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Mid/own Specific Plan CIRCULATION CIRCULATION PLAN Traffic and circulation analysis was completed as part of the evaluation 01 proposed conceptual land use plans for the Midtown Dislricl. The developmenl envisioned lor Ihe study area, whicl1 consists of a variety of land uses and proposed parking facilities, would impact the circulation conditions in the study area. The SlUdy 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 Slreet as enhanced visual corridors while ensuring that north/south arterial capacities are maintained. . Encourage safe pedestrian flow inlernallo Ihe existing block setung. . Encourage pedestrians 10 use crosswalks across Main Streell8roadway where signal con~oI is available. . Prohibit on.s~eet parking along Main S~eet and Broadway. . Encourage access to parking lots/structures from secondary easVwest s~eets. . Locate parking facilities so thai pedestrians are encouraged to cross streets safely. Protect Bush Slreet and Sycamore Street from heavy Iraffic 10 preserve and promote their character. . Evaluate the use of stop sign control on Sycamore Street al Ninth. Increase car carrying capacily of parallel streets, Broadway and Main Streets. Evaluate Ihe potential lor new easVwest streels and pedeslrian access paths, on.street parking, lurther definition of grid pattem, and interdislricl circulalion. Mainlain the (unction of Civic Cenler Drive. and Tenth, Washinglon and Sevenleenth Streets as easUwest connectors by maintaining their currenl capacities. . Provide east/west pedestrian paths by extending Ninth, Elevenlh, and Fourteenth Slreets across the study area, per the concepl plan and plan principles. Ordinance NS-2649 ra~c. 3.4 af 52 Chapter 10: Circulation . Discourage access 10 parking lois/structures Irom Civic Cenler Drive, Washington and Seventeenth Streels. . Enhance lIaffic lIow along Civic Center Drive. and Tenth, Washington and Seventeenth S~eets by not allowing on-s1reet parking. Vehicular Circulation Plim The potential measures to implement the principles have been identified and are Usted above. The cireulalion plan for the Midtown District is Jnustraled in Exhibit 45. Circulation Plan. The circulation pian incorporates a majority of the measures lisled above. Some of the elements of the circulation plan as illustrated in Exhibit 46 are as loIlows: . Several new pedestrian pathways wele lecommended. Pedeslrian safety. minimal pedestrian/vehicular inleracllon were considered in the recommendalion of these pathways. Along some pedes Irian pathways, vehicular traffic is limited to emergency and service vehicies only. Pedestrian CIOssings across Main Street and Broadway were Iimiled 10 .exisllng signalized intersections. . No new lraffic signals were recommended. Parking is recommended 10 be removed along Main Street 10 enhance its capacity for through traffic movemenl. . Access to the proposed parking structures was primarily limiled to local slreets such as Bush, Sycamore, Birch. Eighth, and Ninth Streets. . Several enhanced interseclions are planned Ihroughoul the City or Santa Ana to improve traffic 1I0w on the arterial syslem, including Main Street and Sevenleenth S~eet, Broadway and Seventeenlh Street, and Main Street and Firsl Slreet. Enhanced intersections are assumed to have as many as two leU.tum lanes, three through lanes, and one righl.turn lane on eacl1 approach to the inlersecllon. The buill environment may affect the extent to which an enhanced intersection is developed. 91