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URBAN PLAZAS Urban plazas are small parks with hardscape and greenspace that provide social gathering opportunities in urban and commercial areas. SITE CHARACTER & ADJACENCIES • Are urban sites, primarily for social gatherings and leisure, typically found in commercial areas or office complexes • Serve the immediate area, including residents, nearby employees, patrons of nearby businesses, and visitors • May be programmed to attract people citywide • Site design should encourage interaction with the surrounding uses. SIZE & CONFIGURATION ACCESS • Accessible by auto, bus, bicycle or foot • May be located on bikeway or bike route • Sidewalks should connect to park paths for walkers • Ideally located on a transit/bus line • Frontage on a collector or arterial street PRIORITIZED RECREATION ELEMENTS • Hardscape plaza • Green landscaped areas • Small amphitheater or small event space with seatwalls • Outdoor work infrastructure, including long tables and chairs, electrical hookups, Wi-Fi, and shade ADDITIONAL RECREATION ELEMENTS TO CONSIDER • Coffee cart (operated by a concessionaire or vendor) • Small water feature, potentially with play/spray/ mist o tions that can be turned on and off Exhibit 1 PRIORITIZED SUPPORT AMENITIES • Facility access paths • Perimeter path or sidewalks • Tables, seating, bike racks, trash receptacles • Shade (trees, shelters, canopies, sails) • Park identification signage near street entry, or visible frontage • Pedestrian -scale lighting • Portable restrooms for events LANDSCAPING & VEGETATION • Medium to high -maintenance plantings, functional landscaping for most of the site • Trees for shade, habitat, and seasonal interest (evergreen and deciduous) • Drought -tolerant landscaping with drip irrigation, in accordance with WELO (California's Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance). • Bioswales for stormwater filtration ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS • Site may include a mix of hardscape, • Typically 0.5 — 3 acres in size, but may be as p • Avoid regional -scale facilities, such as sports greenscape, seating, and small event space to large as 5 acres • Art (integrated or stand-alone) arenas, arboretums, recreation centers support small social gatherings and outdoor . Minimum 0.25 acres Utilities to support special events, food carts, •Site may include restrooms and drinking work. The site is intended to provide a local place for lunches, work breaks, coffee, • Site should be relatively level and developable, farmers markets, etc. fountains, but typically does not and activities to serve the employees and although terraces may be provided • Activity stations (lighted or unlighted) customers of nedffrMdl 14 - 165 5/17/2022 Exhibit A ® SANTA ANA PARKS MASTER PLAN APPENDICES