Urban Design Element
- GOAL UD-3: Attractive Travelways
Create and maintain safe and attractive travelways through coordinated streetscape design. - Policy UD-3.1
Landscaped Travelways
Promote visually appealing and sustainable landscaping along freeway corridors, roadway medians, and parkways.
- Policy UD-3.2
Activate Paths
Strengthen and activate the design of paths and adjacent development through enhanced and cohesive streetscapes, architectural themes, and landscaping.
- Policy UD-3.3
Foster Community Building
Promote a safe environment that facilitates social interaction and improves active transportation along corridors.
- Policy UD-3.4
Improvements to Streetscape
Promote streetscape improvement plans that are responsive to community needs, the nature of adjacent uses, path characteristics, street classification, pedestrian scale, and view corridors.
- Policy UD-3.5
Activity Node Linkages
Promote streetscape designs that link major destination points, landmarks, and local activity nodes.
- Policy UD-3.6
Linear Park System
Support open space improvements along roadways and nonvehicular paths, such as bike or multiuse trails, to create linear open space that connect to a network of parks and activity areas throughout the city.
- Policy UD-3.7
Natural Recreational Amenities
Enhance natural and recreational features of Santiago Creek and the Santa Ana River corridors and provide linkages throughout the community.
- Policy UD-3.8
Pleasant Travel Experience
Maximize the use of street trees and parkway landscaping to create a pleasant travel experience and positive city image.
- Policy UD-3.9
Scenic Views
Preserve and enhance scenic views along corridors and other travelways.
- Policy UD-3.10
Coordinated Street Improvement Plans
Coordinate citywide landscape medians and street trees with land use plans and development projects.
- Policy UD-3.11
Urban Forest
Create a diverse urban forest with a variety of sustainable trees in medians, parkways, public open space, and private development.
Mobility Element
- Policy M-4.5
Land Use Development Design
Ensure that building placement and design features create a desirable and active streetscape, by prioritizing pedestrian access directly from the street and placing parking lots to the rear of a development site.
- Policy M-5.1
Enhanced Street Design
Improve the beauty, character, and function of travelways with amenities such as landscaped parkways and medians, bike lanes, public art, and other amenities.
- Policy M-5.3
Travel Views
Promote the undergrounding of utilities and the reduction of visual clutter along travelways.
- Policy M-5.4
Green Streets
Leverage opportunities along streets and public rights-of-way to improve water quality through use of landscaping, permeable pavement, and other best management practices.
- Policy M-5.5
Street Design
Design and retrofit streets based on their combined land use context and road function to achieve safety objectives.
Economic Prosperity
- Policy EP-3.2
City Branding
Promote Santa Ana as a “Smart City” and regional leader in sustainability, equity, innovation, place making, collaboration, and community pride in products made in Santa Ana.
- Policy EP-3.11
Improve Image
Create vibrant public spaces through arts and culture projects that enhance urban quality of life, expand the tax base, and improve regional and community image.
Open Space Element
- Policy OS-1.7
Trail Connectivity
Collaborate with other City agencies, partners, and regional entities to provide, and connect regional and local trails, travelways, and access corridors to support recreation, active transportation, and park and program access. Consider greenways along the OC Streetcar route, flood control channels, and other underutilized sites.
Land Use Element
- Policy LU-3.7
Attractive Environment
Promote a clean, safe, and creative environment for Santa Ana’s residents, workers, and visitors.