Transportation, Land Use, and Design

Mobility Element

GOAL M-4: Transportation, Land Use, and Design
Coordinated transportation planning efforts with land use and design strategies that encourage sustainable development and achieve broader community goals.

  • Policy M-4.1
    Intense Development Areas
    Program multimodal transportation and public realm improvements that support new development in areas along transit corridors and areas planned for high intensity development.
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  • Policy M-4.2
    Project Review
    Encourage active transportation, transit use, and connectivity through physical improvements and public realm amenities identified during the City’s Development Review process.
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  • Policy M-4.3
    Transportation Management
    Coordinate with OCTA, employers, and developers to utilize TDM (transportation demand management) strategies and education to reduce vehicle trips and parking demands.
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  • Policy M-4.4
    Fair Share Impacts
    Ensure that all development projects pay their fair share of the system improvements necessary to accommodate the transportation needs of their projects.
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  • 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.
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  • Policy M-4.6
    Roadway Capacity Alternatives
    Promote reductions in automobile trips and vehicle miles traveled by encouraging transit use and nonmotorized transportation as alternatives to augmenting roadway capacity.
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  • Policy M-4.7
    Parking
    Explore and implement a flexible menu of parking options and other strategies to efficiently coordinate the response to parking demands.
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  • Policy M-4.8
    Noise Mitigation
    Encourage physical and operational improvements to reduce noise levels around major roads, freeways, and rail corridors, in particular around sensitive land uses.
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  • Policy M-4.9
    Air Pollution Mitigation
    Utilize land use, building, site planning, and technology solutions to mitigate exposure to transportation-related air pollution, especially in environmental justice focus areas.
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Land Use Element

  • Policy LU-1.6
    Transit oriented development
    Encourage residential mixed-use development, within the City’s District Centers, Urban Neighborhoods, and adjacent to high quality transit.
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  • Policy LU-2.10
    Smart Growth
    Focus high density residential in mixed-use villages, designated planning focus areas, Downtown Santa Ana, and along major travel corridors.
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  • Policy LU-3.6
    Focused Development
    Facilitate the transformation of the transit corridors through focusing medium and high density pedestrian-oriented mixed-use development at key intersections.
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Housing Element

  • Policy HE-1.5: Infrastructure and Public Services
    Provide quality community facilities, physical infrastructure, traffic management and parking control, and other public services to promote the livability, safety, and vitality of neighborhoods.
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Urban Design Element

  • 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.
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  • Policy UD-3.5
    Activity Node Linkages
    Promote streetscape designs that link major destination points, landmarks, and local activity nodes.
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