Welcome everyone.

So first we are gonna do a roll call.

To the March 18th Walmart Creek Design Review Commission meeting.

It is the March eighteenth design review commission meeting.

Um we have a roll call, please.

Can we have a roll call, please?

Thank you, Vice Chair.

Uh Commissioner Newsom.

I am here.

Commissioner Prose.

Vice Chair Riley.

Here.

Commissioner Bass Basting and Commit Well, Commissioner Bassing is absent tonight.

She uh let us know that last week, and Commissioner Case had to recuse from this item.

So we have three, and we have a quorum.

Great.

All right.

So next is the consent calendar.

Is there anything that we have for the consent calendar?

Nothing on the agenda, nor are there any recommendations to move anything to consent.

Great.

Uh next we have public communications.

This portion of the meeting is reserved for comment on items that are not under the on the agenda.

Is there anything anyone here to speak on those things that are not on the agenda?

All right.

The existing joy-bound facility is located at the corner of Oak Grove Road and Mitchell Drive.

And the site is zoned business park.

It is roughly 10-acre site, and the surrounding area consists primarily the immediate area consists of office and commercial uses, and there are residential uses on the other side of Oak Grove Road.

And here are just some photos and a layout of the existing site.

And this is a nonprofit organization which does provide animal rescue and shelter services.

And it was formerly known as the Ranimal Rescue Foundation facility.

And the new 12,000 square foot building will be located.

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Yes, so this is the location for the proposed daycare, and this is roughly 1.5 acres of vacant land along the Mount is facing the Mount Diablo.

Sorry, no, Mitchell, the Mitchell Drive frontage.

And the existing facility does currently operate 11 programs that includes dog and cat training, food share, pet adoptions, other community services, as well as providing service animals to military veterans that reside in the Bay Area.

And so tonight the project before you is a new 12,577 square foot animal daycare building that will also include outdoor training areas, four outdoor exercise yards, as well as a new covered trash enclosure that will be dedicated to this building.

New parking stalls are also proposed, and tree removals that consist of 10 trees, new landscaping with 55 new trees that will be installed, and new building signage.

So tonight the design review commission will review the project, provide any design-related comments or feedback for the design review as well as the conditional use permit, which this is a cultural institution use, the existing operations, and they're essentially expanding the existing use on site.

So what we're looking for tonight is feedback on the design as well as a recommendation to the planning commission if the commission tonight feels the project is sufficiently developed.

So here is a look at the entire site.

What I've highlighted in blue for you is the is the existing Animal Rescue Foundation, and here's that veteran services building that was approved, I believe, in 2016 by this commission.

And so tonight, what we're reviewing is this is just a closer look at that location in reference to this is the entire site.

The yellow area is the new location for the building.

And from the point from here, this is the existing drive aisle, and then they will extend into the new site, creating this driveway access access that that connects to the rest of the site, and it goes, it circulates across the entire site.

And the new parking stalls are located right along here as you enter the site.

And I believe there's a new entry gate that's being proposed and perimeter fencing, as well as ornamental metal fencing that will be along the project frontage facing Mitchell Drive.

And here's a look at the proposed elevations or renderings.

This is the front entrance of the building that will be facing internally into the existing site.

The primary material does consist of cement stucco plaster.

And these renderings depicted as a gray color, but it's really a like a light or a cream color, and I believe the material board is being passed around to the commissioners.

And then the accent colors consist of beige and brown, that'll be along the base of the building as well as along the along the entrance of the primary entrance of the building.

Metal panel accents and dark framed windows are also proposed, as well as a recessed entry with metal metal panel and canopy above it.

And the articulate the architectural articulation as well as the materials do compliment complement the existing buildings on site.

And here is the elevation that's facing the adjacent property.

Again, the same colors, the articulation, the recessed windows and the canopies are carried along to each of all of the elevations.

Here is the west elevation.