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1993 07 07 DRBWily C/ Ya a ton • / REVIEWDESIGN BOARD A Regular Meeting to be held at the La Quinta City Hall, 78-105 Calle Estado La Quinta, California July 7, 1993 5:30 P.M. I. CALL TO ORDER - Flag Salute II. ROLL CALL A. Election of Chair and Vice Chair III. BUSINESS SESSION A. Plot Plan 93-504; a request of Winchester Asset Management (for La Quinta Golf Properties) for approval of plans for a maintenance building and security guardhouse. IV. CONSENT CALENDAR - None V. OTHER VI. ADJOURNMENT STUDY SESSION CANCELLED '.'-�,,001 DATE: CASE NO: APPLICANT: ARCHITECT: REQUEST: LOCATION: BACKGROUND: STAFF REPORT DESIGN REVIEW BOARD MEETING IULY 7, 1993 PLOT PLAN 93-504 WINCHESTER ASSET MANAGEMENT (FOR LA QUINTA GOLF PROPERTIES) MONIGHAN ASSOCIATES, ARCHITECTS APPROVAL OF PLANS FOR MAINTENANCE BUILDING AND SECURITY GUARD GATEHOUSE THE QUARRY LOCATED SOUTH AND WEST OF LAKE CAHUILLA The subject property is "The Quarry" which was approved by the City Council on May 4, 1993. The project includes a maintenance building and security guardhouse. The maintenance building is located near the northeast corner of the project (southerly half of the property which includes most of the golf course and all of the residential units). This location is an alternative to the originally approved location near the southeast corner of the site. Staff is presently processing an amendment to the parcel map and tentative tract map to allow the relocated area. At this time, Staff feels that the revised location will be approved. The security guardhouse entry is located on Schwabacker Road which is the entrance into the project site from 58th Avenue. The Conditions of Approval require that the Design Review Board and Planning Commission review and approve the plans. Additionally, the conditions stipulate that the architecture be indigenous to the surrounding desert environment through the use of style colors and materials. The applicant has submitted plans for the maintenance building. These plans include a plot plan, elevation plans, preliminary landscaping plans, and section views. The applicant has also submitted plans for the security guardhouse entry on Schwabacker Road. The Conditions of Approval allow this to be approved by Staff. However, since they were submitted with the maintenance facility, Staff has chosen to forward the plans to the Design Review Board and Planning Commission for review. The plans for the guard house include the plot plan, elevation plans, and landscaping plan. DRBST.098 �- ��,002 SITE DESIGN: Maintenance Building The maintenance building site is a somewhat rectangular site consisting of approximately 1.3 acres. The proposed location is near the northeast corner of the gravel pit site adjacent to Cahuilla Park Drive which leads into Lake Cahuilla. The maintenance building is located near the westerly end of the property. In addition to the maintenance building, there will be a above ground fuel storage area, a wash down area, storage bins, and a large recessed trash location, and parking for 20 automobiles. Access to the facility is provided at the easterly end from the internal street. The applicant has also showed an entrance from Cahuilla Park Road. Security Gate House The security gate house is located along the entry road from 58th Avenue. According to the applicants, the westerly 850 feet of this road adjacent to the project site is private. The proposed security gate house is located approximately 730 feet east of the main project site. The proposed improvements will consist of a security gate house, a parking stall, and security gates. The guard house is approximately 12' X 20' in area and would include an office area and restroom facility. The security gate house would be placed on a planter in the middle of the road. At the east and west ends of the gate house, there would be a raised rock veneer planter. On the east elevation planter, the applicant proposes a sign which would read "The Quarry at La Quinta". ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN: Maintenance Building The architecture of the maintenance building is nondescript. The applicant has designed it as rectangular box with a wide overhang over the east elevation. The building will be a flat roof structure with stucco walls that are painted in contrasting colors. The structure is 16-feet tall and would consist of approximately 6250-feet of floor space. The applicant has indicated that they designed the building in this manner because the site will be graded so that it is not visible. The applicant has indicated on his elevations cross sections of adjacent property lines and walls, except for the area adjacent to Cahuilla Park Drive. For this area, the applicant has submitted a supplemental 11" X 17" sheet which shows the relationship adjacent to Cahuilla Park Drive. The colors proposed for the building consist of a light beige/light cool grey color for the plaster areas above 11-feet of the building wall, with the area below the I1-foot mark to be a light medium beige/light cool grey in color. DRBST.098 003 Security Gate House The architecture of the security gate house is similar to that used in the clubhouse in that the materials will match. The 10'6"± high building will have a hip roof with the same blue/grey concrete slate roof used on the clubhouse. The walls will be stucco and will be a light beige/light cool grey in color. The raised planters at the east and west ends of the building will be a natural rock veneer to match that utilized on the clubhouse. SIGNAGE: Security Gate House The applicant has submitted for the west side of the gate house on a short block wall. The plans indicate a 1-foot high by 4'6" long sign which would state "The Quarry" at La Quinta on two lines. The signage is proposed to be brass. LANDSCAPING: Maintenance Building The applicant has submitted a landscaping plan indicating plant types, quantities, and sizes. While most plants used are low water usage, it does not appear that indigenous plants are utilized. The maintenance building area is planted with a mixture of low water usage plants and desert type materials. The trees proposed vary from Bottle trees, citrus trees, and California Fan Palms to Chilean Mesquites and African Sumac. The easterly end of the property will contain a well site and is proposed to be gravel with Palm Springs Gold. Along Cahuilla Park Road, Chilean Mesquite are proposed to be used. The Bottle trees are used at the west end of the property as a buffer between the maintenance building and an adjacent residential lot. Security Guardhouse The landscaping adjacent to the entry is a variety of low water usage plants and desert type plants. However, few if any indigenous plants are proposed to be used. Additionally some lawn is proposed to be used along the road between the guardhouse and interior road. Flagstone paving with concrete bands are proposed to be used around the guardhouse and at the easterly end of the private road area. The plans indicate that along the north and south side of the private road right-of-way a wrought iron fence will be provided. ANALYSIS: Staff has reviewed the plans and offers the following comments: The final site plan layout for the security gatehouse and drive around it will need to be reviewed by the Engineering Department and Fire Marshal to make sure it works properly. DRBST.098 '-� 4 004 2. Overall, Staff would like to see more use of indigenous landscaping. While a few varieties are desert type landscaping almost none of it is indigenous to the surrounding canyon area. It should be noted that in the golf course and areas closer to the golf course, Staff will expect indigenous landscaping as originally proposed when the project was approved. 3. Along Cahuilla Park Drive, the applicant has indicated landscaping. Presently along the street there are existing Blue Palo Verde trees (Cercidium floridum) along with other desert shrubbery. New landscaping along this street should be similar to the existing planting. Therefore, the landscape plan should show the existing trees and be designed to be compatible with them. 4. As noted, the architecture for the maintenance building is nondescript and box -like. The applicant has indicated that as designed the building will not be visible. Staff feels that while it may not be visible from inside the property it will be visible from sections of Cahuilla Park drive which is the street that leads into Lake Cahuilla. Therefore, it may be appropriate to provide some architectural treatment to the building. It should be noted that the present grading of the property is not the finish grade for the maintenance building site. The applicant has indicated that existing grading will be lowered approximately ten feet in the area of the maintenance building site. 5. This plot plan application will be forwarded to the Planning Commission for final action. RECOMMENDED CONDITIONS: 1. The gate on Cahuilla Park Drive from the maintenance building shall be solid and decorative in nature. The plans for the gate shall be included with the final working drawings. 2. Trash provisions and design shall be reviewed and approved by Waste Management of the Desert prior to issuance of any building permit for the maintenance building. 3. The 24-foot driveway aisle near the westerly end of the maintenance building shall be widened to 26-feet per City Code requirements. 4. The wall adjacent to Cahuilla Park Drive shall be decorative with the design included in the final working drawings. This wall shall match the wall along Cahuilla Park Drive for those residential lots which back up to said street. 5. Prior to issuance of a building permit, a revised preliminary landscaping plan shall be submitted to the Planning and Development Department showing exiting trees along Cahuilla Park Drive and relationship to proposed landscaping. Between 1/3 and 50% of the landscaping materials along Cahuilla Park Drive shall be indigenous to the surrounding area. All trees along Cahuilla Park Drive shall be a minimum 24" box size. 6. Wrought iron fencing and gates on the entry road shall be decorative and included in working drawings for the security guardhouse. DRBST.098 _ 005 RECOMMENDATION: Staff would recommend that in light of the suggested conditions and other comments that the Design Review Board review the plans and take appropriate action. Attachments: 1. Location map 2. Plans for the maintenance building and security gate house DRBST.098 rr, e 751-070-015 y (VACANT) �lq A MuMill ' <1� r1 �4 - -002 1 M N iNT ��N 61�, C:at�e 761-070-017 (VACANT) N -- SCeHWASAKER ROAD N SW 39'1) 668.4 Q NE t 6 WATER C D AT THE ENTF IN 58t O NZP 4aLr----.e SITS: 761-070-008 (VACANT) EXHIBIT �cASE NO. gl 3 ` 007