Glendale design review board approves 3‑story house at 521 Nolan Avenue with arborist condition

The Glendale Design Review Board voted 3–0 on May 8 to approve design review case PDR003772‑2024 for a new three‑story, approximately 2,526‑square‑foot single‑family house with an attached two‑car garage at 521 Nolan Avenue in the Brockmont neighborhood, subject to a condition that the applicant comply with the city arborist’s comments before submitting for plan check.

The project case planner, Sholeke Premian, told the board the site is a vacant, double‑frontage lot of about 8,790 square feet in the R‑1R restricted residential zone and that the application is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act under a Class 3 categorical exemption for new single‑family construction. "The project proposal is to construct a new 3 story 2,526 square foot single family house with an attached 2 car garage on a vacant 8,790 square foot lot," Premian said during the presentation.

Why it matters: The site is steep (the planner identified an average slope of about 96 percent) and required earlier variances and an administrative exception…