L:\Client Files\1005\2300 - LEGAL ACTION NETWORK\CORRESPONDENCE\CE\CE.City of Glendale.002 (appeal).docx Design Review Board should have taken these comments into consideration when it approved the request on August 10, 2023. These comments included those made at the March 7, 2023, City Council Meeting.
Let me highlight a few of the issues for our opposition and the basis for the appeal:
1. Since at least 2019 there has been significant communications with the City of Glendale providing evidence that there is a conflict between public dog facilities (kennels) and the equestrian uses in the Rancho.
2. The Health and Safety part of the CE code indicates that uses shall not result in a negative impact on neighboring uses. In this case, the dog kennel will have a negative health and safety impact on the adjacent equestrian facilities, trails and uses.
3. The claim that this property could no longer be used as a horse facility is and continues to be false. It was operating at full capacity until the new property owner ordered the horses to be vacated.
4. The City has been provided with two historical assessments (J. Snow 2018 and J DeCarli 2021) which support that the existing property deserves historic preservation. The approval by this Board of a demolition permit will not allow the community to continue to pursue historic preservation.
For all of the reasons stated in this letter, LAN requests that the City Council affirm our appeal and reverse the approval of the Design Review Board to demolish the existing buildings on this property. In addition, we request that the City Council provide a public process for the consideration of the vacating of the public easement on the west half of Allen also referred to as the “Alley”
Thank you for your consideration of our request.
Very truly yours,
Hunt C. Braly
cc: Clients
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