Proposals sought for high-speed rail station

A full-scale mock-up of a high-speed bullet train is displayed at the Capitol in Sacramento.

March 7, 2016 12:44 PM PT

Burbank is seeking proposals from consulting firms to help develop the city’s Golden State Specific Plan and High Speed Station Area Plan in the area near Bob Hope Airport.

The area is roughly 600 acres and includes a proposed high-speed rail station and two Metrolink stations. The plan will address land uses, infrastructure, building and site-plan design, open space, transportation, parking, landscaping as well as pedestrian and bicycle access, according to an announcement from the city.

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The project area is bounded by the airport to the west and Ontario Street, Buena Vista Street to the east, with Cohasset Street and Golden State (5) Freeway to the north and Empire and Pacific avenues and Vanowen Street to the south.

The city’s Request for Proposal is online at burbankca.gov/GSSP. For more information, contact Scott Plambaeck at (818) 238-5250 or by email at splambaeck@burbankca.gov.

The deadline for proposals is 5 p.m. on April 18. They can be submitted to the following address:

Scott Plambaeck, Senior Planner, Community Development Department, 150 N. Third St., Burbank, CA 91510-5459.

Chad Garland, chad.garland@latimes.com

Twitter: @chadgarland

Chad Garland

Chad Garland covered the city of Burbank and Bob Hope Airport for the Burbank Leader until 2016. Previously, he has covered Arizona’s congressional delegation in Washington, D.C., for Cronkite News Service and Oregon’s Legislature for the Associated Press. His work investigating questionable veterans’ charities as part of the award-winning News21 national investigative project “Back Home” earned a “Best in Business” award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers in 2013. Before becoming a reporter, he spent more than a decade in various assignments related to national defense. An Illinois native, his first California address was at Marine Corps boot camp in San Diego. He has degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Arizona State University, as well as a diploma from the Army’s Defense Language Institute in Monterey, where he learned to speak Russian.