75G - PH AMEND TRANSIT ZONING CODE

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r--- -- - ----- _ 1 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 residential, office, retail or in combination as permitted by the applicable zone. (b) Lot Width and Depth The mini mum and maximum lot Width and the minimum lot denth shall be 'bed in T bl BT I (Permitted Du 'Id'no T---1 (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 shall be accessed by of a driveway8 to 10 Net 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 alley -accessed garage may accommodate up to three cars side by side. (4) Additional parka g may be provided In the driveway. (5) A street4acing garage shall have I- rgarage doom and driveways no more than 8 feet wide that are seperated by planten at least 2 feet wide. (e) Service Standards (1) Where an alley is not present services Including utility access, above ground equipment and trash containers shag be located at least 10 feet behind the front of the house and be screened from view from the street with a hedge or solid fence. (f) Open SpaceStandards (1) PdvaW open space shall be located In the rear or side yard and shall be no less than 15 per- cent of the area of the lot of a regular geometry and open to the sky. The minimum dimen- sion for this area shall 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) Landswpe5tandards (1) Landscape shag not obscure front yards on adjacent lots Front yards trees shag Out 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 shag be planted at the rate of one (1) 364nch box tree per 25 lineal feet of front yard. Trees may be placed In groups In order to achleve a particular design. (2) In the rear yard, at least one (1) 24-Inch canopy time shall be provided for shade and privacy. (3) Side yard Imes shall be planted In required yards a rate of one (1) 24-Inch box Tree per 25lin- eal feet to protect the privacy of neighbors (4) Six (6) 5-gallon shrubs, ten (10) one -gallon size herbaceous perenNawshmbsand turf or acceptable dry climate ground cover shall be planted for every required tree. (h) Frontage Standards (I) A houses ground level shall be designed so that social areas such as the living mom, family room dining room rather than sleeping and service room; are oriented toward the fronting street (i) Building Size and Massing Standards (1) Building elevabons 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 loft shall be designed with two front facades (3) Buildings shag be composed of one and/ or two story volumes, each designed to house scale. (4) A house shag comply with the height ratios established In Table BT-14. entitled Maximum Ratio for Each House Story. Table RT-14 Maaimum RaBo of each House Star, Ground Flow 2 %ofpround Ibor try story I1XXfi 80"s111 HI Forany Peromt kasthan1W14Mepmenugerefento�percentageofthe ground Rom footprint of the building area that is permitted for Otis particular story. 0) Accessory Dwellings Accessory dwellings are pennited subject to the requirements of5ec. 41.194-Second dwelling units. W Accessory Structures Accessory structures are permitted. 432 TRANSIT ZONING CODE SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT 84 City of Santa Ana, California 7 5 G —6