75G - PH AMEND TRANSIT ZONING CODE

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TRANSIT ZONING CODE : Architectural Standards -Building Types Illustrative Photo: Hybrid Court access to the second level Sec 41-2025. Hybrid Court Building Type. (a) Hybrid Court is a building composed oftwo building types, the stacked dwelling and couryard housing, arranged around a murtyard(s). This building type combines a pointaccem portion of the stacked dwelling building type (aaessthrough a double loaded corridor) with a walk-up portion ofthe courtyard housing building type (access directly from the street or courtyard). The building may be designed for occupancy by retail service, or once uses on the ground floor, with upper floors also configured for those uses or for residences (b) Lot Width and Depth shall be 250 feet fire de,d of I! .The minimum and mad. BaIMiOa Tvcesl. (d Access Standards (1) The main entrance to each ground floor unit shall be directly from the street (2) Entrance to the residential portions of the stacked dwelling element shall be through a dedicated street level lobby, or through a dedicated podium lobby accessible from the street or through side yard. (3) Access to each will above the second level in the stacked dwelling element not accessed from the podium Is through an interior, double -loaded Corridor of at least 6 feet In width With recessed doors or seating alcoves/oHsets at least every 100 feet Forother units, access shall be directly of a common courtyard or through stain serving up to 3 dwell- Ings. (4) Elevator access shall be provided between the garage and each level of the stacked dwell- Ings portion of the building (d) Parking Standards (1) Required parking shall be accommodated In an underground garage, mdace parking tuck under parking, or Combination thereol. (2) Dwellings shall have Indirect access to their parking stall(s). (e) ServiceStandards (1) Utility meters shall be screened from view from the street and shall not be located within any required landscape or setback area W Mail bones 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 designed as a central courtyard or partial, multiple, separated or interconnected Courtyards. This area shall equal to 15 percent of the lot and shall be 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 dimemion is 40 feet when the long axis of the Courtyard is oriented EW and 30 feet for a INS 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 courts perimeter. Horizontal shifts in upper Boors adjacent to a court shag not exceed 1/2 the height of each upper floor. (3) In 40 foot wide Courtyards, frontages and architectural projections are permitted on two opposing sides of the Courtyard provided that an overall minimum width of40 feet Is maintained Frontages and architectural projections are permitted on one side of a 30 foot wide Courtyard provided an overall minimum width of 30 feet is maintained (4) Private open space is required for each residential unit and shall be no less than 50 square feet with a minimum dimension of 6 feet in each direction. (5) Private open space may be substituted for additional common open space or common Interior space the size of which will be equivalent to the displaced private open space. The minimum dimension of this space shall be 15 feet In each direction (g) Landscape5tandards (1) Where a front yard Is present one (1) 244nch bra Vee par25 lineal feet shag be planted The trees may be placed in groups in order to achieve a particular design. W Courtyards located met garages shag be designed to avoid the sensation of forced podi- um hardsape. (3) Side yard trees shall be placed to create a particular sense of place at a rate of one (1) 24-Inch box tree par 30lineal feet (4) One 364nch box specimen free is required per courtyard that meets the minimum dimen- sions For Courtyards that exceed the minimum dimensions, two or more 244nch box smaller size Veer may be substituted for the 361nch box live. (5) Six (6) 5-gallon size shrub; ten (10) one -gallon size herbaceous perennials/shrubs and turf or acceptable dry climate ground cover shag be planted for every required tree (6) In the met yard, at least one (1) 24-Inch box Canopy Dee per every 25lineal feet planted directly in the ground (A Front yard trees shall be of small sale that shall not exceed 12VS height at maturity and are suitable for bullt4n concrete planters or containers with a 36' minimum width (h) Frontage Standards (1) Entrance doors and social moms, such as Bring rooms and dialog rooms ere oriented frontbg toward the Courtyards) or the street when fronting one. Service roomy are ori- ented to the degree passible backing to corridors in the Stacked Dwellings portion and to side yards, service yards and rear yards In the courtyard housing portion (2) Stoops up to 3 feet in height may be placed above subtemmean parking, provided the area adjacent is landscaped and the stoops are scaled to the street and building, (0 Building Size and Massing Standards (1) Each unit shag have at least one side exposed to the outdoors with direct access private or common open space. !A Buildings may contain any of three types of dweflingc flats, townhouses and lofts (3) Units may be as repetitive or unique as deemed by Individual designs. 4.13 TRANSIT ZONING CODE SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT 04 City of Santa Ana, California 75G-61