§ 11.5.3. Use Urban Design to Enhance the Community Identity of Station Areas and to Make Them Attractive, Safe, Convenient, and Interesting Places.

O Create streets that are visually interesting to make walking enjoyable.

O Provide a pleasant pedestrian zone and protect people from traffic using trees, landscaping, wide, separate sidewalks, and on-street parking.

O Create places to rest and relax by providing street furniture.

O Provide architectural variety by limiting blank exterior walls and making use of articulated facades and building step-backs to reduce the sense of scale of taller structures, especially when adjacent to single-family areas.

O Relate the ground level to pedestrian uses by orienting buildings to the street to create a visually interesting and safer pedestrian environment and to shape the public realm.

O Design for all seasons by providing weather protection along pedestrian routes and transit waiting areas; use awnings, shade trees, building projections and colonnades with enclosed shelters transit users.

O Create well-lit stations, defining landscape features, and convenient and legible signage (e.g. wayfinding systems) to orient people to buildings and activities around the station.