utilities sized for unit count, not just acreage. Joint trenching and master meters.
Read more → 05Common Area Design
Pools, clubhouses, dog parks, mail kiosks, leasing offices — sited for visibility, ADA, and lifecycle.
Read more → 06Parking Solutions
Resident vs. visitor stalls, surface vs. structured vs. tuck-under, and the walking-distance rule that drives resident satisfaction.
Read more →The cluster comes first, the rest follows.
The first design move on a multifamily site isn't where the buildings go — it's how the buildings cluster. Three to six units per cluster, offset elevations, varied roof lines. Bailey draws cluster geometry first, then works outward to parking, circulation, and common areas.
Density changes everything after that — the stormwater math, the parking configuration, the fire access, the refuse routing, the mail kiosks. We design every layer as part of one interdependent system, from garden-style walk-ups at twelve units per acre to mid-rise podium buildings at forty.
Read the full approach →Where it fits in the 9-phase process.
Site Identification & Feasibility
Density yield, parking yield, utility availability, stormwater feasibility, fire flow.
Entitlements
Conditional use, preliminary plat or site plan, neighborhood meetings.
CDS — Construction Document Set
Civil design — grading, utilities, stormwater, parking, fire access, common area infrastructure.
Construction
Observation through grading, utility install, paving, common area buildout.