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TRANSIT ZONING CODE : Architectural Standards -Building Types <br />Illustrative Axonometdc Diagram <br />Illustrative Phobic Tower on Podium <br />Illutrative Photo: Tower with shop front <br />Left Illustrative <br />Photo:Tower-on <br />podium <br />Sec. 41-2021.Tmer-on Podium Building Type <br />(a) Tmweron-Podium Is a multi -level building organized around a central core with the first two to <br />five Boron expressed as a podium building. <br />(b) Lot Width and <br />(1) Entrance to the tower shall be through a street level lobby. <br />(2) Entrance to each ground floor unit shall be directly from the street at West every 50 feet. The <br />entrance to each podium floor unit shall be directly from the podium. <br />(3) Access to all other units shall be through a lobby and elevator. <br />(41 Access to each unit above the third level, not accessed through a podium, shall be through a <br />central interior corridor of at least 6 feet in width with recessed doors Or seating alcmes/off. <br />sets at least every 100 het. <br />(5) Each level of the building shall have access to the garage via an elevator. <br />(6) Entrance to the residential portion of the building shall be through a dedicated Street level <br />lobby, or through a dedicated podium lobby accessible from the street or through a side yard. <br />(d) Parking Standards <br />(U Required parking shall be in a completely concealed garage. If the garage Is partially or wholly <br />on the ground, then It shall be lined by a commercial or residential units. <br />(2) Dwellings shall have Indirect access to their parking stall(s). <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 />(2) Mail boxes shall not be located in any required open space, landscape cur setback areas or <br />detract from the primary entrance to the development. <br />(f) Open Space Standards <br />(1) A quadrangle -shaped common open space (heremaher'quarl) of at least 20 percent of the <br />lot shall be located on the ground level, on a podium or on a roof garden. The quad shall be <br />open to the sky. <br />(2) Minimum dimensions for the quad shall be 60 feet in each direction. Permitted frontage <br />types and architectural projections are permitted on all sides of the quad provided that the <br />overall minimum dimension of quad Is maintained. <br />(3) Private open space shall be provided for each residential unit and shall be no less than 50 <br />square fear with a minimum dimension of 6 feet In each direction. <br />(4) Private open space may be substituted for additional Common open space or common inte- <br />rior space, the size of which will be equivalent to the displaced private open space. The minl- <br />mum dimension of this space shall be 20 feet in each direction. <br />(g) Landscape Standards <br />(1) A minimum of four (4), 36-Inch box canopy trees shall be planted per quad. <br />(2) where side yards are present, one (1) 24-inch box tree per 30lineal feat to protect privacy of <br />neighbors. The trees may be placed In groups In order to achieve a particular design. <br />(3) Smaller quads in interior courtyards will require shade tolerant plant materials. <br />(4) Six (6), five -gallon size shrubs, ten (10) one -gallon size herbaceous perennlals/shrobs and turf <br />or acceptable dry, climate ground cover shall be planted for every required tree. <br />(h) Frontage Standards <br />(1) Arcades, galleries, shopfront and forecourt may not encroach Into the required minimum <br />dimension of a quad. <br />(B Building Size and Massing Standards <br />(1) Buildings shall be composed of bases and towers. Bases shall be 2 to 5 stories with towers rep. <br />resenting a proportionally smaller footprint as specified In Table BT-3, entitled Maximum Ratio <br />for each Tower -on -Podium Story and composed as bundles of different heights to enrich the <br />Skyline of the city. <br />(2)Buildings may contain any of types of dwellings: flats, townhouses and lofts. <br />(3) Units may be as repetitive or unique as deemed by individual designs. <br />(4) Buildings may be composed of one dominant volume, flanked by secondary ones. <br />(5) The Towerson-Podium shall comply with the height ratios established In Table 87--3: <br />Table BT-3. Maximum Ratio for Each Tower -on -Podium Story <br />Mavlmum Ratio of each Tower -on -Podium Story <br />STORY <br />Ground Floor <br />2-5 <br />6 G(or middle 3/5 of the <br />2135(on top 1/5 of <br />35% <br />%ofgrood! <br />1" <br />10096 <br />Small) <br />[11 For any percentage less than 100%, the percentage rehrs to the percentage of the ground <br />floor footprint of the building area that is permitted for this particular story. <br />(j) Accessory Dwellings. Accessory dwellings shall not be permitted. <br />BU Accessory Structures. Accessory structures shall not be permitted. <br />4:5 TRANSIT ZONING CODE <br />SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT 84 <br />City of Santa Ana, California <br />11 A-29 <br />