Santa Ana Municipal Code Div. 7 Definitions

2115 TRANSIT ZONING CODESPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT 84City of Santa Ana, California Supp. No. 6 Division 7. Definitions Division 7. DefinitionsSec. 41-2080 - DefinitionsThe words and phrases, shall be construed as defined in this Article, unless fromthe context a different meaning is intended or unless a different meaning is specifi- cally defined and more particularly directed to the use of such words or phrases. The words used in the present tense include the future tense, and words in the singular number include the plural number. If any of the definitions in this section conflict with definitions in Chapter 41 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code (SAMC), these definitions shall control for the purposes of this ArticleAccess (Direct): The physical pedestrian entrance to a unit that is provided directly from the street or courtyard. Also described as walk-up access.Access (Point): The physical pedestrian entrance to a unit that is provided through a common space, such as a lobby or corridor that connects directly to the street or courtyard. Also described as non-walk up access.Accessory Structure: : An accessory structure or building is a detached building or structure, or part of a building or structure, which is incidental or subordinate to the main building, structure or use on the same lot or parcel of land, without cooking facilities (e.g., storage shed, garage, gazebo), and is used exclusively by the occupant of the main building. Alley: An alley is any public or private thoroughfare for the use of pedestrians or vehicles, not less than ten (10) feet nor more than thirty (30) feet in width, and is intended for service and only a secondary means of access to abutting properties. Arcade: see ‘Frontage Types’Artisan/craft product manufacturing: The manufacturing of products primarily by hand by persons trained in an artistic skill, including ceramics, pottery, glass blow- ing, or sculptures.Attic: The area found directly below the roof of a building and the ceiling of the top floor. The attic shall be an uninhabitable area.Bank, financial institution: An establishment for the custody, loan, exchange or issue of money, for the extension of credit, and for facilitating the transmission of funds. Excludes check cashers as defined by California Civil Code section 1789.31.Basement: That portion of a building between floor and ceiling which is either totally or partly below grade and in compliance with the definition of basement established in the California Building Code (CBC).Block: An area of land within a subdivision which area is entirely bounded by streets, highways or ways, excepts alley and the exterior boundary of the subdivision. Building Height: The vertical extent of a building measured in stories to the eave of the highest story, not including a basemen or an attic. Height limits do not apply to masts, belfries, clock towers, steeples, equipment screening, chimney flues, and similar structures. Building height shall be measured from the average grade of the enfronting thoroughfare curb level. Building Placement: The maximum horizontal envelope available for placing a building on a lot.Building Type: A structure defined by the combination of configuration and place-ment. The building types used in this Article are listed below:Bungalow Court: A configuration of freestanding single units arranged around a common, shared courtyard that is wholly open to the street. The individual buildings are arranged next to each other to form the bungalow court building type.Courtyard Housing: A building type consisting of residences that can be arranged in four possible configurations: townhouses, townhouses over flats, flats, and flats over flats. The structures are arranged next to each other , on one or more courts that are partly or wholly open to the street. Duplex, Triplex, and Quadplex: Multiple dwelling forms that are architecturally presented as large single-family houses in their typical neighborhood setting. Flex Block: A building generally of a single massing element, designed for occu-pancy by retail, service, or office uses on the ground floor, with upper floors also configured for those uses or for residences. House: A structure occupied by a single household that also accommodates commercial and office uses as allowed. Hybrid Court: A building that combines the point-access portion of the stacked dwelling building type (double-loaded corridor element) with the walk-up por- tion of the courtyard housing building type. Lined Block: A building that conceals a public garage or other faceless building that is designed for occupancy by retail, service, or office uses on the ground floor, with upper floors also configured for those uses or for residences.Live/Work: An integrated residence and working space, occupied and utilized by a single household in an arrangement of at least 3 such structures or 1 multiple structure with a least 3 units arranged side by side along the primary frontage, that has been designed or structurally modified to accommodate joint residential occupancy and work activity. Rowhouse: An individual structure on a parcel with a private rear yard and individual garage accessed from an alley. Such structure shall be developed in an arrangement of at least 3 such structures along the primary frontage. Or, a structure of at least 3 attached townhouse unit types arranged side by side with a private rear yard and individual garage accessed from an alley along the primary frontage. Stacked Dwellings: A building of single-floor or multi-floor residences of similar configuration either above or below that are stacked. Tower-on-Podium: A multi-level building organized around a central core with the first two to five floors expressed as a podium building. Tuck-Under Housing: An individual structure on a parcel with no rear yard, where its garage is tucked under the rear of the house and accessed from an alley. Such structure shall be developed with at least four such individual stru

ove or below that are stacked. Tower-on-Podium: A multi-level building organized around a central core with the first two to five floors expressed as a podium building. Tuck-Under Housing: An individual structure on a parcel with no rear yard, where its garage is tucked under the rear of the house and accessed from an alley. Such structure shall be developed with at least four such individual struc- tures, or, a structure of at least four attached townhouse units types arranged side by side along the primary frontage.Bungalow Court: See 'Building Types'Clinic, Urgent Care: A facility other than a hospital where medical, mental health, surgical or other personal health services are provided on an outpatient basis, including incidental medical laboratories. Examples of these uses include:medical offices with five or more licensed practitioners or medical specialties out-patient care facilities urgent care facilitiesCounseling services by other than medical doctors or psychiatrists are included under "Offices - Professional/Administrative."Community Assembly: Group gatherings conducted indoors such as synagogues, mosques, temples, churches, community centers, bingo halls, private clubs, frater- nal, philanthropic and charitable organizations and lodges.Commercial Recreation Facility - Indoor: Establishments providing indoor amuse-ment and entertainment services for a fee or admission charge, including: Bowling alleys Coin-operated amusement arcades Electronic game arcades (video games, etc.) Pool, billiards Skating sports (ice, roller, board)This use does not include adult businesses. Four or more electronic games or coin-operated amusements in any establishment, or a premises where 50 percent or more of the floor area is occupied by amusement devices, are considered an electronic game arcade as described above; three or fewer machines are not con- sidered a land use separate from the primary use of the site.Commercial Frontage: The non-residential frontage of a building. Non-residential activities subject to city approval are allowed within this space, which must be at least 25 feet in depth. These spaces are limited to the first floor and as such, have different building requirements than upper floors (e.g., large storefront windows, signage, etc.).Courtyard Housing: See 'Building Types'Doctor, dentist, chiropractor, etc office: A facility other than a hospital where medical, dental, mental health, surgical, and/or other personal health care ser- vices are provided on an outpatient basis, and that accommodates no more than four licensed primary practitioners (for example, chiropractors, medical doctors, psychiatrists, etc., other than nursing staff) within an individual office suite. Duplex, Triplex and Quadplex: See 'Building Types'Dwelling Unit Types: • Apartment: A rental version of a Flat, Loft, or Townhouse. • Condominium: An ownership version of a Flat, Loft or Townhouse • Flat: A single-story unit. • Loft: A double-story height unit with a mezzanine . • Townhouse: A two to three-story unit. TRANSIT ZONING CODE 2116 TRANSIT ZONING CODESPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT 84City of Santa Ana, California Supp. No. 6 Elevation (Building): The exterior walls of a building. Also referred to as 'Facade' when the elevation is along a frontage line.Entrance (Main or Primary): The principal point of access of pedestrians to a build-ing. In the support of pedestrian activity, the main or primary entrance should be oriented to the frontage rather than to the parking.Extended Care: Residential facilities providing nursing and health-related care as a primary use with in-patient beds. Examples of these uses include: board and care homes; convalescent and rest homes; extended care facilities; and skilled nursing facilities. Long-term personal care facilities that do not emphasize medi- cal treatment are included under "Care Homes."Facade: The exterior wall of a building that is set along a frontage line. Facades support the public realm and are subject to frontage requirements additional to those required of elevations.Flex Block: See 'Building Types'Forecourt: See ‘Frontage Types’Frontage Line: Those lot lines that coincide with a public street line. One shall be designated as the Principal Frontage Line. Facades along Frontage Lines define the public realm and are therefore more highly regulated than the elevations that coincide with other lot lines. Frontage lines are subject to the urban standards, architectural standards, signage standards, and subdivision standards.Frontage Type: The architectural element of a building between the public right-of-way and the private property associated with the building. Frontage Types combined with the public realm create the perceptible streetscape. The following frontage types used in this Article are listed below:Arcade: A facade with an attached colonnade, that is covered by upper sto-ries. This frontage type is ideal for retail use, but only when the sidewalk is fully absorbed within the arcade so that a pedestrian cannot bypass it. For Building Code considerations, this frontage type cannot cover the public right- of-way.Forecourt: A semi-public exterior space partially within the shopfront, gallery or arcade frontage that is partially surrounded by a building and also opening to a thoroughfare forming a court. The court is suitable for gardens, outdoor dining, vehicular drop-off and utility off-loading.Frontyard/Porch: A common frontage type associated with single family houses, where the facade is set back from the right of way with a front yard. A porch may also be appended to the facade. A fence or wall at the property line may be used to define the private space of the yard. The front yard may also be raised from the sidewalk, creating a small retaining wall at the prop- erty line with entry steps to the yard.Gallery: A colonnade that is attached to storefronts and projects over the sidewalk.Shopfront: A facade placed at or close to the right-of-way line, with

ded to the facade. A fence or wall at the property line may be used to define the private space of the yard. The front yard may also be raised from the sidewalk, creating a small retaining wall at the prop- erty line with entry steps to the yard.Gallery: A colonnade that is attached to storefronts and projects over the sidewalk.Shopfront: A facade placed at or close to the right-of-way line, with the entrance at sidewalk grade. This frontage type is conventional for retail front- age and is commonly equipped with cantilevered shed roof(s) or awning(s). Recessed storefronts are also acceptable. The absence of a raised ground floor precludes residential use on the ground floor facing the street, although such use is appropriate above.Stoop: An elevated entry porch that corresponds directly to the building entry, with stairs placed close to the frontage line on a building with the ground story elevated from the sidewalk, securing privacy for the windows and front rooms. This type is suitable for ground-floor residential uses with short set- backs. This type may be interspersed with the shopfront frontage type. A porch or shed roof may also cover the stoop.Frontyard/Porch: See 'Frontage Types'Furniture and Fixture Manufacturing, cabinet shop: The manufacture or assem-bly of high grade articles of furniture and fixtures calling for fine finish, such as decorative cabinets, desks and chairs, store fixtures and office equipment. In the production of such goods, noise above 60 dB CNEL beyond the walls of the build- ing is prohibited.Gallery: See ‘Frontage Types’General Retail: Stores and shops selling many lines of merchandise. Examples of these stores and lines of merchandise include: art galleries, retail art supplies, including framing services bicycles books, magazines, and newspapers cameras and photographic supplies clothing, shoes, and accessories department stores drug stores and pharmacies dry goods fabrics and sewing supplies florists and houseplant stores with indoor sales only hobby materials jewelry luggage and leather goods musical instruments (small), parts and accessories, Large instruments are under "Furniture, Furnishings, and Appliance Store"orthopedic supplies small wares specialty shops sporting goods and equipment stationery toys and games variety stores videos, DVDs, records, CDs, including rental storesGeneral retail does not include the following: (a) Adult business as defined in section 41-1701.6 of the SAMC, antique or col- lectible stores, furniture, furnishings and appliance stores, medical marijuana dispensaries or second hand stores. (b) Sheet metal shops, body-fender works, automobile paint shops, repair garag-es, and any activity which includes the processing, treatment, manufacturing, assembling or compounding of any product, other than that which is clearly and traditionally incidental and essential to a particular retail activity. (c) Any use which is more specifically identified as a permitted use or as a use which may be permitted subject to the issuance of a conditional use permit or land use certificate in one or more use districts pursuant to this code.Ground Floor/Footprint: The area resulting from the application of building placement and open space requirements and as further articulated by particular building design. In calculating the area, only the conditioned floor space shall be counted for purposes of calculating allowable upper floor area, the area occupied by zaguans shall be counted as "ground floor/footprint."Ground Floor Residential: Dwellings with their primary entrance and habitable space at grade.Health and Fitness: A commercial establishment providing facilities for aerobic exercises, running and jogging, exercise equipment, game courts, swimming facilites, and saunas, showers and lockers. Health and fitness facilities may also provide for instruction programs and classes, such as martial arts, yoga where lockers and showers are provided. Hotel (land use): A facility offering short-term lodging accomodations to the general public and which may include additional facilities and services, such as restaurants, meeting rooms, entertainment, personal services and recreational facilities. Access to the guest rooms shall be through the main lobby of the build- ing. A hotel shall contain more than 5 guest rooms. A hotel that contains a kitchen as defined by the California Building Code (CBC) in guest rooms shall be deemed to be a long term stay business hotel as defined by the SAMC. A hotel that meets the criteria of a transient/residental hotel as defined by the SAMC, shall be deemed to be a transient/residential hotel. House: See 'Building Types'House Scale: Multi-family building form that is derivative of and compatible with surrounding single-family houses and that can be applied in 1 to 4 direct-access assemblies of units to form larger buildings from duplex up to and including Courtyard Housing.Hybrid Court: See 'Building Types'Laboratory--Medical-analytical: A place equipped for experimentation or observa-tion in a field of study, or devoted to the application of scientific principles in test- ing and analysis. Quantities of biological or hazadous materials used in situ, shall be limited to those quantities established by the fire department. 2117 TRANSIT ZONING CODESPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT 84City of Santa Ana, California Supp. No. 29Division 7. Definitions Light Manufacturing: The manufacture or assembly of products from previously treated material where no impact is created to the adjacent uses and no hazardous materials are used in the production of such products. The maximum number of employees shall be 10. Examples of light manufacturing include: athletic equipment bakeries camera, photo equipment clothing electronics musical instruments optical goods woodworking (limited) Lined Block: See 'Building Types'Live/Work: See 'Building Types'Lot Width: The frontage of a parcel which is used to identify the parcel for street address purposes.Me

of such products. The maximum number of employees shall be 10. Examples of light manufacturing include: athletic equipment bakeries camera, photo equipment clothing electronics musical instruments optical goods woodworking (limited) Lined Block: See 'Building Types'Live/Work: See 'Building Types'Lot Width: The frontage of a parcel which is used to identify the parcel for street address purposes.Media production: An establishment dedicated to the production of visual and audio mass media, including television, films, videos, video games, mobile devices, internet and digital interactive media, but excludes magazines, newspapers,and periodicals. Mixed-Use Building: A structure lawfully containing residential and non-residential uses.Multi-Family Building: A residential structure lawfully containing two or more dwell-ing units.Net Developable Area: The private area defined by blocks which is not to remain for public uses such as Plazas, Greens, Squares, Thoroughfares or Streetscapes.Office: These do not include medical offices (see Clinic, Urgent Care," and "Doctor, dentist, chiropractor, etc. office.") 1. Service. Establishments providing direct services to consumers. Examplesof these uses include employment agencies, insurance agent offices, real estate offices, travel agencies, utility company offices, elected official satellite offices,etc. This use does not include "Bank, Financial Services," which is separately defined. 2. Administrative. Office-type facilities characterized by high employee densi-ties, and occupied by businesses engaged in information processing, and other computer-dependent or telecommunications-based activities. Examples ofthese uses include:airline, lodging chain, and rental car company reservation centers, not including retail travel agenciescomputer software and hardware design and development consumer credit reporting data processing serviceshealth management organization (HMO) offices where no medical services are providedinsurance claim processingmail order and electronic commerce transaction processingtelecommunications facility design and management telemarketing 3. Professional. Office-type facilities occupied by businesses that provideprofessional services, or are engaged in the production of intellectual property. Examples of these uses include:accounting, auditing and bookkeeping services advertising agencies attorneys business associations, chambers of commercecommercial art and design services construction contractors (office facilities only)counseling services court reporting services detective agencies and similar services design services including architecture, engineering, landscape architec ture, urban planning educational, scientific and research organizations financial management and investment counselingliterary and talent agenciesmanagement and public relations services media postproduction servicesnews servicesphotographers and photography studios political campaign headquarters psychologists secretarial, stenographic, word processing, and temporary clerical employee services security and commodity brokers writers and artists officesPaseo: a public place or path designed for walking; promenade.Pedestrian First: The practice of addressing the needs of people, once out of their automobiles, through a series of interdependent urban design and streetscape principles (e.g., wide sidewalks, street trees and shade, on-street parking, outdoor dining, inviting storefronts, the feeling of being in an ‘outdoor room’, short cross-walk distances, interconnected and short blocks).Pedestrian Shed: An area defined by the average distance that may be traversed at an easy pace from its edge to its center in approximately 5 minutes. This distance is used to determine the size of a neighborhood. This dimension averages one quarter of a mile or approximately 1,400 feet for generally flat terrain.Personal Services: Establishments providing non-medical services to individuals as a primary use. Examples of these uses include:barber, nail salons and beauty shopsclothing rentaldry cleaning pick-up stores with limited equipment home electronics and small appliance repairlocksmithspet grooming with no boarding shoe repair shops tailorsThese uses may also include accessory retail sales of products related to the ser-vices provided.Personal Services - Restricted: Personal services that may tend to have a blighting and/or deteriorating effect upon surrounding areas and which may need to be dis-persed to minimize their adverse impacts. Examples of these uses include:laundromats (self-service laundries). Laundromats shall comply with the devel- opment and performance standards set forth in Section 41-199. massage establishments (licensed, therapeutic) as as defined on Section 41-1751 of the SAMC. Massage establishments shall comply with Article XVII.Iof Chapter 41 of the SAMC pawnshopsPlanter: The layer of the streetscape which accommodates street trees. Planters may be continuous or individual according to the Thoroughfare and location within the neighborhood.Podium: A continuous raised platform supporting a building, or a large block of two or three stories beneath a multi-layer block of a smaller area.Porch: see ‘Frontage Types’ Private Frontage: The privately held layer between the frontage line and the prin-cipal building facade. The structures and landscaping within are held to specific standards. The variables of Private Frontage are the depth of the setback and the combination of architectural elements such as fences, stoops, porches and galler-ies. These elements influence social behavior in the public realm. The Frontage layer may overlap the public streetscape in the case of awnings, Galleries and Arcades. Research and Development: A quasi-industrial facility where creative work is undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge gen-erally in the fields of medicine, scientific instruments, safety- critical mechanism or high technology.

social behavior in the public realm. The Frontage layer may overlap the public streetscape in the case of awnings, Galleries and Arcades. Research and Development: A quasi-industrial facility where creative work is undertaken on a systematic basis in order to increase the stock of knowledge gen-erally in the fields of medicine, scientific instruments, safety- critical mechanism or high technology. These facilities may include pilot plant operations as an ancillary use, which shall not exceed 25 percent of the floor area. A facility providing full scale production shall be deemed a manufacturing use.Rowhouse: See 'Building Types'Setback: The area of a lot measured from a lot line to a building facade or elevation that must be maintained clear of permanent structures excepting galleries, fences, garden walls, arcades, porches, stoops, balconies, bay windows, and terraces which are permitted to encroach into the setback subject to the standards established in Division 3 of this Article.Shared Parking (Park-Once Policy): An accounting for parking spaces that are avail-able to more than one function. The requirement is based on a range of parking-demand found in mature, mixed-use centers. The Shared Parking ratio varies according to multiple functions in close proximity unlikely to require the spaces at the same time. This approach to parking uses the following types of parking in combination to achieve a balanced and distributed supply of parking: off-street (surface lots and garages), on-street (parallel and diagonal).Shopfront: see ‘Frontage Types’Stacked Dwellings: See 'Building Types'Stoop: see ‘Frontage Types’ TRANSIT ZONING CODE 2118 TRANSIT ZONING CODESPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT 84City of Santa Ana, California Supp. No. 29 Story: A habitable level within a building from finished floor to finished ceiling:Attics and basements, as defined by the California Building Code (CBC) are not con-sidered a story for the purposes of determining building height and are subject to the applicable requirements of this code and the CBC, except for when the finished floor level directly above a basement or cellar is more than six feet above grade, such basement or cellar shall be considered a story.Streetscape: The urban element that provides the major part of the public realm as well as paved lanes for vehicles. A streetscape is endowed with two attributes: capacity and context. Capacity is the number of vehicles that can move safely through a segment within a given time period. It is physically manifested by the number of lanes and their width, and by the curb radius. Studio: A workplace of one or more individuals who are engaged in the production of art, such as fine and fiber arts, lithography, calligraphy, photography, music, dance and the performing arts. Galleries, not to exceed 50 percent of the floor area, are permitted as an ancillary use. Any regulated use, as defined on Sec 41-191 of the SAMC is not allowed. Uses meeting the definition of artisan/craft product manufacturing shall be deemed an artisan/craft product manufacturing use.Tandem Parking Stall: Two or more parking spaces arranged one behind the other.Thoroughfare: A vehicular way incorporating moving lanes and parking lanes (except alleys/lanes which have no parking lanes) within a right-of-way.Tower-on-Podium: See 'Building Types'Traffic-Calming: A set of techniques which serves to reduce the speed of traffic. Such strategies include lane-narrowing, on-street parking, chicanes, yield points, sidewalk bulge-outs, speed bumps, surface variations, mid-block deflections, and visual clues. Traffic calming is a retrofit technique unnecessary when thoroughfares are correctly designed for the appropriate speed at initial construction.Transect: A system of classification deploying the conceptual range of ‘rural-to-urban’ to arrange in useful order, the typical context groupings of natural and urban areas. This gradient, when rationalized and subdivided into zones becomes the basis of the Regulating Plan and the 9 zones supporting this Plan.Transit-Oriented Development: A remedial pattern within a loose urbanized area. Its structure creates nodes at an efficient spacing for commuter or light rail. These nodes are mixed-use areas limited in extent by walking distance to the transit stop. These nodes are usually surrounded by a residential hinterland, structured as neighborhood T.O.D.’s connected by a feeder bus system.Transition Line: A horizontal line, the full width of a facade expressed by a material change or by a continuous horizontal articulation such as a cornice or a balcony.Tuck-under Housing: See 'Building Types'Zaguan: A covered pedestrian passage between courts of one to two rooms in depth and one story in height.[The next page is 2151]