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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-2498 - Amending Specific Development 65 Zoning District (Discovery Science Center)ORDINANCE NO. NS-2498 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDING SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT 65 ZONING DISTRICT (DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER) THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The City Council hereby finds, determines and declares as follows: In 1997, pursuant to the authority of section 41-493 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code, the City established Specific Development (SD) 65, a zoning district. SD 65 was created for the express purpose of establishing land use regulations and standards for the affected property, commonly known as the Discovery Science Center. The City Council now desires to amend SD 65, to add new proposed uses to the north parcel and changes to the proposed IMAX or large screen theater. The Planning Commission has, following a noticed public hearing, on March 25, 2002 recommended approval of these amendments to SD. The City Council has held a noticed public hearing on this Ordinance, and has considered all testimony presented thereto. In conjunction with this project, the City Council has previously certified Final Environmental Impact Report No. 96-01 and its Addendum. Section 2. 1 hereto. SD 65 is hereby approved and adopted to read as set forth in Exhibit Section 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional. ADOPTED this 6th day of May, 2002. Page 1 of 10 Ordinance No. NS-2498 APPROVED AS TO FORM: Joseph W. Fletcher City Attorney By: ~e~a~i n B Ka Chieft~lssistant City Attorney AYES: NOES: ABSTAIN: NOT PRESENT: Councilmembers: Councilmembers: Councilmembers: Councilmembers: Alvarez, Bist, Christy, Franklin, McGuigan, Pulido, Solorio (7) None (0) None (0) None (0) CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY I, PATRICIA E. HEALY, Clerk of the Council, do hereby attest to and certify the attached Ordinance No. NS-2498 to be the odginal ordinance adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana on May 6, 2002, and that said ordinance was published in accordance with the Charter of the City of Santa Ana. Clerk of the Council City of Santa Ana Page 2 of 10 Ordinance No. NS-2498 SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT 65 DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER Sha~e~ text ~s add t on ............. u,, text is deletion SECTION 1 - APPLICABILITY OF ORDINANCE The Specific Development zoning district for the subject property, as authorized by Chapter 41, Division 26, Section 41-593 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code, is specifically subject to the standards and regulations contained in the plan for the express purpose of establishing land use regulations and standards for the Discovery Science Center. Development Agreement No. 97-01 Variance No. 97-03, c,-,d Development Review Process No. 96-27 applicable sections of the City's Municipal Code and Design and Development shall apply to this district unless superseded by this ordinance. The approved plans, dra~ings, and specifications as noted in Development Review Process No. 96-27 a ~D~9 are included by reference as a part of this Specific Development District. SECTION 2 - PURPOSE The Santa Ana City Council has determined that the Discovery Science Center represents a cultural, education, and economic icon to the greater Santa Ana community. Specific Development 65 has been drafted to recognize the unique physical and technological characteristics of the Museum and Science Center complex. The Specific Development District Plan incorporates the unique site plan components of the building and site structures by reference. The sign program identified in this Plan captures the value of excellence and design principles as defined by the community policy board. The standards identified in this plan provide for property site planning and sound design principles, which should provide positive education stimulus to the greater Santa Ana community. SECTION 3 - USES PERMITTED A. Museum and science center. B. Professional zoned uses: 1. Uses permitted as adopted from the Professional (P) district: Page 3 of 10 Ordinance No. NS-2498 (a) Professional, business and administrative offices where no memhandise is sold. (b) Banks, savings and loan offices, credit unions, and mortgage and finance companies. (c) Travel agencies. (d) Medical and dental offices. (e) Art galleries, art and photography studios. (f) Museums and science centers. (g) Print and copy services. (h) Pharmacies, limited to the dispensing of goods and merchandise related to health care only, and excluding drive-through facilities. (i) Day care and nursery schools. (j) Non-freestanding commercial and service uses which do not exceed 10 percent of the floor space of the building in which they are located and which are supportive of, compatible with, and integrated into the professional and business uses on the same property, excluding drive-through facilities, and commercial uses which are open at any time between the hours of 12:00 a.m. (midnight) and 5:00 a.m. (k) Freestanding restaurants, cafes, and eating establishments, excluding drive-through facilities and excluding any eating establishment specified in Section 41-313.5 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. Uses permitted subject to the issuance of a conditional use permit: (a) Convalescent hospitals, nursing homes, rest homes, and extended care facilities. (b) Hospitals. (c) Trade and professional schools. (d) Health clubs and gymnasiums. Page 4 of 10 Ordinance No. NS-2498 (e) (f) (h) Recreational or entertainment uses if carried on in conjunction with any of the uses specified in clauses (e), (f) and (k) of Section 41- 313 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. Ambulance and emergency medical response services. Non-freestanding commemial and service uses which are open at any time between the hours of 12:00 a.m. (midnight) and 5:00 a.m., provided that such uses also meet the standards for commercial and service uses permitted under Section 41-313 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code, and further provided that such uses have hess than 20,000 square feet of floor area. Eating establishment's open at any time between the hours of 12:00 a.m. (midnight) and 5:00 a.m. and located within 150 feet of residentially zoned or used property, measured from property line to property line. SECTION 4 - BUILDING HEIGHT A. Museum and science center. Per Article III, Section 41-314, Chapter 41 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. B. Professional zoned uses: Per Article III, Section 41-314, Chapter 41 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. SECTION 5 - BUILDING SETBACKS A. Museum and science center. North (front) Fifteen (15') feet wide for the first 250 feet measured from the front property line, seven feet wide thereon, along the Santiago Creek. South (rear) Approximately 115 feet from the southern most intersection of the property lines as measured along the east property line. This measurement was taken to the perimeter edge of the cube structure. Page 5 of 10 Ordinance No. NS-2498 East (side) Fifteen (15') feet wide, except at the existing building where it shall be a minimum of 12 feet wide. West (side) Ten (10')feet, except between the building and the freeway property line, where five feet is required. No setback required in parking lot areas abutting the freeway. Professional zoned uses. Per Article III, Section 41-315, Chapter 41 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. SECTION 6 - LANDSCAPE REQUIREMENTS A. Museum and science center. 1. Primary landscape areas: North (front) Fifteen (15') feet for the first 250 feet measured from the east property line. Seven (7') feet minimum thereon along the bike trail. South (rear) Ten (10') feet, except at existing building where a minimum five feet setback must be maintained. No setback is required along parking areas adjacent to the freeway where vine pockets must be provided at six feet intervals. East (side) Fifteen (15') feet, except at existing building where a minimum twelve (12') feet wide setback must be maintained. Corner parcel on Main Street and the Freeway, is to remain open space for the Center's outdoor activities, except for an area under the cube structure and the required exit paths. Page 6 of 10 Ordinance No. NS-2498 West (side) None required. Landscape around building perimeter. North (front) Five (5') feet except at front plaza, and required exits. A five-foot planter is required around the outdoor dining terrace, except at required exits and ticket booth. South (rear) Five (5') feet, except at exits and rear storage yard where the five feet landscape requirement is to be relocated along the west retaining wall of the exit ramp. East (side) Fifteen (15') feet, except at the existing building where twelve (12') feet is required. West (side) No landscaping is required on the west-building wall. Landscape in parking lot and parking structures. (a) Date palms along the pedestrian promenade. (b) One standard planter at each end of a row of parking spaces, plus ~ $cvc?, standard 8'6" x 18' landscape fingers. All planters must have a canopy tree per landscape plans approved. (c) Any unimproved areas must be landscaped, except at required pedestrian paths. Landscape along the Santiago Creek. A 15-foot wide landscape planter along the first 250 feet measured from the east property line and minimum seven (7') feet wide thereon. NOTE: Landscape standards not addressed shall be subject to Article II, Section 41-316, 317, 319, and 320 and Article XVI, Chapter 41 of the Santa Ana Page 7 of 10 Ordinance No. NS-2498 Municipal Code. Professional zoned uses. Per Article II, Section 41-316, 317, 319, and 320, Chapter 41 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. Per Article XVI, Chapter 41 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. SECTION 7 - PARKING REQUIREMENTS A. Museums and science centers. Vehicular parking shall be per Article XV of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. '..~;, ,,-, t~', ' Bus parking spaces for ~re~ {~) .... ~,~/vehicles on-site, and off-site parking and queuing per the Bus Parking Management Plan. The Bus Parking Management Plan is herein incorporated by reference. B. Professional zoned uses. Per Article XV, Chapter 41 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. SECTION 8 - EXTERIOR WALL REQUIREMENTS Museums and science centers. Masonry sound walls (6') along west property line abutting the freeway. No solid wall required along the Santiago Creek. Professional zoned uses. Per Article IV, Section 41-322, Chapter 41 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. SECTION 9 - SIGNAGE A. Museums and science centers. All signs and modifications to signs require Planning Commission site plan review approval. All signs shall be designed consistent with or proportionately smaller than that which is depicted on Attachment B. 1. Wall Signs Page 8 of 10 Ordinance No. NS-2498 (a) Two wall-mounted signs with each face no greater than 544 square feet facing the I-5 Freeway, with no portion extending more than five feet above the parapet line, on the building's west and south elevations. No exposed external illumination is permitted. The sign may be composed of the following elements: (1) The top portion may be an internally illuminated fixed sign with the name of the facility. (2) The bottom portion may consist of a tri-vision display with triangular blends displaying three different on-site exhibit images rotating at timed intervals. There may be no more than 10 items of text, not to exceed 15 percent of the tri- vision sign area. The tri-vision sign may contain external illumination from the bottom of the sign provided the sources of light are fully screened from public view. (3) Freestanding signs One freestanding internally illuminated monument sign (7' x 5' 6") located in the landscape setback on Main Street. The sign is to be designed consistent with the wall signs and is to consist of four elements: (a) The top portion is cabinet with routed letters displaying the facility's name. (b) The middle portion may not exceed two lines of manually changeable copy to accommodate two lines of six-inch high letters in total. No off-premise advertising or advertising for the on- premise restaurant is permitted. (c) The bottom portion of the sign may include an additional four-inch line of text displaying the name of the science store. (d) The site's address must be displayed at the bottom of the monument sign. Wall Banners (a) Four 8' x 18', wall banners to be mounted on the Main Street elevation are permitted for on-site temporary and feature exhibits. Page 9 of 10 Ordinance No. NS-2498 (b) Flagpoles may include City, County, State, and Federal Government flags. In addition, Discovery Science Center corporation flags may be permitted. No additional attachments to the flagpoles are permitted. Professional zoned uses. Per Article XI, Chapter 41 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. SECTION 10 - OPERATIONAL STANDARDS Operational standards for all uses in Specific Development District 65 are subject to the provisions of the Santa Aha Municipal Code. In addition, the standards that regulate the Discovery Science Center's operations and the manner in which business is conducted on-site such as hours of operation, special events and public activities are to be consistent and in conformance with the project's conditions of approval listed and herein incorporated by reference in Development Agreement No. 97-01 by action of the City Council; and per the City of Santa Ana Municipal Code and the Mitigation Monitoring program resulting from the project's Environmental Impact Report No. 97-01 (EIR No. 97- 01 ), which regulates activities during construction as well as for the life of the project. A. No take out food service is permitted from the ancillary restaurant use. B. Hours of operation of the ancillary uses must coordinate with the museum hours. jr\Drc\Specific Development 65 Page 10 of 10 Ordinance No. NS-2498