SANTA ANA ARTS COLLECTIVE, LP (META HOUSING CORP) - 2016

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EXHIBIT H SCOPE OF DEVELOPMENT The property address of the site subject to this agreement is 1666 North Main Street, at the signalized intersection of 17th Street and Main Street, in the Midtown Specific _Plan Zoning District (SP -3). The development site consists of two parcels held as one, of 43,293 square feet total (or 1.00 acres). The development site is currently improved with a five story office building with extended one story footprint at ground -level, one level of subterranean parking, and approximately 0.5 acre of surface parking. The office building was built in 1968 and has 62,724 c rentable square feet.- In November 2014, the Santa Ana City Council approved an adaptive reuse ordinance, which provides alternative building and fire standards in order to convert non-residential buildings built before 1974 into dwelling units, guest rooms or joint living and work quarters. 1666 North Main Street qualifies for this ordinance because of the building's age, non-residential use, and location in the Midtown Specific Plan Zoning District. The development is a fifty-eight (58) unit affordable housing development that would adaptively reuse the five story office building and extended ground floor as forty-eight (48) residential units, and newly construct ten (10) additional residential lofts, townhomes, and flats on the office building's former surface parking area. A mix of twenty-six (26) 1 -bedroom, fifteen (15) 2 - bedroom, and seventeen (17) 3 -bedroom units will be spread throughout the adaptively- reused office building and ground -level new construction. Building heights range from two (2) stories in the former surface parking areas to five (5) stories in the adaptively reused building. An existing subterranean parking garage will be restriped for 90 parking spaces, including -thirty-two (32) pairs of tandem parking spaces (or 64 total tandem spaces). Parking will be accessed via the existing drive aisle from North Sycamore Street to the west. The proposed development would be constructed to LEED Gold standards The 1968 office building is constructed of reinforced concrete panels with tinted window panels, in the international style of architecture, which has its roots in the modernist design movement of the twentieth century. The new development would preserve the former office building's clean, contemporary lines and add new, modern lofts and townhomes to complement the character of the office building and more broadly Midtown. To complement and sustain the proposed artist concept, Meta Housing Corporation has included approximately 5,677 square feet of community space distributed throughout the development. That space is proposed to be allocated to the following uses: a community art gallery, art garden, maker spaces, music room, rehearsal room, community room with community kitchen, computer room, property management office, services office, common laundry facility, a courtyard, and tot lot. The approximate 1300 square foot community art gallery, art garden, and maker spaces will be located on North Main Street.