Station Area Planning/Location
1. Locate stations so as to foster increased densities and transit oriented development.
2. Coordinate station area planning with neighborhood planning efforts.
3. Choose alignments and stations that are harmonious with the goals outlined in Seattle's comprehensive plan, Toward a Sustainable Seattle.
4. Station location and orientation should contribute to an enhanced pedestrian environment.
5. Station location should facilitate easy inter-modal connections.
6. Select design/build teams who can bring successful mixed-use and transit-oriented projects into the equation.
� Provide incentives, such as increased FAR allowances, for quality development.
7. Do not let short-term inconveniences prohibit sensible long-term solutions.
� Recognize that short-term traffic congestion due to construction and utility relocation will be soon forgotten during the 50+ years of the system's life.
8. Make street level connections between stations and the communities they serve a priority. Use sky bridges as a connection mode of last choice.
9. Do not allow current traffic patterns undue influence in locating stations, as patterns will change in the future due to both increased development around the monorail alignments and improved transportation choices resulting from the monorail.
10. Plan potential future line locations (the expansion of the system) so that they do not require a duplication the Green Line's infrastructure. Account for potential future monorail alignments and impacts in all current planning efforts.

Station Design
1. Integrate stations into adjacent buildings. Allow for future building attachment to stations where such potential is identified as likely and/or desirable.
2. Design stations to be compatible with the neighborhood fabric.
� Avoid historical pastiche
� Address local material and building forms
� Address local scale
� Enhance the context
� Strengthen community gateways
3. Maximize daylight into stations and onto the street below.
4. Minimize glare from stations, guideways, and columns.
5. Provide easy and apparent pedestrian connections and amenities.
� Provide weather protection for pedestrians at both street and platform levels.
� Take advantage of view areas from station platforms into the surrounding area.
� Place entries that activate and enhance the existing pedestrian environment.
� Provide retail, community, or similar displays at stations' street level.
� Provide safe crossings from adjacent streets.
� Provide orientation and way-finding elements that orient the users and pedestrians to the neighborhood.
6. Minimize station intrusion into existing public and private outdoor spaces.
7. Respect view corridors from outside the stations, and consider how view corridors could be enhanced by station design and orientation.
8. Balance station design for safety and security with their role as civic landmarks.
9. Seek opportunities for stations to be a catalyst that maximizes civic and landscaping improvements. Incorporate greenery both at platforms and the streetscape.
10. Integrate public art design early in the station design process.
11. Anticipate increased parking demand near stations, and provide for easy access drop-off areas.
� Parking structures must incorporate mixed uses at street level.
12. Implement station design using current Sustainable Design principles.
13. Design for bicycle compatibility, including both train access and at-station parking. Make bike parking lockers and racks aesthetically pleasing.

Guideway Design and Column Design
1. Design columns that are superior examples of civic architecture.
2. Minimize the potential for dirt accumulation and the need for frequent cleaning.
3. Integrate columns into existing streetscape, avoid conflicts with adjacent buildings.
4. Seek opportunities to integrate other street elements, such as lighting and signage, into the columns.
� Columns and guideways provide opportunities to organize street elements.
5. Explore structural designs beyond using concrete or steel in a post and beam configuration.
� Exploit the planar/compressive properties of concrete and the tensile properties of steel.
� Take advantage of concrete's abilities to be molded into structurally economic shapes to achieve the most minimal sight lines possible.
6. As part of the design review process, build full scale mockups of proposed column and guideway designs on sites deemed to be representative.