The City’s growth strategy is to concentrate new growth opportunities into key parts of the city while maintaining and enhancing its existing neighborhoods, employment centers, and intact industrial centers.
Seven planning areas, including specific plans and other special zoning areas adopted before this General Plan, have remaining development capacity. These areas are shown on Figure LU-2.
- Adaptive Reuse Overlay (2014)
- Bristol Street Corridor Specific Plan (1991/2018)
- Harbor Mixed Use Corridor Specific Plan (2014)
- MainPlace Specific Plan (2019)
- Metro East Overlay Zone (2007/2018)
- Midtown Specific Plan (1996)
- Transit Zoning Code Specific Dev. (2010)
In coordination with the General Plan Advisory Group, the City identified five additional focus areas suitable for new growth and development.
- South Main Street
- Grand Avenue/17th Street
- West Santa Ana Boulevard
- 55 Freeway/Dyer Road
- South Bristol Street
These five areas are along major travel corridors, the OC Streetcar line, and/or linked to the Downtown. The intent is to expand opportunities for development through a transition to multiuse land use designations near transit corridors. The Industrial Flex designation is being introduced on areas already designated for industrial land uses in order to allow for cleaner industrial and commercial uses, professional office, and creative live-work spaces.