HomeMy WebLinkAboutItem 4 - Staff Report - Hampton Inn, Homewood SuitesITEM TITLE: A. Public Hearing: DR15-0035; Design Review consideration of a 4 -
story, 131,220 -square foot Hampton Inn and Homewood Suites Hotel with
205 guest rooms, including a meeting room, a pool and an outdoor
recreation area on 3.88 -acres located in the Eastlake Business Center (BC -
4) District, 2424 Fenton Street.
Applicant: Robert F. Tuttle Architects.
Resolution of the City of Chula Vista Planning Conunission approving a
Design Review Permit, DR15-0035, to construct a 4 -story, 131,220 -square
foot Hampton Inn and Homewood Suites Hotel with 205 guest rooms,
including a meeting room, a pool and an outdoor recreation area on 3.88 -
acres located in the Eastlake Business Center (BC -4) District, 2424 Fenton
Street.
B. Public Hearing: CUP15-0030; Consideration of a Conditional Use
Permit to construct a 4 -story, 131,220 -square foot Hampton Inn and
Homewood Suites Hotel with 205 guest rooms, including a meeting room,
a pool and an outdoor recreation area on 3.88 -acres located in the Eastlake
Business Center (BC -4) District, 2424 Fenton Street.
Applicant: Robert F. Tuttle Architects.
Resolution of the City of Chula Vista Planning Commission approving a
Conditional Use Permit, to construct a 4 -story, 131,220 -square foot
Hampton Inn and Homewood Suites Hotel with 205 guest rooms,
including a meeting room, a pool and an outdoor recreation area on 3.88 -
acres located in the Eastlake Business Center (BC -4) District, 2424 Fenton
Street.
SUBMITTED BY: Harold Phelps, AICP Associate Planner
REVIEWED BY: Kelly Broughton, Director of Development Services
INTRODUCTION
The Applicant has submitted Design Review and Conditional Use Permit applications for
approval of a 4 -story, 131,220 -square foot Hampton Inn and Homewood Suites Hotel with 205
guest rooms, including a meeting room, a pool and an outdoor recreation area on a 3.88 -acre site.
The site is vacant and located within the Eastlake Business Center (BC -4) District, 2424 Fenton
Street (see Locator Map, Attachment 1).
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ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
The Director of Development Services has reviewed the proposed project for compliance with
the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and has determined that the project was
adequately covered in previously adopted Final Environmental Impact Report EIR 92-01 for the
Eastlake Business Center II (SPA) Plan, and therefore no further environmental review or
documentation is required.
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That the Planning Corainission adopt the Resolutions approving the proposed project, based on
the findings and subject to the conditions contained therein.
DISCUSSION:
Project Site Characteristics:
The 3.88 -acre project site is located on a vacant portion of the Business Center (BC -4) north of
Otay Lakes Road between Lane Avenue and Fenton Street, near the Eastlake Design District.
(Attachment 1, Locator Map).
Sununary of Surrounding Land Uses
Project Description
The overall proposal consists of a 4 -story, 131,220 -square foot Hampton Inn and Homewood
Suites Hotel with 205 guest rooms, including a meeting room, a pool and an outdoor recreation
area on 3.88 -acres located in the Eastlake Business Center (BC -4) District, 2424 Fenton Street.
The building will be 56 -feet in height.
The ground floor level consists of a single main entrance lobby serving two separate front desks
for the Homewood Suites located to the south and Hampton Inn located to the north. There is a
shared lodge adjacent to an outdoor barbecue area, a shared dining room adjacent to an outdoor
patio, and a shared 810 -square foot conference room adjacent to the pool recreation area.
The remainder of the first floor and the second, third, and fourth floor consists of the 205 guest
rooms. There are 113 Hampton Inn units consisting of King and Double Queen bedrooms
located in the north wing of the building, and there are 92 Homewood Suite units consisting of
King and Double Queen bedroom suites that include small living rooms with kitchenettes in the
south wing of the building.
General Plan
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Current Land Use
Site:
Business Center Professional
BC -4
Vacant
South:
Residential (Eastlake Greens)
RP -8
Single Family Residential
North:
Business Center Manufacturing
BC -1
Leviton Building
East:
Business Center Professional
BC -4
Vacant
West:
Business Center Manufacturing
BC -1
Hitachi Building
Project Description
The overall proposal consists of a 4 -story, 131,220 -square foot Hampton Inn and Homewood
Suites Hotel with 205 guest rooms, including a meeting room, a pool and an outdoor recreation
area on 3.88 -acres located in the Eastlake Business Center (BC -4) District, 2424 Fenton Street.
The building will be 56 -feet in height.
The ground floor level consists of a single main entrance lobby serving two separate front desks
for the Homewood Suites located to the south and Hampton Inn located to the north. There is a
shared lodge adjacent to an outdoor barbecue area, a shared dining room adjacent to an outdoor
patio, and a shared 810 -square foot conference room adjacent to the pool recreation area.
The remainder of the first floor and the second, third, and fourth floor consists of the 205 guest
rooms. There are 113 Hampton Inn units consisting of King and Double Queen bedrooms
located in the north wing of the building, and there are 92 Homewood Suite units consisting of
King and Double Queen bedroom suites that include small living rooms with kitchenettes in the
south wing of the building.
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The proposed ranch style architecture incorporates yellow, tan and brown colored stucco, a warm
grey (Axis Madre Perla) porcelain tile base along the ground floor exterior wainscot with a white
painted steel band trim, and aluminum metal and grey accent on windows, doors, and frames.
Vehicular and pedestrian access to the site is exclusively provided from Fenton Street via tine
Hitachi Way cul-de-sac bulb and driveway, with dual front and back driveways to the hotel
provided on Hitachi Way. A pedestrian path from the sidewalk at the intersection of Fenton
Street and Harold Place is provided via a crosswalk across Hitachi Way to the front (east)
building elevation and the main entrance lobby, as well as a sidewalk to the rear (west) building
elevation and the pool/recreation and outdoor dining/barbeque areas.
Compliance with Development Standards
The following Project Data Table shows the development regulations along with the Applicant's
proposal to meet said requirements:
Assessor's Parcel Number:
595-71.1-19-00
Current Zoning:
Business Center Professional (BC -4)
General PIan Designation:
Limited Industrial
Lot Area:
3.88 acres
PARKING REQUIRED:
PARKING PROVIDED:
1 parking space per hotel room
Standard parking = 205 spaces
+ 1 space for every 25 rooms;
Handicapped parking = 8 spaces
205 rooms + 8 = 213 spaces
Total: 213 parking spaces
SETBACKS/HEIGHT REQUIRED:
HEIGHT/SETBACKS PROVIDED:
Height: 35 -foot maximum may increase up
to 76 -feet if setbacks are increased on a 1:1
ratio (per foot of height to setback);
Proposed Building Height = 56 -feet
56 -feet building height
Setback Ratio Required:
105 -feet front building setback
Front: 25 -feet + 21 -feet = 46 -feet
75 -feet east building setback
Side: 15 -feet + 21 -feet = 36 -feet
54 -feet west building setback
Rear: 10 -feet +21 -feet = 31 -feet
74 -feet rear building setback
ANALYSIS:
Compliance With Eastlake Business Center Design Guidelines:
Site Planning, Building Mass and Scale
The Design Guidelines for the Eastlake Business Center includes guidelines and policies for each
lot located within the Eastlake Business Center and Design District. The Design Issues noted for
the Business Center Professional BC -4 Lot 8, that includes the project site, indicate that the
designated site provide fencing for on-site storage and parking for a manufacturing park use.
Since the proposed use is a hotel, the proposal in the conceptual landscape plan is to provide
trees in Iieu of fencing along the entire perimeter of the property. Another design issue raised in
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the Lot 8 sunninary is to provide northern, western, and eastern edge landscape treatfnent as well
as scenic highway landscaping along the southern boundary (Otay Lakes Road). The landscape
plan provides Brisbane trees along all of three of these edges, as well as a grove of Sycamore and
Acacia trees along the northern boundary between the two site driveways along Hitachi Way.
The other design issue indicated in the Design Guidelines for the Eastlake Business Center for
BC -4 Lot 8 is sensitively to visual impacts. This sensitively to visual impacts criteria includes a
consideration of where increased height and exposure to the Scenic Highway and residential
development in Eastlake Greens across Otay Lakes Road occurs. The siteplamring and building
massing of the hotel is sensitive to these visual impacts; the hotel is setback significantly more
(between 54 and 105 -feet) than the required 31 to 46 -feet (the additional 21 -feet plus 10 to 25 -
feet due to the increase in building height from the 35 -foot height limit to the proposed 56 -feet).
The rows of trees along the entire perimeter also provide additional screening of the additional
building= height from: the- scenic highway and residential development in Eastlake Greens. The
parking lot lighting is shielded to direct lighting downward towards the parking lot spaces, and
there is no building signage proposed on the south building elevation facing the scenic highway
and residential development in Eastlake Greens.
Architectural Theme
The hotel is proposed to be a ranch style architectural design theme. As noted above, the building
is proposed to incorporate yellow, tan and brown colored stucco, a warm grey (Axis Madre
Perla) porcelain tile base along the ground floor exterior wainscot with a white painted steel band
trim, and aluminum metal and grey accent on windows, doors, and frames.
In response to the first reviewing comments provided in February 2016 to the original project
submittal in December 2015, the architect added some vertical and horizontal plane offsets as
well as architectural banding and trim materials to the main entrance tower, rooflines, window
and door accents to all four building elevations. In addition, the architectural design was
presented and approved, as required by the Eastlake II SPA Plan, by the Eastlake Business
Center Owners Association Architectural Committee on May 2, 2016. The revised architectural
elevations were resubmitted to the City in June 2016.
Landscaping and Parking
The conceptual landscape plan provides additional trees along the top of the slope as required
along the southern property line adjacent to the Otay Lake Road scenic corridor to screen glare
and light from the residential homes across Otay Lakes Road to the south. The Planned
Community District Regulations require 1 parking space per room plus 1 parking space for every
25 rooms for a hotel use. The project meets the required parking with 205 standard parking
spaces and 8 ADA access parking spaces and does not propose any compact parking.
CONCLUSION
The proposed Hampton Imi and Homewood Suites is a conditionally permitted land use within
the Business Center Professional (BC -4) Zoning District of the Eastlake 11 SPA Plan and
Eastlake General Development Plan. The proposed hotel complies with the development
standards and design guidelines of the Eastlake SPA Plan for the Business Center. The increase
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in building height from 35 -feet to 56-fect allows for a more viable four story hotel that will not
only be buffered by additional setbacks and landscaping, but will also encourage a more urban
building scale for future professional developments in the area. The hotel design was approved,
as required by the Eastlake II SPA Plan, by the Eastlake Business Center Owners Association
Architectural Conunittee on May 2, 2016.
Therefore, staff recommends the Planning Commission approve Design Review Permit DR] 5-
0035, and Conditional Use Permit CUP15-0030, to construct a 4 -story, 131,220 -square foot
Hampton Inn and Homewood Suites hotel with 205 guest rooms including a meeting room, a
pool and an outdoor recreation area, subject to the conditions listed in the attached Resolutions.
DECISION -MAKER CONFLICTS
Staff has reviewed the property.holdings of the Planning Commission members and has found -no
property holdings within 500 feet of the boundaries- of the property, which is the subject of this
action. Staff is not independently aware, nor has staff been informed by any Planning
Connnission members, of any other fact that may constitute a basis for a decision maker conflict
of interest in this matter.
FISCAL IMPACT
The application fees and processing costs are paid for by the Applicant.
Attachments
1. Locator Map
2. Planning Commission Resolution DR15-0035
3. Planning Commission Resolution CUP15-0030
4. Eastlake Business Center Design Review Approval Letter
5. Disclosure Statement
6. Project Plans