Glendale council requires EIR before demolition of Glendale Garden Homes

The Glendale City Council voted unanimously Feb. 4 to sustain the Community Development Director27s decision that an environmental impact report is required for the proposed demolition of the Glendale Garden Homes apartment complex at 13032D1315 North Central Avenue.

The decision came after a three-hour hearing in which city planners, preservation consultants, the project27s attorney and dozens of residents presented competing analyses about whether the 1957-built, roughly 1.9-acre site qualifies as a historic resource under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Staff and the Los Angeles Conservancy concluded the site is eligible for the Glendale Register of Historic Resources; the project team and consultants hired by the applicant argued the record does not contain substantial evidence to support that finding.

"The key issue to be resolved is whether or not the Glendale Garden Homes is a historic resource and therefore whether or not an EIR is required to demolish it," said Cassandra Pruitt, the city case…