2004-021 - Increase Floor Area Ratio of the One Broadway Plaza District Center

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URBAN DESIGN ELEMENT Courthouae (on Santa Ana Boulevard in Downtown) and the Water Tower located on Penn Way near the Santa Ana freeway. Other landmarks!n the City are new places that have established a reputation and recognition as landmarks in the City. These Include: the One Broadway Plaza. Xerox Center Tower. Main Place Mall. the Regional Transportation Center {RTC}, Hotel Terrace. Mutton center/MacArthur Place. the Federal Courthouse (Centrepointe site), and the Diacovery Science Center. The City has no other cityWide or regionally recogniZed landmarks, even though at the local level. neighborhooda do have reference points that act as local landmarks in their communitle8, often these are school .sites, church buildings, or a well established comer store. Gateways Gateways located at the CIty's northern and eastern borders are clearty defined. The SP8C8$ in these areas ha\l8 characteristics that create a $8018 of arrival by means of changes in the character and appearance. For example a sudden change in building height, generously landscaped yards. or other changes In amenities and/or design, announce a different kind of ptace. In arriving to the City from the south. a sense of arrival doe$ not occur untn well into the South Main Street district, when the homogeneity of the urban form begins to define the district. Gateways located within the west side of the City, along Harbor Boulev8'd. exist because of the Immediate loss of continuity and the variety of activities and development 8peåflcally. there are a number of gateways found In the City which are identified by posted signs, landscaped medians, or monument. signs situated at major Intersections within the City limits. Some posted entry points to the City do not meet the definition of a "gateway" because they did not convey. 8en88 of amval to the City. On the other hand. there were several points of entry where the "arrival at a speds.' place" is more clearly defined. For example, the northem part of the City has distinctive gateways at Bristol Street. Main Street. and at the Santa Ana Freeway. There are also recognizable gateways to the east. at Seventeenth Street. the Santa Ana Freeway, and Edinger Avenue. Incidentally, the lack of gateways in many places coincides with those ar... where districts have gradually expanded outside the City as they merged with the surrounding communities. In many instances, these districts are perceived to be part of the neighboring cities. For example, thecomars of Bristot Street and Sunflower Avenue, Dyer Road and Red Hill Avenue, First and Euclid Streets, and Harbor Boulevard and Seventeenth Street. Resolution No. 2004-021 Page 44 of 44 -' .-- II ~"