draw smaller polygons over larger polygons

[RyanPaquette1]

Want to set up ArcMap to draw all smaller polygons in a feature on top of larger polygons within the same feature. 

Someone asked about this on GIS Stack Exchange and it was marked as answered yet it was not really answered; ArcGIS - possible to set the drawing order of polygon features - Geographic Information Systems Stac...  (While the title was interpreted as duplicate, the question itself was unique)

I have the total area set up as an attribute, but Symbol Levels don't seem to cut it as I cannot use natural breaks / classes due to the symbolization being on a descriptive field...

     1) The symbology is on separate / descriptive field.

      2) So, went with Unique values, many fields in order to leverage Symbol Levels on the Area attribute.

      3a) Because its unique values I cannot feasibly add all the AREA attributes (all unique / 20,000+ records).

      3b) The Symbol Levels concatenates both fields so I cannot even have it sort by area, due to the Area attribs being grouped by the descriptive attribute.

[DanPatterson_Retired · Accepted solution]

The answer is reasonable... sort the Area field (Shape_Area) in descending order... which suggests that you don't have an advanced license.  There are workarounds, but they would require so programming

[RyanPaquette1]

Borrowed an advanced license, ran the tool, generated a new file. Worked . Just couldn't do it on the source data itself. No worries. Thanks

[LarkinPhil]

Implemented at Pro 3.1 for those who might stumble upon this post. 

Help Doc: Set the feature drawing order—ArcGIS Pro | Documentation

Idea: Sort feature drawing order by date or other field - Page 2 - Esri Community