“[T]he boulevards and parkways of Kansas City have accomplished the real purpose outlined by Mr. Meyer in the first report [1893], namely, the tying together all sections and the uniting of Kansas City as a whole into a community whose purposes and actions are for the benefit of the city as a whole at all times.”

• Make communication between the different sections of the city, commercial, residential and to some extent industrial direct and distinctive. (1)
• “. . . tie the slightly localities together and make them one.” (1)
• Make Kansas City a residence city with homeowner communities. (2)
• Fix the best property for residential use purposes only and for residences of the same class. (1)
• Increase property value by giving a permanent residence character to certain sections of the city and check suburb sprawl. (1)
• Support healthful minds and bodies by providing rural surroundings and beautiful natural scenery for city residents. (1)
• Draw businesses and population by providing a beautiful city. (1)
• Hold the unbroken high lands for residential, and the principal valley lands for transportation and industrial uses.
• Provide pleasure drives for light driving.

• Gas streetlights of dark color staggered along both sides of the roadway.
• Street markers of blue lettering on white tile, set in sidewalk at intersections.
• “Traffic” gaslights with ruby glass installed in the middle of boulevards on concrete bases to add to the safety of pedestrians and vehicle passengers.

• Wide, formal, landscaped street with a park-like setting. Symmetrical.
  
  
  • Standard is 100’ right-of-way with 40’ roadway and 30’ margins for wide grass verges, sidewalks and triple row of same kind of trees almost equally spaced (two between curb and walk and one between walk and property line). 1893 Report description of the margin was 6’ of turf, 7’ walk and 8’ of turf between the walk and property line. Trees were spaced about 45 feet apart with center row staggered.
  • The roadway in most boulevards has been widened and the outer row of trees removed for vehicle traffic. The inner rows of trees have not been replaced as they are removed.
  • Front walks from the house to the sidewalks did not cross the lawns to the curb.
  • Appearance differed “radically” from that of the ordinary street.
  • Did not contain purely decorative and ornamental plantings.
  • No medians.
  • Houses fronted the street.
• Connected with recreation parks and/or parkways.
• Generally followed the formal gridiron street system.
• Multiple points of ingress/egress with intersections at all cross streets.
• Envisioned that the best and most expensive residence will go up along boulevards.

• Generally have sufficient change in alignment and gradient to largely obliterate the impression of formal lines.
• Picturesque drives with or without recreational facilities.
• Where possible occupied the valley lands.
• Unique.
• Multiple transportation and recreation functionality.
• Variable width.
• Limited access.