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TRANSIT ZONING CODE ;Architectural Standards -Building Types <br />Yuoauw Photm COwryerd with fountain and Individual gar - <br />Illustrative Phom: Courtyard with zaguan finking two court- <br />Sec. 41-2026. Courtyard Housing Building Type <br />(a) Courtyard Housing is a building type consisting of residences that may be arranged in bur pos- <br />sible configurations: townhouses, townhouses over flaLL fiats, and flats over Bats. The structures are <br />a nex to each other on one or more courts that are part or whol o n to the street <br />(b) Lot Width and DepM. ' ell hallbei(XIN, 1. IN <br />The mini mum and maximum lot wWth <br />nd N I lot deoth alsaI be,, mqObed In Tabl BT-1 Term fled 8, ld'na Tvoesl <br />(c) Access Standards <br />(p The main entry to each ground floor unit shall be directly o8 a common courtyard or from the <br />street. <br />(2) Access to second story units not accessed directly from a podium shall be through stairs, serving <br />up to 3 units. <br />(3) Elevator access, it any, shall be provided between the garage and courtyard/podium only. <br />(d) Parking Standards <br />(1) Required parking shall be accommodated in an underground or aboveground garage, surface <br />parking, tuck under parking or a combination thereof <br />(2) Dwellings may have direct or indirect access to their parking stalys), or direct access to stalls <br />enclosed within the garage. <br />(a) Service Standards <br />(1) Utility meters shall be screened from view from the street and shall not be located within any <br />required landscape or setback area. <br />(f) Open Space Standards <br />(1) The common open space shall be designed as a central courtyard or partial m lusher separated <br />or interconnected courtyards. The common opne space shall be at least 15 percent of the lot <br />and must be open to the sky. <br />(2) Courtyard proportions shall not be less than 1:1 between the width of the courtyard and height <br />of the building for at least 2/3 of the coat s perimeter. Horizontal shifts in upper Boors adjacent <br />to a court shall not exceed 1/2 the height of each upper Boor. In a project with mukiple court- <br />yards, at least two of the courtyards shall conform to the patterns above. <br />(3) In 40 foot wide courtyards, frontages and architectural projections are permitted on two oppos- <br />Irg sides of the courtyard provided that an overall minimum width of 40 feet is maintained. <br />Frontages and architectural projections are permitted on one side of a 30 foot wide courtyard <br />provided an Overall minimum width of 30 feet is maintained. <br />(4) Courtyards shall be connected to each other and to the public way by zaguans or pasaos <br />(5) Private open space is required for each residential unit and shall be no less than SG square feet <br />with a minimum dimension of 6 feet in each direction. <br />(6) Private open space may be substituted for additional common Open space or common interim <br />space, the size of which shall be equivalent to the displaced private open space. The minimum <br />dltension of this space shall be 15 feet in each direction. <br />(g) Landscape Standards <br />(1) Landscape shall not obscure front yards on adjacent lots or the shopfront of ground floor flex <br />space. Front yard trees shall not exceed 1.5 times the height of the porch at maturity, except <br />at the margins of the lot, where they may be no more than 1.5 times the height of building at <br />maturity Trees shall be planted at the rate of one (1) 36-inch box tree per 25 lineal feet of front <br />yard. Trees may be placed in groups in order to achieve a particular design. <br />(2)ln the rear yard, at least one (1) 24-inch campy tree per 25 lineal feet shall be planted directly in <br />the ground. <br />(3) One 36-inch box specimen tree is required per courtyard that meets the minimum dimensions. <br />For courtyards that exceed the minimum dimensions, two or more 24-inch box smaller size trees <br />may be substituted for me 36-inch box tree. <br />(4) In courtyards over garages, one (1) 24Anch box size tree of small scale 02-15' height at maturity) <br />or similar tall shrubs shall be used In planters with a 36' minimum dimension. <br />(5) Side yard trees shall be placed at a rate of one (1) 24-inch boa tree per 30 lineal feet for privacy of <br />neighbors. <br />(6) Six (6) 5-gallon size shrubs ten (10) one -gallon size herbaceous perennials/shrubs and tuff a <br />acceptable dry climate ground cover shall be planted for every required tree. <br />(h) Frontage Standards <br />(1) Entrance doors and social rooms such as win, roans and dining rooms are oriented toward Me <br />courtyard(,) and the hunting street. Service rooms shall be Oriented backing to side yards, ser- <br />vice yards and rear yards to the degree possible. <br />(2) frontages and architectural projections or features such as towers, loggias and entry stairs shall <br />not encroach into the required minimum dimension W a courtyard. <br />(5) Stoops up to 3 feet in height may be placed above subterranean parking, provided the area adja- <br />cent Is landscaped and the stoops are scaled to the street and building. <br />(i) Building Size and Massing Standards <br />(1) Buildings shall be composed of one, two and three story masses, each designed to house scale, <br />and not necessarily representing a single dwelling. <br />(2) 34" buildings shag be composed of single story and stacked units. In this Case, the visibility of <br />elevators and of exterior corridors at the third stay shell be minimized by incorporation into the <br />mass of me building. <br />(3) Buildings may contain any three types of dwellings. Bats, townhouses, and lofts. <br />(4) Units may to be as repetitive or unique as deemed by individual designs <br />(5) 4 and 5-story muses shall be minimized inside courtyards and apparent m atseet homages <br />(6)The intent of these standards Is to provide for courtyard housing projects with varying building <br />heights. Courtyard housing shall comply with the height ratios established in Table ST-8, entitled <br />Maximum Ratio for Each Courtyard Housino Story <br />Table fT4F <br />MNdnRlrn Red. eF Fads casetyeld l4wRYg sly <br />STORY <br />CeoVnd poor <br />2 <br />l <br />4 <br />S <br />slofgraexl <br />Boor by w <br />I00% <br />,ro% <br />aswll <br />nif, <br />40% <br />[II For any perttnta,.less than IDml the percentage relers I Me pwanUW of the ground Boor <br />footprint a Me building area that is permhted M this particutir story. <br />(I) Accessory Dwellings: AccessorydwelBngs"llnotbeperMtEed <br />4:15 TRANSIT ZONING CODE (k)Accessory Structures shall not be permitted. Detached garages shall be pennbte0. <br />SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT e4 <br />City of Sent. Ana, California 7 5A-47 <br />