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Ordinance No. NS-XXX
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<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.
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<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.
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<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,
<br />emphasizing shading and accent street trees in sidewalk tree wells. Parking is
<br />accommodated on-street and may also be in structures with liner buildings,
<br />underground, and within block centers in surface lots not visible from streets.
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<br />(4) Urban Center (UC) Zone.
<br />This zone is applied to the area surrounding the Downtown, which serves as a
<br />transitional area to the surrounding lower intensity neighborhoods and to other
<br />areas where mixed-use and multi-unit residential buildings create a pedestrian-
<br />oriented urban fabric. The zone provides for a variety of non-residential uses
<br />and a mix of housing types at medium intensities and densities. Besides
<br />accommodating community serving businesses, this zone may also serve the
<br />daily convenience shopping and service needs of nearby residents. Building
<br />types include mixed-use Flex Blocks, stacked flats, live-work, row- houses, and
<br />courtyard housing. The landscape is urban, emphasizing shading street trees
<br />in sidewalk tree wells. Parking is accommodated on-street and may also be in
<br />structures with liner buildings and underground in areas adjacent to the DT
<br />zone, and in surface lots away from street frontages.
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