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4. San Fernando Road & Sonora Avenue<br />

5. San Fernando Road & Grandview Avenue<br />

6. San Fernando Road & Highland Avenue<br />

7. San Fernando Road & Fairmont Avenue<br />

8. San Fernando Road & Doran Street<br />

9. San Fernando Road & California Avenue<br />

10. San Fernando Road & Broadway<br />

11 . Flower Street & Grandview Avenue<br />

4. 9. Transponalion/Circularian<br />

The fIrst ten <strong>of</strong> these intersections were analyzed in the San Fernando Road Corridor<br />

Redevelopment Plan FErR. The latter intersection has been included given its proximity to the<br />

project site and the proposed location <strong>of</strong> a project egress driveway onto Flower Street opposite<br />

Grandview Avenue.<br />

Environmental Setting<br />

The assessment <strong>of</strong> existing conditions relevant to this study includes streets and<br />

highways, traffic volumes, and operating conditions on the street system.<br />

Street and Highway System<br />

Regional access to the study area is provided by the Golden State Freeway (Interstate<br />

5) and the Venmra Freeway (State Route 134). Key freeway interchanges serving the study<br />

area include the Western Avenue interchange with 1-5 and the Victory Boulevard/Riverside<br />

Drive and San Fernando Road interchanges with SR 134. Brief descriptions <strong>of</strong> the major streets<br />

serving the study area are as follows:<br />

• Flower Street - Flower Street is a northwest-southeast minor arterial providing<br />

direct access to the proposed project site. South <strong>of</strong> the project site, it bends ninety<br />

degrees and becomes a northeast-southwest street terminating at Air Way. It<br />

provides four travel lanes and on-street parking.<br />

• San Fernando Road - San Fernando Road is a four-lane northwest-southeast major<br />

arterial running through the western part <strong>of</strong> the <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Glendale</strong>. It provides access<br />

to SR 134 and connects the <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Glendale</strong> to <strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> Burbank to the north and to<br />

<strong>City</strong> <strong>of</strong> Los Angeles to the south. Parking is generally allowed on both sides <strong>of</strong> San<br />

Fernando Road north <strong>of</strong> Fairmont Avenue. South <strong>of</strong> Fairmont Avenue, parking is<br />

only allowed on the east side <strong>of</strong> San Fernando Road, with railroad tracks paralleling<br />

the west side.<br />

PlaMing Consullllnts Research<br />

<strong>Glendale</strong> Redeyelopment Agency<br />

Page 70<br />

DreamWorks Animation Campus Addendum EIR<br />

June 1996

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