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City staff extends comment period, defends outreach for Glendale land-use update as residents and council voice concerns
Summary
City staff said it opened a 45-day comment period and expanded outreach for the draft land-use element of Glendale's general plan, but residents and several council members said public notice and clear summaries were inadequate for affected neighborhoods, particularly in Montrose and La Crescenta.
City staff told the Glendale City Council on Aug. 12 that the draft Land Use element of the general plan is the subject of an extended public comment period and increased outreach after staff received a rise in community questions and misinformation.
Bradley Calvert, director of development, said the city opened a 45-day comment period and launched a multilingual mailer to 40,000 addresses, ran social-media outreach that reached thousands of accounts, included notices in the City Connection newsletter and ran 11 community pop-ups and multiple HOA meetings. Staff said they would extend the public comment period by 10 days, from Aug. 19 to Aug. 29, and…
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