Goodyear approves Estrella 14 downzoning, cutting 1,500-acre project to 6,034 units

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And remember, it's a great time to be in Goodyear. like to call the regular meeting to order uh for September 22, 2025. Uh check the uh roll call. We have what? Council member Kano, can you confirm your presence online? I'm here. Thank you. All members are present. Thank you. Uh please join h council member Hampton and the pledge of allegiance and invocation.

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Help us to be ever mindful that every choice affects real lives and may our actions build bridges, foster community and reflect the highest good. Thank you in your name. Amen. Amen. Thank you there, Council Member Hampton. Uh we have one communication item tonight uh uh recom uh recognizing September as ovarian cancer awareness month. Will Rachel Putman please um join us in the well?

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That's a staggering 64% mortality rate. Here in Arizona, hundreds of women face this devastating diagnosis each year. And sadly, more than 75% are diagnosed at advanced stages due to vague symptoms and a lack of a reliable early detection test. The 5-year survival rate remains below 50% and that hasn't improved in decades. At age 38, I was diagnosed with stage 3A lowgrade Saras ovarian cancer or LGSOC, a rare form of ovarian cancer that disproportionately impacts young premenopausal women.

This insiduous disease has no standard of care, is chronic, and experiences an 85% recurrence rate. The impact on my life and my family as a result has been profound. Like many young women that face LGSO, I lost my ability to have biological children, but no time or guidance to preserve fertility. Cancer robbed my husband and I of the dreams we had not yet fulfilled, and these losses still echo through every day of survivorship.

As a 5-year survivor, it's heart-wrenching to think that I have beaten the odds. But even worse are the more devastating stories of those who did not. One of them is my dear friend and my first mentee, Jordan, who died last September during ovarian cancer awareness month, one day after her 33rd birthday. Jordan was vibrant, brilliant, and full of hope. I had the privilege of running the Disney Princess 10K Jordan seven months prior to her passing.

Her last words to me were, "I'm glad you're fighting for this disease. I just don't have it in me anymore." Jordan says, "Crushed me." But I made her a promise to continue fighting for her and every woman still waiting for earlier diagnosis, better treatment, and a real chance at survival. Women like Jordan deserve more. They deserve better. They deserve a future. And that begins with awareness, which leads to earlier diagnosis, research resources, and ultimately survival.

Thank you for standing with survivors, honoring those we have lost, and helping to protect women across Goodyear, Arizona. Together, we can shine a light on this gravely overlooked disease and give hope to the women and the families in our communities who need it the most. Let's give her a hand. [Applause] Uh, mine's a little different. any comments? Laura? No. Mayor, any comments here on the dis? Thank you. Okay. Thank you all.

Uh, now is the time for members of the public who wish to address the city council on any non-aggenda items within the jurisdiction of Goodyear City Council. Any speaker cards? I do not have any speaker cards, mayor. None. Okay. Thank you. Will the city clerk please read the consent agenda items 2 through six by title only? Item two, approval of minutes. Item three, approve drug enforcement agency equitable sharing agreement and certification ESAC with Department of Justice.

Item four, adopt resolution number 2025-2489, approving the sixth amendment to infrastructure development agreement for Phoenix 1011. Item five, adopt resolution number 2025-2490 declaring city property as public rideway for West Broadway Road. Item six, adopt resolution number 20252491 authorizing the city manager or designate to execute a job creation agreement with Schneider Electric IT Corporation. Thank you. Does anybody on the council wish to remove an item? How about you, Laura?

No, mayor. Thank you. Uh, can I get a motion in a second? I see a motion and a second on the board. Go ahead and open up the vote. Council member Kano, please state your vote for the record. I passes 70. Thank you. Uh we have two public hearings tonight. First public hearing is to consider a use permit for a limited outdoor storage display. Open the public hearing. Please introduce yourself if you would for the public. Good evening. of city council.

My name is Gabson, senior planner here at the city of [Music] this evening with a request from a use permit for minimum display. Project is located at the northwest corner of West Street and North Central Avenue. supply lot display. Good. Was that muted? Yes, sir. My bad. You want me to restart? No. Go ahead. Um, fenced in outdoor display area and trailer staging area. The site is currently zone C2, General Commercial. To the north of the site is Palm Valley Crossing.

To the east of the site is Thrive at a vision of good Thrive at a vision Goodyear which is a 47 unit R1A community. To the south of the site is Aendale and several commercial uses. And to the west of the site is a U-Haul storage and precious home service. The nearly 14,000 square foot display will be screened on all four sides and provide access to both the north and south side of the area as well as these two areas for trailer storage and staging.

Since it will be screened, we took extra time create uh working with the applicant for how the screening will look. This is how the east and west elevations will look. This is how it will look on the south facing West Van Beerren Street. And this is how it will look on the north facing the store. The outdoor display was designed with the Cow Ranch outdoor display area in mind, which was previously approved by city council back in December 9th, 2013.

An alternative citizen review occurred uh with postcards being sent out to properties owner within 500 feet of the property. Um on September 10th, 2025, the members of planning and zoning commission voted 6 to zero to forward the recommendation of approval to you. And staff is recommending approval with stipulations for the use permit for a limited outdoor display and storage for the development of a 13,895 square ft outdoor display and sto storage area for tractor supply.

This concludes that concludes my presentation. I am available for any questions and so is the applicant. Thank you. Any speaker cards? Yes, Mayor Marcus McFall. if you would just your name. You don't have to tell uh whether you're a resident of Goodyear, but you don't have to give an address. And uh you got three minutes. Go ahead. Okay. Uh thank you, mayor, mayor and council members. Um a little closer to the mic there. Thank you, mayor and council members for u allowing me to speak.

Uh, I just have uh a few questions as far as first of all I'd like to um uh welcome Tractor Supply to our community. Um I my name is Marcus McFall obviously um I own the McFall tire in the same parking lot. Um my uh only concerns I just wanted to clarify and maybe document if possible.

Um, I have been in conversations with the uh property management of that complex and uh they sent me a site plan that had a uh um a truck route that ran through my parking lot which is causes an issue with obviously disruption in my business. They sent me an a a uh uh revised one where it has the truck route going around which is great but u my concern there is just that if we we could have that somewhere in I guess concrete just so there's no arguments in the future.

It's just because it does create a conflict during business hours. So and has Let's see if we can get you your answer. Um is the owner here? Did you want to come? You want to come up? Go ahead and Yeah, he want to see where that truck route's going. Marcus have more questions. He might. Let's hear. Did you have something additional in the truck route? Uh, no. No. Okay. Go ahead. I'm Scott. Yeah. Uh hello uh council members um and and mayor.

Uh my name is Scott Gity and I am the property manager for this particular location. And uh yeah, originally the the truck exit route did go straight through. Uh there are some underlying documents, easements, but in working with tractor supply, it's actually going around to the next drive down. So I think we've al alleiated those that issue unless you have another concern about that but yeah it's going around the other side. Okay.

Is there just to avoid future conflicts with management of tenants? Hold on. You you got to get up to the mic. Just to avoid any uh conflicts with the managers of the the businesses in the you know the tenants in the plaza. uh if there could be something in in in writing or you know a document or a site plan that's approved that you know Yeah. Hold on one second. Let me bring back up the city staff. Can you make sure that's taken care of?

We can add it as a stipulation um of approval with the use permit that um any truck routes were to avoid his property and to follow the truck route being provided on the site plan that they generated. Um if you could get me a copy of that and I'll get you my email after this. Do we can talk to the city attorney. Do we need that added now? The stipulation. I I think you as long as you stipulated that's what it's going to be. You can add it later. Yeah. Can add it later.

You you do you have a copy of it, staff? No. No. Staff member. I have a copy of you motion. Okay. Well, that's what I'm asking. I probably would do an amendment and add it. Okay. Then you're going to go ahead and do that. I can do that. Okay. All right. We're going to put something in right now. Okay. All right. Let me close this. Is Is that Is that it? Because I'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing so we can get questions. Anything else, Marcus? We good? Yes, sir. Thank you.

We good? Okay. Yes. Thank you. All right. With that, um going to go ahead and close the public hearing. City Council entering motion and second to approve the use permit request for a limited outdoor display and storage on 32 acre portion of 6.84 acre parcel APN 500-03-3M located northwest corner of North Central Avenue and West Van Burren subject to stipulations for that open to discussion. First up is uh council member Terry.

I make the motion first to if you want to make the motion we can add the amendments. Would you do that for the discussion or you want to do that? You should make the motion before say you can do it before the if you add it right now. Okay. Go ahead. So I make the motion to to add the stipulated truck route per the owner and McFall's discussion. I'll second that. So do I need to withdraw my motion that I've said? We have a motion and a second already on our screen. I see that.

Or you can just adopt it into your motion. Okay. Everything he said. There you go. All right. So, we want to go ahead and uh open that up for a vote. That's that motion. How does this work? Mayor, what I had suggested is we adopt the amendment into the main motion. So, you don't need to take a mot vote on the amendment. Council member or vice mayor uh Campbell adopted it with her main motion. Okay. So, we're all covered. We can now do the discussion. One vote. We're going to do it. Okay.

Now, let's open for discussion. Council member Terry. Thank you, Mayor Justin. Um, can you put up the kind of overhead? How many parking spaces are we losing? And can we speak to Yeah, I've heard it mentioned as storage. Um, why is this in the front and not the back? Um, it's in the front because it's actually supposed to be an extension off of the store itself. Um, very similar to how Cal Ranch is set up.

Um, we're basically just taking that model that Cal Ranch has and duplicating it over to here. Um, with it being in the back, it wouldn't really feel as welcoming to the resident or to the visitor. Um, we are, to go back to your first question, we are losing about 60 spots. Um however the applicant did do a um a traffic impact analysis traffic impact analysis and they believe that even in peak times that the remaining 307 spots will still be enough to maintain the needed parking for the site.

Okay. And have we um have we heard through any of the discussion from any of the other businesses in the lot? I assume um kind of the property outline you showed kind of zigzags throughout that entire corner square. Are the rest of the tenants in that area part of this property uh under this property development or this uh property owner? Do we know that? I'm just trying to get a sense of um how this is split up. Thank you, Council Member Terry. Yes.

Um the majority of that center is under the same ownership with the exception of the drive-through restaurant and the tire. Okay. So like the egg roll place, Herz, all that stuff it's under. Um Okay. Um yeah. And then forgive me. Um just a little bit of my ignorance here. What happens? Should the property then be sold? Maybe this used to be what a 99 cent store I believe. um property changes hands. What's the long-term impact for uh losing 60 or so parking spaces?

Does that kind of limit what could potentially be there in the future? Um yes, it could limit what could potentially go there. Um the use permit is associated with the property though, not the user. So the use permit would still be active.

Um if somebody were to want to change businesses that's in there, we would need to see a new traffic study um and parking study to basically uh confirm with us that the parking the new parking that they will be providing will be um enough to uh be provided for the whole site. Okay. Thank you. That's all I have. Mayor. Okay. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Thank you. I was just going to let uh our council members know who were not on council when we approved the cow ranch um extra storage.

It's for the large items like the water troughs and things that normally would take up an awful lot of space inside the store. It's better if it's outside so that folks that the folks that need that type of equipment can take a look and see if that's really what they want. But it just enhances the business and I understand why they want it and uh I'm in favor of helping them have a storage area so that they can show the wares that cannot be inside their store. That is correct.

Vice Mayor, thank you. Council member Hampton. Yeah, I I think it's a great use for that space there. I think Tractor Supply is a good a good um a good user uh a good company. Um and I think it'll be do really well for that plaza there. I guess the question is, did we talk to the church's chicken people at all? I mean, are they still going to be able to be viable with less parking spots?

Um, yeah, we we still believe that the parking spots available um will still be more than enough to provide for the businesses on site. Um, the church's chicken never reached out. They would be a part of the home, part of the property owners that received a letter um as well as the signs that are out there. So, um, they were aware of the project. Um, and we didn't receive any kind of feedback from them at all. At least not that I know of. Yeah.

I just I'm just looking at I don't know what what their space is versus the lines that you have drawn here. Um, the spaces closest to them have those spaces, but is the spaces up against the storage unit there, too? Um, yeah. So, the spaces there will be spaces all along here and then the top there. Yeah. It's kind of hard to tell. Okay. I wish I could bring up GI maps for you and show you, but yeah, 21 spaces. Okay. Yeah, as long as churches is good with it, too.

I mean, I think it's a great use for that area there. I think it'll be an enhancement for for that shopping center and get more traffic in that shopping center, too. So, okay. Yeah. I I I'll be voting yes for it. So, I think they're they'll be a good partner for us. So, thank you, Council Member Kano. I agree that Tractor Supply Company will be a welcome addition to that plaza. Thank you. Uh I see nothing else on there. Can we open it up for the vote?

Council member Kano, please state your vote for the record. I pass a 70. Thank you. Last public hearing is to consider reszoning for approximately 155 acres of Australia phase 2 P A to Australia 14 P A open public hearing. Good evening, Mayor Pazillo and council members. My name is Dalmidge. I'm a principal planner and this is a reszone request for a portion of Estraa known as community 14. And we're going to start out with a little history on the north end of Estraa.

Um it's split into two phases, phases one and two. Um they were established by Rezone in 1987 and 1988 respectively. Together they cover about 10,000 acres north of the POS road alignment. and they permitted approximately 42,000 units. And that includes single family residential, court homes, town homes, and multifamily. And the multifamily includes an unbuilt area that's at the northwest corner of Estrella Parkway and Willis Road, uh, directly across from this reszone area.

Um over the years there have been several amendments to the original zoning to create individual villages and these include golf village in 1999 which permitted single family and town homes. Monteceto in 2004 with two amendments and that permitted single family court homes and multifamily and Cantamemia in 2005 with two amendments. Uh that was for single family and town homes.

And then finally at the far north end of Estrella we have Lucero which was approved in 2013 and has had three amendments and that permitted single family and town homes. Um Estraa 14 consists of approximately 1,55 acres and it's in Estrella phase 2 P A described on the previous slide. The existing zoning for the site envisioned a variety of uses including single and multifamily residential civic uses and parks and commercial.

A large regional commercial center or mall was expected to be located at the north end of the site and that's shown here as the large red area. And the future state route 303 alignment was once expected to run along the eastern boundary of the site. That alignment has has since been moved to the west by ADOT. So without that freeway extension, a commercial center of this scale is no longer viable on this site.

Most of the project site falls within the neighborhood's land use designation of the 2035 general plan. That's the light orange color in the exhibit on the right side of this slide. This designation is intended for a range of housing products, public and community facilities, and neighborhoods serving commercial.

A small area near the intersection of Estraa Parkway and Willis Road falls within the business and commerce designation, and that's the light red or pink area again in the exhibit on the right side of the slide. This designation allows for commercial and employment uses as well as multifamily residential. There's also a village center overlay that sits at the intersection of Estraa Parkway and Willis Road. And that's the circle with the diagonal red lines.

That overlay applies to areas expected to serve as neighborhood destinations. And then finally, we have the Estrella Parkway growth corridor which extends along the western boundary of the project site from its northern edge down to the intersection of Willis Road. And that's in the exhibit on the left side.

Growth corridors are not regulatory or restrictive in nature, but they're areas where commercial and employment uses, housing, educational institutions, and similar development will concentrate to support future growth. The applicant is proposing to reszone this area to the Estrella 14 planned area development. It will largely allow the same uses as the existing zoning. However, oop, sorry.

However, the proposed PAD will implement a system of layered land use groups or lugs to define where various uses could go. The PAD will also modify some permissions and development standards, and we'll learn more about that shortly. And finally, the PA AD will also permit a smaller number of residential units than are allowed under the current zoning, and we'll also learn more about that in a moment.

So, the proposed reszone will establish six land use groups, also known as lugs on the site, and they're shown here. Each land use group allows for specific zoning districts and uses within its boundaries. The groups are layered over each other, and they're intended to show where certain uses could go, not necessarily where they will go. So, there's full details in the staff report, but I'll give you a quick summary of what each group represents. The green group is the open space lug.

It's for natural landscapes, parks, sports fields, trails, and other recreational uses. And it does include a hillside area at the southwest corner of the site. That hillside falls only within the open space lug. The civic space layer is the one in blue that includes government, community, or recreational facilities. Estate is the light yellow. This is your single family residential districts including traditional single family as well as court homes and attached homes.

And then we have the village lug which is the dark yellow. That's lower density multifamily up to 12 dwelling units per acre as well as neighborhood commercial. The hub lug is the light orange. That's middle density multifamily up to 18 units per acre in general commercial. Then finally there's the core lug which is the dark orange or red and that's highdensity residential up to 24 units per acre and mixed use.

So this layered system orients the higher intensity uses um like highdensity multifamily community serving commercial and mixed use toward Estraa Parkway and its intersection with Willis Road. lower intensity uses like open space, civic uses, uh single family residential have a little more flexibility in location. And just some key points to note for this reszone, um it does cap the residential units at 6,034. Up to 864 of those units could be multifamily.

A minimum of 18% of the site sitewide will be designated as open space. And this is to include a community amenity um possibly like the Star Point or Prescidio residence clubs as well as a system of trails and pathways. There is not a specific acreage of commercial uses that is required but commercial be will be located within the appropriate lugs it is as described on the previous slide.

So, the reason is proposing several revised development standards, and I won't try to list all of them, but here are some examples to note. Um, it will reduce the rear setbacks for all single family residential districts, but it will require additional amenities to account for reduced rear setbacks. There will be no lot coverage limits for all single family residential districts. It will allow reduced lot sizes and reduced lot widths just for the R14 and the R16 district.

And open space will count toward the overall 18% requirement, but 75% of it must be usable open space. For multif family residential, um there will be flexibility in building heights for pitched roof designs, flexibility for side and rear setbacks and open space requirements depending on the project design, and communal open space will count toward the 18% requirement. Uh private open space will not.

This reszone also establishes a mixeduse district, which we do not already have in our zoning ordinance. So, this is a new district for Goodyear. Um, the district will use the C2 development standards, but it will allow multifamily uses in addition to commercial and public facility uses. And the reszone proposes some unique standards for drive-through restaurants.

Endcap and multi-tenant drive-through restaurants will be permitted in the core lug by right provided they're at least 150 ft from residential. Additionally, up to two standalone drive-throughs will be allowed and the same buffer from residential will be required. All other drive-throughs will be required to follow the zoning ordinance requirements. Similarly, the reason also proposes unique standards for service stations, gas stations, and car washes.

uh one service station and one car wash will be permitted if at least 500 ft from residential unless separated by a road canal or railroad track. Uh no semi-truck fueling or parking will be allowed. Uh all other gas stations and car washes will be required to follow the zoning ordinance. And I'll give you a quick summary of some data for this project. kind of a recap of what we talked about here. Um, under the existing zoning, 8,400 units are permitted.

Under the proposed zoning, that would be reduced to 6,034. So, that's about a 28% difference. Current zoning allows a little over 4,500 multifamily units, while the proposed will allow 864. So, that's a pretty steep decline of 81%. That's approx for current zoning that's about 53% uh 400 is about 53% of 8,400. Well, in the proposed zoning um no more than 14% of the residential units um assuming full buildout will be multif family. So again that's a decrease of 39%.

The existing zoning requires only 94 acres of open space while the proposed zoning would allow I'm sorry would require 271. So that's a 188% increase in open space. Uh the the original 1980 zoning entitled a little over 42,000 units. with this reszone and all of the other amendments to Estustrala that happened since the 1980s on the projected units would be about 20,000. And I do want to stress that this is a projection and not a hard number, but that is a difference of about 53%.

And with this change in number of units comes a decrease in sorry a decrease in population for Estustrala North. So, two neighborhood meetings were held for this request. Uh, the first was on March 31st. The project site was 1,080 acres at the time. After this first meeting, the project area was revised to extend to 155 acres. So, we had a second neighborhood meeting on July 1st to introduce that change in scope to the public.

Approximately 200 people attended the first meeting and approximately 85 were at the second meeting. Topics included the types of commercial multifamily and amenities expected in the new community, impacts to traffic and circulation, impacts to water and wastewater services, time frames for buildout, and future plans for other properties in Australa. Staff have also re received 19 emails about the project. Um, this includes the one that you have a copy of on the day as tonight.

Most of these emails have expressed opposition or mixed opinions for the project. And again, the topics have echoed what were discussed at the neighborhood meetings um with some additional concerns about mountain and desert views and the impacts of multifamily development such as impacts to property values and crime. Um, one citizen has expressed support for the reszone and believes it will bring more commercial services to this part of Estraa.

The Liberty Elementary School District and Buckeye Union High School District serviced this project site. Both were notified of the project. Uh, Liberty has provided some advice on minimum campus sizes that they require and the applicant will continue to work with both districts as the area is developed. And this project went to planning and zoning commission on September 10th and they did vote to recommend approval with five voting yes, one voting no, and one um commissioner absent.

Staff recommends approval of the proposed reszone from Estraa phase 2 P A to EA 14 P A subject to the proposed stipulations. And we're also requesting a change in the text to stipulation number 18. And you have a copy of the revised text on your DES. Um it would strike the following language from the beginning of the stipulation. Um in addition to being responsible for a proportionate share of the cost of the traffic signals identified herein as shown on the provided handout.

So all of that would be would be struck from the stipulation. Um, and this change is just to correct a scrivener's error that was not caught earlier in the in the staff report preparation. And this concludes my presentation. And we have the applicant here tonight. And they also have a presentation to give to you. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Want to come on up? Uh, thank you very much. Good evening, Mayor Pazillo, city council members. My name is Andrew Yansy.

I'm an attorney at Bergen Frank Small and Overholster. We're at 4343 East Camelback Road in Phoenix. I'm here tonight representing Australia North LLC, a master developer group led by Harvard Investments. They're the fifth master developer for this Australia community and they purchased the undeveloped portions about four years ago. They very much hope to be the developer to finish out this jewel of the city of Goodyear.

We really appreciate the way we were able to collaborate with the city at all levels in working toward this shared goal. The zoning application tonight is just another step in that buildout of Australia. It will update a decades old zoning plan to allow for 1500 acres of predominantly single family master plan community with a second commercial core along Australia Parkway in the Willis Road intersection. All in line with the city's general plan.

I do want to make sure to thank staff for working with us in the review of this application and for her presentation tonight. You'll hear some of the same information. I may give a little different emphasis. Um and then also staff's recommendation of approval and planning and zoning commission's recommendation of approval as well. Before I get deeper though, I do want to back up and just give a little bit of context. First, I want to focus on the size of Australia.

The blue on your screen is the outline of the entire city of Goodyear. Here's the Australia community. It's an irregular shape about 10,000 acres. It's 6 miles from north to south. By way of comparison, 6 miles is about the distance from the city's northern boundary at Camel Back Road all the way down to Lower Buckeye. Also, we're looking at Australia as approximately half built out today. There's about 8,400 homes. They're almost exclusively on the west side of Australia Parkway.

They're all single family. There is a partially built out commercial area up at the intersection of uh Australia Parkway and Elliot Road. And we are looking at about 20,000 homes as the ultimate buildout. Those are projections, but it helps give you just an idea of the scale here. So, here's that 1988 zoning map. It's the same one that Ann showed. The first thing I want to note is this entire 10,000 plus acre community is zoned and planned for development.

It was approved for 42,000 homes initially with a mix of single family and multif family residential. As Ann mentioned, you see the 303 was once planned to come through here. And there's a big red spot you can see right around here. That's about 500 acres that was planned for a regional mall, freeway adjacent commercial and highintensity multif family uses. So fast forward about 40 years, much of the developed area of Australia has undergone P Amendments in their zoning.

G Village was first, then Cantamemia, Monteito, and Lucero. Each one has their own set of standards in their own unit cap that they have to live with. But when you look east of Australia Parkway, that undeveloped land still has the same zoning from 1988. It's in place today. So, one more step back here to look at the general plan.

When Harvard purchased this property 4 years ago, there was about 500 acres of the business and commerce land use designation in this area that we're calling Community 14. That's the image you see on your left. Harvard immediately applied to change that designation to the neighborhoods designation while leaving a 40 acre portion at the intersection of Australia Parkway and Willis Road as business and commerce. That was approved in 2021.

There's also a village overlay at that intersection and there's also a growth area that was actually added to the general plan at the request of some Australia residents during the most recent general plan update that runs along Australia Parkway. So that's where the general plan says the higher intensity development is supposed to go. Now even though that general plan amendment went through, the 1988 zoning still there. So this is just a little closer look at it here.

Um almost half of community 14 prohibits single family development today. It also includes 4,500 multif family units. Many of them were in what they called the highintensity town center area that allowed up to 50 units an acre with no height limit. That is not the plan that we want for Australia. Instead, our vision is consistent with the general plan.

Community 14 should be predominantly single family, but we also want to facilitate a commercial core near the Australia Parkway and Willis Road intersection. To help make this commercial area viable and to allow for more housing choices within Australia, we are proposing that there are some higher density residential in and around that commercial area. Overall, in the plan, the uses get less intense the further out you go from that commercial court.

So this vision is a reduction in intensity from the current zoning. We're proposing a cap of 6,034 homes. Of those, only 864 can be multif family. And I want to be very clear on this point that 864 units is a maximum. This zoning does not require a single multif family unit to be built. But multif family does have a place in a large master plan community. It allows additional housing choices and it brings rooftops closer to commercial.

Australia's proposal also includes the type of open space and amenities and trails that has always prided itself on. Overall, we're looking at 18% open space. That's over and above the 15% that's usually in the city's single family districts. There's also going to be a large community amenity. We don't have it specifically programmed today, but it's going to be on the scale of the Star Point or the Prescidio, the large residence clubs. We also want to make sure it's well distributed.

So, there's going to be a park within a/4 mile of every home. So, we walk through some of those main components, and I'm going to show you a little comparison here as well. Um, again, it's just important to see what we're proposing versus what is allowed today. We're proposing 6,34 units. The existing zoning is 8,400 units. That's a reduction of about 2,300. For the multif family, we're proposing a maximum of 864. The current zoning could allow up to 4500.

That's a very large reduction of over 3,600 units. We're also proposing to increase the open space to almost triple what's uh required today. Also including that community amenity, the parks within a/4 mile. um making the commercial neighborhood scale instead of regional freeway scale and bringing the plan into conformance with the city's general plan. So lastly, I do want to touch on the mechanism that we're using here. It's the layered zoning concept with the land use groups.

Community 14 is about 1,500 acres. So it's going to take about a decade, maybe a little more to build out the whole thing. We don't know today exactly where each use is going to go in this 1500 acres, but we do have enough of an idea that we can set up some guard rails to ensure maximum flexibility for single family development while also creating opportunities for commercial and higher density residential at the appropriate locations. We do this through the six land use groups you see.

Um each is layered on top of the other and each adopts the city's own zoning districts and standards. Uh we're not proposing custom standards here. We do have some modifications to the city standards, but by and large we are implementing the city's districts and standards in a way that we think makes sense for this community. So just to quickly walk through these land use groups, that green one, that's open space.

What that tells you is open space can go anywhere you see the color green and that's anywhere in the community. We don't want to stop open space anywhere. The next one is the blue civic space. It can go anywhere except for on top of this small mountain that's on the southern end of the property. We carve that out. So open space is the only land use group that applies to it. It has to be open space. On the top right here you see the estate land use group.

And this one's very important because this one allows any of the city's single family zoning districts. And you can see that it can go anywhere in the property with two exceptions. One is that small mountain because it's going to be open space. The other is the 40 acre triangle at the corner of Willis and Australia Parkway because it's business and commerce designated within the general plan. Moving down, um, we have the village land use group that starts to about one minute. Thank you.

that starts to implement a little more intensity. The C1 commercial district, the MF12 multif family, those all have a 30-foot height limit. We also have the hub and the core land use groups. Those are more intense. Those are more centered on Australia Parkway and Willis Road. Hub allows for C2 and MF18. Core allows for MF24 and also this mixeduse land use group that that we created to essentially combine MF24 and C2.

But what I want to point out is even within those most intense hub and land use groups, they can develop a single family if that's what the market warrants at the time they go to develop because that estate land use group overlays it except for that 40 acres this business and commerce and the general plan. So just as I'm wrapping up just to reiterate this is a down zone. This is a reduction in overall residential units and a drastic reduction in multif family residential units.

With that, we respectfully request that you approve this PAD and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have. Thank you, Andrew. Any speaker cards? Yes, mayor. I have four speaker cards. First up, Jeff Redmond. Jeff, all you have to do is give your name, not your address, or whether you're a Goodyear resident. You got the three minutes. It'll let you know when you get closer to it. So, go ahead. Let it rip. Good day, everybody. Jeff Redmond, a resident of Australia.

Um, as I hit the podium here, uh, as I've hit the podium here, uh, several times, I want to make sure clear that that my passion can be misconstrued as as anger. It's not. It's passion. Okay. Um, one of the things that I'm I'm really focused on is protecting our way of life in Australia. Um, during this excessive growth, I oppose this uh, reszone in its present format as it's presented. Um, and I want to say emphasis on the present format. Um, the development of this area is inevitable.

I mean, anybody that's paying attention to what's going on in Goodyear can see that this it was just a matter of time. How it gets developed uh in such a fashion that it benefits the existing residents and does not destroy their quality of life needs to be considered. 5 to 10 year buildout for existing residents in Cantamemia and South Australia is a long time.

Uh uh in preparation for this meeting um I in using the uh community Facebook page, I was posting the the uh meeting times and talking about some of the concerns that I had and some others uh had. And a lot of the feedback was uh quote, "These meetings are a waste of time. Their minds already made up. These meetings are simply a formality and a charade to check a box. They don't care. our community is being eroded. They just rubber stamp projects. And lastly, it's all about the revenue.

They don't care about the citizens. Now, I would like to believe that y'all do care. And I'd like to believe that I'm not wasting my time standing here talking to you all. Um I have uh listening to the presentations that have been made so far, I had a bunch of concerns, but I'm going to I'm going to focus my uh remaining time on on what I believe to be the main concern that I and others have, and it's the traffic.

Um, part of the master plan, as I understand it, the uh uh Cotton Lane will be expanded from the Australia Parkway Cotton Lane roundabout to Willis Road eventually once the buildout's done. My proposal is that you all encourage the uh developers to to build out Cotton Lane first and use that as their thoroughfare for this construction for the next 5 to 10 years. In essence, preserving Australia Parkway for those of us that live there. So we don't have to deal with congestion.

we don't have to deal with millions of tons of concrete coming up through the Australia Parkway, uh lanes blocked off, uh just just all the um contractors and just the volume of traffic that's going to be created in the next 5 to 10 years up through Australia Parkway into that new development only to build that uh thoroughfare I'm talking about after it's completed.

So, I'd urge you to uh uh support change to this um uh reszone in the effort that I just made mention to, which is get that that road uh developed first and force the contractors through that road, not on our Australia Parkway. Okay. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Next, please forgive me if I mispronounce your name. Richard Dera. Mike Da. Again, just name Goodyear residence. You don't have to give an address. Uh you heard the previous three minutes and they'll let you know when you get closer.

Go ahead, sir. I'm Mike Dur. I live in Canameia. Australia is a wonderfully planned master community where individual builders have created smaller unique communities each attractive to a variety of buyers. And for the benefit of all are the beautiful public spaces. We have treeline parkways, walking and biking paths, large public features, unique features, lakes, and they all suggest that living in Australia is more of a destination than just a house.

I trust that the owner's vision to reszone Australa 14 will both expand and improve upon what has already been accomplished here. And I think it's in their best interest and ours to do exactly that. So, the proposed multifamily and single family housing will provide the rooftops needed to attract the small businesses that we all want and it will keep the money in the community.

Limiting the structures to two and three stories will also maintain the sighteline so it won't destroy the views that we have of the mountain. The extensive park and trail system and possibly new schools will attract people and foster a very rich diverse community. So without hesitation, I would urge you to pass this resoning proposal to continue with the elements that brought all of us to Australia in the first place. Thank you. Thank you. Next, Tom Blackman.

Again, Tom, just to name Goodyear residents and uh you got the three Tom Blackman and uh council members and mayor. I just want to speak I I'm all for this development. I want it to move forward as fast as possible. You know, we we can't build our houses fast enough right now. So um my only concern is uh the multifamily housings. I mean I look around I see singlestory apartments. I see I mean I see double two and three fourstory apartments.

My concern is we need to limit those heights of the the buildings to either single level apartments or maybe up to 330 ft. If we can add that stipulation to the uh amendment that would be a wonderful thing. And that's just my concern. I just, you know, I've I I've been since I heard about this, I I look around and I see fourstory buildings, apartments going up. I'm going that is big. Real big.

And to put that on the east side of Australia Boulevard is going to really take the view away from what we do, why we live there. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Next, Russell Fury. Again, just for the record, Russell, your name and whether you're a Goodyear resident. That's all. Thank you, mayor and council members. My name is Russell Fair. I am a resident of Cantamemia up in EMR. I'm neutral on this. Uh been lived here for two years. Attended both of the community meetings by Estraya North.

And by the way, great uh great plan. I got to admit that. Very good plan. Um two things that concern me though. I do have paws with the setbacks, the reduced setbacks and the reduced sidebacks. I've lived in Chicago and I worry sometimes you get people on top of each other and it just uh it's an uncomfortable situation. So just give pause in that situation. The other thing that concerns me and Jeff mentioned this is the traffic.

If you've been to the roundabout on Estustrala and and Cotton that's going to have to be blown up and the uh city planners were at Kameia did a great job. Thanks by the way guys that was excellent work. Um mayor appreciate you coming down too. um that's going to have to change in order to expand cotton to the east and the south. And so in order to do that, the timing of that versus trying to recoup your money for this land. I mean, there's quite a bit of land, 6,000 new houses.

There's a lot of money that's going to be uh possible from that. So, what's going to the timing of it all concerns me to Jeff's point as well. Are we going to just start funneling the traffic down Australia? We got a high school there. Um, and the traffic studies have been done. So, kudos to them. They did the initial traffic study. They did the second traffic study after they added the 425 acres. Uh, traffic studies and did a great job sharing that. Uh, B's and C's for the most part. Good.

Not great. One of them had an F. So, but I think that's the one thing that I haven't heard from Australia North or from anyone is what's the strategy to address the traffic or is there a strategy? And I think that's what concerns me that we're all excited about building. We all want, you know, commercial. It' be great to have a new grocery store up there, right? I mean, driving down the Safeways, you know, it's not too far, but it'd be nice to have something closer. But let's be smart.

Make sure we've got the right traffic strategy in place so that way we're not inconveniencing causing more accidents. And then we got more police needing to having to take care of all these additional cuz 6,000 homes is going to be what 10 12,000 new people plus new cars. I mean plus potentially new kids and schools. It's just going to extrapolate. So thank you for your attention. U appreciate that. Thank you, sir. Anything else? No, mayor. Okay. Thank you. Uh let's see what we got here.

I'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing. City clerk, please read the ordinance number 20251639 by title only. Adopt ordinance number 2025-1639 conditionally reszoning approximately 155 acres of land generally located on the east side of Australia Parkway and south of Australia Foothills High School from the Australia phase 2 planned area development pad to the Australia 14 planned area development pad and amending the zoning map of the city of Goodyear. Thank you.

Um, Council Member Kano, you're first up on the phone. Any questions? Do we need to do a motion first? Oh, we need a motion. Oh, sorry. I already We see a motion and a second up there. You're right. Uh, city council. Motion and a second to adopt the ordinance. I see a motion and a second. So, now your call. Okay. I just want to say this case was like discovering a time capsule from 40 years ago that held a what they saw the vision was for the future.

And it was a big surprise to find out that there was a uh second regional mall that is never going to be. Um this is 1,500 acres. It is massive. And um I think both Andrew and uh Ann did a great job. Uh there's a lot to be built in Australia. We're very very fortunate that it is one master planned uh community and um I'm going to let my colleagues dig into the details, but it appears to me that this projects being rightsized with flexibility to grow for the future. Thank you.

Uh next up, let's see what we have there. Council member Terry. Thank you, Mayor. Um Jeff, I did didn't see where you sat down. Uh did want to let you know we do care up here. Um, we I know I can speak about all my colleagues. I've only been up here 10 months, but we have I I know in that time there's a lot of effort to try to make any future development and there will be future development um look like Estraa uh look like it belongs.

Um I do have a question for the city attorney because you know I've been to community meetings. I have friends all around Estraa. I remember when the high school was built. Um I've been around that long. Um I was actually even around when this pad was created, just barely. Um but for the city attorney, uh I've I've heard some places or some sentiment out there that as a city just because something's zoned, why don't we just change the zoning?

Um in my time up here in 10 months, I have I haven't heard in a public setting. I know the answer, but I think for the public, um, why couldn't we just take something that's already been zoned privately and just change it to how we wish? Thank you. Um, Mr. Mayor, members of the council, uh, Council Member Terry, uh, generally the city's kind of restricted in that regard following the passage of Prop 207 back in 2006, the Private Property Owners Protection Act.

uh basically states if you have a existing land use designation and the city comes in and makes regulatory changes to that there's liability on the part of the city for any diminish diminished property values. So uh when councils or cities are making those determinations as far as regulating zoning or making changes to property rights you got to be have the context in the back of your mind that if that change reduces the property value the the municipality is liable for that.

So that's why you typically post 2006 you don't see cities in Arizona down zoning because the the plane or the the baseline's been established by the zoning that's already been adopted if that makes sense. It yeah it does um just the rarity uh you know in in being able to downzone. I do want to thank the developer for working with the city on that. Um, Ann, I had a question uh for you specifically when it comes to the density areas multif family.

If we could see the map again just can you speak to um and I know Andrew you spoke to it as well. uh the ability for um the higher density, the the higher intensity to be in just a specific area. It cannot be scattered all throughout this community or next or really right next to existing areas. It will primarily except for the already existing northwest corner of Willis in Estustrala be on the east side of Estraa. Is that correct?

Can you just speak to any fears about it being built in an already existing area outside of just east of that or um I guess the question would be can can any new multif family be built um in in already existing communities in Australa on the west side um outside of that small little sliver there at Willis and Australia Parkway. Yeah. Uh thank you, Council Member Terry. Um this reszone would affect only the area shown on this map. And actually, let me find a better one.

Um this is a little bit better. So though this is the existing zoning, not the proposed, but um the resone would affect only the areas within this boundary and it's this site right now is completely undeveloped. So it would not affect any existing neighborhoods that are developed in Estustrala.

And just going back to the slide I had here, um the highest density multifamily would be the core lug that would allow up to 24 units per acre, but that's limited to the area like you said around Estustrala Parkway and Willis Road and then it extends up to Kalisoga Road. Um hub is a little bit not quite as dense that allows up to 18 units per acre and that's a little bit bigger area um than the core lug.

And then the village lug allows only up to 12 units per acre and that covers mostly that northern half. Um though there's a piece at the very upper end that is not within that lug. So um basically the denser the project the smaller the area that it's allowed to go and it kind of it narrows in more into that intersection along Estraa Parkway and Willis Road and Kalisoga Road. So it's consolidated into pretty much one general area as opposed to current zoning which would allow it Yeah.

which allows a much larger throughout. Yeah. Any the existing zoning allows it anywhere in that large red area at the top which is it's um town center commercial and office but the P80 does allow multif family to be interspersed with commercial and office. And then there's also the orange areas which is slightly less um dense residential. So anywhere in that big red block or in the orange areas right now you could do multifamily. So it's a much smaller area for the densest product.

And then over the last few years we had a committee that uh put forward a general plan um that was then voted on and approved by the voters uh about a year and a half ago. Um, I've heard that referred to. Uh, was this potential reszoning or something similar to that uh in mind when that came up or did that have any traces of as um Councilwoman Kano referenced a uh time capsule? Uh because, you know, I I learn something new every day.

And that was my first meeting um with Harvard when I first got elected. I was like, whoa. um with what was planned there 40 years ago to where we are now. Um that general plan that we went through about a year and a half ago uh for final approval to the voters. Uh I I heard this align more with that. So this reszone and some of these negotiations were part of that because I know that had a citizen committee as well. Is that correct? Or can you speak to how that general plan was devised? Yeah.

Uh thank you council member Terry. um this uh general plan amendment. The applicant actually applied for this general plan amendment I believe a little bit before that before the 2035 update. So um all of the what passed in their general plan amendment was carried over into the 2035 update. There weren't any changes between what it was before that update and what it was after. So So what you're seeing here um is what what's in the g the current version of the general plan. Okay. Yeah.

Um, and then I've heard I don't know if this is uh for you, but traffic is obviously an issue. I came here from high school district. It did not include the Buckeye Union High School District, but I am well aware of the traffic challenges surrounding um a stray foothills. Um what sort of improvements or are we expecting even along Estraa Parkway in the future just you know as mentioned how it can relate to the zoning of this area. Um there are limited numbers of ways in and out.

Um can I don't know if this is for you or um possibly Steve um just improvements to Estraa as well as um Cotton Lane. I don't know to my knowledge there are three um main paved roads in and out of the Australia community. I just want to you know that bottleneck is slightly concerning. as well as around the high school area. Um, you know, traffic's a mess there during peak hours. Good even good evening, mayor, council Terry.

Um, I think I don't have uh for a reasonzoning of this size, I don't have specifics on that today. I can tell you when something like this comes in, the staff looks at a traffic impact analysis for the entire area, but we also know that something that may take 10 years to develop will be phased over time.

And so how we normally work with the development community is with each successive sub submittal uh for their phases there'll be an updated traffic impact analysis that will show us what needs to come on board with each. So for instance if something develops on the north side it may look different than if something develops on the south side first.

So, uh, we follow, uh, Maricopa County standards and for a development of this size, it does, um, take into account intersections that aren't directly adjacent to the development. So, at the appropriate time of of the review, we would have more understanding and and today though, I don't have that level of detail. Okay. Um, but but you spoke to the time that this will take. Obviously, this is a, you know, I've heard 10 years planned. It's going to be built in phases.

Um, but each phase is going to come with the monitoring of the traffic, monitoring of, you know, what's needed, and uh I I guess is is there essentially a long-term plan to deal with that bottleneck? I know there are various discussions being had um when it comes to the roundabout and the area up there. Yes, absolutely. Without getting too specific because I know it's still a you know discussion, but it's a concern out there in the community, so I wanted to bring it up tonight. Yes, absolutely.

Thank you, Council Member Terry. Um again they the scope of this uh project definitely looks at areas further outside of the the directly adjacent uh a directly adjacent community. Uh the city also went through kind of an exercise knowing that in our transportation master plan eventually uh that area will be impacted. The roundabout the level of service will drop to the point that it will need to be adjusted. The timing on that isn't known.

It's based on development which of course this is a large development that will impact that. We have gone through the exercise to look at analysis of alternatives and we have been in discussions with the developer on on as they develop what that looks like but nothing set in stone today. Neither the configuration nor the timeline but we are looking at that. Okay.

But we can we can expect a kind of phased understanding of the traffic needs in that area and um wouldn't expect to see the entirety of the 6,000 dwellings be built before we then address the traffic. Is that correct? I can agree with that. Yes. And then I had one more kind of on traffic. Uh appreciate your patience, mayor.

Um 303 was mentioned as originally planned going through Estustrala back when that was kind of a regional commercial core almost a downtown um planned area for Goodyear back in the day. Um the 303 has now shifted to the west at least the planned development.

And I know we have the extension of the 303 um supposed to be starting soon uh going down to MC85 at some point 10 20 30 who knows um that would go even further south if we can you know there's bridge across the river that comes with that that brings challenges the ingress egress for the Australa community have within this development time are we also considering ing ways to get out onto was it Tutill and then Jack Rabbit there when Elliot goes to the west?

I know that connects with um I believe it's Tutill which turns into Jack Rabbit that goes up to uh up north. Um but are we considering even further south where Willis goes to I believe Rainbow Valley Road in that area is already paved as well. Is that correct? Or are we looking at expansion there? we um addressing possible concerns about needing a western exit to the community. Obviously to the east there's a mountain. It's kind of hard to go that way.

I think there's there's a lot to unpack there. I think no you're you're good. I'm trying to think through if I go back to there's two there's two different documents that we would go to. We would start with our when we're talking about regional improvements or potential long range would start with our city's transportation master plan which we updated a few years ago and we're likely to update on a 5-year cycle.

That's where we would kind of look at, you know, what changes to the loop 303, the timelines, ADOT's timelines and kind of the future planning, what changes would maybe impact this area. Um, as far as exits to the west, potential exits to the west, when we review these traffic impact analyses, there are trips that'll be assigned in that direction. I don't know that there's any improvements uh anticipated today for anything outside of the city.

Um, but that's definitely sometime over time say, you know, again, phased improvements over time as as traffic increases and more development comes online, it's possible, but I don't know the answer today. So, it's at least going to be monitored. And if um say there became a state initiative to expand the 303 even further south or something like that, I hear from folks in Panell County, they're begging for another way into the valley. Um that could possibly expedite something like that.

And again, something to monitor, I guess, in phases um as well. Additional heavy trafficable uh routes in and out of the community. It's definitely something we'll be monitoring over time. Okay. Um, I think that's all I have for you, Steve. I did have two questions for Andrew if he and then I'm done. Again, uh, Andrew, I appreciate uh you working with staff on this. I know um I can be quite needy.

I know some of our friends, but our residents, you know, we we try to give uh our residents the best uh we possibly can here. Uh, schools were brought up specifically elementary schools. I know you need more elementary schools than you do high schools. Uh I know even a stray foothills high school is uh quite uh crowded currently, but to the is it it's Liberty uh elementary district down there. Um what is or is there any land available to them if and should they need uh possibly another school?

five, 10 years down the road, something like that. Can you speak to that question? Yes, Council Member Terry, thank you for the question. Schools are obviously something um we're very interested in building a residential community. Um it it is needed for the community. It helps attract residents there. The way it's typically worked in Australia is when the the district gets to a point where they are projecting a new school need, they come to the developer and we provide the land for it.

Right now there is a site in the Monteceto area over by the Prescidio Residence Club and that is what Liberty is sort of eyeing for its next school in Australia. So there's is land there now. we we still own it, but we're going to give it to them when they're ready to to build. Um, when it comes to, you know, within community 14 itself, the the same type of thing will happen when they're getting to the point where they tell us they need a new one, we'll we'll find the land to make it happen.

And do keep in mind, please, that, you know, we're we're talking about this 1500 acres here today. There's still about another 1,700 acres of Australia over to the east that hasn't been developed yet. So, it's a it's a much larger conversation we're having with them. We're having it continuously. Okay. And that 1,700 acres that still um carries with it this 88 zoning. It looks less intense. Um is that that's correct, Council Member Terry. That is correct. Okay.

Um and then I saw the renderings in here of um hopefully someday a mixeduse core. I tend to be a fan of those when we're talking multif family. Um that you know commercial uh retail restaurants first floor a lot of times. I know Verado their main street has uh that commercial first floor and then they have housing on second third floor. Uh Kierland is a well-known destination in Scottsdale that similar something like that. Obviously probably much larger scale.

Um, and I know this zoning would allow for that. We uh threw out our zoning kind of um we've been redoing our zoning ordinances over the last or we're working on that. We haven't done it yet, but uh to create the ability to build something like that that I I see renderings in your presentation. Is that sort of your intention um going forward is to hopefully be able to create that?

Obviously, the market um is going to dictate, but that's uh your intention is to create some sort of mixed use uh area in that um core. Yeah, Council Terry, thank you. Um yes, that'd be that'd be a big win for everyone if if we were able to get that type of use in there. Um it brings a lot to the vibrancy. It brings a lot of good services. It's great for property value. There there's a lot of benefits to that. You know, that said, and as you noted, we can't force someone to to build that there.

What we can do is try to create the environment for them to come. So, that's why we're looking at this plan. You know, one focusing on that that intersection where the general plan is saying the intensity needs to be as the more intense portion and allowing for that, you know, type of graduated density we're looking at. One of the other things we did and as you noted um going over the zoning ordinance, there is not a a strict mixeduse district in Goodyear right now.

So, we had to create one to make sure that it is permitted if if it comes. And the one other thing I I'd like to add is there's both horizontal and vertical mixed use. Um sometimes you can get a lot of the same effect having the you know uses next to each other rather than strictly stacked on top of each other. So, I think there's a lot of options and we're we're hopeful. Uh we certainly can't guarantee anything, but I think we'd all be pretty happy if that worked out. Okay.

And then you mentioned stacking. So unfortunately, and I may have one more for you. It was asked um by one of our residents about the height um restriction. Can you just confirm those are part of this uh resoning package? There are height standards. There are maximums in there. Can you speak to maybe the the highest uh in the core and then spread out? I know that was part of your presentation, but it was brought up again uh by one of our residents.

So, I'd ask you to uh address the height issue as well. Sure. Um thank you. Um or Oh, sure. Go ahead. Yeah. Sorry. Sorry. Either one politics. Can we pull up mine? Yeah. Sorry. You know, Council Cherry, thank you for that. And that that is a question we've heard, so we developed a slide specifically to speak to it. I'd love to see it. I I'm going to have to click through a lot though. I apologize. Okay, so this is a slide we prepared.

Um it's based on the land use groups and it shows the maximum height in different areas based on whether it's residential or commercial mixeduse development. On the right you can see that is the the residential only height maximum. All of that white hatched area has a 30- foot maximum. That that's your single family residence. That's two story house. Even the multif family that can occur in that area has to be a 30 foot limit.

Only in that orange shading when you get around that higher intensity area that's noted in the general plan can you get up to to 40 ft. But there's still the unit cap on top of that. So there is absolutely no way that entire area is built out at at 40 feet. It's just a permission. When you go over to the left, um this is the commercial and in mixed use slide here. So again, you've got that 30 foot maximum over the vast majority of the property. The city's C2 district allows 56 feet in height.

So that's what we incorporated here is the city's own C2 standards and that allows up to 56 in this area. Um, again, that is a maximum permission. The the likelihood of of many buildings getting that tall is is pretty low when you're looking from a commercial standpoint. I mean, that's really that's an office, which I I don't think we're going to have a lot of office here. The um that's not strictly residential. That would have to be um the commercial or mixed use. Uh yes, that that is correct.

If there if there was retail on the ground floor, you could put three more stories of residential on top of it to hit that 56 ft, but again, only in this concentrated area. The rest is a 30 foot max. Okay. Um, that exhausts the questions I have. I I appreciate uh my colleagues patience on that. Um, but I'm done. Mayor, all right. Council for Ben Gillis, we're not going to laugh, right? Okay, Andrew, I need you. So, I'm going to address Jeff also.

Um, Jeff, I also care and I wouldn't be up here if I didn't. I own a home up there and I've had a home up there for 15 years. So, some of this stuff that is coming I'm excited about. So, it might be that we agree to disagree, but I do care. Um the things I'm talking to you about Andrew is um the zoning was originally done in 1988 correct council member Gillis. Yes that's correct. Okay.

So so that was when all this took place these apartments like we council Terry just said we can go the the mixed use or the you can do mixed use beneath and then you do the multilevel above. Right. In the existing zoning today it actually doesn't speak specifically to mixed use but it would allow an apartment only building to go up even higher there. The So tell everybody how high we're talking. Are we talking two, three, four? There is not a height limit on the town center.

Practically speaking, five or six stories. You're probably never going to see higher than that. But within the zoning, there is no height limit within the town center area. But you're not really talking about that. You're talking more You guys don't aren't planning on doing that is what you're saying. Like two to three is what you're what you told me, Council Member Gillis. That is correct. There's a a limited area where three stories could occur, two stories across the rest.

Four stories is only possible if there's ground level retail. Be really tall and kind of shouldn't be up there. Kind of. That's what we're talking, right? Because I know we talked about that. So, I want to make sure that people understand that we're not doing fourstory units or fivetory units. That's not what we're talking about. Correct. That's correct. Okay. That's what I wanted to be sure.

And because of the zoning done in in 88, it's saying you can do that basically, but we're not doing that. And so that I think that's important to let people know that we're not planning on that. Okay. Um so um so all in all, we're talking about less less single level than what was planned originally, less multi-level than was planned originally. Right. That's correct. Cash. That's correct. Okay. And the height is less than what was done in 1988 is what we're looking at. That is correct.

So all it it's all less basically than what you actually could do by what's in that zoning from 1988. That's correct. That's what I wanted to be sure because I have a home up there too. So I don't want five and six unit, you know what I mean? A floor above, you know, I don't want that. So um so I actually like what they're doing here. I like the fact that they're going to do um commercial. I know we need that density for that commercial. I I've been waiting for that up there.

Um, so I'm kind of excited about that. Um, and I think other people that I have talked to up there, my neighbors and stuff are excited about it too because we've been there a long time. So that's kind of a good thing. Um, I would like to know a little bit about the opposition because that does matter to me. My constituents matter to me. So I would like to know what we're getting in the opposition. We we heard about some of the things, a couple of things here.

We and we heard about some of the things that people like of what's coming to us. So what is the deal with the opposition? And Council Member Gillis, I of course can only speak from my experience. I don't I don't speak for them, but I I can tell you my neighborhood meetings, right? That's correct. We held our first neighborhood meeting on March 31st. About 200 people attended at the Stars Residence Club. Um there was a lot of opposition to multif family at that meeting.

Um, I I think that there was a a belief among some that there was never going to be multif family in Australia. When we were able to walk through and explain how this is a down zone and what's permitted today, I think a lot of people came around to understanding that this is an improvement over the current plan.

So, we certainly talked a lot about about the multif family, how it's a reduction and how we're using the city standards for the multif family instead of the old standards within um the the old zoning. We had a second neighborhood meeting on July 1st. One of the reasons is that we actually expanded the area. Initially, our reszone was only going to cover about the northern 2/3 of what you see today. We added in about 425 acres in the south.

Um when we did that we did increase the overall unit cap because we had more acres. So we just look you know use the density as a ratio and did a multiplication problem. We did not increase the multif family. So that in the new area that came in in the south is only within that estate land use group. So there is no multif family or commercial there. We basically added 425 acres of single family only land and open space cuz that small mountain is part of that that as well.

Um and we you know we got a few emails um a few phone calls. I I do feel like a lot of the the opposition has been similar to to what we've heard here tonight. Um there's a a general expression that downzoning is good. Um and then you know some questions about about traffic and and multif family I believe um you know have been pretty well addressed by various city staff members here this evening.

I I I will say too counill we did also between planning zoning commission and and tonight we did a separate uhformational meeting in the Cantameia neighborhood. As you know Cantameia is part of Australia but it's also kind of separate from Estustrala. Um so we held our first two meetings at Star Point which is where we typically do them. We did a separate meeting at the residence club in Cantamemia last week. I think probably 70 to 80 people showed up to that. Right. Okay.

So, that was kind of I think it's important to be transparent and you and I had a meeting and I asked a lot of these questions because like I said, I own a home up there, so it's important to me what goes up there as well. And um I like much better what you're doing than what the 90 1988 plan was. Okay. I like the fact that we're keeping everything a little bit lower.

And um I like the fact that we're going to bring in commercial, but we can only bring in commercial if we have the density up there. So we all know that because that's what we're dealing with down here. So I'm I'm in support of this project. I've been waiting for it a long time and I thank you for being very clear about it for everybody because I think it's important to know that you could do a lot more from 1988 zoning, but you're not. So you're really trying to help the people out there.

And I'm one of the ones that I was not for it in the beginning, but I am for it now. Thank you, Andrew. Thank you very much, Council Member Gillis. Council member Hampton, I think my peers have answered a lot of the questions I had. Um, so the 303, we talked about that. I know Jeff brought that up. That's not going to happen for decades potentially. So, that alignment. So, um, and then the height, I know Tom brought that up. I think we addressed the height on that as well.

It was a down zone from that also. Um, and then what else we talking about here? So, I know Ann brought up the signals. We were doing some of the stipulations on the signals. So, was that a Can you remind me what you what you did with the signals? Maybe you can answer that for me. Yes, Council Member Hampton. Um, essentially, it is correcting a typo that occurred in um working through revisions to the stipulations.

Uh it was, if you really look at it, it's a um clause that doesn't it doesn't have a subjectverb agreement. it it's a leftover remnant from another sentence and there's a capital letter that goes in the middle of it. Um signals are actually addressed in the stipulation below it. There's no substantive change in the stipulation for the sake of future staff who was implementing the stipulations. We wanted to make sure it was cleaned up so it read cleanly. Okay.

And then I think uh council member Terry mentioned the schools. So that top part is earmarked for the high school. as long as their bond passes, they can purchase that land then then from you guys and then they can hopefully get better e eress and egress out of the high school there hopefully leave some of the some of the traffic concerns there as that schools continue to grow.

So there's already earmarked spots for other uses throughout there uh elementary and and potentially city stuff, fire, all those type of things that a normal master plan community would have agreement with. Yeah. And council member Hampton, um, speaking of of the high school, you're correct. The the boundary of our reszone goes up to the southern boundary of the high school. The 22 acres at the north right now is is earmarked.

We have a memorandum of understanding with the high school that if their bond passes and they have the money to be able to develop that, we are going to donate that land to the high school. Um what they have expressed is their intent is to add sports fields and parking and access.

Um under the plan they're looking at and again this is the high school district would be doing it but they're um looking at additional access offer parkway and then there would be another collector road that runs along the south with additional access in and then eventually Cotton Lane will come down the east. the east side. Is that where the alignment is right now? 303 Cotton Lane. Council, not 303. Okay. Cotton. Yeah. Yeah. Cotton Lane. There's um there's a very large utility easement there.

And so Cotton Lane will run along the side of utility easement. Okay. What's the timeline for for that road there along with this project? It it will be phased in as part of this project. The master transportation impact analysis for this project looks at a cotton lane being built out. Um, as Steve Sento was noting, um, the the timing and phasing of that is going to be evaluated with the various, uh, plats and site plans that come in.

Um, you know, one, that's that's just the the typical way that that these work because there's still plenty of time to get the road built. If there's a road that needs to be built and we haven't built it by that time, we don't get our certificates of occupancy. So, we have to make sure we do it. Also, at that time, there's more information because there's other parts of Australia developing as well.

And you know, in five years when a pre-plat comes in, we'll know more of what else is is going on than we do today. So, it'll be better information at that time. Yeah. And I don't want to be a dead horse, but yeah. So, I think it's good. The downsizing is great. Uh we get more more open space. We get less less apartments than that could be there. So, I'm I'm in favor of this. So, thank you, Councilwoman Beckles. Yes. Um, first of all, I'd like to say I've lived in Cantamemia for nine years.

So, I'm very, very interested in this project and very, very concerned about what will go on with this project. Um, it certainly sparked my interest and in sparking my interest, I this was not a rubber stamp for me. I've done a lot of reading over and over and over again, asked a lot of questions and done a lot of research. It's my understanding that the project itself is going to be like phased in. We're not going to see like this is a big project. This is a lot of land.

We're not going to see all of a sudden everything coming in all at one time. Is is that is that my understanding? Council member Beckles, that's that's absolutely correct. uh there there's really no way to build out 1500 acres at one time. So, while we don't know specifically which phase will go when it it will be phased over time. Okay.

So, um, but I like the bigness of the project and what's going on, what's going to be there in 10 years because rooftops do bring in more retail and that end of the business, that end of Australia would would does really need more retail. So, I appreciate that and I really like that. I am a little concerned though that the the length the bigness of this project we won't see it again in console unless there's a gas station was a gas station a car wash or drive-thru that comes in. So this is it.

So whatever we decide today this is it unless one of those items come to council. Is is that correct? Well, Council Member Beckles, there there are a few different ways it could come back before council. Um, if the anyone was trying to raise the limit of units or raise the cap on on multif family units, that would have to come back before council. Um, if there were significant reductions in in open space requirements or things like that, those things come back before council as well.

The other thing that would that would occur is if one of these if part of the land within the 1500 acres gets through the the platting phase and actually gets designated as as one of these zoning districts and they say, "Okay, this one's going to be C2, but it it doesn't develop as C2 and somebody wants to come in and make it multif family." After it's already been assigned that C2, it has to come back to council before it it gets planned.

So the the guard rails right now are the land use groups. Um and then once anything is established within those land use groups that's set unless council uh wants to unless you come back to council to ask to change it. Okay. So um Trey Terry and Vicky Gillis uh answer my questions regarding height. So that that's been done.

Um, in terms of apartments and houses, uh, I would be concerned that we make sure that if we're building, um, single family homes that we're not building the apartments so that they overlook someone's backyard and is there a way to make sure that we're not doing that, Council Member Beckles? Yes. I'm going to address that two ways, though. First of all, anyone who has an existing home in Australia is going to be on the west side of Australia Parkway.

So that is, you know, 150 foot right away there then plus whatever their own setback is and plus a setback on on the other side. So there is is a builtin very large buffer between any existing homes and anything that could go in on the east side of Australia Parkway. And then even within the community 14 development, um, one of the things that I' I've tried to emphasize throughout this process is we have taken the city's zoning district standards and implemented them.

And the city's zoning ordinance takes your question into account. How how close can uh, you know, multif family and uh, single family be to each other? And the general rule is that when the multif family comes in, it's got to be set back 50 ft from any single family residential property line and it can go up to 30 ft for them. Then they have what they call a a stepped up setback where you can get a little more height the further away you go from that single family.

So that it's you can get one more foot of height for every 5t further away you get. So that's the buffer that is built into the city's zoning ordinance. We're we're not asking for that to be reduced for this. We're adopting the city's own buffer within this. Okay. Um let's see if I have anything else. Um no, I think you've covered everything that I've been interested in.

I don't feel I think that this um project the scope of the project in itself brings value to Australia and um I like that uh I just have those concerns the road concerns obviously um but in general it goes along with the general plan. So um I am uh pretty much interested in u moving forward with this project. Thank you. you know, being last, uh, Council Member Terry did a good job with the questions, so it's not a whole lot to delve into that.

Uh, the one thing though that I'm kind of concerned about, uh, is the traffic on that loop, and I know you guys are working on an alternate route on that to make sure that as this thing gets built, like probably the quicker that gets in line to try to alleiate some of that traffic, probably the better. Now, I'm not sure where Steve's got that kind of lined in and I'm sure the traffic analysis will go in when they start building, you know, their project on there.

Uh, but that would be a concern to make sure that timing wise you take a good hard look at that to to get that piece because I know you're working on getting an alternate route off of that. It won't be it's my understanding it won't be a roundabout, you know, so when that gets done to get that up there. But uh you know the thing that gets me um number one when you talk about multif family is you could have built 4,500 of those puppies up there.

That's a lot of multif family homes and that you dropped it to 864. Uh that's impressive. Uh because usually developer comes in and they go the opposite. You know what I mean? Uh to have somebody actually decrease that because that seems to be a hot button item, you know, in the city itself is the multif family. They want to always add more. uh they're zoned for, you know, 12, maybe they want 24.

So, I appreciate you dropping that down because the the word is out there uh that they don't really want the multif family, you know, and we and I appreciate you going out to Cantamemia. We were there, I think a little after you and a town hall that was very productive and getting feedback from the residents as well.

So, but I can tell you one thing uh I just throw this out to you, Steve, that I noticed while I was up there that I really think they need uh hospital or emergency something up there. I know they've got the fire station, but you're so far out there in Cantonia. I really believe and I know it takes number of people for it to service. Uh but some type of hospital or something in there for emergency urgent care, you know, up there for that's what I didn't notice when I was up here in Cantia.

I suspect at some point in this big huge development you're doing it, you're going to find room to plug one of those on there. So, uh, with that, um, I think you did a good job of the down zoning. Like I say, you don't typically hear that from developers, so I'm I'm with it. So, with that, we've got a motion on the table. Uh, let's go ahead and open it up. Council member Kano, please state your vote for the record. I Thank you. 70. you did a good job of of downsing and all that.

I appreciate that. Thank you. We have one item on business. Would like to remind council to wait for a motion a second before discussion. Remember, this is a notice of intent on utility rates and alls we're doing is setting the public hearing. There's no vote tonight on any rates. So, I don't want to get anybody all excited on that. Just to set the public hearing. Okay. Go ahead. Thank you, Mayor Pazilla, members of council. I'm Jared Askelson.

I'm the finance director here with the city of Goodyear. And as the mayor mentioned, we are here tonight to take the first action with respect to our utility rate update, and that is to adopt a notice of intent and set a public hearing date. This notice of intent is required by state statute. And as was mentioned, there are no actions on the rates that are going to happen tonight. Uh this will set the public hearing date uh in December. The notice will then be posted on our website.

In addition to that, we will be noticing our utility rate customers on their bills. As we discussed last week at our work session, this is the recommendation that came from our citizens water advisory committee and this is exactly how we're going to notice uh this. This includes an overall rate increase of 7.3%. And as per our conversation last week, it does include a storm water fee to be enacted with this rate plan.

The calendar as you see here uh the citizens water advisory committee put their recommendation uh adopted it officially on the 10th of September. We met last week and discussed the storm water fee as a part of the work session. Uh we're looking to adopt that notice of intent and set the public hearing date tonight. We will have a detailed discussion at our council retreat specifically on these utility rates not just storm water but water wastewater and solid waste as well.

Then on December 15th is when the public hearing will be set and we will take action on the rates at that time. The effective date will go in place in January and February because we have multiple billing cycles. It will cross those two months. And with that, I'll open up for any questions. Anybody in the audience like to speak?

Seeing that, will the council please enter a motion in a second to adopt a notice of intention to increase water, wastewater, solid waste, newly proposed storm water rates, and set a public hearing date of December 15, 2025. I see a motion and a second. Yes, I do. Open for discussion. I see a council member Terry up there. Thanks, Mayor. Just really quickly, Jared, I know we had discussion on um this.

I just wanted to ask uh when we have the retreat next month and all that, can we make sure to get uh benchmark or benchmark cities um just sim similar size population west valley region? Uh how they've been treating their utility rates probably since 20 one post pandemic is probably a good benchmark there. I wanted to make sure that um we had that data as well. I know that's different slightly than what we talked about last week, but I wanted to make sure um we would have that as well.

So, that was a request, not really a question. You good? Anybody else? Okay. All right. Uh with no further discussion, let's go ahead and open the vote to set the date. Council member Kano, please state your vote for the record. I passes 70. Thank you. All right. With that, does the council have any comments, commendation, reports on current events or requests for future? Say nothing here. Nothing here. All right, then I'm going to pass it over to the city manager.

Yes, mayor and city council members. I would like for my portion of reports from city manager to ask Chief Isit and Chief Paul to come up and give a um kind of an update as to the events that took place yesterday, Sunday and um how our personnel were called on and did in my opinion an excellent job. But I will let them talk about it. And just to remind council, we can't have any discussions on this. All we can say is, you know, yay nay.

You know, with what we just just asking there, come on down. All right. Well, thanks uh boss for uh calling uh calling us up. Uh Mayor Pazilla, members of council, I'm Brian, and I'm the police chief here at in Goodyear.

I wanted to take a moment uh to recognize the outstanding efforts of the Goodyear Police Department uh during the funeral held uh yesterday at State Farm Stadium which drew over 50 and that's 50 uh highlevel dignitaries uh and estimates ranging from 100 to 200,000 people who were attempting to attend uh the service in the in the footprint of the uh of the stadium.

Mutual aid uh was requested uh for our help uh by the Glendel Police Department and we deployed more than 50 officers across multiple critical areas uh ranging from SWAT support to uh at the Luke Air Force Base perimeter and motorcade security, traffic control, mobile field force preparedness and uh explosive ordinance detection uh to direct liaison with the United States Secret Service through our threat threat liaison officers.

Our executive staff remained on site from early morning until the conclusion of the event uh ensuring strong leadership throughout the entire operation. Uh this event showcased not only the professionalism of our department uh but Goodyear's ability to support uh any major uh regional operation at the highest level of public safety.

Uh a sincere thank you uh to our officers uh and also our fire department partners for their contributions and for ensuring this event happened without any significant uh incidents. And I'll give it over to Chief Paul. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'm Ed Paul, deputy chief for the fire department. Uh on Sunday we deployed many of our units to uh to the funeral as part of the automatic aid system. Uh some of the uh units that we deployed were hazmat teams.

We sent a public information officer, emergency manager, and uh command teams to the incident. We're very proud of how they uh they've represented our city in a professional manner and validates the training that we have put in uh with our automatic aid partners in the valley preparing for for these types of events. Thank you. Any comments? Whoops.

I'd like to just add that the eyes of the world were on the West Valley this on Sunday and I could not be more proud of the men and women that um protected our citizens, protected our federal uh employees and and government um and what took place on Sunday. So, my deepest appreciations and I'm so darn proud of all of you. Thank you. [Applause] Don't go anywhere. Hold up, guys. Hold up. I'm not done. Hold up. Come back. You know me. If I'm not done, I'm not done.

I am also so proud of our fire and police. I am, you know this, you, I say it all the time, we have the best around. And I just want to say awesome, fantastic, fabulous. You guys are the best. This was a big task. It was a big task in a short amount of time to do it. It took us double that amount. It took us months to prepare for the Super Bowl. I was not so sure we were going to be able to do this and I was scared to death the entire time.

And I was so happy when I knew it was over and our men and women were coming home. So, I want to thank you for everything you did. I want to thank the Goodyear Police Department and Fire Department and I want to say you are the best. I've always said you were the best and this proved it. Thank you everybody. I'm proud. Thank you. Anything else? No, you guys did an excellent job. You really did.

So, um in such a short period of time, you know, it was amazing that you didn't have anything major and uh I know that I was trying to head north, couldn't go anywhere because of everything that was blocked off for uh the president's uh trip from Loop to So, great job, guys. Great job. Thank you. [Applause] With that, this meeting's over