2005 10 05 ALRC Minutes
MINUTES
ARCHITECTURE & LANDSCAPING REVIEW COMMITTEE MEETING
A Regular meeting held at the La Quinta City Hall
78-495 Calle Tampico, La Quinta, CA
October 5, 2005
10:00 a.m.
I. CALL TO ORDER
A. This meeting of the Architectural and Landscaping Review Committee
was called to order at 10: 10 a.m. by Community Development
Director Doug Evans.
B. Committee Members present: Frank Christopher and Tracy Smith. It
was moved and seconded by Committee Members Christopher/Smith
to excuse Committee Member Bobbitt. Unanimously approved
C. Staff present: Planning Manager Les Johnson Principal Planner Stan
Sawa, and Executive Secretary Betty Sawyer.
II. PUBLIC COMMENT: None.
III.
CONFIRMATION OF THE AGENDA:
Confirmed.
IV. CONSENT CALENDAR: None
V. BUSINESS ITEMS:
A. Site Development Permit 2005-843; a request of East of Madison LLC
for consideration of architecture and landscaping plans for a
maintenance building for the property located on the north side of
Corporate Center Drive, east and west of Commerce Court.
1 . Principal Planner Stan Sawa presented the information
contained in the staff report, a copy o}, which is on file in the
Community Development Department." Staff introduced Mr.
John Gamlin, representing the applicant, who stated he had no
comments nor do they have a problem with reducing the height
of the canopy.
2. Commissioner Smith asked what material was being used for
the brown outdoor color. Mr. Craig Pearson, architect, it is an
outdoor shade cloth.
Architecture and Landscaping Review Committee
October 5, 2005
3. Commissioner Christopher stated he had no major issues. He
was interested in whether or not Lots 75 and 76 will be facing
away from the maintenance building. Mr. Gamlin stated they
face toward the golf course with dense screening to hide
facility.
4. Commissioner Smith stated the Phoenix canariensis, Strelitzia
nicolai will not hold up against the wind. Cats claw vines will
grow, but the wind will blow them down. Other than that it is
a good plant list. He asked what ground cover would be used.
Mr. Gamlin stated it would be decomposed granite (DG).
5. There being no further questions of the applicant, it was moved
and seconded by Committee Members Christopher/Smith to
adopt Minute Motion 2005-034 recommending approval of Site
Development Permit 2005-843, as recommended and as
follows:
a. Recommend Phoenix canariensis, Strelitzia nicolai and
cats claw be reviewed due to desert climate.
VI. CORRESPONDENCE AND WRITTEN MATERIAL: None.
VII. COMMITTEE MEMBER ITEMS: None
VIII. ADJOURNMENT:
There being no further business, it was moved and seconded by Committee
Members Christopher/Smith to adjourn this regular meeting of the Architectural and
Landscaping Review Committee to a meeting to be held on November 2, 2005.
This meeting was adjourned at 10:20 p.m. on October 5, 2005.
Respectfully submitted,
0/aJ Y'-'
BE TY A WYER
Executive Secretary
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