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HomeMy WebLinkAboutDRBM_04202011 G�ity of 1lktah City of Ukiah, CA Design Review Board 1 MINUTES 2 3 Regular Meeting April 20, 2011 4 Conference Room 3 3:00 p.m. 5 Ukiah Civic Center, 300 Seminary Avenue 6 1. CALL TO ORDER: Acting Chair Hise call the Design Review Board meeting at 7 3:03 p.m. 8 9 2. ROLL CALL Present: Tom Liden, Alan Nicholson, Tom Hise, 10 Nick Thayer, Richard Moser, Estok Menton 11 Absent: None. 12 Others Present: Howie Hawkes 13 Staff Present: Kim Jordan, Senior Planner 14 Cathy Elawadly, Recording Secretary 15 16 3. CORRESPONDENCE: None 17 18 4. APPROVAL OF MINUTES: April 6, 2011 minutes 19 M/S Liden/Thayer to approve April 6, 2011 minutes, as submitted. 20 21 5. AUDIENCE COMMENTS ON NON-AGENDA ITEMS: None. 22 23 6. RIGHT TO APPEAL: There are no appealable items on this agenda. 24 25 7A. Begin working on development of Downtown Zoning Code Design District 26 Guidelines 27 28 Staff: 29 • The Planning Commission is recommending development of a Design Appendix 30 for the DZC and supports as the `guiding principles' approach of the City of 31 Petaluma Central Petaluma Specific Plan (CPSP) Design Guidelines. 32 • The Planning Commission identified three separate districts as shown on the 33 DZC map, identified as the Historic District, Main Street District, and Perkins 34 Street Corridor District. 35 • Provided the Board a Map that shows the boundaries for the three districts. 36 • Modeling the guidelines after the CPSP, the approach would be to identify 37 existing patterns, forms, proportions, articulation, design elements and 38 architectural styles for buildings they would like to see in the three design 39 districts. 40 • The use of the building is not relevant. The intent is to identify styles and 41 patterns that are appropriate for Ukiah, desired by the community, will stand the 42 test of time, and work regardless of the use. 43 • The form and location of the building and the materials are regulated by the DZC. 44 As part of the guidelines, the Board needs to gather the information included 45 asked for in Attachment 2: Patterns Table. Table 2 is intended as a working 46 document to help in the creation of the guidelines and it is expected that it will 47 change as we go through the process of developing the guidelines. Design Review Board April 20, 2011 Page 1 1 • Attachment 1 of the staff report is the table of buildings on the City of Ukiah 2 Historic and Architectural Inventory and is intended to provide background and 3 help identify existing architectural styles and design elements that could be 4 included as part of the Guidelines. 5 6 Member Liden comments: 7 • The use is what drives the design. 8 • Does not support buildings that are residential units converted to commercial 9 uses, particularly for the Perkins Street Corridor. 10 11 Staff: The conversion of these residential buildings to commercial has already been 12 determined. The City's General Plan identifies these parcels as Commercial and the 13 zoning is also Commercial, which allows this conversion to occur. 14 15 Board: 16 • Does not support the development of commercial buildings that look like 17 residential. 18 • Perkins Street Corridor does not have a specific architectural or design theme. It 19 seems that this area could have more options/variety for architectural styles. 20 • Main Street is eclectic with a wide variety of building types, sizes, architectural 21 styles. 22 • Are examples of buildings we like limited to just Ukiah? 23 24 Staff: Examples of architectural designs, form, patterns etc., of buildings are not 25 necessarily limited to those that exist in Ukiah. If building design examples are selected 26 from another community or place, provide the Board with a photo of the building for 27 review and consideration. 28 29 Member Thayer: Provided photographs of building designs appropriate for Main Street 30 and Perkins Street Corridor to include the Starbucks/First America Title Company 31 building on E. Perkins and Tierra's on N. School Street. 32 33 Board Consensus of the photos selection: Reviewed photographs provided by 34 Member Liden of buildings in Ukiah and selected the following photos for each district. 35 36 Historic District 37 ■ DSC0003 - Mammina Building, 201 & 203 S. State Street 38 ■ DSC0007 - Fiebusch Building, 199 S. School Street 39 ■ DSC0008 - Courthouse Annex, 100 N. School Street 40 ■ DSC0010 - 102, 110, 112, 116, 180, 198 S. School Street (1 block of retail 41 establishments) 42 ■ DSC0011 - 102, 104 & 106 N. School Street (Salon and law offices) 43 ■ DSC0012-0013 - 120 & 130 W. Standley Street (Shoe Fly & Sock/Boutique 120 44 & Patrona) 45 ■ DSC0014 - Pano Stephens Law Office building, 201 S. State & 203, 205 S. State 46 Street (vacant) 47 ■ DSC0021 - McKinley Building, 200 S. State Street 48 ■ DSC0026 - Palace Hotel, 272 N. State Street 49 ■ DSC0037 - Dolores Apartments, 602 North State Street 50 ■ DSC0047 - Coffee Critic apartments, 476 N. State Street Design Review Board April 20, 2011 Page 2 1 ■ DSC0055 - Yoga Mendocino, 206 Mason Street 2 ■ DSC0110 - US Post Office, 224 N. Oak Street. 3 ■ DSC5065 - IOOF (Old Fellows Building), 160 E. Standley 4 5 Main Street District 6 ■ DSC0037 - Dolores Apartments, 602 North State Street 7 ■ DSC0028 - Tierra, 310 N. School Street 8 ■ DSC0047 - Coffee Critic apartments, 476 N. State Street 9 ■ DSC0050 - Graces, 323 N. Main Street 10 ■ DSC0055 - Yoga Mendocino, 206 Mason Street 11 ■ DSC0097 - Geraldine Somers Building, 290 Seminary Avenue. 12 ■ DSC5065 - Starbucks Building/First American Title Insurance Company, 704 E. 13 Perkins Street 14 15 Perkins Street Corridor 16 ■ DSC5065 - Starbucks Building/First American Title Insurance Company, 704 E. 17 Perkins Street 18 19 8. NEW BUSINESS: 20 8A. Discussion regarding changing the date and time for the regularly occurring 21 Design Review Board Meeting. 22 23 Staff: Asked the Board to consider a time and day that would be convenient for the 24 Board to meet so as to guarantee a quorum. The Board has been meeting the second 25 Thursday of every month at 3:00 p.m. 26 27 The next DRB meeting will be May 3, 2011 at 3:00 p.m. 28 29 9. MATTERS FROM THE BOARD: 30 31 Member Liden: 32 • Ukiah Main Street is interested in the concept of displaying signs in buildings that 33 have received Fa�ade Improvement Funds. 34 • The Board previously reviewed a sign developed by member Nicholson. This 35 should be used as a beginning. 36 • Would like to agendize the matter of displaying signs in buildings that have 37 received Fa�ade Improvement Funds. 38 39 10. MATTERS FROM STAFF: None. 40 41 11. SET NEXT MEETING/ADJOURNMENT The meeting adjourned at 5:02 p.m. 42 43 44 Tom Hise, Acting Chair 45 46 Cathy Elawadly, Recording Secretary Design Review Board April 20, 2011 Page 3