CITY COUNCIL
DOWNTOWN BURBANK TRANSIT ORIENTED
DEVELOPMENT ( TOD) SPECIFIC PLAN
MOULE & POLYZOIDES | KOSMONT | STUDIO- MLA | FEHR & PEERS | FUSCOE | ARELLANO March 28, 2023
PROJECT BACKGROUND
• 1997 Burbank Center Plan and 2012 San
Fernando Boulevard Master Plan are out-
of-date.
• Funding from Metro and HCD to create a
new specific plan.
• Jobs/Housing Imbalance.
• Burbank’s Regional Housing Needs
Assessment (RHNA) Allocation =
production of 8,700 units by 2028.
• City Council goal to introduce 12,000
housing units citywide by 2035.
2 PROJECT BACKGROUND
• Develop a common Vision and Guiding
principles to:
• Stabilize jobs/housing imbalance by
introducing more housing, including
workforce and affordable housing.
• Not just build buildings, but create
a beautiful, safe, and thriving
downtown.
• Re-envision Downtown as a
walkable, transit-oriented, mixed-
use place.
• Protect existing neighborhoods.
3 PROJECT AREA
4 1. PROJECT UPDATE
5 PROJECT SCHEDULE
DISCOVERY
Research and Analysis
Stakeholder Meetings
Discovery Workshop
Summer – Winter 2021
ALTERNATIVES
Land Use Alternatives
Winter - Spring 2023
PUBLIC REVIEW
Draft Specific Plan and
Program EIR
Fall 2023
Winter 2023- Spring 2024
ADOPTION
Specific Plan Adoption
Program EIR Certification
Final Plan
Spring - Summer 2023
PLAN PREPARATION
Urban Design Alternatives
Alternatives Workshop
Final Alternative Workshop
Specific Plan
Program EIR
WE ARE HERE
6 2021 - 2022
VISIONING
Vision
Guiding Principles
Visioning Workshop
VISION STATEMENT
A vibrant, urban, transit-oriented,
mixed-use Downtown of:
• Beautiful tree lined, multi-
modal streets that are safe and
accessible to all;
• Inviting parks and plazas; and
• Beautiful buildings that
together create an active and
bustling central district
surrounded by inviting and
genuine neighborhoods.
A place where people truly want
to live, work, shop, visit, and
play!
7 GUIDING PRINCIPLES
8 NEIGHBORHOODS, DISTRICTS, AND CORRIDORS
1. Protect existing single-family residential
neighborhoods.
2. Create safe, distinct, beautiful, and thriving
neighborhoods, districts, and corridors.
3. Maintain and enhance Downtown’s prominent shopping
and entertainment offerings.
BUILDINGS
4. Promote compact, sustainable, transit-oriented infill development.
5. Introduce much needed housing at all levels of
affordability.
6. Design mixed-use buildings with pedestrian-friendly
ground floors, street-facing windows and entries,
quality materials, and varied massing.
PUBLIC REALM
7. Introduce community benefits and public
improvements, including parks, that support
Downtown’s growing resident, worker , and visitor
population.
8. Create a safe, pedestrian and bike friendly
environment, with wide sidewalks, generous tree
cover , outdoor dining, and safe pedestrian crossings.
9. With appropriate design and safety considerations, use streets and alleys as pubic space.
10. Conceive of streets as linear parks that connect
different parts of Downtown and utilize sustainable
streetscape design and stormwater capture.
9 GUIDING PRINCIPLES
STREETS
11. Balance and enhance pedestrian, bicycle, transit,
vehicular , and alternative transportation modes within and to Downtown.
12. Provide safe and inviting streets for walking, biking, and riding transit, while reducing the need for vehicle trips and increasing transit ridership.
13. Enhance pedestrian and bike connections across the
freeway between Downtown and the Metrolink Station.
PARKING
14. Implement a range of parking management strategies to ensure parking is available as the Plan Area develops and intensifies .
15. Provide sufficient public and on-site parking to ensure Downtown parking does not spill over into surrounding
residential neighborhoods.
10 GUIDING PRINCIPLES
THE PLAN FRAMEWORK
11 • A Downtown of diverse
neighborhoods,
districts, and corridors
• A well-connected
Downtown, north to
south and east to west
• A street network
accessible to all
• A public realm of
streets and parks
• Parking for a mixed-
use downtown
12 STREETSDIVERSE NEIGHBORHOODS, DISTRICTS, AND CORRIDORS A NEIGHBORHOOD IS:
• A safe, beautiful, mixed- income place primarily
for living that also accommodates work and
some retail activity.
• Defined by a quarter -mile walking radius from a
center. Neighborhood centers can be a park,
school, stores, or a civic building(s)
• Organized around a public realm of streets and
parks.
A DISTRICT IS:
• A mixed -use place primarily for commercial and
retail activities that also accommodates living.
A CORRIDOR IS:
• An important commercial or mixed- use
thoroughfare located between neighborhoods
and districts.
Corridor
Neighborhood
District
EXISTING DOWNTOWN
NEIGHBORHOODS,
DISTRICTS, AND
CORRIDORS
13 STREETSA WELL-CONNECTED DOWNTOWN
NOTE – WILL PLACE ADDITIONAL
PHOTOS.
14 15
STREETSA STREET NETWORK ACCESSIBLE TO ALL
• NOTE – WILL PLACE
ADDITIONAL PHOTOS
16 STREETSA PUBLIC REALM OF STREETS AND PARKS
• NOTE – WILL PLACE ADDITIONAL
PHOTOS
17 STREETSPARKING FOR A MIXED-USE DOWNTOWN
• NOTE – WILL PLACE
ADDITIONAL PHOTOS
KEY PROJECTS
18 19
TODAY
TOMORROW
DOWNTOWN DISTRICT
TODAY
TOMORROW
NORTH SAN FERNANDO BLVD.
DISTRICT
SOUTH SAN FERNANDO BLVD.
NEIGHBORHOOD
20 SOUTH SAN FERNANDO BLVD.
DISTRICT
TODAY TODAY
TOMORROW TOMORROW
21 VICTORY BLVD. CREATIVE &
INDUSTRIAL CORRIDOROLIVE AVE. DISTRICT
TODAY TODAY
TOMORROW TOMORROW
2. DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL
22 LAND USE CHANGES
LAND USE CHANGES
LAND USE CHANGES
PREFERRED
PROJECT
Residential units:
Non -residential sf:
Hotel rooms:
9,537
5,274,920
625
INCREASED
GROWTH ALT
Residential units:
Non -residential sf:
Hotel rooms:
16,242
5,435,145
625
NO PROJECT ALT
Residential units:
Non -residential sf:
Hotel rooms:
3,415*
3,025,079
205
* Total citywide Housing Element
capacity = 10,011 units
PREFERRED PROJECT INCREASED GROWTH ALT . NO PROJECT A LT.
EIR ALTERNATIVES
29 For more information, please contact:
Leonard Bechet
Principal Planner
Community Development Department
[email protected]
(818) 238-5250
www.downtownburbanktod.com
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