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TRANSIT ZONING CODE : Architectural Standards -Building Types Matter" Photo: Sligle dwellirsg with hag yard frontage Illustrative Plato: Single dwelling with hontyard frontage Muslim ore Phu $1,40 dwellings with frontyard homage SeC41-2032. 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 pemgtted by the applicable zone. 1yyYYY YYVY-Y"I-r-rYYY' (1) The main entrance to the house shall Ise accessed directly from and face the street. (2) Where an alky n but present, parking and services shall he accessed by of a driveway 8 to 10 feet wide, and with 2-foot planters on each side. (3) On a corner of without access to an alley, policing 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 cars side by side or 3 cars in a tandem configuration. (3) An alkyaccessed garage may accommodate up to three cars side by side. (4) Additional par4lrsg may be provided in the driveway. (5) A street -facing garage shall have 1-car garage doors and driveways no more than 8 feet wide that are sepersted by planters at least 2 Net wide. (a) Service Standards (1) Where an alley is hot present, services including utility access, above ground equipment and bash containers shall be located at least 10 Net behind the front of the house and be screened from view from the street with a hedge or sdld fence. (f) Open Space Standards (1) Private Olsen 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 shall be designed to pfovlde 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 SectiM. (g) Landscape Standards (1) Landscape shall not obscure front yards on adjacent lots. Front yards trees shall rot emeed 1.5 times the heght of the Porch at maturity, except at the margins of the lot where they may be rig more than 13 times the height of building at maturity. Trees shall be planted at the ,are of we (1) 36-inch box tree per 25 lineal feet of front yard. Trees may be placed in groups in Older to achkve a particular design. (21 In the rear yard, at least one (1) 24-Inch canopy time shall be provided for shade and privacy. (3) Side yard trees shall be planted in required yards a rate of one (1) 241nch box tme per 25 an- eal feet to protect the privacy of neighbors. (4) Six (6) 5-9a11on shrubs, ten (10) oneyallon size hwbxceous peren rrals/shrulas and turf or acceptable dry climate ground cover shall be planted for every required tree. (h) Frontage Standards (1) A houses ground level shall be designed so that social areas such as the living roan, family room, dining room rather than sleeping and service rooms, are oriented toward the fronting street. (i) Building Size and Massing Standards (I ) Building elevations abutting side yards shall be desgrsed 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 corner lots shall be designed with two front facades. (3) Buildings shall W composed of one and/ or two story volumes, each designed to house scale. (4) A house shall comply with the height ratios established in Table BT-14, entitled Maximum Ratio for Each House Story. Table IFF14 Maximum Falb of eacA Noae sorry CileYM FbOl 2 %cogrwaw lore% foyer by tray W%Iil PI For any percentage less than IDO%, the percentage refers to the percentage of the ground Igor footprint of the Wilding area that is permitted for this particular story. W Accessory Owellinga Accessory dwellings arc pefmRed subject W the roquk nets of Sec 41.194 - second dwelling units. (k) Accessory Structures, Accessory structures are permitted. 422 TRANSIT ZONING CODE SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT a4 City of Santa Are. California 7 5A-59