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Home My WebLink AboutAMEND 2025-0004; CARLSBAD RANCH CORPORATE CENTER SIGN; Admin Decision LetterFebruary 2, 2026 Stephen Atteberry iPermit 1216 La Presa Ave. Spring Valley, CA 91977 {cityof Carlsbad SUBJECT: AMEND 2025-0004 (DEV2025-0100) -CARLSBAD RANCH CORPORATE CENTER SIGN PROGRAM AMENDMENT -Request for approval of an amendment to the Carlsbad Ranch Corporate Center Sign Program, PS 99-110, for property located at 5800 Armada Drive (APN 211-100-06-00) in the Planned Industrial Qualified Development Overlay (P-M-Q) Zones, the Carlsbad Ranch Specific Plan (SP 207) and Local Facilities Management Zone .13. Dear Mr. Grandon, The City Planner has completed a review of your application to amend the Carlsbad Ranch Corporate Center Sign Program, AMEND 2025-0004. The original Sign Program was permitted pursuant to PS 99- 110 on December 20, 2000. The proposed project entails a request to amend PS 99-110, to allow up to 50 square feet of signage to the west and east elevations of the existing structure. All changes comply with the maximum sign/letter height requirements of the Sign Ordinance regulations pursuant to CMC 21.41.095. After careful consideration of the circumstances surrounding this request, the City Planner has made a decision pursuant to CMC Section 21.41.060 of the City of Carlsbad Municipal Code to APPROVE this request based on the following findings and subject to the conditions listed below. Findings: 1. All new signs comply with the sign area, number, height, location and other sign standards as set forth in this chapter in that the amendment to PS 99-110 to add wall signs to the east and west elevation of the existing office building, up to the maximum sign area and sign/letter height permitted in the Sign Ordinance, complies with CMC Chapter 21.41. 2. The signs have been integrated with the project's building, site and landscaping design to form a unified architectural statement in that the proposed sign program amendment will allow tenant to identify t.heir business with their unique brand font and colors while maintaining uniformity in location and sizing to ensure signage complements the existing office building. Community Development Department Planning Division I 1635 Faraday Avenue I Carlsbad, CA 92008-7314 I 442-339-2600 AMEND 2025-0004 (DEV2025-0100}-CARLSBAD RANCH CORPORATE CENTER SIGN PROGRAM AMENDMENT February 2, 2026 Pa e 2 3. Per Carlsbad Municipal Code (CMC} 21.41.060 (C) (1), sign programs that comply with the standards of CMC Chapter 21.41 are approved as a ministerial action. As the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) only applies to discretionary actions, the project is exempt from all CEQA requirements. 4. The City Planner has reviewed each of the exactions imposed on the Developer contained in this resolution, and hereby finds, in this case, that the exactions are imposed to mitigate impacts caused by or reasonably related to the project, and the extent and the degree of the exaction is in rough proportionality to the impact caused by the project. Conditions: 1. Approval is granted for AMEND 2025-0004 (DEV2025-0100) -CARLSBAD RANCH CORPORATE CENTER SIGN PROGRAM AMENDMENT as shown on Exhibits "A" -"P" dated February 2, 2026, on file in the Planning Division and incorporated herein by reference. Development shall occur substantially as shown unless otherwise noted in these conditions. 2. If any of the following conditions fail to occur, or if they are, by their terms, to be implemented and maintained over time, if any of such conditions fail to be so implemented and maintained according to their terms, the City shall have the right to revoke or modify all approvals herein granted; deny or further condition issuance of all future building permits; deny, revoke, or further condition all certificates of occupancy issued under the authority of approvals herein granted; record a notice of violation on the property title; institute and prosecute litigation to compel their compliance with said conditions or seek damages for their violation. No vested rights are gained by Developer or a successor in interest by the City's approval of this Sign Program Amendment. 3. Staff is authorized and directed to make, or require the Developer to make, all corrections and modifications to the Sign Program Amendment documents, as necessary to make them internally consistent and in conformity with the final action on the project. Development shall occur substantially as shown on the approved Exhibits. Any proposed development, different from this approval, shall require an amendment to this approval. 4. Developer shall comply with all applicable provisions of federal, state, and local laws and regulations in effect at the time of building permit issuance. 5. If any condition for construction of any public improvements or facilities, or the payment of any fees in-lieu thereof, imposed by this approval or imposed by law on this Project are challenged, this approval shall be suspended as provided in Government Code Section 66020. If any such condition is determined to be invalid, this approval shall be invalid unless the City Council determines that the project without the condition complies with all requirements of law. 6. Developer/Operator shall and does hereby agree to indemnify, protect, defend, and hold harmless the City of Carlsbad, its Council members, officers, employees, agents, and representatives, from and against any and all liabilities, losses, damages, demands, claims and costs, including court costs and attorney's fees incurred by the City arising, directly or indirectly, from (a) City's approval and issuance Community De velopment Department Planning Division I 1635 Faraday Avenue I Carlsbad, CA 92008-7314 I 442-339-2600 AMEND 2025-0004 (DEV2025-0100}-CARLSBAD RANCH CORPORATE CENTER SIGN PROGRAM AMENDMENT February 2, 2026 Pa e 3 of this Sign Program Amendment, (b) City's approval or issuance of any permit or action, whether discretionary or nondiscretionary, in connection with the use contemplated herein, and (c) Developer/Operator's installation and operation of the facility permitted hereby, including without limitation, any and all liabilities arising from the emission by the facility of electromagnetic fields or other energy waves or emissions. This obligation survives until all legal proceedings have been concluded and continues even if the City's approval is not validated. 7. Developer shall report, in writing, to the City Planner within 30 days, any address change from that which is shown on the permit application. Code Reminders: 8. Approval of this request shall not excuse compliance with all applicable sections of the Zoning Ordinance and all other applicable City ordinances in effect at time of building permit issuance, except as otherwise specifically provided herein. 9. Any signs proposed for this development shall at a minimum be designed in conformance with the city's Sign Ordinance and shall require review and approval of the City Planner prior to installation of such signs. Community Development Department Planning Division I 1635 Faraday Avenue I Carlsbad, CA 92008-7314 I 442-339-2600 AMEND 2025-0004 (DEV2025-0100)-CARLSBAD RANCH CORPORATE CENTER SIGN PROGRAM AMENDMENT February 2, 2026 Pa e 4 NOTICE Please take NOTICE that approval of your project includes the "imposition" of fees, dedications, reservations, or other exactions hereafter collectively referred to for convenience as "fees/exactions." You have 90 days from the date of final approval to protest imposition of these fees/exactions. If you protest them, you must follow the protest procedure set forth in Government Code Section 66020(a), and file the protest and any other required information with the City Manager for processing in accordance with Carlsbad Municipal Code Section 3.32.030. Failure to timely follow that procedure will bar any subsequent legal action to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul their imposition. You are hereby FURTHER NOTIFIED that your right to protest the specified fees/exactions DOES NOT APPLY to water and sewer connection fees and capacity charges, nor planning, zoning, grading or other similar application processing or service fees in connection with this project; NOR DOES IT APPLY to any fees/exactions of which you have previously been given a NOTICE similar to this, or as to which the statute of limitations has previously otherwise expired. This decision may be appealed by you or any other member of the public to the Planning Commission within ten days of the date of this letter. Appeals must be submitted in writing to the Planning Division at 1635 Faraday Avenue in Carlsbad, along with a payment of $952.00. The filing of such appeal within such time limit shall stay the effective date of the order of the City Planner until such time as a final decision on the appeal is reached . If you have any questions rega rding this matter, please feel free to contact Kyle Van Leeuwen at (442) 339-26 11. Sincerely, ~~ ERIC LARDY Assistant Director of Community Development EL:KVL:cf CC: Lot 15 Carlsbad Ranch, LLC, 5800 Armada Drive, Suite 200, Carlsbad, CA 92008 Data Entry Laserfiche Community Development Department Planning Division I 1635 Faraday Avenue I Carlsbad, CA 92008-7314 I 442-339-2600