Chapter 17.069 — ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW (AR) OVERLAY ZONE

The architectural review (AR) overlay zone is intended to maintain and enhance the character, integrity and visual quality of designated planning areas, as well as the protection of significant public views and vistas from major public view corridors on city-designated scenic highways, public lands and water to and along the coast within the city's coastal plan/local coastal program land use plan. Due to the generality of this overlay zone, no map is provided.

A. All developments on lots of a size less than five thousand sq. ft. in area shall be subject to architectural review by the planning division staff.

B. All developments that exceed recommended total building area guidelines as identified in Section 17.102.090 shall require architectural review for compatibility with the site and adjacent area.

C. The community development department/planning division staff and planning commission shall review these developments to ensure the construction of appropriate size structures which are compatible with the adjacent structures and immediate neighborhood and visual quality of the planning area.

D. Development reviewed by the community development department shall not receive final approval or become final until ratified by action of the planning commission on the consent agenda, including the negative declaration.

E. All development on properties in excess of a fifteen percent slope located within the viewshed of Hwy. 1 and Price Canyon Road and all other developments on properties with slopes in excess of twenty percent shall be reviewed by the community development department and planning commission.

F. The community development department and the planning commission shall review all proposed homes adjacent to the rock outcrop at Boosinger Park to ensure that they enhance visual quality while minimizing alterations to the rock outcrops.

G. All developments on parcels zoned other than R-l or R-2 shall require architectural review as a part of their local permit processing with the exception of additions of fifty percent or less of the existing building area for single family residential in a R-1, R-2 or R-3, R-R and R-4 zones and single-family residential development in C-1 zones. All actions taken under this overlay zone shall be consistent with the relevant goals, policies and programs of the general plan/local coastal program land use plan.