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5517A ORDINANCE NO. 5517 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM AMENDING TITLE 18 OF THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING THERETO CHAPTER 18.110 RELATING TO ZONING AND DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS FOR THE NORTHEAST AREA SPECIFIC PLAN (SP94-1). THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That new Section 18.04.150 be, and the same is hereby, added to Chapter 18.04 of Title 18 of the Anaheim Municipal Code to read as follows: 1118.04.150 SALVAGE, SHREDDING AND VEHICLE DISMANTLING OPERATIONS No scrap metal salvage, shredding, automotive dismantling, used auto parts business or non-ferrous collection processing facility and/or yard shall be permitted or operated pursuant to paragraph 18.110.050.010.0133 of this Code, except in compliance with all of the following provisions: .010 All uses shall be contingent upon prior timely compliance with the terms and conditions of a stipulation for judgment and judgment as described in paragraph 18.110.050.040.0404 of this Code (the "Stipulation and Judgment"). .020 All uses shall be maintained in such a manner that outdoor storage areas and operations shall be screened from view from public rights-of-way by sufficient landscaping and a solid masonry or other opaque material wall, as approved by the Planning Director. .030 The use or uses shall be subject to Code Enforcement Division inspections, as often as required by that Division, to ensure compliance with all applicable regulations of this Development Area. .040 The use or uses shall be subject to the requirements of the Northeast Area Specific Plan, including landscape and signage requirements, except that the landscape setback adjacent to Frontera Street for operations existing upon the date of adoption of the Specific Plan shall be twenty five (25) feet. .050 The use or uses, including non-ferrous collection processing facilities, shall be subject to the a conditions of operation in the Stipulation and Judgment. .060 Upon satisfaction of the provisions of subsection 18.04.150.010, and further subject to compliance with the provisions of this Section 18.04.050, the use or uses shall be considered new permitted uses. Said newly permitted uses may continue thereafter until May 31, 2013, provided the uses remain in compliance with the provisions of this Section. .070 The use or uses for industrial Northeast Area SECTION 2. shall not exceed trip generation rates uses set forth in FEIR No. 317 for the Specific Plan." That new Chapter 18.110 be, and the same is hereby, added to Title 18 of the Anaheim Municipal Code to read as follows: "Chapter 18.110 Specific Plan No. 94-1 (SP94-1) Zoning and Development Standards Sections: 18.110.010 Purpose and Intent 18.110.020 Definitions 18.110.030 Methods and Procedures 18.110.040 Development Review and 18.110.050 Zoning and Development (Development Area 1) 18.110.060 Zoning and Development Area --Recycling Overlay Area (Development Area 1A) 18.110.070 Zoning and Development Area (Development Area 2) 18.110.080 Zoning and Development (Development Area 3) 18.110.090 Zoning and Development (Development Area 4) 18.110.100 Zoning and Development (Development Area 5) 18.110.110 Zoning and Development (Development Area 6) 18.110.010 PURPOSE AND INTENT Permits Standards ---Industrial Area Standards ---Industrial Standards ---Expanded Industrial Standards ---La Palma Core Area Standards ---Transit Core Area Standards ---Commercial Area Standards ---Open Space Area .010 Purpose. The provisions contained herein shall govern zoning and development within the Northeast Area Specific Plan area. Where the provisions contained herein do not discuss a specific condition or situation which arises, the provisions of the Anaheim Municipal Code, as it may be amended from time to 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 2 Y time, shall apply to the Northeast Area Specific Plan. In the event of a conflict between the provisions of this Chapter and the other provisions of the Anaheim Municipal Code, the provisions set forth in this Chapter shall govern. All uses within the Northeast Area Specific Plan boundaries shall comply with all applicable local, state and federal laws, ordinances and regulations. .020 Intent. The regulations set forth in this Chapter have been established to provide for orderly development of that certain property (hereinafter referred to as the "Specific Plan area") described in that Specific Plan No. 94-1 (hereinafter referred to as the "Specific Plan"). These regulations provide for the arrangement, development and use of various "Development Areas" within the Specific Plan area, to create a Regional Industrial Center (hereinafter referred to as the "Northeast Area") which will provide for a wide variety of industrial and related uses, a range of services and commercial support facilities. Application of these regulations is specifically intended to provide for and to ensure the most appropriate use of the Specific Plan area, to create a harmonious relationship among land uses and to protect the health, safety and welfare of the community. .030 Organization. In accordance with the provisions of Chapter 18.93 (Specific Plan Ordinance), the standards herein are patterned after the zone districts and definitions of Title 18. The Specific Plan is consistent with the intent, purpose and goals of the Anaheim General Plan and the Title 18 Zoning Ordinance. In accordance with Chapter 18.93.050.020, this chapter shall be adopted by ordinance of the City Council, independent of the rest of the Specific Plan. The official Zoning Map of the City shall be amended to reflect the boundaries of each area described in the Specific Plan. 18.110.020 DEFINITIONS. All terms used in this Chapter shall have the same definitions as provided in the Anaheim Municipal Code unless otherwise defined below or elsewhere in this Chapter. .010 Words, Terms and Phrases. .0101 Floor Area Ratio (FAR). The ratio of the gross floor area of the buildings on a lot to the total area of the lot. For example, if a parcel is 40,000 square feet in area and the maximum allowable FAR is 0.5, then the maximum building floor area allowed on that site would be 20,000 square feet. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 3 .0102 Parapet. A vertical wall extending from and above the actual roof line. 18.110.030 METHODS AND PROCEDURES .010 Implementation of the Specific Plan. The Specific Plan shall be implemented as described below: .020 Subdivision Map Approval. Subdivision maps shall be submitted, reviewed and approved in accordance with the provisions of Chapters 17.08 and 17.09. Parcels created by subdivision within the Specific Plan area shall not be required to have frontage on a public street provided that each such parcel has access, for ingress and egress, to a public street pursuant to a recorded easement agreement reasonably approved as to form and content by the City Attorney and the Planning and Public Works Departments. .030 Site Plans. Site plans shall be processed in accordance with Section 18.04.090 entitled "Development Review and Permits --General." 18.110.040 DEVELOPMENT REVIEW AND PERMITS Prior to commencing any work pertaining to the erection, construction, reconstruction, moving, conversion, alteration or addition to any building or structure within this area, all building and site plans shall be subject to review and approval of the Redevelopment Agency and the Planning Department of the City and permits shall be secured from the Building Division Manager of the City of Anaheim in compliance with all provisions of Section 18.04.090, "Development Review and Permits --General" provided further, that where there are existing buildings and structures on a site for which more intensive development is proposed under the provisions of this Specific Plan, no building permit shall be issued until the buildings and structures are safe for occupancy and for human habitation. .010 Specific Plan Amendments and Adjustments. .0101 Specific Plan Amendments. Specific Plan Amendments, including modification of Development Area boundaries or creation of new Development Areas, shall be processed in accordance with the provisions of Chapters 18.03 and 18.93 of this Code. .0102 Specific Plan Adjustments. Modification to Zoning and Development standards in one or more Development Areas (including provisions pertaining to land uses) shall be processed as Specific Plan Adjustments in accordance with the provisions of 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 4 this paragraph. The proposed Specific Plan Adjustment shall be submitted as a Report and Recommendation item to the Planning Commission. Any action by the Planning Commission favoring the adoption of a Specific Plan Adjustment shall be in the form of a recommendation to the City Council, which recommendation shall be acted upon by the City Council in accordance with the procedures for amendments of the Anaheim Municipal Code as set forth in Chapter 1.01. Any action by the Planning Commission disapproving a Specific Plan Adjustment shall be final and effective twenty-two (22) days following the action thereon, unless, within such twenty-two day period, an appeal in writing is filed with the City Council by any person or unless a request to review said decision is made by two (2) or more members of the City Council. The appeal process shall be as provided in Section 18.03.081 through 18.03.084 of this Code, or successor provisions thereto. The Planning Commission may refer any Specific Plan Adjustment for processing as a Specific Plan Amendment in accordance with the provisions of Chapters 18.03 and 18.95 of this Code when the Planning Commission determines that the general public interest warrants such processing. .020 Area Boundaries. The Specific Plan is divided into six (6) Development Areas: Industrial Area (1) (including the Industrial Area --Recycling Overlay Area [lA]), Expanded Industrial Area (2), La Palma Core Area (3), Transit Core Area (4), Commercial Area (5) and Open Space Area (6). .0201 The Specific Plan area is identified on Exhibit #2, Specific Plan Area, and the Development Areas are shown on Exhibit #4, Developmental Areas in the Specific Plan document. A legal description of the Specific Plan area is provided in Appendix 5.2 of the Specific Plan document. The official Zoning Map of the City shall be amended to reflect the boundaries of each Development Area described in the Specific Plan. .030 Non -Conforming Building Requirements. .0301 The site development standards contained in this Chapter shall apply to the structural expansion portion of every building. However, the structural expansion portion of a building may encroach into the setback equal to that of the existing legal nonconforming portion of a building 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 5 provided that the length of the expansion does not exceed 20% of the length of the existing portion of such building at the existing setback. Buildings with structural expansion (additional square footage) exceeding 20% of the gross floor area of the existing building within any two (2) year period shall comply with all landscaping, signage and site screening requirements of this Chapter. .0302 The site development standards contained in this Chapter pertaining to landscaping, signage and site screening shall apply in the event that structural modification to an existing building (interior) exceeds fifty percent (50%) of that gross floor area of the existing building within any two (2) year period. .040 Expansion or Change of Nonconforming Uses. .0401 A nonconforming industrial use lawfully existing upon the date of adoption of the Specific Plan may be expanded or extended throughout an industrial building lawfully existing upon said date. Building additions to allow the expansion of such industrial use shall be permitted. .0402 A nonconforming use lawfully existing upon the date of adoption of the Specific Plan may be changed to another nonconforming primary permitted use of the zoning designation in effect prior to reclassification of the property into the Specific Plan zone. .050 Reclassification Procedure. Concurrent with or subsequent to introduction of an ordinance adding this chapter to the Anaheim Municipal Code, the City Council may introduce an ordinance to reclassify the property covered by Specific Plan No. 94-1 and this Chapter to the zoning designation SP94-1. .060 School Impact Fees. Prior to the issuance of each building permit, proof of compliance with state statute(s), (as may be amended from time to time) relating to school impact fees for the Placentia Yorba Linda Unified School District shall be submitted to the Planning Department. 18.110.050 Zoning and Development Standards Industrial Area (Development Area 1) This Development Area is intended to provide for and encourage the development of industrial uses and related facilities, and further, to recognize the unique and valuable industrial land 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 6 x resources existing within the City of Anaheim. This resource is found to have both local and regional significance, due to an ideal industrial environment, including central geographic location, regional access and circulation, availability of utilities and services and a well-established industrial base. The underlying base zone for this area is the ML -Limited Industrial Zone and unless otherwise indicated, the standards of the ML Zone shall apply. .010 Permitted Primary Uses and Structures. The following buildings, structures and uses, either singly or in combination, may be permitted in the Industrial Area subject to the limitations provided hereinafter. .0101 Agricultural crops .0102 Aircraft firms. .0103 Ambulance service firms (without living quarters). .0104 Automobile/vehicle parking lots and structures in conjunction with uses permitted under this Chapter. .0105 Bakeries, wholesale. .0106 Banks. .0107 Bottling plants or breweries. .0108 Broadcasting studios, radio or television (including rehearsal studios) without audiences. .0109 Cabinet or carpentry shops. .0110 Cleaning plants (including carpets) including dyeing. .0111 Corporate headquarters as defined in Section 18.01.040. .0112 Dairy product processing. .0113 Electronic assembly. .0114 Exterminating or disinfecting services. .0115 Helistops located not less than one thousand (1,000) feet from any residentially zoned parcel. .0116 Hospitals or medical clinics serving the industrial area. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 7 AL .0117 Ice and cold storage plants. .0118 Laboratories: medical and dental .0119 Laundries. .0120 Machine shops. .0121 Mail order firms. .0122 Manufacturing, including but not limited to; aircraft, autos, campers, trailers, mobile homes, batteries, boats, ceramic products (from previously pulverized clay only), signs (electric or neon), electrical, electronic or electromechanical machinery, food products (including processing, canning, -preserving and freezing), furniture (including upholstery and refinishing), apparel or garments, glass, prefabricated buildings, plastics, shoes, soap ,(cold mix only), textiles, etc. .0123 Metal working firms, including plating, fabrication or welding. .0124 Motor vehicle assembly plants, new. .0125 Newspaper establishments. .0126 Outdoor storage of equipment, materials, finished products or refuse basic to the operations of permitted uses subject to the site enclosure and screening requirements of paragraph 18.110.050.120. .0127 Packing houses, fruit and vegetable. .0128 Paint mixing plants. .0129 Printing or reproducing services, including but not limited to printing shops, photoengraving, copying, processing, and blueprinting. .0130 Product fabrication. The fabrication of products from previously finished products such as paper, plastics, rubber, sheet metal, etc. .0131 Public works or public utility service yards. .0132 Research and testing firms, such as architectural or engineering service firms. 0 .0133 Scrap metal salvage and shredding, automobile dismantling, used auto parts businesses and existing non-ferrous collection processing facilities (provided such uses are located south of the Riverside (SR -91) Freeway, east of and including abandoned Newkirk Road and west of the easterly terminus of Frontera Street, as it currently exists upon adoption of the Specific Plan), provided, however, that any such use shall be a permitted use pursuant to this subsection only upon and following complete compliance with each and all of the terms of a stipulation for judgment and final judgment entered by the Orange County Superior Court, including, without limitation, all time limitations contained therein, and pursuant to which stipulation and judgment such use has been operating as a temporary permitted use as set forth in paragraph 18.110.050.040.0404 of this Chapter (except that existing non-ferrous recycling facilities must at all times comply with applicable conditions of operation as set forth in the stipulation for judgment and final judgment, whether or not said uses had been subject to the stipulation and judgment, to the satisfaction of the Planning Director). Any use permitted pursuant to this subsection shall be permitted subject to compliance with all development and operation standards set forth in Section 18.04.150 of this Code. .0134 Sex -oriented businesses, except as provided in paragraphs .0401 through .0405 of subsection 18.89.030.040 and subject to the provisions of Chapter 18.89 of this Code. .0135 Small equipment storage or rental yards. .0136 Telephone exchanges, office and equipment buildings. .0137 Tire rebuilding, including retreading. .0138 Towing services, excluding vehicle impound or storage yards, and further excluding the transferring of disabled vehicles to the site at any time. .0139 Training centers (industrial). .0140 Warehouses. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 9 .0141 Wholesale businesses, including but not limited to, storage buildings and warehouses, provided that all such sales are to retailers or merchants for the purpose of their own business use or resale only and not to consumers or the public in general. .0142 Woodworking shops. .020 General Requirements for Permitted Uses And Structures. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Chapter, the following general requirements shall apply for the conduct of any use permitted in this Development Area: .0201 All uses shall be maintained in such a manner that they are neither obnoxious nor offensive by reason of emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, vibration, electromagnetic disturbance, radiation or other similar causes detrimental to the public health, safety or general welfare. .0202 Except as otherwise provided in the listed use, all uses shall be conducted wholly within a building. .030 Permitted Accessory Uses And Structures. The following accessory uses are permitted only where they are integrated with and clearly incidental to a primary permitted use listed in this Development Area. All uses shall be conducted wholly within a building except as provided hereinafter. .0301 Caretakers quarters, one only, where used by a proprietor, manager or custodian of a use permitted in this Development Area provided the requirements for minimum floor area and minimum number of parking spaces as required by the RM - 2400 Zone are complied with. .0302 Employee cafeterias or coffee shops. .0303 Exhibition of products produced on the premises or available for wholesale distribution. .0304 Offices. .0305 Retail sale of products or portions of products manufactured on the premises where not the primary retail outlet for said products. .0306 Reverse vending machines and small collection facilities (inside or outside) for recycling 13421ASMANN\September 8, 1995 10 purposes subject to the requirements of Chapter 18.95 of this Code. .0307 Signs, other than billboards, in compliance with paragraph 18.110.050.130. .0308 Storage of class "C" explosives, not to exceed 20 pounds of said explosive, and stored in compliance with the Uniform Fire Code. .0309 Roof -mounted mechanical/utility equipment (including, but not limited to, compressors, condensers, conduits, pipes, vents, ducts, etc., as found in Title 15 of the Anaheim Municipal Code and in the Uniform Mechanical Code) and receiving antennas; provided that these devices shall not be visible in any direction (360 degrees) from any public right-of-way, public property or any property zoned residential, commercial, open space, or Development Areas 3, 4, 5, or 6 of this. Specific Plan area, as may be seen from a point six (6) feet above ground level on said adjacent property. Screening of equipment shall be provided by acceptable, permanent building materials, the same as or similar to those which are used in the construction of the underlying building, or equipment shall be screened from view by acceptable architectural features of the building itself. wood lattice shall not be used as a screening device. The screening method and screening material used shall not be recognizable as a screening device but shall be designed as an integral component of the building design. Permanent, mature landscaping may also be utilized, but only if it provides a complete and sufficient year-round screen. All equipment screening shall be retained and maintained in good condition. .0310 Ground -mounted radio, television and satellite dish receiving antennas, mechanical/utility equipment and other such similar equipment; provided that any such equipment shall be screened from view in all directions (360 degrees) from any public right-of-way, public property or any property zoned residential, commercial, open space, or Development Areas 3, 4, 5, or 6 of this Specific Plan area, as may be seen from a point six (6) feet above ground level on said adjacent property, by landscaping (except for screening of mechanical equipment), fencing or architectural building features. Said equipment shall not be 11 A located in a required setback area abutting a public or private street. .040 Permitted Temporary Uses And Structures. The following temporary buildings, structures and uses may be permitted subject to the conditions and limitations specified herein: .0401 Christmas tree and pumpkin patch sales lots and/or stands shall be subject to compliance with the provisions of Chapter 6.42 "Christmas Trees" and paragraph 18.02.055.060.0607. .0402 Contractor's Office and/or Storage. Temporary structures for the housing of tools and equipment or containing supervisory offices in connection with major construction projects may be established and maintained during the progress of such construction on such projects provided the maximum time for such use shall not exceed two (2) years. .0403 Real Estate Tract Office and Billboard. One (1) temporary real estate office and temporary real estate billboard may be located on any new subdivision, provided that such office and billboard shall be removed at the end of three (3) years from the date of the recording of the map of the subdivision upon which the office and billboard are located. .0404 Scrap metal salvage and shredding, non-ferrous collection processing facilities, automobile dismantling, and used auto parts businesses pursuant to a stipulation for judgment approved by the City Council and a final judgment entered by the Orange County Superior Court, with operation of the businesses authorized solely for the purpose of remediation of toxic and/or hazardous materials and/or waste on the subject property, and expressly contingent upon continued compliance with the stipulated judgment and the requirements of any and all regulatory agencies with jurisdiction on such matters. Termination of the use shall be pursuant to the terms of the stipulation for judgment and shall not be pursuant to the provisions of this Title except as set forth in paragraph 18.110.050.010.0133 of this Chapter. .0405 Special Events and Temporary Signs, Flags, Banners and Balloons. The temporary use of premises for 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 12 i special events as defined in Section 18.01.200 shall be subject to compliance with the provisions of Sections 18.02.045 "Special Event Permits -General" and 18.05.070 "Temporary Signs, Flags, Banners and Balloons -General" of this Code. .050 Conditional Uses and Structures. The following buildings, structures and uses shall be permitted in this Development Area subject to a conditional use permit in compliance with Section 18.03.030, "Conditional Use Permits - General" of this Code. .0501 Ambulance services with attendant living quarters. .0502 Animal foods processing. .0503 Animal hospitals and/or kennels. .0504 Automobile car washes. .0505 Automotive vehicle repair, overhaul, installation of parts and accessories, modification, painting, body work and other similar vehicular activities, including incidental retail sales of accessories. For purposes of this section the words "automotive vehicle" shall include, but not be limited to, automobiles, boats, recreational vehicles, trucks and motorcycles. .0506 Boiler and tank manufacturing. .0507 Bowling alleys, with or without alcohol sales. .0508 Building material storage yards. .0509 Buildings or structures in excess of sixty (60) feet in height. .0510 Bus depots. .0511 Child day care facilities which exclusively serve one or more businesses located in this Specific Plan area. .0512 Churches, subject to the following limitations: (a) Churches which are the exclusive use of property exceeding three (3) acres in size: the limitation in hours and days of operation and length in time of church use shall be specified in the Conditional Use Permit. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 13 6 (b) Churches which occupy less than three (3) acres or are not the exclusive use of the property (regardless of acreage), are limited to a maximum _ initial three (3) years duration with -extensions which shall not exceed nine (9) consecutive years from the original approval. (c) Churches established pursuant to subparagraph (b) shall, with the exception of national holidays, limit activities to church office staff, prior to 6:00 o'clock on Monday through Friday. (d) Churches may include educational facilities as an accessory use, provided such facilities are approved in the conditional use permit. .0513 Communications stations and antennas (other than those permitted by paragraphs 18.110.050.030.0309 and 18.110.050.030.0310) including amateur - operated radio transmission towers and cellular communication facilities/towers whether ground mounted or mounted on a structure. Maximum structural height shall be determined by conditional use permit. .0514 Concrete batching or mixing (indoors or outdoors). .0515 Contractor storage yards. .0516 Draying, freighting or trucking yards or terminals (indoors or outdoors). .0517 Explosives. Storage of any class "A" or class "B" or in excess of twenty (20) pounds of class "C" explosives. .0518 Feed and fuel yards. .0519 Freestanding freeway oriented signs. .0520 Freight classification yards. .0521 Health spas and physical fitness centers. .0522 Helistops located less than one thousand (1000) feet from any residentially zoned parcel; Heliports. .0523 Large collection facilities for recycling purposes subject to the requirements of Chapter 18.95. .0524 Large equipment storage or rental yard. 14 .0525 Lumber yards. .0526 Manufacturing operations not otherwise listed as a permitted use in this Development Area, including, but not limited to: acid, alcohol, ammonia, bleaching powder, chlorine, asphaltic concrete, cement, lime, gypsum, plaster of paris, explosives, fertilizer, gas, glue, lampblack, synthetic rubber, and tar distillation or processing, brick or concrete products, paint, oil, shellac, turpentine or varnish, oil cloth or linoleum, paper pulp, plastics, polish, soap, soda and other compounds. .0527 Metal smelting, refining or processing operations not otherwise listed as a permitted use in this Development Area including, but not limited to, high temperature smelting by blast furnaces or coke ovens, metal foundries, drop forge operations or the rolling and extrusion of ferrous metals. .0528 Non-ferrous collection processing facilities (provided such uses are located south of the Riverside (SR -91) Freeway, east of and including abandoned Newkirk Road and no more than 750 feet east of said easterly terminus of Frontera Street, as it currently exists upon adoption of the Specific Plan. .0529 Petroleum or its fluid products, indoor or outdoor, wholesale storage of. .0530 Private clubs, lodges and meeting halls. .0531 Private recreational facilities, indoor or outdoor, including but not limited to, golf driving ranges, recreation fields and fishing pools. .0532 Public utilities or utilities operated by mutual agencies consisting of electrical substations, gas or conversion plants with the necessary buildings, apparatus or appurtenances incident thereto, but not including distribution mains or electric or telephone wires or cables or City -owned public utilities. .0533 Restaurants; Enclosed or semi -enclosed, with or without alcohol or cocktail lounge; drive-in, drive-through or walk-up. 13421ASMANN\September 8, 1995 15 .0534 Retail carpeting and/or petroleum based flooring businesses. .0535 Retail sales of household furniture, provided the retail sales portion of the business shall be a minimum of 50,000 square feet. .0536 Retail sales provided such uses are freeway - oriented and located south of, and within 600 feet of, the Riverside (SR -91) Freeway, provided such retail sales pertain to furniture, home building products, office supplies, or products determined to be similar by the Planning Commission, and further provided the retail sales portion of the business shall be a minimum of 15,000 square feet. .0537 Rubber products; reclamation or processing _ (natural or synthetic). .0538 Sales businesses and office uses which primarily serve and are compatible with industrial uses and which are not otherwise permitted uses in this Development Area pursuant to subsection 18.110.050.010. For purposes of this section, any use which is found to encourage retail of products or merchandise or to attract customers other than industrial users for industrial purposes permitted in this Development Area shall not be deemed a use which primarily serves and is compatible with industrial uses. .0539 Sand, gravel, rock and other nonfuel mineral operations including excavation, processing, storage, wholesale outdoor storage and/or distribution thereof, and accessory offices, weighing stations and caretakers' quarters, subject to compliance with of Chapter 17.20 of this Code. .0540 Scrap metal salvage and shredding, automobile dismantling and used auto parts businesses (provided such uses are located south of the Riverside (SR -91) Freeway, east of and including abandoned Newkirk Road and west of the easterly terminus of Frontera Street, as it currently exists upon adoption of the Specific Plan), provided, however, that any such use shall be a permitted use pursuant to this subsection only upon and following complete compliance with each and all of the terms of a stipulation for judgment and final judgment entered by the Orange County Superior Court, including, without limitation, all 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 16 VY time limitations contained therein, and pursuant to which stipulation and judgment such use has been operating as a temporary permitted use as set forth in paragraph 18.110.050.040.0404 of this Chapter. .0541 Self -storage facilities. .0542 Service stations, automobile or truck, with or without convenience markets subject to the requirements of Chapter 18.87 of this Code, provided that as a condition for the granting of a Conditional Use Permit for an automobile or truck service station, the property owner shall record an unsubordinated covenant, satisfactory to the Planning Director and City Attorney agreeing to remove all the structures, including underground storage tanks, in the event that the station is closed for a period of twelve (12) consecutive months. A service station shall be considered closed during any month in which it is open for less than fifteen (15) days. .0543 Stone monument works (outdoors). .0544 Towing services, with vehicle impound or storage yard. .0545 Transit, transportation and construction equipment storage (outdoors). .0546 Transmission stations, radio or television including amateur -operated radio transmission towers. Heights of antennas and/or towers associated with these uses shall be determined by Conditional Use Permit. .0547 Vehicle sales agencies and lots. .060 Site Development Standards - General. Site development standards are intended to provide for the continued orderly development of this Development Area. In order to assure adequate levels of light, air and density of development, to maintain and enhance the locally recognized values of community appearance, to promote functional compatibility of uses and to promote the safe and efficient circulation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, all of which are found to be necessary for the preservation of the community health, safety and general welfare. .070 Building Site Requirements. The size and shape of the site proposed for the use shall be adequate to allow the full 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 17 i development of the proposed use in a manner consistent with the stated purpose and intent of this Development Area. .0701 Adequate provision shall be made for the safe and orderly circulation of both pedestrian and vehicular traffic between the proposed site and all streets and highways, and between coordinated facilities, accessways or parking areas on adjacent sites. .0702 The proposed development shall not limit or adversely affect the growth and development potential of adjoining lands or the general area in which it is proposed to be located. .080 Structural Height and Area Limitations. .0801 Maximum Structural Height. Except for projections as permitted in Section 18.03.030.028 of this Code, the maximum height of any building or structure shall be sixty (60) feet, except as may be permitted by conditional use permit; provided further, that: .0802 The height of any building or structure shall not exceed one half of the distance from said building or structure to the boundaries of any residential zone. Dedicated streets or alleys may be included in calculating distance. .0803 No site may be developed to an intensity greater than a Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 0.5. .090 Structural Setback and Yard Requirements. Every building, structure or addition thereto erected in this Development Area shall be provided with setbacks and landscaping in conformance with the provisions of Sections 18.04.060 and 18.61.060 of this Code except as follows: .0901 Setback adjacent to public rights-of-way. All properties abutting a public street shall have an open setback area for the full width of the property. This setback shall be parallel to the centerline of the street and shall be measured from the planned highway right-of-way line as designated on the Circulation Element of the General Plan or the ultimate right-of-way line of a local street, and shall be a depth as indicated below. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 18 .0902 Abutting any arterial highway other than collector streets, setbacks of fifty (50) to sixty-five (65) feet shall be provided as follows: (a) If no parking is to be provided in front of the building, the minimum building setback shall be fifty (50) feet. The first ten (10) feet of setback immediately behind the public right-of-way (ROW) line shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree per twenty (20) linear feet of street frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. The remaining forty (40) feet of setback area, which may be used for a drive -aisle (parallel to the street) but not for parking, shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree for every thousand (1,000) square feet of required street setback area, not including the ten (10) feet of setback area located immediately behind the ROW. (b) If parking is to be provided in front of the building, the minimum building setback shall be sixty-five (65) feet. The first ten (10) feet behind the ROW shall be landscaped with a minimum of one (1) tree planted for every twenty (20) linear feet of street frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. There shall be no parking within the 10 foot wide minimum landscape setback area located immediately behind the ROW. In the remaining fifty-five (55) feet of setback area, a minimum of one (1) tree shall be planted per four (4) parking stalls, and a minimum of one (1) additional tree shall be provided for each twenty-three hundred (2,300) square feet of area in the remaining required street setback area. (c) Abutting collector streets, a structural setback of not less than twenty-five (25) feet with a minimum ten (10) feet adjacent to the ROW fully landscaped including a minimum of one (1) tree planted for every twenty (20) linear feet of frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. There shall be no parking within the ten (10) foot wide minimum landscape setback area located immediately behind the ROW. The remainder of 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 19 the required setback area shall be limited to parking and/or vehicular circulation. .0903 Abutting the Riverside (SR -91) Freeway rights-of- way, freeway frontage roads, (including any freeway transition road and on- or off -ramp) minimum setbacks of thirty (30) to one -hundred (100) feet shall be provided as follows: (a) If no parking is to be provided between the ROW and the building, the minimum building setback shall be fifty (50) feet with a minimum thirty (30) foot wide, fully landscaped setback area provided adjacent to the ROW including a minimum of one (1) tree planted per twenty (20) linear feet of ROW frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. The remaining twenty (20) feet of required setback area, which may be used for a service -aisle (parallel to the freeway) but not for parking, shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree per twenty-three hundred (2,300) square feet of that remaining setback area. (b) If parking is to be permitted between the ROW and the building, the minimum building setback shall be one hundred (100) feet with a minimum thirty (30) foot wide fully landscaped setback area provided adjacent to the ROW including a minimum of one (1) tree per twenty (20) linear feet of ROW frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. The remaining seventy (70) feet of required setback area shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree per twenty-three hundred (2,300) square feet in addition to a minimum of one (1) tree per four (4) parking stalls. (c) Abutting freeway frontage roads or any on -or off -ramp, the minimum building setback shall be thirty (30) feet. The minimum thirty (30) foot wide required setback area shall be fully landscaped including a minimum of one (1) tree planted per twenty (20) linear feet of ROW frontage and must include a three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW unless the freeway frontage road or on- or off -ramp is 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 20 M substantially elevated or below the grade of the freeway right-of-way, in which case, no shrub screen shall be required. .0904 Abutting local streets a setback of not less than five (5) feet, fully landscaped including a minimum of one (1) tree for every twenty (20) linear feet of street frontage. .0905 Side and Rear Setbacks. None required except where a lot sides or rears upon any residential zone. When this situation exists, the height of any building or structure shall not exceed the height limitation of paragraph 18.110.050.080.0802. (a) The provision for side and rear yards specified above shall not apply when the lot is adjacent to any RS -A-43,000 zoned property upon which a resolution of intent for nonresidential uses has been approved. .0906 Service Station Setbacks. Pump islands may be placed within the setback area and may be sheltered by either a separate structure or a sheltering structure attached to the main building. All required landscaping shall be in accordance with adopted service station site development standards contained in Chapter 18.87 of this Code. .0907 Sidewalk Waivers. In those areas where applicants have been granted temporary sidewalk waivers, the landscaping shall extend to the curb. Trees shall be planted so as not to conflict with future sidewalks. Plant materials within the public right-of-way, with the exception of trees, shall not exceed thirty-six (36) inches in height, and shall further be subject to City of Anaheim Engineering Standard No. 137 entitled "Commercial Drive Approach". .100 Permitted Encroachments Into Required Yards. The following architectural features and structures may be permitted to encroach into yard areas in this Development Area, in compliance with the provisions of Section 18.04.043 "Permitted Encroachments into Required Yards -General" and as provided herein: .1001 Decorative screen walls, not exceeding thirty-six (36) inches in height, where located at least ten (10) feet from the front property line along 21 arterial streets and highways, and freeway frontage roads. .1002 Entrance and exit drives and walks into parking areas. .1003 Flagpoles subject to the provisions of Section 18.04.045.034 of this Code. .1004 Fountains, ponds, sculpture, planters and walkways (open or covered) where they are an integral part of a landscaping scheme comprised primarily of plant materials. .1005 Signs other than billboards in conformance with Section 18.110.050.130 and 18.110.050.140 of this Code. .110 Off -Street Parking vehicle accessways and parking with the provisions of Chapter Loading Requirements". and Loading Requirements. All and loading areas shall comply 18.06, "Vehicle Parking and .120 Site Enclosure and Screening Requirements. Industrial sites and/or uses shall be enclosed to provide effective site screening from adjoining properties, and public rights-of-way as follows: .1201 Required Screening Adjacent to Residential Zone Boundaries. A solid masonry wall planted with vines so as to prevent graffiti, landscaped earth berm or any combination thereof totaling not less than six (6) feet in height shall be required along and adjacent to any side or rear property line abutting any residential zone boundary; - provided, however, said walls or berms shall not be required adjacent to any lot zoned RS -A-43,000 which is under a resolution of intent to any non-residential zone or any alley abutting any such zone boundary. Further, any access gates shall be constructed of view -obscuring material to provide effective sight screening. .1202 Required Enclosure of Outdoor Uses. The perimeter of any portion of a site upon which any outdoor use of an industrial nature is permitted shall be enclosed to a height of not less than six (6) feet either by solid masonry wall, chain link fencing interwoven with cedar, redwood or PVC slats, or building walls which incorporate live plant material with adequate growing area, planted along and adjacent to said wall or fence. No outdoor industrial use or enclosure thereof shall encroach 22 into any required setback area adjacent to public right-of-way, products or materials such enclosure. nor shall any storage exceed the height of any of any .130 Sign Regulations — Advertising And Identification: Except as provided in subsection .140 of this Section 18.110.050, any signs or billboards installed or erected in this Development Area shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 18.05 "Outdoor Advertising — Signs and Billboards" for the ML Zone. .140 Freestanding Freeway -Oriented Signs: Freestanding freeway -oriented on-site identification signs, limited to parcels adjacent to the north and south sides of the Riverside (SR -91) Freeway or associated freeway frontage roads between the Santa Ana Riverbed and the Orange (57) Freeway, shall be permitted in this Development Area subject to a conditional use permit and further subject to the following requirements: .1401 Freestanding freeway -oriented identification signs shall be permitted only for (i) retail businesses serving a regional area of area wide significance provided said retail businesses have a minimum building square footage of 50,000 square feet, or a minimum lot area of 3 acres for vehicle sales agencies and lots, and a freeway frontage of no less than 300 linear feet and (ii) businesses which serve the immediate needs of the highway motorist, such as service stations, motels and restaurants). .1402 The height, location and sign copy shall be designed in a manner which permits identification from adjacent freeways. .1403 There shall be no more than one freestanding freeway oriented sign per parcel. .1404 The sign shall be limited to identifying the business occupying the site. .1405 The sign shall be located in the landscape setback area, perpendicular to the freeway and shall be located approximately midway between side property lines within the middle 20% of the property frontage. .1406 The maximum height of the freestanding sign shall be limited to 35 feet above finished grade of the closest freeway lane. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 23 i .1407 The maximum width of the freestanding sign, including the sign support structure, shall not exceed 20 feet. .1408 The area of each face of a double faced freestanding sign panel shall not exceed 150 square feet and be in the form of a maximum 10 foot high and 15 foot wide sign panel. .1409 The sign shall be supported by a two post structure. The posts and associated framing or metal skin shall not be less than 25% of the total sign width. The sign panel shall be recessed into the sign structure on each side 4 inches. No riders or attachments shall be added to the sign structure. .1410 Graphics shall be limited to the sign panel only. Lettering including logo, shall constitute not more than 60% of total graphic area with background 40%. Lettering shall be limited to the name of the business. .1411 Sign panel materials shall conform to the established sign design criteria of the City. The sign support structure shall be constructed with high quality materials as approved in the conditional use permit. The sign structure shall be similar in color to the associated business building. 18.110.060 Zoning and Development Standards — Industrial Area --Recycling Overlay Area (Development Area 1A) This Development Area is intended to provide for and encourage the development of waste recycling and material recovery uses and facilities. Due to the presence of an ideal industrial environment, including central geographic location, regional access and circulation, availability of utilities and services and the presence of a large urban population, the availability of land for recycling and related uses is a resource found to have both local and regional significance. The underlying base zone for this area is the ML -Limited Industrial Zone and, unless otherwise indicated, the standards of the ML Zone shall apply. .010 Permitted Primary Uses and Structures. The permitted primary uses and structures in Development Area 1 shall be permitted in the Recycling Overlay Area (Development Area lA), except that banks and Sex Oriented Businesses shall not be permitted. In addition to the foregoing, the following buildings, structures and uses, either singly or in combination, 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 24 i may be permitted in the Industrial Area --Recycling Overlay Area subject to the limitations provided hereinafter. .0101 -Outdoor storage of recycled materials awaiting shipment, subject to all state and county permits, related to waste recycling facilities and operations except for materials identified in Section 18.110.060.050.0501(i) and subject to the site enclosure and screening requirements of ` Section 18.110.060.120. .0102 Recycling/resources recovery transfer facilities and trash transfer facilities, including large collection processing facilities and yards for recycling purposes, except for materials identified in Section 18.110.060.050.0501(i) subject to valid applicable state and county permits, the requirements of this Chapter, and further subject to the following: (a) All uses permitted by this section shall be maintained in such a manner that outdoor storage areas and operations shall be screened from view from public rights-of-way (except when said rights-of-way are substantially elevated) by sufficient landscaping and a solid masonry or other opaque material wall, as approved by the Planning Director. (b) The use or uses permitted by this subsection, shall not be detrimental to surrounding land uses, public health, safety or general welfare. (c) The use or uses permitted, may be subject to Code Enforcement Division inspections, as often as required by that Division, to ensure compliance with all applicable regulations of this Development Area, at the cost of the business owner. .020 General Requirements For Permitted Uses And Structures. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Chapter, the following general requirements shall apply for the conduct of any use permitted in this Development Area: .0201 All uses shall be maintained in such a manner that they are neither obnoxious nor offensive by reason of emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, vibration, electromagnetic disturbance, radiation or other similar causes detrimental to the public health, safety or general welfare. 25 .0202 Except as otherwise provided in the listed use, all uses shall be conducted wholly within a building. .030 Permitted Accessory Uses And Structures. The permitted accessory uses and structures in Development Area 1 shall be permitted accessory uses and structures in the Recycling Overlay Area (Development Area 1A). .040 Permitted Temporary Uses And Structures. The permitted temporary uses and structures in Development Area 1 shall be permitted temporary uses and structures in the Recycling Overlay Area (Development Area 1A), except that Christmas tree and pumpkin patch sales lots and/or stands, as set forth in paragraph .0401 thereof and scrap metal salvage and shredding, automobile dismantling and used auto parts businesses, as set forth in paragraph .0404 thereof shall not be permitted. .050 Conditional Uses and Structures. Except as set forth below, the conditional uses and structures in Development Area 1 may be permitted in this Development Area lA subject to a conditional use permit in compliance with Section 18.03.030, "Conditional Use Permits - General" of this Code. .0501 The following buildings, structures and uses shall be permitted in this Development Area lA subject to a conditional use permit in compliance with Section 18.03.030, "Conditional Use Permits - General" of this Code. (i) Recycling/Resources Recovery Transfer facilities (incoors or outdoors) involving hazardous substances/waste subject to the requirements of Chapter 18.95 of this Code. .0502 The following buildings, structures and uses shall be prohibited in this Development Area 1A. (i) Bowling alleys, with or without alcohol sales. (ii) Churches, subject to the following limitations: (a) Churches which are the exclusive use of property exceeding three (3) acres in size: the limitation in hours and days of operation and length in time of church use shall be specified in the Conditional Use Permit. (b) Churches which occupy less than three (3) acres or are not the exclusive use of the 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 26 property (regardless of acreage), are limited to a maximum initial three (3) years duration with extensions which shall not exceed nine (9) consecutive years from the original approval. (c) Churches established pursuant to subparagraph (b) shall, with the exception of national holidays, limit activities to church office staff, prior to 6:00 o'clock on Monday through Friday. (d) Churches may include educational facilities as an accessory use, provided such facilities are approved in the conditional use permit. - (iii) Large collection facilities except as identified in section 18.110.060.010.0102 for recycling purposes subject to the requirements of Chapter 18.95. (iv) Private clubs, lodges and meeting halls. (v) Restaurants; Enclosed or semi -enclosed, with or without alcohol or cocktail lounge; drive-in, drive-through or walk-up. (vi) Retail carpeting and/or petroleum based flooring businesses. (vii) Retail sales of household furniture, provided the retail sales portion of the business shall be a minimum of 50,000 square feet. (viii) Retail sales provided such uses are freeway -oriented and located south of, and within 600 feet of, the Riverside (SR -91) Freeway, provided such retail sales pertain to furniture, home building products, office supplies, or products determined to be similar by the Planning Commission, and further provided the retail sales portion of the business shall be a minimum of 15,000 square feet. (ix) Transit, transportation and construction equipment storage (outdoors). (x) Vehicle sales agencies and lots. .060 Site Development Standards - General. Site development standards are intended to provide for the continued orderly development of this Development Area, to assure adequate 27 A levels of light, air and density of development, to maintain and enhance the locally recognized values of community appearance, to promote functional compatibility of uses and to promote the safe and efficient circulation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, all of which are found to be necessary for the preservation of the community health, safety and general welfare. .070 Building Site Requirements. The size and shape of the site proposed for the use shall be adequate to allow the full development of the proposed use in a manner consistent with the stated purpose and intent of this Development Area. .0701 Adequate provision shall be made for the safe and orderly circulation of both pedestrian and vehicular traffic between the proposed site and all streets and highways, and between coordinated facilities, accessways or parking areas on adjacent sites. .0702 The proposed development shall not limit or adversely affect the growth and development potential of adjoining lands or the general area in which it is proposed to be located. .080 Structural Height and Area Limitations: .0801 Maximum Structural Height. Except for projections as permitted in Section 18.04.030.028 of this Code, the maximum height of any building or structure shall be sixty (60) feet, except as may be permitted by conditional use permit; provided further, that: .0802 The height of any building or structure shall not exceed one half of the distance from said building or structure to the boundaries of any residential zone. Dedicated streets or alleys may be included in calculating distance. .0803 No site may be developed to an intensity greater than a Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 0.5. .090 Structural Setback and Yard Requirements. Every building, structure or addition thereto erected in this Development Area shall be provided with setbacks and landscaping in conformance with the provisions of Sections 18.04.060 and 18.61.060 of this Code except as follows: .0901 Setback adjacent to public rights-of-way. All properties abutting a public street shall have an open setback area for the full width of the property. This setback shall be parallel to the 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 28 centerline of the street and shall be measured from the planned highway right-of-way line as designated on the Circulation Element of the General Plan or the ultimate right-of-way line of a local street, and shall be a depth as indicated below. .0902 Abutting any arterial highway other than collector streets, setbacks of fifty (50) to sixty-five (65) feet shall be provided as follows: (a) If no parking is to be provided in front of the building, the minimum building setback shall be fifty (50) feet. The first ten (10) feet of setback immediately behind the public right-of-way (ROW) line shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree per twenty (20) linear feet of street frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. The remaining forty (40) feet of setback area, which may be used for a drive -aisle (parallel to the street) but not for parking, shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree for every thousand (1,000) square feet of required street setback area, not including the ten (10) feet of setback area located immediately behind the ROW. (b) If parking is to be provided in front of the building, the minimum building setback shall be sixty-five (65) feet. The first ten (10) feet behind the ROW shall be landscaped with a minimum of one (1) tree planted for every twenty (20) linear feet of street frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. There shall be no parking within the 10 foot wide minimum landscape setback area located immediately behind the ROW. In the remaining fifty-five (55) feet of setback area, a minimum of one (1) tree shall be planted per four (4) parking stalls, and a minimum of one (1) additional tree shall be provided for each twenty-three hundred (2,300) square feet of area in the remaining required street setback area. .0903 Abutting the Riverside (SR -91) Freeway rights-of- way, freeway frontage roads, (including any freeway transition road and on- or off -ramp) minimum setbacks of thirty (30) to one -hundred (100) feet shall be provided as follows: (a) If no parking is to be provided between the ROW and the building, the minimum building setback 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 29 shall be fifty (50) feet with a minimum thirty (30) foot wide, fully landscaped setback area provided adjacent to the ROW including a minimum of one (1) tree planted per twenty (20) linear feet of ROW frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. The remaining twenty (20) feet of required setback area, which may be used for a service -aisle (parallel to the freeway) but not for parking, shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree per twenty-three hundred (2,300) square feet of that remaining setback area. (b) If parking is to be permitted between the ROW and the building, the minimum building setback shall be one hundred (100) feet with a minimum thirty (30) foot wide fully landscaped setback area provided adjacent to the ROW including a minimum of one (1) tree per twenty (20) linear feet of ROW frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. The remaining seventy (70) feet of required setback area shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree per twenty-three hundred (2,300) square feet in addition to a minimum of one (1) tree per four (4) parking stalls. (c) Abutting freeway frontage roads or any on -or off -ramp, the minimum building setback shall be thirty (30) feet. The minimum thirty (30) foot wide required setback area shall be fully landscaped including a minimum of one (1) tree planted per twenty (20) linear feet of ROW frontage and must include a three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW unless the freeway frontage road or on- or off -ramp is substantially elevated or below the grade of the freeway right-of-way, in which case, no shrub screen shall be required. .0904 Abutting local streets, a setback of not less than five (5) feet, fully landscaped with one (1) tree planted for every twenty (20) linear feet of street frontage. .0905 Service Station Setbacks. Pump islands may be placed within the setback area and may be sheltered by either a separate structure or a sheltering structure attached to the main building. All required landscaping shall be in accordance with adopted service station site 13421ASMANN\September 8, 1995 30 development standards contained in Chapter 18.87 of this Code. .0906 Sidewalk Waivers. In those areas where applicants have been granted temporary sidewalk waivers, the landscaping shall extend to the curb. Trees shall be located so as not to conflict with future sidewalks. Plant materials within the public right-of-way, with the exception of trees, shall not exceed thirty-six (36) inches in height, and shall further be subject to City of Anaheim Engineering Standard No. 137 entitled "Commercial Drive Approach". .100 Permitted Encroachments Into Required Yards. The following features and structures may be permitted to encroach into yard areas required in this Development Area, in compliance with the provisions of Section 18.04.043 "Permitted Encroachments into Required Yards, General Conditions" of this Code, and as provided herein. .1001 Decorative screen walls, not exceeding thirty-six (36) inches in height, where located at least ten (10) feet from the front property line along arterial streets and highways, and freeway frontage roads. .1002 Entrance and exit drives and walks into parking areas. .1003 Flagpoles subject to the provisions of Section 18.04.045.034 of this Code. .1004 Fountains, ponds, sculpture, planters and walkways (open or covered) where they are an integral part of a landscaping scheme comprised primarily of plant materials. .1005 Signs other than billboards in conformance with Section 18.110.060.130 and 18.110.060.140 of this Chapter. .110 Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements: All vehicle accessways and parking and loading areas shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 18.06, "Vehicle Parking And Loading Requirements," except as follows: .1101 Any vehicular storage or parking area visible from public rights-of-way or freeway shall be screened from view by landscaping or architectural devices to a height of 36 inches in accordance with City of Anaheim Engineering Standard No. 137 entitled "Commercial Drive Approach". 13421.\SMANN\September 18, 1995 3 1 A .120 Site Enclosure and Screening Requirements: Industrial sites and/or uses shall provide effective site screening from adjoining properties, and public rights-of-way as follows: .1201 Required Enclosure of Outdoor Uses. The perimeter of any portion of a site upon which any outdoor use of an industrial nature is permitted shall be enclosed to a height of not less than six (6) feet either by solid masonry wall, chain link fencing (interwoven with redwood, cedar or PVC slats), or building walls, which incorporate live plant material with adequate growing area, planted along and adjacent to said wall. No outdoor industrial use or enclosure thereof shall encroach into any required setback area adjacent to any public right-of-way, nor shall any storage of products or materials exceed the height of any such enclosure. .1202 Required Enclosure of Recycling Resources Recovery Transfer Facilities. Where such facilities are adjacent to properties not developed with such facilities, a minimum ten (10) foot high masonry block wall or metal panel fencing, as approved by the Planning Director, shall separate such uses. .130 Sign Regulations — Advertising And Identification: Except as provided in subsection .040 of this Section 18.110.060, any signs or billboards installed or erected in this Development Area shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 18.05 "Outdoor Advertising — Signs and Billboards" for the ML Zone. .140 Freestanding Freeway oriented Signs: Freestanding freeway -oriented on-site identification signs, limited to parcels adjacent to the north and south sides of the Riverside (91) Freeway or associated freeway frontage roads between the Santa Ana Riverbed and the Orange (57) Freeway, shall be permitted in this Development Area subject to a conditional use permit and further subject to the following requirements: .1401 Freestanding freeway -oriented identification signs shall be permitted only for (i) retail businesses serving a regional area of area wide significance provided said retail businesses have a minimum building square footage of 50,000 square feet, or a minimum lot area of 3 acres for vehicle sales agencies and lots, and a freeway frontage of no less than 300 linear feet and (ii) businesses which serve the immediate needs of the highway motorist, such as service stations, motels and restaurants). 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 32 i .1402 The height, location and sign copy shall be designed in a manner which permits identification from adjacent freeways. .1403 There shall be no more than one freestanding freeway oriented sign per parcel. .1404 The sign shall be limited to identifying the business occupying the site. .1405 The sign shall be located in the landscape setback area, perpendicular to the freeway and shall be located approximately midway between side property lines within the middle 20% of the property frontage. .1406 The maximum height of the freestanding sign shall be limited to 35 feet above finished grade of the closest freeway lane. .1407 The maximum width of the freestanding sign, including the sign support structure, shall not exceed 20 feet. .1408 The area of each face of a double faced freestanding sign panel shall not exceed 150 square feet and be in the form of a maximum 10 foot high and 15 foot wide sign panel. .1409 The sign shall be supported by a two post structure. The posts and associated framing or metal skin shall not be less than 25% of the total sign width. The sign panel shall be recessed into the sign structure on each side 4 inches. No riders or attachments shall be added to the sign structure. .1410 Graphics shall be limited to the sign panel only. Lettering including logo, shall constitute not more than 60% of total graphic area with background 40%. Lettering shall be limited to the name of the business. .1411 sign panel materials shall conform to the established sign design criteria of the City. The sign support structure shall be constructed with high quality materials as approved in the conditional use permit. The sign structure shall be similar in color to the associated business building. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 33 18.110.070 Land Use and Development Standards — Expanded Industrial Area (Development Area 2) The intent of this Development Area is to provide increased opportunity for development of a mix of light industrial and corporate headquarters, research and development uses with essential support services at strategic locations. The underlying, base zone for this area is the ML -Limited Industrial Zone and unless otherwise indicated, the standards of the ML Zone shall apply. In areas where the Scenic Corridor Overlay Zone already applies, it shall continue to apply to this Development Area. .010 Permitted Primary Uses And Structures. The following buildings, structures and uses, either singly or in combination, may be permitted in the Expanded Industrial Area subject to the limitations provided hereinafter. .0101 Agricultural crops. .0102 Aircraft firms. .0103 Ambulance service firms (without living quarters). .0104 Automobile/vehicle parking lots and structures in conjunction with uses permitted under this Chapter. .0105 Bakeries, wholesale. .0106 Banks .0107 Bottling plants or breweries. .0108 Broadcasting studios, radio or television (including rehearsal studios) without audiences. .0109 Cabinet or carpentry shops. .0110 Cleaning plants (including carpets) including dyeing. .0111 Corporate headquarters as defined in Section 18.01.040 of this Code. .0112 Dairy product processing. .0113 Electronic assembly. .0114 Exterminating or disinfecting services. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 34 .0115 Helistops located not less than one thousand (1000) feet from any residentially zoned parcel. .0116 Hospitals or medical clinics serving the industrial area. .0117 Laboratories; medical and dental .0118 Ice and cold storage plants. .0119 Laundries. .0120 Machine shops. .0121 Mail order firms. .0122 Manufacturing, including but not limited to; aircraft, autos, campers, trailers, mobile homes, batteries, boats, ceramic products (from previously pulverized clay only), signs (electric or neon), electrical, electronic or electromechanical machinery, food products (including processing, canning, preserving and freezing), furniture (including upholstery and refinishing), apparel or garments, glass, prefabricated buildings, plastics, shoes, soap (cold mix only), textiles, etc. .0123 Metal working firms, including plating, fabrication or welding. .0124 Motor vehicle assembly plants, new. .0125 Newspaper establishments. .0126 Offices, professional, medical and dental. .0127 outdoor storage of equipment, materials, finished products or refuse basic to the operations of permitted uses subject to the site enclosure and screening requirements of Section 18.110.070.130. .0128 Packing houses, fruit and vegetable. .0129 Paint mixing plants. .0130 Printing or reproducing services, including but not limited to printing shops, photoengraving, copying, processing, and blueprinting. .0131 Product fabrication. The fabrication of products from previously finished products 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 35 L such as paper, plastics, rubber, sheet metal, etc. .0132 Public works or public utility service yards. .0133 Research and testing firms such as architectural and engineering service firms. .0134 Small equipment storage or rental yards. .0135 Telephone exchanges, office and equipment buildings. .0136 Tire rebuilding, including retreading. .0137 Training centers (industrial). .0138 Warehouses. .0139 Wholesale businesses, including but not limited to, storage buildings and warehouses, provided that all such sales are to retailers or merchants for the purpose of their own business use or resale only and not to consumers or the public in general. .0140 Woodworking shops. .020 General Requirements for Permitted Uses And Structures. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Chapter, the following general requirements shall apply for the conduct of any use permitted in this Development Area: .0201 All uses shall be maintained in such a manner that they are neither obnoxious nor offensive by reason of emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, vibration, electromagnetic disturbance, radiation or other similar causes detrimental to the public health, safety or general welfare. .0202 Except as otherwise provided in the listed use, all uses shall be conducted wholly within a building. .030 Permitted Accessory Uses And Structures. The following accessory uses are permitted only where they are integrated with and clearly incidental to a primary permitted use listed in this Development Area. All uses shall be conducted wholly within a building except as provided hereinafter. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 36 .0301 Caretakers quarters, one only, where used by a proprietor, manager or custodian of a use permitted in this Development Area provided the requirements for minimum floor area and minimum number of parking spaces as required by the RM - 2400 Zone are complied with. .0302 Employee cafeterias or coffee shops. .0303 Exhibition of products produced on the premises or available for wholesale distribution. .0304 Offices. .0305 Retail distribution and sale of products or portions of products produced on the premises where not the primary retail outlet for said products. .0306 Reverse vending machines and small collection facilities (inside or outside) for recycling purposes subject to the requirements of Chapter 18.95 of this Code. .0307 Signs, other than billboards, in compliance Section 18.110.070.120 of this Chapter. .0308 Storage of class "C" explosives, not to exceed 20 pounds of said explosive, and stored in compliance with the Uniform Fire Code. .0309 Roof -mounted mechanical/utility equipment (including, but not limited to, compressors, condensers, conduits, pipes, vents, ducts, etc., as found in Title 15 of the Anaheim Municipal Code and in the Uniform Mechanical Code) and receiving antennas; provided that these devices shall not be visible in any direction (360 degrees) from any public right-of-way, public property or any property zoned residential, commercial, open space, or Development Areas 3, 4, 5, or 6 of this Specific Plan area, as may be seen from a point six (6) feet above ground level on said adjacent property. Screening of equipment shall be provided by acceptable, permanent building materials, the same as or similar to those which are used in the construction of the underlying building, or equipment shall be screened from view by acceptable architectural features of the building itself. Wood lattice shall not be used as a screening device. The screening method and screening material used shall not be recognizable 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 37 as a screening device but shall be designed as an integral component of the building design. Permanent, mature landscaping may also be utilized, but only if it provides a complete and sufficient year-round screen. All equipment screening shall be retained and maintained in good condition. .0310 Ground -mounted radio, television and satellite dish receiving antennas, mechanical/utility equipment and other such similar equipment; provided that any such equipment shall be screened from view in all directions (360 degrees) from all public rights-of-way, public property or any property zoned residential, commercial, open space, or Development Areas 3, 4, 5 or 6 of this Specific Plan area, as may be seen from a point six (6) feet above ground level on said adjacent property, by landscaping (except for screening of mechanical equipment), fencing or architectural building features. Said equipment shall not be located in a required setback area abutting a public or private street. .040 Permitted Temporary Uses And Structures. The following temporary buildings, structures and uses may be permitted subject to the conditions and limitations specified herein: .0401 Christmas tree and pumpkin patch sales lots and/or stands shall be subject to compliance with the provisions of Chapter 6.42 "Christmas Trees" and Section 18.02.055.060.0607 of this Code. .0402 Contractor's Office and/or Storage. Temporary structures for the housing of tools and equipment or containing supervisory offices in connection with major construction projects may be established and maintained during the progress of such construction on such projects provided the maximum time for such use shall not exceed two (2) years. .0403 Real Estate Tract Office and Billboard. One (1) temporary real estate office and temporary real estate billboard may be located on any new subdivision, provided that such office and billboard shall be removed at the end of three (3) years from the date of the recording of the map of the subdivision upon which the office and billboard are located. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 38 .0404 Special Events and Temporary Signs, Flags, Banners and Balloons. The temporary use of premises for special events as defined in Section 18.01.200 shall be subject to compliance with the provisions of Sections 18.02.055 "Special Event Permits -General" and 18.05.070 "Temporary Signs, Flags, Banners and Balloons -General" of this Code. .050 Conditional Uses and Structures. The following buildings, structures and uses shall be permitted in this Development Area subject to a conditional use permit in compliance with Section 18.03.030, "Conditional Use Permits - General" of this Code. .0501 Ambulance services with attendant living quarters. .0502 Animal foods processing. .0503 Automobile car washes. .0504 Automotive vehicle repair, overhaul, installation of parts and accessories, modification, painting, body work and other similar vehicular activities, including incidental retail sales of accessories. For purposes of this section the words 'automotive vehicle' shall include, but not be limited to, automobiles, boats, recreational vehicles, trucks and motorcycles. .0505 Boiler and tank manufacturing. .0506 Bowling alleys, with or without alcohol sales. .0507 Building material storage yards. .0508 Buildings or structures in excess of sixty (60) feet in height. .0509 Bus depots. .0510 Child day care facilities which exclusively serve one or more businesses located in this Specific Plan area. .0511 Churches, subject to the following limitations: (a) Churches which are the exclusive use of property exceeding three (3) acres in size: the limitation in hours and days of operation and length in time of church use shall be specified in the Conditional Use Permit. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 39 i (b) Churches which occupy less than three (3) acres or are not the exclusive use of the property (regardless of acreage), are limited to a maximum initial three (3) years duration with extensions which shall not exceed nine (9) consecutive years from the original approval. (c) Churches established pursuant to subparagraph (b) shall, with the exception of national holidays, limit activities to church office staff, prior to 6:00 o'clock on Monday through Friday. (d) Churches may include educational facilities as an accessory use, provided such facilities are approved in the conditional use permit. .0512 Communications stations and antennas (other than those permitted by paragraphs 18.110.010.030.0309 and 18.110.080.030.0310) including amateur - operated radio transmission towers and cellular communications facilities/towers whether ground mounted or mounted on a structure. Maximum structural height shall be determined by conditional use permit. .0513 Concrete batching or mixing (indoors or outdoors). .0514 Contractor storage yards. .0515 Draying, freighting or trucking yards or terminals (indoors or outdoors). .0516 Explosives. Storage of any class "A: or class "B: or in excess of twenty (20) pounds of class "C" explosives. .0517 Feed and fuel yards. .0518 Freight classification yards. .0519 Health spas and physical fitness centers. .0520 Helistops located less than one thousand (1,000) feet from any residentially zoned parcel; Heliports. .0521 Large collection facilities for recycling purposes subject to the requirements of Chapter 18.95 of this Code. .0522 Large equipment storage or rental yard. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 40 .0523 Lumber yards. .0524 Manufacturing operations not otherwise listed as a permitted use in this Development Area, including, but not limited to: acid, alcohol, ammonia, bleaching powder, chlorine, asphaltic concrete, cement, lime, gypsum, plaster of paris, explosives, fertilizer, gas, glue, lampblack, synthetic rubber, and tar distillation or processing, brick or concrete products, paint, oil, shellac, turpentine or varnish, oil cloth or linoleum, paper pulp, polish, soap, soda and other compounds. .0525 Metal smelting, refining or processing operations not otherwise listed as a permitted use in this Development Area including, but not limited to, high temperature smelting by blast furnaces or coke ovens, metal foundries, drop forge operations or the rolling and extrusion of ferrous metals. .0526 Petroleum or its fluid products, indoor or outdoor, wholesale outdoor storage. .0527 Private clubs, lodges, and meeting halls. .0528 Private educational institutions, including but not limited to private elementary, junior and senior high schools, colleges and universities. .0529 Private recreational facilities, indoor or outdoor, including, but not limited to, golf driving ranges, recreation fields and fishing pools. .0530 Public utilities or utilities operated by mutual agencies consisting of electrical substations, gas or conversion plants with the necessary buildings, apparatus or appurtenances incident thereto, but not including distribution mains or electric or telephone wires or cables or City -owned public utilities. .0531 Restaurants: Enclosed or semi -enclosed, with or without alcohol or cocktail lounge; drive-in, drive-through or walk-up. .0532 Retail carpeting and/or petroleum based flooring businesses. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 41 .0533 Retail sales of household furniture provided the retail sales portion of the business shall be a minimum of 50,000 square feet. .0534 Rubber products; reclamation or processing (natural or synthetic). .0535 Sales businesses which primarily serve and are compatible with industrial uses and which are not otherwise permitted uses in this Development Area pursuant to Section 18.110.070.010. For purposes of this section, any use which is found to encourage retail of products or merchandise or to attract customers other than industrial users for industrial purposes permitted in this Development Area shall not be deemed a use which primarily serves and is compatible with industrial uses. .0536 Sand, gravel, rock and other nonfuel mineral operations including excavation, processing, storage, wholesale outdoor storage and or distribution thereof, and accessory offices, weighing stations and caretakers' quarters, subject to compliance with provisions of Chapter 17.20 of this Code. .0537 Self -storage facilities. .0538 Service stations, automobile or truck, with or without convenience markets, subject to the requirements of Chapter 18.87 of this Code, provided that as a condition for the granting of a conditional use permit for an automobile or truck service station, the property owner shall record an unsubordinated covenant, satisfactory to the Planning Director and City Attorney agreeing to remove all structures, including underground storage tanks, in the event that the station is closed for a period of twelve consecutive months. A service station shall be considered closed during any month in which it is open for less than fifteen (15) days. .0539 Stone monument works. .0540 Towing services, including vehicle impound or storage yard. .0541 Training centers, non -industrial. .0542 Transit, transportation and construction equipment storage. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 42 .0543 Transmission stations, radio or television, including amateur -operated radio transmission towers. Heights of antennas and/or towers associated with these uses shall be determined by Conditional Use Permit. .0544 Vehicle sales agencies and lots. .060 Site Development Standards -General. Site development standards are intended to provide for the continued orderly development of this Development Area, to assure adequate levels of light, air and density of development, to maintain and enhance the locally recognized values of community appearance, to promote functional compatibility of uses and to promote the safe and efficient circulation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, all of which are found to be necessary for the preservation of the community health, safety and general welfare. .0601 Prior to issuance of any demolition permit or building permit, whichever occurs first, property identified by the City as an historical resource shall comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws, ordinances and regulations relating to historical resources. (a) Proof of compliance shall be submitted to the Planning Department prior to issuance of said permit. (b) The property located at 1500 N. Lakeview Avenue (APN 346-291-01 and 02), bounded on the north by Orangethorpe Avenue, on the south and east by the Orange County Flood Control District channel and on the west by Lakeview Avenue, has been identified as a historical resource. .0602 Prior to issuance of any grading permit or building permit, (whichever occurs first), property identified by the City as a paleontological resource shall comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws, ordinances and regulations relating to paleontological resources including, but not limited to: a qualified paleontologist present during any subsurface disturbance/grading. (a) Proof of compliance shall be submitted to the Planning Department prior to issuance of said permit. (b) The thirteen (13) acre parcel, (APN 346-402- 11) bounded on the north by Landon Drive, on the 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 43 V east by Kellogg Drive, La Palma Avenue on the south, and a commercial building on the west, has been identified as a paleontological resources. .070 Building Site Requirements. The size and shape of the site proposed for the use shall be adequate to allow the full development of the proposed use in a manner consistent with the stated purpose and intent of this Development Area. .0701 Adequate provision shall be made for the safe and orderly circulation of both pedestrian and vehicular traffic between the proposed site and all streets and highways, and between coordinated facilities, accessways or parking areas on adjacent sites. .0702 The proposed development shall not limit or adversely affect the growth and development potential of adjoining lands or the general area in which it is proposed to be located. .080 Structural Height and Area Limitations. .0801 Maximum Structural Height: Except for projections as permitted in Section 18.04.030.028 of this Code, the maximum height of any building or structure shall be sixty (60) feet, except as may be permitted by conditional use permit; provided further, that: .0802 The height of any building or structure shall not exceed one half of the distance from said building or structure to the zone boundaries of any residential zone. Dedicated streets or alleys may be included in calculating distance. .0803 No site may be developed to an intensity greater than a Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 0.5. .090 Structural Setback and Yard Requirements. Every building, structure or addition thereto erected in this Development Area shall be provided with setbacks and landscaping in conformance with the provisions of Sections 18.04.060 and 18.61.060 of this Code except as follows: .0901 Setback Adjacent to Public Rights -of -Way. All properties abutting a public street shall have an open setback area for the full width of the property. This setback shall be parallel to the centerline of the street and shall be measured from the planned highway right-of-way line as designated on the Circulation Element of the 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 44 General Plan or the ultimate right-of-way line of a local street, and shall be of a depth as indicated below. .0902 Abutting any arterial highway other than collector streets, setbacks of fifty (50) to sixty-five (65) feet shall be provided as follows: (i) If no parking is to be provided in front of the building, the minimum building setback shall be fifty (50) feet. The first ten (10) feet of setback immediately behind the public right-of-way (ROW) line shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree per twenty (20) linear feet of street frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. The remaining forty (40) feet of setback area, which may be used for a drive -aisle (parallel to the street) but not for parking, shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree for every thousand (1,000) square feet of required street setback area, not including the ten (10) feet of setback area located immediately behind the ROW. (ii) If parking is to be provided in front of the building, the minimum building setback shall be sixty-five (65) feet. The first ten (10) feet behind the ROW shall be landscaped with a minimum of one (1) tree planted for every twenty (20) linear feet of street frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. There shall be no parking within the 10 foot wide minimum landscape setback area located immediately behind the ROW. In the remaining fifty-five (55) feet of setback area, a minimum of one (1) tree shall be planted per four (4) parking stalls, and a minimum of one (1) additional tree shall be provided for each twenty-three hundred (2,300) square feet of area in the remaining required street setback area. .0903 Abutting collector streets, a structural setback of not less than twenty-five (25) feet with a minimum ten (10) feet adjacent to the ROW fully landscaped including a minimum of one (1) tree planted for every twenty (20) linear feet of street frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. There shall be no parking within the ten (10) foot wide minimum landscape setback area located immediately behind the ROW. The remainder 13421ASMANN\September 8, 1995 45 of the required setback area shall be limited to parking and/or vehicular circulation. .0904 Abutting local streets, a setback of not less than five (5) feet, fully landscaped with a minimum of one (1) tree for every twenty (20) linear feet of street frontage. .0905 The provision for side and rear yards specified above shall not apply when the lot is adjacent to any RS -A-43,000 zoned property upon which a resolution of intent for nonresidential uses has been approved. .0906 Service Station Setbacks. Pump islands may be placed within the setback area and may be sheltered by either a separate structure or a sheltering structure attached to the main building. All required landscaping shall be in accordance with adopted service station site development standards in Chapter 18.87 of this Code. .0907 Sidewalk Waivers. In those areas where applicants have been granted temporary sidewalk waivers, the landscaping shall extend to the curb. Trees shall be planted so as not to conflict with future sidewalks. Plant materials within the public right-of-way, with the exception of trees, shall not exceed thirty-six (36) inches in height and further be subject to the City of Anaheim Engineering Standards #137 entitled, "Commercial Drive Approach." .100 Permitted Encroachments Into Required Yards. The following features and structures may be permitted to encroach into yard areas required in this Development Area, in compliance with the provisions of Section 18.04.043, "Permitted Encroachments into required Yards -General" of this Code and as provided herein: .1001 Decorative screen walls, not exceeding thirty-six (36) inches in height, where located at least ten (10) feet from the front property line along arterial streets and highways. .1002 Entrance and exit drives and walks into parking areas. .1003 Flagpoles subject to the provisions of Section 18.04.045.034 of this Code. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 46 IL .1004 Fountains, ponds, sculpture, planters and walkways (open or covered) where they are an integral part of a landscaping scheme comprised primarily of plant materials. .1005 Signs other than billboards, in compliance with Section 18.110.070.120 of this Code. .110 Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements. All vehicle accessways and parking and loading areas shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 18.06 of the Anaheim Municipal Code, "Vehicle Parking and Loading Requirements," except that any vehicular storage or parking area visible from public rights-of-way or freeway shall be screened from view by landscaping or architectural devices to a height of 36 inches in accordance with City of Anaheim Engineering Standard No. 137 entitled, "Commercial Drive Approach". .120 sign Regulations — Advertising And Identification. Any signs or billboards with the provisions of Chapter 18.05 "Outdoor Advertising -Signs and Billboards for the ML Zone." .130 Site Enclosure and Screening Requirements. Industrial sites and/or uses shall provide effective site screening from adjoining properties and public rights-of-way as follows: .1301 Required Enclosure of Outdoor Uses. The perimeter of any portion of a site upon which any outdoor use of an industrial nature is permitted shall be enclosed to a height of not less than six (6) feet either by solid masonry wall, chain link fencing (interwoven with redwood, cedar or PVC slats), or building walls which incorporate live plant material with adequate growing area, planted along and adjacent to said wall or fence. No outdoor industrial use or enclosure thereof shall encroach into any required setback area adjacent to any public right-of-way, nor shall any storage of products or materials exceed the height of any such enclosure. 18.110.080 Land Use and Development Standards—La Palma Core Area (Development Area 3) The intent of this Development Area is to provide opportunities for the development of a mix of land uses designed to take advantage of the excellent Riverside (SR -91) Freeway visibility and proximity to the commuter rail station at La Palma and Tustin Avenues. The underlying base zone for this area is the ML -Limited Industrial Zone and unless otherwise indicated, the standards of the ML Zone shall apply. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 47 .010 Permitted Primary Uses And Structures. The following buildings, structures and uses, either singly or in combination, may be permitted in the La Palma Core Area subject to the limitations provided hereinafter. .0101 Agricultural crops. .0102 Aircraft firms. .0103 Ambulance service firms (without living quarters). .0104 Automobile/vehicle parking lots and structures in conjunction with uses permitted under this Chapter. .0105 Bakeries, wholesale. .0106 Banks .0107 Bottling plants or breweries. .0108 Broadcasting studios, radio or television (including rehearsal studios without audiences). .0109 Cabinet or carpentry shops. .0110 Cleaning plants (including carpets) including dyeing. .0111 Corporate headquarters as defined in Section 18.01.040 of this Code. .0112 Dairy product processing. .0113 Electronic assembly. .0114 Exterminating or disinfecting services. .0115 Health spas and physical fitness centers less than 4,000 square feet in area. .0116 Helistops located not less than one thousand (1,000) feet from any residentially zoned parcel. .0117 Hospital or medical clinic serving the industrial area. .0118 Ice and cold storage plants. .0119 Laboratories: medical and dental .0120 Laundries. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 48 .0121 Machine shops. .0122 Mail order firms. .0123 Manufacturing, including but not limited to; aircraft, autos, campers, trailers, mobile homes, batteries, boats, ceramic products (from previously pulverized clay only), signs (electric or neon), electrical, electronic or electromechanical machinery, food products (including processing, canning, preserving and freezing), furniture (including upholstery and refinishing), apparel or garments, glass, prefabricated buildings, plastics, shoes, soap (cold mix only), textiles, etc. .0124 Motor vehicle assembly plants, new. .0125 Newspaper establishments. .0126 Offices, professional, medical and dental. .0127 Printing or reproducing services including but not limited to printing shops, photoengraving, copying, processing, and blueprinting. .0128 Product fabrication. The fabrication of products for previously finished products such as paper, plastics, rubber, sheet metal, etc. .0129 Public works or public utility service yards. .0130 Research and testing firms, such as architectural or engineering service firms. .0131 Telephone exchanges, office and equipment buildings. .0132 Towing services, excluding vehicle impound or storage yard and further excluding the transferring of disabled vehicles to the site at any time. .0133 Training centers (industrial). .0134 Warehouses. .0135 Wholesale businesses, including but not limited to storage buildings and warehouses, provided that all such sales are to retailers or merchants for the purpose of their own business use or resale 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 49 k only and not to consumers or the public in general. .020 General Requirements for Permitted Uses And Structures. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Chapter, the following general requirements shall apply for the conduct of any use permitted in this Development Area: .0201 All uses shall be maintained in such a manner that they are neither obnoxious nor offensive by reason of emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, vibration, electromagnetic disturbance, radiation or other similar causes detrimental to the public health, safety or general welfare. .0202 Except as otherwise provided in the listed use, all uses shall be conducted wholly within a building. .030 Permitted Accessory Uses And Structures. The following accessory uses are permitted only where they are integrated with and clearly incidental to a primary permitted use listed in this Development Area. All uses shall be conducted wholly within a building except as provided hereinafter. .0301 Caretakers quarters, one only, where used by a proprietor, manager or custodian of a use permitted in this Development Area provided the requirements for minimum floor area and minimum number of parking spaces as required by the RM - 2400 Zone are complied with. .0302 Employee cafeterias or coffee shops. - .0303 Exhibition of products produced on the premises or available for wholesale distribution. .0304 Offices. .0305 Retail distribution and sale of products or portions of products manufactured on the premises where not the primary retail outlet for said products. .0306 Reverse vending machines and small collection facilities (inside or outside) for recycling purposes subject to the requirements of Chapter 18.95 of this Code. .0307 Signs, other than billboards, in compliance with Section 18.110.080.120 through 18.110.080.180 of this Code. 50 .0308 Storage of class "C" explosives, not to exceed 20 pounds of said explosive, and stored in compliance with the Uniform Fire Code. .0309 Roof -mounted mechanical/utility equipment (including, but not limited to, compressors, condensers, conduits, pipes, vents, ducts, etc., as found in Title 15 of the Anaheim Municipal Code and in the Uniform Mechanical Code) and receiving antennas; provided that these devices shall not be visible in any direction (360 degrees) from any public right-of-way, public property or any property zoned residential, commercial, open space, or Development Areas 3, 4, 5, or 6 of this Specific Plan area, as may be seen from a point six (6) feet above ground level on said adjacent property. Screening of equipment shall be provided by acceptable, permanent building materials, the same as or similar to those which are used in the construction of the underlying building, or equipment shall be screened from view by acceptable architectural features of the building itself. Wood lattice shall not be used as a screening device. The screening method and screening material used shall not be recognizable as a screening device but shall be designed as an integral component of the building design. Permanent, mature landscaping may also be utilized, but only if it provides a complete and sufficient year-round screen. All equipment screening shall be retained and maintained in good condition. .0310 Ground -mounted radio, television and satellite dish receiving antennas, mechanical/utility equipment and other such similar equipment; provided that any such equipment shall be screened from view in all directions (360 degrees) from all public rights-of-way, public property and property zoned residential, commercial, open space, or Development Areas 3, 4, 5 or 6 of this Specific Plan as may be seen from a point six (6) feet above ground level on said adjacent property, by landscaping (except for screening of mechanical equipment), fencing or architectural building features. Said equipment shall not be located in a required setback area abutting a public or private street. .040 Permitted Temporary Uses And Structures. The following temporary buildings, structures and uses may be 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 51 permitted subject to the conditions and limitations specified herein: .0401 Christmas tree and pumpkin patch sales lots and/or stands shall be subject to compliance with the provisions of Chapter 6.42 "Christmas Trees" of this Code and paragraph 18.02.055.060.0607 of this Code. .0402 Contractor's Office and/or Storage. Temporary structures for the housing of tools and equipment or containing supervisory offices in connection with major construction projects may be established and maintained during the progress of such construction on such projects provided the maximum time for such use shall not exceed two (2) years. .0403 Real Estate Tract Office and Billboard. One (1) temporary real estate office and temporary real estate billboard may be located on any new subdivision, provided that such office and billboard shall be removed at the end of three (3) years from the date of the recording of the map of the subdivision upon which the office and billboard are located. .0404 Special Events and Temporary Signs, Flags, Banners and Balloons. The temporary use of premises for special events as defined in Section 18.01.200, shall be subject to compliance with the provisions of Sections 18.02.055 "Special Event Permits -General" and 18.05.070 "Temporary Sign, Flags, Banners and Balloons -General" of this Code. .050 Conditional Uses and Structures. The following buildings, structures and uses shall be permitted in this development area subject to a conditional use permit in compliance with Section 18.03.030 "Conditional Use Permits - General" of this Code. .0501 Ambulance services with attendant living quarters. .0502 Amusement park facilities located south of La Palma Avenue including but not limited to miniature golf courses, water attractions, racetracks, amusement rides and arcades. .0503 Animal foods processing. .0504 Animal hospitals and/or kennels. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 52 I .0505 Automobile car washes. .0506 Bowling alleys, with or without alcohol sales. .0507 Buildings or structures in excess of sixty (60) feet in height. .0508 Bus depots. .0509 Child day care facilities which exclusively serve one or more businesses located in this Specific Plan area. .0510 Communications stations and antennas (other than those permitted by paragraphs 18.110.080.030.0309 and 18.110.080.030.0310) including amateur - operated radio transmission towers and cellular communications facilities/towers whether ground mounted or mounted on a structure. Maximum structural height shall be determined by conditional use permit. .0511 Explosives. Storage of any class "A" or class "B" or in excess of twenty (20) pounds of class "C" explosives. .0512 Freestanding freeway oriented signs. .0513 Health spas and physical fitness centers in excess of 4,000 square feet in area. .0514 Helistops located less than one thousand (1000) feet from any residentially zoned parcel; Heliports. .0515 Hotels and motels. .0516 Large collection facilities for recycling purposes subject to the requirements of Chapter 18.95 of this Code. .0517 Manufacturing operations not otherwise listed as a permitted use in this Development Area, including, but not limited to: acid, alcohol, ammonia, bleaching powder, chlorine, asphaltic concrete, cement, lime, gypsum, plaster of paris, explosives, fertilizer, gas, glue, lampblack, synthetic rubber, and tar distillation or processing, brick or concrete products, paint, oil, shellac, turpentine or varnish, oil cloth or linoleum, paper pulp, polish, soap, soda and other compounds. 53 .0518 Metal smelting, refining or processing operations not otherwise listed as a permitted use in this Development Area including, but not limited to, high temperature smelting by blast furnaces or coke ovens, metal foundries, drop forge operations or the rolling and extrusion of ferrous metals. .0519 Private clubs, lodges, and meeting halls. .0520 Private recreational facilities, indoor or outdoor, including, but not limited to recreation courts and fields. .0521 Public utilities or utilities operated by mutual agencies consisting of electrical substations, gas or conversion plants with the necessary buildings, apparatus or appurtenances incident thereto, but not including distribution mains or electric or telephone wires or cables or City -owned public utilities. .0522 Restaurants: Enclosed or semi -enclosed, with or without alcohol cocktail lounge; drive-in, drive-through or walk-up. .0523 Retail carpeting and/or petroleum-based flooring businesses. .0524 Retail sales provided (i) such uses are freeway - oriented (ii) provided such retail sales pertain to furniture, home building products, office supplies or products determined to be similar by the Planning Commission or City Council and (iii) the retail sales portion of the business shall be a minimum of 15,000 square feet. .0525 Retail sales provided the retail sales portion of the business shall be a minimum of 50,000 square feet. .0526 Rubber products; reclamation or processing (natural or synthetic). .0527 Sales businesses which primarily serve and are compatible with industrial uses and which are not otherwise permitted uses in this Development Area, pursuant to Section 18.110.080.010. For purposes of this section, any use which is found to encourage retail of products or merchandise or to attract customers other than industrial users for industrial purposes permitted in this Development 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 54 Area shall not be deemed a use which primarily serves and is compatible with industrial uses. .0528 Service stations, automobile or truck, with or without convenience markets, subject to the requirements of Chapter 18.87 of this Chapter, provided that as a condition for the granting of a conditional use permit for an automobile or truck service station, the property owner shall record an unsubordinated covenant, satisfactory to the Planning Director and City Attorney agreeing to remove all structures, including underground storage tanks, in the event that the station is closed for a period of twelve (12) consecutive months. A service station shall be considered closed during any month in which it is open for less than fifteen (15) days. .0529 Training centers, non -industrial. .0530 Transmission stations; radio or television, including amateur -operated radio transmission towers. Heights of antennas and/or towers associated with these uses shall be determined by Conditional Use Permit. .0531 Vehicle sales agencies and lots. .060 Site Development Standards -General. Site development standards are intended to provide for the continued orderly development of this Development Area, to assure adequate levels of light, air and density of development, to maintain and enhance the locally recognized values of community appearance, to promote functional compatibility of uses and to promote the safe and efficient circulation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, all of which are found to be necessary for the preservation of the community health, safety and general welfare. .070 Building Site Requirements. .0701 The size and shape of the site proposed for the use shall be adequate to allow the full development of the proposed use in a manner consistent with the stated purpose and intent of this Development Area. .0702 Adequate provision shall be made for the safe and orderly circulation of both pedestrian and vehicular traffic between the proposed site and all streets and highways, and between coordinated facilities, accessways or parking areas on adjacent sites. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 55 .0703 The proposed development shall not limit or adversely affect the growth and development potential of adjoining lands or the general area in which it is proposed to be located. .080 Structural Height and Area Limitations. .0801 Maximum Structural Height. Except for projections as permitted in Section 18.04.030.028 the maximum height of any building or structure shall be sixty (60) feet, except as may be permitted by conditional use permit; provided further, that: .0802 No site may be developed to an intensity greater than a Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 0.6. .090 Structural Setback and Yard Requirements. Every building, structure or addition thereto erected in this Development Area shall be provided with setbacks and landscaping in conformance with the provisions of Sections 18.04.060 and 18.61.060 of this Code except as follows: .0901 Setback Adjacent to Public Rights -of -Way. All properties abutting a public street shall have an open setback area for the full width of the property. This setback shall be parallel to the centerline of the street and shall be measured from the planned highway right-of-way line as designated on the Circulation Element of the General Plan or the ultimate right-of-way line of a local street, and shall be a depth as indicated below. .0902 Abutting La Palma Avenue a required building setback of twenty (20) feet behind the public right-of-way line, with not less than ten (10) feet fully landscaped, including one (1) tree planted per twenty (20) linear feet, parallel with and adjacent to the front property line. The remaining ten (10) feet shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree per thousand (1,000) square feet and may include a drive aisle parallel to the ROW. .0903 Abutting Kraemer Avenue, setbacks of fifty (50) to sixty-five (65) feet shall be provided as follows: (a) If no parking is to be provided in front of the building, the minimum building setback shall be fifty (50) feet. The first ten (10) 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 56 feet of setback immediately behind the public right-of-way (ROW) line shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree per twenty (20) linear feet of street frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. The remaining forty (40) feet of setback area, which may be used for a drive -aisle (parallel to the street) but not for parking, shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree for every thousand (1,000) square feet of required street setback area, not including the ten (10) feet of setback area located immediately behind the ROW. (b) If parking is to be provided in front of the building, the minimum building setback shall be sixty-five (65) feet. The first ten (10) feet behind the ROW shall be landscaped with a minimum of one (1) tree planted for every twenty (20) linear feet of street frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. There shall be no parking within the 10 foot wide minimum landscape setback area located immediately behind the ROW. In the remaining fifty-five (55) feet of setback area, a minimum of one (1) tree shall be planted per four (4) parking stalls, and a minimum of one (1) additional tree shall be provided for each twenty-three hundred (2,300) square feet of area in the remaining required street setback area. .0904 Abutting any freeway rights-of-way, freeway frontage roads, (including any freeway transition road and on- or off -ramp) minimum setbacks of thirty (30) to one -hundred (100) feet shall be provided as follows: (a) If no parking is to be provided between the ROW and the building, the minimum building setback shall be fifty (50) feet with a minimum thirty (30) foot wide, fully landscaped setback area provided adjacent to the ROW including a minimum of one (1) tree planted per twenty (20) linear feet of ROW frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. The remaining twenty (20) feet of required setback area, which may be used for a service -aisle (parallel to the freeway) but not for parking, shall be planted with a minimum of 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 57 A one (1) tree per twenty-three hundred (2,300) square feet of that remaining setback area. (b) If parking is to be permitted between the ROW and the building, the minimum building setback shall be one hundred (100) feet with a minimum thirty (30) foot wide fully landscaped setback area provided adjacent to the ROW including a minimum of one (1) tree per twenty (20) linear feet of ROW frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. The remaining seventy (70) feet of required setback area shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree per twenty-three hundred (2,300) square feet in addition to a minimum of one (1) tree per four (4) parking stalls. (c) Abutting freeway frontage roads or any on -or _ off -ramp, the minimum building setback shall be thirty (30) feet. The minimum thirty (30) foot wide required setback area shall be fully landscaped including a minimum of one (1) tree planted per twenty (20) linear feet of ROW frontage and must include a three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW unless the freeway frontage road on- or off -ramp is substantially elevated or below the grade of the freeway right-of-way, in which case, no shrub screen shall be required. .0905 Abutting local streets a setback of not less than five (5) feet, fully landscaped including a minimum of one (1) tree for every twenty (20) linear feet of street frontage. .0906 Side and Rear Setbacks. None required. .0907 Service Station Setbacks. Pump islands may be placed within the setback area and may be sheltered by either a separate structure or a sheltering structure attached to the main building. All required landscaping shall be in accordance with adopted service station site development standards contained in Chapter 18.87 of this Code. .0908 Sidewalk Waivers. In those areas where applicants have been granted temporary sidewalk waivers, the landscaping shall extend to the curb. Trees shall be planted so as not to conflict with future sidewalks. Plant materials within the public right-of-way, with the exception of trees, shall 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 58 not exceed thirty-six (36) inches in height and shall further be subject to City of Anaheim Engineering Standards No. 137 entitled, "Commercial Drive Approach." .100 Permitted Encroachments Into Required Yards. The following features, may be permitted to encroach into yard areas required in this Development Area, in compliance with the provisions of Section 18.03.043 "Permitted Encroachments into Required Yards -General of this Code" and as provided herein: .1001 Decorative screen walls, not exceeding thirty-six (36) inches in height, where located at least ten (10) feet from the front property line along arterial streets and highways and freeway frontage roads. .1002 Entrance and exit drives and walks into parking areas. .1003 Flagpoles subject to the provisions of Section 18.04.045.034 of this code. .1004 Fountains, ponds, sculpture, planters and walkways (open or covered) where they are an integral part of a landscaping scheme comprised primarily of plant materials. .1005 Signs other than billboards, in compliance with the provisions of this Development Area and 18.110 .080.120 through 18.110.080.180 of this Code. .110 Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements. All vehicle accessways and parking and loading areas shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 18.06, "Vehicle Parking and Loading Requirements" of this Code. .120 Sign Regulations - Advertising and Identification. The purpose of this Section is to recognize the function signs serve in the La Palma Core Area, to provide for their inclusion under this Chapter of this Code, and to regulate and control all matters relating to such signs. Except as provided in subsection .040 of this Section 18.110.080, any advertising devices installed or erected in this Development Area shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 18.05, "Outdoor Advertising-- Signs And Billboards" for the ML Zone. .1201 All building -mounted signs shall be compatible in size, material and color with the architecture of the building to which they are attached. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 59 a .1202 All materials shall be top quality that will not fade, delaminate, distort, and/or deteriorate. .1203 All permanent signs shall be designed, specified and fabricated to have a life expectancy of at least ten years. .1204 The area of signs with individually applied _ letters and/or symbols shall be measured by a rectangle around the outside of the letters and/or symbol. .130 Prohibited Signs. The following methods of advertisement, in addition to those included in Section 18.05.064 and 18.05.098 of this Code, shall be prohibited: .1301 Billboards. .1302 Plant material that becomes a sign or message. .1303 Pole signs. .1304 Roof signs. .1305 Signs which incorporate any manner of mechanical movement. Audible elements, flashing or intermittent lighting including electronic message boards, moving or otherwise animated forms. .140 Freestanding Freeway Oriented Signs: Freestanding freeway -oriented on-site identification signs, limited to parcels adjacent to the north and south sides of the Riverside (91) Freeway or associated freeway frontage roads between the Santa Ana Riverbed and the Orange (57) Freeway, shall be permitted in this Development Area subject to a conditional use permit and further subject to the following requirements: .1401 Freestanding freeway -oriented identification signs shall be permitted only for (i) retail businesses serving a regional area of area wide significance provided said retail businesses have a minimum building square footage of 50,000 square feet, or a minimum lot area of 3 acres for vehicle sales agencies and lots, and a freeway frontage of no less than 300 linear feet and (ii) businesses which serve the immediate needs of the highway motorist, such as service stations, motels and restaurants). .1402 The height, location and sign copy shall be designed in a manner which permits identification from adjacent freeways. i .1403 There shall be no more than one freestanding freeway oriented sign per parcel. .1404 The sign shall be limited to identifying the business occupying the site. .1405 The sign shall be located in the landscape setback area, perpendicular to the freeway and shall be located approximately midway between side property lines within the middle 20% of the property frontage. .1406 The maximum height of the freestanding sign shall be limited to 35 feet above finished grade of the closest freeway lane. .1407 The maximum width of the freestanding sign, including the sign support structure, shall not exceed 20 feet. .1408 The area of each face of a double faced freestanding sign panel shall not exceed 150 square feet and be in the form of a maximum 10 foot high and 15 foot wide sign panel. .1409 The sign shall be supported by a two post structure. The posts and associated framing or metal skin shall not be less than 25% of the total sign width. The sign panel shall be recessed into the sign structure on each side 4 inches. No riders or attachments shall be added to the sign structure. .1410 Graphics shall be limited to the sign panel only. Lettering including logo, shall constitute not more than 60% of total graphic area with background 40%. Lettering shall be limited to the name of the business. .1411 Sign panel materials shall conform to the established sign design criteria of the City. The sign support structure shall be constructed with high quality materials as approved in the conditional use permit. The sign structure shall be similar in color to the associated business building. .150 Site Identification Signs. .1501 Site identification signs shall be limited to identifying the complex, building or company occupying the site. Signs may include either one 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 61 E9 ground -level double-faced monument sign per public right-of-way frontage or one building -mounted sign per building facing each adjacent public right-of-way. .160 Arterial Highway Signs. .1601 Arterial highway monument signs shall be constructed perpendicular to the public right-of-way. There shall be no more than one double-faced street sign per parcel street frontage. .1602 The maximum dimensions for a sign along La Palma Avenue are: (a) Height from grade directly below sign (excluding berms) - 4 feet (b) Sign width - 10 feet (c) Area of sign panel - 40 square feet .170 Building -Mounted Identification Signs. .1701 Building -mounted identification signs are limited to identifying occupants. Identification graphics shall consist of individually fabricated letters and/or symbols only. (a) The graphics for these signs may be internally illuminated, and shall be constructed of aluminum, bronze, brass, stainless steel or other permanent materials. (b) All applied graphics shall be attached to the building with no supports visible. The building wall materials and sign attachments shall be designed to withstand the weight of the graphics and shall be designed to accommodate changing of graphics when tenant changes occur. (c) The background area of all building -mounted signs shall be unobstructed and free of large vertical seams, mullions or contrasting strips. .180 Commercial Signs for Multi -Story Buildings. .1801 Ground floor commercial signage shall be located only within the limits of the ground floor wall area and tenant space as shown below. The maximum 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 62 dimensions for a commercial wall sign shall be as follows: (a) Letter height- 18 inches (b) Symbol height- 20 inches (c) Sign width- 14 feet (d) Sign area- 24 square feet .1802 Parapet signs shall be limited to logo -symbols and/or a name identifying the business and shall be limited to one (1) per business street frontage not to exceed a maximum of two (2) per business. (a) Signage may be located no closer than one half its maximum height to the top, sides and bottom of the building parapet or the adjacent window line below the signage. (b) The following shall be observed for parapet letter and symbol height: Building Maximum Maximum Symbol Only Floor Letter Symbol Maximum Height (Stories) Height Height 2 11-611 2'-011 31-011 3-4 3'-6" 41-011 7'-0" 5-8 4'-0" 41-611 8'-0" .1803 Illuminated signs shall be internally illuminated or backlit only. .190 Site Enclosure and Screening Requirements. Industrial sites and/or uses shall provide effectual site screening from adjoining properties, and public rights-of-way as follows: .1901 Required Enclosure of Outdoor Uses. The perimeter of any portion of a site upon which any outdoor use of an industrial nature is permitted shall be enclosed to a height of not less than six (6) feet either by solid masonry wall, chain link fencing (interwoven with redwood, cedar or PVC slats), or building wall or fence which incorporate live plant material with adequate growing area, planted along and adjacent to said walls. No outdoor industrial use or enclosure thereof shall encroach into any required setback area adjacent to any public rights-of-way, nor shall any storage of M-1 products or materials exceed the height of any such enclosure. 18.110.090 Land Use and Development Standards - Transit Core Area (Development Area 4) This Development Area is intended to provide for and encourage the development of business and professional office uses including offices and corporate headquarters, and retail uses, and further, to recognize the unique development potential which exists in proximity to a commuter rail station. These resources are found to have both local and regional significance due to the City's central geographic location and ideal relationship to regional markets, regional labor pools and regional access, circulation and public transit routes. This mixed use area and its continued development in a quality manner is found to be a resource essential to the community's economic health and preservation of a competitive growth potential. The underlying, base zone for this area is the CO -Commercial, Office and Professional Zone and unless otherwise indicated, the standards of the CO Zone shall apply. .010 Permitted Primary Uses and Structures. In the interest of assuring land use compatibility and the preservation of the development resources within Anaheim's office areas, notwithstanding any other provisions of this Chapter, the following buildings, structures and uses, either singly or in combination, may be permitted in the Transit Core Area subject to the limitations provided hereinafter. .0101 Business or trade schools .0102 Health spas and physical fitness centers less than 4,000 square feet in gross floor area. .0103 Helistops located not less than one thousand (1000) feet from any residentially zoned parcel. .0103 Laboratories: medical and dental .0104 Offices, professional, medical and dental. .0105 Planned Commercial Office/Light Industrial Centers; provided such uses are integrated within a single development having a minimum overall site area of five (5) acres and a common private traffic circulation system. The uses within said center shall consist of a combination of any permitted or conditional uses expressly authorized in this Development Area together with any light industrial uses consisting of light industrial uses including the light manufacturing, 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 64 A processing, assembling, packaging, servicing, testing, publishing, developing, researching or fabrication of the following: (a) Books, periodical newspapers. (b) Communication equipment, components or supplies. (c) Drafting instruments or goods. (d) Electrical, electronic or sound equipment components or products. (e) Laboratory chemicals. (f) None of the uses in this section shall be conducted outdoor nor shall there be any outdoor storage of any products, materials, components, supplies or equipment in conjunction with any uses in this section. (g) Pharmaceuticals or cosmetics. (h) Scientific, optical, medical, dental or photographic equipment, components and products. (i) Other similar uses as expressly approved by the Redevelopment Agency and the Planning Department. .0106 Restaurants (enclosed or semi -enclosed, not including drive-in or drive-through facilities). .020 General Requirements for Permitted Uses and Structures. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Chapter, the following general requirements shall apply for the conduct of any use permitted in this Development Area: .0201 All uses except automobile parking lots, train platforms, and except as otherwise provided in the listed use, shall be conducted wholly within a building. .0202 All uses shall be maintained in such a manner that they are neither obnoxious nor offensive by reason of emission of odor, dust, smoke, gas, noise, vibration, electromagnetic disturbance, radiation or other similar causes detrimental to the public health, safety or general welfare. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 65 A .0203 No combination of otherwise permitted uses or businesses which constitute a "Commercial Retail Center," as defined in Section 18.01.030 of this Code, shall be permitted. .030 Permitted Accessory Uses and Structures. In recognition of the need for office uses to include supporting service businesses, the following office -related uses are permitted where integrated within a primary use structure or complex: .0301 Antique shops. .0302 Art and craft galleries. .0303 Automobile parking lots or structures (commercial or private), including open-air lots and enclosed or underground facilities; provided any such facilities are improved in compliance with adopted parking lot development. .0304 Banquets, indoor or outdoor, when conducted as an incidental and occasional activity in conjunction with an enclosed or semi -enclosed restaurant. .0305 Barber and/or beauty shops .0306 Book stores, new or used. .0307 Clothing or apparel stores. .0308 Coin, stamp, and trading card dealers. .0309 Confectionery or candy stores. .0310 Delicatessens. .0311 Drugstores or pharmacies. .0312 Employee cafeterias or coffee shops. .0313 Hobby shops. .0314 Interior decorators. .0315 Jewelers or lapidary shops. .0316 Laundry and/or dry cleaning establishments. .0317 Libraries or reading rooms. .0318 Locksmiths. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 66 .0319 Office equipment and furniture rental services. .0320 Reproduction services. .0321 Roof -mounted mechanical/utility equipment (including, but not limited to, compressors, condensers, conduits, pipes, vents, ducts, etc., as found in Title 15 of the Anaheim Municipal Code and in the Uniform Mechanical Code) and receiving antennas; provided that these devices shall not be visible in any direction (360 degrees) from any public right-of-way, public property or any property zoned residential, commercial, open space, or Development Areas 3, 5, or 6 of this Specific Plan area, as may be seen from a point six (6) feet above ground level on said adjacent property. Screening of equipment shall be provided by acceptable, permanent building materials, the same as or similar to those which are used in the construction of the underlying building, or equipment shall be screened from view by acceptable architectural features of the building itself. Wood lattice shall not be used as a screening device. The screening method and screening material used shall not be recognizable as a screening device but shall be designed as an integral component of the building design. Permanent, mature landscaping may also be utilized, but only if it provides a complete and sufficient year-round screen. All equipment screening shall be retained and maintained in good condition. .0322 Ground -mounted radio, television and satellite dish receiving antennas, mechanical/utility equipment and other such similar equipment; provided that any such equipment shall be screened from view in all directions (360 degrees) from all public rights-of-way, public property or any property zoned residential, commercial, open space, or Development Areas, 3, 5, or 6 of this Specific Plan Area, as may be seen from a point six (6) feet above ground level on said adjacent property, by landscaping (except for screening of mechanical equipment), fencing or architectural building features. Said equipment shall not be located in a required setback area abutting a public or private street. .0323 Secretarial or answering services. .0324 Shoe stores, sales or repair. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 67 .0325 .0326 .0327 .040 following permitted below: Signs, other than billboards, in compliance with Sections 18.110.090.100.1005, and 18.110.090.120 through 18.110.090.180 Telephone and computer sales. Other similar office -related uses as expressly approved by the Redevelopment Agency and the Planning Department. = Permitted Temporary Uses and Structures. The temporary buildings, structures and uses may be subject to the conditions and limitations specified .0401 Christmas tree and pumpkin patch sales lots and/or stands shall be subject to compliance with the provisions of Chapter 6.42 "Christmas Trees" and Section 18.02.055.060.0607 of this Code. .0402 Contractor's Office and/or Storage: Temporary structures for the housing of tools and equipment or containing supervisory offices in connection with major construction projects may be established and maintained during the progress of such construction on such projects provided the maximum time for such use shall not exceed two (2) years. .0403 Real Estate Tract Office and Billboard: One (1) temporary real estate office and temporary real estate billboard may be located on any new subdivision provided that such office and billboard shall be removed at the end of three (3) years from the date of the recording of the map of the subdivision upon which the office and billboard are located. .0404 Special Events and Temporary Signs, Flags, Banners and Balloons. The temporary use of premises for special events as defined in Section 18.01.200 shall be subject to compliance with the provisions of Section 18.02.055 "Special Events Permits --General" and 18.05.070 "Temporary Signs, Flags, Banners and Balloons --General" of this Code. .050 Conditional Uses and Structures. The following buildings, structures and uses shall be permitted in this Development Area subject to a conditional use permit and subject to the conditions and required showings of Section 18.03.030 "Conditional Use Permits — General" of this Code. 13421.\SMANN\September 18, 1995 68 A .0501 Ambulance services, with or without attendant living quarters. .0502 Automobile rental agencies. .0503 Buildings and structures exceeding one hundred (100) feet in height. .0504 Bus depots. .0505 Child day care facilities which exclusively serve one or more businesses located in this Specific Plan area. .0506 Coin, stamp, and baseball trading card dealers. .0507 Commercial parking lots or structures not required for a use permitted in this Development Area. .0508 Communications stations and antennas (other than those permitted by paragraphs 18.110.090.030.0321 and 18.110.090.030.0322) including amateur - operated radio transmission towers and cellular communications facilities/towers whether ground mounted or mounted on a structure. Maximum structural height shall be determined by conditional use permit. .0509 Exhibition halls. .0510 Freestanding Freeway Oriented signs. .0511 Health spas and physical fitness centers larger than 4,000 square feet in gross floor area. .0512 Hotels and motels. .0513 Markets or grocery stores. .0514 Private educational institutions, including but not limited to private colleges, universities, elementary, junior and senior high schools. .0515 Private lodges, clubs, and meeting halls. .0516 Public utilities or utilities operated by mutual agencies consisting of, electrical substations, gas or conversion plants, with the necessary buildings, apparatus or appurtenances incident thereto, but not including distribution mains or a electric or telephone wires or cable or City -owned public utilities. .0517 Railroad stations, bus terminals, and related commuter facilities. .0518 Restaurants, drive in or drive through service. .0519 Training centers, other than business or trade schools. .060 Site Development Standards General. Site development standards are intended to provide for the continued orderly development of this Development Area, to assure adequate levels of light, air and density of development, to maintain and enhance the locally recognized values of community appearance, to promote functional compatibility of uses and to promote the safe and efficient circulation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic, all of which are found to be necessary for the preservation of the community health, safety and general welfare. .070 Building Site Requirements. .0701 The size and shape of the site proposed for the use shall be adequate to allow the full development of the proposed use in a manner consistent with the stated purpose and intent of this Development Area. .0702 Adequate provisions shall be made for the safe and orderly circulation of both pedestrian and vehicular traffic between the proposed site and all streets and highways and between coordinated facilities, accessways or parking areas on adjacent sites. .0703 Further, the proposed development shall not limit or adversely affect the growth and development potential of adjoining lands or the general area in which it is proposed to be located. .0704 Minimum Site Area: The minimum site area shall be twenty thousand (20,000) square feet. Existing legal parcels with less square footage as of the date of adoption of this ordinance shall be considered exempt from this requirement. .080 Structural Height and Area Limitations. Except for projections as permitted in subsection 18.04.030.028 of this Code, the maximum structural height of any building or structure shall be one hundred (100) feet except as permitted by Conditional Use Permit, provided further that no site may be 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 70 developed to an intensity greater than a Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 1.0. -.090 Structural Setback and -Yard Requirements. Every building, structure, or addition hereto, erected in this area, shall be provided with setbacks and landscaping in conformance with the provisions of Sections 18.04.060 and 18.41.060 of this Code except as follows: .0901 Abutting La Palma Avenue, a required ground floor setback area of twenty (20) feet in depth as measured from the planned highway right-of-way line as designated on the Circulation Element of the General Plan. .0902 Abutting Tustin Avenue, setbacks of fifty (50) to sixty-five (65) feet shall be provided as follows: (i) If no parking is to be provided in front of the building, the minimum building setback shall be fifty (50) feet. The first ten (10) feet of setback immediately behind the public right-of-way (ROW) line shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree per twenty (20) linear feet of street frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. The remaining forty (40) feet of setback area, which may be used for a drive -aisle (parallel to the street) but not for parking, shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree for every thousand (1,000) square feet of required street setback area, not including the ten (10) feet of setback area located immediately behind the ROW. (ii) If parking is to be provided in front of the building, the minimum building setback shall be sixty-five (65) feet. The first ten.(10) feet behind the ROW shall be landscaped with a minimum of one (1) tree planted for every twenty (20) linear feet of street frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. There shall be no parking within the 10 foot wide minimum landscape setback area located immediately behind the ROW. In the remaining fifty-five (55) feet of setback area, a minimum of one (1) tree shall be planted per four (4) parking stalls, and a minimum of one (1) additional tree shall be provided for each twenty-three hundred (2,300) square feet of area in the remaining required street setback area. 71 a .0903 Abutting any freeway rights-of-way, freeway frontage roads, (including any freeway transition road and on- or off -ramp) minimum setbacks of thirty (30) to one -hundred (100) feet shall be provided as follows: (i) If no parking is to be provided between the ROW and the building, the minimum building setback shall be fifty (50) feet with a minimum thirty (30) foot wide, fully landscaped setback area provided adjacent to the ROW including a minimum of one (1) tree per twenty (20) linear feet of ROW frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. The remaining twenty (20) feet of required setback area, which may be used for a drive -aisle (parallel to the freeway) but not for parking, shall be planted with a minimum of one (1) tree for every twenty-three hundred (2,300) square feet of that remaining setback area. (ii) If parking is to be permitted between the ROW and the building, the minimum building setback shall be one hundred (100) feet with a minimum thirty (30) foot wide fully landscaped setback area provided adjacent to the ROW including a minimum of one (1) tree planted for every twenty (20) linear feet of ROW frontage and must include a minimum three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW. The remaining seventy (70) feet of required setback area shall be planted with, a minimum of one (1) tree per twenty-three hundred (2,300) square feet in addition to a minimum of one (1) tree per four (4) parking stalls. (iii) Abutting freeway frontage roads or any on - or off -ramp, the minimum building setback shall be thirty (30) feet. The minimum thirty (30) foot wide required setback area shall be fully landscaped including a minimum of one (1) tree planted per twenty (20) linear feet of ROW frontage and must include a three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW unless the freeway frontage road or on- or off -ramp is substantially elevated or below the grade of the freeway right-of-way, in which case, no shrub screen shall be required. .0904 Abutting local streets, a setback of not less than five (5) feet, fully landscaped with a minimum of 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 72 one (1) tree for every twenty (20) linear feet of street frontage. .0905 A structural setback of thirty (30) feet shall be maintained from the Railroad ROW. .100 Permitted Encroachments Into Required Yards. The following features may be permitted to encroach into yard areas in this Development Area, in compliance with the provisions of Section 18.04.043 "Permitted Encroachments into Required Yards - General," of this Code and as provided herein: .1001 Decorative screen walls, not exceeding thirty-six (36) inches in height, where located at least ten (10) feet from the front property line along arterial streets and highways and freeway frontage roads. .1002 Entrance and exit drives and walks into parking areas. .1003 Flagpoles subject to the provisions of Section 18.04.045.034 of this Code. .1004 Fountains, ponds, sculpture, planters and walkways (open or covered) where they are an integral part of a landscaping scheme comprised primarily of plant materials. .1005 Signs other than billboards in conformance with Section 18.110.090.120 through 18.110.090.180 of this Code. .110 Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements. All vehicle accessways and parking and loading areas shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 18.06 "Vehicle Parking and Loading Requirements" except that the minimum number of spaces shall be three (3) per one thousand (1,000) gross square feet of office building area for office buildings located within one thousand (1,000) feet walking distance from any commuter rail platform. .120 Sign Regulations — Advertising And Identification. Signs in this Development Area are intended to provide for the identification of office centers and their individual tenants. The absence of walk-in trade by general customers as a major element in the conduct of this type of business is recognized by limiting said signs to the identification of the center and its tenants only. Except as provided in subsection .040 of this Section 18.110.090, any advertising devices installed or erected in this Development Area shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 18.05, "Outdoor Advertising --Signs and Billboards" for the CO Zone except as follows: 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 73 .1201 All building -mounted signs shall be compatible in size, material and color with the architecture of the building to which they are attached. .1202 All materials shall be top quality that will not fade, delaminate, distort, and/or deteriorate. .1203 All permanent signs shall be designed, specified and fabricated to have a life expectancy of at least ten years. .1204 The area of signs with individually applied letters and/or symbols shall be measured by a rectangle around the outside of the letters and/or symbols. .130 Prohibited Signs. The following methods of advertisement, in addition to those included in Section 18.04.064, shall be prohibited: .1301 Billboards .1302 Plant material that becomes a sign or message. .1303 Signs which incorporate any manner of mechanical movement, audible elements, flashing or intermittent lighting, moving or otherwise animated forms. .1304 Pole signs. .1305 Roof signs. .140 Freestanding Freeway Oriented Signs: Freestanding freeway -oriented on-site identification signs, limited to parcels adjacent to the north and south sides of the Riverside (91) Freeway or associated freeway frontage roads between the Santa Ana Riverbed and the Orange (57) Freeway, shall be permitted in this Development Area subject to a conditional use permit and further subject to the following requirements: .1401 Freestanding freeway -oriented identification signs shall be permitted only for (i) retail businesses serving a regional area of area wide significance provided said retail businesses have a minimum building square footage of 50,000 square feet, or a minimum lot area of 3 acres for vehicle sales agencies and lots, and a freeway frontage of no less than 300 linear feet and (ii) businesses which serve the immediate needs of the highway motorist, such as service stations, motels and restaurants). 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 74 in .1402 The height, location and sign copy shall be designed in a manner which permits identification from adjacent freeways. .1403 There shall be no more than one freestanding freeway oriented sign per parcel. .1404 The sign shall be limited to identifying the business occupying the site. .1405 The sign shall be located in the landscape setback area, perpendicular to the freeway and shall be located approximately midway between side property lines within the middle 200 of the property frontage. .1406 The maximum height of the freestanding sign shall be limited to 35 feet above finished grade of the closest freeway lane. .1407 The maximum width of the freestanding sign, including the sign support structure, shall not exceed 20 feet. .1408 The area of each face of a double faced freestanding sign panel shall not exceed 150 square feet and be in the form of a maximum 10 foot high and 15 foot wide sign panel. .1409 The sign shall be supported by a two post structure. The posts and associated framing or metal skin shall not be less than 25% of the total sign width. The sign panel shall be recessed into the sign structure on each side 4 inches. No riders or attachments shall be added to the sign structure. .1410 Graphics shall be limited to the sign panel only. Lettering including logo, shall constitute not more than 60% of total graphic area with background 40%. Lettering shall be limited to the name of the business. .1411 sign panel materials shall conform to the established sign design criteria of the City. The sign support structure shall be constructed with high quality materials as approved in the conditional use permit. The sign structure shall be similar in color to the associated business building. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 75 W .150 Site Identification Signs. Site identification signs shall be limited to identifying the complex, building or company occupying the site. Signs may include either one ground -level double-faced monument sign per public right-of-way frontage or one building -mounted sign per building facing each adjacent public right-of-way. .160 Arterial Highway signs. .1601 Arterial highway monument signs shall be constructed perpendicular to the public right-of-way. There shall be not more than one double-faced sign per parcel street frontage. .1602 The maximum dimensions for a sign along La Palma Avenue are: (a) Height from the grade directly below sign (excluding berms) - 4 feet (b) Sign width - 10 feet (c) Area of sign panel - 40 square feet .170 Building Mounted Identification Signs. .1701 Building -mounted identification signs are limited to identifying major occupants. Identification graphics shall consist of individually fabricated letters and/or symbols only. .1702 The graphics for these signs may be internally illuminated, and shall be constructed of aluminum, bronze, brass, stainless steel or other permanent materials. .1703 All applied graphics shall be attached to the building with no supports visible. The building wall materials and sign attachments shall be designed to accommodate changing of graphics when tenant changes occur. .1704 The background area of all building -mounted signs shall be unobstructed and free of large vertical seams, mullions or contrasting strips. .180 Commercial Signs for Multi -Story Buildings. .1801 Ground floor commercial signage shall be located only within the limits of the ground floor wall area and tenant space as shown below. The maximum 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 76 a dimensions for a commercial sign shall be as follows: (a) Letter height - 18 inches (b) Symbol height - 20 inches (c) Sign width - 14 feet (d) Sign area - 24 square feet .1802 Parapet Signs. Signage shall be limited to logo -symbols and/or a name identifying the business, and shall be limited to one (1) per street frontage not to exceed a maximum of two (2) per business. (a) Signage may be located no closer than one half its maximum height to the top, sides and bottom of the building parapet or the adjacent window below the signage. (b) The following shall be observed for parapet letter and symbol height: Building Maximum Maximum Floor Letter Symbol (Stories) Height Height 2 1'-6" 21-011 3-4 3'-6" 4'-0" 5-8 4'-0" 4'-6" Symbol Only Maximum Height 3'-0" 71-011 81-011 .1803 Illuminated signs shall be internally illuminated or backlit only. 18.110.100 Land Use and Development Standards — commercial Area (Development Area 5) This Development Area is intended to provide for and encourage the orderly development of commercial retail areas throughout the Specific Plan area which will serve the demand for a wide variety of goods and services. The underlying, base zone for this area is the CL -Commercial, Limited Zone and unless otherwise indicated the standards of the CL Zone shall apply. In areas where the Scenic Corridor Overlay Zone already applies, it shall continue to apply to this Development Area. .010 Permitted Primary Uses and Structures The following retail stores and service businesses, either singly or in combination, may be permitted in this Development Area subject to the limitations provided hereinafter: 77 j .0101 Antique shops. .0102 Appliance stores, including radio and TV, with or without repair service. .0103 Bakery shops. .0104 Barber and/or beauty shops .0105 Book stores, new or used. .0106 Business trade schools and training centers. .0107 Clothing and apparel stores including tailoring. .0108 Confectionery and candy stores. .0109 Conservatories and studios: art, music, dancing, photography, martial arts, etc. .0110 Department, notion, discount and variety stores. .0111 Drugstores or pharmacies. .0112 Furniture stores. .0113 Health spas and physical fitness centers under 4,000 square feet in gross floor area. .0114 Hobby shops. .0115 Interior decorator shops. .0116 Jewelers and lapidary shops. .0117 Laboratories: medical and dental. .0118 Laundry and dry cleaning establishments. .0119 Libraries and reading rooms. .0120 Locksmith shops. .0121 Markets and grocery stores having an interior building floor area of not less than 15,000 square feet. .0122 Meat markets or delicatessens. .0123 Office equipment and furniture rental services. .0124 Offices, professional, medical and dental. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 78 W .0125 Pet shops. .0126 Plant nurseries; provided, however, that the following additional minimum site development standards shall apply: All areas devoted to outdoor storage of other than plant material shall be adequately screened from view by a masonry wall. The storage shall not exceed the height of the wall and shall be limited to botanically related materials. .0127 Reconditioned used merchandise sales. .0128 Printing or reproducing services, including but not limited to printing shops, photoengraving, copying, processing, and blueprinting. .0129 Retail supply stores. .0130 Restaurants (enclosed or semi -enclosed, not including drive-in or drive-through facilities). .0131 Secretarial and answering services. .0132 Shoe stores, sales and repair. .020 General Requirements for Permitted Uses And Structures. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this section, the following general requirements shall apply for the conduct of any use permitted in this Development Area. .0201 All stores shall deal primarily in new merchandise, except as otherwise specified in the listed use. .0202 All uses except normal service station operations and except as otherwise provided in the listed use, shall be conducted wholly within a building. .0203 All uses shall be conducted in a manner so as not to be objectionable by reason of noise, odor, dust, fumes, smoke, vibrations or other similar causes. .0204 No combination of otherwise permitted uses or businesses which constitute a "Commercial Retail Center," as defined in Section 18.01.030 of this Code, shall be permitted unless a conditional use permit is first obtained therefor pursuant to Chapter 18.03 of this Code. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 79 a .030 Permitted Accessory Uses And Structures. The following accessory uses may be conducted where clearly incidental to, and integrated within a primary use structure except as otherwise provided herein. .0301 Automobile parking lots or structures, including open-air lots and enclosed underground facilities; provided any such facilities are improved in compliance with adopted parking lot development standards. .0302 Banquets, indoor or outdoor, when conducted as an incidental and occasional activity in conjunction with an enclosed or semi -enclosed restaurant. .0303 Reverse vending machines and small collection facilities for recycling purposes subject to the requirements of Chapter 18.95 of this Code. .0304 Signs, other than billboards, in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 18.110.100.120 and 18.110.100.130 of this Code. .0305 Storage of Class "C" explosives not exceeding twenty (20) pounds, and in compliance with the Uniform Fire Code. .0306 The manufacturing, processing, repair, treatment or storage of products which is clearly incidental to the retail business conducted on the premises, provided that such manufacturing, processing, repair, treatment or storage operations are not objectionable due to noise, odor, dust, smoke, vibrations or other similar causes. .0307 Roof -mounted mechanical/utility equipment (including, but not limited to, compressors, condensers, conduits, pipes, vents, ducts, etc., as found in Title 15 of the Anaheim Municipal Code and in the Uniform Mechanical Code) and receiving antennas; provided that these devices shall not be visible in any direction (360 degrees) from any public right-of-way, public property or any property zoned residential, commercial, open space, or Development Areas 3, 4, and 6 of this Specific Plan Area, as may be seen from a point six (6) feet above ground level on said adjacent property. Screening of equipment shall be provided by acceptable, permanent building materials, the same as or similar to those which are used in the construction of the underlying building, or equipment shall be screened from view by acceptable architectural features of the building itself. Wood lattice shall not be used as a screening device. The screening method and screening material used shall not be recognizable as a screening device but shall be designed as an integral component of the building design. Permanent, mature landscaping may also be utilized, but only if it provides a complete and sufficient year-round screen. All equipment screening shall be retained and maintained in good condition. .0308 Ground -mounted radio, television and satellite dish receiving antennas, mechanical/utility equipment and other such similar equipment; provided that any such equipment shall be screened from view in all directions (360 degrees) from all public rights-of-way, public property or any property zoned residential, commercial, open space, or Development Areas 3, 4, or 6 of this Specific Plan Area, as may be seen from a point six (6) feet above ground level on said adjacent property, by landscaping (except for screening of mechanical equipment), fencing or architectural building features. Said equipment shall not be located in a required setback area abutting a public or private street. .0309 The wholesaling of products, where clearly incidental to and integrated within a permitted primary use and structure. .040 Permitted Temporary Uses And Structures. The following temporary buildings, structures and uses may be permitted subject to the conditions and limitations specified herein. .0401 Christmas Tree and pumpkin patch sales lots and/or stands shall be subject to compliance with the provisions of Chapter 6.42 "Christmas Trees" and Section 18.02.055.060.0607 of this Code. .0402 Contractor's Office and/or Storage. Temporary structures for the housing of tools and equipment or containing supervisory offices in connection with major construction projects may be established and maintained during the progress of such construction on such projects provided the maximum time of such use shall not exceed two (2) years. 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 81 a .0403 Real Estate Tract Office and Billboard. One (1) temporary real estate office and temporary real estate billboard may be located on any new subdivision, provided that such office and billboard shall be removed at the end of three (3) years from the date of the recording of the map of the subdivision upon which the office and billboard are located. .0404 Special Events and Temporary Signs, Flags, Banners and Balloons. The temporary use of premises for special events as defined in Section 18.01.200 shall be subject to compliance with the provisions of Sections 18.02.055 "Special Event Permits --General" and 18.05.070 "Temporary Signs, Flags, Banners and Balloons-- General" of this Code. .050 Conditional Uses And Structures. The following buildings, structures and uses may be permitted in this development area subject to a conditional use permit and subject to the conditions and required showings of Section 18.03.030 "Conditional Use Permits - General" of this Code. .0501 Alcoholic beverage 'on -premise sale and consumption' facilities, whether or not integrated within a restaurant. .0502 Ambulance services, with or without attendant living quarters. .0503 Animal hospitals and/or kennels. .0504 Automobile car washes. .0505 Automotive vehicle repair, overhaul, installation of parts and accessories, modification, painting, body work and other similar vehicular activities, including incidental retail sales. For purposes of this section the words 'automotive vehicle' shall include, but not be limited to, automobiles, boats, recreational vehicles, trucks and motorcycles. .0506 Billiard centers. .0507 Bowling alleys, with or without alcohol sales. .0508 Child day care facilities which exclusively serve one (1) or more businesses located in this Specific Plan area. E PA W .0509- Churches, subject to the following limitations: (a) Churches which are the exclusive use of property exceeding three (3) acres in size: The limitation in hours and days of operation and length in time of church use shall be specified in the Conditional Use Permit. (b) Churches which occupy less than three (3) acres or are not the exclusive use of the property (regardless of acreage), are limited to a maximum initial three (3) years duration with extensions which shall not exceed nine (9) consecutive years from the commencement of the church. (c) Churches established pursuant to subparagraph (b) shall, with the exception of national holidays, limit activities to church office staff, prior to 6:00 o'clock on Monday through Friday. (d) Churches may include educational facilities as an accessory use, provided such facilities are approved in the conditional use permit. .0510 Commercial retail centers as defined in section 18.01.030 of this Code. .0511 Communications stations and antennas (other than those permitted by paragraphs 18.110.100.030.0307 and 18.110.100.030.0308) including amateur - operated radio transmission towers and cellular communications facilities/towers whether ground mounted or mounted on a structure. Maximum structural height shall be determined by conditional use permit. .0512 Freestanding freeway oriented signs. .0513 Health spas and physical fitness centers larger than 4,000 square feet in gross floor area. .0514 Hotels and motels. .0515 Large collection facilities for recycling purposes subject to the requirements of Chapter 18.95 of this Code. .0516 Liquor stores. .0517 Markets or grocery stores having an interior building floor area of less than 15,000 square feet. M .0518 Private clubs, lodges and meeting halls. .0519 Private educational institutions. .0520 Private recreational facilities, indoor or outdoor, including but not limited to, golf driving ranges, recreation fields and fishing pools. .0521 Public utilities or utilities operated by mutual agencies consisting of cellular telephone facilities, electrical substations, gas or convention plants, with necessary buildings, apparatus or appurtenances incidental thereto, but not including distribution mains or electric or telephone wires or cables or City -owned public utilities. .0522 Restaurants, drive-in or drive-through. .0523 Service stations, automobile or truck, with or without convenience markets subject to the requirements of Chapter 18.87, provided that as a condition for the granting of a conditional use permit for an automobile or truck service station, the property owner shall record an unsubordinated covenant, satisfactory to the Planning Director and City Attorney agreeing to remove all structures, including underground storage tanks, in the event that the station is closed for a period of twelve (12) consecutive months. A service station shall be considered closed during any month in which is open for less than fifteen (15) days. .0524 Theaters, exhibition halls and auditoriums. .0525 Transmission stations, radio or television, including amateur -operated radio transmission towers. Heights of antennas and/or towers associated with these uses shall be determined by Conditional Use Permit. .0526 Transportation terminals including but not limited to airports, bus or train stations. .0527 Vehicle sales agencies and lots. .060 Site Development Standards. Site development standards are intended to provide for the continued orderly development of this Development Area, to assure adequate levels of light, air and density of development, to maintain and enhance 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 84 a the locally recognized values of community appearance, to promote functional compatibility of uses and to promote the safe and efficient circulation of pedestrian and vehicular traffic all of which are found to be necessary for the preservation of the community health, safety and general welfare. .070 Building Site Requirements. .0701 The size and shape of the site proposed for the use shall be adequate to allow the full development of the proposed use in a manner consistent with the stated purpose and intent of this Development Area. .0702 Adequate provision shall be made for the safe and orderly circulation of both pedestrian and vehicular traffic between the proposed site and all streets and highways and between coordinated facilities, accessways or parking areas on adjacent sites. .0703 The proposed development shall not limit or adversely affect the growth and development potential of adjoining lands or the general area in which it is proposed to be located. .080 Structural Height and Area Limitations. .0801 Maximum Structural Height. The maximum height of any building or structure shall not exceed sixty (60) feet except as provided in 18.03.030 "Structural Height Limitations General" or as may be permitted by conditional use permit. .0802 The height of any building or structure shall not exceed one half the distance from the building or structure to the area boundaries of any residential zone. Dedicated streets or alleys shall be included in calculating distance. .0803 No site may be developed to an intensity greater than a Floor Area Ratio (FAR) of 0.25. .090 Structural Setback and Yard Requirements. Every building, structure or addition thereto erected in this Development Area shall be provided with setbacks and landscaping in accordance with the provisions of Sections 18.04.060 and 18.41.063 of this Code except as follows: .0901 Abutting freeway frontage roads or any on -or off - ramp, the minimum building setback shall be thirty (30) feet. The minimum thirty (30) foot wide 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 85 a required setback area shall be fully landscaped including a minimum of one (1) tree planted per twenty (20) linear feet of ROW frontage and must include a three (3) foot high shrub screen planted parallel to the ROW unless the freeway frontage road or -on- or off -ramp is substantially elevated or below the grade of the freeway right-of-way, in which case, no shrub screen shall be required. .100 Permitted Encroachments Into Required Yards. The following features may be permitted to encroach into yards required in this Development Area, in compliance with the provisions of Section 18.04.043 "Permitted Encroachments into Required Yards — General," of this Code, and as provided herein: .1001 Decorative screen walls, not exceeding thirty-six (36) inches in height, where located at least ten (10) feet from the front property line along arterial streets and highways, and freeway frontage roads. .1002 Entrance and exit drives and walks into parking areas. .1003 Flagpoles subject to the provisions of Section 18.04.045.034 of this Code. .1004 Fountains, ponds, sculpture, planters and walkways (open or covered) where they are an integral part of a landscaping scheme comprised primarily of plant materials. .1005 Signs other than billboards in conformance with Section 18.110.100.120 and 18.110.100.130 of this Code. .110 Off -Street Parking and Loading Requirements. All vehicle accessways and parking and loading areas shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 18.06, "Vehicle Parking And Loading Requirements," of this Code except as provided herein: .1101 Automobile Parking Areas. A portion of any required setback area adjacent to any street may be used as part of an automobile parking area; provided, however, that a minimum ten (10) foot wide screen planting strip including a three (3) foot high shrub screen, shall be maintained adjacent to any right-of-way line. .1102 Where general commercial shopping facilities are planned or constructed in such a manner that parking areas are contiguous, or that ingress or egress from one area of the facility must be EY:7 through another area of the facility and such right of mutual ingress, egress or parking right is guaranteed by means of a recorded document, no walls or fences shall be constructed within the commercial facility that would restrict the flow of vehicular traffic in and on the facility's parking areas or accessways. .1103 Minimum Number, Type and Design of Parking Spaces. All vehicle accessways and parking and loading areas shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 18.06, "Vehicle Parking and Loading Requirements". .120 Sign Regulations --Advertising and Identification. Except as provided in subsection .030 of this Section 18.110.100, any signs installed or erected in this Development Area shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 18.05, "Outdoor Advertising --Signs and Billboards," of this Code for the CL Zone. .130 Freestanding Freeway oriented Signs: Freestanding freeway -oriented on-site identification signs, limited to parcels adjacent to the north and south sides of the Riverside (91) Freeway or associated freeway frontage roads between the Santa Ana Riverbed and the Orange (57) Freeway, shall be permitted in this Development Area subject to a conditional use permit and further subject to the following requirements: .1301 Freestanding freeway -oriented identification signs shall be permitted only for (i) retail businesses serving a regional area of area wide significance provided said retail businesses have a minimum building square footage of 50,000 square feet, or a minimum lot area of 3 acres for vehicle sales agencies and lots, and a freeway frontage of no less than 300 linear feet and (ii) businesses which serve the immediate needs of the highway motorist, such as service stations, motels and restaurants). .1302 The height, location and sign copy shall be designed in a manner which permits identification from adjacent freeways. .1303 There shall be no more than one freestanding freeway oriented sign per parcel. .1304 The sign shall be limited to identifying the business occupying the site. .1305 The sign shall be located in the landscape setback area, perpendicular to the freeway and shall be located approximately midway between side property 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 87 a lines within the middle 20% of the property frontage. .1306 The maximum height of the freestanding sign shall be limited to 35 feet above finished grade of the closest freeway lane. .1307 The maximum width of the freestanding sign, including the sign support structure, shall not exceed 20 feet. .1308 The area of each face of a double faced freestanding sign panel shall not exceed 150 square feet and be in the form of a maximum 10 foot high and 15 foot wide sign panel. .1309 The sign shall be supported by a two post structure. The posts and associated framing or metal skin shall not be less than 25% of the total sign width. The sign panel shall be recessed into the sign structure on each side 4 inches. No riders or attachments shall be added to the sign structure. .1310 Graphics shall be limited to the sign panel only. Lettering including logo, shall constitute not more than 60% of total graphic area with background 40%. Lettering shall be limited to the name of the business. .1311 Sign panel materials shall conform to the established sign design criteria of the City. The sign support structure shall be constructed with high quality materials as approved in the conditional use permit. The sign structure shall be similar in color to the associated business building. 18.110.110 LAND USE AND DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS -- OPEN SPACE AREA (DEVELOPMENT AREA 6) This Development Area is intended to ensure that all existing water -related open space areas are maintained in an orderly manner. For all uses in this Development Area, the underlying base zone is the OS - Open Space Zone, and, unless otherwise indicated, the use standards of the OS zone shall apply. Further, for all projects in this Development Area, the development standards of the ML - Limited Industrial Zone shall apply." 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 88 a SECTION 3. A. To the extent that any provision(s) of this Ordinance would otherwise apply to the development or use of property and said provision(s) ("new regulations") contain restrictions or limitations on the development or use of property greater than the provisions which existed immediately prior to the time this ordinance became effective ("prior regulations"), said prior regulations shall continue to apply (and said new regulations shall not apply) to the construction, development or establishment of the following projects: 1. Any project (i) not otherwise subject to the provisions of this ordinance for which building plans were initially submitted to the City of Anaheim for plan check (the "initial plan check") prior to the date of adoption of the Specific Plan, for purposes of obtaining building permit approval, and (ii) for which construction is completed within one year following the date of issuance of said building permit; or 2. Any project (i) for which entitlement for development was finally approved by the Zoning Administrator, Planning Commission or City Council pursuant to a conditional use permit or zone variance ("discretionary approval") prior to the date of adoption of the Specific Plan (and said discretionary approval has not expired), and (ii) for which a building permit is issued pursuant to and in accordance with such discretionary approval and for which construction is thereafter commenced and completed within one year following the date of issuance of said permit and (iii) in cases where such permits are not received, the discretionary approval has been exercised or commenced within one year following the date of the Resolution granting the discretionary approval. SECTION 4. SEVERABILITY The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby declares that should any Section, paragraph, sentence or word of this ordinance, hereby adopted, be declared for any reason to be invalid, it is the intent of the Council that it would have passed all other portions of this ordinance independent of the elimination herefrom of any such portion as may be declared invalid. SECTION 5. SAVINGS CLAUSE Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal of any other ordinance of this City shall in any manner affect the prosecution for violations of ordinances, which violations were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as a waiver of any license or penalty or the penal provisions applicable to any violation thereof. The provisions of this 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 89 i ordinance, insofar as they are substantially the same as ordinance provisions previously adopted by the City relating to the same subject matter, shall be construed as restatements and continuations, and not as new enactments. SECTION 6. PENALTY It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to violate any provision or to fail to comply with any of the requirements of this ordinance. Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this ordinance or failing to comply with any of its requirements shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or by imprisonment not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each such person, firm or corporation shall be deemed guilty of a separate offense for each day during any portion of which any violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance is committed, continued or permitted by such person, firm or corporation, and shall be punishable therefor as provided for in this ordinance. THE FOREGOING City Council of the City 1995. ORDINANCE is approved and adopted by the of Anaheim this 12th day of September , ATTEST: 1211�'CITY CLERK OF THE OTY OF ANAHEIM 13421.\SMANN\September 8, 1995 90 A STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss. CITY OF ANAHEIM ) I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 5517 was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Anaheim, held on the 22nd day of August, 1995, and that the same was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 12th day of September, 1995, by the following vote of the members thereof: AYES: MAYOR/COUNCIL: Lopez, Zemel, Feldhaus NOES: MAYOR/COUNCIL: Tait, Daly ABSENT: MAYOR/COUNCIL: None AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said Ordinance No. 5517 on the 12th day of September, 1995. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Anaheim this 12th day of September, 1995. CITY CLERK OF THE CITYO ANAHEIM (SEAL) I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original of Ordinance No. 5517 and was published once in the North Orange County News on the 21st day of September, 1995 �tlr.� CITY CLERK OF THE CI F ANAHEIM