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Home My WebLink AboutDRB 2013-09-04 Minutes IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBER OF THE CITY OF SAN RAFAEL, September 4, 2013 Regular Meeting San Rafael Design Review Board Minutes For a complete video of this meeting, go to http://www.cityofsanrafael.org/meetings. CALL TO ORDER Present: Bob Huntsberry, Chair Jeff Kent Serge Fedorov, Alternate Larry Paul, PC Liaison Absent: Mohit Garg Stewart Summers Cheryl Lentini Also Present: Kraig Tambornini, Senior Planner Caron Parker, Associate Planner STAFF COMMUNICATION It is noted that Board Members Garg, Lentini and Summers are absent and that Alternate Fedorov will be a voting member this evening. BOARD COMMUNICATION APPROVAL OF MINUTES 1. Minutes, August 20, 2013 Due to the lack of a quorum to vote on this item, it will be continued to the next meeting. NEW BUSINESS 2. 118 Linden Lane: Appeal of the Zoning Administrator approval of an Environmental Design Review Permit (ED13-024) and an Exception (EX13-002) to allow a 1,241 square foot lower floor addition and a 1,462 square foot upper floor addition to the existing one- story single family home. The existing carport structure would be re-designed as a two- car garage. An Exception is requested to allow a portion of the new addition toward the rear of the house to encroach 2 feet into the required 10 foot side yard setback; APN: 015- 061-15; Single Family Residential (R10) District; Alfred and Michelle Partridge, owner/applicant; File No.: AP13-002. The Board's recommendation on this appeal will be forwarded to the Planning Commission for a final decision at a separate publ ic hearing. Project Planner: Caron Parker Jeff Kent moved and Serge Fedorov, Alternate seconded to uphold the Zoning Administrator's approval of the project with the recommendation of a formal landscape plan for the project. The vote is as follows: AYES: Bob Huntsberry, Chair, Jeff Kent, Serge Fedorov, Alternate NOES: None ABSTAIN: None ABSENT: Mohit Garg, Stewart Summers, Cheryl Lentini 3. 5800 Northgate Mall Drive (Northgate Mall Renovation Amendment) - Requests for Environmental and Design Review Permit and Use Permit amendments to the ?Mall Renovation Project-Phase I' (which was approved in 2008 for partial demolition and renovation of the main mall leasable building area, allowance to build-back up to 55,000 square feet of area proposed to be removed, construction of new leasable pad buildings, and renovation of the site parking lot, landscaping and frontage improvements), to revise the project as follows: a) permit renovation and re-use of the vacated 29,538 square foot pad building located in the east parking lot that was previously to be removed, and b) permit reduction in the parking rate from the required 4 space per 1000 sq. ft. building area ratio to 3.8 per 1,000 sq. ft. ratio; APN: 175-060-12, 40, 59, 61, 66 & 67; General Commercial (GC) District; Macerich, owner/applicant; File No.'s: ED13-027 & UP13-001. Project Planner: Kraig Tambornini Jeff Kent moved and Serge Fedorov, Alternate seconded to approve the building portion of the project but that the following consensus items be addressed and come back of the Board on the Consent Calendar at a future meeting: 1) Parking lot configuration concerns as outlined by the Board 2) Landscaping concerns as outlined by the Board The vote is as follows: AYES: Bob Huntsberry, Chair, Jeff Kent, Serge Fedorov, Alternate NOES: None ABSTAIN: None ABSENT: Mohit Garg, Stewart Summers, Cheryl Lentini ADJOURNMENT: ___________________________________ ANNE DERRICK, Administrative Assistant III APPROVED THIS_____DAY____OF_______, 2013 _____________________________________ JEFF KENT, Chair