Burbank Municipal Code Div. 1 Purpose and Definitions

This Article creates an overlay zoning area, called the Burbank Center (“Burbank Center”) which contains a series of zoning classifications for the Burbank Center. This zone incorporates a number of transportation demand management goals and strategies, including the reduction of traffic impacts of future development by decreasing the dependency of future employees on private vehicles by providing viable public transit alternatives.

The Burbank Center overlay zone regulates commercial and industrial land located within the boundaries of the Burbank Center in relation to land use, density, height, and setbacks, as well as specific aspects of parking, landscaping and signs. The Overlay Zone is intended to supplement and override the existing zones; in the event that a development standard is not provided for in the Burbank Center Overlay Zone Ordinance, the development regulations of the Burbank Municipal Code for the underlying or specified zone shall apply. Parcels which retain non-overlay zoning (i.e., all property without a BC prefix to zone except for the Commercial Manufacturing (“CM”) Zone) shall comply with applicable development standards of this Article. The boundaries of the Burbank Center are delineated as follows:[Figure]

[Added by Ord. No. 3467, eff. 7/19/97.]

For the purposes of this article, the following definitions shall apply. Words or phrases not defined in this section shall be construed as defined in the Burbank Municipal Code. This section only includes words or phrases which are not defined elsewhere in this Chapter.

CIVIC CENTER: Encompasses a six (6) block area bounded by San Fernando Boulevard, north to Palm Avenue, east to Glenoaks Boulevard, south to Angeleno Avenue, then west to San Fernando Boulevard.

TRANSIT CENTER: As defined by the 1993 Congestion Management Plan (CMP) for Los Angeles County, and as it may be amended, is a fixed facility that consolidates and supports passenger loading, and includes Passenger rail stations such as those along the Metro Red Line, Blue Line and Metrolink, and Major bus transfer centers served by at least eight (8) bus lines, including fixed route shuttles, and providing a sheltered waiting area, signage with a listing of bus routes to the Center, and bus bays restricted to bus use. [Added by Ord. No. 3467, eff. 7/19/97.]