75G - PH AMEND TRANSIT ZONING CODE

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TRANSIT ZONING CODE : Architectural Standards -Building Types Illustrative Photo: Stacked Dwellings with a stoop entry Illustrative Photo: Stacked Dwellings with stoops Sec. 41.2024. Stacked Dwellings Building Type. (a) A Sucked Dwelling Is a structure of single -floor or muhbfioor dwellings of similar configuration either above or below that are sucked. (b) Lot Width and Depth.41 re I in it on lot idd 1109 be Me feet . d tire Irwin . .. met v led I hall - be The minimum and maxims lot Idth d th i i I t d th h 11 bmasp,escribedInTableffM 1 ice d B Td' T 1 W Access Standards (1) Entrance to the residential portions of the building shall be through a street level lobby, court- yard access, or through a combination of streetYpodium lobby directly accessible from the street (2)The main entrance to each ground goorunit shall be duectlyftom the street Secondaryaccess shall be through an elevator and corridor. (3) Access to each unR above the second level, not accessed through a podium, Is through an late. rior corridor of at least 6 feet in width with recessed doon or seating alcoves/offset, at last every 100 feet (4) Each level of the building shall have access to the garage viz an elevator. (d) Parking Standards (1) Required parking shall be accommodated in an underground garage, surface parking, tuck under parking, or a combination thereof. (2) Dwellings shall have indirect access to their parking stall(c). (a) Service Standards (1) Utility meted shall be screened from view from the street and shall not be located within any required undsupe or setback area. (2) Mail bases shall not be located In any required open space, landscape or setback areas or detract from the primary entrance to the development (f) Open Space Standards (1) The common open space shall be at 8 a es or de at designed as a courtyard. This corn - man open space shall be equal to 15 percent of the lot and open to the sky. Courtyards may be located on the ground or on a podium. Side yards may be formed as common use gardens. (2) Minimum courtyard dimension Is 40 feet when the long axis of the Courtyard is oriented EN and 30 feet for a NS orientation. Courtyard proportions shall not be less than 1:1 between the width of the courtyard and the height of the building for at least 2/3 of the courys perimeter. Horizontal shifts in upper floors adjacent to a court shall not exceed 112 the height of each upper Floor. (3) In 40 foot wide courtyards, frontages and archite trend projections are permitted on two opposing sides of the courtyard provided a minimum courtyard width of40 feet Is maintained Frontages and arch6tectural projections are permitted on one side of a 30 foot wide courtyard provided a minimum courtyard width of 30 feet is mainulned (4) Private open space shall be provided for each Residential unit and shall be ma less than SO square feet with a mWmum dimension of 6 feet in each direction. (5) Private open space may be substituted for additiorul Common open space or common interior apace, the size of which wi0 be equivalent to the displaced private open space. The minimum dimension of this space shall be 15 feet In each direction. (g) Landscape Standards (1) Front yard trees shall not exceed the height of the buildings at maturity, except at the margins of the lot, where they may be used to frame and separate the building from its neighbors. The trees shall be punted at the rate of one (1) 244nch bins tree per 25 lineal feet of front yard The trees may be placed in groups In order to adds"a particular design. (2) In the may yard, at least one (1) 364nch box canopy tree per 30 lineal feet shall be planted directlyin the ground (3) Courtyards located over garages shall be designed to avoid the sensation of forced podium harchope. (4) One 364nch box specimen tree is required per courtyard that meets the minimum dimen- slons. For courtyards that exceed the minimum dimensions, two or more 244nch box smaller size trees may be substituted for the 36-Inch box tree. (5) Sul (6) 5ga0on size shrubs, ten (10) one -gallon size herbaceous perennuWshrubs and turf or acceptable dry c0mate ground cover shall be planted for everyrequired bee. (6) Side yard bees shall be placed to create a particular sense of place at a rate of one 24-inch box tree per 301ineal feet (h) Frontage Standards (1) Living rooms, dining rooms and bedrooms arc oriented fronting toward the courtyard(s) or street Service rooms are oriented backing to casddors. Bg Stoops up to feet in height may be placed above subterranean parking, provided the area 0) Building Size and Massing Standards (1) Buildings may contain any of 3 types of dwellings nets townhouses and lofts. (2) Units may be as repetitive or unique as deemed by individual designs. (3) Buildings may be composed of one dominant volume, flanked by secondary ones. (4) Each unit shall have at least one side exposed to the outdoors with direct access to common or private open space. (5) A Sucked Dwellings shall comply with the height ratios established in Table Br6 entitled Maximum Ratio for Each Sucked Dwellings Story. Table BT6 Maximum Bar. of each Stacked Dwellings Mory STORY Graved Floor %ofgmund floorbyst4ry 10011, loft naj%lll 5085% 111 Foranypertentage less than la0%,the percentage alert In she pswernipsiftire ground lbor footprint of the building area that 4 permined for Nu particularstory. B) Accessory Dwellings Accessory dwellings shag Fiat be permitted (k) Accessory Structures A xessory structures shall not be permitted 4:11 TRANSIT ZONING CODE SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT 04 City of Santa Ana, L16famu 75G-60