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Tower District Design Review Committee

Tue, Dec 8, 2020 · 5:00 PMFinal

Meeting details

Meeting name: Tower District Design Review Committee
Agenda status: Final
Meeting date/time: Tue, Dec 8, 2020 · 5:00 PM
Minutes status: Draft
Location: Electronic Meeting Electronic Meeting
Published minutes: Not available
eComment: Not available
Meeting video: Not available

Agenda (PDF)

Agenda 16

This agenda was structured for accessibility from the official agenda: Agenda (PDF)

- ICALL TO ORDER
- Purpose of Committee, Introductions and Procedures – Chair Clifton
- IIDISTRIBUTION OF AGENDA MATERIALS AND REPORTS FROM STAFF
- IIIADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS - Reports from Committee Members
- IVCONSENT CALENDAR
- Consent Calendar Items are matters that both the Committee and Applicant have agreed upon and require no discussion. N/A
- VCONTINUED MATTERS
- Continued Matters are items that have been previously reviewed but were not voted upon by the Committee. Further discussion respective to issues which necessitated the continuance from a previous agenda will likely be required prior to action by the Committee.
- AProposed Second Dwelling Unit
- Location: 1440 East La Salle Avenue Contact: Alejandro Magallan Proposed 1,187 square-foot second dwelling unit for an existing single-family residence. Project was reviewed by the committee on October 27, 2020. Committee took no action and requested applicant to return w/ revised elevation exhibits that better demonstrated conformance w/ Tower District Specific Plan Design Guidelines.
- VINEW MATTERS
- New Matters are items that will be reviewed by the Committee and which may be subject to a vote of the Committee. Applicants and/or their representatives are asked to be in attendance to discuss these projects.
- BProposed Single Family Residence & Second Dwelling Unit (Fire Repair)
- Location: 144 E Weldon Avenue Contact: Marvin Armstrong Original house sustained significant burn damage. The fire burned the garage completely and spread to the house damaging most of the roof. The house currently sits with exterior and interior walls intact and striped to the studs on the inside. The roof was removed to the plate line. The garage will be rebuilt with an ADU on the second floor. The house will have significant interior remodeling and the roof will be rebuilt with a gable roof and raised in the middle to allow for a usable attic space. The previous roof was hipped. The house will be all electric and include PV solar panels on south facing roof areas, which are in the back of the house. The exterior stucco finish will be repaired and repainted. The roof will be composition shingles. The house will be remodeled with the same footprint as the original construction, there will be no new floor space on the ground floor of the house. The garage will be the same size as before and the ADU on the second floor of the garage will be new floor space to the site.
- VIICOMMITTEE CONSULTATION AND UNSCHEDULED MATTERS
- Committee Consultation Items and unscheduled matters are items that the general public can address to the Committee in order to request input on a proposed project with no formal recommendations, or to provide general information about projects and events in the Tower District. However, the Committee cannot take formal action on these items. (Unscheduled Items shall each be limited to five minutes.)

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