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Main Street Concourse Entitlement Actions April 19, 1993 Page 4 of 12 architectural roof line treatments. Ground views to and from various portions of the site will be possible but limited by the office tower and the low -rise commercial structures. A proposed three -story health club /live - performance theater /cineplex will bridge between the residential and commercial uses and is easily accessible to outside visitors from the parking structure. The building, along with the Phase I office tower and retail building, will be positioned adjacent to the parking structure to minimize the garage structure's visual impact to the surrounding community. Surface parking lots will be provided in Phase I, south of the driveway entrance off of Main Street. Development of a station for the proposed fixed guideway system in Orange County is also proposed should the system be developed. The project may also include a pedestrian bridge linking the project to MainPlace on the opposite side of Main Street. The walkway would establish a direct link between the proposed development and adjacent uses. Any guideway station or pedestrian bridge would be required to undergo detailed review and approval as they are developed. A network of open space is proposed throughout the development with landscape, waterscape and hardscape treatments. The open space element of Main Street Concourse, along with "The Concourse" (internal road), will introduce a linkage to adjacent Santiago Park and to the neighboring Town and Country development. The residential area on the eastern portion of the project was sited to relate to the Town and Country Manor Retirement and Health Care center and to the Northeast neighborhood. The proposed residential uses respect the residential neighborhood scale of the adjacent uses by concentrating the single family attached housing on the perimeter of the site. The low scale perimeter townhouses surround a later phased high -rise residential tower, thereby minimizing the impact of the highrise buildings on the street -level land uses. The residential segment is proposed to be in a Mediterranean design. Arcaded bases, balconies, bay windows, varying roof lines, and high quality, smooth troweled plaster walls with tiled .detail will be used to soften the architecture. The housing includes 64, 2,000 square foot, two -story single family attached housing units along Owens Drive, Lawson Way, the project access road at Lawson Way and a central landscaped recreational interior open space. Automobile access is provided to these units by a decorative paved internal road which separates the rows of housing. Each unit is designed with a secured private garage accessible to each unit's living space. The residential massing will reflect a clear human scale to the pedestrian along the street frontages. A major open space element which will be approximately the size of a football field, will exist within the interior of the residential area with a link directly to the commercial and retail portion of the site. Landscaping, a water feature and outdoor recreation areas will fill the open space. A 216 -unit high rise housing tower will front the open space and buffer it from the proposed parking garage. Housing in the 205 75N