Phweeeeeeeh! News/Dumps From The Back-Side Seat of Government

Embrace the Poop! Nah. Let's just eradicate the news-manipulation mess from the city of Mesa's public information machine when they attempt to stage interviews by one city official - who happens to be the new chief Planning & Zoning Director as of January 2019.  
Here's a story that appeared 4 days ago on AZFamily that sounds way-too-familiar as if it were 'ghost-written' with the usual word-tricks looking to improve or may be. . . the script-writer doesn't know that the word Nana is not a name. In common usage that word usually means Grandmother.
Mesa looking to improve City's appearance by creating new development guidelines

Image of building site at Main Street/Mesa Drive 
'City Creek South', a 10-acre smaller scale
version of City Creek Center in Temple Square
Salt Lake City. 
MESA,AZ (3TV/CBS 5) - " The City of Mesa may be getting a significant overhaul. City leaders are considering a new set of rules and regulations when it comes to new development. Nana Appiah is Mesa's planning and development director. He said that all commercial, residential and industrial developments will soon be required to follow strict design guidelines to create more appealing, higher quality and longer-lasting homes and buildings."

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OK. sounds good, but why open that handed-out article with this image (above right) where strict design guidelines were controversial to start with no public input from people who live here in Mesa? It was headlined as The Mormon Make-Over of Downtown Mesa and The Temple Transformation. No financial details were ever disclosed to the public.

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"Nana Appiah is Mesa's planning and development director. He said that all commercial, residential and industrial developments will soon be required to follow strict design guidelines to create more appealing, higher quality and longer-lasting homes and buildings."  HUH? HE SAID? Pardon me, but it looks like he's reading from a script in this presentation to the Mesa City Council Study Session on 07 November 2019...Appiah spends 2 minutes introducing his support cast and it appears to be the way he gets handled at his public exposures

BLOGGER NOTE: There's also an interview staged outside of City Hall

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"When you drive through the metro area, we want to be able to do it the Mesa way, which means we want to be unique," said Appiah.

"We want to be a city that actually has quality development, and want to have a city that you enter and you feel this is a sense of place."

© (Source: 3TV/CBS 5)
Appiah insists they have no intention of taking away Mesa's history and charm.

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"Appiah insists they have no intention of taking away Mesa's history and charm. They simply want to incorporate more modern and sustainable designs to revitalize Mesa.

"Mix the old with the new, and hopefully, people will come out and visit this great city again," said Jeff Talley of Gilbert."

                            

 

911 Alert on (411) Information >Sidewalk Experiment In DISINFORMATION + The Agents of MANIPULATION

Beyond Facts - just yesterday students from the Columbia Journalism Review published a special report as part of an experiment to test the power of fake news—that is, truly fake news, not as Donald Trump defines it but the kind that misreports and misinforms.
They took over a newsstand in Manhattan, replacing all the newspapers and magazines with fake ones, similar in design to their real-world counterparts but absurd in their content...
Hours passed. Hundreds of people walked by. A couple dozen stopped to gawk. The students did their best to engage them in conversation, asking for their opinions about what they saw.
SPOILER ALERT > We’re dangerously close to a situation in which facts no longer function as a journalistic response. Then what?
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Would people respond differently to falsehoods if they were taken off the internet and put in front of them, in print, on a newsstand in Manhattan? Would passersby notice, or even care?
Visitors’ answers largely fell into two categories:
> One group noticed the headlines, recognized they were odd, but had so little faith in journalism that they shrugged off the misinformation and moved on.
> The other group read the headlines but didn’t register them as unusual, so accustomed were they to specious stories as part of their regular news diets.
. . . the exercise was demoralizing: What did this say about news consumers? About news producers?
Only a handful of people were disturbed by the lies on display.
That was in 2018. If anything, the problem of disinformation has only grown worse since our sidewalk experiment. Falsehoods propagated on social media have become increasingly sophisticated, intentional deception from the White House and elsewhere is more widespread, and journalism’s ability to counter bad information with legitimate reporting seems to be getting more limited by the day. Those trends will accelerate as we head into the 2020 presidential election, a contest that will be about a lot of things, no doubt including how and whether the traditional arsenal of journalism—accuracy, fairness, dedicated observation—is a match for the army of nonsense assembled against it. . .
In the Fall of 2019, in the age of Trump and Facebook trolls and partisan propaganda, it looks like disinformation is winning.
Facts, they believed, could help journalists bring power to account, justice to the marginalized.
The truth carried weight; facts spoke for themselves and could not be dismissed.
But then came the internet and social media and a surge of information, factual and nonsensical
Whitney Phillips, a scholar of online communication at Syracuse University, has observed how true statements have been used to expand the reach of untruths . .
“Shining a light on what’s false can even, counterintuitively, make things worse by spreading falsehoods to more people,” she explains in her piece for the magazine, “making those falsehoods seem more plausible to certain audiences, and generally ensuring that the story is more potent after the debunk than before.”
The result, on our TV newscasts and daily papers and Twitter feeds, is a red-faced, vein-popping scream.
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What the press can learn from its war against disinformation

Beyond Facts

Columbia Journalism Review

 

"The Mesa Way" To Smother The Truth > Take-Out The Oxygen + Say No Comment

No Comment says a lot when city officials say that all the time, due to internal reviews or internal investigations, excused by having engaged and hiring attorneys. However, THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT-TO-KNOW
The current Mesa Public Schools scandal is one more symptom of a corrupt system of patronage entrenched here for generations.
Those inside that system protect their own
"friends-and-family" connections.

That's simply the way it works here - it's The Mesa Way .
Hard to break-up or reform-from-inside when nearly everyone in any position of power is inside that Bubble - and they don't want no one or no thing threatening to challenge their status quo.
They don't want no trouble and will try anything to keep it the way they want it: Don't mess with our thing.
That is until lose control of the narrative and cannot manipulate the media to use that same old bag-of-tricks.
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HEADS UP! All these recent scandals are getting wrapped-into one helluva major mess.
Follow along this school scandal with a connection to Mesa's Police Department. . .


Ember Conley had "a lot of baggage" until investigative reporter Meg O'Connor opened it all up to publish this report

Ousted Mesa Superintendent's Cop Ex-Husband Served Prison Time for Theft

Meg O'Connor

LINK > Phoenix New Times  

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BLOGGER NOTE: Focus on the timeline here and how it relates to Ember Conley going off to a new job in Park City, Utah. A promotion-of-sorts from her work history earlier here in Mesa's public schools to her new job as school superintendent in a small city with 5,000 students.

 

"Asked about the situation by a local newspaper in Park City, where she worked at the time, Conley said, "My job is to take care of my family and to take care of the students in Park City, and that is my focus."

 

QUESTIONS NOW ARISE if Conley was ever 'vested' during the screening of other candidates for hiring a new school superintendent here . .

every detail reported by Meg O'Connor reports is in the public domain and in the public record.

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". . . Conley has remained silent about her firing. Mesa Public Schools has denied Conley's firing is related to the overspending. But being accused of stealing from one's job is a situation Conley is familiar with: Her ex, Jose Lizarraga, was arrested by the FBI for fraud, attempted money laundering, and theft back in 2013 while he was working as a detective for the city of Maricopa Police.

He also filed for bankruptcy in July 2009, stating that he owed creditors $933,000, court records show. . .
> Conley and Lizarraga married in 2012.
Records show they likely divorced sometime after Lizarraga's arrest, given that they no longer live together and a 2018 deed on the county recorder's website refers to Conley as "an unmarried woman."
> Phoenix New Times was unable to reach Conley or Lizarraga by phone to confirm, and records on a possible divorce could not be found in Pinal County Court (where they married), Maricopa County Court (where Conley lives now), or Summit County Court (where Conley lived in 2013).
> Heidi Hurst, Mesa Public Schools communications director, did not respond to a voicemail seeking comment. When New Times called the Mesa schools superintendent's phone number, a woman who answered said to email instead. An email seeking comment was not returned.
> The reasons for Conley's ouster and whether the accusations of embezzlement have any truth to them are not yet known. But Lizarraga's history is pretty clear. On July 2, 2013, the Pinal County Attorney's Office issued a press release stating that Lizarraga had been charged with five felonies: 

• fraudulent schemes,
• forgery,
• tampering with public records,
• attempted money laundering, and
• theft. 

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HOW ABOUT THIS?

Calls for transparency, changes to special ed, dominate Mesa school board meeting

By:Danielle  Here's the LINK >  KNXV |                                             

MESA, AZ — Demanding answers and more transparency from Mesa Public Schools.

".  . . Board members made it clear from the start that legally they cannot discuss Dr. Ember Conley’s leave or their ongoing negotiations. However, that did not stop several people from coming forward to voice their concerns about what is happening in the district.
The night started with a budget breakdown and a more in-depth look at the district’s general administration spending. Things then took an emotional turn before and after public comment.
Try this on for Believe-ability?

"We have nothing to hide,”

said Board President Elaine Miner.

“We are caring people that are trying to do the best we can do for this community.”

LINK > ABC15 News

THAT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH.... No lame excuses anymore.
Who is Elaine Miner?
Her job qualifications as already serving two terms as MPSGB President (her educational background with a bachelor's degree in home economics from BYU, and her regular occupation with her husband owning and operating a real estate school and business)
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Take the time to watch the video on Danielle Lerner's report and pay attention to the last statement made by Kiana Sears, The Mesa Public Schools Governing Board Clerk:
Speaker after speaker demanded more from the district. Board members could not give specifics, but Board Clerk Kiana Sears offered this.
“I wish there was more that we could say at this time but do know all of those things, we hear you and thank you for being here tonight,” said Sears. 
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Use can use the Searchbox on this blog to get an archive of every post on the subject matter at hand - going back to what has proved the highly questionable and irregular hiring of Ember Conley just last year.


 

Reporting With Required Disclosures: Real Estate Developers & The Rose Law Group

For sure like Shakespeare wrote "A rose is a rose is a rose" by any other name would smell as sweet
Ah, Inhale that please. When it comes to The East Valley and the five cities and towns in it - and bordering counties all the way south to Casa Grande and Tucson - there's always a need for attorneys (transactional, tax law and zoning) and law groups to represent all the players on-and-off the stage, other than the public: major industry interests like Finance, Insurance, Real Estate, Government and Politics.

The final act in the development process - that involves influencing public opinion and their input - is to get city councils to approve everything.
That's where what gets reported in mainstream media is an important thing to try to influence, to control and to manipulate to produce the desired outcomes.
Of course there's also something called 'alternative media" - and investigative reporters who are more independent and objective (and not beholden to "special interests" who represent THE PUBLIC RIGHT-TO-KNOW.
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"Rose Law Group pc is a full-service real estate and business law firm practicing in land use, zoning, renewable energy, government relations and lobbying, administrative law, family law, transactional real estate, employment law, water law, Native American relations, ADA compliance, infrastructure finance, special districts taxation, business formation/corporation transactions, business litigation, school law, cyber-defamation, cyber-privacy, drone law, cannabis law, hemp law, intellectual property, estate planning, asset protection, private litigation, class actions and DUI’s.

Our staff of attorneys, planners and construction project managers is unique in the state. Our planning department focuses on helping clients process plans and applications through municipal, county and state regulatory agencies, and we have the skills to coordinate with your consultant team, conduct plan checks and catch errors, saving you time and money... "

Link to the website > https://www.roselawgroup.com/
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The following are entries for only about the last month:
DISCLOSURES from https://www.roselawgroup.com/news/

1 Pinal County pleased to receive $15.3 million Build Grant

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Saint Holdings

By Gina Salinas, Public Information Officer, Pinal County | San Tan Times Pinal County

2 Pinal County receives $15M grant for infrastructure near truck production facility

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Saint Holdings By Corina Vanek | Phoenix Business Journal

3 Pinal County receives $15 million for economic development

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Saint Holdings

By Mike Sunnucks | Rose Law Group Reporter

 

Jordan RoseReal Estate Nov 25  

SE Mesa area could generate 240K jobs

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Hawes Crossing

By Jim Walsh | East Valley Tribune

Mesa officials have sketched out four main areas of activity for the sprawling southeastern part of the city. 

City of Mesa / East Valley Tribune

"An east Mesa city councilman last week criticized a consultant’s report on the future of Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport, arguing it “would be a recipe for disaster’’ to allow housing in the flight path along Elliot Road.

Councilman Kevin Thompson’s comments came after a consultant outlined the city’s Inner Loop Master Plan, which covers the 3,100 acres closest to the airport. . ."

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> Real Estate Nov 22 

First look: Phoenix Suns unveil renderings of reimagined Talking Stick Resort Arena

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents the Phoenix Suns By Brandon Brown | Phoenix Business Journal

> Real Estate Oct 29 

Approved development plan in Mesa would cover 1,100 acres

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Hawes Crossing

By Griselda Zetino | KTAR Seven dairy farming families are one step closer

> Real Estate Oct 28 

7 Mesa dairy farmers are one step closer to selling land for development

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Hawes Crossing

By Alison Steinbach | Arizona Republic

> Real Estate Oct 24 

Resolution Copper moves rock farther from Florence

Disclosure: Rose Law Group represents Resolution Copper

By Mark Cowling | Rose Law Group Reporter

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Nov 12  

Pinal County has plenty of water for the next 100 years.

We just need to prioritize demand

Opinion: An alarming prediction about Pinal County facing a water shortage is a myth that’s based on outdated assumptions and incomplete data.
By Jordan Rose and Tom Galvin, opinion contributors | azcentral
Mark Twain once wrote of his difficulty with math by ascribing a quote about the flexible power of numbers to British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Farmers, developers, landowners, residents and elected officials in Pinal County are now empathetic with Twain because we are trying to dispel a growing notion that “Pinal County is out of groundwater.”
The Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) is working on revising a model based on outdated assumptions and incomplete data that have perpetuated the myth that Pinal County is facing a water shortage. In fact, Pinal County has plenty of water for today, tomorrow and 100 years from now.
Farmers and cities are good stewards
The agricultural and municipal sectors rely on substantial and robust aquifers and are responsible stewards of water for today’s needs and for future demand.
READ ON: 
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Attempting To Turn-Off The Heat on Ember Conley > Let It Smolder . . .Take The Oxygen Out of The Room

Whoopsies! Doesn't look like that ain't just happening anytime soon - no matter what the Mesa Public Schools Governing Board tries to do to smother a story getting more heat all-the-time over Ember Conley.
Here's one more report and a a streaming video late last night from ABC15 News : 

Criminal complaint involving Mesa Public Schools filed with Attorney General's office

By:Danielle Lerner

KNX

 

BLOGGER NOTE: Under all this story and the headline news is PATRONAGE embedded for generations in the bureaucracy and administrators inside the Mesa Public Schools system . . . it's a real story of corruption trying to get covered-up in multiple smoke-screens foisted onto to the public time-and-time again for far too-long.

It's TIME TO DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY FOR THOSE RESPONSIBLE FOR CHEATING STUDENTS.                        |

MESA, AZ — "It's been nearly one week since Mesa Public Schools without saying why and now ABC15 has obtained exclusive information regarding new developments.
Dr. Ember Conley was only 18 months into her three-year contract when the board made that move. Now, a criminal complaint has been filed with the Attorney General's office, accusing Dr. Conley of theft and embezzlement related to administrative raises and bonuses that may have been given without the governing board's approval.

The three-page complaint details alleged, criminal activity linked to Mesa Public Schools. The person who filed it is former Governing Board President Ben Smith, who helped hire Dr. Ember Conley. . . "

READ MORE using the underlined link provided above
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Late Friday night there was a statement released:
District information http://www.mpsaz.org/info

Keeping our community informed

Clarifying recent publicly reported information

Posted Nov. 22, 2019, updated at 5:12 p.m.

 

To clarify information that has been publicly reported, please see the following:

link to read the entire information provide by the district is above]

Timing of events

The Nov. 5 2019, election to approve a Mesa Public Schools budget increase had no bearing on the timing of the Governing Board’s action to place Dr. Conley on administrative leave.
These were two independent events.
Additional compensation for administrators
General administration spending

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Confused about the timing and the statement that these were two 'independent' events?

Here are not one but three videos uploaded that pair Ember Conley and the vote:

1
On November 6, 2019
Voters have passed the 15% budget increase

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2
Meeting set to discuss future of Superintendent of state's largest school district published on November 17, 2019. It's been viewed 2,758 times so far

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Mesa Public Schools Governing Board Meeting November 18, 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYFjoiEEnnI




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Posted earlier on this blog

Just VOTE NO!

Would You Ever Endorse a Blank Check for $34,000,000??? 

That's only the amount in the first year in one more tricky public relations campaign by The City of Mesa on the only ballot question on 2019 SPECIAL/GENERAL ELECTION.
The official ballots have been mailed out  or you can vote in-person. Please take the time to read the fine print, before you decide how to vote - the devil's always in the details
First, get informed
Why is this year's General Election 'special' ???
It includes approval in a BUDGET OVERRIDE for an amount that exceeds the revenue control specified by statute by 15% for FY2020/2021 and for six consecutive years.

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1 Approval of the budget override represents an extension and increase of the existing 10% budget override authority - when you add it up > that's  (25%) - which OTHERWISE  is scheduled for a phase-down by one-third over two years FY2020/2021 and FY2021/2022
2 The proposed budget increase for the first year FY2020/2021 is estimated to be $34, 087,454

Here's more:

 

Is Importing A Small-City Utah Educator Gonna Fix Big-City Mesa Arizona Public Schools??

Time will tell. 30 years-of-time has not been so kind for either the nationwide bad reputation on the quality and performance of Arizona...

FIRED! Ember Conley - Mesa Public Schools Superintendent For 18 Months - NO EXPLANATION GIVEN??

TAKING STEPS TO FIRE HER . . .  "put on administrative leave'? DETAILS ARE SCANTY. Another city official gone What are the down

A WALL OF SILENCE Has Descended On Mesa Public Schools Scandal > No Further Comment At This Time

Pardon me but THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT-TO-KNOW!  Questions surrounding Mesa Public Schools spending go unanswered https://www.abc15.co...

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RELATED: MAINSTREAM NEWS COVERAGE OF PREVIOUS MESA SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS
(no disclosure of "financial irregularities with his inner circle)

Mesa school chief announces plans to retire

Lily Altavena, The Republic | azcentral.com Published 6:42 p.m. MT Nov. 7, 2017

"Mesa Public Schools Superintendent Michael Cowan announced to staff in an email on Tuesday that he plans to retire at the end of this school year.

He's led the state's largest school district since 2009 and launched his career there 30 years ago.

He is leaving to lead a Spanish-speaking mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. . .

Cowan began his education career as a fifth-grade teacher at Mesa's Lehi Elementary School in 1988. He said that his first year fulfilled a lifelong dream of becoming an educator. Some of those students are now teachers in the district. . .

In the email to staff, Cowan said: "As I begin this next chapter in my life, the best legacy I could hope for is the continued work of what we have committed to do together - educating every child in our community and preparing them for college, career and community."

The board has not yet met to discuss plans for hiring a new superintendent."

 

 

 

Skating On Thin Ice: Downtown Transformation On A Parking Lot

City officials call it a
WINTER WONDERLAND

Blogger Note: Setting-up Dinky-Dink for another year in a corner of a long-proposed Urban Central Plaza.

The site next to City Hall looks like this in real perspective just a  few days ago.

Say What? "Enough junky buildings, Mesa officials decide"???

< Take a look at the ugly 8-story eye-sore rusty copper-clad nondescript box where city officials work - City Hall. It's a helluva site (read the sign) where this view of the backside usually escapes public notice. Formerly a failed-bank building from the 1970's Savings & Loan Crisis, it's a catastrophic edifice deserving demolition by a wrecking-ball in stark contrast to the International Design-Award Mesa Arts Center. 

Looking at it heading west into "downtown", the perspective on-the-ground doesn't look any better on the north side of Main Street at the intersection of Centennial Drive - Lost in translation: high-quality development +  a general plan calling for “a recognizable city with a strong sense of place". In the original One-Square Mile Grid Plan this was intended  for A Public Plaza on 10 acres.

Take a look at another 180-degree angle just one block south from the 2nd Floor Observation Deck of the 2014 Real Estate Design Award-Winning Encore On First from a holistic perspective with both City Hall and the Mesa Arts Center in view . . . How's this for 'a sense of place'???  A run-down auto repair remnant with barbed-wire on a block wall that clearly sends the wrong message - that's if you happen to open your eyes and take a look.

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BLOGGER INSERT: Mesa-authentic Architecture direct from Salt Lake City???

Architect pans Mormon redevelopment project's 'look'

By Jim Walsh, Tribune Staff Writer

 

". . . Board member Tim Boyle, a Mesa native and an architect himself, was underwhelmed by the renderings, as was board member Shelly Allen.
Eventually, the board voted to recommend approval of the zoning change – necessary for the planned transit development along the Metro light rail – but also decided to send the project to Mesa’s Design Review Board for an extra level of scrutiny.
“As far as the zoning, I think it’s great. I would like to inject some energy into the design,’’ Boyle said, adding that the design makes the new complex look like something built decades ago.
“I think it has a way to go,’’ Boyle said.
Tom Ellsworth, a Mesa city planner, said architectural design is always open to interpretation and usually boils down to one person’s opinion.
He said the Design Review Board’s findings give city planners an extra level of expertise when deciding whether to approve a project.
He cautioned that the LDS redevelopment proposal is still in an early stage and that City Creek has not submitted a site plan, which is far more specific than the renderings. David Davis, the project’s architect, told the board that he is trying to blend old with new.
“We don’t want the buildings to look too big,’’ Davis said.
"We are interested in an authentic Mesa, authentic Southwestern character

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BLOGGER INSERT: Schematic drawing for ASU@Mesa City Center > ?????? Where's that so-called "sense of place" High standards for architectural design? Nope.

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Here's a piece from Gary Nelson, long-time East Valley Tribune Contributing Writer who manages to fill up half of the front page with plans to begin giving the city a facelift.

Enough junky buildings, Mesa officials decide        

BY Gary Nelson, Tribune Contributor

East Valley Tribune | 2019-11-25T01:00:00-07:00

"Back in the day when Mesa first appointed a citizens advisory panel to evaluate the appearance of new buildings in the city, they named it the Design Review Advisory Board.

The acronym – DRAB – may have been unfortunate, but city officials admit it could describe a lot of the architecture passing muster at City Hall over the years.

DRAB is now just the Design Review Board, but body and the city’s professional planning staff still don’t believe they have the tools they need to begin giving the city a facelift.

But it’s about to change. . .

> Commercial buildings now must “engage the street,” with parking hidden from passing traffic, and offer pedestrian-friendly environments

> Even large industrial buildings are covered, with provisions that, again, limit the amount of parking visible from nearby streets and requirements for a variety of building materials to create a pleasing palette

> “We are allowing the developers and builders to have some confidence they can come into Mesa and they can try something that’s working maybe on the East Coast or somewhere outside of Arizona,” [District 6 Councilmember Kevin Thompson] said

> Councilwoman Jen Duff said she wished the design guidelines went farther in eliminating confusing street patterns sometimes force people to drive when, with a different layout, they could walk to visit a neighbor or store.

• She also pushed for more stringent shade requirements and said planners should encourage more density, both to provide affordable housing and to curb sprawl.
• Density, Duff said, is not a bad word. “We have to think about density as a chosen way to live. It doesn’t necessarily mean lower quality,” she said.

The council is expected to approve the new design guidelines on Dec. 2, and the associated ordinance changes on Dec. 9.

Normally a new ordinance takes effect in 30 days, but developers asked for an extra month to gear up and the city agreed to have the new rules take effect on Feb. 10. Building plans submitted before then can still adhere to current guidelines.