The Agreement | Hollywood Burbank Airport New Terminal

About the Project: The Development Agreement

Measure B gives the Airport Authority the right to build Elevate BUR on the Adjacent Property, the 49-acre B-6 site, and changes the Airport Authority Commission’s voting rules to give Burbank Commissioners “supermajority” voting rights, allowing Burbank to control the future of the Airport.

Elevate BUR will have the following basic characteristics:

Total number of aircraft parking gates shall not exceed the current number of 14.
Size of replacement terminal building shall be no greater than 355,000 square feet.
Total public parking spaces (excludes employee parking spaces) shall not exceed the current 6,637.
Upon the opening of the Terminal, the current passenger terminal shall be closed and demolished.

The term sheet was approved by the Airport Authority on November 2, 2015, and by the Burbank City Council on November 16, 2015.

It formed the basis for a Development Agreement between the City of Burbank and the Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority for the Replacement Terminal Project. The Development Agreement was approved by the Airport Authority on July 11, 2016, and by the Burbank City Council on August 1, 2016, and then ratified by the voters of Burbank on November 8, 2016.

Download and view the Term Sheet Agreement

Download and view the Development Agreement

Download and view Resolution for Public Utilities Code Section 21661.6(e) – approvals

Download and view Second Amendment to the Joint Powers Agreement

What is “Supermajority Voting?”

The Airport Authority is composed of three cities (Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena) that appoint nine commissioners, three each from each city. With supermajority voting, two of the three Burbank Commissioners on the Airport Authority will be able to block Airport expansion and more, even if outnumbered by the Glendale and Pasadena Commissioners. Burbank now has the ability to stop attempts to: increase the number of terminal gates, change the voluntary nighttime curfew or other noise rules, change support for federal authorization to implement a mandatory nighttime curfew, allow parking of passenger aircraft other than at the gates, or expand the current terminal or any new terminal.

With supermajority voting, the Commission can NEVER do the following without the approval of Burbank:

Increase the number of airline gates
Acquire land
End the voluntary nighttime curfew on scheduled airline operations
Change the existing noise rules or how they are enforced
Expand the existing terminal or any new terminal
Abandon the Authority’s support for Congressional approval to implement a mandatory nighttime curfew on all aircraft
And approve management contracts or leases in excess of 35 years

BGPAA Commission Selects Design Concept for Replacement Passenger Terminal

The development of the replacement passenger terminal (known as “Elevate BUR”) has marked another major milestone, with Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority (

Preliminary Design Concepts for Replacement Passenger Terminal Unveiled at Authority Meeting

The public is getting its first glimpse of what the replacement passenger terminal may look like. At today’s Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority (BGPAA) meeting, commissioners were presented with thre...