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Ordinance No. NS-XXX
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<br />zones) as the spatial basis for regulating development, directly reflects the
<br />functions of, and interrelationships between, each part of the plan area. The zones
<br />also effectively implement the City’s urban design objectives for each part of the
<br />plan area, to establish and maintain attractive distinctions between each zone. This
<br />is why some parcels are zoned with more than one zone. In such cases, the zoning
<br />is divided along a clear boundary such as the middle of a block.
<br />The zones of this Regulating Plan allocate architectural types, frontage types, and
<br />land uses within the plan area, as well as providing detailed standards for building
<br />placement, height and profile. Figure 2.1 identifies the eight (8) zones applied
<br />within the plan area as they relate to existing rights-of-way and parcels.
<br />(b) Zones established. The following zones are applicable to this specific plan, and
<br />applied to property within the boundary as shown on the Regulating Plan.
<br />(1)Transit Village (TV) Zone.
<br />The Transit Village zone is intended to provide standards for compact transit-
<br />supportive mixed-use/residential development. This zone is characterized by a
<br />wide range of building intensity, including mixed-use tower-on-podium
<br />buildings, flex blocks, liners, stacked flats, and courtyard housing. The zone
<br />accommodates retail, restaurant, entertainment, and other pedestrian-oriented
<br />uses at street level, with offices and flats above in the mixed-use building types,
<br />at high intensities and densities. The landscape palette is urban, with shading
<br />and accent street trees in parkway strips along Santa Ana Boulevard, and in
<br />sidewalk tree wells where on-street parking is provided. Parking is
<br />accommodated on-street, in structures with liner buildings, and underground.
<br />(2)Government Center (GC) Zone.
<br />This area accommodates a wide variety of civic uses, including Federal, State,
<br />and local government offices and services, libraries, museums, community
<br />centers, and other civic assembly facilities and is identified, but not regulated,
<br />by this Article. Refer to City requirements as identified in SAMC Chapter 41.
<br />Building types vary according to their public purpose, are programmed by the
<br />various government agencies for their specific sites, and therefore are not
<br />coded by this Article. The landscape style is urban, emphasizing shading street
<br />trees in sidewalk tree wells, and in landscaped public plazas.
<br />(3)Downtown (DT) Zone.
<br />This zone is applied to the historical shopping district of Santa Ana, a vital,
<br />pedestrian-oriented area that is defined by multi-story urban building types (flex
<br />blocks, live-work, stacked dwellings, and courtyard housing in the Downtown
<br />edges) accommodating a mixture of retail, office, light service, and residential
<br />uses. The standards of this zone are intended to reinforce the form and
<br />character represented by pre-World War II buildings and recognized as a
<br />National Historic District, through restoration, rehabilitation, and context-
<br />sensitive infill. The standards also facilitate the replacement or improvement of
<br />post-war development that eliminated the pedestrian orientation of various
<br />downtown blocks (for example, parking structures with no features of
<br />pedestrian interest along their entire lengths). The landscape style is urban,
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