REMINDER: The Glendale City Council Meeting is tonight, May 7, 2019 @ 6:00 p.m. in council chambers at 613 E Broadway, City Hall. Ample free parking behind, access using Wilson Ave.
The proposed design is oversized (three stories with no less than 64 rooms with little peripheral landscaping, would use a public alley to access its underground garage that is already used by Western and Winchester residents to access their own garages, and by the Chevron mini-mart delivery trucks). The property, many feel, has not been vetted thoroughly enough in environmental reports for its decades of toxic waste and debris associated with the operation of an auto repair/sales/storage business, which concerns the soils, water, and dust from demolition and construction on nearby homes and structures. Benjamin Franklin Elementary School is one block away! Complex traffic issues at the Western-Victory intersection that serves also as the link between the I-5 and the 134 would be compounded by hotel traffic—as would nearby equestrian crossings and park user activity!
Numerous other concerns residents have are: the reduction of quality of life issues such as privacy of R-1 residential neighbors, elimination of sunlight, and depreciation of property values due to a poorly planned project. Additionally, neighbors have very strong reservations, and lack of confidence in the development team, due to past and present neglect of the site and other projects associated with its members.
Outreach meetings called by the Applicant have been poorly planned, poorly attended, ineffective, and were only orchestrated to appease the DRB and offer superficial cosmetic changes while the far more serious concerns of residents have been ignored. As a result, the neighbors, the Glendale Rancho Neighborhood Association, local businesses, and users of Benjamin Franklin Elementary School, have taken it upon themselves to bring awareness of the project proposal to ALL interested parties so that developers were unable to proceed with this project while citizens remained oblivious to their intentions.
Thank you for your concern and emails. Please remind your friends, family, and neighbors to attend tonight’s City Council meeting.