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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2001-03-06; City Council; NS-571; CMC 21.41/.44 amend - Carlsbad Airport Centre parking/sign/graphic rqmts...1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 ORDINANCE NO. Ns-571 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 2 1.41, RESPECTIVELY, OF THE CARLSBAD MUNICIPAL CODE. CASE NAME: CARLSBAD AIRPORT CENTRE CASE NO.: SP181(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 SPl81(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.” f 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 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 Cqde.” 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. -2- 4 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 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 Airnort 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 l be subdued in tone and integrated into Road. All wall and monument signs shal -3- /a 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 ‘/z sq. ft. sign area per 1 linear foot of building elevation fronting Palomar Airport Road (and in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 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. Temporary Identification Signs 1) 2) 3) 4) 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. 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. Temporary Future Tenant Sign. One sign allowing the identification of the future tenants and other persons. Such signs shall not exceed 20 square feet. None of the above signs (l-3) will be allowed along Palomar 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 Signs. 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: -5- /L 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 “All signs within the Carlsbad Airport Centre Specific Plan shall comply with Chapter 2 1.41 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 effective within the City’s Coastal Zone until approved by the California Coastal Commission.) Ill Ill Ill Ill Ill Ill Ill Ill Ill Ill Ill Ill Ill //I -6- /3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 INTRODUCED AND FIRST READ at a regular meeting of the Carlsbad City Council on the 13th day of FebruayOO1, and thereafter. PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Carlsbad on the 6th day of March 2001, by the following vote, to wit: AYES: NOES: Council Members Lewis, Kulchin, Finnila, Nygaard and Hall. None. ABSENT: None. ABSTAIN: None. ATTEST: (SEW -7-