Glendale’s Community Development Department has mailed out notices announcing the Design Review Board meeting to review the revised plans for the proposed hotel at 1633 S. Victory Blvd., PDR 1723012-B.
The meeting will be held on January 10, 2019 at 5:00 p.m. in the Municipal Services Building located at 633 East Broadway, Room 105.
You are urged to share your concerns now to planner Dennis Joe and Design Review Board contact Vilia Zemaitaitis. By U. S. mail: Planning Dept., 633 E. Broadway, Glendale 91206. Email “To” Dennis Joe DJoe@GlendaleCA.gov and VZemaitaitis@GlendaleCA.gov with “CC” Phillip Lanzafame PLanzafame@GlendaleCA.gov in the Community Development Department (whose department failed to properly vet the proposed development before approving it for DRB review).
We also encourage you to attend and speak at the next DRB agenda for PDR 1723012.
Flaws specific to design, and likely of concern to the Design Review Board are:
- Lack of structural setback from alleyway providing enough space on the property to contain its own traffic. There MUST be ample space to prevent the overflow of passengers and opening of automobile doors into the alleyway.
- Lack of sufficient green space
- Intrusion, invasion of privacy issues created by building a 3-story structure adjacent to R-1 residential properties (down Winchester Ave.). The same invasion of privacy issues are concerns for residents on Garden St.
Additional concerns which may be within the scope of interest to the Design Review Bard are:
- Inadequate environmental reports
- Environmental impact regarding placing a large volume hotel on a major access road between two freeways, the Golden State Freeway 5 and the Ventura Freeway 134.
Signs have also been posted on the property fences facing Victory Blvd. and Winchester Ave.
The Applicant has failed to maintain the lot in any way since obtaining it in April of 2017. This was a common sight for almost two years.
A day prior to the hanging of the signs, the Applicant sent someone to remove the above pictured overgrowth from the perimeter of the lot . This was apparently a minimal effort for the sake of city appeasement and not out of concern for the neighborhood since no effort was made to remove the garbage and debris that have littered the lot through 2017 and 2018.
