City Council - workshop

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Good evening. Oh my gosh, yes. Good evening and welcome back to a joint meeting of the Burbank City Council with the parking authority on Tuesday, June 30th, 2026. Today's study session item is a discussion of the draft downtown transit oriented development specific plan. We need a shorter name for that, it's very long. Policy document. I welcome Leonard Betchet, principal planner, to please present the report. Welcome.

May I please have the presentation on the screen?

Thank you.

All righty. Good afternoon, Mayor Takahashi and council members. I'm Leonard Pache, principal planner with the CDD planning division and project manager for the downtown TOD specific plan. Our team has previously provided three updates to the council that included the project's purpose, vision and guiding principles and draft development potential. Today, I'm pleased to present an overview of the completed administrative draft of the downtown TOD specific plan and staff is seeking general city council feedback to ensure the plan continues to reflect city council and community priorities, including adding more housing, especially workforce and affordable units to balance jobs and housing, create a safe, attractive and vibrant downtown, support a walkable mixed use environment and protect existing neighborhoods. The Downtown TOD Specific Plan is a comprehensive planning initiative aimed at encouraging housing near high quality transit while supporting affordability, reducing vehicle trips, and reinforcing downtown Burbank's role as a regional employment and entertainment center. It builds on prior downtown planning efforts, the 1997 Burbank Center Plan and the 2012 North San Fernando Boulevard Master Plan by establishing a unified land use vision and objective development standards that align with recent state housing laws and emphasize streamlined objective residential development. The project also includes a general plan amendment and a program environmental impact report under the California Environmental Quality Act. The specific plan project is funded through City Council appointed general funds and grant funding from the State Senate Bill 2 Planning Grant Program and Metro's Transit Oriented Development Planning Grant Program. This project has six phases. Work began in 2020 with the discovery phase, followed by the visioning phase to shape the plan's guiding principles, overall framework goals and policies. The team then developed land use alternatives and growth scenarios. We are now nearing the end of the plan preparation phase, which includes completing the draft specific plan and the program EIR. During this current plan preparation phase, the city is currently developing four specific plans at the same time, including this specific plan. This coordinated effort ensures all plans align and that our utility systems can support the projected growth study in each plan's environmental review. The project team has worked closely with BWP and Public Works to align land use planning with ongoing utility planning work being carried out by the utility teams. The draft specific plan is now available for public review and the project team anticipates releasing the draft program EIR in the fall for public review. Planning Commission review and City Council review in consideration of adoption of the specific plan and program EAR is anticipated for late fall 2026. The downtown TOD specific plan includes 10 chapters with appendices that will be released with the final draft. The first two chapters cover the plan's purpose, process, and background. The three photos on the bottom of the slide show how San Fernando Boulevard the main street of downtown has evolved over time. The map to the right of the slide shows the existing distribution of land uses in downtown. Chapter 3 outlines the plan's vision guiding principles, framework and goals and policies. These were shaped by city council direction and extensive community input, including workshops, surveys, walking tours, stakeholder meetings and discussions with city departments, divisions, boards and commissions. Together they reflect the community vision for downtown's future. The map shown highlights the districts, corridors and neighborhoods that these goals and policies support. Chapter 4 illustrates the results of the public planning process and introduces key transit-oriented development principles, presents the overall vision for the plan area, and describes each downtown neighborhood, district, and corridor in more detail. The map shows a fully built-out downtown, and the images highlight the plan's major strategies, which include adding housing throughout downtown, redeveloping the Burbank Town Center, expanding the Civic Center, creating a stronger sense of place with improved streetscapes and pedestrian-friendly buildings, and managing parking to meet demand while protecting nearby neighborhoods. This slide shows how the Civic Center could evolve over time. Image A illustrates the first phase which is now underway, which is a new central library and city offices, public plaza, and parking structure on the CSB block. Image B shows the possible removal of the Orange Grove parking structure and redevelopment of the north side of Orange Grove Avenue with mixed-use housing, underground parking, and space for utility infrastructure. Image C shows potential redevelopment of the surface lot north of City Hall with new open space, mixed-use housing, underground parking, and areas for civic events. The central image depicts the full build-up, including future reuse of the existing library site once the new library opens, which could be potential for new housing, office, commercial, or civic uses. The images on the right show renderings of the new open space and Paseo being developed with the new central library project. The project team coordinated closely with city leadership to ensure the plan aligns with this major civic investment. This slide shows how the Burbank Town Center could evolve over time. Image A illustrates potential redevelopment of the former IKEA site with mixed-use housing and new streets and open spaces. Image B shows possible redevelopment of the Town Center parcels along the freeway with mixed-use housing, retail, restaurant, and office uses, and open space. Image C depicts potential development of the Office Depot and Corner Bakery sites with mixed-use housing, commercial space, and open space areas. The central image shows a fully transformed Burbank Town Center as a vibrant urban neighborhood with housing, retail, restaurants, entertainment, plazas, new streets, and a reconnected San Fernando Boulevard either as a paseo or as a multimodal street. The project team has coordinated closely with Burbank Town Center stakeholders to align visions for this key area. Chapter 5 describes the plan for a pedestrian-friendly public realm with tree-lined streets, parks, plazas, and green belts that support walking, biking, transit uses, and other outdoor activities. The map and images highlight key projects such as streetscape upgrades, a new green screen along Interstate 5, reopening San Fernando Boulevard through the town center, and new civic and town center open spaces, and reimagined and activated alleys and paseos. Chapter 6 presents the strategy for creating multimodal streets that serve pedestrians, cyclists, transit riders, and drivers, consistent with the 2020 Complete Our Streets Plan. It provides the framework and objectives for this approach. The map and images highlight key mobility projects, including upgraded bike facilities, new streets to break up superblocks, improvements to freeway and railroad crossings like the Olive and Magnolia Bridges, better transit access, and enhance intersections and crosswalks. The images on the left of this slide show recently completed mobility projects in downtown, including the reconfiguration of San Fernando Boulevard into a one-way street with expanded outdoor dining areas and new pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure constructed as part of the recently completed 777 Front Street and First Street Village housing projects. I have included two teaser images on the right, which show the potential for an upgraded and expanded all of Avenue bridge over interstate five. This project will be presented to the council later this year. Chapter seven covers the strategy for managing public parking. The map highlights existing public lots and structures and summarizes potential projects, including managing downtown parking, maintaining on street parking, activating parking structure ground floors with commercial uses, repairing or replacing aging structures, expanding the parking district, improving wayfinding, supporting rideshare access, and providing bicycle parking. Chapter 8 addresses the utilities and infrastructure, including public facilities, water, energy, and sewage systems. The project team has been coordinating closely with BWP and Public Works to ensure that the plan aligns with ongoing utility planning. This chapter is still in progress and will be finalized after the utility analysis and draft program EIR are completed. It will summarize existing system capacity and identify needed improvements to support future growth. Chapter 9 provides the land use regulations and objective development standards for the specific plan area. It includes the zoning framework, an updated land use table with clarified and revised use definitions based on community and business feedback, and standards for building size and height, pedestrian-oriented design, open space, signage, parking, landscaping, mechanical equipment placement, and trash management. The images on the right illustrate the building types expected in each land use zone. Overall, the plan promotes context sensitive development by focusing taller, denser buildings in the downtown core and transitioning to lower scale development near existing residential neighborhoods. This slide shows the zoning map on the left and the maximum building height map on the right. The updated zoning designations build on existing downtown plans and the Burbank 2035 general plan and establishes the following zones. The downtown zone in red will allow a mix of residential and commercial uses appropriate for the downtown core. The urban general zone in orange will allow a mix of residential, commercial, and light industrial uses. The urban corridor zone in pink will allow a mix of residential and commercial uses that are appropriate for proximity to existing neighborhoods. The creative workforce zone in light blue will allow a mix of commercial and both light and heavy industrial uses with limited residential uses in the form of live work housing or housing projects that utilize an appropriate state preemption law. The urban neighborhood zone in peach will allow both single and higher density multi-family housing and some commercial uses. And lastly, the neighborhood zone in yellow will allow single family and lower density multi-family housing with limited commercial uses. The height map follows existing patterns. Lower heights near residential edges and taller buildings towards the center. Heights from 40 to 200 feet are allowed by right as shown on the map. The freeway height overlay allows heights up to 240 feet with an administrative use permit and up to 300 feet with a conditional use permit. These slides show the maps for maximum residential density and maximum non-residential intensity or FAR. These maps will replace the density and intensity designations in the Burbank 2035 General Plan. Density is increased in key areas such as the downtown core and intensity is increased in the west and south industrial areas as well as the downtown core. while the rest of the plan area will see moderate increases in density and intensity numbers. Chapter 10 outlines how the plan will be implemented, including key regulatory actions, programs, improvement projects, potential funding sources, and the entitlement process for future development. Work on this chapter is ongoing to ensure a realistic, comprehensive implementation strategy that's aligned with the plan's goals and standards and consistent with what's studied in the environmental draft report for the project. The project must comply with CEQA, so a program EIR is being prepared. The process began with three notices of preparation and 30-day scoping periods for each. We are now nearing completion of the draft program EIR. Once finished, it will be released for a 45-day public review period during which agencies and the public can comment. Afterward, the team will prepare responses, finalize the EIR, complete required environmental findings, and if needed, prepare a statement of overriding considerations. The city council will then consider the project. If approved, a notice of determination will be filed with the county and state. The draft program EIR is expected to be released in early fall 2026. As mentioned, the administrative draft of the specific plan is now available for public review and the project team will be gathering feedback throughout the summer and early fall. At least two community workshops are planned for August along with presentations to city boards and commissions. The draft program EAR is expected to be ready for public review in the fall. The final specific plan and program EAR revised based on public and stakeholder input are anticipated by late fall 2026. followed by planning commission and city council hearings. The downtown TOD specific plan provides a clear framework for future growth, housing, mobility improvements, public investment, and neighborhood preservation in downtown Burbank, helping the city meet state housing requirements while maintaining a local vision and control. Again, staff is seeking general city council feedback to ensure the plan continues to reflect city council and community priorities, including adding more housing, especially workforce and affordable units to balance jobs and housing, creating a safe, attractive and vibrant downtown, supporting a walkable mixed use environment and protecting existing neighborhoods. This concludes staff's presentation on the draft downtown TOD specific plan. The public is encouraged to attend upcoming outreach events and contact staff using the information on the screen. Staff are available by phone, email, or in person for anyone unable to join scheduled events. Project materials, including the draft specific plan and updates, are available at www.downtownburbanktod.com. Thank you.

Great. Thank you for your presentation. Does council have any questions or comments to start? Who would like to start? Vice Mayor?

Yes, thank you, a lot of good information. I was just wondering if the, how does the specific plan preserve our local control, especially with all the state requirement with SB 35 and AB 2011, SB 79, what does that do and how does it give us more local control?

So the specific plan, the development standards that we've developed as part of it, essentially allow us to provide the base of residential standards that would be required for any process or any project that comes in and utilizes one of those state exemption laws. The way it works most of the time for those is that they have to follow whatever objective standards exist. And so what we've done is we've essentially worked off of the work that's come before you in the past. Mixed use standards for our corridors. So if we have a mixed use project that comes in in one of the city corridors that's not residentially zoned, we have those standards. And then we also have standards for residential only projects that come into commercial and industrial zones. So the specific plan essentially builds off of that and extends that concept to downtown Burbank. that way we can ensure that we can still dictate what gets done at the base. And then whatever state exemption laws allow a developer to add on top of that, um, would still use our exemption law or our base laws as the, uh, the foundation. The other thing that we're also looking at as part of an implementation is that we're looking at updating our density bonus program. Um, that includes kind of defining, um, the general plan density bonus programs that were established for projects that are in the transit areas and then exceptional projects. And those will essentially provide kind of a listing of community benefits that could be used in exchange for essentially giving developers the ability to raise density or intensity. And it would give them another option of using our local density bonus program over a state program.

So overall, what I'm hearing, it's really in our best interest to have our own specific plan because it does give us a base and a guideline in addition to all the additional requirement from the state and whatever else we add in our specific plan.

Yes, that's correct. And you can see when you look at the current zoning map of downtown, you'll see that there's a lot of PD zoning designations. And that's because our past specific plans While good at facilitating and building a downtown that facilitated commercial and industrial development, there wasn't a lot of zoning standards put in place until the general plan came out to look at housing. And so this essentially will remove that impediment and provides finally the addition of the objective standards that would allow for housing at different sizes and heights and levels depending on where you are in the plan.

Okay, great. My other question is how many housing units in the plan is anticipating to accommodate? So we know we have arena number, 86 plus, 8600 plus. In that whole entire specific plan, what is your anticipation of how many housing we can accommodate there?

So for the preferred project, we're looking at around 6,000 units of housing. And then we also studied what we're calling an increased growth alternative that looks at maybe around 12,000 to 14,000 units. We did this to essentially stress test our ability and our utility system's ability to determine how much development we could essentially support. We also are looking at a no project option that essentially just goes off of the numbers that were set in the housing element. And then we're also working to look at a development potential that slots in between the housing element numbers and the preferred project. And this is something that would be consistent in the three specific plans. the media district which is out and you've seen before. This specific plan and then also the Golden State specific plan which you'll see next month.

So with the talking about utilities and I know you had it on slide 13 that you are working this is more of a team effort for all the departments utilities are very involved with the specific plans which I applaud all of you because It's really important that everyone communicates and anticipate what we're looking at for our future. Are you giving the 6,000 number, let's assume we get there and it's going to happen, are they looking at start the projects with the utilities and upgrades right after we adopt the specific plans or is this going to happen as the development or the developers come in and request for putting 1,000 unit, 800 unit, and then at that time you're gonna add the additional utilities that are required. So are we planning doing it right away or in increments of period of time?

So it's gonna be kind of a multi-faceted approach. The way that we're looking at it, at least because we're essentially dealing with a larger development potential number with the three specific plans. So we're going to look at what improvements would be done over the 10-year period that could realistically be funded and be completed. In the implementation chapter, we'll explore any and all funding options or mechanisms that we could use to help us meet those goals and support that infrastructure. We're also looking at what the developers fair share would be of that cost versus what the city's share of that cost would be in terms of upgrading the development and the utilities infrastructure. It also kind of will identify stuff that goes beyond the 10 year plan and starts getting us ready as we consider an update to the Burbank 2035 general plan. And then also we have a second housing element cycle that will be coming in just as we get to that latter part of the specific plan. So those are things that will be explored and are being explored in the draft environmental impact report and would be included and added into the implementation chapter as a way again to provide a multifaceted approach to ensure that we can get stuff needed now to start developing housing in the immediate, but then also serve us as we continue into the future with development as it comes online.

And part of The reason this question is, oh, Fred, yes, of course. I saw your hand. Yes. Come on up.

Thank you for allowing me to speak. And my colleague, but our general manager for power will probably want to chime in as well. To the point, I think I think just to add a little bit of context, we had a running start when it came to the demands for utilities, and that's because when we did the housing element, as you recall, there were mitigation measures in there that required us to look at upgrades to infrastructure as it related to sewer. So that work, when that plan was adopted, is kind of this specific plan is kind of that continuation of that effort. So our utilities are already planning for work that is needed just to undertake the units that are required under the housing limit. So the 8,772 units that you talked about earlier. So there's kind of the, what I would call pre, specific plan work effort that's currently underway. And then there'll be additional work that comes if the specific plans are adopted. And at that point, we identify additional infrastructure upgrades that need to occur to implement the plans. And as Mr. Bichet noted, this middle ground between no project and preferred, we are looking at what's called an alternative that addresses sustainable infrastructure. So that's something that we are going to be bringing forth whether it's media district and eventually the two specific plans. So all that to say is the process of looking at infrastructure has been ongoing and there are different phases of implementation that are occurring. As a matter of fact, you guys have already invested in purchasing property that would facilitate the build out of some of that infrastructure as it relates to sewer, and there are other efforts that are being undertaken by BWP, and I will not steal the thunder of Ms. Mandeep. I will let her speak to that, but she can provide you with that other piece of the equation.

Good evening, I'm Mandeep Samra, General Manager for Bank Water and Power. So Fred is correct, we've already been starting this. So we have the electric distribution master plan that'll be completed probably the end of next year that does a 20-year plan of our distribution lines internal to the city. Concurrently, we're also going to be starting the integrated resources plan, which is a 20 to 30-year study of our high-voltage transmissions to that outside the city, as well as our power resources, both internal and external. So those combined will include the new specific plans as well as SB 35 and SB 79. And we are starting the process. So the RFP is going to be going out shortly for the IRP. And the teams in electric are already working on some of the other items. And in the last two or three budget cycles we had for BWP, we expedited the 4 kV to 12 kV conversion. So basically larger, like a bigger pipe, right? So it can actually flow more electrons with the same amount of energy. So that is step one, lowest hanging fruit. We expedited it from 20 years down to 10. We should be done by 2035.

Thank you for that information. And I was going to state earlier, the reason for this is assume we have a developer that is interested to expand or put a new project. The timing and the delays, so we're ahead of the game, so they can just come and start not waiting for us to finish, complete the job. That's what I'm hearing you say. And one last question, and that relates to our police, fire, our services in general that we provide in the city. Are we, with the adoption of all these specific plans, and I don't know if it's directed to you guys or to the city manager, are we preparing with the level of staffing for police and fire, especially for our safety personnel? to move forward once we adopt those specific plans.

Good evening. Excuse me. So yes, so one of the things is that would be any increase in resource level as far as staffing, whether that's fire, police, public works, anything else, that will be every budget year you will get that based on anticipated new development or the whatever happened in the current year. So, uh, so, so that's kind of what you would get. Uh, uh, but we are, we need to be ready in anticipation should all this come to fruition.

Okay. Thank you all, appreciate it.

Sorry, Fred Ramirez, wanted to let you know, in addition to all the effort that our city manager and with the staffing issues that they'll be looking at, the specific plans are actually required to look at the impacts to the capital part of that equation, i.e. the facilities that would need to be built to support land development. So that is one of the requirements that we have to abide by. And, as you know, in the past when we've done our development impact fee updates, we've looked at what the capital demands for new development are. And once the specific plans are done, we're going to be undertaking as one of the program items for consideration is an update to our development impact fee so that they're in alignment with the new development that's anticipated.

All right. Thank you. I'll go.

Thank you, Madam Mayor. Just some comments. Let's go. I feel like we've been looking at, I've been looking at this plan for seven years between the planning board and here. This is probably the most cohesive plan I've seen, tying in housing, traffic, transit, biking, parking, and city services. What I really like is the transitions between the walk-ups and the brownstones as you phase away from the center. That's the first thing I noticed about the plan, which I really, really thought was great. And I make this comment every single time we talk about this plan is if we want a truly walkable downtown, we need to have a market, a real good supermarket downtown where people don't have to get in their car and they can just walk to the market and walk home. Good job. I know it's a lot of hard work. Just let's get this thing going. It looks good. Thank you. Madam Mayor.

Thank you.

Councilman Perez.

Yeah, thank you, Madam Mayor. I absolutely agree with that. We need a market down there. And one, in my opinion, that is with the mixed-use housing development. that folks have an easier accessible and mixed use is the future that we're seeing. I just had a question. This is very loud. I just had a question. For the on page 188 of the plan. we talk about the ministerial review and what qualifies for ministerial review. Am I correct in understanding that hotels with 400 or less rooms can qualify for ministerial review on what is a housing opportunity site?

Yeah, so that is listed there, but that will be removed. It was part of an earlier draft. Sorry, the mics are really, it's not just me, right? Okay. Can everybody hear me okay?

Yeah. They're just giving a lot of feedback. Sorry.

Yeah. So it will essentially be updated. Um, we are essentially requiring CUPs for all hotels and motels in the specific plan. So they would go through that, uh, process.

Perfect. Then I absolutely concur. Let's go. Cause I agree. We really need to preserve that, that we as a council talking about local control have decided that that is one of the areas that we want to focus on housing. And I think let's build it. We have the sites ready for it. Let's build housing. We need to prioritize that in those areas. Thank you.

You're welcome.

Okay, Council Member Anthony.

You guys got all my comments. Go ahead.

So first of all, thank you so much for presenting this tonight and to staff for the hard work that's gone into this plan. It's thorough, and I wanted to hold up the plan for folks to see what it actually looks like printed out. This thing is absolutely huge. And if you're wondering why it took so long to scroll, and it's laid out very well. It's easy to read. I think it's set up in a way that's meant for a layperson to understand. So I really appreciate the time that staff has gone in to kind of translate that for a layperson.

viewing.

And to echo what the other council members have said about it being our own version, our own map of what we want our downtown in our area to look like, what we want development to be, what kind of development we want, and kind of like a vibe manual too, what our vibe is down there. So that takes a lot of effort to go into all the different aspects. So thank you. Speaking of this printed plans, it's still going to be circulated for folks to look at, right? Yes. Okay. Is it available in this form anywhere online? I'm an online PDF reader. I do prefer reading online. However, I struggled with trying to get through all of it with it. It is beautifully laid out, but it is a lot of pages. So is this available anywhere for folks to look at?

Yeah, we can. What we typically do typically do for our environmental documents. And once we have the draft released, we typically leave copies at the three libraries at the circulation desk. And then usually the city council office We have one in our public counter. Great. And then if anybody needs to see the plan or has questions and they can't make it to one of the scheduled events, they can always contact staff. And we're more than happy to meet with them, get on a phone call or a Zoom call or Teams and go over their questions and comments.

Wow, that is above and beyond. So thank you. And if we could let folks know that that is available, especially at the libraries, I think it's the most convenient place is the library. So thank you.

Just to add to that, if we could let folks know it's available when they open it online, because I would have loved to see this version. The online one is still, you struggle. I struggled with that one.

Yeah, maybe in the minutes for the meeting, it could be mentioned in there that this giant document can be viewed at the libraries. It would be great. Thank you. Yeah, it was much easier to parse through. My husband actually read it. That's how, you know... I brought it home, and he's like, what's this? And he went through about half of it. So he was very impressed. I have a couple of questions. So for slide five, with the vision, plan, framework, and goals, first of all, for that slide, for the folks at home, it has different colors for the different neighborhoods. There's about seven, eight different neighborhoods. First, I want to thank staff for indicating the different neighborhoods downtown. Because downtown is not one single neighborhood, it's multiple neighborhoods. And understanding that each neighborhood has its own personality, its own needs. And to that end, was there feedback solicited from each neighborhood for this document?

Yeah, so as we conducted the outreach, we did the public meetings and all that, we got comments from various stakeholders. So one of the things that we heard which kind of allowed us to, you know, kind of continue to preserve the industrial uses in downtown was that there were landowners on the west side of downtown that, you know, have owned those properties for many years. And at the time, earlier in the plan process, a lot of those properties were changing over to media uses. Now we're seeing in the change with media a potential resurgence for industrial uses. So even, you know, those that are creative industrial uses that are related more to like, you know, stuff where people are making things like leather, jewelry, stuff like that, but then also a resurgence of kind of advanced manufacturing. And so one of the things that we changed kind of as we worked in this process was just continuing to maintain flexibility to allow for changes in downtown in the future. One of the struggles when working with specific plans, and especially the Burbank Center plan that's now more than 30 years old, is that at the time that it was adopted, it really was instrumental in creating the downtown that we see today. However, it fell short, as we said earlier, in kind of looking at anticipating housing as a major component of that downtown. And then there's also been a host of uses that have kind of come in. And a lot of that feedback we've gotten just by working with our economic development team and getting inquiries at the counter that the planners get for new businesses coming in. And so we've kind of been keeping track of that and saying, okay, well, in the new specific plan, when we redevelop the use table, we're going to make sure to include those in there and try to be as flexible as we can so that we're ready when uses change over and we have a clear path of how to kind of update. So that was kind of what we considered and just taking into consideration the excitement of seeing the downtown Civic Center be expanded, the excitement of the Burbank Town Center being redeveloped. And then again, we heard from several people, the grocery store, which unfortunately in our current zoning, especially like along San Fernando and in the core, grocery stores for whatever reason were not allowed. So we've put that back in there and we've added additional grocery store uses to take into consideration neighborhood size markets as well as the full size markets. So really our goal with this was to just be as flexible as possible in continuing to support the evolution and the continued success of our downtown.

Great. Thank you. You can take down the slide. Thank you. Yeah, I really appreciate that approach. And I think looking at the area with this level of kind of granularity does allow more flexibility in the case that maybe that section of downtown changes and folks in the community change their needs. You don't have to change the entire plan, just that section potentially. and so you know I'm just my question is to ensure that each neighborhood has representation and their input in the plan and I'm also wondering is this level of granularity also going to be for the other plans too because I think each plan this could really benefit from from this level of kind of sectioning out and flexibility so for the for the media district because it's a smaller area it's not as

you know, kind of varied in the land uses as downtown. I think for Golden State, you will see a similar approach because you have definitely an established residential neighborhood. You have the airport, of course, and then you have kind of the established industrial areas. So it'll follow a similar approach. And if you look at the policies and the objectives in the Chapter 4 or Chapter 3, we tried to essentially tailor those policies and goals to each of those districts, corridors, and neighborhoods so that we could ensure that we were pinpointing what we wanted to see in each one. Because as we worked on it, I mean, downtown is downtown Burbank, but then it also takes into consideration kind of the supporting neighborhoods that surround it.

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Thank you. All right, a couple more. I have a question about, you don't have to put the slide up, but it's gonna be slide eight, which that slide describes the Burbank Town Center. That is a project that is very, folks have been asking about that for years, about the town center and the old Ikea and the Kmart. I think maybe every few weeks I get a question about that. And this slide, the way you described it, really has a great plan of how that's going to be potentially developed. And I've heard the story before. I've been around Burbank for a while, and the ideas. So the question I have is, how will this document help expedite or get us to this plan? And what would be the timeline, and maybe even the percentage of chance that it's going to happen? Because we've been told before it's going to happen. So we want to get too excited, and then it doesn't happen.

So the specific plan definitely provides the roadmap for the stakeholders of the town center to follow. We've met with the various stakeholders of the site to ensure that we know kind of what their plans are and to ensure that we're in alignment with what they're looking to do. I will say, though, for Burbank Town Center, I mean, they're looking at a 20-plus year redevelopment So what you see here is essentially taking that into consideration. You're going to see probably the periphery of the town center around the mall proper get redeveloped because those are the properties that currently are underutilized, like the IKEA site and some of the properties maybe along the freeway. And then towards the latter part of the process, you'll see parts of the mall get redeveloped as market conditions change and make it conducive. but essentially it's gonna be something that will be an investment in the future. We're not by any means gonna demolish everything at one time like we did when we built the mall, but it'll essentially kind of work off of the framework that we've established here in conjunction with the stakeholders to provide something that will guide the growth of that site. And really, I want to see that area. It has so much potential to be a neighborhood, a vibrant urban neighborhood as part of downtown.

Mm-hmm, agreed. Well, I really do hope this document and this process does help expedite and make that happen. I think the community also would agree on that. And then my last set of questions is about the circulation and mobility. You don't have to bring the slide up, but it's slide 10. It's a little map of the different mobility and how folks get around. So for the circulation and mobility in this plan, HOW DOES THAT OVERLAY WITH THE MASTER BIKE PLAN AND OTHER TRANSIT PLANS AND DOCUMENTS THAT WE HAVE ALREADY AROUND THE VARIOUS WAYS FOR TRANSIT?

SO THIS ESSENTIALLY IMPLEMENTS THOSE PLANS. WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IS ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE ANTICIPATE IN THE COMPLETE OUR STREETS PLAN, THE BICYCLE MASTER PLAN. THE COMPLETE OUR STREETS PLAN WAS ADOPTED RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING OF THE PROCESS. SO FROM THE BEGINNING WE HAD to kind of help us dictate improvements to the circulation and mobility.

Great. Thank you. Everything in this is important. And I think that this, as the area gets more dense, it's true of the other two specific plans, that the mobility, especially active mobility, is really important to be conscious about. And I appreciate your integrating that all into this plan. Great. Okay. Those are my questions and comments. Anything else before we wrap up? Okay, well, thank you again for this study session and for all this hard work. And again, community, this is available. This tome of a document is available at the library to review at your leisure. And you can borrow my copy too. And hopefully we can get even more feedback and soon to see the final product. Thank you. Council meeting will start at six o'clock. So we will take a short 10 minute break and we'll be back at six.