YEAR-END MYSTERY RE-FI DEAL: 6th Time Around for City Manager Chris Brady

What's with This: Item 6-c A Resolution on the December 8,2021 Mesa City Council  Agenda.

NO RECORDS TO DISPLAY

 

 

 

 

It is one of 36 Items with Meeting Details that maybe city officials want the public to miss

 

 

File #:

21-1307

Type:

Resolution

Status:

Agenda Ready

In control:

City Council

On agenda:

12/8/2021

Title:

Authorizing the City Manager to enter into a Sixth Amendment to the Development Agreement, a First Amendment to the Amended and Restated Ground and Air Lease, and a First Amendment to the Amended and Restated License Agreement for the development commonly known as The GRID, a project on City-owned property, generally located at the southwest corner of Main Street and Pomeroy at 233 East Main Street and 34 South Pomeroy and granting an option to purchase the associated land and air rights. (District 4)

 

Like they say this has a lot of history and background - it goes back to 1883

 

October 2017

22 October 2017

Mesa Council Study Session Mon 16 Oct 2017

Item 6A started in 1883 and Mark Freeman wants some history and he gets it from Director of Downtown Transformation Jeff McVey who stumbles quickly through an update on what was a 2.75-acre parcel that's now 3 1/2 acres -

NEEDS A ZONING CHANGE to include some townhomes along a short stretch of Pomeroy Street that was just a drive-in to a parking lot for BenU and a 3-story parking garage behind Mesa Supreme Court
WHAT IS IT? 2 new 7-story buildings - watch for some details
Mayor John Giles tunes in with some mumbo jumbo about "vertical/urban" ???

. . . and here's A Conceptual Rendering of what it might look like in an exaggerated perspective rendering of a something they added called "Gateway Park" that looks about three times as big as the real space

 

15 November 2017

Jeff McVay, Director of "Downtown Transformation" just announced this morning on KJZZ FM that the City of Mesa is offering $3,000,000 of "incentives" to entice a developer for one of the projects at 300 E Main/Pomeroy Street on what was city-owned property for two 7-story "micro-apartment" [350 sq Ft] and mixed-use commercial/office towers atop the 3-story public parking garage for Mesa Superior Court and 14 row/townhouses on Pomeroy Street by the 3W Management Group.

 

 

 

 

July 2018

18-0840

4-c

Resolution

Approving and authorizing the City Manager to enter into a Second Amendment to the Development Agreement for the development commonly known as The GRID, for City-owned property generally located at the southwest corner of Main Street and Pomeroy and property located at 34 South Pomeroy. The Second Amendment revises the development compliance dates and the permit fee payment schedule (District 4)

 

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Proposed sale of Pomeroy Street Parking Lot 300 East Main Street

 

 

 

 

2 May 2019

Who set-up Sally Jo Harrison for this cover shot with Real Estate Developer Tony Wall, who can't seem to get the financing for his $60-Million Dollar GRID PROJECT.?

Time will tell - it's back "to the drawing boards" and back to the entire development review process.

Deadline is June 30, 2019.

There are more than just a few stories about the cover behind the 2019 Edition of the Mesa Chamber of Commerce's Compass magazine, published by Republic Media Content Marketing, a division of The Arizona Republic.

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13 February 2018

Here In 'The Old Donut-Hole" Parking Spaces = New Land Banks

The media blitz is on for a development atop the 3-story city-owned parking garage behind the Mesa Superior Court building on First Avenue. Just one day after the mayor's SOTC18 speech, he's thrilled [seems like John Giles is always "thrilled" and "excited" about something] to announce "the big deal" to a news crew from ABC 15 that happened to show up in the 3-acre parking lot at 300 East Main Street between the Wells Fargo building and classroom space for Benedictine University at 225 East Main.

Most people are familiar that area if only to grab a bite to eat  at Pete's Fish & Chips on the west side of Mesa Drive slightly south of the intersection with Main Street . . .

 

Maybe you, dear readers need some help wrapping your head around that, so here it is from the ABC15 crew with a reporter and camera guy in the parking lot in front of the parking garage, Mayor John Giles stepping out his office door, and some other on-camera selected talent. All of them appear to have gotten the right talking-points.
Take a look at the video   

Anchor tenant announced for $60M mixed-use development in downtown Mesa

Justin Pazera, Morgan Tanabe

3:48 PM, 07 Feb 2018 Updated 7:44 PM 
Co+Hoots will move into a 14,000-square-foot co-working space, and will provide mentorships and internships for business students, a media release explained.
"We believe in the City of Mesa's commitment to transforming its downtown into a vibrant urban core," CO+HOOTS founder Jenny Poon said. 
Here's the link > ABC15 News

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It's one of the fastest "big deals" your MesaZona has never seen! And big promises for jobs

Mesa juggles downtown growth, livability             

By Wayne Schutsky Tribune Staff  11 Feb 2018 Updated 12 Feb 2018

Phoenix-based Co-Hoots is in negotiations to occupy 13,000 square feet in the development ­– which is currently under a memorandum of understanding between the city and developer 3W Management LLC.

NOPE: CO+HOOTS is now affiliated with Benedictine University, 225 E Main Street

Here's a link to the original post more than a year ago > MesaZona 

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14 March 2019

THE GRID Runs Into A Road-Block: No Financing | "Ready-to-Roll" It Is Not

But that's what just what staff writer Jim Walsh said in the corporate-owned The Times Media Group's East Valley Tribune in one more Spoon-Fed Story

More downtown Mesa development ready to roll

"Ready-to-Roll"By Jim Walsh, Tribune Staff Writer Mar 12, 2019

"The Pomeroy parking garage, a bland but functional structure near Mesa Municipal Court, will disappear behind a new veneer of three-story row houses when a long-awaited redevelopment project rises downtown.
Real estate developer Tony Wall, of 3W Management in Scottsdale, said he is close to landing financing for The GRID Mesa near Main Street and Mesa Drive. . .

 

 

 

Tony Wall has been working on THE GRID project for more than two years. Is the problem about municipal tax-incentives/finance from the City of Mesa that involve development on a city-owned property or lack of interest from private sources for the $60-million project he can't get from private investors willing and able to assume the risk? Even after two or more rounds of financing, Tony Wall still can't get the financing - and he's lost what was called "the anchor" for THE GRID proposal [CO+HOOTS]. What about those highly-touted and highly-promoted PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS? . . 

 

 

In May of last year, Tony Wall [with legs crossed] appeared at a press conference announcing the massive 9.8-acre Mormon Temple Area Makeover of Downtown Mesa at the intersection of Main Street/Mesa Drive. Sitting next to him is former Mesa City Mike Hutchinson, VP of the East Valley Partnership.

Standing at the podium is the owner of City Creek Reserve LLC, a for-profit affiliate of The Church of Jesus Christ of The Latter-Day Saints. It's the only new major project that has broken ground and is under construction now.

 

> The GRID Would Build on Underutilized Parking Garage
Where: Main and Pomeroy streets
What: 196 sky apartments, 75 micro-units and 15 three-level row homes, plus commercial development.
The GRID is planned as an apartment complex and commercial development on three acres of city-owned land that includes an underutilized parking garage next to Benedictine University.
A Co+Hoots co-working space was initially set to anchor The GRID but is now working to partner with Benedictine.
The GRID plans to build a six-story building on Main Street and four stories of apartments on top of the existing three-story parking garage.

Mesa would continue to own the garage, providing the developer 340 spaces for residents and commercial visitors.

The GRID was initially expected to open in fall 2019 but McVay said it has faced challenges securing financing.
McVay said city officials talked with investors earlier this month and they’re optimistic the project will happen.
He said he hopes financing for The GRID will wrap up by the end of 2019 and that construction could begin early next year

 

 

 

 

July 2020

TAKE TIME FOR A REALITY CHECK?
Construction begins on the Grid, $75M opportunity zone project in Downtown Mesa (Phoenix Business Journal) 

 

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4  + More

Cher Chez Joséphine Baker: Modèle de Femme Vaillante et Généreuse / World's First Female Black Super Star + Double-Agent in Occupied France

Intro: There’s a lot we don’t know, and may never know, about exactly what espionage work she did, the secrets she actually transmitted during wartime exploits. French President Emmanuel Macron decided this summer that 46 years after her death, Baker would become only the sixth woman to be memorialised in the Panthéon in a ceremony on 30 November – the anniversary of the marriage to Jean Lion that allowed her to acquire French nationality.

Espionage

Dancer, singer … spy: France’s Panthéon to honour Josephine Baker

The performer will be the first Black woman to enter the mausoleum, in recognition of her wartime work

Jon Henley

the Guardian

 

 

"In November 1940, two passengers boarded a train in Toulouse headed for Madrid, then onward to Lisbon. One was a striking Black woman in expensive furs; the other purportedly her secretary, a blonde Frenchman with moustache and thick glasses.

 

Josephine Baker, toast of Paris, the world’s first Black female superstar, one of its most photographed women and Europe’s highest-paid entertainer, was travelling, openly and in her habitual style, as herself – but she was playing a brand new role.

Her supposed assistant was Jacques Abtey, a French intelligence officer developing an underground counter-intelligence network to gather strategic information and funnel it to Charles de Gaulle’s London HQ, where the pair hoped to travel after Portugal.

Ostensibly, they were on their way to scout venues for Baker’s planned tour of the Iberian peninsula. In reality, they carried secret details of German troops in western France, including photos of landing craft the Nazis were lining up to invade Britain.

The information was mostly written on the singer’s musical scores in invisible ink, to be revealed with lemon juice. The photographs she had hidden in her underwear. The whole package was handed to British agents at the Lisbon embassy – who informed Abtey and Baker they would be far more valuable assets in France than in London.

So back to occupied France Baker duly went. “She was immensely brave, and utterly committed,” Hanna Diamond, a Cardiff university professor, said of Baker, who on Tuesday will become the first Black woman to enter the Panthéon in Paris, the mausoleum for France’s “great men”.

Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St Louis in 1906, Baker left school at 12 and landed a place in one of the first all-Black musicals on Broadway in 1921. Like many Black American artists at the time, she moved to France to escape discrimination.

‘The Black Venus’: Josephine Baker, 1935. Photograph: MARKA/Alamy

Emerging from the chorus line of La Revue Nègre, she became a huge star, tapping into colonialist, racist and male sexist fantasies in performances that both shocked and delighted audiences and won admirers from Ernest Hemingway to Pablo Picasso.

Dubbed “the Black Venus”, she danced the charleston in nothing but a string of pearls and a skirt made of 16 rubber bananas, performed with a snake wrapped suggestively round her neck, strolled down the Champs-Élysées with her pet cheetah, and became an international superstar.

Off stage, as the hit songs and starring movie roles succeeded one another, Baker cultivated a scandalous private life, having affairs with men and women including the novelist Colette, the architect Le Corbusier and the crown prince of Sweden.

After the war she fought for equal rights as energetically in public as at home, speaking before Martin Luther King at the 1963 March on Washington and adopting 12 children from around the world to live with her in her chateau in the Dordogne.

Josephine Baker and her husband, Jo Bouillon, stroll through the Tuileries in Paris with seven of the children they adopted. Photograph: Bettmann/Getty Images

Her wartime spying activities, however, are – for obvious reasons – rather less reliably documented

 

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INSERT:

Joséphine Baker : Femme noire total-kapital entre au Pantheon

 

L’artiste-militante antiraciste Joséphine Baker deviendra la première femme noire à faire son entrée, le 30 novembre 2021, dans le temple dédié aux personnages ayant marqué l’histoire de France. La franco-américaine, première star internationale noire qui chanta la beauté d’Haïti en 1934, sera désormais la sixième des rares femmes à se hisser depuis plus d’un siècle, dans cet univers des « grands hommes » français.

Elle était un "modèle de femme vaillante et généreuse", "nous lui devons cet honneur", a écrit sur Twitter la ministre de la Culture de la France Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin. Freda Joséphine McDonald, a.k.a Joséphine Baker, du haut de ses années de carrière a mis son talent au service d’une cause. Sa vie a été jalonnée, à la fois, d’art et de militance. Une militance qui sera grandement récompensée, 46 ans après sa mort

Publié le 2021-11-26 | lenouvelliste.com

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Joséphine Baker, artiste engagée

L'Histoire par les femmes |

Freda Josephine McDonald, connue sous le nom de Joséphine Baker (1906 – 1975) est une chanteuse, danseuse, actrice et meneuse de revue. Militante et membre de la résistance pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, elle s’est engagée dans la lutte contre le racism.

En 1927, après une tournée en Europe, Joséphine mène la revue aux Folies Bergères. Elle est accompagnée sur scène d’un léopard, Chiquita, qui s’échappe fréquemment dans la fosse, terrorisant les musiciens et excitant le public. La même année, elle se lance dans la chanson et le cinéma. Sa célèbre chanson « J’ai deux amours » rencontre le succès en 1931 tandis que les films dans lesquels elle joue, Zouzou et Princesse Tam Tam, ont moins d’audience.  Elle inspire les artistes de son époque, parmi lesquels Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pablo Picasso et Christian Dior. En 1934, elle chante l’opéra de Jacques Offenbach La créole et, à cette occasion, travaille sur sa voix et progresse considérablement en chant. En 1936, Joséphine Baker repart aux États-Unis pour une tournée mais elle ne bénéficie pas du même succès qu’en Europe et subit le feu des critiques. Elle rentre en France l’année suivante, blessée par cet accueil. En 1937, elle épouse Jean Lion et acquiert la nationalité française.

La « tribu arc-en-ciel »

En 1939, lorsque la Seconde Guerre mondiale éclate, Joséphine Baker est recrutée par le Deuxième Bureau, service de renseignements de l’armée française. Son travail lui permet en effet de se déplacer fréquemment et de transmettre des informations sans attirer l’attention. Grâce à ses fréquentations, elle collecte des informations auprès la haute société parisienne, se mobilise pour la Croix-Rouge et fait passer des messages à l’encre invisible sur ses partitions. En 1941, elle s’installe à Casablanca où elle tombe gravement malade pendant de longs mois. A partir de 1943, elle se met à chanter pour les soldats français, britanniques et américains en Afrique du nord. Au cours de la Libération, elle se produit pour les soldats et résistants en suivant la ligne de front. Après la guerre, ses activités lui valent la croix de guerre, la Médaille de la résistance et la Légion d’honneur des mains du Général de Gaulle.

En 1947, Joséphine Baker épouse Jo Bouillon et achète avec lui le domaine des Milandes en Dordogne. Suite à une fausse couche, elle ne peut avoir de bébés mais, en 1949, elle décide d’adopter des enfants de toutes les origines (sa « tribu arc-en-ciel ») pour prouver que des enfants de différentes religions et de différentes ethnicités peuvent être frères et sœurs.  Elle élève ainsi deux filles et dix fils originaires du monde enter. . .

Le mouvement afro-américain des droits civiques

Dans les années 1950, elle soutient le Mouvement afro-américain des droits civiques, écrivant des articles et donnant des interventions pour dénoncer le racisme et la ségrégation aux Etats-Unis. En 1955, elle relaie en Europe le scandale par le meurtre d’Emmet Till et par l’acquittement des deux assassins. En 1963, elle participe à la Marche vers Washington pour le travail et la liberté organisée par Martin Luther King. ; elle intervient à ses côtés et y rend hommage aux activistes Rosa Parks et Daisy Bates.

Joséphine Baker continue à se produire, à l’Olympia de Paris en 1968, à Belgrade en 1973, à Carnegie Hall en 1973, au Royal Variety Performance au Palladium de Londres en 1974, au Gala du cirque en 1974 à Paris. En 1975, elle réalise une rétrospective de sa carrière, « Joséphine à Bobino ».

Le 10 avril 1975, Joséphine Baker est victime d’une attaque cérébrale. Transportée à l’hôpital, elle y meurt deux jours plus tard à 69 ans

 

YOU COULD LIVE FOREVER IN ANOTHER DIMENSION

Robot Company Will Pay $200k for Your Face—If It’s Friendly Enough

If you don't like what a robot is doing with your mug, there are no takebacks.

Gizmodo |

The company that reduced peak Arnold Schwarzenegger to a and brought us the friendly but dimwitted Times Square is offering $200,000 for your face. Forever. Plus, your voice for free. Ominously, according to the site, a robot version of the winning face should “start its activities” in 2023.

Here’s Promobot’s offer, per a :

“...seeking a face for a humanoid robot-assistant which will work in hotels, shopping malls and other crowded places. The company is ready to pay out $200,000 to somebody willing to transfer the rights to use one’s face forever.”

You could live forever. . .

[. . .] Said client is an American company, they say, “supplying solutions to airports, shopping malls and retail stores,” facial recognition is now common. In teeny-tiny faint print below the press release, it mentions that its robots are used in Walmart, Baltimore-Washington Airport, and Dubai Mall. Who says this? These are the people who brought you a coronavirus diagnostic robot , just as we were on the brink of washing our money.

It’s also headquartered in Russia but claims to have been founded in Philadelphia. Mystifying.

Promobot has not responded to a request for comment on the robot’s use or whether the person with the winning face will be informed of potential uses, but we’ll update the post if we hear back."

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COMPARTIVE IMAGES OF DELTA VARIANT AND NEW OMICRON VARIANT MUTATIONS

Intro New report: "Italian scientists have presented an image showing the mutations of the new Omicron coronavirus variant. Believed to have originated in southern Africa, the variant has already triggered alarm in multiple countries worldwide.

Home World News

Omicron mutations compared to Delta in first image

28 Nov, 2021 02:52 / Updated 4 hours ago

Reference: https://www.rt.com/news/541532-omicron-mutations-delta-image/

 

The illustration of the new strain, unveiled by Italy’s Bambino Gesu hospital on Saturday, presents Omicron in comparison with the Delta variant, one of the most contagious strains of Covid-19.

The Omicron variant boasts significantly more mutations than Delta, particularly in the areas directly interacting with human cells. The hotspots of mutations are highlighted in red in the image unveiled by the scientists.

Prima foto di Omicron da gruppo di ricerca Bambino Gesu' - Medicina - https://t.co/TPm3unAbk9https://t.co/Go9XuZuP7C

— Gianni Pettinelli (@GiaPettinelli) November 27, 2021

“This is a ‘photo’ in a very broad sense, it's a model made in a laboratory,” a representative of the hospital said, as quoted by RIA Novosti.

READ MORE: Big Pharma unveils its plans for Omicron strain

The changes suggest the virus might have become well-adapted to humans, the scientists noted. Still, it’s too early to say whether these mutations combined actually make Omicron more dangerous compared to the previous iterations of Covid-19.

The new strain, officially designated a “variant of concern” by the World Health Organization on Friday, was first detected in Botswana earlier this month. The strain is believed to have already become dominant in one of the South African regions, wrestling out other variants of Covid-19.

The new variant has already spread beyond the African continent, with Hong Kong, Israel, Belgium, Germany and the UK confirming their first cases, and other nations investigating suspected infections. The emergence of Omicron has already prompted new restrictions, with all 27 EU member states suspending air travel from seven southern African countries. Nations outside of the bloc, including the US and the UK, are imposing similar curbs, while Israel went ahead with the world’s harshest restrictions so far, effectively banning all foreign nationals from entering the country.

CALENDAR DECEMBER 2021: PAYDIRT FOR DEVELOPERS ON MESA'S UNSUSTAINABLE OUTER FRINGES

The Juggernaut for unrestrained fast-growth is fast approaching the expansive final stages of the end-game working its way and accelerating through the City of Mesa's entrenched land-use planning and development services in multiple stages where the public is little involved in either the active oversight or the informed consent for actions to be heard and discussed at the last two meetings of the City Council.

First, let's take a look at a report - edited to highlight pertinent content- by Tom Scanlon, Managing Editor for The Mesa Tribune

PLEASE NOTE

(1) There were no published comments responding to Scanlon's report

(2) The report is dated November 22. The screengrab is from November 1 

 

top story

In Mesa City Council, ‘no’ is a rare word

• By Tom Scanlon, Tribune Managing Editor Nov 22, 2021        

[...] "As is the case elsewhere, elected city representatives control the
taxes, ordinances and various local regulations proposed by managers
of various departments.
But few cities seem to be as harmonious as Mesa, where Council in 2021
approved everything City Manager Chris Brady put before it.
And, almost always, those approvals were without a single no vote.
> Last week, a motion to increase salaries of the mayor and city council
members “carried unanimously.”
> In June, Mesa City Council approved – unanimously, a record $2.1
billion budget, with across-the-board raises of 2-3 percent for all
3,562 employees, plus another $2,000 bonus for all employees in
January.

> The action followed a similar raise-plus-bonus for employees
that kicked off this calendar year.

Council meetings are open to the public and carried live on the city’s
Facebook page.

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CORRECTION:

Council meetings are streamed live on YouTube - with no public chat or public comments permitted at that time. The viewer counts are low to say the least if that's any measure for public interest.

True that council meetings are open to the public, but few members of the public every show up or send in public comments on blue cards online ahead of time.

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. . .One resident had a snarky comment to describe the
meetings: “Pep rallies for city employees.”

The Tribune asked the mayor how he would answer someone who says
“Giles is just a ‘yes man’ who approves anything Brady wants.”

“When something comes before council for a vote at a meeting,” Giles
replied, “that is not the first time the issue is being discussed.
Many items on our agendas have spent months, if not years, getting to
the point of a council vote.

“Staff and constituent meetings, board and committee meetings,
community feedback, staff presentations and recommendations, council
feedback, research and discussions all inform decisions made at
council meetings.”

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December 1

Item 6-d 

File #:

21-1291

Type:

Ordinance

Status:

Agenda Ready

In control:

City Council

On agenda:

12/1/2021

Title:

ANX21-00799 (District 6) Annexing property located within the 4200 to 4400 blocks of South Sossaman Road (west side). Located west of Sossaman Road and north of the Warner Road alignment (101.1± acres). Initiated by the applicant, Sean Lake on behalf of Pew & Lake PLC, The Dale C. Morrison Trust, owner.

Attachments:

1. Council Report, 2. Ordinance, 3. Overview Map, 4. Annexation Map, 5. Certificate of Mayor, 6. Certification of Map

COUNCIL REPORT

Date: December 1, 2021 

To City Council Through: Natalie Lewis, Assistant City Manager 

Through:

Christine Zielonka, Development Services Director and Nana Kusi Appiah Planning Director

 

Subject: Introduction of an Ordinance for annexation case ANX21-00799, located within the 4200 to 4400 blocks of South Sossaman Road (west side). 

 west of Sossaman Road and north of the Warner Road alignment. 

(101.1± acres). Council District 6 

Purpose and Recommendation

The purpose of this agenda item is for the City Council to conduct a public hearing on the proposed annexation of 101.1+ acres of property depicted on Exhibit “A” (the Property”). 

• The subject annexation request was initiated by the applicant, Sean Lake on behalf of Pew & Lake PLC, for the owners, The Dale C. Morrison Trust. 
  
• The annexation petition was released for signature on November 22, 2021. 
  

Staff recommends approval of the annexation. 

Background 

The annexation area consists of one undeveloped parcel generally located north of the Warner Road alignment and west of South Sossaman Road (see Exhibit ‘A”). 

The applicant is requesting annexation to develop the Property within the corporate limits of the City of Mesa. 

Currently, the Property is zoned Single Residence 43 (RU-43) in Maricopa County. 

The annexation ordinance will establish City of Mesa zoning designation of Agriculture (AG) on the Property. 

Discussion 

The Property is completely surrounded by the existing City of Mesa corporate boundaries and is within the City of Mesa Planning Area. 

The Property has a General Plan character area designation of “Employment” and “Mixed-Use Activity”. 

If annexed, any development of the Property will be required to comply with City of Mesa development standards, including storm water retention, street improvements, landscaping, screening, and signage. 

The City will also collect the development fees  as well as supply water and gas utilities. 

• Utilities and City services are already provided in the area and extension of these services will have minimal impact on the City. 
  
• The City of Mesa Departments/Divisions of Transportation, Fire, Solid Waste, and Water Resources have provided comments related to the future development of the Property; however, none of the comments pertain to the annexation of the Property, which is currently vacant land. 
  

Planning State Statute requires the City to adopt a zoning classification that permits densities and uses no greater than those permitted by the County on newly annexed land (A.R.S. §9-471-L).

The Property is currently zoned RU-43 in Maricopa County. 

City of Mesa zoning designation of AG will be established through the annexation ordinance. 

Fiscal Impact 

Annexation of the Property will result in the collection of any future secondary property tax, construction tax, and development fees generated from the Property. 

Notification 

The Property has been posted and notifications have been sent to all property owners and county agencies as required by state statute (A.R.S. §9-471). 

GENERAL INFORMATION 

Area ....................................................................................... 101.1± acres 

Population............................................................................... 0 People 

Dwelling Units ........................................................................ 0 

Homes Existing Businesses ................................................................ 0 

Businesses Arterial Streets ........................................................................ 0 miles 

Total Owners .......................................................................... 1 

Owner Total Assessed Valuation of private land ................................ $47,185.00

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Item 7-a 

File #:

21-1143

Type:

Ordinance

Status:

Agenda Ready

In control:

City Council

On agenda:

11/15/2021

Title:

ANX21-00728 (District 6) Annexing property located north of north of Pecos Road and west of Signal Butte Road (71.3± acres). Initiated by the applicant, Josh Tracy, Ryan Companies; for the owner, Tucker Properties, LTD.

Attachments:

1. Council Report, 2. Ordinance, 3. Overview Map, 4. Annexation Map, 5. Certificate of Mayor, 6. Certification of Map

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