Item 18 - Appeal Application Nos. 2023-02 and 2023-03 for Cabrillo Town Center project

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Examples of these would include parks, trails, pathways, nature centers, archaeological, historical resources, and architectural features. With respect to the Overlay Zone area, First Street and Fourth Street qualify as scenic resources under this definition due to their local designation as major city entries within the Scenic Corridors Element of the City's General Plan. The Overlay Zone seeks to provide an integrated and revitalized urban area and would guide the future development and improvements of the Overlay Zone area through implementation of the associated development standards. Development under the Overlay Zone would introduce development forms and uses that will provide for the creation of a high -intensity, mixed -use urban village within a previously developed mid -rise to high-rise office environment. The majority of the Overlay Zone is developed. However, the Overlay Zone would establish the framework for a new development pattern in the area through the re -use and revitalization of existing uses. Implementation of the Overlay Zone would serve to guide future development in the Overlay Zone such that the physical design of the proposed uses would enhance the visual character and quality of the area. The Overlay Zone is divided into four distinct districts: the Neighborhood Transitional District, the Village Center District, the Active Urban District, and the Office District. These four districts would contain varying mixtures of building heights and aesthetic characteristics to create a vibrant urban mixed -use area in the heavily traveled eastern entryway of the City. New structures could range in height from one or two stories, up to 20+ stories. Future development within the Overlay Zone would provide an effective new gateway into the City and could provide a prominent skyline of taller buildings. Both visual attributes would help signify a new, distinctive identity for the City. The varying heights and massing of new buildings would provide a distinctive skyline with planar changes that would create visual interest in the area. The inclusion of ground -floor commercial space at strategic locations, as well as a highly -integrated pedestrian system throughout the Overlay Zone area would also create an internal physical and visual connection for pedestrians with adjacent mixed -use buildings, where one does not exist. Existing views of the Overlay Zone are primarily available from adjacent commercial and office uses, as well as from portions of First Street, Fourth Street, Interstate 5, State Route 55, and Tustin Avenue. Limited views of the Overlay Zone are available from the residential uses to the north. The existing views of the area could be significantly altered with the introduction of revitalized development. Views of the project site from the 1-5, SR-55, and First and Fourth Streets would be most significantly altered, as the Overlay Zone area as a whole is most visible when traveling along these routes. Sensitive receptors located near the Overlay Zone area include residences adjacent to the northern boundary of the Overlay Zone area, north of Sixth Street. Under the Overlay Zone, the Neighborhood Transitional District would frame the northern boundary of the Overlay Zone area, and the scale and design of buildings in this area would reflect the relationship to the adjacent residential uses. Specifically, this district is intended to provide opportunities for low -intensity development that acts as a transition between single-family residential uses to the north and the Cabrillo Town Center City of Santa Ana Technical Memorandum August 2023 City Council 18 — 489 10/3/2023