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.
These days were slow days, for lack of photography time, not for lack of traffic.
April 13, 2019
April 14, 2019
April 15, 2019
As residents, we do not feel the documentation of alley traffic is our job. As neighbors, we are happy to do this on behalf of our fellow immediate and nearby Rancho citizens in an effort to protect the safety of all who use this public alleyway.
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.
The hotel driveway exit should NOT be directly across from the Chevron gas station main building, but rather further down the alleyway toward Victory Blvd. where it will not conflict with the heavily used trash containment area which also serves many other large vehicles.
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>