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Midtown Specllic Plan CIRCULATION CIRCULATION PLAN Traffic and circulation analysis was completed as part of the evaluaUon 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 (I-S) with convenient access to the Orange (SR-S7), Costa Mesa (SR-SS) 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 now internal to the existing block setting, . Encourage pedestrians to use crosswalks across Main StreetlBroadway where signal control is available. . Prohibit on-street parking along Main Street and Broadway. Encourage access to parking lotslstruclures from secondary easVwest 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. Evaiuate the potential for new easVwest streels and pedestrian access paths, on-streel parking, further deflnmon of grid pattem, and interdistrict circulation. Maintain the function of Civic Center Drive, and Tenth, Washington and Seventeenth Streels as easVwest connectors by maintaining their current capaciUes. Provide easUwest pedestrian paths by extending Ninth, Eleventh, and Fourteenth Streets across the study area, per the concept plan and plan principles. , . Chapter 10: Circulation . Discourage access to parking lots/structures from Civic Center Drive, Washington and Seventeenth Streets. Enhance trafflc ßow along Civic Center Drive, and Tenth, Washington and Seventeenth Streets by not aDowing on-slreet parking. . Vehicular Circulation Pli¡n The potential measures to implement the principies have been identified and are listed above. The circulalion plan lor the Midtown District is illustrated in Exhibit 4S, 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 pedeslrianivehicufar inleraction were considered in the recommendation of these pathways. Along some pedestrian pathways, vehicular trafflc is fimiled 10 emergency and service vehicles only. Pedestrian crossings across Main Street and Broadway were limited 10 .existing signalized intersections. No new traffic signals were recommended. Parking is recommended 10 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 now on the arterial system, including Main Street and Seventeenth Street, Broadway and Seventeenth Street, and Main Street and Firsl Street. Enhanced ¡nlersections 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. . . . Orriin~n...ø 1\I~-?R.71 Page 33 of 51 91