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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03.25.19 DESIGN REVIEW MINUTES - Alpine Storage1 Design Review Committee Meeting Alpine Storage – 2590 S 2000 W March 25, 2019 – 11:15 pm Attendees Design Review Committee: Brad Wolfe, Rory Kunz, Jedd Walker Applicant: Jaxon Landon Others: City staff: Quinton Owens, Tawnya Grover Presiding: Planning & Zoning Commission Chairman, Rory Kunz The Design Review Committee is composed of a P&Z Commissioner (Rory Kunz), a City Council member (Brad Wolfe) or the Mayor, and a professional from the community (Jedd Walker). Several other individuals serve on the committee as necessary. The Committee may meet if there is a development issue that is non-conforming or differs from the Design Standards requirements that are stated in the City of Rexburg Development Code Ordinance No. 1200. The Design Review Board is established to review design standards, landscaping, and site plans when requested. The purpose of the Design Review Committee meeting is often to reach an amicable compromise for the applicant and the community. The subject property is on 2590 S 2000 W and is zoned Community Business Center (CBC). The reason for holding this Design Review Committee meeting is as follows: 3.02.130.c. Project Plan Approval. “All project plans and engineering specifications in the CBC zone must be prepared and engineered by A/E professionals. These professional engineered plans will be submitted for review and approval from conception by the Development Review Committee.” 1.02.050.b.1. Design Review Board. Initiating a Meeting. If at any time, the person submitting the plans does not agree with the review performed by the Zoning Administrator or a designee, he/she may request a hearing by the Design Review Committee.” From Development Code Ordinance No. 1200, Community Business Center zone: Landscape & Buffering • Use requires Conditional Use Permit (CUP), however, the existing use of this lot is household storage. The Zoning Administrator determines that the use is "Grandfathered" and therefore does not require a CUP. 2 • Additional requirements must be made to allow a storage building adjacent to the right-of- way. In this zone, all storage units are required to be built internally to a lot unless they meet the requirements of The City of Rexburg Development Code Section 7.02.070.e.2. which reads as follows: "...the applicant shall show how the storage units are being buffered from any street rights-of-way and neighboring properties. The most desirous buffering would be commercial buildings. Areas of landscaping greater in distance than the required yard setbacks should be included. These landscaped areas would need large nursery stock shrubs and trees to act as buffering." o Therefore, a driveway is not allowed between the building and the right-of-way. • All unpaved areas shall be landscaped as per Section 7.02.110.a.2. of the Development Code. From Development Code Ordinance No. 1200, Commercial Design Standards: 7.00.060. Exterior Materials and Colors. Exterior building materials and colors should be aesthetically pleasing and compatible with materials and colors used in adjoining neighborhoods. “Predominant exterior building materials shall be high-quality materials including: brick, wood, sandstone, other native stone, tinted, textured, concrete masonry units, stucco, EIFS, Dryvit, or materials that are designed to appear as wood, except vinyl.” 7.00.100.a-b. Roof Lines. Variations in roof lines should be used to add interest to and reduce the massive scale of large buildings. “Roof lines that are visible from a city street, public way, or any facility or parking lot used by the general public shall be varied with a change in height every one hundred (100’) linear feet in building length. Parapets, mansard roofs, gable roofs, hip roofs, or dormers shall be used to conceal flat roofs and roof top equipment from public view.” 7.00110.a-b. Facades. Facades should be articulated to reduce the massive scale and the uniform, impersonal appearances of large commercial buildings and provide visual interest that will be consistent with the community’s identity, character, and scale. “Developments with a façade over sixty (60’) feet in linear length that are visible from a city street, public way, or any facility or parking lot used by the general public shall incorporate wall projections or recesses a minimum of two (2’) feet in depth and a minimum of eight (8’) contiguous feet for each sixty (60’) feet of length and shall extend over twenty (20%) percent of the façade. Developments shall use animating features such as arcades, display windows, entry areas, or awnings on at least forty (40%) percent of the façade.” The Zoning Administrator requests as a minimum, the following be required: o The buffer area is to be wider than the normal 10' required by the Development Code. Staff requests a minimum of 15' landscape strip to provide "large nursery stock shrubs and trees to act as buffering" between the building and the road in lieu of the requirements to have "projections or recesses". o Upgrade materials on the sides of the storage building. Staff recommends a minimum of a 3' wainscot of brick or rock on three sides and upgrade siding such as cement board. o Roof to have "eyebrows" or dormers for visual break. 3 Compromises • Façade: The Applicant will put a wains-coating and upgraded siding on the front side of the building. • Landscape: The committee believes the additional 10’ of landscape strip would not be required. There is 15’ from the property line currently to the fence. This shall be used as the 15’ of landscape strip. The 15’ from the property line would include the large nursery stock, shrubs and trees to buffer will be in the landscape strip. Evergreens 7’ tall. Deciduous 2” in diameter. o On the ends of the buildings where 5’ and 10’ spans are blank, the applicant will place a planter or trees. • Roof: For one section, the storage units be a little taller. A step up around 12’ long or greater shall be placed in the center of the building. • Road: Along Yellowstone some land, a letter will be written to the Landons for widening of the road .08 of an acre. The land will return to the Landon’s ownership if the land is not needed for widening. • Applicant will redline plans and get a copy to the City and the County by the middle of April.