HomeMy WebLinkAbout2001-01-03; Planning Commission; Resolution 48851
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PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 4885
A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, RECOMMENDING
APPROVAL OF SPECIFIC PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 180(E)
TO REVISE THE PARKING AND SIGN REGULATIONS TO
BE CONSISTENT WITH CHAPTERS 21.44 AND 21.41 OF THE
CARLSBAD MUNICIPAL CODE ON PROPERTY
GENERALLY LOCATED ON THE WEST SIDE OF EL
CAMINO REAL AND NORTH OF PALOMAR AIRPORT
ROAD IN LOCAL FACILITIES MANAGEMENT ZONE 5.
CASE NAME: CARLSBAD RESEARCH CENTER
CASE NO.: SP 180(E)
WHEREAS, the City of Carlsbad is amending Specific Plan 180(B), regarding
property described as
Lots l-43 of Carlsbad Tract 81-10, Units 1 and 2a, and Lots 44-
110 of Carlsbad Tract 85-24, in the City of Carlsbad, State of
California, filed in the office of the county recorder of San
Diego County.
(“the Property”); and
WHEREAS, said request for a Specific Plan amendment as shown on Exhibit
“W” dated January 3, 2001, on file in the Carlsbad Planning Department, CARLSBAD
RESEARCH CENTER - SP 180(E) as provided by Government Code Section 65.453; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission did, on the 3rd day of January 1, 2001,
hold a duly noticed public hearing as prescribed by law to consider said request; and
WHEREAS, at said public hearing, upon hearing and considering all testimony
and arguments, if any, of all persons desiring to be heard, said Commission considered all factors
relating to the Specific Plan Amendment; and
WHEREAS, on October 19, 1982, the City Council approved SPlSO(B), as
described and conditioned in Planning Commission Resolution No. 2019 and City Council
Ordinance No. 9646.
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1 II NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED by the Planning
2 Commission of the City of Carlsbad as follows:
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4 A) That the foregoing recitations are true and correct.
5 B) That based on the evidence presented at the public hearing, the Commission
RECOMMENDS APPROVAL of CARLSBAD RESEARCH CENTER - SP
6 180(E) based on the following findings and subject to the following conditions:
7 Findinps:
8 1. The proposed development as described by the Specific Plan (SPlSO(E)) is consistent
9 with the provisions of the General Plan.
10 2. The proposed plan amendment would not be detrimental to the public interest, health,
safety, convenience or welfare of the City.
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3. The proposed revised parking and signage development standards will ensure
12 compliance with the updated parking and signage standards of the Carlsbad
13 Municipal Code.
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Conditions:
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Staff is authorized and directed to make, or require Developer to make, all corrections
and modifications to the Specific Plan document(s) necessary to make them internally
consistent and in conformity with final action on the project. Development shall occur
substantially as shown in the approved Exhibits. Any proposed development different
from this approval, shall require an amendment to this approval.
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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 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 tile 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
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a NOTICE similar to this, or as to which the statute of limitations has previously otherwise
expired.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Planning
Commission of the City of Carlsbad, California, held on the 3rd day of January 2001, by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: Chairperson Segall, Commissioners Baker, Compas, Heineman,
L’Heureux, Nielsen, and Trigas
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
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CARLSBAD PLANNING COMMISSION
ATTEST:
Planning Director
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EXHIBIT “w”
JANUARY 3,200l
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SPECIFIC PLAN
180(B) TO SUPERCEDE THE PARKING AND SIGN AND
GRAPHIC REQUIREMENTS WITH CHAPTER 21.44 AND
21.41, RESPECTIVELY, OF THE CARLSBAD MUNICIPAL
CODE.
CASE NAME: CARLSBAD RESEARCH CENTER
CASE NO.: SP 180(E)
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California has reviewed
and considered a Specific Plan Amendment to revise the parking and sign and graphic
requirements; and
WHEREAS, after procedures in accordance with the requirements of law, the
City of Carlsbad has determined that the public interest indicates that said specific plan
amendment be approved.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Carlsbad, California, does
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: That the CARLSBAD RESEARCH CENTER Specific Plan
Amendment, SP 180(E) dated January 3, 2001, on tile in the Planning Department, and
incorporated by reference herein, is approved. The Carlsbad Research Center Specific Plan
Amendment shall constitute the zoning for this property and all development of the property
shall conform to the plan. The amendment to the specific plan is the deletion of the parking
requirements which reads as follows:
“The following standards exceed the regular City standards and shall be used to
determine parking requirements, Uses not covered below shall comply with regular City
standards as required by Chapter 21.44 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code.
1. Manufacture, Research. and Assembly. One space for each 500 square feet of floor area.
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2. Warehouse. One space for each 1,000 square feet of floor area for the first 20,000 square
feet; one space for each 2,000 square feet of floor area for the second 20,000 square feet;
one space for each 4,000 square feet of floor area for areas in excess of the initial 40,000
square feet of floor area of the building.
3. Deleted.
4. Commercial.
a. Retail and Service Commercial. One space for each 300 square feet of gross floor
area.
b. Restaurants. One space for each 100 square feet of gross floor area.
c. Hotels/Motels. One space for each guest room.
d. Multiple Use. Where two or more uses occupy a single structure, the parking
requirement shall be determined by calculating the requirement for each use
individually based on its proportional share of the total floor area. No change to a
use requiring more parking will be allowed unless the additional parking for the
new use is provided. If additional parking is not added as required, the City shall
deny any license or permit applications required for such uses by the Carlsbad
Municipal Code.
The Planning Director may approve the reduction in size of up to 25% of the total required
parking spaces to accommodate compact cars provided that:
(a) Compact car spaces are located in separate parking aisles from standard-
sized spaces;
(b) Aisles and spaces for compact car spaces are clearly marked with
permanent material denoting ‘Compact Car Only’;
(c) Compact car spaces shall be located in close proximity to the facility
which they serve so as to encourage their maximum usages;
(d) Compact car spaces must be a minimum width of 7-112 feet and a
minimum length of 15 feet.”
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SECTION 2: That the Carlsbad Research Center Specific Plan be amended by
the addition of text to the parking section to read as follows:
“The parking requirements for all uses shall comply with Chapter 21.44 of the
Carlsbad Municipal Code.”
SECTION 3: That the Carlsbad Research Center Specific Plan be amended by
the deletion of text to the sign and graphic section which reads as follows:
“1. General Standards
a. Only one single or double-face pemranent sign will be allowed per street frontage
per tenant (except as otherwise indicated).
b. Signs will be restricted to advertising only the person, firm, company, or
corporation operation the use conducted on the site or the products sold therein.
c. The area of a wall sign will be measured by a rectangle around the outside of the
lettering and/or pictorial symbol.
d. All signs attached to the building will be surface mounted.
e. Signs visible from the exterior of any building may be lighted, but no signs or any
other contrivance will be devised or constructed so as to rotate, gyrate, blink,
move, or appear to move in any fashion.
f. Public service devices such as clocks and temperature indicators will be devoid of
advertising.
2. Wall Signs
a. No wall sign will exceed an area equal to l-l/2 square feet of sign area for each
foot of lineal frontage of the building or store. Total signage shall not exceed 200
square feet in area of comprise more than 10% of the area of the elevation upon
which the sign is located, whichever is less.
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b. In multi-tenant industrial or office buildings, each individual business may have a
wall sign over the entrance to identify the tenant. Said sign will give only the
name of the company and will be limited to letters six inches high. Said signs
will be oriented toward the parking or pedestrian area for the building and shall
not exceed a maximum area of five square feet.
c. In multi-tenant commercial buildings, each ground-floor business may have one
wall sign per building frontage. Said signs shall not be located above the ground-
floor facia. Each sign shall be limited to an area equal to 10% of the business
face upon which it is located, or a maximum of 35 square feet.
3. Ground (or Free-Standing) Signs
a. Ground signs shall not exceed four feet above grade in height or more than l-1/2
square feet in area for each foot of lineal frontage of the building or store.
However, no sign shall exceed 200 square feet in area (100 square feet per face,
two-face maximum).
b. Every lot may have at least one ground sign. Additional ground signs may be
added for every 200 square feet of street frontage in excess of the first 100 feet of
street frontage.
c. No ground sign shall be located within 100 feet of another ground sign.
d. No ground sign to be visible along El Camino Real (See amendments).
4. Miscellaneous Signs
a. Temporary Identification Signs
1) Sale or lease sign. One sign not to exceed 15 square feet in area
advertising the sale, lease, or hire of the site will be allowed.
2) Construction sign. One sign not to exceed 20 square feet in area
denoting the architects, engineers, contractor, and other related subjects
will be allowed at commencement of construction. Said sign will be
removed at the time the building is lit for occupancy.
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3) Temporary future tenant sign. One sign allowing the identification of
future tenants and other persons will be allowed. Such signs shall not
exceed 20 square feet in area.
b. Special-Putnose and Directional Signs. Directional and special-purpose signs
(such as those identifying mini-parks) shall be allowed, subject to approval of the
Planning Director.”
SECTION 4: That the Car&bad Research Center Specific Plan be amended by
the addition of text to the sign and graphic section which reads as follows:
“All signs within the Specific Plan shall comply with Chapter 21.41 of the
Carlsbad Municipal Code.”
SECTION 5: That the findings and conditions of the Planning Commission in
Planning Commission Resolution No. 4885 shall also constitute the findings and conditions of
the City Council.
EFFECTIVE DATE: This ordinance shall be effective thirty days after its
adoption, and the City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and cause it to be
published at least once in a publication of general circulation in the City of Carlsbad within
fifteen days after its adoption. (Not withstanding the preceding, this ordinance shall not be
effective within the City’s Coastal Zone until approved by the California Coastal Commission.)
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INTRODUCED AND FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the Carlsbad City
Council on the day of 200 1, and thereafter.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Carlsbad on the ~ day of 2001, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
CLAUDE A. LEWIS, Mayor
ATTEST:
LORRAINE M. WOOD, City Clerk
(SEAL)
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