Re: Appeal of Design Review Board decision PDR 1723012-B; 1633 S. Victory Blvd. 3-story, 64-room hotel with ingress and egress access to 2 level of underground parking from public alleyway — allowing for a single business monopolization of alleyway and burden of cumulative traffic congestion.
As the date approaches for our appeal case to be heard by City Council, we will be adding photos to our feature called “alley traffic photo of the day.” The point of this is so that our concerns about cumulative alley congestion, resident access, and potential of injury are not heard as typical generic cries of “traffic,” but are instead clearly demonstrated, over time, and shown to be a real condition, not merely an opinion based in projection, assumptions, or fear.
Below is an example of a commonly seen traffic maneuver in this alleyway.
As much as the above pictures represent a manner in which our alleyway becomes congested, they also indicate a solution to the problematic hotel design. Though the Charter vehicle does create an alley mouth blockage during its slow navigation, it also demonstrates a way to avoid congestion further down the alley by its lack of procession. It enters the Chevron station – almost – immediately after turning off of Victory Blvd. Likewise, the proposed hotel requires a driveway approaching their underground parking which does NOT utilize the alley.
This method of incoming traffic approach has been used by all businesses previously located at the same location.
It is our sincere hope that the Glendale City Council will view these photographs and consider all of their implications; from issues regarding resident inconvenience and prevention of usage, to the potential for property damage, injury, or fatality.
Please email City Council at the addresses below and let them know that measures must be taken to mitigate the cumulative traffic congestion caused by allowing hotel patrons to occupy both lanes of alley traffic. The solution to this is to require incoming hotel traffic to approach the underground parking entrance while remaining on the hotel property exclusively, and only exiting into the public alleyway.
Voice your opposition to PDR-1723012-B by emailing or speaking to CITY COUNCIL
- “Ara Najarian” <anajarian@glendaleca.gov>
- “Zareh Sinanyan” <zsinanyan@glendaleca.gov>
- “Paula Devine” <pdevine@glendaleca.gov>
- “Vartan Gharpetian” <vgharpetian@glendaleca.gov>
- “Vrej Agajanian” <vagajanian@glendaleca.gov>