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HomeMy WebLinkAboutRP 92-01; Carlsbad Dance Centre; Redevelopment Permits (RP) (3)City of Carlsba Planning Department May 11, 1992 Jim Moffett Beck, Moffett Associates 1224 Village Way, Ste. D Santa Ana, CA 92705 SUBJECT: RP 92-1 - DANCE CENTRE Preliminary Staff Report The preliminary staff report for the above referenced project will be available for you to pick up on Monday, May 18, 1992, after 8:00 a.m. This preliminary report will be discussed by staff at the Development Coordinating Committee (D.C.C.) meeting which will be held on Tuesday, May 26, 1992. A twenty (20) minute appointment has been set aside for you at 11:00 a.m. If you have any questions concerning your project, you should attend the D.C.C. meeting. It is necessary that you bring your required unmounted colored exhibits(s) with you to this meeting in order for your project to go forward to the Design Review Board. If you do not plan to attend this meeting, please make arrangements to have your colored exhibit(s) here by the scheduled time above. If you need additional information concerning this matter, please contact Elaine Blackburn, the Project Planner, at (619) 438-1161, extension 4471. CITY Of CARLSSdo V/e. WAYNE' Assistant Planning Director GEW:EB/lh 2075 Las Palmas Drive - Carlsbad, California 92009-1576 • (619) 438-1161 City of Carlsbad Plann i ng Department May 11, 1992 Dance Centre Danny and Gina Sherlock 3741 Monroe Street Carlsbad, CA 92008 SUBJECT: RP 92-1 - DANCE CENTRE Preliminary Staff Report The preliminary staff report for the above referenced project will be available for you to pick up on Monday, May 18, 1992, after 8:00 a.m. This preliminary report will be discussed by staff at the Development Coordinating Committee (D.C.C.) meeting which will be held on Tuesday, May 26, 1992. A twenty (20) minute appointment has been set aside for you at 11:00 a.m. If you have any questions concerning your project, you should attend the D.C.C. meeting. It is necessary that you bring your required unmounted colored exhibits(s) with you to this meeting in order for your project to go forward to the Design Review Board. If you do not plan to attend this meeting, please make arrangements to have your colored exhibit(s) here by the scheduled time above. If you need additional information concerning this matter, please contact Elaine Blackburn, the Project Planner, at (619) 438-1161. extension 4471. CARLSBAD GAR/^E. WAYN^ Assistant Planning Director GEW:EB/lh 2075 Las Paimas Drive • Carlsbad, California 92009-1576 (619) 438-1 161 HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT f REDEVELOPMENT OFFICE 2965 Roosevelt Street Suite B Carlsbad, CA 92008 (619) 434-2811 April 15, 1992 DAN SHERLOCK CARLSBAD DANCE CENTRE 3741 MONROE STREET CARLSBAD, CA. 92008 RE: EXPANSION OF DANCE INSTRUCTION FACILITIE^ AT 2800 ROOSEVELT STREET, RP 92-1 Dear Dan: Thank you for submitting the information requested in our letter, dated March 27, 1992, which was required to complete your application for a minor redevelopment permit (RP 92-1) to convert a retail suite to a dance studio at 2800 Roosevelt Street. The project planner has reviewed the information you submitted and made a determination that your application is now complete for further processing purposes. Although initial processing of your application may have already begun, the technical acceptance date is acknowledged by the date of this correspondence (April 15, 1992). Since adequate parking is the primary issue of concern related to your application for a minor redevelopment permit, the information you submitted is a critical part of staff's analysis of the proposed project (dance studio). Upon completion of our project and/or environmental review, staff will prepare a report, with an appropriate recommendation, for Design Review Board review and action. It is crucial that all issues of concern identified during project and/or environmental review be resolved prior to scheduling of the Design Review Board hearing. As stated previously, your application has been deemed complete. However, please be aware that, if necessary, the City may request that you clarify, amplify, correct or otherwise supplement the information required for this application. Thank you for yoy; continued cooperation. We will complete our project review and schedule your application for a hearing before the Design Review Board as quickly as possible. If you have any comments or questions regarding your application, please contact my office at (619) 434-2935 or Elaine Blackburn, project planner, at (619) 438- 1161 ext. 4471. Sincerely, IBIE FOUNTAIN Acting Housing and Redevelopment Director c: Elaine Blackburn John Yelland Erin Letsch Marjorie/Steve Bob Wojcik Robert Green Data Entry File 3( Beck Moffett associates Architecture Planning interiors March 4, 1992 Ms. Elaine Blackburn CITY OF CARLSBAD PLANNING DEPARTMENT 1075 Las Palmas Drive Carlsbad, CA 92009-1576 Re Carlsbad Dance Studio for Mr. Dan Sherlock Dear Elaine: Per our phone conversation I atn enclosing four sets of plans: two site plans and floor plan, and two 8-1/2 x 14 site plans that have been revised per your request after the meeting in the City offices. The one site plan was updated to show Jazzercise's floor plan layouts, and we revised the parking layout to conform to what's existed. At the meeting you requested some information regarding Jazzercise employees They informed me that they have 41 employees, and at this time they are working on a condensed schedule so that on Mondays and Fridays their staff is cut in half. The other thing that I wanted to mention is that the Jazzercise child care. Suite G, is only for use by women taking the classes. They do not solicit and will not accept any children unless the mother is in a class at the time that the class is going on. I believe this would negate any additional park- ing for that space. As you may or may not recall, the City asked us to prepare a traffic study for the center which was done last year and submitted to the City. The traffic study recommended that there be a larger gap between Jazzercise's classes. The fifteen minutes between classes did not allow enough time for outgoing people to leave before the incoming people arrived which created a parking problem. The recommendation of the traffic engineer was to allow a half hour between classes. Jazzercise conformed to the recommendation and they informed me that at this time they never have a parking problem. Mr. Sherlock has prepared a letter, per your request, that will show the number of students, number of classes, etc. If there is anything else that you need after reviewing this package, please don't hesitate to call and we will res- pond to your request. Sincerely yours. Jim Moffett Ends. 1224 Village Way Suite D Santa Ana, California 92705 MAR 0^1992 CITY OP CARLSBAD PLAKNfNQ DEPT. 714°543-8352 CARLSBAD DANCE CENTRE Scheduling of Classes Jazzercise uses one dance studio 25 hours per week for classes and both studios 7 hours per week for classes. The Carlsbad Dance Centre has a business license to hold classes at Jazzercise. We use a Jazzercise studio 23 hours per week when it is not being used by Jazzercise. We plan to move 19 of these classes to the new space. Currently, there is an overlap of 11 hours per week when Jazzercise and CDC classes are being held simultaneously. The optimum schedule of classes in the new space would be weekdays from 11 a.m. to 12 noon and 3:15 to 7:15 p.m., plus Saturdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Assuming that we could fill these 28 hours and discounting the 19 hours moved over from Jazzercise, there would be 9 additional hours for classes. This would create an additional overlap of just 3 hours per week with Jazzercise classes. The typical class has ten students of pre-school, elementary or junior high school age. These children are transported to class by their par ents . Our studio policy limits parent viewing of classes to once every six weeks. Our proposed lease includes mini-blinds which will keep parents from watching classes from outside the classroom. Since parents prefer not to sit and wait for an hour in their cars, most go home and return. Many parents form carpools to minimize the number of trips. The only car parked in the lot during the full hour is the instructor's. RECEIVED MAR 0 # 1992 CITY OF CAHi^ aBAO PLANNING DEFT. Yelland Properties >0 I ' 4 Venture, Suite 310 ^ Irvine, CA92718 Property Management (714) 727-0403 Accounting (714) 727-0404 Fax (714) 727-7442 Katny ciraham Fri, Feb 14,1992 Housing & Redevelopment Director City of Carlsbad 2965 Roosevelt Street Carlsbad, OA 92008 Re: Roosevelt Center Dance Studio Dear Kathy, It is not fair or reasonable that you hold us hostage for problems that are not ours. In the original approval provided to me by Patty Cratty you show our project as having 124 parking spaces. On our ALTA sun/ey dated July 1989 we had 130 stalls. After our $120,000 parking lot renovations in 1991 we now provide 137 spaces. In addition, our customers have joint use of the corner lot that has 14 stalls. The Old World Center provides 37 spaces and the joint parking lot adds 14 stalls. We now provided 13 more spaces than was originally provided. We have only used 3 of our excess stalls for the chiropractor use. The dance studio does not require any more stalls than that provided yet you hold up our ability to rent space and our tenant to be in business while you work on a problem that is not ours. I stated in my last letter, July 2nd, 1991, (the issues are still to be resolved). "We need your assistance in helping our business prosper, helping assure that the downtown vacant space is occupied. When vour actions encourage a broad business base in the downtown area vou guarantee strong customer support which vitalizes and maintains anv area. The end result is that the citv receives increasing sales tax and other revenues and all businesses prosper. Please, do not delav vour actions anv longer, because delavs. or no resolve costs all parties $1 .OOP's of dollars". Please help us resolve these problems quickly. Sincerely, n M. oseveltX;?enter, Ltd. HOUSING AND REDEVELOPMENT ^^KT^ REDEVELOPMENT OFFICE 2965 Roosevelt Street Suite B Carlsbad, CA 92008 (619) 434-2811 (Eitc of (EarlBbad February 13, 1992 DAN SHERLOCK CARLSBAO DANCE CENTRE 3741 MONROE STREET CARLSBAD, CA. 92008 RE: EXPANSION OF DANCE INSTRUCTION FACILITIES AT 2800 ROOSEVELT STREET, RP 92-1 Dear Dan: The application you submitted for a minor redevelopment permit (No. 92-1) to convert a retail suite at 2800 Roosevelt Street to a dance studio was accepted by the Planning Department for formal review on January 13, 1992. The Planning, Engineering and Redevelopment Departments have reviewed your application and determined that additional information is required to complete it. Consequently, a determination has been made that the application is incomplete, as submitted, for further processing purposes. As you are already aware, adequate parking is the primary issue of concern related to your application for a minor redevelopment permit. In order to complete our analysis and determine whether or not there is adequate parking at Roosevelt Center for the proposed dance studio, the following information must be submitted to "complete" your application: 1. A Use square Footage Table. The table must identify all uses which currently share the parking at Roosevelt Center. Based on our files, a "shared parking" arrangement was approved by the City to meet parking requirements for Roosevelt Center and Old World Center. Consequently, the City requires a set of plans which reflect all uses at both centers with information on total square footage for each type of use, including the proposed dance studio. This table should be provided directly on the plans. The City realizes that the use square footage information for the Old World Center is not readily available to the applicant. Therefore, the City is also working on gathering this information to assist in the effort to complete this application. PAGE 2 - DANCE CENTRE 2/13/92 2. A Parking Requirement Table. The table must show the parking requirement breakdown by use type. Please identify the total square footage of the various uses (i.e., retail, office, etc.) and the required parking ratio (i.e., retail = 1:300) for each type of use. The table must include any off-site uses (i.e.. Old World Center customers) which share the parking and any off-site parking areas (i.e., corner of Madison and Grand) which are utilized to meet the parking requirements. This table must also be provided directly on the plans. 3. Note **3'* Explanation. The plans submitted indicate a Note "3" in the area of the Jazzercise offices which is "blanket in nature". Please provide an explanation for this note on the plans. 4. Dance Studio Class Schedule. In order to appropriately determine the impact of the proposed Dance Studio on the existing parking facilities, an additional statement is required which provides the following information: 1) the type of classes (children, adults, etc.); 2) the number of proposed classes per day by class type (i.e., 7 child dance classes); 3) the proposed days and hours the studio will be open; and, 4) the anticipated number of students in each class by type. The above information is required to determine whether or not the proposed dance studio has adequate parking per current standards outlined within the Carlsbad Municipal Code. The plans submitted on January 13, 1992 do not provide adequate information for the Planning Department to complete their parking analysis. To receive a determination of "complete" on your application, the items noted above must be submitted simultaneously at the rftnuniiwitY Development Buildina counter which is located at 2 075 Las Palmas Drive (off Palomar Airport Road). A copy of this letter must be included with vour submittals. Please note that no further processing of your application can occur until the above items are submitted and the application is deemed "complete." Upon receipt of the required items/materials, the City has an additional thirty (30) days to make a determination of completeness. However, every effort will be made to immediately review the additional information, upon submission, and make a determination as quickly as possible. If the application is determined to be complete, staff will initiate appropriate processing procedures to obtain a decision from the Design Review Board on your application. According to state law, you have six (6) months from the date the application PAGE 3 - DANCE CENTRE 2/13/92 was initially filed, January 13, 1992, to either re-submit the application or submit the required information items. Failure to re-submit the application or to submit the materials required to complete it (as noted above) shall constitute withdrawal of the application. If an application is withdrawn or deemed withdrawn, a new application must be submitted. Thank you for your cooperation and patience during the review of your application for a minor redevelopment permit. We understand your need for resolution of the parking issue and immediate action on your application. With the information requested above, we believe that we can quickly complete our parking analysis and make appropriate recommendations. Therefore, we encourage you to submit the required information as quickly as possible. If you have any comments or questions regarding this matter, please contact my office at 434-2935. Sincerely, DEBBIE FOUNTAIN Senior Management Analyst c: Kath\ Graham Elaine Blackburn Erin Letsch Bob Wojcik Rober :. Green John Yelland Marjorie/Steve Data Entry File 4 JANUARY 30, 1992 TO: DEBBIE FOUNTAIN, SENIOR MANAGEMENT ANALYST mOM: Elaine Blackbum, Associate Planner SUBJECT: ;.JMMiM@iiK#il*J^-t' / Attached are the Planning Department's and Engineering Department's comments on the above referenced project application. The list includes two sections: 1) items required to make the project complete and 2) issues of concem. The submittal date for this application was January 13, 1992. Consequently, the response (complete/incomplete) letter to the applicant must be mailed no later than Febmary 13, 1992. I have attached a copy of the form letter the Planning Department uses for your use or assistance. The Dance Centre application would have to be deemed incomplete because of the missing information. Please call me if you have any questions. ELAINE BLACKBURN Associate Planner EB:vd Attachment c: Gary Wayne Robert Green Erin Letsch Bob Wojcik Data Entry Marjorie/Steve LIST OF ITEMS NEEDED TO COMPLETE THE APPLICATION: PLANNING: 1. A use square footage table must be provided. The square footage of uses shown on the plans would not require 176 parking spaces. Other uses, not within the building, are apparently using the parking area. Any use which uses the parking area must be identified and the square footage of the use indicated. 2. A table showing the parking requirement breakdown must be provided. (See also Item 1 above.) The parking required and provided must be broken down by use types, indicating the parking requirement for each use type and the parking requirement ratio. This must include any off-site uses which share the parking and any off-site parking areas which are utilized. 3. The plans submitted indicate a Note "3" in the area of the Jazzercise offices which is "blanket in nature". Please explain to what this note refers. ISSUES OF CONCERN PLANNING: 1. The proposed project must be able to meet parking requirements. The Planmng Department caimot determine whether the project meets the requirement until the information above (Items 1 and 2) is provided. JANUARY 29, 1992 TO: DEBBIE FOUNTAIN, Senior Management Analyst FROM: ROBERT GREEN, Principal Planner C^^T^— SUBJECT: RP 92-01 - CARLSBAD DANCE CENTRE, 2800 Roosevelt Street Your memo of January 20, 1992 raised the following issues: 1, The Redevelopment Department supports RP 92-01. 2. The Planning Department has indicated that there Is a parking deficiency for this proposal and may not be able to support this application. 3, The Redevelopment Department and applicant are asking for expedient processing. 4. The applicant is requesting review by the Design Review Board as soon as possible. 1 shall address the issues in order. 1. & 2. Further to our discussion 1 understand that no commitments have been made to the applicant regarding what the City recommendation will be on this project. I also understand that agreement on a recommendation will be reached using the redevelopment meeting process prior to the City conveying any recommendation to the applicant. 3. The Planning Department does not have a "priority process" for Redevelopment Projects, however, the project is being reviewed as quickly as possible given the department's existing commitments. The project is currently being reviewed to see if any potential exists to provide the necessary parking, however, please note that this site has been evaluated twice in the past and been found to be deficient in parking. 4. The project will not be scheduled for Design Review Board until is has been properly evaluated, and an agreed recommendation has been prepared (per responses 1 & 2 above). 1 further understand that you will be assembling the comments from separate departments into a single letter which will be circulated for sign-off approval by the individual departments before sending out to the applicant. The project planner for this application Is Elaine Blackburn. She is currently preparing department comments for inclusion in this letter. Attachment - Memo Jan 20th c: Gary Wayne Kathy Graham RG:lh RP9201.mem January 20, 1992 TO: PLANNING DEPARTMENT FROM: SENIOR MANAGEMENT ANALYST, DEBBIE FOUNTAIN APPLICATION FOR MINOR REDEVELOPMENT PERMIT (92-1) TO CONVERT AN APPROXIMATELY 944 SQ.FT RETAIL SUITE TO A DANCE STUDIO WITHIN THE ROOSEVELT (RETAIL/OFFICE) CENTER LOCATED AT 2800 ROOSEVELT STREET IN THE VILLAGE AREA The Redevelopment Department has no problems with the application submitted by Dan Sherlock to convert approximately 944 sq. ft. of retail space at 2800 Roosevelt Street (suite b) to a dance studio. The Carlsbad Dance Centre is currently providing dance classes at this location in conjunction with Jazzercise. However, they have a need to expand their facilities to accommodate the children and adults who receive dance instructions at this location. The dance classes will be provided primarily after school until approximately 7:00pm, Monday - Friday and at various times throughout the day on Saturday and Sunday. The proposed use is permitted within the Village Design Manual and we believe it is a good use because it brings people to the area. We realize that parking is the primary issue with this proposed application. Planning's parking concerns have been shared with the applicant. However, the applicant is "convinced" that the Design Review Board will approve his request. Therefore, he has submitted this application and requests that it be presented to the Design Review Board as soon as possible for a decision1 The Redevelopment Department requests that this application be processed in an expedient manner. The applicant, and several representatives of the applicant and property owner, call me daily to discuss the status of this request! Any "quick processing" assistance you can provide will be greatly appreciated! le Fountain January 7, 1992 TO: VAN LYNCH, PLANNING FROM: DEBBIE FOUNTAIN, REDEVELOPMENT APPLICATION FROM DAN SHERLOCK FOR CHANGE IN USE OF SUITE B AT 2800 ROOSEVELT FROM RETAIL ESTABLISHMENT TO DANCE STUDIO Attached please find Dan Sherlock's application for a minor redevelopment permit to change the use of an existing suite (B) at 2800 Roosevelt from a retail establishment to a dance studio. Please accept and appropriately document receipt of the enclosed application and check in the amount of $110 for fees and process according to proper procedures. The applicant has been unable to deliver this application to the Las Palmas facility directly. Therefore, Redevelopment Staff agreed to deliver it for him. The Land Use Application form has been forwarded to the applicant for signature and will be sent to your office within the next couple of days. This application needs to be processed as quickly as possible! Hopefully, all the information you need to process the application has been provided within this packet. However, if you need anything else, please contact my office first. I will contact the applicant. For a number of reasons, this is a sensitive matter! If you have any questions regarding the enclosed application, please contact my office at extension 2935. Thanks, DEBBIE FOUNTAIN Senior Management Analyst Enclosures December 16, 1991 TO: SENIOR MANAGEMENT ANALYST, REDEVELOPMENT, DEBBIE FOUNTAIN FROM: PLANNING TECHNICIAN, VAN LYNCH SUBJECT: CARLSBAD DANCE CENTRE PRELIM REVIEW The proposed use (dance studio) is an allowed use in sub-area 1 of the Village Redevelopment zone. The only problem will be the adequacy of available parking to serve the use. Back in October of 1990, there was a Redevelopment Permit processed to allow an intensification of the uses on the site. With this permit the parking lot was restriped to accommodate the increased demand on parking. The restriping left an additional six (6) parking available. The proposed use would require an additional seven (7) spaces to be parked per code. One additional space will be needed to accommodate this proposed use. The site, ag a whole, is developed with more intensive uses than retail uses. There are other dance studios as well as a large aerobic exercise room. If one was to take all the uses separately, the site would be severely underparked. Planning staff will not support another use of this nature. VAN LYNCH c: Don Neu Robert Green