HomeMy WebLinkAboutStaff Report WOLF PEN CREEK DESIGN REVIEW BOARD
STAFF REPORT
Project Manager: Jennifer Flanery Date: December 18, 2002
E -mail: jflanery@ci.college- station.tx.us
For
SONIC DRIVE -IN (SNFC) (02 -254)
All proposals involving site development or redevelopment in the Wolf Pen Creek
Corridor District shall require a review subcommittee of the Wolf Pen Creek Design
Review Board (DRB):
Zoning District: WPC, Wolf Pen Creek
Location: 512 Harvey Road
Applicant: Greg Lee, Sonic Operations
Item Summary: The applicant is requesting to modify the existing Sonic elements
to reflect standard Sonic colors. The following changes are proposed:
• Replace existing sign face in freestanding sign with new Sonic logo and standard
colors,
• Reduce height of berm at front property line and replace with landscaping,
• Replace current green picture board frames with red picture board frames,
• Replace green neon with red and yellow neon,
• Replace green neon window signs with standard Sonic colors,
• Add two red cones with fiber optics at front of building,
• Replace green picnic tables with red tabletops,
• Replace directional and drive -thru sign faces
Staff Recommendation: The reduction of the berm may be acceptable if the existing
screening wall remains or sufficient plantings are used as screening. Staff recommends
denial of the proposal to replace the previously approved green elements and signs with
the standard Sonic yellow and red. Staff also recommends denial of the proposal to
place large red cones at the front of the building.
Item Background: The Sonic restaurant was originally reviewed and approved by the
DRB and P &Z in 1998. The first proposal to the DRB utilized the standard Sonic colors
and the large red cones, and was rejected by the DRB because the Board did not feel
that the proposal met the purpose and guidelines for the Wolf Pen Creek Overlay
District. Following that decision, the Board was presented with images from a Sonic
restaurant in Missouri City that utilized green instead of the standard red and yellow.
This green was approved for many building details and signs, and is currently used at
this Sonic location. At that time, the Board also requested that all yellow be removed
from the signs and replaced with a white or cream color. The Planning and Zoning
Commission specifically forbid the red cone elements seen in front of many Sonic
restaurants and specified that the picnic furniture needed to match the green color of the
building. The Board has also denied yellow as a background color on several past
proposals, such as the Office Max sign.
Issues /Items for Review:
1. Landscaping
2. Building design
• Colors
3. Signs
• Design
• Colors
• Corporate signs
4. Miscellaneous elements
• Color