.010 Purpose. The purpose of the Central Core is to create a consistent, high quality pedestrian environment that reinforces the character established by the landscape and other streetscape elements identified in The Anaheim Resort Identity Program. The Central Core boundaries encompass lots or parcels with frontage on Harbor Boulevard between Interstate-5 Freeway and Orangewood Avenue and on Katella Avenue between Interstate-5 Freeway and Walnut Street. The following subsections apply to this area as follows:
.0101 Subsections .020 and .040 below apply to the minimum required setback areas adjacent to the ultimate public right-of-way.
.0102 Subsection .030 below applies to the area between the ultimate public right-of-way and the actual (constructed) building setback.
.0103 Subsections .050 through .070 below apply to development encompassing lots or parcels with frontage on both Harbor Boulevard and Katella Avenue, identified as the "Harbor Boulevard/Katella Avenue Intersection Area" and depicted on Exhibit 3.3-8 (Central Core Plan).
.0104 Subsection .080 applies to all properties within the Central Core.
.020 Required Landscape Setback Area. The required landscape setback area within the Central Core shall comply with the following:
.0201 Up to eighty percent (80%) of the required landscape setback area adjacent to the ultimate public right-of-way may be paved provided:
.01 The paved area will serve pedestrian-related activities (outdoor dining, access to retail stores integrated with hotel/motel developments, and similar uses);
.02 Landscape shall be designed and installed in conformance with the tree density requirements identified in the Design Plan;
.03 The paved area includes cutout areas for trees (minimum of one tree per 200 square feet), planters, pots, colored or enriched paving, and other pedestrian-oriented amenities;
.0202 Shrubs, decorative walls, and fences may be used as barriers within the Setback Realm to create enclosure for outdoor eating and pedestrian gathering areas, provided that any barrier greater than 42 inches high shall be transparent.
.0203 Areas that have a more intimate scale, such as those oriented towards pedestrians (outdoor eating areas, for example), may use smaller-scale trees and shrubs within the required landscape setback area.
.030 Parking Areas, Structures and Circulation. Parking and circulation for properties within the Central Core shall comply with the following:
.0301 No parking areas shall be located between the ultimate public right-of-way and the actual (constructed) building setback.
.0302 Parking structures shall be located in separate buildings at the rear portion of the site unless more than seventy-five percent (75%) of the parking structure building wall facing the street contains pedestrian oriented uses, which have openings to the adjacent Central Core street.
.0303 Curb cuts separated by less than forty feet are prohibited.
.040 Lighting.
.0401 Exterior lights may be incandescent or metal halide. Fluorescent, low pressure sodium, high pressure sodium, and mercury vapor are prohibited in the front setback areas.
.0402 Decorative lighting with a festive "Tivoli Garden" character is permitted within the front setback areas. It may include: tree uplights, tree downlights, small lights in trees or on shrubs, outdoor string lights that outline building masses, and similar lighting effects. Visible light bulbs shall be incandescent, or shall have a warm lighting characteristic similar to incandescent fixtures.
.0403 Lighting that illuminates building walls is not permitted.
.050 Required Landscaped Setback Area Within the Harbor Boulevard/Katella Avenue Intersection Area. The minimum setback along Harbor Boulevard may be reduced to eleven (11) feet.
.060 Permitted Encroachments Within the Harbor Boulevard/Katella Avenue Intersection Area. Canopies and balconies may encroach three feet into the required setback along both Harbor Boulevard and Katella Avenue. Canopies for ground floor seating and dining areas may encroach within the required setback along Katella Avenue to the property line.
.070 Paving within the Harbor Boulevard/Katella Avenue Intersection Area. Development of properties within this area shall comply with the landscape, hardscape and urban design elements described in Section 5 of The Anaheim Resort Public Realm Landscape Program. Up to one hundred percent (100%) of the setback area may be paved provided:
.0701 The paved area will serve pedestrian-related activities (outdoor dining, access to retail stores integrated with hotel/motel developments, and similar uses); and
.0702 Landscaping shall be designed and installed in conformance with the tree density requirements identified in the Design Plan. Trees may be provided in decorative containers consistent with the architecture of the project.
.080 Site Planning. Properties within the Central Core shall comply with the following:
.0801 Ground-floor uses, such as restaurants, retail stores and other similar types of businesses that attract pedestrians adjacent to the right-of-way, shall be provided adjacent to Central Core streets.
.0802 Direct pedestrian access shall be provided to uses on the ground floor of buildings from the sidewalk adjacent to the street. Accessory uses for hotels may also provide entries and openings from inside the hotel building.
.0803 Buildings shall be placed on parcels so that a minimum of 60% of the property frontage is occupied by building; if this is not possible, closely spaced vertical trees shall be planted at the building setback line in order to create a "green mass" which has the effect of enclosing the street in a manner similar to the effect of a building mass.
.0804 New buildings added to existing development sites should be located adjacent to the setback line, and parking concealed from view;
.0805 Uses likely to attract pedestrians, such as outdoor dining should be placed within the setback area along Harbor Boulevard.
.0806 Uses intended primarily to attract automobiles are prohibited, such as drive-through restaurants.
.0807 Large, blank, undifferentiated building elevations and monolithic building masses that would be visible from the public right-of-way are prohibited. (Ord. 5453 § 1 (part); September 27, 1994: Ord. 5920 1 (part); June 8, 2004: Ord. 6031 § 64 (part); August 22, 2006: Ord. 6141 § 3; April 14, 2009: Ord. 6265 § 22; January 15, 2013: Ord. 6575 § 2 (part); May 7, 2024.)