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Home My WebLink About2015/10/06 - Agenda Packet THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA `'ti DESIGN REVIEW COMMITTEE 14 J AGENDA RANCHO CUCAMONGA October 6, 2015 - 7:00 P.M. Rancho Cucamonga Civic Center Rains Room 10500 Civic Center Drive Rancho Cucamonga, California I. CALL TO ORDER Roll Call Regular Members: Richard Fletcher_ Francisco Oaxaca Candyce Burnett_ Donald Granger Alternates: Ray Wimberly Lou Munoz • Rich Macias II. PROJECT REVIEW ITEMS The following items will be presented by the applicant and/or their representatives. Each presentation and resulting period of Committee comment is limited to 20 minutes. Following each presentation,the Committee will address major issues and make recommendations with respect to the project proposal. The Design Review Committee acts as an advisory Committee to the Planning Commission. Their recommendations will be forwarded to the Planning Commission as applicable. The following items do not legally require any public testimony,although the Committee may open the meeting for public input. A. ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND DESIGN REVIEW DRC2015- 00386 - LEWIS RETAIL CENTERS — A request for site plan and architectural review of a 100,135-square-foot 9 building multi-tenant retail center that includes a 44,988-square-foot major tenant building, a 15,207- square-foot pad building, a 9,160 inline tenant building, a 7,560-square- foot inline tenant building, a 4,500-square-foot inline tenant building, two 3,780 inline tenant buildings and a future 3,600-square-foot pad building on 10.93 acres of land located at the northwest corner of Day Creek • Boulevard and Base Line Road in the Medium (M) Zoning District of the . Victoria Community Plan - APN: 1089-031-15, 16, 35 and a portion of 1 of 2 '% I DESIGN REVIEW COMMITTEE Lai DESIGN RANCHO CUCAMONGA October 6, 2015 1089-031-14. Staff has prepared a Mitigated Negative Declaration of • environmental impacts for consideration. Related cases: General Plan Amendment DRC2015-00388, Victoria Community Plan Amendment DRC2014-00390, Tentative Tract Map SUBTPM19637, Conditional Use Permit DRC2015-00387 and Uniform Sign Program DRC2015-00391. Staff has prepared a Mitigated Negative Declaration of environmental impacts for consideration. III. PUBLIC COMMENTS This is the time and place for the general public to address the Committee. State law prohibits the Committee from addressing any issue not previously included on the Agenda. The Committee may receive testimony and set the matter for a subsequent meeting. Comments are limited to five minutes per individual. IV. ADJOURNMENT The Design Review Committee has adopted Administrative Regulations that set an 11:00 p.m. adjournment time. If items go beyond that time, they shall be heard only with the consent of the Committee. I, Jennifer Palacios, Office Specialist II with the Planning Department for the City of Rancho Cucamonga, hereby certify that a true, accurate copy of the foregoing agenda was posted on September 23, 2015, at least 72 hours prior to the meeting per Government Code Section 54954.2 at 10500 Civic Center Drive, Rancho Cucamonga. 2 of 2 DESIGN REVIEW COMMENTS 7:00 p.m. Tabe van der Zwaag October 6, 2014 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND DESIGN REVIEW DRC2015-00386 = LEWIS RETAIL CENTERS — A request for site plan and architectural review of a 100,135- square foot 9 building multi-tenant retail center that includes a 44,988-square foot major tenant building, a 15,207-square foot pad building, a 9,160 inline tenant building, a 7,560-square foot inline tenant building, a 4,500-square foot inline tenant building, two 3,780 inline tenant buildings and a future 3,600-square foot pad building on 10.93 acres of land located at the northwest corner of Day Creek Boulevard and Base Line Road in the Medium (M) Zoning District of the Victoria Community Plan - APN: 1089-031-15, 16, 35 and a portion of 1089-031-14. Staff has prepared a Mitigated Negative Declaration of environmental impacts for consideration. Related cases: General Plan Amendment DRC2015-00388, Victoria Community Plan Amendment DRC2014-00390, Tentative Tract Map SUBTPM19637, Conditional Use Permit DRC2015-00387 and Uniform Sign Program DRC2015-00391. Staff has prepared a Mitigated Negative Declaration of environmental impacts for consideration. Proiect Overview The applicant proposes constructing a 100,135-square foot multi-tenant retail center on 10.93 acres of land located on the northwest corner of Day Creek Boulevard and Base Line Road. The applicant is in the process of purchasing 14.08 acres of land from the Successor Agency of the Rancho Cucamonga Redevelopment Agency. A 10.08 acre portion of the project site purchased from the Successor Agency will be used for the proposed project with the remaining 4 acres of land to be planned for the future development of an affordable senior housing development. The applicant is also in the process of purchasing .86 acres of land from the San Bernardino County Flood Control District for the development of Pad B and to provide access to the project site from Base Line Road. The future building on the San Bernardino County Flood Control District parcel of land will be reviewed at a later date when that purchase is complete, though this piece of land is being included in the project layout and is calculated into the total project size for purposes of the environmental review and Conditional Use Permit. Surrounding Area To the north of the project site is Firehouse Court, Rancho Cucamonga Fire Station Number 173 and vacant land; to the south is Base Line Road; to the west is a San Bernardino County Flood Control District maintenance yard; and, to the east, is Day Creek Boulevard. The project will take vehicular access from Day Creek Boulevard, Firehouse Court and Base Line Road. As part of the project, a new signalized intersection is being proposed on Base Line Road, approximately 600 feet west of Day Creek Boulevard. Emergency Vehicular Access will be provided through the project site to the future residential development to the north, in order to provide that development with two points of vehicle access. The San Bernardino County Flood Control maintenance yard will take access from the project entry from Base Line Road. Proiect Proposal The project site currently has a General Plan Land Use Designation of Low Medium (LM) Residential. The project site is within the Victoria Community Plan with a Zoning Designation of Medium (M) Residential. The applicant has submitted a General Plan Amendment to change the General Plan Land Use Designation to Neighborhood Commercial. A Victoria Community Plan Amendment has been submitted to change the Victoria Community Plan Zoning Designation to Village Commercial (VC), which is the Victoria Community Plan equivalent to the Neighborhood Commercial (NC) designation. The Victoria Community Plan Amendment also includes a text amendment stating that project setbacks for master-planned commercial developments will be determined on a case-by-case basis through the development review process. The Victoria Community Plan is currently silent on commercial development setbacks and therefore the Development Code standards would apply. The project is oriented with the 44,998 square foot major tenant building angled towards the intersection of Day Creek Boulevard and Base Line Road. Three inline tenant buildings are plotted adjacent to the major tenant building. Additionally, two (2) pad buildings are plotted adjacent to Day Creek Boulevard and three (3) pad buildings are plotted adjacent to Base Line Road. The main pedestrian entrance will be at the Day Creek Boulevard and Base Line Road intersection and will include a large outdoor seating area with decorative arbors. Pedestrian access to the major tenant building will provide a tree and arbor lined walkway from the Day Creek Boulevard and Base Line Road intersection. A second pedestrian orientated focal point is proposed for the southwest corner of Day Creek Boulevard and Firehouse Court and will include picnic benches, a drinking fountain and a bike rack/repair station to service the Pacific Electric Trail to the north. Multiple outdoor eating areas are also provided throughout the project. The project is designed with Craftsman-themed architecture that includes wood siding, stone veneer, exposed rafter tails and wood support structures. Each building incorporates multiple tower elements. A clock tower is proposed adjacent to the major tenant building. Decorative arbors and green screens with climbing vines are used to accent each building and tie the buildings together. Decorative paving is provided at each vehicle entrance and pedestrian crossings as well as at the outdoor eating areas. The drive through lanes will be screened by low walls and landscaping, and will include concrete paving. A decorative bus shelter will be provided on Base Line Road and will carry over the design of the center. Trash enclosures will be constructed of split face block, decorative stone veneer columns, a wood overhead trellis and a roll-up door. The project complies with all related Victoria Community Plan and Development Code requirements with the reduced setbacks permitted by the proposed Victoria Community Plan Amendment. The Victoria Community Plan is currently silent on building and parking setbacks and the Development Code setbacks of 45 feet from curb face would apply. The proposed setbacks along the Base Line Road and Day Creek Boulevard range from 24 feet to 55 feet, as measured from curb face. A total of 506 parking stalls are provided on the project site, 6 parking stalls over the minimum requirement based on 1 parking stall per 200 square feet of gross floor area. Landscape coverage is 18 percent, in excess of the 10 percent landscape coverage required by the Development Code. Staff Comments: Staff is pleased with the design and layout of the project and is in support of the applicant request to change the General Plan Land Use and Victoria Community Plan Zoning Designations of the project site from Low Medium (LM) and Medium (M) Residential to Neighborhood Commercial (NC) and Village Commercial (VC), respectively. Staff is also in support of the Victoria Community Plan Amendment adding language permitting setbacks for master planned commercial to be determined on a case-by-case basis. This change will provide commercial developments with the flexibility to place buildings closer to the right-of-way and provide more visual interest of along the street frontage. The buildings are well-designed and include extensive use of wood siding and stone veneer. All structures within the development have a cohesive design theme that is carried over to the on-site amenities and landscape treatment. The project will provide a visually appealing street scene that includes multiple pedestrian access points from each intersection and from the Pacific Electric Trail. The number of drive- uses have been reduced from 4 to 3 from the original layout presented to the Planning Commission Workshop on February 11, 2015. Staff remains concerned that the Pad A drive-thru lane may not be adequately sized and configured to prevent vehicles from backing up into the adjacent drive aisle and blocking through traffic. The Development Code requires that the applicant submit traffic studies by a traffic engineer for each drive-thru at the time of Building Department plan check, analyzing the functionality of the two drive-thru lanes adjacent to Base Line Road. Staff is less concerned with respect to the drive-thru lane for the drug store in the building labeled Major "B" on the site plan, as the traffic levels for drug store drive-thru lanes are not significant. Major Issues: The drive-thru lane for the proposed coffee tenant in Pad A may not be adequately sized and configured to service this type of tenant without creating queueing and congestion issues in this part of the center. Secondary Issues: None Staff Recommendation: Staff recommends that the Committee review the project and determine whether it can be moved forward to the Planning Commission or if additional modifications to the layout are necessary. Design Review Committee Action: Members Present: Fletcher, Oaxaca, and Granger Staff Planner: Tabe van der Zwaag