Planning & Zoning Board Wed 13 May 2020: 'PIONEER PLACE" in the Spotlight

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Planning & Zoning Board: 

2 Sessions This Week: Wed 13 May 2020 3:00 pm

Here's a clue: way too often meetings of this group take place "under-the-radar". 

The study sessions have not been broadcast. 

One item THE PLANNING DIRECTOR'S UPDATE usually has no record available to the public - and usually never appears in the approved Minutes.


Item 3-a "Pioneer Place"
3 Take action on the following zoning cases: 
PZ 20071 ZON20-00037 District 4. 
Within the 500 block of East Broadway Road (south side) and within the 400 block of South Pioneer (west side). Located east of Mesa Drive on the south side of Broadway Road. (1± acres). 
Site Plan Review. 
This request will allow for a commercial and multi-residence development. 

• Ralph Pew, Pew & Lake, applicant
• Foster Arizona, owner. Pioneer

(Continued from April 8, 2020). 
Planner: Charlotte Bridges 
Staff Recommendation: Approval with conditions *3-a 

Here's the P & Z Board Meeting from April 22, 2020 - it's only about 6 minutes long. You can see how there's is a spill-over to Wednesday's meetings as well as a requested continuance to May 27th 

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PLEASE NOTE:

To decrease COVID-19 exposure, the City Council Chambers is closed, but public participation will be available electronically and telephonically and listening to the meeting will be available telephonically. 

Members of the Planning and Zoning Board will conduct their study session meeting via a telephonic conferencing platform, and the live meeting will be accessible telephonically. 

The live meeting may be listened to by calling 888-788-0099 or 877-853-5247 (toll free) using meeting ID 530 123 2921 and following the prompts. 

Public participation will be available electronically and telephonically. 

AGENDA

On agenda:

5/13/2020

Title:

Discuss and take action on the ByLaws for the Planning and Zoning Board.

Attachments:

1. Draft Planning and Zoning Bylaws

4 Conduct a public hearing on the following General Plan Amendment: 
PZ 20077 ZON20-00129 District 6. 
Within the 10600 to 11000 blocks of East Williams Field Road (south side); within the 6000 to 6200 blocks of South Signal Butte Road (west side); and within the 6000 to 6300 blocks of South Signal Butte Road (east side). Located south of Williams Field Road on the east and west sides of Signal Butte Road. 
(89 acres). 
Minor General Plan Amendment to change the Character Type from Neighborhoods to Mixed Use Activity District. 
This request will allow for a mixed-use development. 

• Sean Lake, Pew & Lake, PLC, applicant
• Signal Butte 24, LLC, owner. 

Planner: Cassidy 
Staff Recommendation: Continuance to May 27, 2020 4-a 
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5 Planning Director's Updates. 
 a. May 4 City Council's land use cases and decisions.
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Planning and Zoning Board 
Public Hearing 
City of Mesa Meeting Agenda - Final 
Council Chambers 57 E. First Street 
Wednesday, May 13, 2020 4:00 PM Virtual Platform 


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. *2-a 
PZ 20070 Minutes from the April 22, 2020 study sessions and regular hearing. 
City of Mesa Page 1 Printed on 5/7/2020 Planning and Zoning Board - Public May 13, 2020 Hearing Meeting Agenda - Final 
3 Take action on the following zoning cases: 
PZ 20071 ZON20-00037 District 4. 
Within the 500 block of East Broadway Road (south side) and within the 400 block of South Pioneer (west side). Located east of Mesa Drive on the south side of Broadway Road. (1± acres). 
Site Plan Review. 
This request will allow for a commercial and multi-residence development. 
Ralph Pew, Pew & Lake, applicant
Foster Arizona, owner. 
(Continued from April 8, 2020). 
Planner: Charlotte Bridges 
Staff Recommendation: Approval with conditions *3-a 

PZ 20072 ZON20-00086 District 2. 
Within the 4400 block of East Broadway Road (south side) and within the 400 block of South Greenfield Road (east side). Located on the southeast corner of Greenfield and Broadway Roads. (1± acres). 
Site Plan Review. This request will allow for the development of a restaurant with a drive-thru. 
Randolph Carter, Sketch Architecture Company, applicant; Pine Haven Investments LLC, owner. 
Planner: Kellie Rorex 
Staff Recommendation: Approval with conditions *3-b 

PZ 20073 ZON20-00102 District 2. 
Within the 5200 block of East Southern Avenue (south side). Located east of Higley Road on the south side of Southern Avenue. (1± acres). Site Plan Review. 
This request will allow for the development of a medical office building. Finn Architects LLC, applicant; DCT Properties Mesa LLC, owner. Planner: Kellie Rorex 
Staff Recommendation: Approval with conditions *3-c 

PZ 20074 ZON20-00106 District 2. 
Within the 0 to 200 blocks of North Val Vista Drive (west side). Located north of Main Street on the west side of Val Vista Drive. 
(4± acres). 
Site Plan Review. This request will allow for the development of a self-storage facility with associated boat and RV storage. Nathan Palmer, applicant; Intelliguard Group, LLC, owner. 
Planner: Evan Balmer 
Staff Recommendation: Approval with conditions *3-d 
City of Mesa Page 2 Printed on 5/7/2020 Planning and Zoning Board - Public May 13, 2020 Hearing Meeting Agenda - Final 

4 Discuss and make a recommendation to the City Council on the following zoning cases: 
PZ 20075 ZON20-00129 District 6. 
Within the 10600 to 11000 blocks of East Williams Field Road (south side); within the 6000 to 6200 blocks of South Signal Butte Road (west side); and within the 6000 to 6400 blocks of South Signal Butte Road (east side). Located south of Williams Field Road on the east and west sides of Signal Butte Road. 
(89± acres). 
Minor General Plan Amendment to change the Character Type from Neighborhoods to Mixed Use Activity District. 
This request will allow for a mixed-use development. 
Sean Lake, Pew & Lake, PLC, applicant
Signal Butte 24, LLC, owner. 
(Companion case to General Plan amendment ZON19-00805, associated with item *4-b). 
Planner: Cassidy Welch 
Staff Recommendation: Continue to May 27, 2020 *4-a 

PZ 20076 ZON19-00805 District 6. 
Within the 10600 to 11000 blocks of East Williams Field Road (south side); within the 6000 to 6200 blocks of South Signal Butte Road (west side); and within the 6000 to 6400 blocks of South Signal Butte Road (east side). Located south of Williams Field Road on the east and west sides of Signal Butte Road. 
(89± acres). 

• Rezone from RS-9-PAD, RS-6-PAD, RSL-2.5-PAD, RM-2-PAD and LC-PAD to GC
• with a Council Use Permit to allow 100% residential uses on the first floor of within a General Commercial zoning district
• and modification of the Destination at Gateway PAD by removing 89± acres. 

This request will allow a mixed-use development. 

• Sean Lake, Pew & Lake, PLC, applicant
• Signal Butte 24, LLC, owner. 

(Companion case to General Plan amendment ZON20-00129, associated with item *4-a). 
Planner: Cassidy Welch 
Staff Recommendation: Continue to May 27, 2020 

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Zoom-In > Today's Early Morning Mesa City Council "Study Session": 3rd Time-Around Re-Treads

We have moved to a radically remote posture, leaving a lot of empty real-estate in City Hall and abandoning the final protections of the access-for-all digital perimeter. 
Council Study Session Meeting Notice

To decrease COVID-19 exposure, the City Council Chambers is closed, but public viewing and input on the items are available electronically. . . Members of the City Council will appear electronically for meetings, via a video conferencing platform, . .   

ZOOM, the virtual platform deployed by the Mesa City Council, has come under scrutiny over issues and concerns over privacy and security for city employees and their "work-from-home" contracts.

From a security perspective, the basics are critical - High on the list are concerns about misinformation, weaponized information and social engineering.
ASK > Who in Mesa City Hall is taking precautions ???

Mesa City Council Study Session Thu 14 May 2020 @ 07:30 a.m.

What? 
4 Presentations on the agenda with zero
records and no links and no attachments provided???

THAT'S BAD. SO BAD: 
a new low for Mesa City government 
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VIRTUAL TELECONFERENCE PLATFORM

Public participation will be available electronically.  

OK. Why create more obstacles to citizen participation in their own government to make public input even more difficult to provide?

There's definitely "a digital divide" when council meeting spaces are closed off to the public - not even one member of the public is permitted to enter the Lower Chambers?

Here are the published hurdles (and that's assuming your average citizen can afford all the hardware and software)

> If you want to provide a written comment or speak telephonically at the meeting, please submit an online comment card at least 1 hour prior to the start of the meeting.  

> If you want to speak at the meeting, 

• you will need to indicate on the comment card that you would like to speak during the meeting, 
• and you will need to call 888-788-0099 or 877-853-5247 (toll free) using meeting ID 5301232921 and following the prompts, prior to the start of the meeting.  

You will be able to listen to the meeting; 

• and when the item you have indicated that you want to speak on is before Council, your line will be taken off mute 
• and you will be given an opportunity to speak

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FIRST ITEM ON TODAY'S STUDY SESSION:

1 Review and discuss items on the agendas for the 
>> May 18, 2020 regular 
>> and Special Council meetings 

THERE ARE 35 ITEMS in the regular meeting! 

11 Contracts (Item 3)

  9 Resolutions (Item 4)

  6 Ordinances (Item 5) . . . .
  3 PUBLIC HEARINGS
+ 10 more items 

GO TO > http://mesa.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx 

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Meeting Name:

City Council

Agenda status:

Tentative

Meeting date/time:

5/18/2020 5:45 PM

Minutes status:

Draft

Meeting location:

Virtual Platform

Published agenda:	Agenda	Published minutes:	Not available

Meeting video:

Not available

Attachments:

Now Really...."Mesa: A Smart City" might end up like this

Sidewalk Labs shuts down Toronto smart city project

News11 May 2020by Smart Cities World

Google affiliate blames coronavirus and economic uncertainty for closing controversial and delayed smart city 

The abrupt announcement marks the end of a project that had been delayed several times and received strong criticism in some quarters from citizens and privacy campaigners to its own advisors. . . 

 Beset by controversy

Since it was first announced in 2017 with the backing of Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and plans to redevelop 800 acres of Toronto, Sidewalk Labs has come under robust criticism from a number of fronts.
Torontonians started a Block Sidewalk campaign, legal action was launched over citizen rights, and a privacy advisor to Sidewalk Labs resigned in 2018citing the project’s unacceptable protection proposals for personal data.

While the plans moved to a more formal assessment stage late last year, it came at the cost of a significant scaling back of the project. The amount of land to be initially used was slashed from 190 acres to 12. Any personal information obtained by the development was to remain in Canada and Sidewalk Labs was forced to partner with real estate developers rather than lead construction.

In spite of that progress, Sidewalk Labs was asked by Waterfront Toronto’s Digital Strategy Advisory Panel to justify why digital approaches to citizen and business needs were being prioritised over non-digital ones.

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27 March 2019

"Smart City" Agenda For Mesa City Council Meeting Tomorrow Thu 28 March 2019

Looks like it was published late in the day yesterday, but at least it's available to the public ahead of time. . . and the same day the public also gets the agenda for the April Fools Day City Council Meeting on April 1st.Ready, willing and able to hear a presentation, discuss, and provide direction on the City’s SmartCity Master Plan and the use of technologiesand data-driven insights to improve the quality of life, civic engagement, economic development, service delivery, and community vibrancy?????
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QUESTION: When if ever before was 
Mesa A Smart City?
TIME TO RE-BRAND THAT! Hire a consultant 
In 2018, the City of Mesa engaged ThinkBig Partners, LLC to assist in the development of a Smart City Master Plan. Most importantly, this effort included engaging our citizens, businesses and the public as we identified the key strategies & priorities for building a smarter Mesa!

https://www.mesaaz.gov/about-us/smart-city-draft-2 .....

Results from Smart City Citizen Innovator Workshop

October 31, 2018 at 5:43 pm

Source: http://mesanow.org/news/public/article/2196 

"The City of Mesa held a Smart City Citizen Innovator Workshop Oct. 25 attended by 156 people at the Mesa Arts Center.

After a presentation about design thinking and smart cities, attendees voted on subject matters that they viewed as important to discuss as a component of smart city in Mesa."

[Press release from City of Mesa Newsroom]

The top three subjects selected were

• Transportation & Mobility
• Downtown Vibrancy
• Health & Community Development & Homelessness.

The attendees participated in a live, interactive design thinking workshop to discuss challenges and ideas to address those challenges.

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People who live here in Mesa were always wondering What's NextMesa[the campaign platform] when John Giles got a calling to fill in the unfinished term for former Scott Smith back in 2014.

At that time he admitted publicly that he needed help with new ideas and there was a problem engaging and involving the public. . . Five years later as the highest elected official inside City Hall, the mayor still doesn't have a good track record even though Mesa taxpayers fund the salary of his "handler" and Chief of Staff Ian Linnsen, an Office of Public Information for Melissa Randazzo, and an open pipe-line to mainstream media writers who publish what he wants.

Trying to compete now with Microsoft Founder Bill Gates is way out-of-his-league and out-of-his-pay-scale

Bill Gates Just Purchased an Enormous Amount of Land to Build His Own "Smart City" [2017]

Bill Gates has started laying out his plans for creating a “smart city” in Phoenix, Arizona, about 45 minutes west of downtown. Located in the far west valley, the piece of land is comprised of approximately 24,800 acres. Belmont, the proposed name for the city, will embrace and push forward innovation and technology. One of Gates’ investment firms  has already solidified the plans by devoting $80 million to the project. . . Gates is no stranger to being one step ahead of the game,

READ MORE > https://futurism.com/bill-gates-smart-city-arizona 

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Here are the meeting details taken from http://mesa.legistar.com/LegislationDetail   WHERE THIS GOING > Key Priorities: Next 18 to 24 Months
City of Mesa Smart City Master Plan
10-Page Power Point Presentation 
What is A Smart City? 
In short, a Smart City is one in which the latest technologies and data-driven insights are leveraged to improve the quality of life, civic engagement, economic development, service delivery, and community vibrancy for its citizens, businesses and visitors.
A Smart City is actually about people versus tech itself. 
A Smarter Mesa is where modernized communications infrastructure, Internet of Things (IoT) connected smart systems and data work together to provide responsive solutions that enhance the live, work & play experiences of people in our community.

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17 October 2018

Smart City Mesa? When Are Sensors Collecting Your Data - Huh?

Like the opening line in a video from a CNBC video uploaded to YouTube in February 2017 - 20 months ago -  that is included in this announcement from Mesa Now, "Chances are that some  cities may be getting smarter by the year. Chances are just as likely that some cities are not. 
This workshop is all about the city TRACKING EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME collecting data - your data that you own.

. . . You probably don't know it - this workshop will tell you what's been done already that you probably don't know.
It's true that Mesa mayor is sometimes way-out-there in his own mind with sugar-plum coated visions beyond reality of things and "Big League Dreams" to become a world-class city 
But comparing this conservative most-suburbanized city in America - with only a population of 480,000 - where we live with three of the world's greatest cities   Singapore, Dubai and Barcelona - is just not playing in the right ball park in the city's Field of Dreams.

Hey! This is way BEYOND REALITY. 
Mesa is indeed in a league of its own imagination that some people might find baffling, striking-out time and time on plans to make-over and transform Mesa into a copy-cat mimic satellite of Salt Lake City where there's little left or few allowed who look to an emerging metamorphosis that sets Mesa above what's usually put on-the-table for public consumption.
Minds like Giles and other bright minds inside City Hall consistently make Mesa more sprawling and growing-fast in the same old ways following the endless game-plans that have worked time-and-time again for the real estate industry's "master-planned communities" spreading secluded gated enclaves like a big blob devouring The Valley.

It's way beyond reality that the mayor of Mesa, large companies and City leaders all want  you to believe that Mesa is A Smart City.
It's just another one of those bogus Engage-The-Citizens 
campaigns that turn into major screw-ups.
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Huh? Come together as a tribe?

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