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ORDINANCE NO. 2213
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF
ARTICLE IX, CHAPTER 2, PART 9, DIVISION 5 OF THE
ARCADIA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN REVIEW
9295. PURPOSE.
The purpose of the Architectural Design Review Guidelines and Process (the
"Design Guidelines") is to promote a desired level of quality residential,
commercial and industrial development in Arcadia that will:
Residential
A. Contribute to a positive physical image and identity of single-family
and multiple"family development.
B. Allow diversity of style while promoting the positive design
characteristics existing throughout the City.
C. Provide guidance for the orderly development of the City and promote
high quality development.
D. Maintain and protect the property values by encouraging excellence in
architectural design that:
a. Will enhance the visual environment and character of the
community;
b. Will preserve and protect property values;
c. Is sensitive to both the site and its surroundings; and
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d. Has been carefully considered with well-integrated features that
express a definite architectural style.
Commercial/Industrial
A. Contribute to a positive physical image and identity of commercial and
industrial development.
S. Foster design that is sensitive to both the site and its surroundings.
C. Provide guidance for the orderly development of the City and promote
high quality development.
D. Maintain and protect the value of property.
E. Reinforce the importance of the pedestrian with scale and space.
F. Ensure that the architectural design of structures and their materials and
colors are visually harmonious with surrounding development.
G. Encourage improvements that respect or improve neighborhood
character.
H. Ensure that plans for the landscaping of open spaces conform to the
requirements set forth in the code, and that they provide visually pleasing settings
for structures on the site and on adjoining and nearby sites and blend harmoniously
with the natural landscape.
I. Ensure that the design and location of signs and their materials and
colors are consistent with the character and scale of the buildings to which they are
attached or which are located on the same site, and ensure .that signs are visually
harmonious with surrounding development.
J. Encourage excellence and diversity in architectural design to enhance
the visual environment of the city, preserve and protect property values and the
character of the community, and mitigate against degradation and depreciation.
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K. Promote and protect the health, safety, comfort and general welfare of
the community to promote the standards of appearance in the community and
encourage the appropriate use ofland within the City.
The interpretation and implementation of the Design Guidelines should be
based on the above purposes. Projects that are reviewed for compliance with the
Design Guidelines should meet the intent of the above purposes.
The Design Guidelines do not seek to impose an overriding style, a limited
color palette, or an artificial theme, but seek to promote the positive design
characteristics existing throughout the City.
The goal is to promote quality designs that have been carefully considered. It
is intended to promote designs that have well integrated features rather than tacked
on details. The Design Guidelines are less quantitative than mandatory
development standards and may be interpreted with reasonable flexibility in their
application to specific projects.
SECTION 2. Section 9295.1 of the Arcadia Municipal Code is amended to
read as follows:
9295.1. APPLICABILITY.
Design approval is required prior to the issuance of a building permit, sign
permit, conditional use permit, variance and/or modification, for all projects
located within all the single-family, multiple-family, commercial and industrial
zones as well as exterior alterations, additions or new buildings located in the S-I
zone. In addition, the Design Guidelines apply to the following uses that do not
require permits: painting of buildings and signs painted directly on a building.
Exception: the Design Guidelines do not apply to the following:
I. Signs having no words or symbols greater than 3 inches in height.
2. Building permits for work which is located entirely within a
building and which does not alter the external appearance of said building.
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In addition, single-family residential properties/homes located within
the City designated homeowners association areas are not subject to the
City's Architectural Design Review Process. However, the Associations
shall adhere to and apply the Design Guidelines as well as the Association's
enabling resolution in their Design Review Process.
SECTION 3. Section 9295.2 of the Arcadia Municipal Code is amended to
read as follows:
9295.2. HOW TO USE THE DESIGN GUIDELINES.
These Design Guidelines are intended to be used to generally influence the
design of single-family, multiple-family, corrunercial and industrial development,
exterior alterations or redevelopment of land uses. The Design Guidelines should
be used as a starting point for the creative design process and should not be looked
upon as the only solution for design. Owners of properties should strive to be
creative and innovative and look beyond franchise or boilerplate architectural,
signage and landscape architectural design treatment.
SECTION 4. Section 9295.4 of the Arcadia Municipal Code is amended to
read as follows:
9295.4. RELATIONSHIP TO DESIGN REVIEW PROCESS.
The Design Guidelines shall be utilized during the City's Design
Review Process to encourage the highest level of design quality and at the
same time, provide the flexibility necessary to encourage creativity on the
part of project designers in response to existing site conditions.
Applicants submitting plans for new development, additions and/or exterior
alterations or rehabilitation of buildings/structures must follow the Design Review
Process set forth below in order to complete site and building improvements.
SECTION 5. Section 9295.5 of the Arcadia Municipal Code is amended to
read as follows:
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9295.5. SCOPE AND AUTHORITY.
Project proponents should review the entire set of Design Guidelines
prior to beginning a project's design.
The Design Review Process shall consist of the following three steps:
I. Preliminary consultation between the project sponsor and the
Development Services Department staff to discuss Design
Guidelines and design criteria applicable to the site and use.
2. Design concept review by the Development Services Department,
Modification Committee, Planning Commission or City Council, as
provided for in the code.
Exception: Properties within City designated homeowners
association areas are subject to the Design Guidelines set forth in
this Division 5 (Section 9295, et seq.), but shall be subject to review
and approval of only the homeowners associations' architectural
review board, subject to appeal to the Planning Commission.
3. Final design review during the plan check process by the Development
Services Department for consistency with the approval or conditional
approval as established in the design concept approval stage.
SECTION 6. Section 9295.6 of the Arcadia Municipal Code is amended to
read as follows:
9295.6. GENERAL DESIGN CRITERIA FOR ALL PROJECTS.
General design review standards and criteria for single-family, multiple-
family, commercial and industrial projects shall be established by resolution of the
City Council.
SECTION 7. Section 9295.7 of the Arcadia Municipal Code is amended to
read as follows:
9295.7. DESIGN REVIEW PROCEDURES.
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A. The Development Services Department shall perform design
concept review of all projects, with the exception of single-family homes
within City designated homeowners association areas.
B. The Development Services Department shall forward its
recommendation for design concept review for projects that require a
modification, conditional use permit or variance to the hearing body acting on
such modification, conditional use permit or zone variance.
C. Projects in excess of two (2) acres or buildings in excess of 40,000
sq. ft. shall be subject to design review by the Planning Commission.
The Development Services Director or designee, Modification Committee,
or Planning Commission may determine the matter or decline to review and
instead may refer it to the hearing body that would consider the matter as if an
appeal had been filed.
SECTION 8. Section 9295.8 of the Arcadia Municipal Code is amended to
read as follows:
9295.8. INITIATION OF DESIGN REVIEW.
A. Preliminary Consultation. Preliminary consultation shall be initiated by a
project proponent by requesting an appointment with the Development Services
Director or planner in the Community Development Division.
B. Design Concept Review. Design concept review shall be initiated by
submission of an application by a project proponent to the Development Services
Department on a form approved and containing information required by the
Development Services Director or designee. The application shall include such
plans and materials deemed by the Development Services Director or designee to
be required for adequate concept review.
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Final Design Review. Final design review of development plans shall be
initiated within one (1) year of design concept approval by submission of plans by
a project proponent to Building Services for plan check.
SECTION 9. Section 9295.9 of the Arcadia Municipal Code is amended to
read as follows:
9295.9. DESIGN CONCEPT REVIEW AND APPROVAL.
A. By Development Services Department.
1. Administrative Review - single-family dwellings. The
Development Services Director or designee may approve, conditionally
approve, disapprove or return plans for revisions for the following types of
improvements to a single-family dwelling and/or accessory building(s),
subject to, the determination of the Development Services Director or
designee that the proposed project complies with the single-family Design
Guidelines:
1. Roofing material;
II. window/door change outs/replacements;
111. fences/walls within the front yard area;
IV. exterior siding;
v. other types of exterior alterations as deemed appropriate by
the Development Services Director or designee.
Review of the above improvements may be conducted upon
submittal of plans by a project proponent to Building Services or subsequent
to plans being submitted for plan check. If the Development Services
Director or designee determines that the proposed improvements do not
comply with the single-family Design Guidelines, the applicant shall apply
for a regular n:view process as set forth below.
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2. Regular Review: The Development Services Director or
designee shall review development plans submitted by a project proponent
for design concept approval within thirty (30) working days after receipt for
a single-family residential project and within forty-five (45) working days
after receipt for a multiple-family, commercial or industrial project, and may
approve, conditionally approve, disapprove or return plans for revisions.
After each submittal of a complete application, the City shall have thirty (30)
working days of receipt to review the plans for a single-family residential
project and forty-five (45) working days after receipt for a multiple-family,
commercial or industrial project. Within five (5) working days after a
decision, notice of the decision shall be mailed to the applicant.
B. By Modification Committee, Planning Commission or City Council.
Concurrent with the hearing of an application for a modification, conditional use
permit or variance, the Modification Committee, Planning Commission or City
Council may approve, conditionally approve or disapprove the proposed design
concept plans.
SECTION 10.. Section 9295.16 of the Arcadia Municipal Code is amended
to read as follows:
9295.16. APPEAL.
A. Appeals from the Development Services Director's or designee's or
Modification Committee's decision shall be made to the Planning Commission
within five (5) working days of the Development Services Director's or designee's
or Modification Committee's decision and shall be accompanied by payment of an
appeal fee in an amount established by resolution of the City Council. A public
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hearing shall be scheduled not less than ten (10) calendar days or more than forty
(40) calendar days after the filing of an appeal.
B. Appeals from the decision of the Planning Commission shall be made
to the City Council within five (5) working days of the Planning Commi~sion's
decision and shall be accompanied by payment of an appeal fee in an amount
established by resolution of the City Council. A public hearing shall be scheduled
not less than ten (10) calendar days or more than forty (40) calendar days after the
filing of an appeal.
SECTION 11. The City Clerk shall certify the adoption of this Ordinance
and shall cause a copy or summary of the same to be published in the official
newspaper of said City within fifteen (15) days of its adoption. This Ordinance
shall take effect thirty-one (31) days after its adoption.
Passed, approved and adopted this 6th day of December ,2005.
Mayo of the City of Arcadia
ATTEST:
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ity Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Stephen P. Deitsch, City Attorney
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS:
CITY OF ARCADIA )
I, JAMES H. BARROWS, City Clerk of the City of Arcadia, hereby certifies
that the foregoing Ordinance No. 2213 was passed and adopted by the City Council of
the City of Arcadia, signed by the Mayor and attested to by the City Clerk at a regular
meeting of said Council held on the 6th day of December, 2005 and that said
Ordinance was adopted by the following vote, to wit:
A YES: Councilmember Chandler, Kovacic, Marshall, Segal and Wuo
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
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