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Midtown Specific Plan CIRCULATION CIRCULATION PLAN Traffic and circulation analysis was completed as part of the evaluation of proposed conceptual land use plans for the Midtown District. The development envisioned for the study area, which consists of a variety of land uses and proposed parking facilities, would impact the circulation conditions in the study area. The study area is in close proximity to the Santa Ana Freeway (1-5) with convenient access to the Orange (SR-57), Costa Mesa (SR-55) and Garden Grove (SR-22) Freeways. Circulation System Principles Maintain Broadway and Main Street as enhanced visual corridors while ensuring that north/south arterial capacities are maintained. . Encourage safe pedestrian flow internal to the existing block setting. . Encourage pedestrians to use crosswalks across Main Street/Broadway where signal control is available. . Prohibit on-street parking along Main Street and Broadway. . Encourage access to parking lots/structures from secondary east/west streets. . Locate parking facilities so that pedestrians are encouraged to cross streets safely. Protect Bush Street and Sycamore Street from heavy traffic to preserve and promote their character. . Evaluate the use of stop sign control on Sycamore Street at Ninth. . Increase car carrying capacity of parallel streets, Broadway and Main Streets. Evaluate the potential for new east/west streets and pedestrian access paths, on-street parking, further definition of grid pattem, and interdistrict circulation. Maintain the function of Civic Center Drive, and Tenth, Washington and Seventeenth Streets as east/west connectors by maintaining their current capacities. . Provide east/west pedestrian paths by extending Ninth, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Streets across the study area, per the concept plan and plan principles. . Discourage access to parking lots/structures from Civic Center Drive, Washington and Seventeenth Streets. Enhance traffic flow along Civic Center Drive, and Tenth, Washington and Seventeenth Streets by not allowing on-street parking. . Vehicular Circulation Plan The potential measures to implement the principles have been identified and are listed above. The circulation plan for the Midtown District is illustrated in Exhibit 45, Circulation Plan. The circulation plan incorporates a majority of the measures listed above. Some of the elements of the circulation plan as illustrated in Exhibit 46 are as follows: . Several new pedestrian pathways were recommended. Pedestrian safety, minimal pedestrian/vehicular interaction were considered in the recommendation of these pathways. Along some pedestrian pathways, vehicular traffic is limited to emergency and service vehicles only. Pedestrian crossings across Main Street and Broadway were limited to .existing signalized intersections. No new traffic signals were recommended. Parking is recommended to be removed along Main Street to enhance its capacity for through traffic movement. Access to the proposed parking structures was primarily limited to local streets such as Bush, Sycamore, Birch, Eighth, and Ninth Streets. Several enhanced intersections are planned throughout the City of Santa Ana to improve traffic flow on the arterial system, including Main Street and Seventeenth Street, Broadway and Seventeenth Street, and Main Street and First Street. Enhanced intersections are assumed to have as many as two left-turn lanes, three through lanes, and one right-turn lane on each approach to the intersection. The built environment may affect the extent to which an enhanced intersection is developed. . . . Chapter 10: Circulation 91 11 B-34