60B - WELLNESS DISTRICT PROPOSAL

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MWAT �. 1 Plan and Downtown Transit Zone Complete Streets Plan. a. Organize a robust process for developing the City's capital improvements plan by collaborating with the community to adequately define the criteria used to prioritize projects aligned with community needs. The City Council will be accepting grant funds in April 2015 that will be used for walkability and pedestrian amenities in the downtown including: 5 waste receptacles, 25 tree guards, 4 benches, 30 bike racks, and 4 intersection enhancements (final counts pending funding availability). 9. Ensure that the arts master plan for the Wellness The Arts and Culture Commission is currently reviewing the District gets shaped in a participatory process RFP for the Arts Master Plan. To the extent that the RFP among the City, the downtown development development must remain an internal process so as not to liaison, the Arts Commission, and the Provide vendors with working copies until it is finalized, the City will go through a thorough review process. This master community's local artists, while also involving the plan will cover the entire City and not solely the downtown various community- serving organizations of the area. The plan will be inclusive to represent the diverse downtown, local businesses, and public schools in needs of the City. the vicinity. This arts master plan ought to be aligned with the infrastructure and beautification The City currently has a variety of design standards which needs of the neighborhood - serving downtown ensure quality and promote aesthetic standards. These businesses. design standards pertain to all locations in the city and often to specific types of use. The City of Santa Ana's Design a. The City should develop urban, architectural Guidelines and Development Standards is the result of a design forums for certain areas within the comprehensive analysis of the City's existing design and development guidance documents. The Guidelines community that require buildings and contained within the document which can be found on the streetscapes to meet culturally relevant City's website, consolidate the City's discretionary review aesthetic standards also reflecting the city's documents and provide supplementary design guidance for heritage and cultural identity. issues not explicitly stated in the Santa Ana Municipal Code. 10. Pilot a system of community operated Santa Ana Municipal Code sections 2 -706 through 2 -710 microfarms under a cooperative economic provides for a public process to dispose of surplus real development model by providing a long term property. The City Council has to first identify the property lease to Santa Ana Building Healthy Communities as surplus and the public works director begins the process of listing the property for sale through an auction or listing three sites of at least %z acre size from the with on agent. There are two exceptions for property following lots: adjacent to another parcel where the owner of the private parcel makes a case to purchase the adjoining parcel or 114 S. Bristol St., 124 S. Bristol St., 410 S. Bristol where the city desires to sell the property to another public St., 414 S. Bristol St., 119 S. Bristol St., 123 S. agency. There are no provisions for "giving the property Bristol St., 402 S. Bristol St., 302 S. Bristol St., away "forless than fair- market value. 306 S. Bristol St., 310 S. Bristol St., 314 S. Bristol St., 318 S. Bristol St, 430 S. Bristol St., 434 S. At the direction of the City Council, staff can look into Bristol St., 438 S. Bristol St., 442 S. Bristol St., whether or not it would like to pursue a microform program. 446 S. Bristol St., 502 S. Bristol St., 508 S. Bristol The City does currently have community gardens at two park St., 510 S. Bristol St., 514 S. Bristol St., 518 S. sites and also a collaborative project with SAUSD. Bristol St., 522 S. Bristol St., 830 N. Parton St., 900 N. Sycamore St., 1058 E. 1st. St., 621 N. Spurgeon Staff would need to further research any restrictions on the St., 713 N. Spurgeon St., 414 N. Santa Ana St., 823 30 property addresses proposed by Building Healthy E. 1st. St. �. 1