a. Connect the F1 Land Use District to the larger community, by providing links to neighboring businesses, residences, schools, thoroughfares, transit, open spaces, and other uses. Emphasize the pedestrian with a complete system of sidewalks and pedestrian paths.

b. Provide pedestrian paths to connect all major tenant and mall entrances with the perimeter street system and to accommodate pedestrian connections through parking lots that separate uses.

c. Accommodate public transit with shelters and pedestrian paths to the retail center area entries.

d. Access circulation may be relocated if the new alignment improves operation, reduces pedestrian-truck conflicts, or enhances the transportation grid through the F1 Land Use District.

e. Provide a second mid-block crossing to the adjacent offices and cinema north of the F1 Land Use District across SE 38th Street prior to occupancy of any new building developed in DA III, provided it is technically feasible.

f. Provide a mid-block crossing to the adjacent residential area south of the F1 Land Use District across SE 41St Place prior to occupancy of any new building developed in DA II, provided it is technically feasible.

g. Provide crosswalks across 127th Avenue SE prior to occupancy of any new structure in the F1 Land Use District.

h. Provide sidewalks on both sides of the entry drive to DA I from the intersection of Factoria Boulevard with SE 40th Street prior to occupancy of any new structure in DA IV. If sidewalks are not constructed prior to occupancy of the first new structure in DA II, a temporary stair connection is required to be constructed between the transit shelter and the parking field at the southwest corner of the intersection of Factoria Boulevard and SE 40th Street.

i. Provide crosswalks south across SE 41st Place and west across 124th Avenue SE at the southwest corner of DA II.

a. Landscaping shall include a combination of hardscapes and planting, i.e., plaza, square, terraces, etc.

b. Provide trees and vertical landscaping to give scale to buildings, to soften expanses of surface parking and open parking decks and for privacy in the residential courtyards.

c. Extend paving materials for sidewalks and plazas across the streets and intersections at selected locations that are jointly used by vehicles and people.

d. Use a hierarchy of paving designs and/or treatments to differentiate site conditions, such as primary intersections, sidewalks, shared people-vehicle streets, plazas, and retail, office, and building entrances.

a. Provide an exterior lighting hierarchy to reinforce the natural diversity that occurs in a complex neighborhood that has developed over many years.

b. Design lighting to be appropriate for many diverse uses and to create overall cohesion between development areas.

c. Provide light fixtures with adjustable shielding to avoid conflicts with residential uses.

a. Minimize garage openings on streets and design them to be complementary to the adjacent building. Finish walls and ceilings that are visible from the right-of-way.

b. Provide high quality lighting and wayfinding graphics for retail parking areas.

c. Provide integrated continuous weather protection for 100 percent of the retail and restaurant frontages that are not located adjacent to a required landscaped setback at the base of parking structures.

d. Limit visual exposure from perimeter streets to the interior of retail parking garages located in DA III and IV to 50 percent of the ground floor perimeter. Openings should be limited to a maximum width of 10 feet, unless screened with landscaping.

a. Provide spaces that create a welcoming experience for pedestrians and motorists and are oriented to the property corners.

b. Provide connections from the gateway to the neighborhoods to the south and east and commercial areas to the north and east by designing the gateway to serve as a focal point and visual landmark for the F1 Land Use District.

c. Provide visual and physical accessibility to gateway spaces from the abutting sidewalk on Factoria Boulevard and locate the gateway at or near the sidewalk grade.

d. Provide visual and walking connections between the gateways and entrances to the retail center and outward facing retail located in DA I.

e. Northeast Corner. Provide crosswalks in both directions and weather protection from the corner to the Factoria Mall entry.

f. Southeast Corner. Provide crosswalks in both directions. Use the entrance plaza and adjoining building spaces to create a predominantly weather-protected path to the Factoria Mall entries.

g. Provide weather-protected seating and landscaping with all-season interest.

h. Provide handicapped accessibility.

i. Provide weather protection at building entrances.

a. Locate as part of a comprehensive system of spaces in the F1 Land Use District.

b. Each public space will include amenities such as a streetscape, sitting area, plaza, or square.

c. Provide spaces that are of adequate size to accommodate seating, planting, etc., but not so large as to appear barren and uninviting.

d. Provide seating at comfortable height and depth, and arrangement appropriate for both single and group users.

e. Use nonglare, nonslip, and safe surface materials.

f. Consider provision for shade and sun, and provide protection from wind.

g. Use building separation and human scale massing to create pedestrian space.

h. Use pedestrian-scaled lighting, fountains or other water features, litter receptacles and sheltered waiting areas.

i. Use landscaping or structure to provide a sense of enclosure, while ensuring visual access for safety.

j. Incorporate a gathering space at the corner of 124th Avenue SE and SE 41st Place.