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<br />Midtown Specific Plan <br /> <br />CIRCULATION <br /> <br />CIRCULATION PLAN <br /> <br />Traffic and circulation analysis was completed as part of the <br />evaluation of proposed conceptual land use plans for the Midtown <br />District. The development envisioned for the study area, which <br />consists of a variety of land uses and proposed parking facilities, <br />would impact the circulation conditions in the study area. The study <br />area is in close proximity to the Santa Ana Freeway (1-5) with <br />convenient access to the Orange (SR-57), Costa Mesa (SR-55) and <br />Garden Grove (SR-22) Freeways. <br /> <br />Circulation System Principles <br /> <br />Maintain Broadway and Main Street as enhanced visual corridors <br />while ensuring that north/south arterial capacities are maintained. <br /> <br />. Encourage safe pedestrian flow internal to the existing block <br />setting. <br /> <br />. Encourage pedestrians to use crosswalks across, Main <br />Street/Broadway where signal control is available. <br /> <br />. Prohibit on-street parking along Main Street and Broadway. <br /> <br />. Encourage access to parking lots/structures from secondary <br />east/west streets. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Locate parking facilities so that pedestrians are encouraged to <br />cross streets safely. <br /> <br />Protect Bush Street and Sycamore Street from heavy traffic to <br />preserve and promote their character. <br /> <br />. Evaluate the use of stop sign control on Sycamore Street at <br />Ninth. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Increase car carrying capacity of parallel streets, Broadway and <br />Main Streets. <br /> <br />Evaluate the potential for new east/west streets and pedestrian <br />access paths, on-street parking, further definition of grid pattern, and <br />interdistrict circulation. Maintain the function of Civic Center Drive, <br />and Tenth, Washington and Seventeenth Streets as east/west <br />connectors by maintaining their current capacities. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Provide east/west pedestrian paths by extending Ninth, <br />Eleventh, and Fourteenth Streets across the study area, per the <br />concept plan and plan principles. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Discourage access to parking lots/structures from Civic Center <br />Drive, Washington and Seventeenth Streets. <br /> <br />Enhance traffic flow along Civic Center Drive, and Tenth, <br />Washington and Seventeenth Streets by not allowing on-street <br />parking. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Vehicular Circulation Plan <br /> <br />The potential measures to implement the principles have been <br />identified and are listed above. The circulation plan for the Midtown <br />District is illustrated in Exhibit 45, Circulation Plan. The circulation <br />plan incorporates a majority of the measures listed above. Some of <br />the elements of the circulation plan as illustrated in Exhibit 46 are as <br />follows: <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Several new pedestrian pathways were recommended. <br />Pedestrian safety, minimal pedestrian/vehicular interaction were <br />considered in the recommendation of these pathways. Along <br />some pedestrian pathways, vehicular traffic is limited to <br />emergency and service vehicles only. Pedestrian crossings <br />across Main Street and Broadway were limited to .existing <br />signalized intersections. <br /> <br />No new traffic signals were recommended. Parking is <br />recommended to be removed along Main Street to enhance its <br />capacity for through traffic movement. <br /> <br />Access to the proposed parking structures was primarily <br />limited to local streets such as Bush, Sycamore, Birch, Eighth, <br />and Ninth Streets. <br /> <br />Several enhanced intersections are planned throughout the <br />City of Santa Ana to improve traffic flow on the arterial system, <br />including Main Street and Seventeenth Street, Broadway and <br />Seventeenth Street, and Main Street and First Street. <br />Enhanced intersections are assumed to have as many as two <br />left-turn lanes, three through lanes, and one right-turn lane on <br />each approach to the intersection. The built environment may <br />affect the extent to which an enhanced intersection is <br />developed. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Chapter 10: Circulation <br /> <br />91 <br />