HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-08-20; Planning Commission; Resolution 64341 PLANNING COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 6434
2 A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE
3 CITY OF CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, RECOMMENDING
APPROVAL OF SPECIFIC PLAN NO. SP 07-02 ON
4 PROPERTY GENERALLY LOCATED ON THE WEST SIDE
OF EL CAMINO REAL BETWEEN COLLEGE BOULEVARD
AND FARADAY AVENUE IN LOCAL FACILITIES
6 MANAGEMENT ZONE 5.
CASE NAME: FENTON CARLSBAD CENTER
7 SPECIFIC PLAN
CASE NO.: SP 07-028
9 WHEREAS, Fenton Carlsbad Research Center, LLC, "Developer/Owner," has
10 filed a verified application with the City of Carlsbad regarding property," described as:
11 Lot 1 through Lot 5 of Carlsbad Tract 00-20, in the City of
Carlsbad, County of San Diego, State of California, According
to the Map Thereof No. 15253, Filed in the Office of the
13 County Recorder of San Diego County, January 30,2006
14 ("the Property"); and
WHEREAS, said verified application constitutes a request for a Specific Plan as
shown on Exhibit "SP 07-02" dated August 20, 2008, on file in the Carlsbad Planning
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Department, as FENTON CARLSBAD CENTER SPECIFIC PLAN - SP 07-02 as provided
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by Government Code Section 65453; and
20 WHEREAS, the proposed Specific Plan - SP 07-02 is set forth and attached in
21 the draft City Council Ordinance, Exhibit "Z" dated, August 20, 2008, and attached hereto as
22 FENTON CARLSBAD CENTER SPECIFIC PLAN - SP 07-02; and
23 WHEREAS, the Planning Commission did, on July 16, 2008, August 6, 2008,
24 and August 20, 2008, hold a duly noticed public hearing as prescribed by law to consider said
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request; and26
WHEREAS, at said public hearing, upon hearing and considering all testimony
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relating to the Specific Plan.
1 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT HEREBY RESOLVED by the Planning
2 Commission of the City of Carlsbad as follows:
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A) That.the foregoing recitations are true and correct.
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<. B) That based on the evidence presented at the public hearing, the Commission
RECOMMENDS APPROVAL of FENTON CARLSBAD CENTER
6 SPECIFIC PLAN - SP 07-02; based on the following findings and conditions as
included herein:
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Findings:
n 1. The Planning Commission finds that the project, as described and conditioned herein for
the creation of a Specific Plan (SP 07-02), is consistent with the provisions of the
10 General Plan based on the following:
11 a. Land Use - The project proposes a General Plan Amendment from Planned
Industrial (PI) to Office (O) and a Specific Plan (SP) to allow for the
development of medical office and general office uses on lots 1 and 4 and
13 general office uses only on lots 2 and 3 (no medical office uses). The proposed
Office Land Use designation would be compatible with adjacent Planned
14 Industrial Office and Open Space land uses.
15 b. Circulation - The proposed Specific Plan would not result in any unavoidable
, 6 adverse impacts to the area. Future development of lot 4 within the proposed
Specific Plan area will implement identified circulation improvements to
17 mitigate for any possible traffic impacts to Salk Avenue, College Boulevard,
and El Camino Real. The project is consistent with the applicable policies
18 and programs of the General Plan.
19 c. Open Space & Conservation - The Specific Plan will continue to preserve lot 5
20 as Open Space consistent with the adopted Habitat Management Plan.
21 2. The proposed plan would not be detrimental to ,the public interest, health, safety,
convenience, or welfare of the City in that the Specific Plan as identified in the
22 Mitigated Negative Declaration will not cause any significant impacts to the public
health, safety, and welfare. The Specific Plan provides for the design, development,
and operation of an office park, with two lots dedicated to general office and
24 medical office uses, within an area that is being changed from Planned Industrial to
Office uses.
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3. All necessary public facilities can be provided concurrent with need, and adequate
26 provisions have been provided to implement those portions of the capital improvement
program applicable to the subject property in that all projects within the Specific Plan
area have been or will be conditioned to implement required infrastructure
2g improvements consistent with the Zone 5 LFMP.
4. The proposed medical office and office uses will be appropriate in area, location, and
overall design to the purpose intended in that the uses will serve workers and citizens
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of the City of Carlsbad. The design and development standards are such as to create an
2 environment of sustained desirability and stability. Such development will meet
performance standards established by this title in that the Specific Plan requires
3 project compliance with the development standards of the Office (O) Zone and also
provides general site and architectural design guidelines.
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5. In the case of institutional, recreational, and other similar nonresidential uses, such
development will be proposed, and surrounding areas are protected from any adverse
effects from such development in that the Specific Plan guides development and
provides for the design, development, and operation of an office park, with two lots
7 dedicated to general office and medical office uses, within an area that is being
changed from Planned Industrial to Office uses.
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6. The streets and thoroughfares proposed are suitable and adequate to carry the anticipated
traffic thereon in that the Specific Plan area, with mitigation measures, will not
in generate any significant increase in average daily vehicle trips and the existing
roadways (Salk Avenue, College Boulevard, and El Camino Real) are capable of
11 handling the proposed vehicle trips.
12 7. The area surrounding the development is or can be planned and zoned in coordination
and substantial compatibility with the development in that the site is topographically
suitable for the development of Office type uses, as lots 1, 2, and 3 currently have
14 recently approved and built planned industrial/office buildings and the remaining
developable portion (lot 4) of the Specific Plan area has been previously graded for
15 planned industrial/office development.
16 8. Appropriate measures are proposed to mitigate any adverse environmental impact as
noted in the adopted Mitigated Negative Declaration and Mitigation Monitoring and
1' Reporting Program for the project.
18 9. The proposed plan will contribute to the balance of land use so that local residents may
19 work in the community in which they live.
20 10. All requirements of Government Code Sections 65450 et. Seq. have been meet and
incorporated in the Fenton Carlsbad Center Specific Plan thereby demonstrating its
compliance with applicable provisions of state planning and zoning laws.
11. The Planning Commission 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
24 degree of the exaction is in rough proportionality to the impact caused by the project.
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. 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
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issued under the authority of approvals herein granted; record a notice of violation on the
2 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
3 or a successor in interest by the City's approval of this Specific Plan.
2. Staff is authorized and directed to make, or require the Developer to make, all corrections
_ and modifications to the Specific Plan documents, as necessary to make them internally
consistent and in conformity with the final action on the project. Development shall
5 occur substantially as shown on the approved Exhibits. Any proposed development,
different from this approval, shall require an amendment to this approval.
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3. Developer shall comply with all applicable provisions of federal, state, and local laws and
regulations in effect at the time of building permit issuance.
9 4. If any conditions for construction of any public improvements or facilities, or the
10 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.
13 5. Developer shall implement, or cause the implementation of, the Fenton Carlsbad
14 Center Specific Plan Project Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program.
6. Developer/Operator shall and does hereby agree to indemnify, protect, defend, and hold
> s harmless the City of Carlsbad, its Council members, officers, employees, agents, and
representatives, from and against any and all liabilities, losses, damages, demands, claims
17 and costs, including court costs and attorney's fees incurred by the City arising, directly
or indirectly, from (a) City's approval and issuance of this Specific Plan, (b) City's
18 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
r and operation of the facility permitted hereby, including without limitation, any and all
2Q 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
21 been concluded and continues even if the City's approval is not validated.
22 7. This approval is granted subject to the approval of Mitigated Negative Declaration and
Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program and approval of GPA 07-04, and ZC
07-04 and is subject to all conditions contained in Planning Commission Resolutions No.
24 6431, 6132, and 6433 for those other approvals incorporated herein by reference.
25 8. Prior to the issuance of any permits for the project, the applicant shall submit to the
Planning Director a digital copy and a camera-ready master copy of the Fenton
26 Carlsbad Center Specific Plan, in addition to the required number of bound copies.
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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 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
project; NOR DOES IT APPLY to any fees/exactions of which you have
in connection with this
previously been given 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 August 20, 2008, by the following vote,
to wit:
AYES: Commissioners Baker, Boddy, Cardosa,
and Chairperson Whitton
NOES:
ABSENT: Commissioner Dominguez
ABSTAIN:
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F'RANK H. WHITTON, chairperson
CARLSBAD PLANNING COMMISSION
ATTEST:
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DON NEU
Planning Director
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EXHIBIT "Z"
July 16, 2008
1 ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
3 CARLSBAD, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING THE FENTON
CARLSBAD CENTER SPECIFIC PLAN (SP 07-02) ON
4 PROPERTY GENERALLY LOCATED ON THE WEST SIDE OF
EL CAMINO REAL BETWEEN COLLEGE BOULEVARD AND
5 FARADAY AVENUE IN LOCAL FACILITIES MANAGEMENT
ZONE 5.
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CASE NAME: FENTON CARLSBAD CENTER SP
7 CASE NO.: SP 07-02
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WHEREAS, the City Council did on the day of , hold a duly
, „ noticed public hearing as prescribed by law to consider said request; and
11 WHEREAS, said application constitutes a request for a Specific Plan as shown
12 on Exhibit "Z" dated July 16, 2008, attached hereto and made a part hereof.
13 WHEREAS at said public hearing, upon hearing and considering all testimony
14 and arguments, if any, of all persons desiring to be heard, said City Council considered all
15 factors relating to the Fenton Carlsbad Center Specific Plan (SP 07-02); and
16 NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Carlsbad does ordain as
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18 SECTION I: That Fenton Carlsbad Center Specific Plan (SP 07-02)
19 dated July 16, 2008, on file in he Planning Department, and incorporated by reference herein, is
20 approved. The Fenton Carlsbad Center Specific Plan (SP 07-02) shall constitute the
21 development plan for the plan area and all development within the plan area shall conform to the
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plan.
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SECTION II: That the findings and conditions of the Planning Commission in
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Planning Commission Resolution No. 6434 shall also constitute the findings and conditions of
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the City Council.26
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 the City of Carlsbad within fifteen
2 days after its adoption.
3 INTRODUCED AND FIRST READ at the regular meeting of the Carlsbad City
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Council on the day of , 2008, and thereafter.
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6 PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council
7 of the City of Carlsbad, California, held on the day of , 2008, by the
following vote, to wit:
9 AYES:
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11 ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
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14 APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
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Fenton Carlsbad Center
SPECIFIC PLAN 07-02
Prepared for:
H.G. Fenton
7577 Mission Valley Road, Suite 200
San Diego, CA92108
City of Carlsbad
1200 Carlsbad Village Drive
Carlsbad, CA 92008
Prepared by:
Hofman Planning & Engineering
3152 Lionshead Avenue
Carlsbad, CA 92010
Approved July 16, 2008 by Planning Commission Resolution (6434)
And , 2008 by City Council Ordinance (XXX)
(A 48.54 acre medical/office complex on the north and south sides of Salk Ave.
between College Boulevard and El Camino Real)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
A. PURPOSE AND SCOPE 3
B. LOCATION AND PLANNING AREA INFORMATION 3
C. HISTORY 4
D. REGULATORY SPECIFIC PLAN 4
E. CONSISTENCY WITH THE GENERAL PLAN AND PLANS OF OTHER
JURISDICTIONS 8
//. LAND USES
A. PERMITTED USES 9
1. AREA 1 9
2. AREA 2 10
3. AREA 3 13
B. LAND USE STANDARDS AND DESIGN REGULATIONS 13
///. INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN AND IMPLEMENTATION MEASURES 14
IV. RELATIONSHIP OF THE SPECIFIC PLAN'S ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT TO
SUBSEQUENT DISCRETIONARY PROJECTS 15
V. SPECIFIC PLAN ADMINISTRATION 75
A. GENERAL NOTES 15
B. MITIGATION MEASURES 15
LIST OF FIGURES
Figure 1: Regional Context 5 5
Figure 2: City Context 6
Figure 3: Land Use Plan 7
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I. INTRODUCTION
A. PURPOSE AND SCOPE
The purpose of this Fenton Carlsbad Center Specific Plan (FCCSP) is to address the
need for a full mix of office and medical facilities within Carlsbad, to serve both residents
and the daily workforce. In doing so, the plan aims to achieve an objective of the City of
Carlsbad's General Plan by reflecting the cultural values of the community. Some
important values are maintaining a jobs-housing balance, providing for a healthy
lifestyle, including the provision of services for adequate health care needs, and
providing those who live and work in the City of Carlsbad, the right to convenient and
readily accessible health care.
FCCSP only seeks to define the allowable type of land uses and does not provide
development standards or design standards above and beyond those of the Office
Zone; the plan does include several implementation measures that future projects will
need to comply with in addition to those of the base zone. The FCCSP is adopted
pursuant to the provisions of Government Code Sections 65450 et. seq. and the Land
Use Element of the City of Carlsbad General Plan.
B. LOCATION AND PLANNING AREA INFORMATION
The Fenton Carlsbad Center Specific Plan area is located on Salk Avenue, between El
Camino Real and College Boulevard. Direct access to the properties will be from Salk
Avenue. The 48.54 acre area is located entirely within the boundary of Local Facilities
Management Zone 5. The plan area is described as Lots 1 through 5 of Carlsbad Tract
00-20, in the City of Carlsbad, County of San Diego, State of California, according to
map thereof No. 15253, filed in the Office of the Recorder of San Diego County,
January 30, 2006. The size of the lots and the three land use areas of the FCCSP are
listed below:
• Area 1 (13.26 acres)
o Lot 1 is 3.47 acres.
o Lot 4 is 9.79 acres.
• Area 2 (14.69 acres)
o Lot 2 is 9.78 acres. -,
o Lot 3 is 4.91 acres.
• Area 3 (20.59 acres)
o Lot 5 is 20.59 acres.
The plan area (shown in Exhibits 1, 2 and 3) is centrally located to Carlsbad's
employment center, yet it is situated on the periphery of the industrial zone in proximity
to residential areas to the east and to the north. Additionally, the plan area is
approximately 4,000 feet north of McClellan-Palomar Airport within the Airport Influence
Area and Flight Activity Zone, but outside the 60 dBA CNEL noise contour, as shown in
the Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan for the McClellan-Palomar Airport, amended
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October 4, 2004. A regional map depicting the location of the property within the
County and a city context map presenting the location of the property within the City of
Carlsbad are provided in Exhibits 1 and 2 on pages 5 and 6 respectively. The
boundaries of the FCCSP, and each land use area within the plan, are shown in Exhibit
3 on page 7.
C. HISTORY
The Fenton Carlsbad Medical Center, formerly the Fox Miller Property, was subdivided
and graded into five lots under CT 00-20 in 2002. Lots 1 through 4 were zoned PM for
industrial use and Lot 5 was zoned as open space (OS). In 2006, Lot 1 of the FCMC
was rezoned from Planned Industrial (PM) to Office (O) under GPA 06-01/ZC 06-017
SDP 06-03. SDP 06-03 allowed for the construction of a two-story 40,655 square foot
Medical Office building on Lot 1.
This specific plan is being prepared in conjunction with a General Plan Amendment and
Zone Change that will change uses in the FCCSP area from Planned Industrial to
Office. The FCCSP limits medical uses to lots 1 and 4 of the FCCSP.
The following are past approvals related to the FCCSP area:
• GPA 00-05/ZC 00-07/CT 00-20/PIP 00-02/HDP 00-11/SUP 00-10
• GPA 06-01/ZC 06-017 SDP 06-03
• PIP 04-03/SUP 04-11
• PIP 06-06
D. REGULATORY SPECIFIC PLAN
The FCCSP is a regulatory document that only manages land uses. It is not a policy
document, and does not introduce any new policy objectives. The plan provides for a
mix of office uses and proportional amount of medical office uses within the city's
central employment area and also within close proximity to residentially zoned areas.
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E. CONSISTENCY WITH THE GENERAL PLAN AND PLANS OF OTHER
JURISDICTIONS
Lots 1-4 of the plan area are designated in the City of Carlsbad's General Plan as Office
and Related Commercial (O) and Lot 5 is designated Open Space (OS). The Fenton
Carlsbad Center Specific Plan is consistent with the eight elements of the Carlsbad
General Plan. The plan allows a full mix of office uses and limited area for medical
offices (Lots 1 and 4) in an area that is zoned and planned for similar planned industrial
uses, and provides for the continued use and protection of open space on Lot 5. The
following highlights some of the major General Plan goals applicable to the Fenton
Carlsbad Center Specific Plan.
1. Land Use Element
a. Commercial development to serve the employment and
service needs of Carlsbad residents.
The specific plan will meet this requirement by allowing development
of medical/professional office services to serve as an employment
base for both the community and the region in close proximity to
housing, and to provide residents and persons employed locally with
conveniently located services.
2. Circulation Element
a. Adequate circulation infrastructure to serve the projected
population.
The existing Salk Avenue, College Boulevard and El Camino Real
roadways and intersections are adequate in capacity to handle the
traffic generated by Office use, and specifically medical office use
within Area 1 (Lots 1 and 4 in Figure 3), with the implementation of
traffic mitigation improvements detailed in the implementation section
of this plan.
3. Noise Element
a. Comply with the City policy that 55 Leq (h) dBA is the
maximum interior noise level for general office uses.
The uses within the plan area will comply with interior noise
standards, through the requirement to submit a letter from an
acoustician detailing how specific construction measures attenuate
the interior noise environment to 55 Leq (h) dBA or lower.
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This plan implements the General Plan in conjunction with the Office and Open Space
Zoning classifications of the area. The permitted uses are primarily those specifically
referenced in Section II of this document. The provisions of the Office Zone (e.g.
development standards, development permit requirements, etc.) and any amendments
to it apply to the topics that are not covered in this plan. Approval of this plan does not
vest any rights for future approvals of any licenses, discretionary acts or other
entitlements necessary for future development in the plan area. Subsequent public
works projects, tentative or parcel maps, discretionary acts, and zoning ordinances that
affect the plan area must be consistent with the FCCSP. Pre-existing tentative or parcel
maps, discretionary acts (e.g., Site Development Plans, Planned Industrial Permits,
grading permit, etc.), ministerial acts (e.g., building permits, etc.) are deemed consistent
with the FCCSP.
The FCCSP area is located within the Airport Influence Area and Flight Activity Zone of
the Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan for the McClellan-Palomar Airport (ALCUP). A
mix of office and medical office uses allowed under the FCCSP is consistent with
compatibility requirements of the existing Airport Land Use Compatibility Plan for the
McClellan-Palomar Airport, as amended October 4, 2004, because of the area's
location well outside the 60 CNEL dB noise contour. This airport plan is in the process
of being revised and modified, and the FCCSP contains a requirement that all future
development permits be consistent with the airport plan in effect at the time of the
application for development permit. FCCSP was considered at the May 1, 2008 San
Diego Airport Authority hearing and found to be conditionally consistent with the
ALCUP. The Airport Authority conditioned the plan not to allow intensive development
nor uses which involve the assembly of large groups of people (more than one hundred
(100) persons per assembly area (as defined by the California Building Code Group A
Occupancy).
II. LAND USES
The Fenton Carlsbad Center Specific Plan does not seek to introduce new uses,
however it will not provide for medical uses in Area 2 (Lots 2 and 3) of the plan.
A. PERMITTED USES
This section outlines the allowed office uses in Areas 1 through 3 of the plan area, no
development or design standards are proposed. All development in the O Zone, except
child day care centers, shall require approval of a site development plan processed
according to the provisions of Chapter 21.06 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code.
1. AREA 1 (LOTS 1 & 4)
All uses allowed in the underlying Office zone, which includes medical offices, are
permitted in Area 1 (Lots 1 and 4). Additionally permitted appurtenant uses such as
a cafeteria, flower or gift shop, and any other accessory uses determined by the
Planning Director as relating to a primary use of medical offices, medical clinic
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and/or medical complex. Up to 150,000 square feet of medical offices/complex
/clinic are permitted on Lot 4 and up to 47,000 square feet on Lot 1, provided that
parking is consistent with the requirements of Chapter 21.44 of the Carlsbad
Municipal Code. The maximum size of any future development of Lots 1 and 4 with
offices allowed in the O Zone, other than medical offices, would be subject to the
development standards of the O Zone.
2. AREA 2 (LOTS 2 & 3)
Area 2 (Lots 2 and 3) uses consist of P-M Zone listed office uses that are not
directly listed in the O Zone and all uses allowed in the underlying Office zone,
excluding dentists, doctors, chiropractors and incidental related uses such as
pharmacies (prescription only), biochemical, X-ray laboratories, medical offices,
clinics and hospitals. The underlying Office zone "administrative and executive
offices / offices business and professional" uses and PM Zone office uses include,
but are not limited to:
Accessory uses and structures where related and incidental to a
permitted use
Advertising-direct mail
Agricultural consultants
Airlines Offices, general offices
Air courier services
Audio visual services
Answering bureaus
Appraisers
Arbitrators
Banks and other financial institutions without drive-thru facilities
Billing service
Blueprinters
Book publishing
Bookbinding
Building inspection services
Burglar alarm systems
Business offices for professional and labor organizations
Bookkeeping services
Building designers
Business consultants
Civil Engineers
Child day care center (2)
Computer service (time-sharing)
Computer systems
Corporate travel agencies and bureaus
Collection agencies
Commodity brokers
Communications consultants
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• Computer programmers
• Construction manager
• Credit rating service
• Diamond and gold brokers
• Data communication service
• Data processing service
• Data systems consultants
• Display designers
• Display services
• Drafting service
• Economics research
• Educational consultants
• Educational research
• Electronics consultants
• Electric contractors
• Environmental services
• Energy management consultants
• Engineering offices
• Escrow service
• Estimators
• Executive recruiting consultants
• Executive training consultants
• Executive search office
• Export and import consultants
• Fire protection consultants
• Financial planners and consultants
• Foreclosure assistance
• Foundation-educational research
• Franchise services
• Fund-raising counselors
• Gemologist
• Geophysicist
• Government contract consultants
• Government facilities and offices
• Governmental agencies
• Graphic designers
• Hotels and motels (2)
• Human service organization
• Human factors research and development
• Importers
• Incorporating agency
• Industrial medical (workers comp)
• Information bureaus
• Interior decorators and designers (no merchandise storage)
• Investigators
• Investment advisory
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Investment securities
Leasing services
Lecture bureaus
Literary agents
Magazine subscription agents
Mailing list service
Management consultants
Manufacturer's agents
Marketing research and analysis
Message receiving service
Mutual funds
Newspaper/periodical printing (2)
On-site recreational facilities intended for the use of employees of
the office zone
Patent searchers
Pension and profit sharing plans
Personal service bureau
Product development and marketing
Public relations services
Public utilities companies
Publicity services
Publishers' representatives
Printing services
Radio communications
Recording services
Relocation service
Repossessing service
Retail uses (2)
Retirement planning consultants
Safety consultants
Sales training and counseling
Satellite antennas (1)
Searchers of records
Security firms
Security systems
Sound system consultants
Space planning consultants
Storage, wholesale and distribution facilities
Surveyors
Tax service and consultants
Telephone cable companies
Telephone systems
Translators and interpreters
Tour operators
Trademark consultants
Trust companies
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• Any other administrative, executive, business and professional
offices (excluding medical uses as listed above)
1 = Administrative hearing process
2 = Planning Commission hearing process
3. AREA 3 (LOT 5)
This 20.59 acre area was previously established as an open space preserve for
the preservation of natural habitat, particularly the Brodiaea Filifolia (Threaded
Leaved Brodiaea), consistent with the City of Carlsbad's Habitat Management
Plan. Use of Area 3 remains restricted to existing open space / habitat, and
there are no development rights in this area of the plan.
B. LAND USE STANDARDS AND DESIGN REGULATIONS
No land use regulations or design standards beyond those of the underlying office zone
and other associated, applicable local regulations (e.g., subdivision, etc.) are imposed
by this plan. However, site and architectural design concepts for both areas 1 and 2 are
described below.
1. The siting of buildings within the Fenton Carlsbad Medical Center should
capture the available views from the property. Changes in massing and
articulation of each building should highlight its public entry.
All sides of the building facade should receive equal design attention. A
building's exterior finish materials should include a generous amount of
glass; smooth texture finishes such as plaster, pre-finished metal or
concrete, and stone or masonry. Masonry may be utilized as a contrasting
or complementary material to other hard surface materials such as glass
or metal panels that may be used on the building. Masonry materials may
include brick, stone, tile, or architectural concrete block (such as
burnished, split face or ribbed block). The materials selected should be
consistent with the character of a corporate office building and consistent
with the existing buildings in the Carlsbad Research Center.
3. As the buildings may be viewed from above, a neat and clean roof
appearance is important. Any roof mounted equipment should be
screened and architecturally integrated with the building elements.
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4. Development of each lot should offer pedestrian-oriented site amenities.
Pedestrian walkways, plazas and outdoor seating/eating areas, with
shade structures, are encouraged throughout the site. Pedestrian and
vehicular access to the lots, once off Salk Avenue, should afford a variety
of, and continuously changing, view corridors to the new buildings. Trees
and other shading elements should provide cover for the parking area as
well as the pedestrian access to the building.
On-site enclosures such as for trash/recycling, mechanical equipment, or
above-grade parking structures should blend into the site environment and
be designed in a manner that is architecturally compatible with the primary
building in exterior finishes. Shading of the top level of a parking structure
should be considered through the use of tree planters or trellis structures.
6. Design and development of Lot 2 is regulated by PIP 04-03 and SUP 04-
11. To the extent that the language, above, conflicts with the provisions of
these earlier approvals, the PIP and SUP shall prevail.
III. INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN AND IMPLEMENTATION MEASURES
The infrastructure improvements planned for and approved as part of Local Facilities
Management Zone 5 and the City of Carlsbad Capital Improvement Plan, remain
applicable and satisfactory for the FCCSP for all categories except for traffic circulation.
FCCSP allows for and encourages the development of medical offices in Area 1 (lots 1
and 4) of the plan area. If medical offices, which have higher traffic generation rates
than other types of offices, develop in this plan area, traffic circulation improvements will
be necessary, as detailed below.
Implementation of the specific plan shall occur through the adherence of future
development proposals to the permitting requirements and development standards of
the underlying zoning (Office Zone) and all other applicable requirements of the
Carlsbad Municipal Code (e.g., Titles 19, 20, 21, etc.). Additionally, all future requests
for development, whether administrative or discretionary, within the plan area shall
comply with the following in addition to the traffic mitigation measures identified in this
plan:
• Provide a letter from an acoustician detailing how specific construction
measures attenuate the interior noise environment to 55 Leq (h) dBA or
lower;
• Comply with the requirements of whichever Airport Land Use Compatibility
Plan for McClellan-Palomar Airport is in effect at the time of subsequent
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development permit application. FCCSP was considered at the May 1,
2008 San Diego Airport Authority hearing and found to be conditionally
consistent with the ALCUP. The Airport Authority found the Specific Plan
consistent that the plan not to allow intensive development and all uses
which involves the assembly of large groups of people (more than one
hundred (100) persons per assembly area (as defined by the California
Building Code Group A Occupancy).
• Comply with the requirements of the National Pollutant Discharge
Elimination System (NPDES) (e.g., provision of Best Management
Practices and Low Impact Development requirements) that are current at
the time of project application.
IV. RELATIONSHIP OF THE SPECIFIC PLAN'S ENVIRONMENTAL DOCUMENT TO
SUBSEQUENT DISCRETIONARY PROJECTS
A Mitigated Negative Declaration (MND) and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting
Program (MMRP) for the Fenton Carlsbad Center Specific Plan has been prepared for
the Specific Plan area. The approved development permits/rights for Lots 1, 2, and 3 of
the plan area remain unaffected by the FCCSP and associated MND and MMRP.
Subsequent discretionary development applications for Lot 4 may require additional
environmental review, primarily focused on potential traffic impacts, specifically if site
design and land uses result in greater impacts (medical office) than discussed in the
associated technical studies supporting the MND and MMRP.
V. SPECIFIC PLAN ADMINISTRATION
As contained in Section 65450, et. seq. of the California Government Code, the FCCSP
shall be amended in the same manner as a general plan, except that a specific plan
may be adopted by resolution or by ordinance and may be amended as often as
deemed necessary by the legislative body. The FCCSP may not be amended unless
the proposed amendment is consistent with the City of Carlsbad's General Plan.
Additionally, amendment of the FCCSP shall be subject to the local requirements of
Chapter 21.52 of the Carlsbad Municipal Code.
A. GENERAL NOTES
The developer(s) shall be responsible for implementing the mitigation measures which
are based on the Fenton Carlsbad Center Specific Plan Mitigated Negative Declaration
and Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program. Where questions arise regarding the
interpretation of this Specific Plan, the Planning Director shall resolve them in a manner
consistent with the Municipal Code, adopted City plans, and City policy. Such decisions
by the Planning Director may be appealed to the Planning Commission and City
Council.
B. MITIGATION MEASURES
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1. Traffic
/'. Prior to the issuance of a grading permit or building permit on lot 4,
whichever occurs first, developer shall install and secure with
appropriate security as provided by law, a traffic signal, including all
appurtenances and traffic signal interconnect conduit and cable, at
the intersection of College Boulevard and Salk Avenue to City
Standards to the satisfaction of the City Engineer. The Developer
may request that a reimbursement agreement for the cost of this
facility over their fair share be processed. If a reimbursement
agreement is requested it shall be approved prior to approval of the
improvement plan for the signal.
II. Prior to issuance of a grading or building permit on lot 4, whichever
occurs first, developer shall install and secure with appropriate
security as provided by law public improvements listed below to
City Standards to the satisfaction of the City Engineer. These
improvements include:
1. Extending the westbound El Camino Real left turn lane to
College Boulevard to a total length of 500 feet.
•. 2. New 500-foot dual left turn lanes from southbound College
Boulevard to Salk Avenue.
Hi. Prior to the issuance of a grading or building permit on lot 4,
whichever occurs first, developer shall execute a Traffic Signal
Development Improvement Agreement to design and install and
post appropriate security as provided by law, a new fully actuated
traffic signal including all appurtenances and traffic signal
interconnect conduit and cable, at the intersection of Salk Avenue
and Fermi Court, constructed to the satisfaction of the City
Engineer. The traffic signal shall be installed only when written
approval is received by the City Engineer. The agreement shall be
kept in force and security valid for a period of 5-years after the last
building permit has been issued for lot 4 within this development.
2. San Diego Regional Airport Authority
As the project involves a General Plan Amendment, the project was
submitted to the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority (SDCRAA)
for a determination of consistency with the McClellan-Palomar Airport
Land Use Compatibility Plan (ALUCP) on May 1, 2008. The SDCRAA
adopted Resolution 2008-0018 ALUC finding the project conditionally
consistent with the ALUCP. The condition added was the restriction that
all assembly areas within the proposed project that are located within the
FAZ be limited (as defined by the Uniform Building Code Group A
Occupancy) to no more than one hundred (100) persons per assembly
area in order to be consistent with FAZ guidelines in the McClellan-
Palomar Airport ALUCP.
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