A developer (Central BWB LLC, a BW Brody Company) is planning to demolish the Glendale Garden Homes, a historic apartment complex with 37 naturally affordable family units, 90 mature trees and abundant gardens. In its place, the developer wants to construct a six-story apartment block, more than two times the size of Glendale Bloomingdale’s, with 149 mostly unaffordable units—destroying all existing trees in the process. The project would add at least 315 cars on a two-lane road governed by only a stop sign, threatening severe congestion and forcing traffic onto North Brand and surrounding small neighborhood streets. In an emergency, this could be a death trap.

We need housing. But we need safe housing that enhances and sustains our existing multi-family neighborhoods. And we need housing that supports Glendale’s efforts to increase its tree canopy to fight extreme heat—not housing that turns Glendale into a hot concrete wasteland, destroys our historic resources, and presents a safety risk. 

The applicant, (the Brody Company) has filed an appeal to City Council, seeking to overturn our Community Development Director’s commonsense requirement to prepare an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) to analyze impacts to the neighborhood, historic property, city resources, street traffic, etc. This appeal is not the first example of the applicant's arrogance. After Glendale’s Design Review Board denied an earlier 131-unit proposal, saying “the building volume and massing are too tall and overbearing for the neighborhood context,” the developer had the nerve to come back with a much larger project! Now they want a pass excusing them from State required CEQA (California Environmental Quality Act) a critical law that protects neighborhoods from unchecked development. We say NO to their appeal and NO to the project! Sign the petition below to help save Glendale from out of control, neighborhood-destroying development. Please be sure your address is GLENDALE to really help in this fight.

The most important thing you can do:  SHOW UP to the City Council Meeting and insist this appeal is denied. The meeting has been moved twice:  currently, February 4, 6pm. Glendale City Hall. Tell City Council you oppose this terrible plan- we WILL win this if we show up!

Additional information:  1303-1315 N. Central Avenue. Project # PDR2209209

We the undersigned residents of the City of Glendale insist City Council stand for Glendale and:

DENY THE APPEAL TO BYPASS CEQA AND REQUIRE THE APPLICANT TO PREPARE A FULL ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW. Support the Community Development Director’s conclusion, as we do, that Glendale Garden Homes is eligible for listing in the local historic register.  We implore you to consider the perilous downside of granting this appeal and fast-tracking a project that presents a safety risk and threatens to destroy a historic resource and an existing multi-family community.