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RESOLUTION NO. 06-6
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING
AMENDMENTS TO THE STREETSCAPE AND
MEDIAN DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, AND THE
LANDSCAPE AND SIGN GUIDELINES FOR THE
NEWPORT BOULEVARD SPECIFIC PLAN.
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa adopted the
Newport Boulevard Specific Plan, Landscape and Sign Guidelines in July 1996;
and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa adopted the
Streetscape and Median Development Standards in September 7, 1999; and
WHEREAS, a further amendment to the Newport Boulevard Specific Plan,
Landscape and Sign Guidelines, which amends Section 2, Trees, was initiated
as a result of City Council direction; and,
WHEREAS, a further amendment to the Streetscape and Median
Development Standards, Section 2.02 Street Tree Palette Description, Section
6.03 Median Installation: Major Arterials, and Section 7.0 Streetscape Corridor
Furniture Coordination, was initiated as a result of City Council direction.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Costa Mesa that the amended Newport Boulevard Specific Plan, Landscape and
Sign Guidelines,. as reflected in Exhibit A hereof, and the Streetscape and
Median Development Standards, as reflected in Exhibit B hereof, are hereby
adopted and on file in the Public Services Department and the -office of the City
Clerk.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 3rd day of January, 2006.
ATTEST:
Dep y City Clerk of the City of Costa Mesa
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
Mayor of the City of Costa Mesa
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney
I, JULIE FOLCIK, Deputy City Clerk and -ex -officio Clerk of the City Council of the
City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and foregoing Resolution No.
06-6 was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the said City Council at a regular
meeting thereof held on the 3rd day of Janary, 2006, by the following roll call voter
AYES: Mansoor, Bever, Dixon, Monahan.
NOES: None.
ABSENT: Foley.
IN, WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of
the City of Costa Mesa this 4th day of January, 2006.
-QL4�,O
De uty City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of
the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa
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Exhibit A
Recommended Modifications to the
Streetscape and Media Development Standards, and the
Newport Boulevard Streetscape Study/Landscape & Sign Guidelines
for Newport Boulevard
between Industrial Way and Bristol Street
Location/Type Streetscape Standards Proposed Streetscape
Plant
PARKWAY
Primary
TREES
■ Ornamental Pear ( Industrial to 17tH )
Pyrus Kawakamii
Mexican Fan Palm
■ Queen Palm (17th to 19th)
Washingtonia robusta
Arecastrum Romanzoffianum
Floss Silk
■ Bradfordi Pear ( 19th to Bristol)
Chorisa speciosa "Majestic
Pyrus calleryana 'Bradfordi'
Beauty"
Secondary
Queen Palm
■ Windmill Palm ( 17th to 19th)
Arecastrum romanzoffianum
Trachycarpus fortunei
• Red Flowering Gum
■ Floss Silk ( 17th to 19th)
Eucalytus ficifolia
Chorisa speciosa "Majestic Beauty"
Bradfordi Pear
'Bradfordi'
■ Red Flowering Gum ( 19th to Bristol)
Pyrus calleryana
Eucalytus ficifolia
MEDIAN
TREES
Ornamental Pear ( Industrial to 17th )
■ Pink Floss Silk ( 17th to 19th )
Queen Palm
■ Bradfordi Pear ( SB Newport - 19th to
Arecastrum romanzoffianium
Bristol )
RWindmill Palm
• Red Flowering Gum (SB Newport 19th to
Trachycarpus fortunei
Bristol)
XRed Flowering Gum
■ Bottle Tree ( NB Newport - 19th to Bristol
• Tipu Tree
)
Tipu Tree ( NB Newport - 19th to Bristol )
MEDIAN
ACCENT
■ Lilly of the Nile, blue and white
Pink India Hawthorn
SHRUBS
Agapanthus 'Queen Anne'
`Ballerina' Rhaphiolepis
■ Bird of Paradise
India 'Ballerina,
Strelitzia reginae
Day Lilly
■ Dwarf New Zealand Flax
Hemerocallis
Dwarf Red Phormium 'varieties'
■ Statice/Limonium Perez#
f and the adopted Streetscape
Standard species)
MEDIAN
SHRUBS
0 White India Hawthorn
- per standard, no change -
Rhaphiolepis India 'Clara'
El
MEDIAN
GROUND
0 Ice Plant ( Industrial to Bristol)
Yellow / White Gazania
COVER
Lampranthus spectabilis
Gazania mitsu, Yellow &
■ Lavender Lantana ( Industrial to 19th)
White
Lantana montividensis
Star Jasmine
■ White Gazania ( Industrial to 19th)
Trache/ospermum
Gazania rigens 'White'
jasminoides
■ Ivy Geranium ( Industrial to 19th)
Day Lilly, Hemerocallis
Pelargonium peltatum 'Pink'
Prostrate Rosemary
Rosmarinus officinalis
'Prostratus'
■ Bougainvillea Dwarf
`Varie ated'
MEDIAN
LEFT TURN
White Gazania
x Day Lilly
NOSES
0 White / Yellow Gazania
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Exhibit B
Recommended Amendment to the
Streetscape Development Standard
7.0 STREETSCAPE CORRIDOR FURNITURE COORDINATION
Streetscape corridor coordination provides Costa Mesa with an effective urban design
tool. With such coordination in place, the City can be presented as an inviting place to
conduct business and live, as well as provide safe recreational linkages between parks
and schools. The painting of traffic signals may be allowed in special areas of the City
such as South Coast Metro, Downtown and Harbor Boulevard with the approval and
formation of a maintenance assessment district by affected landowners/merchants. The
construction of parkway sound attenuation walls and the undergrounding of overhead
utilities are also an integral part of this work (see Sections 8.0 and 9.0).
The following features have been selected as standard City streetscape corridor furniture, where
applicable:
• Arterial Highway Sound Attenuation Walls (seeSSection 8.0/City Std. PS. 111)
• Entry Signs (see City Stds. DWS. 101 and DS. 102)
• Bus Benches (see City Std. DS. 103)
• Downtown Benches (see City Std. DS. 104)
• Trash Containers — City-wide (see City Std. DS. 105)
• Downtown Street Lights (see City Std. DS. 106)
• Carpinteria Street Lights ( see Southern California Standards )
• Traffic Signal Fixture Paint (see City Std. DS. 107)
Streetscape corridor furniture in any Redevelopment project area may vary from the above
standard, under the direction of the Redevelopment Agency and Public Services Department.
8.0 DEVELOPMENT OF ARTERIAL STREET WALLS
Development and improvements along Costa Mesa's major arterials combine with
landscaped parkways and medians to complete the City's streetscapes. In commercial
areas, these edges are largely comprised of landscaped -setbacks, parking lots, storefronts,
and commercial signs. In residential areas, those edges are largely formed by a variety of
walls and fences, which attempt to separate the adjacent neighborhoods from heavily
traveled roadways. However, in spite of their importance as a visual edge and buffer,
walls and fences in some of the City's residential neighborhoods are deficient in terms of
their appearance and noise attenuation effectiveness.
8.01 Summary of Existing Conditions
Walls and fences along major arterials present wide variation in terms of design, materials and
maintenance levels within different parts of the City and even within single blocks along the same
arterial. Existing conditions range from chain-link fences to slumpstone block walls with generous
landscaped setbacks