ARC Minutes 2017-01-09 SPACTION MINUTES
SPECIAL MEETING OF THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW COMMITTEE
MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 2017
ARROYO GRANDE CITY HALL, 300 EAST BRANCH STREET
ARROYO GRANDE, CA
1. CALL TO ORDER
Chair Hoag called the Special Architectural Review Committee meeting to order at 2:30 p.m.
2. ROLL CALL
ARC Members: Chair Warren Hoag, Vice Chair Michael Peachy, and Committee
Members Bruce Berlin, Mary Hertel and John Rubatzky were present.
City Staff Present: Community Development Director Teresa McClish and Planning
Technician Sam Anderson were present.
3. FLAG SALUTE
Mary Hertel led the Flag Salute.
4. COMMUNITY COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS
None.
5. APPROVAL OF MINUTES
Bruce Berlin made a motion, seconded by Michael Peachy, to approve the minutes of
December 5, 2016, December 8, 2016, and December 19, 2016 with the following
corrections:
December 8 — Correct the voice vote from 4-0, with John Rubatzky absent, to 3-1, with Mary
Hertel dissenting and John Rubatzky absent.
December 19 — Add the statement "made a motion" to paragraph 4 of items 6.e and 6.f, and
clarify that only ARC members whose terms are expiring are required to submit applications
to the City Clerk to continue on the ARC.
The motion carried on a 5-0 voice vote, with the caveat that Mary Hertel was absent from
the December 19 meeting.
6. PROJECTS
6.a. CONSIDERATION OF ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW 16-019; ARCHITECTURAL
TREATMENTS FOR SLOPE STABILIZATION FEATURE; LOCATION — 1400 WEST
BRANCH STREET; APPLICANT — AVAR CONSTRUCTION (Downing)
Planning Technician Anderson presented the staff report and responded to questions from
the Committee regarding the role of the ARC in the project.
Michael Renburg, lawyer for Hampton Inn, Bill Creger, contractor, and Norman Ryan, lawyer
for Premier Inn, spoke in support of the project and responded to questions from the
Committee regarding possible vegetative options, visual mitigation measures, and erosion
concerns.
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The Committee provided comments on the project regarding possible erosion and
vegetative mitigation solutions.
Mary Hertel made a motion, seconded by Bruce Berlin, to recommend approval of the
project to the Community Development Director as submitted, with the recommendation to
include some form of vegetative treatment at the top and bottom of the slope stabilization
feature.
The motion carried on a 5-0 voice vote.
7. DISCUSSION ITEMS
Planning Technician presented modified plans for the previously approved 1177 Ash Street
Planned Unit Development 15-001 and requested that the ARC make a finding of
substantial conformance with the previously approved plans. The ARC was in agreement
that the proposed change was in substantial conformance with the previously approved
plans.
8. COMMITTEE COMMUNICATIONS
Vice Chair Peachy reminded the other ARC members that this would be his second to last
meeting as a member of the ARC. Chair Hoag recommended that his nominated
replacement would be another architect, citing the value of having a practicing architect on
the committee.
9. STAFF COMMUNICATIONS
Planning Technician Anderson reminded Committee members that the regular January 16,
2017 meeting was cancelled due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day,
10. ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 3:13 p.m. to a special meeting on January 23, 2017 at 2:30
p.m.
SAM ANDERSON
PLANNING TECHNICIAN
(Approved at ARC Mtg 3-6-2017)
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