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TRANSIT ZONING CODE : Architectural Standards -Building Types fiktstriebw Axonometrk Diagram Mushadve Phota Ttwwr on Podium Illustrative Photo: Tower with stoop front Left Illustrative Photo: Tower -on podium Sec. 41-2021.Tower-on Podium Building Type (a) Toweron-0adium is a mus"vel building organized around a central core with the first two to five Boors expmaed as a podium building. (b) Lot Width and Depth. .Themnimum and maxi mum lot Nth and the minimum lot depth shall be as prescribed' T bielyi (Perm'tted fluddino TvossEL (0 Access Standards (1) Entrance to the tower shall be through a street level lobby. (2) Entrance to each ground floor unit shall be directly from the street at least every 50 feet The entrance to each Podium floor unit shall be directly from the podium. (3) Access to all other units shall be through a lobby and elevator. 14) Access to each unit above the third level, not accessed through a podium, shall be through a central interior corridor of at least 6 feet in welsh with recessed doors or seating akmes/ofi sets at least every IDO feet. (S) Each level of the building shall have access to the garage via an elevator. (6) Entrance to the residential Portion of Me building shall be through a dedicated street level lobby, or through a dedicated Podium lobby accessible from the street or through a side yard. (d) Parking Standards (1) Required Parking shall be in a completely concealed garage. tithe garage is partially or wholly on the ground, then it shall be lined by a commercial or residential units. (2) Dwellings shall have vid iced access to their Parking stalls). (e) Service Standards (1) utility meters shall be screened from view from the street and shall not be located within any required landscape or setback area. (2) Mail boxes 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) A quadrangle -shaped common open space (hereinafter quad') of at least 20 percent of Me lot shall be located on the ground level, on a podium or on a roof garden. The quad shall be open to the sky. (2) Minimum dimensions for the quad shall be 6o Irwin each direction. Pefmined frontage types and architectural projections are permitted on all sides of the quad provided that the overall minimum dimension of quad is maintained. (3) Private open space shall be provided for each residential unit and shall be no less than SO square feet with a minimum dimension of 6 feet in each difection. (4) Private open space may be substituted for additional common open space or common inte- rior space, the size of which will be equivalent to the displaced private open space. The mini- mum dimension of this space shall be 20 feet in each direction. (g) Landscape Standards (1) A minimum of four (4), 36-Inch box canopy trees shall he planted per quad. (2) Where side yards are present, one (1) 24-inch box tree per 30 lineal feet to protect privacy of neighbors. The trees may be placed in groups in order to achieve a particular design. (3) Smaller quads in interior courtyards will require shade tolerant plant materials. (4) Six (6). five-galion size shrubs, ten (10) one -gallon size herbaceous perennials/shmbs and turf or acceptable dry climate grourN cover shall be planted for every required tree. (h) Frontage Standards (1) Arcades, galleries, shophom and foracourt may not encroach Into the required minimum dimension of a quad. (1) Building So. and Massing Standards (1) Bul Nings shall be composed of bases and towers. Bases shall be 2 to 5 stories with towers rep- resenting a proportionally smaller footprint as specified in Table BT-3, entitled Maximum Ratio for each Towar-on-Podium Story and composed as bundles of different heights to enrich the Skyline of the City. (2) Buildings may contain any of 3 types of dwellings: flats, townhouses and lofts. (3) Units may be as repetitive or unique as deemed by individual designs. (4) Buildings may, be composed of one dominant volume, flanked by secondary ones. (5)The Towmrs APodium shall comply with the height ratios established in Table BT-3: Table Bf-3. Madhnurs Ratio for Eachlrovsam mPosium Story shad.um Wtlo Meac6Towerbn m5rory STORY Ground Floor ,, E-20 (or middle 3/5 of the 21-25 (or top 115 of she builklanol %cfgroulN Asm 100% IN SOAII] 35% [1I For any Percentage less than 100%, the Percentage refers to the percentage of the ground floor footprint of the building area that is Permitted for this particular story. W AccessoryDwelYngs. Accessorydwellings shall nwtbe pemMed. (k) Accessory Structures. Accessory structures shall not be Permitted. 43 TRANSIT ZONING CODE SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT 84 City of Santa Ana, California 7 5A-37