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Avjet to Try Again on Planned Project

Avjet Aviation went back to the drawing board in its plans for a new hangar and office space at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank. The aircraft management and sales company needed to reconfigure how the building fit on three parcels of land in the 3000 block of Clybourn Avenue after the Burbank Planning Board rejected the project for violating city zoning codes. The company makes its case for approval before the Burbank City Council on Jan. 16. “We’ll do whatever is required to get the city council to see our view of things and why we want to move this forward,” said AvJet Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Marc J. Foulkrod. In June, the company had a lease agreement approved by the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority to construct a new hangar to go with the four it already has at the airport. The 57,000 square-foot hangar will house a 737 Boeing Business Jet owned by Shangri La Entertainment, a motion picture production company. The new building will also include 12,383 square-feet of office space. The aircraft firm anticipated a December 2007 completion date and a minimum cost of $5 million. In August, the Burbank Community Development Department Director Sue Georgino approved the project. An appeal of the decision was filed by city residents Phil and Carolyn Berlin and a hearing took place in early November before the city Planning Board. “We have a lease with the airport authority and we were told it was well within the confines of the development agreement,” Foulkrod said. When the city and airport authority were negotiating an agreement on future development and uses at Bob Hope, one of the selling points was that the existing zoning codes would stay in place, Carolyn Berlin said. Now it seems to the long-time resident as though the city is not doing what it should. “It basically comes down to whether or not the city is going to enforce our zoning codes,” Carolyn Berlin said. Two of the three parcels for the proposed hangar are zoned for aviation use while the third, which is the frontage along Clybourn Avenue, is zoned for manufacturing.

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