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GOAL PS-1: Public Facilities

Provide quality and efficient facilities that are adequately funded, accessible, safe, and strategically located. Policy PS-1.1 Maintenance and Design Provide and maintain public facilities that reinforce community identity through high quality design. Policy PS-1.2 Equitable Distribution Ensure public services and facilities reflect changing population needs and are equitably distributed and accessible, with priority assigned to...

Purpose of Public Services Element

The purpose of the Public Services Element is to provide Santa Ana’s diverse population with quality services and infrastructure, including accessible public facilities and enhanced public safety. Anticipated growth will require the City to fulfill community needs and to ensure proper management of those needs. It is important that public facilities and services are equitably...

GOAL EP-4: Economic Development Strategies

Promote strategies that create an economic development mindset integrated throughout City Hall. Policy EP-4.1 Economic Development Responsibility Promote a spirit in which economic development is the responsibility of each elected official, appointed official, and City employee through ongoing quality customer service. Policy EP-4.2 Economic Development Training As financial resources are available, invest in economic development...

GOAL EP-3: Business Friendly Environment

Promote a business friendly environment where businesses thrive and build on Santa Ana’s strengths and opportunities. Policy EP-3.1 Leverage Historic and Cultural Assets Market the city’s historic and cultural assets to increase the attraction of businesses and their employees to Santa Ana’s places and destinations. Policy EP-3.2 City Branding Promote Santa Ana as a “Smart...

GOAL EP-2: Diverse Economic Base

Maintain and enhance the diversity and regional significance of the city’s economic base. Policy EP-2.1 High-growth Businesses Promote economic development opportunities in high-growth business clusters that match the changing skillset of the city’s resident population. Policy EP-2.2 Deliberate Investment Pursue business attraction and retention prospects in sectors which broaden and strengthen the local economy. Policy...

GOAL M-3: Active Transportation

A safe, balanced, and integrated network of travelways for nonmotorized modes of transportation that connects people to activity centers, inspiring healthy and active lifestyles. Policy M-3.1 Nonmotorized Travelway Network Expand and maintain a citywide network of nonmotorized travelways within both the public and private realms that create linkages between neighborhoods, recreational amenities, schools, employment centers,...

Figure PS-3 Water Facilities

ABOUT THE MAP. This map shows current and planned facilities that make up the local and regional water system. The City strives to provide clean water and maintain a water system that is reliable, resilient, and cost-effective for residents, businesses, and other uses in Santa Ana.

Table UD-2 Urban Design Element Implementation

An implementation plan is a coordinated series of actions the City desires to take in the future that are intended to advance, over the long term, the City’s Shared Vision, Core Values, and the General Plan goals and policies. An implementation plan is thus a follow-up measure for this element. Taken as a whole, these...

Table UD-1 Related General Plan Policies

Each policy in the City of Santa Ana General Plan is listed under the most related goal and element. Some policies, however, also reinforce other goals housed in different Elements. To provide a more complete picture of all of the policies that support the goals of this element, Table UD-1 lists each Urban Design goal...

Figure UD-2 Urban Design Elements

ABOUT THE MAP. Figure UD-2 shows the location and types of the key urban design components that organize the visual form of the city, including activity nodes / urban hubs, focus intersections, major landmarks, and gateways. These components are presented relative to major travelways, including streets, the future alignment of the OC streetcar/stations, passenger rail,...

Figure UD-1 Districts

About the Map. Figure UD-1 shows the generalized district types and their locations within the city relative to major travelways, including streets, the future alignment of the OC streetcar/stations, passenger rail, and current/potential bus rapid transit lines.

Table HP-2 Historic Preservation Element Implementation

An implementation plan is a coordinated series of actions the City desires to take in the future that are intended to advance, over the long term, the City’s Shared Vision, Core Values, and the General Plan goals and policies. An implementation plan is thus a follow-up measure for this element. Taken as a whole, these...

Table HP-1 Related General Plan Policies

Each policy in the City of Santa Ana General Plan is listed under the most related goal and element. Some policies, however, also reinforce other goals housed in different elements. To provide a more complete picture of all of the policies that support the goals of this element, Table HP-1 lists each Historic Preservation goal...

Figure HP-2 Historic Resources Downtown Area

ABOUT THE MAP. Figure HP-2 zooms in on the three established historic districts, and shows the classification and location of historic resources in and around each district.

Figure HP-1 Historic Resources-Citywide

ABOUT THE MAP. Figure HP-1 shows the different classifications of historic resources and the locations of each type of resource in the city relative to the three established historic resource districts.

Table S-2 Safety Element Implementation

An implementation plan is a coordinated series of actions the City desires to take in the future that are intended to advance, over the long term, the City’s Shared Vision, Core Values, and the General Plan goals and policies. An implementation plan is thus a follow-up measure for this element. Taken as a whole, these...

Table S-1 Related General Plan Policies

Each policy in the City of Santa Ana General Plan is listed under the most related goal and element. Some policies, however, also reinforce other goals housed in different elements. To provide a more complete picture of all of the policies that support the goals of this element, Table S-1 lists each Safety Element goal...

Figure S-4 Airport Safety Zones

ABOUT THE MAP. This map shows the safety compatibility zones based on the normal operations of John Wayne Airport. These zones are used by the City and Orange County Airport Land Use Commission to evaluate potential development, particularly land use and building height, to ensure the continued safe operations of the airport. This map also...

Figure S-3 Liquefaction Zones

ABOUT THE MAP. This map shows the approximate location of areas susceptible to liquefaction—a process by which strong earth shaking causes soil that is saturated with groundwater to lose strength and behave like a fluid, and the ground appears to liquefy. Many parts of southern California are susceptible to liquefaction, including the majority of Santa...

Figure S-2 Regional Earthquake Faults

ABOUT THE MAP. This map shows the approximate location and extent of well-known fault hazards and their proximity to Santa Ana. The areas around these faults are known as earthquake fault zones, and state law requires jurisdictions to carefully evaluate development proposals within these zones. Although no such fault zones are known to exist in...

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