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

2. Project Overview
from 30,000 to 85,000 square feet each, will be clustered around a central piazza. Courtyards
and landscaping are an integral part of the site layout. An ornamental garden/water feature may
be incorporated into the design of the project. A decorative grove of trees will provide
landscaped orientation to the adjacent Los Angeles River along the southern boundary of the
property.
A parking structure serving the facilities will be situated on the northwestern comer of
the property and may include five levels above ground, with a helipad to be located just above
the top level. Helicopter operations, which are currently pennitted for the site, will continue.
It is proposed that the current unimproved right-of-way easement for Victory Truck Boulevard
of approximately· 2.34 acres, which extends over the Southern portion ofthe site, be quitclaimed
prior to project development.
RELATIONSHIP OF THE PROJECT TO THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
The Redevelopment Plan defines allowable land uses and development standards for the
Redevelopment Area in general; and the DreamWorks site in particular. The Redevelopment
Plan incorporates the development standards (building height, setback criteria, etc.) already set
forth in the City Zoning Ordinances for each of the zoning districts adopted in the
Redevelopment Plan. These documents establish a Restricted Industrial land use classification
(Ml Zone) for the DreamWorks site. Neither the Redevelopment Plan nor the Zoning
Ordinances establishes a maximum density or intensity of Restricted Industrial usage on any
individual property. The City, by design, has only established regulations restricting front yard
setback distances and building heights as applied to individual properties. The Ml zone allows
heights up to 35 feet and requires ten foot setbacks adjacent to streets. Thus, within these
parameters and dependent upon the configuration and constraints of any particular site, a range
of intensities or floor area ratios, which is the ratio ofexisting or expected building area divided
by associated land area (hereafter, FAR), from as low as 0.3 FAR to as high as 1.5 FAR would
be expected by the City.
In order to estimate the total amount of development that should reasonably be expected
in the Redevelopment Area, and to evaluate the environmental impacts of the Redevelopment
Plan, the Program EIR made documented assumptions regarding land use intensities for each
cited land use aggregated across all properties within particular zoning districts. These
assumptions took the fonn of average densities, expressed in the case of Restricted Industrial
uses as FAR.
Planning Consultants Research
Glendale Redevelopment Agency
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DreamWorks Animation Campus Addendum EIR
June 1996