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Glendale council directs staff to study transfer-of-development-rights program after mixed public reaction
Summary
Council directed staff to draft a TDR program framework to sell unused city development rights for housing and revenue generation, excluding certain land-use overlay areas for now; public commenters raised concerns about parking, outreach and neighborhood impacts.
The Glendale City Council on Feb. 24 instructed staff to study a transfer-of-development-rights (TDR) program that would allow the city to sell unused development potential from select city-owned donor sites to private receiver sites — a tool staff said could generate revenue and direct housing growth to appropriate corridors.
Bradley Calvert, then the community development director, told the council the voluntary program would convert unrealized floor area from city properties (for example, an underbuilt fire station) into transferable square footage that private developers could buy and apply to projects in targeted areas such as the downtown specific plan and Tropico. Staff emphasized the program would not include properties currently…
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