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

4. 10. 3. Schools
square feet of nonresidential development proposed ($0.27 per square feet) 79, resulting in a
(Otal fee of $133,650. As with the Redevelopment Plan as a whole, developer fees would not
cover all construction costs related to the additional 46 students, but would substantially mitigate
the impact to below a significant level. Remaining construction costs would require additional
State funds.
In order to identify how the project impacts relate to the Redevelopment Plan, this
evaluation estimates the impact generated from development on the project site using the
Program EIR's average intensity assumptions (FAR) for Restricted Industrial uses on an 12.2
acre site (per Assessor's parcel data). Based upon these averaged asswnptions, the proposed
project's site would contain a total of 398,900 square feet of development, 1,116 employees.
and 112 new residents. These residents would require 88 new housing units based on the
regional average of 1.22 jobs per housing unit. Utilizing the District's 0.4 students per unit
generation rate, these units would increase the student population in the District by 35, or 11
fewer students than the DreamWorks Animation Campus project.
This difference of 11 new students represents 2.3 percent of the total students generated
with buildout of the Redevelopment Plan. Similarly. the proposed project would result in
increased school costs over those required using the Program EIR's average intensity
assumptions. An additional $110,000 in construction costs would be required; and an additional
$30,446 in developer fees would in part pay for these added construction costs. As with student
generation, these figures represented 2.4 percent of the totals for the Redevelopment Plan as
a whole. These are paid in part by developer fees. Although the student generation and school
developer fees estimated with implementation of the proposed project would be slightly greater
than that assumed with the averaging of the Redevelopment Area, it represents a small and
statistically insignificant proportion of the total growth.
Although less than significant, this difference in the actual student and school cost
generation and the averaged student and school cost generation is consistent with the Plan
because the Redevelopment Plan anticipates variation in development densities on different sites
and therefore variation in student generation from these sites. Because of the existing
overcrowding in District schools, and developer fees not fully covering school construction
costs, the proposed project could result in a potentially significant impact. The developer fees
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The non-residential development fee is currently $0.28per square fOOl and will go up 10 $0.30persquarefoot
on June 1, 1996. However, for comparison purposes, the rate of $0.27 per square fOOl, as found in the
Program EIR, is utilized here.
Planning ConsulQnlS Rcsealdl
Glendale Redevelopment Agency
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DreamWorks ADimation Campus Addendlllll EIR
. June 1996