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RESOLUTION NO. ____________
A RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
BURBANK APPROVING THE FULL STREET CLOSURE
CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FOR THE DOWNTOWN BURBANK
SAN FERNANDO BOULEVARD RECONFIGURATION
PROJECT (PHASE 1) AND DIRECTING STAFF TO PROCEED
WITH DEVELOPING THE FINAL ENGINEERING DESIGN.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BURBANK FINDS:
A. The Citywide Complete Our Streets Plan (“Plan”) is a long -range transportation planning document that aims to improve safety for all road users in the City of Burbank (“City”).
B. Phase 1 of the Downtown San Fernando Boulevard Reconfiguration Project (“Project”) is a short -term priority project listed in the Plan to enhance vehicular and pedestrian safety in Downtown Burbank.
C. Phase 1 of the Project involves temporarily reconfiguring the road along San Fernando Boulevard between Olive Avenue and Magnolia Boulevard (“Project Area”) for a 12-month period to test the benefits of such reconfiguration and determine whether the safety benefits from the Project support a more long-term reconfiguration (“12-Month Pilot Period”).
D. The Project fulfills the Burbank2035 General Plan Mobility Element Goal 9, Safety, Accessibility, and Equity, which states that Burbank ’s transportation network is safe, accessible, and equitable, by aiming to improve safe travel by vehicles, pedestrians, and bicyclists, within the City’s Downtown area.
E. Based on feedback from community outreach and City Council direction, two Project design alternatives were presented for consideration at the regular City Council meeting on January 24, 2023. The first alternative involved a one- way reconfiguration where the existing two- way vehicular traffic flow along San Fernando Boulevard within the Project Area would be reconfigured to one northbound lane, combined with curb extensions in specified locations (“One-Way Design Concept”). The second alternative involved a full street closure of San Fernando Boulevard within the Project Area to all vehicles except emergency vehicles (“Full Street Closure Design Concept”).
F. As outlined in the Staff Report dated January 24, 2023, the Full Street Closure Design Concept aims to maximize pedestrian safety and walkability in the Downtown area by closing San Fernando Boulevard between Magnolia Boulevard and Olive Avenue to all but emergency vehicles. Through traffic would remain available along Orange Grove Avenue but turns onto San Fernando Boulevard would not be permitted.
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A closure would also be installed on Palm Avenue just east of San Fernando Boulevard to ensure all driveways and parking facilities remain accessible.
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BURBANK RESOLVES:
1. The Full Street Closure Design Concept for the Downtown Burbank San Fernando Boulevard Reconfiguration Project (Phase 1) is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to section 15301 (c) (Minor Alterations to Existin g Streets) of the CEQA Guidelines. The proposed improvements include the installation and modification of traffic signs, movable barriers, street furniture, and roadway striping which will be built within the existing right -of-way. Because the Project involves no expansion of an existing use, the Project therefore qualifies for this exemption.
2. California Vehicle Code Section 21101(e) allows the City Council to temporarily close a portion of any street when the closing is necessary for the safety and protection of persons who are to use that portion of the street during the temporary closing. The Council hereby declares that San Fernando B oulevard, between Magnolia Boulevard and Olive Avenue, will be closed to all vehicles except emergency vehicles, as shown on the Full Street Closure Design Concept depicted in Exhibit A to this Resolution (attached and incorporated herein), for the duration of Phase 1 of the Dow ntown San Fernando Boulevard Reconfiguration Project. Full street closure is necessary during this time to protect pedestrians from vehicular traffic while the portion of San Fernando Boulevard within the Project area is temporarily used for pedestrian traffic only, to study the effects of improved walkability in the Downtown Burbank area.
3. The Full Street Closure Design Concept will only become effective and may only be implemented when signs giving notice of the street closure are posted at all entrances to the affected portion of San Fernando Boulev ard within the Project area, in accordance with California Vehicle Code Section 21103. The Public Works Director, or his designee, is directed to install and maintain such signs. Within the Project Area, the City’s Outdoor Dining Program (as described in Resolution No. 22- 29,382) and any outdoor dining permits and encroachment agreements issued by the Public Works Director in accordance with such program, shall be extended for the duration of Phase 1 of the Project. At the conclusion of the 12- Month Pilot Period, staff is directed to return to Council with a report on the effects of the implementation of the Full Street Closure Design Concept, and a recommendation on whether the full closure reconfiguration should remain along the Project area on a more permanent basis.
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4. Staff is directed to develop final engineering design plans for the Full Street Closure Design Concept. The Public Works Director , or his designee, is authorized to review, refine and approve the final engineering design plans for the Full Street Closure Design Concept, including but not limited to placement of appropriate traffic control devices and related signage and striping plans, and approve any changes to such plans consistent with the implementation of the Full Street Closure Design Concept.
PASSED and ADOPTED this ____ day of January, 2023.
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Konstantine Anthony
Mayor
Approved as to Form:
Attest: Office of the City Attorney
_________________________ By: _______________________ Kimberley Clark, City Clerk Lisa Kurihara
Senior Assistant City Attorney
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF BURBANK )
I, Kimberley Clark, City Clerk of the City of Burbank, do hereby certify that the foregoing Resolution was duly and regularly passed and adopted by the Council of the City of Burbank at its regular meeting held on the _____ day of January, 2023, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
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Kimberley Clark, City Clerk
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Exhibit A – Full Street Closure Design Concept