HomeMy WebLinkAbout2001-01-03; Planning Commission; Resolution 48861
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PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 4886
A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, RECOMMENDING
APPROVAL OF SPECIFIC PLAN AMENDMENT NO. 181(C)
TO REVISE THE PARKING AND SIGN REGULATIONS TO
BE CONSISTENT WITH CHAPTERS 21.44 AND 2 1.41 OF THE
CARLSBAD MUNICIPAL CODE ON PROPERTY
GENERALLY LOCATED ON THE NORTH SIDE OF
PALOMAR AIRPORT ROAD AND TO THE SOUTH AND
WEST OF PALOMAR AIRPORT IN LOCAL FACILITIES
MANAGEMENT ZONE 5.
CASE NAME: CARLSBAD AIRPORT CENTRE
CASE NO.: SP 181(C)
WHEREAS, the City of Carlsbad is amending Specific Plan 181(B), regarding
property described as
Lots l-85 of Carlsbad Tract 81-46, Units 1 through 3, in the
City of Carlsbad, State of California, Bled in the offtce of the
county recorder of San Diego County
(“the Property”); and
WHEREAS, said request for a Specific Plan amendment as shown on Exhibits
“X” dated January 3, 2001, on tile in the Carlsbad Planning Department, CARLSBAD
AIRPORT CENTRE - SP 181(C) as provided by Government Code Section 65.453; and
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission did, on the 3rd day of January 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 13, 1998, the City Council approved SP181(B), as
described and conditioned in Planning Commission Resolution No. 4374 and City Council
Ordinance No. NS-458.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED by the Planning
Commission of the City of Carlsbad as follows:
A) That the foregoing recitations are true and correct.
B) That based on the evidence presented at the public hearing, the Commission
RECOMMENDS APPROVAL of CARLSBAD AIRPORT CENTRE - SP
181(C) based on the following findings [and subject to the following conditions]:
Findings:
1. The proposed development as described by the Specific Plan (SPlSl(C)) is consistent
with the provisions of the General Plan.
2. The proposed plan amendment would not be detrimental to the public interest, health,
safety, convenience or welfare of the City.
3. The proposed revised parking and signage development standards will ensure
compliance with the updated parking and signage standards of the Carlsbad
Municipal Code.
Conditions:
1. 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.
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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JEl?BRP’N. SEGALL,“Chairperson
CARLSBAD PLANNING COMMISSION
ATTEST:
MICHAEL J. H‘dZMtiER
Planning Director
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- - EXHIBIT “x”
JANUARY 3,200l
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SPECIFIC PLAN
181(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 AIRPORT CENTRE
CASE NO.: SPl8l(C)
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 Airport Centre Specific Plan Amendment, SP
SPlSl(C) dated January 3, 2001, on file in the Planning Department, and incorporated by
reference herein, is approved. The Carlsbad Airport Centre 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:
“Parking shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of 21.44 of the
zoning ordinance. 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 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 provided,
the City shall deny the appropriate permit or license for the new use.”
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SECTION 2: That the Carlsbad Airport Centre Specific Plan be amended by the
addition of text to parking section which reads as follows:
“The parking requirements for all uses shall comply with Chapter 21.44 of the
Carlsbad Municipal Code.”
SECTION 3: That the Carlsbad Airport Centre 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-faced permanent sign will be allowed per street
frontage per tenant (except as otherwise indicated).
b. Signs will be restricted to identifying only the person, firm, company, or
corporation operating 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 the 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 sign 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.
g. Each project shall have a sign program approved by the Planning Director. No
sign which is not consistent with said program shall be allowed. Each sign must
receive a sign permit.
2. Wall Signs
a. No wall sign will exceed an area equal to one and one-half square feet of sign
area for each foot of lineal frontage of the building or store. Total wall signage
shall not exceed 200 square feet in area per lot or 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 6 inches high. Said signs will
be oriented toward the parking or pedestrian area for that 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 nor more than one
and one-half square feet in area for each one foot of lineal frontage of the building
or store. However, no sign shall exceed 200 square feet in area (both faces).
b. Every lot may have at least one ground sign. Additional ground signs may be
added for every 200 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.
4. Fronting Palomar Airport Road
It is the intent of this section to ensure that all signs fronting Palomar Airport Road are
aesthetically pleasing in design and appearance and do not adversely impact the
appearance of the potential Palomar Airport Road Scenic Corridor. The signs subject to
these standards are all signs fronting Palomar Airport Road within Lots 1, 10, 11, 12, 13,
21, 22, 28 and 29. For purposes of this section, fronting Palomar Airport Road means
“visible from the portion of Palomar Airport Road directly adjacent to the lot in which
the sign is located.
a. Special care shall be taken in the design of all signs fronting Palomar Airport
Road. All wall and monument signs shall be subdued in tone and integrated into
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the architecture of the building. The intent of this section is not to specifically
prohibit recognizable logos.
b. All signs fronting Palomar Airport Road shall be subject to the review and
approval of the Planning Director.
c. If a Scenic Corridor Overlay is placed on the Palomar Airport Road corridor, then
all new signs fronting Palomar Airport Road shall comply with the requirements
of the scenic corridor overlay zone (Chapter 21.40). Signs existing on the
effective date of the scenic corridor which are not in compliance shall be allowed
to remain for the time limits specified (Chapter 21.41) unless they are modified or
changed in any way except for routine maintenance and/or repair.
d. Wall signs fronting Palomar Airport Road shall not exceed a combined total area
of one hundred (100) square feet per building (excluding monument signs). An
additional 40 square feet of signage may be allowed under unusual circumstances,
such as an unusually long name and/or a sign which would not normally be
visible unless extra square footage were available. A maximum of 4 signs per
building fronting Palomar Airport Road shall be allowed. Of these 4, a maximum
of 2 signs per elevation shall be allowed. A curvilinear elevation with distinctly
separated sections of substantial length may be counted as more than one
elevation. Signs permitted in Section F2b and F2c are exempt from these
regulations. The overall area of each wall sign fronting Palomar Airport Road
should be in tasteful proportion to the overall area of the elevation on which it is
located and to the elements of the elevation, and the letters or symbols employed
should ordinarily be no larger than reasonably necessary to enable them to be read
or recognized quickly and easily by vehicular passers-by. As a guideline the total
area of such sign(s) on each elevation should not exceed a ratio of % sq, ft. sign
area per 1 linear foot of building elevation fronting Palomar Airport Road (and in
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no case shall the combined total area of such signage per building exceed one
hundred (100) sq. ft.) except under special circumstances noted above.
e. Monument signs are allowed in addition to wall signs, limited to one (1)
monument sign fronting Palomar Airport Road per lot, not to exceed thirty-five
(35) square feet per face.
f. Should Lots 28 and/or 29 develop entirely with commercial uses, sign programs
for those lots shall be subject to Planning Commission review with any
accompanying discretionary application.
5. Miscellaneous Signs
a. Temporarv Identification Signs
1) Sales 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 feet in area denoting the
architects, engineers, contractor, and other related subjects will be
allowed at the commencement of construction.
3) Temporary Future Tenant Sign. One sign allowing the identification of
the future tenants and other persons. Such signs shall not exceed 20
square feet.
4) None of the above signs (l-3) will be allowed along Palomsr Airport
Road. One temporary project sign, advertising lot sales or lease, may be
placed along Palomar Airport Road, not to exceed 40 square feet per
phase.
b. Special-Purpose and Directional Sians. Directional and special purpose signs shall
be allowed, subject to approval of the Planning Director.”
SECTION 4: That the Carlsbad Airport Centre Specific Plan be amended by the
addition of text to the sign and graphic section which reads as follows:
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“All signs within the Carlsbad Airport Centre 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. 4886 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 1
effective within the City’s Coastal Zone until approved by the Calzfornia Coastal Commission.)
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INTRODUCED AND FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the Carlsbad City
Council on the day of 2001, 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