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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1987/09/03 - Agenda Packet CITY OF RANCH0 CUCAMONGA MEMORANDUM DATE: August 20, 1987 ACTION AGENI)A TO: Commercial/Industrial Design Review Committee Suzanne Chitlea I977 Larry McNiel Otto Kroutil David Blakesley (Alternate) FROM: Nancy Fong, Associate Planner SUBJECT: DESIGN REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETING OF SEPTEMBER 3, 1987 The following is a description of projects which require review and rating by the Design Review Committee. P1 ease review the attached plans, visit the project sites, and write down your comments using the blank space provided under each project on the attached sheets. After the meeting, the consensus of the Committee's concerns will be typed up as the formal action/recommendation of the Committee and distributed to the Commission and Council. As always, feel free to contact the appropriate project manager (noted in parentheses along the left margin), prior to the meeting date, if you have specific questions related to the scheduled projects. Dinner will be provided between 5:00 - 5:30 p.m., Consent Calendar items will be reviewed between 5:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m., with the first design review item being heard at 6:00 p.m. Please notify our department if you will be unable to attend the meeting, or if you will be late, so that the dinner can be properly ordered and the necessary arrangements made. 6:00 - 6:30 {Chris) ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW 87-31 - TURNER DEVELOPMENT - A proposal to develop a multi- tenant industrial park consisting of 3 buildings totalling 142,500 square feet on 7.29 acres in the General Industrial District, Subarea 5, located west of Lucas Ranch Road and north of 4th Street - APN: 210- 071-39, 57. 6:30 - 7:00 (Chris) ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT 87- 29 - WIERICK PROPERTXES - A proposal to ~eve)op a neighborhood commercial center consisting of an office building, retail building and a 4,900 square foot fast food restaurant totalling 39,988 square feet in an Office Professional District on 4.4 acres of land located at the southwest corner of Lomita Court and Archibald Avenue APN: 202-151-33. Related Files: GPA 87-04B & DDA 87-03. Attachments CC: Planning Commission/City Council DESIGN REVIEW COMMENTS 6:00 - 6:30 Chris August 26, 1987 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW 87-31 - TURNER DEVELOPMENT - A proposal to develop a multi-tenant industrial park consisting of 3 buildings totalling 142,500 square feet on 7.29 acres in the General Commercial District, Subarea 5, located west of Lucas Ranch Road and north of 4th Street - APN: 210-071-39, 57. .Design Par~ters: The site is paved, has a steel beam construction canopy, a trailer and chain link fencing. The site is being used for truck trailer storage. North and south are development industrial projects. A rail easement exists to the west which dictates a rail service design to the westernmost building. Street improvements have been completed along Lucas Ranch Road. Staff Comments: Site Plan 1. An employee plaza area in front of building "C" should be provided with special hardscape treatment, seating, trash receptacle, and special landscaping consisting of specimen size trees, shrubs and ground cover. Architecture i. The buildings are well balanced; however, additional or modified elements should be provided primarily to the east elevations of all of the buildings and specifically around the office entries. Those elements could include colors, textured surface, scorelines, free standing structures, etc. 2. The proposed elevation for all buildings (other than the portion of office entries) consist of tilt-up concrete with a couple of score lines, which do not provide for architectural interest. Expanses of building wall should be broken up with additional architectural elements such as change in the texture for building surface, the use of openings and recesses, etc. Landscaping 1. Undulating mounding should be provided along Lucas Ranch Road. 2. Special landscape treatment should be provided at all project entries through the use of accent trees and specimen size trees. DESIGN REVIEW COMMENTS DR 87-31 - Turner Development September 3, 1987 Page 2 3. The width of the landscape fingers on both sides of the middle driveway entrances should be expanded to allow for special landscape treatment that project a more formal entry way. .pesign Review CoumfitteeAction: Members Present: Suzanne Chitlea & Otto Kroutil Staff Planner: Chris Westman The Committee discussed the project with the applicants and agreed on the following recommendations: 1. Accent colors should be limited to one for buildings A and B and one for building C. 2. Surface treatment of textures reveals and possibly colors should be provided to expanses of building walls other than the office entries. 3. The office entry areas should have stronger architectural statements which would include height and plan variation. 4. The plaza area should incorporate special hardscape treatment, such as trellis work, seating, trash receptacles and special landscape treatment with ground cover, shrubs, specimen size trees, and accent trees. 5. Special landscape treatment should be provided at all project entries through the use of accent trees and specimen size trees. 6. Revised site plan and elevations including plaza and entry landscape details be submitted for review on the September 17, 1987 consent calendar. DESIGN REVIEW COMMENTS 6:30 - 7:00 Chris September 3, 1987 ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT 87-29 WIERICK PROPERTIES - A proposal to develop a neighborhood commercial center consisting of office building, retail building and a 4,900 square foot fast food restaurant totalling 39,988 square feet in an Office Professional District on 4.4 acres of land located at the southwest corner of Lomita Court and Archibald Avenue - APN: 202-151-33. Related Files: GPA 87-04B & DDA 87-03. Design Parameters: The site is vacant with no significant vegetation. The site drops in elevation from the north to the south 18 feet at 3%. There is development on all four sides of the site. To the south is an Alpha Beta commercial center. The rear loading area of the center is adjacent to the subject site and therefore very visible. To the west is a senior housing project. There is a block wall which separates the two sites. North of Lomita Court to the west is another apartment project, and directly across the street is a vacant lot which has a master plan approved for expansion of a retail hardware store and office building. yard. East of Archibald is an apartment complex and a retail neighborhood shopping center. There is not any one consistent design theme among all of these projects. Street improvements have been completed on Archibald Avenue and Lomita Court except for driveways and sidewalks. Background: General Plan and Development District amendments have been submitted for this site and the land use issues of those amendments will be discussed at the Planning Commission level. This particular site is designated for Office/Professional uses on the City's General Plan. It had been, on previous occasions, considered for change to Retail/Commercial. During the most recent review of the site along with other Office/Professional sites in the western part of the City, the Commission recommended that the existing Office/Professional designation remain. The City Council, upon review of marketing and other information submitted by the property owner's representative indicated they would consider some type of commerdal and office mixed uses there. This would need to be done in some form of a master plan'that would consider retail uses at that corner upon the following: 1. Retention of a significant portion of the site for office and office related uses, and; DESIGN REVIEW COMMENTS CUP 87-29 - Wierick Properties September 3, 1987 Page 2 2. Planning Commission approval of a development plan (for entire site) to promote a mixed use concept, and; 3. A significant portion of the project be devoted to pure office with no store fronts or parking directly in front of buildings (office), and; 4. That the design be compatible with and sensitive to the residential character (the mixed use project need not be of a residential character) of the senior housing complex to the west, and; 5. Project phasing be included which calls for timely development.of office services to insure that all the retail commercial is not constructed first and the offices are never developed. The proposed project, with its linear commercial buildings and 2 satellite ones (fast food and office), is a typical strip commercial center. Staff Co~ents: In staff's view, the project concept, as proposed, does not satisfy all of those concerns as listed above. Site Plan 1. Including the fast food pad, 60% of the site is devoted to retail/commercial. Should the interpretation of "significant" require more office space, the entire site plan could require redesign. 2. The orientation of the office uses should be more closely related to the senior housing project. A strong pedestrian link should connect the two projects in an effort to provide access for future senior related office uses, such as medical offices. 3. Overall pedestrian orientation should be strengthened in order to provide an inviting, convenient, and safe circulation system. 4. Another land use issue to be discussed by the Planning Commission which will have design impacts is the fast food restaurant. Fast food restaurants generate additional traffic from off of the site, require a higher ratio of parking spaces, dictate a separate subsystem for vehicular circulation, and require greatly intensified landscaping and screening. DESIGN REVIEW COMMENTS CUP 87-29 - Wierick Properties September 3, 1987 Page 3 5. The stacking distance for the fast food may not be adequate. The drive thru lane could be re-configured; however, that may mean a loss of parking spaces and an additional "dead-end" (see sketch). Architecture Generally the architectural theme is compatible with surrounding uses. Detailing could enhance the overall design quality. 1. The rock work should have an authentic structural appearance. This could be done by delineating the separation of rock and stucco with wood timbers and continuing the rock work areas to include the base of storefront windows and the exposed stairway of the office building. The rock work should also be consistently used on any retaining walls within the project and in the office plaza area and as details throughout the project. 2. Timbers or any other detail should be used to frame the arches on all of the buildings to continue a structural authenticity 3. A logical continuation of design and materials should be provided to all sides of all buildings. 4. The gables on the east and north sides of the fast food building should be extended to create drive thru porticos which would establish more depth interest for the building and provide further screening of the drive thru lane. 5. The west entrance of the office building could be extended as a colonnade which would provide for a sheltered outdoor space and partially enclose the plaza area which would then become a more intimate space. Landscaping 1. A flat area should be provided at the top of berm at the south end of the project to provide space to plan a screening shrub row. 2. Intensified landscaping should be provided at the south end of the site to screen the loading areas of the a~oining Alpha Beta market. Design Review CoueuitteeAction: Members Present: Suzanne Chttiea & Otto Kroutil Staff Planner: Chris Westman DESIGN REVIEW COMMENTS CUP 87-29 - Wierick Properties September 3, 1987 Page 4 In light of the land use issues which will be determined by the Planning Commission on the September 23, 1987 agenda the Design Review Committee made general comments at this time to inform the applicant of their concerns. A more detailed review of the project will occur after the land use determination has been made. The Committee comments are as follows: 1. There is a preference for authentic river rock however a high quality manufactured rock may be accepted subject to Committee review. 2. Additional building articulation should be provided which would create more interest in building plane. 3. The transition of rock to stucco should be re-evaluated and an alternate solution submitted. 4. An alternate solution to the service walk at the rear of the commercial buildings was encouraged which would eliminate a possible conflict between service vehicles and customer vehicles. 5. A safe and convenient pedestrian connection should be provided to and from the senior development to the west.