80A - JT PUBLIC HRG-320 WEST FOURTH

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Historic Resource Impacts Courthouse Lofts Project 320 West Fourth Street Santa Ana, California The predominant character of the West Fourth Street corridor's roofline is that of buildings stepping up and down in height. Photograph 1 shows the corridor of West Fourth Street looking east from the 200 West block. The six-story First National Bank building is clearly visible rising up from the one and two story buildings located between it and the four-story Spurgeon Building (which has a tall clock tower element). Photograph 2 shows the south side of the 200 West block of Fourth Street with the 4-story Moore building in the foreground. Photograph 3 shows the north side of the 200 West block of Fourth Street with the three-story Rankin Department store building and the step down to one-story buildings. Photograph 4 shows the south side of the 300 block of West Fourth Street looking east. The two-story West End Theater and two-story Semi-Tropic Hotel are in the foreground. Street trees obscure the one-story Bon Ton Building and the one-story Gilmaker Block. The building to the east steps up to four stories (Moore Building). Photograph 5 shows the south side of the 300 and 400 blocks of West Fourth Street. The end of the street Oust outside of the Historic District boundary) is a five-story modern building. Photograph 6 illustrates the north side of the 200 (portion of) and 300 blocks of West Fourth Street with the 11-story Ronald Reagan Courthouse on a parcel just north and west of the Historic District boundary. A landscaped area, Photograph 7, is located between the Phillips Block Building and the Reagan Courthouse. Photograph 8 shows the Reagan Courthouse Building. This area, where the size steps from the one-story Phillips Block to the street level of the open space to the 176 foot tall Reagan Courthouse Building which is across the street from the subject property at 320 West Fourth Street. Only one block of West Fourth Street, the south side of the 400 block, features a fairly consistent 2-story roof line (Photograph 9). The subject block does not have a consistent roof line. On the subject block, the east end features two one-story buildings. The Gilmaker Block (Photograph 10) has a long frontage on West Fourth Street while the adjacent one-story Bon Ton Bakery (Photograph 11) has a narrow frontage. The size steps up to two- stories with the Semi-Tropic Hotel (Photograph 12) with a frontage that is wider than the Bon- Ton's, but narrower than Gilmaker's Block. Looking east from the Semi-Tropic Hotel (Photograph 13) the rooflines of the one-story buildings are obscured by the street trees while the four-story Moore Building is a strong presence. At the west end of the 300 block of West Fourth Street, the West End Theater (Photogarph 14) is a little more than two-stories tall. Designed as a theater, its building form differs from those of the mixed-use and office buildings that line the Fourth Street corridor, While the buildings on the south side of the 300 block of West Fourth are historic (contributing to the National Register District and listed on the Santa Ana Historical Register) they form an eclectic set as they differ in style, height, massing and use (retail, mixed-use, theater). Kaplan Chen Kaplan 11 April 20, 2006 80A-90