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

a. The Final Program ElR for the San Fernando Road Conidor Redevelopment
Project Plan ("Enal Program ElR"), as certified by the Agency on November 17,
1992.
b. The Program ElR for the project area, which assumed the build-out of the
DreamWorks project area, cited significant and unavoidable impacts to air quality
and traffic resulting [rom the implementation orthe San Fernando Road
Redevelopment Plan.
c. In addition to certifying the Program EIR, a statement of overriding
considerations was adopted on November 17, 1992.
d. In June 1996, a First Addendum to the Final Program EIR was tired off the Final
Program EIR to analyze the build-out ofthc oliginal DreamWorks Animation
campus project and Development Agreemcnt, including 495,000 square feel o[
building area, a parking structure and associated facilities. At full build-OUl, the
project would include seven buildings, with accent towers up to 115 feet and a
1.000 car parking structure.
e. 111 September 2004, the project site was re-zoned from MI (Restricted Industrial)
to IND (Industrial) as pal1 ofthe San Fernando Corridor Re-zoning study and
reviewed under the negative declaration prepared by RBF Consulting and
approved by the City Council on August 10,2004.
f. The Second Addendum to the Final Program Effi., prepared by PBS& J in March
2008, addresses the designation o[the DreamWorks campus as an Industrial
Mixed Use/Large Scale Project in the IND zoning district and the modification of
the height limit, parking garage extension, surface parking extension and
secondary employee and emergency access road.
g. The Second Addendum specifically discusses the potential environmental effects
ofthe following:
• Installation ofa new secondary employee and emergency access road from
Flower Street, and associated surface parking and landscaping along the
roadway; and Construction and operation of the new Lakeside AIU1ex
building, cxpansion o[ the existing parking structure, provision ofa
secondary employee-only and fire access gate from Flower Street,
associated surface paving ofthe new roadway to connect the existing fire
access road, striping of parking spaces and landscape activities along the
secondary roadway; and
• Amendment ofthe Development Agreement.
h. The Second Addendum concludes that the above items do not rcpresent a
substantial change to the San Fernando Road Redevelopment Plan, nor do they
present any new information or substantial impact not previously analyzed or
disclosed in the Program EIR and the First Addendum, which would warrant
preparation of the subsequent or supplemental EIR.
I. The traffic impacts resulting from the placement o[ the emergency access and
service gate on Flower Street are to be reduced to less than significant upon the
application of the following two mitigation mcasures:
J. Even with the increase in permitt.ed height, thc shade and shadow impacts ofthe
designation of the DrcamWorks campus as an "Industrial Mixed Use/Large Scale
Project" in the IND zoning district were detennined to be less than significant, as
analyLed in 4.6 Land Use (Views) and 4.16 Shade and Shadow.