Enhancing Existing Assets
The Tiny Tim Plaza Redevelopment Project, adjacent to the OC Streetcar line in the West Santa Ana Boulevard Focus Area, was approved in 2018. The project repositioned the 1950s retail plaza with many neighborhood-serving businesses as an innovative, community-oriented, urban hub, providing support for existing retail tenants, updating amenity spaces, integrating new affordable housing, and partnering with local nonprofit groups to provide services. The land use plans for the focus areas build on the unique opportunities within each area to promote redevelopment that is both sensitive to the existing context and reflective of the community’s vision for the future of the city.
Engaging the Community
The City conducted a series of community workshops in the spring of 2019 to present ideas and gather community input about the future of land use in the focus areas. A meeting was held in each focus area, and the feedback received was used to develop the objectives and land use plan for each focus area.