UBLIC HEARING: Director of Development ... - City of Glendale

4. 14. Recreation
demand for park facilities of 0.28 acres, based on a City standard of 2.0 acres per thousand
population, or 0.17 acres based on the existing ratio of 1.22 per thousand population.
To provide a comparison with the Redevelopment Plan, an evaluation can be perfonned
using interpolated average intensity assumptions for Restricted Industrial uses on the original
12.21 acre site (excluding the Victory Truck Boulevard right-of-way) (per County assessor
records), based on an average floor area ratio (FAR) of 0.75. On this basis, the project site
would result in 116 new residents to the City, or 22 fewer new residents than the proposed
Animation Campus, resulting in a need for an additional 0.22 acres of recreation facilities based
on the 2.0 acre standard, or 0.14 based on the existing 1.22 acre ratio.
Using either the 2.0 acre or 1.22 acre ratio, the DrearnWorks Animation Campus'
incremental increase in residents' park needs represent a 0.08 acre and a 0.03 acre increase,
respectively, above the theoretical project resident's demand for park space. As a percentage
of the 6.0 new acres required to serve the entire Redevelopment Plan, 0.08 acre represents a
maximum 1.3 percent increase. When considered an addition to the total Redevelopment Plan
demand, this increase would be considered at most marginally adverse were it not mitigable.
However, the DreamWorks Animation Campus includes some 2.5 acres of usable passive and
some active on-site open space for the exclusive use of its employees which should more than
mitigate this very small incremental effect. Consequently, the proposed project should have no
more recreation impact than was contemplated in the Redevelopment Plan Program EIR, and
due to on-site passive and active recreation features, likely less.
MITIGATION MEASURES
The following Program EIR mitigation measure applies to the entire Redevelopment
Plan, and thus collectively to all projects through tax increment fInancing: 103
1. The Redevelopment Agency/City shall implement all feasible measures of the
program outlined in the 1990 Recreation Plan as build-out occurs within the
Project Area.
103 Program EIR, Final EIR Volume. page 3.14-4. See also Program EIR. Final EIR Volume. Table 2. Public
Improvements List. pages I-II through 1-22.
Planning Consull3Jlts Research
Glendale Redevelopment Agency
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