HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008-10-07 - AGENDA REPORTS - DRAFT DESIGN GUIDELINES (2)Agenda Item
CITY OF SANTA CLARITA
INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM
TO: Mayor Kellar and City Councilmembers
Chairperson Kennedy and Planning Commissioners
FROM: Kenneth R. Pulskamp, City Manager
DATE: October 7, 2008
SUBJECT: PRESENTATION OF THE DRAFT COMMUNITY CHARACTER AND
DESIGN GUIDELINES
RECOMMENDED ACTION
City Council and Planning Commission receive a presentation and provide input on the City's
Community Character and Design Guidelines.
BACKGROUND
Architectural Design Guidelines
In an effort to ensure that development within the City of Santa Clarita continues to achieve the
high standards of the community, the Community Development Department has conducted a
review and update of the City's Architectural Design Guidelines. These guidelines, which were
adopted in December 2002, serve as a tool for developers and designers to address community
demands and focus on the areas of architectural styles, building height, building orientation and
building mass and materials. Since the adoption of the Architectural Design Guidelines, staff has
made further advancements in its expectations for urban design and architectural enhancements
on a project -by -project basis. In addition to the higher architectural standards, staff has
encouraged sustainable development that complements the idea of a Valley of Villages, which
will be further described during this study session. In order to encourage the Valley of Villages
concept, the Architectural Design Guidelines have been expanded to include more specific
direction regarding sustainable development practices such as transit-onented development and
mixed use development. As a result of these higher standards, the name of the document is now
the "Community Character and Design Guidelines."
In an effort to ensure that new development projects in the City of Santa Clarita achieve the
goals set forth in the updated guidelines, an application checklist has been produced. The
checklist is intended to provide developers with an opportunity to demonstrate that the concepts
set forth in the guidelines have been implemented in a proposed project. A draft copy of the
application checklist has been provided along with an updated version of the Community
Character and Design Guidelines.
At tonight's City Council Study Session, the Council will receive a presentation from staff which
will outline the City's development review process and current development trends. The
presentation will continue with Erik Justesen of RRM Design Group providing an overview of
the Draft Community Character and Design Guidelines.
Following this presentation, staff will incorporate any input received from the Council at
tonight's meeting into the document. Staff will then bring the Draft Community Character and
Design Guidelines to the Planning Commission toward the end of this year, followed by City
Council consideration in early 2009.
ATTACHMENTS
Draft Community Character and Design Guidelines (Clerk's Reading File)
Application Packet
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Development
Trends
• Smart Growth
— Jobs/housing balance
• Valley of Villages
— One Valley One Vision
• Transit Oriented
Development
— Downtown Newhall Specific Plan
— Soledad Townhomes
• Sustainable Development
Practices
— LEED-ND (Leadership for Energy
and Environmental Design for
Neighborhood Development)
— Sensitivity to GHG Emission/
Global Climate Changes
Raising the Bar
Development in the City
must promote:
• Sense of Timelessness
• Sense of Ownership
• Sense of Place
• Sense of Identity
• Sense of Community
Background
• City Adopted Architectural Design
Guidelines (ADG) in December of 2002
— Adopted by Resolution 02-174
— No guidelines existed prior to this
document
— Current planning trends were less
evolved / not common practice
• Purpose of ADG
— Give clear direction for renovation of
existing buildings and construction of
new buildings
— Promote the high quality standards that
the City and community value
— Define and illustrate desired
architectural styles within each
community
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Current Design
Review Process
• Development Review
Committee
• Staff level review for consistency
with ADG
• RRM Design Group
• Long history and experience with
development in the City of Santa
Clanta
• Wide range of expertise
• Review during Public
Hearing/Approval Process
• Planning Commission Review
City Council Review
Design Review
Process
• Provides consistent application
of Architectural Design
Guidelines.
• Provides for timely review
process.
• Provides consistent and clear
direction to applicant.
•
City Council and Planning
Commission retain ultimate
control over project design.
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• Mixed Use Ordinance & Overlay
— Adopted November 2005
— Provides a mechanism to revitalize4'0
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— Encourages new housing and
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• Downtown Newhall Specific Plan
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— 20 -block downtown served by
Metrolink Commuter Rad
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Community Character
and Design Guidelines
• ADG updated to meet the
high standards of the
community
• Provides direction on more
than dust architecture
• Renamed Community
Character and Design
Guidelines
Additions to
Process
• Application packet
• A new tool to provide
developers/designers with
the opportunity to
demonstrate how a project
meets design guidelines.
• Will help staff consistently =f" -»•_='w FF'� "=fix="'
implement design_.;,
guidelines.
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Overview of Document
• Document divided into seven
chapters.
— Ch I Introduction
— Ch 2 Current Planning Trends and
General Design Principles
— Ch 3 Community Character
— Ch 4-8 Discusses various types of
development projects — Single
Family Residential, Multi -Family
Residential, Commercial, Mixed -Use,
Industrial and Business Park
What's New?
Chapter I - Intro
• Updated purpose and goals
• Defined Development Process,
• Specific Design Considerations —
new criteria that requires _ A*{
applicant to describe impacts
• Application Packet —new criteria
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that requires applicant to describer,t,..:a
how they conform to the
guidelines
What's New?
Chapter 2 - Trends
• Smart Growth Principles
• New Urbanism
• Transit -Oriented
Development
• Valley of Villages
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What's New?
Chapter 2 - Trends
• Low -Impact Development
Guidelines
• Sustainable Design Principles
— Smart Location and Linkages
— Neighborhood Pattern and
Design
— Green Construction and
Technology
• General Design Principles
What's New?
Chapter 3 — Community
Character
• Additional photos to
promote individual
community character
• Refined community
descriptions
• Refined materials palette
What's New?
Chapters 4-8
• Numbered guidelines for easy
neighborhood character, garage door
cross-reference
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• Integration of side -loading, front
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• Additional photos to reinforce
specific topics
• Articulation on the front fagade and
• Refined language consistent
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with Chapter 2 design
• Change- in wall planes on all sides of
principles and planning trends
the house visible from a public street'
• Additional guidelines to
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review challenges
What's New?'Y:
Chapter 4 — SF Res
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New Elements: 360 degree architecture,
neighborhood character, garage door
placement, etc.'
• Integration of side -loading, front
loading, detached, and rear garages
(pg. 4-8)
• Articulation on the front fagade and
facades visible from public streets.M1,
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(pg. 4-18)
• Change- in wall planes on all sides of
the house visible from a public street'
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What's New?
Chapter 5 — MF Res
New Elements: Pedestrian connectivity to ww
open space, other neighborhoods, masstransit, etc. „
• Links to nearby neighborhoods
and other commercial projects U,
(pg. 5-8)
• Connections between ria;
neighborhood parks and the
larger community -wide system�'sr.
(pg. 5-11)
What's New?
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Chapter 6 — Commercial
New Elements: Sense of place, comfortable'`"
people space, convenient parking that
doesn't dominate the site, etc.
• Clustered structures create plazas
or pedestrian malls and prevent
"barrack -like" or continuous rows
of buildings (pg. 6-2)
• Parking should be concentrated in
areas behind buildings and away
from the street when possible
(Pg. 6-9)
What's New?
• Guidelines are specific to
residential, commercial, or office
combined in a vertical or
horizontal building / project t
— Security
— Public open space
— Live work units'_;_,~
— Pedestrian orientation
— Onsite parking ?e.
— Auxiliary areas
What's New?
Chapter 8 — Industrial
New Elements: Screened equipment,
prominent entry element / feature, wall
undulation / articulations.-`�
• Focal points should be
developed to create a definite
sense of identification such as
plazas, landscaping, fountains,
artwork, textured pavement,
universally accessible changes in
pavement levels, and vertical
building features (pg. 8-4)
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