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AA No. 07-01, EIR No. 06-01, GPA No. 07-01, ZOA No. 07-01, DA No. 07-01, SPR No. 07-1 and TTM No. 07-01 March 19, 2007 Page 9 The Village Center District is intended to serve as the focal point and central gathering place within Metro East in well-designed highly connected development sites and public spaces. The District will provide a high level of neighborhood identity and activity through its central location and its emphasis on creating a vibrant, attractive, and highly- interconnected pedestrian environment. Opportunities will be provided for shopping, dining, recreation, entertainment and services accessed by extensively landscaped, wide sidewalks that allow free flow between jobs, housing, and commercial services, or opportunities for leisure walking within the Village Center. This District will provide commercial, office, and residential uses in the same building or on the same site in mid-rise buildings of between four and six stories in settings that provide open spaces, niches, and areas for gatherings and activities along streets, paseos, and interconnecting walkways that link the Village Center to adjacent districts and nearby public parks north of the District. The Active Urban District is intended as the location for well-designed high rise mixed use developments in a highly urbanized environment that capitalizes on the exposure and access provided by two adjacent freeways, the Santa Ana (I-5) and Costa Mesa (SR-55), and two major arterials (First and Fourth Streets and Tustin Avenue). Development in this District is envisioned to reflect signature architecture that reinforces the identity and character of Metro East as a vibrant urban village that serves as a regional employment and activity center. The Active Urban District will include major office, residential, commercial, hotel, and entertainment opportunities that are more intensive in scale and design than the adjacent Village Center. Developments in this District may combine office, commercial, and residential. The Office District contains existing low-to high-rise office development along Tustin Avenue and adjacent to the Santa Ana (I-5) Freeway. These developments were in place prior to establishment of the MEMU Overlay Zone and will be maintained exclusively as office to promote and maintain a healthy balance between office, commercial and residential land uses within the Metro East area. A zone change to allow the development of an "urban village" within this primarily office district will result in a project that is consistent with the City's proposed General Plan land use designation of District Center. Further, the Overlay Zone will promote an urban setting where office, retail and residential activities would coexist in an attractive, well-planned development. 758-9