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Minutes
ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW COMMISSION
Monday, May 15, 2017
Regular Meeting of the Architectural Review Commission
CALL TO ORDER
A Regular Meeting of the Architectural Review Commission was called to order on Monday,
May 15, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. in the Council Hearing Room, located at 990 Palm Street, San Luis
Obispo, California, by Chair Wynn.
ROLL CALL
Present: Commissioners Amy Nemcik, Allen Root, Greg Starzyk, Richard Beller, Vice-Chair
Angela Soll, Chair Greg Wynn, and Commissioner Brian Rolph (arrived at 5:02 p.m.)
Absent: None
Staff: Community Development Deputy Director Doug Davidson, Associate Planner Shawna
Scott, Senior Civil Engineer Dan Van Beveren.
PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEMS NOT ON THE AGENDA
None.
CONSIDERATION OF MINUTES
ACTION: MOTION BY CHAIR WYNN, SECOND BY VICE-CHAIR SOLL, CARRIED 6-
0-1, to approve the minutes of the Architectural Review Commission meeting of March 20, 2017
with the following amendment:
Page 3: An addition to Commissioner Root’s comments on the third paragraph of the page,
“would create a sense of confinement and he would prefer to see an alternative to that archway;
expressed interested in Chorro…”
PUBLIC HEARINGS
1. Taft to Pepper. ARCH-0360-2017: Design review of an approximately 1,700-linear-foot
section of the proposed Railroad Safety Trail, including proposed tree removals and a bridge
over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, and adoption of a proposed Mitigated Negative
Declaration of Environmental Impact for the project; R-2 and O zones; City, State, and
Union Pacific Railroad right-of-way; City of San Luis Obispo Public Works Department,
applicant. (Dan Van Beveren)
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Associate Planner Shawna Scott introduced the project.
Senior Civil Engineer Dan Van Beveren continued the presentation with the project
description and history.
Associate Planner Scott and Senior Civil Engineer Van Beveren responded to Commission
inquiries.
Public Comments:
Bill Davies, San Luis Obispo, voiced concerns regarding asphalt conditions, and commented
on the quality of work on the project.
Joanna Whitcher, San Luis Obispo, expressed concerns about the project’s interaction with
the City’s transient population.
--End of Public Comment --
Commission and applicant comments followed regarding bridge fencing materials, elevation
grade percent variances, aesthetic suggestions to the fencing details on the bridge, pathway
entrances and exits, suggestions for areas for control barriers to mitigate potential
encampments and graffiti.
ACTION: MOTION BY COMMISSIONER BELLER, SECOND BY COMMISSIONER
ROOT, CARRIED BY A 7-0 CONSENSUS to adopt the resolution which approves the design
of the project and proposed tree removals based on findings and subject to conditions, and adopts
the Mitigated Negative Declaration with the following modifications and additions:
Condition #3: “… Lighting shall be low level (less than four feet in height), bollard style, and
continuous (outside of street sources of lighting).
Condition #4: Construction plans shall demonstrate the use of high quality materials. Guardrails
and railings shall meet minimum City and Union Pacific Railroad standards, and shall emulate
materials used around and on the Jennifer Street Bridge. The bridge shall provide at least ten
feet of vertical clearance to overhead screening.
Condition #5: Construction plans shall include a landscape plan for review and approval by the
Community Development Director. The plans shall incorporate graffiti-deterrents on and around
proposed abutments and bridge structures.
2. 1035 Madonna Road. ANNX 1502-2015: Study session for applicant to receive feedback
from the ARC on the response to direction given at the May 1, 2017 ARC meeting; Design
Guidelines for the San Luis Ranch Specific Plan project; Final EIR is being prepared for
project under CEQA; Specific Plan Area 2; Coastal Community Builders, applicant. (John
Rickenbach) Review of this item has been rescheduled to Monday, May 22, 2017 at a
Special Meeting of the Architectural Review Commission. It will no longer be reviewed on
Monday, May 15, 2017.
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COMMENTS AND DISCUSSION
Deputy Director Davidson provided an agenda forecast.
ADJOURNMENT
The meeting was adjourned at 6:35 p.m. The next meeting of the Architectural Review
Commission is a Special Meeting scheduled for Monday, May 22, 2017 at 5:00 p.m., in the
Council Chamber, 990 Palm Street, San Luis Obispo, California.
APPROVED BY THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW COMMISSION: 08/21/2017