This District is intended to accommodate Theme Park uses consisting primarily of ticket areas, dining, retail and entertainment facilities, support back-of-house service facilities (maintenance, accessory uses, and staging areas), and associated administration facilities as well as limited hotels and accessory uses as identified on Exhibit 3.3a entitled "Land Use Plan Development Summary Tabulation" of the Specific Plan document and as set forth herein. (Ord. 5580 § 11; October 22, 1996.)
.010 Theme Park - Permitted Primary Uses and Structures. Subject to the limitations prescribed in Section 18.114.050 (Land Use and Site Development Standards - General) and in accordance with the Design Plan, the following buildings, structures and uses shall be permitted in this District:
.0101 Theme Park. A commercial establishment which includes entertainment facilities of a regional significance and may include ancillary or incidental facilities, such as plazas, streets, walkway promenades, marinas, lakes, parks, and other landscaped open space areas, and rest areas and which may charge a fee for admission. The following facilities may be included within a Theme Park:
.01 Amphitheaters, indoor and outdoor.
.02 Amusement devices and/or arcades.
.03 Auditoriums.
.04 Dance floors.
.05 Fireworks (location and time subject to approval of the Fire Department).
.06 Outdoor special light effects including, but not limited to, sky beacons, floodlights of the thematic element and other theme park structures, search lights, laser light shows, fireworks, and other similar lighting effects intended primarily for entertainment of The Disneyland Resort visitors and not as an advertising display.
.07 Retail shops.
.08 Restaurants - enclosed, outdoor dining, satellite, or walk-up.
.09 Theaters - includes dinner, legitimate or motion picture theaters and performance theaters or clubs.
.10 Theme park attractions. A building, structure, improvement, device, mechanism, or other facility or combination thereof operated for the entertainment of visitors in a theme park. Such facilities may include, but are not limited to: roller coasters, amusement rides, water rides, monorails, shows (live, automated or motion picture), displays, museums, art galleries, auditoriums, pavilions, or zoos.
.11 Outdoor stands and booths.
.0102 Hotels. Up to a maximum of one thousand and twenty-five (1,025) hotel rooms or guest suites and gaining vehicular access from West Street/Disneyland Drive subject to the limitations prescribed in subsection 18.114.050.020 (Limitation on Total Number of Hotel Guest Rooms or Suites).
.0103 Retail Entertainment Centers.
.0104 Transportation Facilities.
.0105 Vacation Ownership Resorts in compliance with Section 18.114.120 (Requirements for Vacation Ownership Resorts) and Section 18.114.050.020 (Limitation on Total Number of Hotel Guest Rooms or Suites). (Ord. 6093 § 2; January 29, 2008.)
.020 Permitted Accessory Uses and Structures. The following accessory uses may be conducted where clearly incidental to and integrated with a permitted primary use:
.0201 Theme Park Accessory Support Facilities. A building, structure, device, mechanism, or other facility or combination thereof which supports and is consistent with the intent of the operation of a theme park. Such facilities may include, but are not limited to:
.01 Administrative offices including temporary offices within existing hotel buildings during construction period only and subject to approval of the City Traffic and Transportation Manager for parking layout and vehicular access.
.02 Alcoholic beverages, on-premises consumption.
.03 Animal storage facilities. An establishment in which six (6) or more dogs or other domesticated animals are housed, groomed or temporarily boarded. Such facilities shall be limited strictly to the use by guests and patrons of a Theme Park and/or for use in the Theme Park and must be located fifty (50) feet from any residential zone.
.04 Automobile/vehicle parking lots or structures providing off-street parking spaces, as required by this chapter for uses permitted under this Section and subject to approval of the City Engineer for vehicular access and Planning Director for parking layout.
.05 Banking facilities, including automated teller machines.
.06 Child day care services intended for the use of theme park employees.
.07 Emergency medical facilities.
.08 Employee ("Cast") dressing room and rest areas.
.09 Mechanical equipment.
.10 Movie and theatrical production facilities within theme park.
.11 Repair facilities for vehicles and attractions.
.12 Signs as permitted pursuant to Section 18.114.130 (Sign Regulations).
.13 Staging areas.
.14 Storage facilities provided they shall not be visible from a point six (6) feet above ground from an adjacent public right-of-way or any adjacent or surrounding property.
.15 Studios, radio and television. A facility which may include accommodations for filming/taping in front of live audiences.
.0202 Hotel Accessory Support Uses.
.01 Administrative offices including temporary offices within existing hotel buildings during construction period only and subject to approval of the City Traffic and Transportation Manager for parking layout and vehicular access.
.02 Alcoholic beverage sales, off-premises consumption, within a hotel complex.
.03 Alcoholic beverages, on-premise consumption.
.04 Amusement devices and/or arcades within a hotel complex with no public access directly from the exterior of the building and subject to the provisions of Section 18.16.050 (Amusement Devices) of this Code.
.05 Banking facilities, including automated teller machines.
.06 Barbershops.
.07 Beauty shops.
.08 Child day care services, within a hotel complex, intended for hotel and theme park employees and guests.
.09 Caretaker unit. A residential dwelling intended to be the primary or secondary living accommodations for the manager or caretaker of a hotel. For hotels containing less than three hundred (300) rooms, such unit shall be less than one thousand two hundred twenty-five (1,225) gross square feet in size and integrated within the hotel only. For hotels containing three hundred (300) rooms or more, such unit may not be more than three thousand (3,000) gross square feet.
.10 Health spas and physical fitness centers within hotel complex and limited strictly to the use of the guests and/or employees of such hotel complex.
.11 Kitchens in a hotel complex or restaurant or kitchenettes in a hotel guest room or suite.
.12 Laundry and dry cleaning facilities as a part of a hotel facility.
.13 Massage services as a part of a hotel complex in accordance with the requirements and permits set forth in Section 18.16.070 (Massage Establishments) and Chapter 18.54 (Sex Oriented Businesses) of this Code.
.14 Meeting and convention facilities as a part of a hotel facility.
.15 Outdoor stands and booths.
.16 Postal and copy services.
.17 Recreational facilities, when a part of a hotel. Recreational facilities include, but are not limited to, outdoor playground areas, tennis and racquetball courts, spas, and swimming pools, when integrated as part of a hotel only.
.18 Rental agencies for automobiles.
.19 Restaurants, indoor and outdoor.
.20 Retail uses, integrated into hotel.
.21 Signs within a feature landscape element with the following requirements:
(a) Shall be constructed in compliance with the Design Plan;
(b) Shall replace monument signs permitted in subsection 18.114.130.0601 (Permitted Signs);
(c) Shall be setback a minimum of seven (7) feet from the ultimate public right-of-way;
(d) Shall not exceed a maximum of ten (10) feet in height;
(e) Shall not have more than two sign faces per hotel entry drive; and
(f) Shall not create a continuous wall along the public right-of-way.
.22 Travel services.
.0203 Gateway Facilities.
.01 Except as provided in subparagraph 18.114.060.020.0203.02, gateway facilities which provide access to the ticket booths that serve theme parks, including but not limited to, directory and informational signs, flags, banners and changeable copy signs, provided the changeable copy signs shall have the following requirements:
(a) No more than one (1) changeable copy sign per street frontage;
(b) Shall not be located within the required setback area along Katella Avenue;
(c) Maximum height of seventy (70) feet;
(d) Maximum sign copy area of thirteen hundred (1,300) square feet with a maximum of five hundred (500) square feet of changeable copy; and,
(e) The changeable copy signs can be single or double-sided.
.02 One gateway facility, which identifies the pedestrian entry to The Disneyland Resort Theme Park District, may encroach into the setback area adjacent to Katella Avenue provided that the gateway facility meets the following requirements:
(a) Maximum sign copy area for each side of the gateway facility shall not exceed two hundred and fifty (250) square feet;
(b) No changeable copy sign area shall be permitted;
(c) The design and location of the gateway facility shall be subject to the review and approval of the Planning Director as being compatible in scale with the pedestrian entryway, and compatible in design with the gateway facilities permitted in accordance with subparagraph 18.114.060.020.0203.01 above. (Ord. 5580 § 12; October 22, 1996: Ord. 5736 § 1; September 19, 2000.)
.030 Structural Height Limitations.
.0301 Maximum Permitted Structural Height. Except as limited by the provisions of subsections .0302 and .0303, the maximum structural height shall be:
.01 Within a theme park use: two hundred fifty (250) feet, except that one structural thematic element may have a height of three hundred (300) feet.
.02 Within back-of-house areas: as determined by Amended Exhibit 1.
.0302 Maximum Permitted Structural Height at Required Setback:
.01 Harbor Boulevard: Seventy-five (75) feet.
.02 Katella Avenue: Seventy-five (75) feet.
.03 West Street/Disneyland Drive: One hundred and ten (110) feet except at twenty-one hundred (2,100) feet north of the centerline of Katella Avenue, the maximum height at the setback shall be determined by Amended Exhibit 1.
.0303 Sky Exposure Plane. The maximum height of structures adjacent to the following streets shall not exceed one (1) additional foot of height above the maximum permitted height at the required setback for each two (2) additional feet of setback:
.01 Katella Avenue.
.02 Disneyland Drive, between Katella Avenue and twenty-one hundred (2,100) feet north of the centerline of Katella Avenue.
.03 Harbor Boulevard. (Ord. 5613 § 5; September 16, 1997.)
.040 Interior Structural Setback and Yard Requirements. The following minimum setback requirements shall apply to permanent buildings and structures constructed within this District, except as provided elsewhere in this chapter. Such setbacks shall be measured from the interior property line.
.0401 From interior lots wholly within the same District: zero (0) feet minimum.
.0402 From interior lots in an adjacent District, but wholly within the Specific Plan area: zero (0) feet minimum.
.0403 From adjacent lots wholly outside the Specific Plan area: ten (10) feet minimum.
.0404 From adjacent interior lots developed under the provisions of Section 18.114.100 (C-R Overlay) ten (10) feet minimum.
.050 Setbacks-Lots Abutting Public Rights-of- Way. The following minimum setback requirements shall apply to permanent buildings and structures constructed within this District, except as provided elsewhere in this chapter. Such setbacks shall be measured from the ultimate planned public right-of-way as designated on the Circulation Element of the General Plan and as further described in Section 4.0 (Public Facilities Plan) and Section 5.0 (Design Plan) of the Specific Plan document. All setbacks shall be fully landscaped, irrigated and maintained in a manner in compliance with the Design Plan.
.0501 Ball Road.
.01 From a point five hundred (500) feet east of the centerline of Disneyland Drive to Interstate 5: an average of thirty (30) feet with a minimum of zero (0) feet, provided the length of the building with a zero (0) foot setback shall not exceed ten (10) feet, with landscaping consistent with Design Plan Cross Section Number 24, provided an open decorative fence, such as wrought iron, may be located no closer than ten (10) feet from the ultimate public right-of-way.
.02 From the centerline of Walnut Street to a point five hundred (500) feet east of the centerline of Disneyland Drive: twenty (20) feet minimum if the height of the structure is seventy-five (75) feet or less or thirty (30) feet minimum if the height of the structure is greater than seventy-five (75) feet, provided existing structures may remain as shown on Exhibit 3 of the Specific Plan document (Existing Structures to Remain) and that a minimum of ten (10) feet of landscaping shall be consistent with Design Plan Cross Section Number 23.
.0502 Harbor Boulevard.
.01 Within the C-R Overlay: Twenty-six (26) feet, minimum, with landscaping consistent with Design Plan Cross Section Number 6 and in accordance with Section 18.116.100 of The Anaheim Resort Specific Plan No. 92-2 (Central Core).
.02 Between the C-R Overlay and a point approximately two hundred and fifty (250) feet north of the centerline of Disney Way: Twenty-six (26) feet, minimum, with landscaping consistent with Design Plan Cross Section Number 7.
.03 Between a point approximately two hundred and fifty (250) feet north of the centerline of Disney Way and a point approximately one thousand three hundred and forty (1,340) feet north of the centerline of Disney Way: thirty-eight (38) feet, minimum, provided existing structures may remain as shown on Exhibit 3 of the Specific Plan document (Buildings to Remain) and that landscaping shall be consistent with Design Plan Cross Section Number 8c.
.04 Between a point approximately one thousand three hundred and forty (1,340) feet north of the centerline of Disney Way to Interstate 5 (Santa Ana Freeway): twelve (12) feet, minimum, with landscaping consistent with Design Plan Cross Section Numbers 8a and 8b.
.0503 Interstate 5 (Santa Ana Freeway). Ten (10) feet minimum provided that sculptural, architectural elements not attached to a building may have a zero (0) foot setback with landscaping consistent with Design Plan Cross Section Number 18.
.0504 Katella Avenue.
.01 From the centerline of Disneyland Drive to a point eleven hundred (1,100) feet east of said centerline: nineteen (19) feet minimum, with landscaping consistent with Design Plan Cross Section Numbers 2a and 2b, and provided that the monorail and its structural supports shall also be permitted within the setback area.
.02 From a point eleven hundred (1,100) feet east of the centerline of Disneyland Drive to the western right-of-way of Harbor Boulevard: nineteen (19) feet minimum, with landscaping consistent with Design Plan Cross Sections Numbers 2a and 2b.
.0505 Disneyland Drive.
.01 Between Katella Avenue and a point twenty-one (2,100) hundred feet north of the centerline of Katella Avenue: nineteen (19) feet minimum, with landscaping consistent with Design Plan Cross Section Number 11.
.02 Between a point twenty-one hundred (2,100) feet north of the centerline of Katella Avenue and a point four thousand (4,000) feet north of the centerline of Katella Avenue: nineteen (19) feet minimum, provided existing walls and buildings shown on Exhibit 3 of the Specific Plan document (Existing Structures to Remain) may remain, and that landscaping shall be consistent with Design Plan Cross Section Number 12.
.03 Between the centerline of Ball Road and a point four thousand (4,000) feet north of the centerline of Katella Avenue: twenty (20) feet provided existing structures may remain as shown on Exhibit 3 of the Specific Plan document (Existing Structures to Remain) and that landscaping shall be consistent with Design Plan Cross Sections Numbers 14a and 14b.
.0506 West Place. Ten (10) feet minimum, if the height of the structure is thirty-five (35) feet or less or twenty (20) feet minimum, if the height of the structure is greater than thirty-five (35) feet with landscaping consistent with Design Plan Cross Section Number 28a. (Ord. 5580 § 13; October 22, 1996.)
.060 Enhanced Structural Elevations for Theme Attraction Buildings. Elevations of buildings intended to enclose theme attractions and which are visible from a point six (6) feet above ground level, from adjacent public streets, adjacent parcels outside this District or adjacent parcels developed under the provisions of Section 18.114.100 (C-R Overlay) shall have enhanced architectural elevation treatments. Such treatments may include, but are not limited to:
.0601 Painted building surfaces;
.0602 Applied building materials; and
.0603 Other types of applications which are generally intended to:
.01 Create the illusion that uses within the building are other than those actually contained therein, or
.02 Reduce the apparent visual scale of such buildings.
Theme attractions not intended to be enclosed are not subject to the provisions of this section. (Ord. 5378 § 1 (part); June 29, 1993; Ord. 5920 1 (part); June 8, 2004: Ord. 6245 §§ 103, 105; June 5, 2012: Ord. 6473 § 46; December 3, 2019.)