21 August 2016

Anyone Interested How Planning & Zoning Works? Clue = It Is Complicated

 
This post if mostly cut-and-dry and detailed to illustrate the multiple facets of what goes on at PZ meetings, study sessions and hearings. The tentative and final agendas are listed on a meetings calendar you can find on mesaaz.gov .
Here's a link >> http://mesa.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx
Condensed below are five pages taken from published agendas, with hard copies available at the meetings as well as a sign-in sheet.
Individual items on agendas have links to the documents and maps associated with each for you to either download or open prior to scheduled meeting times, viewing the materials and plans can take hours! What "average citizen" can really do that??

Nonetheless, your MesaZona blogger took the time on Tue 16 August 2016 to go to the 7:30a.m. PZ Study Session the day before a public hearing took place [didn't attend, but anyone can watch a video-on-demand for the hearing ].
The Agenda for the Tuesday Study Session caught my eye for a presentation that was on the published agenda the day before for a Downtown Mesa Update Presentation by Jeff McVay that, as it turned out didn't happen - it was postponed, rescheduled to be heard at the Sept 20, 2016 Study Session.
You gotta have extraordinary patience to get this: take the time to scan over the items and then watch the video-on-demand for the public. 
On the day before what did happen was a review of the items on the tentative agenda for the next day's regular PZ Board Hearing whose final agenda [5 pages] is shown below - the same items.
[Readers should note that all the board members are nominated by the mayor and approved by the Mesa City Council.]
Staff planners, and John Wesley Powell, were on one side and board members on the other facing each other in the front of Room 170 at City Hall. There was a lively give-and-take on all the agenda items I had the time to listen to, noting that Tim Boyle and Steve Ikeda were the most engaged with the staff planners

These are the Items on the final consent agenda the next day: [13]
  • 3 Zoning cases *3-a through *3e reviewed were for an assisted living facility, a medical facility, a 3.1-acre single-residential subdivision, a 9+-acre light industrial development and associated storage yards, a 365 plus/minus-acres to establish a Development Unit Plan for Unit 5 North @ Eastmark,
  • 4 Discussion and recommendations to the City Council were made on the following zoning cases *4a through *4-c for: a 1.67-acre development for development of 16 attached single residences within a multi-residential district, a 15-acre development of a multi-residential project, and a 1.16-acre for an outpatient surgical facility.
  • 5 Discussion and action on preliminary plats *5-a through *5-e  for: 17+-acre Sunland Spring [condos], a 1.67-acre for Pasadena Estates, a 2.7-acre for Villa Rialto II, a 3.1-acre for Diamond Court, and a 9-acre Red mountain Business Park

6 Items not on the consent agenda: Take action on
   6-a Rezone and Site Plan Review for a 2.7-acre multi-residential development


City of Mesa Planning and Zoning Board - Public Hearing
Meeting Agenda - Final

Wed 17 August 2016

Chair Michael Clement

Vice Chair Michelle Dahlke
Board members:
Dane Astle

Steve Ikeda
Jessica Sarkissian
Jennifer Duff
Tim Boyle

Consent Agenda - All items listed with an asterisk (*) will be considered as a group by the Board and will be enacted with one motion. 

There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a Boardmember or citizen requests, in which the item will be removed from the consent agenda, prior to the vote, and considered as a separate item.     
Items on this agenda that must be adopted by ordinance and/or resolution will be on a future City Council agenda. 


Anyone interested in attending the City Council public hearing should call the Planning Division at (480) 644-2385 or review the City Council agendas on the City's website at www.mesaaz.gov to find the agenda on which the item(s) will be placed.
Call meeting to order.
1 Take action on all consent agenda items.
Items on the Consent Agenda

2 Approval of minutes from previous meetings.
PZ 16203 Minutes from the July 19, 2016 and July 20, 2016 Study Sessions and Regular Hearing


*2-a
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3 Take action on the following zoning cases: [5]

   3 Approved with conditions, 2 continued to Sept 21 meeting

*3-a

PZ 16193 Z16-037 District 1. 2810 North Val Vista Drive and 3558 East McDowell Road.  Located at the northwest corner of McDowell Road and Val Vista Drive.  (1.69± acres).  Site Plan Review.  This request will allow development of an assisted living facility. (PLN2016-00379). 
Staff Planner:   Jennifer Gniffke Staff Recommendation:   Continuance to the September 21, 2016 Meeting

  
*3-b
PZ 16194 Z16-038 District 1. 1310 through 1322 East McKellips Road. Located east of Stapley Drive on the north side of McKellips Road. (2.16 ± acres).  Site Plan Review.  This request will allow development of a medical facility.  (PLN2016-00321). 
Staff Planner:   Kaelee Wilson Staff Recommendation:   Approval with Conditions 


*3-c
PZ 16195 Z16-040 District 6.  The 600 block of South Signal Butte Road (west side).  Located south of Broadway Road on the west side of Signal Butte Road.  (3.1± acres). Rezoning from RS-43 to RSL-3.0 PAD and Site Plan Review. This request will allow for the development of a single-residential subdivision (PLN2016-00377). 
Staff Planner:   Tom Ellsworth Staff Recommendation:   Continuance to the September 21, 2016 Meeting

  
*3-d
PZ 16196 Z16-041 District 5.  The 3200 through 3400 block of North Higley Road (west side).  Located south of the Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway on the west side of Higley Road. (9 ± acres).   Site Plan Review. This request will allow for a light industrial development and associated storage yards. (PLN2016-00327). 
Staff Planner:   Tom Ellsworth Staff Recommendation:   Approval with Conditions 


*3-e
PZ 16197 Z16-042 District 6.  The 9600 to 10400 blocks of East Elliot Road (south side). Located on the south side of Elliot Road and east of Ellsworth Road. (365± acres).  Development Unit Plan Review. This request will establish a Development Unit Plan for Development Unit 5 North of the Eastmark (Mesa Proving Grounds) Community Plan. (PLN2016-00504). 
Staff Planner:   Kim Steadman Staff Recommendation:   Approval with Conditions

 

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4 Discuss and make a recommendation to the City Council on the following zoning cases: [9]

7 Approvals with conditions, 2 continued to Sept 21 meeting

*4-a
PZ 16189 Z16-035 District 4. 500 block of South Pasadena (east side), between 521 and 551 South Pasadena excluding 525, 531, 537, but including the property behind (east of) those three addresses.  Located south of Broadway Road and west of Mesa Drive. (1.67 ± acres).   Rezoning from RM-2 and RM-3-PAD to RM-2-BIZ and Site Plan Review. This request will allow development of attached single residences within a multi-residential district (PLN2016-00278).  
Staff Planner:   Andrew Spurgin  Staff Recommendation:   Approval with Conditions


*4-b
PZ 16190 Z16-034 District 6. 3117 South Signal Butte Road with a connection south of East Pampa Avenue to the future extension of South Willow Wood.  Located south of Guadalupe Road and east of Signal Butte Road.  (15 ± acres).  Rezoning from RS-6-PAD to RM-2-PAD-PAD and Site Plan Review.  This request will allow development of a multi-residential project. (PLN2015-00306).    
Staff Planner:   Lesley Davis  Staff Recommendation:   Approval with Conditions


*4-c
PZ 16191 Z16-036 District 1.  2626 East University Drive. Located west of Lindsay Road on the north side of University Drive.   (1.16± acres).  Rezoning from OC-PAD to NC-PAD, PAD Modification and Site Plan Review.  This request will allow repurposing of the existing building to an outpatient surgical facility.  (PLN2016-00486). 
Staff Planner:   Andrew Spurgin Staff Recommendation:   Approval with Conditions


*4-d
PZ 16192 Z16-039 District 6. 7800 block of East Baseline Road (north side). Located east of Sossaman Road on the north side of Baseline Road.  (2.7 ± acres).  Rezone from RS-6 and OC to RM-3-PAD and Site Plan Review.  This request will allow a multi-residential development. (PLN2016-00376). 
Staff Planners:   Andrew Spurgin and Lesley Davis Staff Recommendation:   Approval with Conditions

 
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5 Discuss and take action on the following preliminary plats:



*5-a
PZ 16198 "Sunland Springs Village”. District 6. 3117 South Signal Butte Road with a connection south of East Pampa Avenue to the future extension of South Willow Wood.  Located south of Guadalupe Road and east of Signal Butte Road.  (17 ± acres).  Preliminary Plat.  Tim R. Nielsen, Farnsworth Construction Co., applicant; RAF Investments, LLC, Guadalupe/Signal Butte 36 Investments LLLP, Sunland Springs Apts LL, Meridian Prop, ETAL, owners. (PLN2015-00306).    Companion case to Z16-034
Staff Planner:  Lesley Davis Staff Recommendation: Approval with Conditions


*5-b
PZ 16199 "Pasadena Estates”.  District 4.  500 block of South Pasadena (east side), between 521 and 551 South Pasadena excluding 525, 531, 537, but including the property behind (east of) those three addresses.  Located south of Broadway Road and west of Mesa Drive. (1.67 ± acres).   Preliminary Plat.  Bruce Tulley, Trapezium Consulting Group, applicant; Kevin Zirk, CFZ Development LLC, owner.  (PLN2016-00278).  Companion case to Z16-035
Staff Planner:  Andrew Spurgin Staff Recommendation:  Approval with Conditions


*5-c
PZ 16200 "Villa Rialto II”.  District 6.  7800 block of East Baseline Road (north side). Located east of Sossaman Road on the north side of Baseline Road.  (2.7 ± acres).  Preliminary Plat.  Reese L. Anderson, Pew and Lake, PLC, applicant; Light in the Desert Baptist Church and Baseline Road Southern Baptist Church, owners.  (PLN2016-00376). Companion case to Z16-039 
Staff Planner:  Andrew Spurgin and Lesley Davis Staff Recommendation: Continuance to the September 21, 2016 Meeting


*5-d
PZ 16202 "Diamond Court”. District 6.  The 600 block of South Signal Butte Road (west side).  Located south of Broadway Road on the west side of Signal Butte Road. (3.1± acres).  Preliminary Plat.  Sean Lake, Pew and Lake, PLC, applicant; Leon Rick’s, Ricks Investments, owner.  (PLN2016-00377).  Companion case to Z16-040
Staff Planner:   Tom Ellsworth Staff Recommendation:   Continuance to the September 21, 2016 Meeting

  
*5-d
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PZ 16201 "Red Mountain Business Park”. District 5 The 3200 through 3400 block of North Higley Road (west side).  Located south of the Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway on the west side of Higley Road. (9 ± acres).   Preliminary Plat.  Corey Smith, DCSJ, LLC, applicant; Higley Land Investments, owner.  (PLN2016-00327). Companion case to Z16-041
Staff Planner:  Tom Ellsworth Staff Recommendation:  Approval with Condition
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