bay windows with views of the pagoda.his is one example the guidelines would not necessarily achieve that. second is transparency and screening and layering at the ground floor. we are looking at storefronts. in japan town, storefronts take on a different character than the storefront around the city. it has a bulkhead at the base, storefront window with clear stories above. in japan town there is varied play of solids and voids, and a revealing of the storefront in layers through screening which could be metal work and wood slats and so forth. this addresses that condition in japan town. finally, looking at the public realm. balance for public and personal space design. you have the major events through out the year. you also need smaller areas for intimate gatherings daily. the guidelines look at a way to sort of integrate nature into the open space so primarily on buchanan mall and the peace plaza the main spines that anchor the community but also addressing more challenging conditions such as geary boulevard which cre

looking at the first guideline, which is organized new development to support peace pagoda is a visual landmark, this was one feature that was unanimously brought up from the community that was very important to preserve the character and the views of the peace pagoda. we previously provided some information about how that could be preserved, but in follow-up board meetings and talking to the communities we determined that they had to figure out what views need to be preserved. for example, the fuse from buchanan mall and the plaza, but also approaches from gary boulevard and from webster street as well as the pedestrian passover. we dug a little deeper to determine what elements those are that could allow that, but also not overly burdened developers in doing major setbacks or anything of that nature. and next is architecture. so use transparency, translucency and layering at the ground-floor faÇade. this touches upon a lot of the japanese design elements in japan town which are a little bit different, but there is overlap. you can see some of the elements and in the expression of str