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

Glendale Redevelopment Agency
Glenndale Heliport
The plans for the Dream Works Campus calls for the ground
level landing site to be replaced by the rooftop helipad on
the top floor of the parking structure in the northern
quadrant of the lot. The advantages to an elevated rooftop
helipad is that it will be more secure from people wandering
onto the landing site and the flight paths will be protected
from any future building on the campus in the vicinity of the
helipad.
COMPARISON OF FLIGHT ACTIVITY:
The Glendale Heliport has been available for helicopter
flight activities at this site for over 38 years. The
conditional use for the heliport was originally obtained by
Heliport, Inc. who utilized the heliport site for about six
years beginning in 1958. The property was then leased by DWP
to the respective air support units of Los Angeles, Burbank
and Glendale police departments from approximately 1964 to
1992. The LAPD airborne unit were the major users and sole
occupants of the site from 1964 to 1972 when the Glendale
Police air support moved their unit to the Glendale Heliport.
The Burbank Police 'air support unit came to the site in 1972
and shared equipment and flights schedules with Glendale.
The LAPD left Glendale in 1983 for Hooper Heliport in
downtown Los Angeles. Five years later, in 1988, the Burbank
airborne law enforcement unit moved to Burbank Airport. They
were followed four years later by the Glendale Police
Department air support.
There was a period of time from 1978 (after Burbank came to
the site) until 1983 (before LAPD moved to Hooper Heliport)
that all three police agencies conducted operations from the
heliport. The heliport site then reverted to the property
owner, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (DWP),
which maintained the helistop to this date.
since the operation of helicopters from this site covers an
expanse in time of approximately 38 years, it is
understandable that some of the operational records have been
archived, lost or just never existed. Information on
helicopter operations by the airborne law enforcement units
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