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

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space would improve the visual character of the Project Site. The City has conducted a Site Plan Review of the Project to confirm that the Project complies with all zoning and development standards of the Overlay Zone. The City has made the following findings: Finding 1: That the proposed development plan is consistent with and will further the objectives that are outlined in Section 1.2 for the MEMU. Project Compliance: The Project will create a new mixed -use development within close proximity to office buildings, Cabrillo Park, Mabury Park, and less than two miles from Downtown Santa Ana, that provides additional opportunities to live, work, and play. The Project includes two distinct market -rate housing product types, including a townhouse development and mixed -use residential development. Each townhouse building will be three -stories in height, while the mixed - use building will be five stories with ground floor commercial/retail and residential units on upper floors, wrapped around a 6.5-level parking structure. The height of the buildings will blend in with the heights of the nearby office buildings, which range from single -story, three-story and eight -story buildings. The Project will be built to California Building Code standards, which include energy and water conservation measures and will improve pedestrian mobility by providing new sidewalks and parkways along Fourth Street and Parkcourt Place. In addition, the publicly accessible linear park along Parkcourt Place will serve as a link to the Cabrillo Park to the north. Each residential unit will have storage opportunities for personal bicycles. Additionally, public transit bus service is provided in the Project Site area by the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA). Four OCTA bus routes operate within the vicinity of the Project Site on First Street, Fourth Street, Seventeenth Street, and Tustin Avenue, which consists of the following: OCTA routes 60, 64, 71, and 463. The commercial space has been designed with retail floor heights of approximately 20 feet with storefronts that will be visible from Fourth Street and Cabrillo Park Drive. In addition, the commercial space links directly to an on -site public plaza at the corner of Fourth Street and Cabrillo Park Drive which will include outdoor dining opportunities, decorative hardscape, specimen trees and plantings, umbrellas, seating and lawn games. In addition, the ground floor residential units along Parkcourt Place will have doors and patios with direct access to the street to help activate the street. Finding 2: That the proposed development plan is consistent with the development standards specified in section 4 of the MEMU. Project Compliance: The Project is consistent with the development standards specified in Section 4 of the MEMU including land use, height, minimum development site area, building frontages, publicly accessible open space, private/common open space, building setbacks, and parking and access. The Project is a mixed -use development that has been well designed to fit within the Village Center District. Further, the access and egress for the Project has been Cabrillo Town Center City of Santa Ana Technical Memorandum August 2023 City Council 18 — 497 10/3/2023