BURBANK : Council Acts to Increase Parking
The Burbank City Council approved two measures designed to increase room for parking, but not without debate.
In one vote, the council approved spending $47,000 for gates and security fencing at a new $3-million garage the city will build for Los Angeles County near the Municipal Courts building on Olive Street.
The city and the county are swapping land there as part of a deal allowing the county to build new courtrooms and the city to build a garage for downtown parking.
“To my grave, I believe the county should have paid for that,” Battey said as he changed his vote. He had been backed in his opposition by Councilman Tim Murphy.
On Tuesday, the council also unanimously voted to exchange part of the former Benjamin Franklin Elementary School property on Thornton Avenue for a 120,000-square-foot plot on North Front Street. The city will use the land, which was to be developed by Hyrail Partners, for 447 parking spaces demanded by the County Transportation Commission to continue Metrolink train service there.
The city is giving Hyrail Partners 90,000 square feet of former school property plus $430,000.
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