75G - PH AMEND TRANSIT ZONING CODE

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TRANSIT ZONING CODE Architectural Standards -Building Types Illustrative Photo: Single dwelling with frontyard frontage Illustrative Photo: Single dwellings with frontyard frontage Sec.41-2032. House Building Type. (a) House is a structure occupied by one primary residence that also accommodates commercial and office uses as permitted allowed. Such buildings may be used for residentiat office, retail or in combination as permitted by the applicable some. (b) Lot Width and Depth The minimum and maximum lot width and the minimum lot depth shall he as wrescribed In Tableefd (Permitted Bu Idica Tvnesl (c) Access Standards (1) The main entrance to the house shall be accessed directly from and face the street (2) Where an alley is not present parking and services shag be accessed by of a driveway to 10 feet wide, and with 2-foot planters on each side (3) On a comer lot without access to an alley, parking and services shall be accessed from the side street (d) Parking Standards (1) Required residential parking shall be within a garage. (2) Street facing garage may accommodate no more than 2 can side by side or 3 can in a tandem configuration. (3) An ageyaccessed garage may accommodate up to three Cars side by side. (4) Additional parking may be provided in the driveway. (5) A street -facing garage shall have 1-car garage dawn and driveways no more than 8 feet wide that are seperated by planters at least 2 feet wide. (e) Service Standards (1) Where an alley h not present services Including utigtyaccess, above ground equipment and trash containers shall be located at least 10 feet behind the front of the house and be screened fmmview from the street with a hedge or solid fence. (f) Open Space Standards (1) Private open space shag be located In the rear or side yard and shall be no less than 15 per - sent of the area of the lot of a regular geometry and open to the sky. The minimum dimen- sion for this area shag be 15 feet in each direction. (2) At least one side yard shag be designed to provide an open area no less than 10 feet by 10 feet (3) Porches and stoops may encroach Into a required yard, as specified by the zone requirement section. (g) landscape Standards (1) Landscape shag not obscure front yards on adjacent lots. Front yards trees shall not exceed 15 times the height of the porch at maturity, except at the margins of the lot where they may be no more than 15 times the height of building at maturity. Trees shall be planted at the rate of one (1) 364nch box tree per 25 lineal feet of from yard. Trees may be placed In groups In order to achieve a particular design. (2) In the rear yard, at least one (1) 244nch canopy tree shall be provided for shade and privacy. (3) Side yard trees shag be planted in required yards a rate of one (1) 244nch box tree per25 lin- eal feet to protect the privacy of neighbors. (4) Six (6) 5-gallon shrub; ten (10) one -gallon size herbaceous perennials/shrubs and turf or acceptable dry climate ground cover shall be planted for every required tree (h) Fromage5tandards (1) A housek ground level shall be designed so that social areas such as the living room family room dining room rather than sleeping and service rooms, are oriented toward the fronting street 0) Building Size and Massing Standards (1) Building elevations abutting side yards shall be designed to provide at least one horizontal plane break of at least three feet and one vertical break of at least two feet (2) Houses on comer lots shall be designed with two front facades. (3) Buildings shall be composed of one and/ or two storyvolumet each designed to house scale. (4) A house shall comply with the height ratios established In Table BTA4, entitled Maximum Ratio for Each House Story. Table U-14 Maximum Ra600feach House Story Ground Floor 2 %ofground Boorbystory 10016 Mill 111 for any Pertenngefth Handing a that tagereferstothe P ticulage ofthe ground fbarfootpdntof the building area that is pemtlned forlhts particular story. (j) AccessoryDwelings Accessory dwellings are peringed subject to the requirements of 5ee 41.194 -second dwelling unlit. (k) Accessory Sbuccures. Accessory structures are permitted 437 TRANSIT ZONING CODE SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT 84 City of Santa Ana, California 75G-44