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Active Urban <br />The Active Urban District is intended as the location for well -designed high-rise mixed -use <br />developments in a highly urbanized environment that capitalizes on the exposure and access <br />provided by two adjacent freeways, the Santa Ana Freeway (Interstate 5) and Costa Mesa (State <br />Route 55), and two major arterials (First and Fourth Streets and Tustin Avenue), as well as its <br />proximity of the Santa Ana Depot. Development in this District is envisioned to reflect signature <br />architecture that reinforces the identity and character of Metro East as a vibrant urban village that <br />serves as a regional employment and activity center. The Active Urban District will include major <br />office, residential, commercial, hotel, and entertainment opportunities that are more intensive in <br />scale and design than the adjacent Village Center. Developments in this District may combine <br />office, commercial, and residential uses within one vertical mixed use -building with commercial <br />on the ground floor and office or residential on the upper floors or a mix of uses within freestanding <br />buildings on the same site. Developments will be designed to showcase an amenity -enhanced <br />environment that provides numerous open space opportunities within this urban environment for <br />the enjoyment of residents, employees, and visitors, and to promote pedestrian connections <br />between this District and the Village Center as well as Cabrillo Park located north of the Overlay <br />Zone. <br />Village Center <br />The Village Center District is intended to serve as the focal point and central gathering place <br />within the Overlay Zone in well -designed highly connected development sites and public spaces. <br />The District will provide a high level of neighborhood identity and activity through its central <br />location and its emphasis on creating a vibrant, attractive, and highly -interconnected pedestrian <br />environment. Opportunities will be provided for shopping, dining, recreation, entertainment, and <br />services accessed by extensively landscaped, wide sidewalks that allow free flow between jobs, <br />housing, and commercial services, or opportunities for leisure walking within the Village Center. <br />This District will provide commercial, office, and residential uses in the same building or on the <br />same site in mid -rise buildings of between four and ten (4-10) stories in settings that provide open <br />spaces, niches, and areas for gatherings and activities along streets, paseos, and interconnecting <br />walkways that link the Village Center to adjacent districts and nearby public parks north of the <br />District. <br />Office <br />The Office District contains existing low- to high-rise office development along Tustin Avenue and <br />adjacent to Interstate Freeway. These properties were in place prior to the establishment of the <br />Overlay Zone and will retain their exclusive office zoning in order to promote and maintain a <br />healthy balance between office, commercial, and residential land uses within the Overlay Zone. <br />Cabrillo Town Center City of Santa Ana <br />TechQ" nno.,,,,r-Ji- nllpicr 2023 <br />City Council 3 18 — 437 10/3/2023 <br />