Goodyear unanimously approves Pyre at Palm Valley 383-unit rezoning with design concessions

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Follow the city's social media pages so you don't miss out on all that's happening in Goodyear. Thank you for coming to this meeting and being an active part of your city. And remember, it's a great time to be in Goodyear. [Music] Like to call the regular meeting to order. August 25 August 25th, 2025. Everybody mark their calendars present. We have everybody here. Thank you. Uh please join me in the pledge of allegiance and invocation.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Almighty Father, I ask that you provide wisdom to all of those on this council so we may make wise decisions for our community. I also ask that you help heal this nation which suffers from a lack of civility so that we can come together as a nation and work towards a more civil society for the betterment of all.

Please protect our men and women in uniform serving here and overseas from injury and provide those in this meeting safe passage home in your name. Amen. Amen. Amen. We have one communication item tonight. First item is a comment uh a commentary uh to Goodyear history and a celebration of the opening of the new Goodyear High School. Tammy, you're up. Yes. Good evening, Mayor Pizzill, members of the city council.

It's so nice to see you this evening and um yeah, really something fun to share with you tonight. Uh you know, first we'll start with the growth of our city. There's no doubt that Goodyear is growing faster than ever. And in fact, when you drive, you know, on the I 10 just west of the 303, you might recall what that plot of land used to be, which is the old Phoenix trotting park. And while that might be gone today, that plot of land certainly lives on in a new way.

Tonight, I'd like to start with uh a video that we'd like to play for you that was produced by the city's digital communications team that um really takes a piece of Goodyear's past, present, and future and brings it all together. 3/4 127 midway final turn into the paint on top. Body shop racing second argon overhangs on the outside. Phoenix trotting park was a harness raceway that was built in Goodyear, Arizona in the mid 1960s. Well, the creator of the trotting park was James Dunigan Jr.

He was instrumental in the Buffalo Raceway in New York and he came out to Arizona and backed by a group of investors decided to build a gleaming new harness racing facility in the desert. In harness racing, the driver sits on a two- wheeled cart called a sulky which is pulled by the horse. It's a completely different style of racing and one that was not familiar to most Americans at the time. The opening night ceremony had attendance of over 12,000 people.

It was a very highly publicized event, very well attended and a huge kickoff to what they thought was going to be a very successful business endeavor. I'm Sally Kiko and I first moved to Goodyear in 1945. The West Valley is always the last to get any any amenities or sports teams. So, we were pretty excited about that. I was an RN at the time and was offered a job in the first aid room in that it was just a small room. We had a bed, some first aid supplies.

The trotting park was designed to be a luxurious and state-of-the-art facility for its time. That included the design, which was done by Italian architects. And the design of the building actually pushed the project way over budget. Uh, originally supposed to cost around $2 million. It ended up costing closer to $10 million to complete. The inside featured a restaurant, multiple levels of seating, a concourse, and all the amenities of the day. It was It was very well built.

It was and the architecture was was very good. There's one picture of of one of the escalators with chandeliers overhead that just kind of depicts the the class of the place. There were the general grandstands. On the higher levels, you had uh nicer seats and a bar close by. And then there was the Sunset Casino where they had fine dining with white tablecloths and and good wine. At the time, Phoenix was dramatically smaller than it is today.

And it was the trotting park was located far outside the downtown city center. Uh this was 20 years before Interstate 10 was completed. And you know, Van Beerren Road out to Goodyear was a main thoroughfare. So for a dollar, you could buy a bus ticket from downtown Phoenix out to Goodyear to come watch the horses run. When Dunigan came to propose the the facility, the politicians jumped all over it.

They were just happy to get development at whatever cost and they promised him uh the freeway would be by in 2 years. It was completed 20 years later. Goodyear was a workingass town. There weren't a lot of horse beds or people that gambled. They didn't have the extra money to do that. The owners were looking for the people to come out from Scottsdale and Paradise Valley. The trotting park actually only ran for about 2 and 1/2 seasons.

The first season was fairly well attended and after that attendance started to drop off to just uh you know a few thousand people uh on a weekend showing up for the races. So, it wasn't immediate, but it quickly became obvious that the crowds were not sustainable to keep the operation going. Even I thought it would get better. You know, the the initial grand opening was huge. There were a lot of people there and as time went by, the numbers dwindled.

But every once in a while, you'd have a good night and they did promotional things to try to to bring people in on special nights. In retrospect, I'm kind of surprised that they opened the third season. [Music] Summer vacations, you're driving to California, go to the beach with your family. You see that on the way there, you see it on the way back. It was always the their kind of visual spot that they were back home.

So, one of the most famous things to ever happen at the trotting park after its closure was its role in the 1998 movie No Code of Conduct, starring Charlie Sheen. The movie was directed by Brett Michaels of Poison fame. The final showdown of the film has the uh smugglers and the good guys facing off in the abandoned trotting park and there's a massive explosion that takes place that uh is kind of the the pinnacle of the film.

[Music] The trotting park, as much as I would have liked to have seen it saved, was built for one very specific purpose, which was a grandstand facility for horse racing events. That in turn made it very difficult to repurpose into another type of use. [Music] 3 two one. We knew that naming a high school after the city is a is a big uh big thing and a large undertaking.

And if you're going to call yourself the Goodyear High School in the city of Goodyear, you better own up to it and you better you better put in the work. And we're prepared to do so. And our staff is great. We're ready to go. As a local girl, I'm very excited to finally have a Goodyear high school. Well, I mean, we've never had a school by our name because we've always been part of another district.

One of the big iconic things about the horse track was the big frame windows in the front in the movie. Glass got blown out. And so, our architects did a really cool job. They actually took the frame pattern of the old windows and incorporated that into our tile. And so, in all of our student uh actually all of the restrooms there, the the tile is the same pattern as the horseter windows.

When I found out that the new Goodyear High School is going to incorporate design elements of the trotting park into the school, I was really happy. I love when people uh build forward but keep that connection to the past and to the community. I think that's such an excellent example. During construction, uh one of our superintendants found a horseshoe and it's an old rusted mangled thing. Um and so it doesn't look like much.

Uh, but anytime you find something that relates to what was there before, right, that's a that's a cool thing. And we found out that Bersville was the name of the horse that won the first race at the track when it opened up. And so we're calling it Bersville Shoe. We're putting up a plaque on our wall by the fieldhouse for all of our athletes. You know, they can tap that horseshoe for good luck on the way out to the field.

We wanted to celebrate Goodyear uh and the West Valley, frankly, because this whole place was built on people who had that maverick mindset. I think a lot of the fascination with the facility is due to rumors and urban legend, you know, drivers that died at the track and that's why it's closed and all these kind of uh myths and legends surrounding the facility. So, I think it lives on in people's popular culture for those reasons.

In this modest town of Goodyear, even before it grew to this size, it had a beautiful building that was designed by an Italian architect. [Music] And this photo that you're looking at is actually hanging in the lobby of the new Goodyear High School. Um, you may recognize it is the Goodyear Cornicopio, which was the official first city seal designed by Mayor Charles Salem in 1975 to really symbolize the city's roots and its community.

So tonight, uh, it's only fitting to have join us tonight, Principal Lynn from Goodyear High School, who is going to join us now with something special for the mayor and the council. And then after that, we'd like to invite you to come down for a photo. Thank you. Do you want it, Tammy? Do you want it now or after? All right. Well, good evening, Mayor Pazillo and members of the council, Goodyear community. Great to be here tonight.

My name is Jason Lynn, principal at Goodyear uh high school, and just wanted to be here and share this moment with you all and and just tell you how grateful I am uh to be your principal at Goodyear High School. Uh first and foremost, we wouldn't uh be here without the voters. So, we thank the voters very much for helping us get the school, you know, that that bond passed. Um the beautiful facility that we have is is because of the voters. So, thank you to that.

Uh to the city, uh thank you for the help in procuring um our permits and all the things to get us. It was one year. We broke ground one year ago and we opened up just three just three short weeks ago. Um the three weeks have gone really really fast. Uh we got a lot of cool things happening on campus and very exciting times, but we wouldn't have that done uh without Chase, our uh general contractor and ADM, our architects as well the city uh helping us get those permits there.

Uh real quick throw out a personal shout out to Mr. Terry uh council member used to uh serve on our board at Avafria the Union High School District. So, we thank him for the years of that and all the support along the way. Um, Mr. Terry was also instrumental in helping me get that in our uh lobby, which is great. Uh, for those of you who don't know, we have a museum of Goodyear planned for the auditorium uh at our school and we were here um meeting with Mr.

Kerk and the department upstairs and we saw this and some photos and I said, "Where's that? We should we should get that at Goodyear. That would be awesome." And we were able to do so. So, uh, we're excited to share the, uh, the history of of Goodyear, but then, uh, it reminds us of how to keep moving forward, right?

Um, and then and then lastly, you know, just as a gesture of kind of a a partnership and in exchange things, we do have a uh mock football helmet for uh, Mayor Pazillo and the and the council to display here at city hall. And as a you guys gave us that, we're going to give you this. Whoops. Not nearly as grand of a thing, but uh, we had it made specially for you guys. So, we'd love to share that with you.

Um, and yeah, just uh excited to be here, excited to be part of Goodyear and carry on the tradition of the Westside and, you know, make make our Goodyear residents proud and go Mavericks. All right. Thank you. All right. Do you want a shot? Let's go on down. Let's get a shot with the principal. Got to give him that. Which way to go? Does it matter? You got to put those ready. Don't fumble it. Thank you. Wednesday. Is everybody in? Can we comment? Yeah.

Does anybody Let me start I'll start to the right and we'll move on over there. Anybody like to make any comments? We'll start start with Bonita. Go ahead. Yeah. It it's been very exciting to see the the um the high school grow and come together. Um I was at the assembly and my qu I just have a question. How many students do you have now? You there was 400 and there were still people registering. Yes, ma'am. Uh we have 440 students today. Okay. Awesome. Yep. All ninth grade. Yep.

Well congratulations. Thank you. Go ahead, Tammy and your team. I love the video and I love how you incorporated the history of that property and then wo in the story of the Goodyear High School and that even the connection of you taking some of our older artifacts and starting a museum. It just uh brings that richness of uh Goodyear's history that wouldn't have a place necessarily to reside. So, we're very excited about that and uh we we know you're going to be wildly successful there.

Thank you. Appreciate that. Go ahead, Wally. Sorry. Well, I'm really excited because I've been waiting 25 years to have a school named after this city. We've been paying all of these school taxes and of course we love all the other schools, but they don't say good year, right? So, yours is very special and we plan to support it as much as we possibly can. We just wish you the best success. It's so exciting to think you have 442 freshmen that are going to be the first graduating class.

And that's a big deal because they're going to break ground to show everybody else what a wonderful school. It's probably the best school that has been built in Goodyear just for the high-tech and and the uh internet capability and the security purposes. It's just a beautiful school. And I hope all of you in the audience have an opportunity to go to school and see what it is or at least support the football games because these are our kids. Thank you. Thank you, Trey.

I know you're very proud of this. Um, yeah, as Mr. Lynn said, uh, previous to coming on council, this was kind of a big project. Um, five years ago, I came on the high school district governing board and people talked about needing a new school and we were many, many roadblocks and speed bumps along the way. Um, site plans and I don't know how many different places and styles, but we settled on this and um, yeah, I just can't say enough about uh, Mr.

Lynn, his leadership, not only before this, uh, but as an assistant principal and athletic director at Desert Edge. He's from this community. He serves this community, has for a long time, and just look forward to what he does with uh, this pretty cool project. Okay, thank you. I loved watching um, all of the video, Tammy. That was amazing from everything that was from the past. I love all that stuff. That history is so awesome.

That's what we're trying to protect in the city is to keep the little bit of history that we've got and we've got it now on video from everything that was shot there, everything that happened there way back when and what it's turned into now in the present with the school and I think they couldn't have picked somebody better for that job. Congratulations and good luck. I think it's going to be an exciting venture. Thank you. All right, Brandon. Yeah. No, this is a fantastic project.

I'll live right there. So, my two younger kids are going to be going to this high school. So, so they'll be my eighth grader will be your second class there. So that'll be that'll be great. So it's been fun seeing it get built over time and being an Alfa Fria graduate myself. The only when there's only one high school here, it's really fun to see now six six alpha high schools out here.

So super excited to hear hear the hear the band, hear the see the Friday night lights, all the all the different activities going on there and then watch my kids there as well. So welcome welcome to the community. You guys will have a a good a good good season, good year. It's a good good time there. Thank you. Thank you. you know, when we took that tour of the school, I mean, you built an awesome school there. You really did. Those kids are going to be proud.

You guys are proud of what you did there. And like I said, I'm going to see you all Wednesday for the first football game. So, um, looking forward to that. I know you're a very competitive guy. So, I expect Yeah, just a wee bit. Right. So, I so I expect uh, you know, quality effort out there from your team. So, again, thank you. Um, and I'll see you Wednesday. Sounds good. Thank you. All right.

All right, with that, now it's 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. We have any speaking cards? Yes, mayor. We have four speakers. Okay. Call Lisa Auster. All right. Before you start, want to let you know the council will listen to comments and may take any one of the following. Respond to criticism. Request that the staff investigate. Report on the matter.

Request the matter be scheduled on a future agenda. Each speaker is limited to three minutes. The time will be on the screen. You will see when it gets about 20 seconds. Before you begin, just identify yourself that you're a resident. Uh you don't have to give the address. Yes, I'm a resident of Good here. I moved here August of 2019 with my husband. Um retired healthc care uh professional MBA BSN nurse. Okay. Go ahead. Okay.

Uh my name is Lisa Auster and I live in Goodyear, the Bartalis community. I've been corresponding with your city's planning and zoning staff regarding two assisted living homes operating within our gated community. I would like to formally bring several concerns to your attention. One concern one zoning history. These two assisted living homes were established 2019 2021 before the city of Goodyear required zoning for such facilities. One property has changed hands in 2023.

Concern number two, HOA CCNRs. All portalis homeowners, including the owners of these properties, agreed to abide by our original CCNRs. The CCNRs explicitly prohibit assisted living or group homes. Despite this, the city of Goodyear never sought or required HOA clearance for for allowing these facilities to operate. Concern number three, single family use restriction. Our CCNR state that each dwelling may be occupied only by a single family and may not be used for non-residential purposes.

The provision directly conflicts with the operation of assisted living homes. The concern number four is the legal precedents. Several Arizona Supreme Court has several rulings since 2016, 2018, 2022 that have upheld HOA authority to enforce the original CCNRs, which ours are the original CCNRs. For example, HOAs can prohibit short-term rentals if those restrictions are clearly uh stated in the original governing documents, which they are in ours concern public safety.

One of these assisted living homes has generated 16 police reports from September 23. I could have gone back farther, but I just did September 2023 to August 2025 this month. In addition to the police responding, the fire department and ambulance have responded sometimes. Adult protective service reports filed to allegations of abuse.

This month, three dementia, Alzheimer's, mentally impaired residents were involved in a physical altercation requiring multiple police officers and Maricopa County crisis intervention. These facilities are licensed to admit highlevel Alzheimer's and dementia patients raising serious concerns about the neighborhood safety. Questions for the city of Goodyear. One, does the city intervene with the operation of such facilities impacts the safety, security, or quality of life of nearby homeowners?

Number two, how does the city reconcile zoning approvals with HOA CCNRs that explicitly prohibit certain types of residential use? Thank you for your time and consideration. I hold it right there. Um, city manager, do we do we have our information? City clerk, yes, we do. We'll get back to her with those answers. Okay. Uh, and I think the attorneys will probably be involved in some. Oh, yes. Right. Okay. Thank you. Second. Eric Auster. Yes, sir. You heard the previous bill. Just give your name.

Just tell me whether you're residents and you got three minutes. Go ahead. Thank you. Name is um Eric Auster. I'm a resident of Goodyear. Before I begin, I would like to commend the mayor's office and the city council for the professionalism and dedication you all consistently demonstrate in serving our city. I mean that very sincerely on behalf of my wife too. Incidentally, she is a better half of the Austra family.

My topic today is a request regarding pickle ball at the Goodyear Community Park located at 3151 North Litzfield Road. Several weeks ago, I asked the acting parks and recreation director, Mr. David said, if the city might allow the pickle ball court lights to be turned on at 5:00 a.m. instead of 6:00 a.m. Mr. Said was very considerate, kind, and professional in responding, but he explained that the current timing system, the meter, does not allow for this change. Very disappointing.

I am here today to respectfully request the city consider adjusting the lighting schedule only during the hot summer months from May through September. There are two main reasons for this request. Early work and play start times are common in our community. In many outside industries across the valley, such as construction, workers begin their day as early as 4:00 a.m. to avoid the extreme heat. Two pickle ball players face the same challenge. Many residents enjoy playing at 5:00 a.m.

or earlier to beat the heat. A number of them are working parents and professionals who can only fit in an hour of recreation time before starting their workday. Allowing lights at 5:00 a.m. would be a tremendous benefit to these citizens, giving them a safe and healthy way to start their day during our hottest months. We would be very respectful of this privilege and appreciate your consideration of this request. Thank you very much for your time and service to our community.

City manager, will you check to see what any restrictions might be of our ordinance or the ability to meet their needs? Yes, I will. And we'll follow up. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Next, Tom Blackman. Hi. Remember, just name. You don't have to give the location. You got three minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Black. I just want to say I was at the trotting park when it opened. It was like that's weird. Okay. Um I'm a resident.

I live in in Cantia which is as far south as you can go in Goodyear. Uh I do a lot of driving on Australia Boulevard and and Bullard Avenue and to get to the downtown stairs. You know, I try to drive the streets carefully. Uh I I call it driving the lights because you try to figure out when it's going to turn. Well, now that we're on demand light systems, all bets are off.

I mean, on a on a right-hand turn going down, it can be anywhere from immediate change to 10 10 seconds, 15 seconds, maybe 30 or longer. So, there's no there's no pattern that you can try to, you know, I'm going to drive it and do my stop to start. So, um I would like to see if you could I'm sure most of the stuff is electronic now with computerized gadgets and uh it would be easy to just bump in 30 seconds of delay.

I've several times I've kind of it's like do I slam on my brakes or do I run the red light? It's I mean it changes that fast. Sometimes even before the car turning right has had a chance to stop it's changed colors. Um, the same thing for the left hand or lefthand turns.

And obviously that has to change, but I I would like to see a delay put into the left-hand turn, too, so that they're all the same across the board so that everywhere I go in Goodyear, I know that if a car is approaching, I got to start looking to see whether the light's going to change. Um, so do that. And then I've been concerned for a long time about the uh Estray Foothills High School. And uh it's a it's a mess.

I mean, I don't go down there very often in the morning, but I went down there last week and there had to been a mile of cars trying to turn left into the high school. Don't know what the event was, but there needs to be something done to redesign that intersection at Australia and Wolfpack Road. Um, make it wider. Maybe bring two lanes in, left-hand turn lanes in from Australia going south. Two right-hand lanes going north. Uh, something. Give them a second place to to drop off.

You used to be able to go a half a mile south and and make a youth turn. And a lot of people will come by and drop this who drop their students off, but that's changed. It's no longer legal to do that. But I would recommend or like to see that you take down the no U-turn and build just build a pull out.

You know, you got like a bus stop pull out and just build that so they can pull in and drive and drop off their kids and go again cuz I mean if you're driving south and you got all that traffic, it's like somebody's going to pull out in front of you and cause some problems. So, um, thank you for your time and hopefully we can do it. I did send a letter to the traffic department, JJ. And, um, we have his contact information. City clerk. I'm verifying. Yes. Yes, we do. All right.

We will follow up. Okay. All right. Thank you. Next. Teresa Christensen. just name and whether you're a resident. You saw the stuff previous three minutes and you'll you'll catch it when it's two. All right, 20 seconds. Go ahead. So, my name is Terresa Christensen and I unfortunately am not a glued resident but hopefully a future business partner. Um I was um first of all, good evening, Mr. Mayor.

Um, and council members, my name is Teresa Christensen and I'm the founder of Bright Beginnings Early Child Development Center. I was asked to come here this evening and give you three minutes even though I'm incredibly nervous. So, please bear with me. For nearly three decades, I've worked at the intersection of early child development, workforce solutions, and community partnerships. I take designing solutions and strengthening family and supporting economic growth very seriously.

As most of you know, Goodyear is a booming town and it is full of economic development. I'm also a member of Westmark. I've seen many of your faces there, although I didn't know who you were at the time. I'm the only ch only early childhood representative, which should tell you something. The challenge is as the fastest growing cities in the West Valley, we have to keep up with the demand of supporting our families and our workforce. But we're not doing it.

And at an urgent growth rate and the cost of child care, it becomes a problem of an economic collapse. So, I'm here today to let you know that you have a partner and I can actually propose solutions instead of just talk about a problem and ask you to spend tax dollars. There's ways to partner with Goodyear employers, co-und dedicated childcare slots, leverage state and federal existing funds, and train an existing infrastructure. Believe it or not, that's already there.

The solutions don't rely heavily on taxpayer approaches. They're sustainable, employer-driven, and strengthen both family and workforce. I know it's like too good to be true, right? I can see your face. Formally collaborating with my company or even just asking me how do I do it? It's that easy. So, I'm out here. My ask is to prioritize childcare infrastructure in your planning. Not so hard, right? And to pilot innovative childcare models. There's actually them existing currently out there.

I just need a few minutes of your time. That's it. That's all. That's all I've come here to ask today. So, with your leadership and expertise and mine as well, after all, three decades, give or take, I'm here to help because I know that your families need my help. and I'm here to offer it. That's it. That's all I got. Thank you. Um, thank you so much. Do we have her We have her information. We have her information.

It looks like um the city clerk does and I will uh set up a meeting personally with you. I would love that. All right. Thank you. Thank you so much. No, thank you. All right. With that, um, anything else? Okay. Thank you. City clerk, please read the consent agenda items through 16 by title only. Item two, approval of minutes. Item three, approval of series 12, restaurant liquor license for Chipotle Mexican Grill, number 5637.

Item four, approve budget amendments and related expenditure authority. Item five, approve the state 911 services administration grant. Item six, approve three intergovernmental agreements with Awa Fria Union High School District number 216 for school resource officer SRO services. Item seven, approval of intergovernmental agreement with Maricopa County for homeless outreach services fiscal year 2026.

Item eight, approve the second amendment to the lease agreement for operation of BMX track and concessions. Item nine, approve the second amendment to the comprehensive signed package for Goodyear Municipal Complex. Item 10, approve the second amendment to the comprehensive sign package for shops at Saraphina. Item 11, adopt resolution number 2025-2483, approving the amended and restated development agreement for Fulton Homes at Ballpark Village.

Item 12, adopt resolution number 2025-2484, approving the exchange of real property for a fire station and the land exchange agreement for the exchange. Item 13, adopt resolution number 2025-2485 authorizing the city manager and/or their designate to execute a license agreement with Summit Infrastructure Group LLC, a Virginia limited liability company, and to enter into two separate agreements for inind exchanges which may include fiber and conduit for the city's exclusive use.

Item 14, adopt resolution number 2025-2486, authorizing the city manager designate to execute a license agreement with MCI Metro Access Transmission Services LLC, DBA, Verizon Access Transmission Services, and to enter into separate agreements for inind exchanges, which may include fiber and conduit for the city's exclusive use.

Item 15, adopt resolution number 2025-2487, authorizing the city manager designate to execute a license agreement with Cogent Fiber LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, FK Sprint Communications Company, LP, and to enter into separate agreements for inind exchanges, which may include fiber and conduit for the city's exclusive use. And item 16, approve the agreement for Salt River Water Users Association for water exchange between the city of Goodyear and the city of Glendale. Thank you.

Does anybody on the council wish to remove an item? Do you have a question? I have a question. Okay. Anybody? So, which one you have a question on? Uh 15 and 14. 15 and 14. All right. Let's see. Uh where's Phillip? Who's going to answer that one? Oh here. There he comes. The bench over there. Here he comes. You're up. Go ahead. All right. How you doing? So, I had a question on the fiber there. Is this going to be similar to like the wired?

Is it going to be as extensive where they're going to go through all the neighborhoods and lay fiber in the same type of areas or is this a different style of Is this the Verizon? This is both the Verizon and the Sprint. Uh, so Verizon and Sprint, they are already have a license agreement. uh currently uh we don't I didn't talk with them um on the actual map or whether they were planning on any extensions of those fiber, but these are essentially renewals.

So, they already have uh an agreement with the city. Uh it did expire and we wanted to do some cleanup language with the agreements. So, we went ahead and uh updated the template agreement. Okay. So, it's already existing fiber because I know I was just at the league conference. there's other fiber providers that want to come into Goodyear. So, I was just curious if these were already I I didn't see that they were already in the ground. Correct. Yeah.

So, fiber uh uh the Verizon and uh uh Sprint both have fiber already in the ground. Okay, that's good. Yeah, I like competition. So, the more users we get in the in the ground, I think that's better for for residents. They have more choices. So, all right. Just curious. Thank you for the clarification. Anybody good? See a motion and a second up on the board. Go ahead and open up for a vote. Passes 70. Thank you. Uh we have four public hearings tonight.

Uh first public hearing is to consider the South Perryville Road adjacent to La Pada parcel 5 annexation. Open the public hearing. Please introduce yourself for the public. Good evening, mayor and council. I'm Kyle Abbott, senior planner with a request for the annexation of South Perryville Road adjacent to what is currently La Pabrada Parcel 5. Although the annexation property is privately owned, Maricopa County Assessor's Map reflects the property is county maintained road.

The property owner is requesting the annexation to facilitate the half street improvements along South Perryville Road as part of the Levvada residential subdivision. The residential subdivision is already within city of Goodyear limits. The annexation area we are discussing today is approximately 0.978 acres. On April 28, 2025, council authorized staff to move forward with the annexation process. In July, council held a public hearing. There were no speakers at the hearing.

Tonight is the final public hearing and staff is seeking adoption of an ordinance to approve the annexation. The proposed annexation is consistent with the city's annexation policy criteria. The policies include long-term desiraability, likelihood the property would develop in the county or by any other city, and general plan compatibility. The property is located within the city's municipal planning area and meets state statutory requirements for annexation.

Mayor Council, thank you for considering this annexation this evening and this concludes my presentation. Thank you. Any speaker cards? No mayor. Anybody in the audience like to speak? Seeing none, close the public hearing. City clerk, please read ordinance number by the title only weather. Take cover. All right.

Ordinance number 2025-1636 extending and increasing the corporate limits of the city of Goodyear Maroba County state of Arizona by annexing approximately 0.978 acres of property generally located along the east half of South Pville Road in south of the West Lilac Street alignment. Thank you. City C uh see we've got a motion uh with a council enter a motion and a second to adopt the ordinance 20251636. I see a motion and a second on there. Open for discussion. See no discussion. Everybody good?

Open for a vote. Passes 70. Thank you. Uh next public hearing is let's get a reszoning of the um uh what's it? Vern at Palm Valley if I pronounced that correctly. You're up. Please uh introduce yourself for the public. Sure. So, now it goes down, goes up, goes down, goes up. I'm a little shorter than Kyle. Uh, good evening, uh, Mayor Pasilo and council members. This is a request for a reasonzone for Pyer at Palm Valley and I am an Almage, principal planner.

The project site is about 17.55 acres and it's located at the northwest corner of Monte Vista Road and Pebble Creek Parkway. Existing zoning is the Palm Valley phase 8 planned area development or P AD and the P A allows for highdensity residential at this site which is the equivalent of 18 multifamily units per acre for a site of this size. The existing zoning allows up to 315 units and a site plan was approved for the site in 2007 for 300 units.

um that was never constructed and the site has been vacant ever since and the site plan has expired. Today the applicant is requesting to reszone the site to planned area development with underlying MF24 and a PD overlay. This overlay will modify some MF24 standards and also establish some new standards specific to the site and we'll learn more about that on upcoming slides.

And this new zoning will allow the development of a 383 unit uh multif family community with a density of about 21.8 units per acre. The general plan land use designation is neighborhoods and this designation is compatible with a variety of residential product types from large lot single family homes to multifamily up to 18 units per acre or um more dense than that in under certain conditions such as when it's in a certain overlay or when it's located next to an arterial road.

Uh this site is not located in an overlay so that does not apply in this case. However, the site is under 20 acres in size, so a general plan amendment is not required to develop it at a density higher than 18 units per acre. And the applicant has provided a conceptual site plan for again 383 units. There will be 746 parking spaces. Access will be from both Monte Vista Road and Pebble Creek Parkway.

And there will be several amenities including a clubhouse, pool, barbecue stations, cabanas, outdoor games, a tot lot, and a dog park. And before this project can be constructed, um the applicant will be required to obtain approval of a site plan from development services. And again, this is just a conceptual site plan for now. Uh tonight, we are just considering the reszone request. Main access to the project will be from Monte Vista Road. This is at the southwest corner of the site.

There will be two gates for secure access to the interior areas of the project. Those are the blue lines shown on this diagram. And there will be a small number of parking spaces outside of the gates for visitors. The driveway into the development will be approximately 142 ft long. And there will also be some queuing space in front of the gates. So vehicle backup should not be an issue.

However, the applicants are proposing a deceleration lane on Monty Vista to alleviate uh neighbor concerns about backups into Monte Vista. And the specific design of that will be finalized through the site plan process. Secondary access will be from Pebble Creek Parkway near the northeast corner of the site via Harvard Street. This is a private driveway with reciprocal access for both Pyern and for Village at Harvard Crossing, which is the multif family development to the north.

It's signalized at its intersection with Pebble Creek Parkway, and there are a dedicated right turn and left turn lanes into the private driveway from Pebble Creek. There will be a gate at this entrance as well. Again, that's the blue line shown in the diagram. Um, all vehicles will be able to use this gate to leave the site. Only residents in emergency vehicles will be able to use the skate to get into the site.

So, the applicant is proposing some changes to the typical MF24 design standards uh development standards for building setbacks and heights. There will be a reduced north or rear building setback. Instead of 30 feet, it will be 20 feet. However, uh no three-story buildings will be allowed within certain buffers of the north property line, the west property line, and the southwest corner of the property.

And these standards were chosen to be mindful of the surrounding single family and lower density multifamily developments. And you can see on this exhibit, any building that's shown in yellow will be a two-story building. Um, all remaining residential buildings could be as tall as three stories. Some of the amenity buildings such as the clubhouse will be one story. And the applicant is also proposing some changes to landscape and open space standards.

There will be increased tree plantings in the landscape buffer along the west property line. Instead of spacing them 30 ft apart, the trees will need to be um no more than 20 ft apart on average. The applicant is proposing to reduce the private open space requirement from 60 square ft to 52 feet per unit. However, they are increasing the shared open space requirement from 400 square ft per unit to 408. So, it's a comparable difference.

And specific amenities will be programmed, including a public trail along both street frontages. And the applicant is also proposing some specific window design standards to help preserve privacy and aesthetics for the neighbors. Um, anti-glare window treatments and clear story window designs will be used uh for some windows depending on the floor level, the direction the window is facing, and proximity to shared property lines. And this picture shows an example of a clear story window.

Um, just in case uh you need to know what that would be. It's basically a window near the ceiling for privacy. A neighborhood meeting was held for this project on February 28th, 2024. Approximately 29 people attended. Topics discussed include density, traffic, parking, landscaping and amenities, ingress and egress, um timing of city approvals, and expected rental prices for the units. Staff have also received four emails about the project.

Three were received early on during the review process and expressed opposition. The fourth email was received last Friday and expressed support. Many of the proposed design standards in the PAD overlay were designed with all of these concerns in mind. Additionally, Agua Fria High School District has requested that the applicant contribute fees to help mitigate impacts to their school district. So, the applicant will be working on that with the district.

Uh the planning and zoning commission hearing was held on August 13th. Again, three members of the public spoke in opposition to the project. Uh concerns expressed were traffic, privacy, and impacts to property values. Two additional people filled out speaker cards to express opposition but did not speak. Um I do want to say that one of the speakers at planning and zoning commission who expressed opposition was the same person who later sent an email expressing support for the project.

Um planning and zoning commission did vote 4 to2 to recommend approval of the project with one member absent. and notices for the neighborhood meeting and for this public hearing were all provided as required by state and local law. Staff recommends approval of the proposed reszone from P A to P A with underlying MF24 and a PA AD overlay. And I'm available for questions and I believe the applicant is here as well. Thank you. Uh does the applicant uh at this time want to do a presentation?

If that's Yes, you got you got Yes, you got 10 minutes. Thank you, sir. Get that pulled up here. Oh, it's going back down on me, I think. There you go. There you go. All right, there it is. Thank you, mayor, for your record. I'm Taylor Earl with the law firm of Earl and Curley here on behalf of the Pass family. I want to tell you just a little bit about the Pern family.

Um because, you know, as they come into the community, I want everybody to make sure that they known they're actually already in the community just a couple of miles to the north have a facility up there. Um family-owned company based in Arizona. Uh they're in their third generation of family ownership. In fact, the lead that we've been working with is the great grandson of the founders. So, if if the city or if neighbors need to reach out to somebody, this isn't some entity far away.

This is somebody that's close and local. Um, and they are long-term holders. It makes a big difference when we talk about maintenance and pride of ownership. In fact, just up the street a couple of miles, uh, they just recently put in $ 1.5 million of reinvestment into that property and are planned on having over $5 million more dollars of reinvestment over the next few years as people cycle out of the units. And so, they really take care in their properties.

I think it's going to be a great partner for the city. So this property has been owned by the Pern family for 16 years and it's currently zoned multifamily which I think is really critical. Here's a little bit of the history of that. So where you see in color that is the zoning case that happened at the time and this was just one of the properties within that larger zoning case. And so the the homes to the west and the southwest of us were part of that zoning case.

You can see what the property looked like at the time in the year that that zoning case occurred. Right? There wasn't development. So again already zoned. It was at the time zoned highdensity residential which has been later interpreted for MF18. So let me give you an overview. So we are requesting to reszone from multifamily to multifamily.

Um we're upgrading the quality of the project from what was previously envisioned for the site many years ago in that time u or when the site plan was approved I should say. Stipulating to enhance design uh stipulating to resort level amenities. We're stipulating to increase landscape buffers as staff mentioned to put the trees closer together. We're restricting heights and views to neighbors and we're only having 68 units over what the zoning would allow.

So effectively what we're saying is from a zoning that doesn't have all the restrictions to putting in all the protections and restrictions and design enhancements. That is what the city is getting with this upgraded zoning. So give you an example. This was sort of the pro the quality of the project in the original proposal which stands behind. It's a good quality product but they're doing their level 25 here which is just an upgraded product a completely different level.

So great quality would come into this site. Give you another example of what that looks like. Again, these are photographs of level 25 product that Bern has already built. This is some of that open space. We have resort level amenities. Again, a quality project for this location. Some of the open space areas that we envision having a lot of grass and amenities, things like a dog park, gaming areas, outdoor kitchen, shade roada, things of that nature.

So, let me walk you through a timeline that's relevant. So, we first submitted our resoning application April 2022 and our third submitt in October of 2023. Now, this was the time in which we kind of negotiated against ourselves. We put changes onto the project. We worked with staff. They asked for changes. We made a lot of modifications to the project before we ever took it to the community.

We wanted to be able to say, "Here's why we chose these things and here's the way that we've protected you." So, during that time, we took time to really refine the project, bake in protections to it. Then we held a special meeting for the Portalis residents to our west. Uh and then we created a website with a lot of information that neighbors could look into if they wanted to. We then held the formal neighborhood meeting in February of 24. We had a lot of on-site meetings.

I met with in a driveway. I met that same woman in her backyard, multiple phone calls with her. We reached out to the newsletter person for Portal so they could spread it to their residents and then had uh other communications. And then ultimately we did a fourth and fifth submitt in February and March of this year. So after we met with the neighbors, we made additional changes to the project to further protect. From the context, this area has multifamily. It's got a lot of commercial.

We know that where retail, good retail needs rooftops. Um, but we also recognize there single family that came in to our west and our southwest. So, let me show you how we've protected that. So, again, in the in the yellow, orange, gold, you have two stories. So, we took the two-story, made sure that the perimeter of the site on the west and on the north where we were restricting the heights of those buildings to put in a buffer between us and the neighbors. Uh, and then we had big setbacks.

So, between the rear yard property line of those homes to the two-story components, you have 115 134. When you get to a third story component there, it's 163. Uh, we have sort of these angled buildings with additional space here at the bottom. So, we have big increased setbacks. Um, in fact, if you had twotory homes or two-story buildings, they would normally be allowed to be a little further west.

Uh, with the exception of down in the southwest corner, but we have that additional uh open space area to the west baked in. Uh, we did the increased tree buffer. Again, standard is 30 ft. One tree every 30 ft. We have one tree every 20 ft. So, as we put those trees closer together, the canopies grow together. It creates a better privacy can privacy canopy.

We took a drone shot and we looked at it, put our project into it with our trees being proposed and the trees that are there and showed there'll be a lot of trees. In fact, as we showed this to the neighbors, they said, you know, some of those trees have died up close. And so, we have offered to replace those trees. The HOA can take that money and install and replace trees that were lost. Then, as you get to the third story component, what we've done is putting clear story windows.

I know that when I do infill development, a big concern is privacy into my back, views into my backyard.

So what we did is we took those third story window of the windows to the third story component and we raised them up to that clear story level so you don't have that regular window sort of looking out due west and you can see how we've done that on these different buildings where I've colorcoded it so you can see and then here where we have the third story building kind of looking southwest it's got a further distance before it gets to a home and then the building in the southwest was a two and threetory building but as we met with the neighbors closest to that uh they expressed concern concern and so we just eliminated those extra units, brought the whole thing down to two story uh reduce units in order to do that.

They also had a concern about some glare that might be off of those windows thinking it might bounce. So we said okay um if the window is recessed into the balcony that's a little different but if it's not recessed then we'll do an anti-glare treatment on those windows. Um the neighbors who asked for that were in the southwest but we discontinued that all the way up the western side. Thought if they have a concern probably other neighbors were too and so we went ahead and did that.

Um they had asked us about a wall extension. So we are extending the perimeter wall. We answered that question bringing that wall down matching the style of the the wall that's there. Um as staff mentioned there was a concern about the deceleration lane. They wanted us to add one. Um our traffic study didn't call for it. The city didn't require it but we're doing it because it's something that the neighbors were concerned about and so we put it into the project.

Uh there was also previously the northeast corner was an exit but it wasn't an entrance and the concern from the neighbors was well that means all the trips are coming in off of Monte Vista. So we went back and we worked with staff and we made that a resident entrance. So residents can now come in. So now as you have trips coming to the site you're effectively splitting them and taking far less trips off of Monte Vista. So that was something we did uh after feedback from the neighbors.

some off-site commitments that aren't part of stipulations, but I'm putting them on the record today because we agreed to do these with the neighbors. Uh, one is there was a concern about having people use that HOA walkway. And so, we said, look, some of your neighbors may not want to gate that, some of them might. We will put money towards constructing it, and then the the HOA can decide if that's something that they'd want, but we're sort of paving, we're doing our part u to protect that.

And then I mentioned earlier funding some trees over in that section that were that were lost. We have a walking trail on the outside which not only our residents but the public members of these communities would be able to use. Um some features of that we have benches with shade trees. We have trees on both sides of the trail. These are stipulated where possible.

We have trees on both sides provide nice shade and then we have access points into the community to make it truly a walkable type community. Um if here's the perspective looking from Monte Vista looking north. I'll highlight just a few things. We really worked with staff on the elevations uh to put some color in so it wasn't just grays. We weren't using the modern lines. We were trying to match what was already out there in the community.

You can see there's a lot of front to back movement with the elevations. There's a lot of articulation around the windows, our roof structures. We really tried to put design into it so that it would fit uh into the fabric of the community. And you can see sort of in the horizon back in the deep where you have some of the the pitched roofs.

Um and so we have a stipulation that talks about roof styles and pitched roofs and other elements that match kind of what's going on in the neighborhood beyond us.

So at the end of the day, you have existing zoning already multif family allows 315 units and then we're coming in and saying, "Okay, we're going to ask for 383, but we're going to give a lot of protections, a lot of upgrades and a lot of things." And so you're going from one multif family to another, but you're putting in a lot of protections and a lot of upgrades to make sure this is a quality project. Um, we know that retail development follows rooftops.

And with the city bringing in downtown, that's obviously a very different condition than existed back in 2005 and then 2007 when the original site plan was approved. And so, we want to bring in density. We want to do it in the right way. We think we've done that. We think we've brought in density, but done it in a smart way, a way that's respectful uh of the community to our west. It's also a good site because it's close to the I 10.

is you put in density and you know you're going to need density as Goodyear continues to grow. The deeper you put it into suburbia, the more those trips have to travel through the suburban areas to get to the high-capacity corridors. By building it close to the freeway, you now have them on and off of that freeway and it reduces traffic elsewhere into the city. And then the city has already brought in a lot of employment, expects to bring in more employment in the future.

Look at the where this site is situated amongst all these employment uses. It's very well positioned amongst the 10 to the 303 and so it's a great location for that as well. So with that, mayor, happy to answer any questions. Right at the time, 5 seconds to spare. All right. Any speaker cards? Yes, mayor. Rob Boswell. Uh thank you. My name is Rob Buswell. I am a resident of the community of Portalis, which is immediately to the west of the the lot in question.

Um, when I purchased my home in 2013, I was initially told by my builder that that lot was going to be zoned for one-story offices, but later found out that it was indeed zone for what could be two-story apartments. Uh a couple years ago, um one-story single family units um were opened in the lot just adjacent to this this uh lot to the north of it. So on the west adjoining community, you have Portalis. It's a gated community.

All of the houses on that street, including mine on 156 Drive, most of them, with the exception of one, are all one-story properties. And then immediately to the north of this, you have u another community of one-story single family properties. um a couple of years ago.

Um so so since the time that those one-story properties were open, um the northeast corner of Monte Vista and Pebble Creek, four-story apartments went up and further to the east of that more three-story and four-story apartment complexes have gone up. And frankly, as a member who bought of this community who bought their house in 2013 because I didn't want to live in Phoenix around a bunch of apartment complex, um they're an eyesore and they're not what people moved to Goodyear to live around.

Um the members of the community would obviously prefer single level rental units to go in on this lot like they did on the immediate uh properties to the north of this. But understanding that this is already zoned for what could be twotory apartment units, we'd like for this this zoning to remain as is.

And frankly, the the members of my community see this reszone as not only just something that's going to have a negative effect on our property values, but a little bit of a slap in the face if I'm being honest. Um, Georgia Lord was a resident of Portalis. She lived a couple blocks around the corner from me. If she were alive today, she would not let this happen. I can tell you that.

Um, if this resoning is allowed to happen, I'd like to know, frankly, how the city of Goodyear and or the builder are going to compensate the residents of my community and the residents to the community above them for the effect that this is going to have on our property values. I can tell you for myself personally, if three-story apartment units go in behind me, I'm going to move and I'm going to take less from my house to do that. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other cards?

Jeff Levi submitted a card um in opposition but did not wish to speak. Okay. Anything else? All right. Any Whoops. I didn't realize this would this was going to be on the agenda, but I'd like to say a few words if possible. Come on up. Thank you. Okay. I don't have anything prepared from a marketing point of view because I'm hearing this for the first time. I was at the February 2024 meeting with a developer. It did not go well.

There was many many concerns expressed by the residents of Portellis as well as other residents in the proximity of where this uh new apartment complex will go. I believe I'm saying this correctly. The builder at the time recognized all this controversy, all this conflict. Very emotional statements were made by the residents. I believe the builder said we will have a second time to get together and talk about any changes that we're going to propose from this meeting.

To my knowledge, that never happened for the the community of Portalis nor other communities in the surrounding area. I was trying to absorb everything the developers said about all the changes they've made. I don't see anything major. I think it's still remaining at 383 units above the 315 and other changes that they that I thought they had agreed to make at the meeting never occurred.

I would strongly ask and recommend that the count the city council not approve this project moving forward until the developer has another meeting with all the residents once again and invites them to challenge the new proposals and keep an open mind for the reasons that this one homeowner has presented. Thank you. Anything else? No, mayor. All right. With that, anybody else in the audience like to speak? Seeing none, I'm going to go ahead and close the public hearing.

Will the city clerk please read resolution number 20251637 by title only. Adopt Ordinance number 2025-1637 conditionally reszoning approximately 17.55 acres of land loan located at the northwest corner of Monavista Road and Pebble Creek Parkway from the Palm Valley phase 8 planned area development to planned area development zoning district with an underlying zoning district of multif family MF24 with a pad overlay amending the zoning map of the city of Goodyear. Thank you.

Can I get a motion and a second to adopt 20251637? I see a motion and a second. Let's open it up for discussion. First up is Council Member Terry. Yes. I had a couple questions. I don't know if Ann, you can maybe help me out. Some of them were addressed. I just want to make things um quite clear for anyone um observing or you know for my benefit as well. Uh this is multifamily zoned currently with the request to um for multifamily with these uh slight adjustments. Is is that correct?

Yes, that's correct. So this is not new multifamily zoning um into the city. This is something uh to my knowledge saw the case from 2005 um 2007. Do you know when um the Portalis homes were built or when those were zoned? Um, I know that's kind of an off question. Didn't know if you knew. Yeah. Thank you, Mayor Pazillo and Council Member Terry. Uh, to be honest, I do not know. I'm sorry. Okay. Um, did you or No. Okay.

Um, from from those overhead shots though, I think from 2005 2007, uh, it did not appear that there were any homes built or if they were, they were in the process of being built when this was, um, originally zoned. And, you know, I'm I'm new here. I'm in my, you know, number keeps getting bigger, but 8 nth month now. Um, and it's something that I always ask when it comes to these zoning requests is what is the history of the zoning?

what is the history of the surrounding zoning just to kind of get a feel of decisions that were made, you know, 3 years ago, 5 years ago, 20 years ago. Um the if there were no zoning change, um I saw the site plans expired, but they still would have the ability to um you know, get a site plan and or get it reapproved and do what was uh there previously. Is that correct? Uh yes, Council Member Terry.

uh they would be able to develop it under the MF18 zoning which would allow up to 315 units but they wouldn't be able to go for the MF24 but but that zoning would not include um other buffers uh that have been requested by some of the neighbors and I you know I do have um as was mentioned I'm looking at a letter in support about some changes that were made um along the way. If if this was not approved, they could still build and um those buffers would not exist some or wouldn't need to exist.

Um is that correct? Uh yes, that's correct. Um the current MF18 zoning allows for a maximum building height of 30 ft. So by default, that would probably be about a two-story building. Um so it'd be mostly a two-story development. Um the existing request uh goes to MF24 which allows up to a 40ft building across the site except that they have the P8 overlay to restrict heights on certain buildings that are close to the shared property lines.

So as part of this request we are able to enforce those height restrictions when it comes close to uh the existing neighborhoods not only to the west but to the north. Is that correct? That is correct. Okay. Um and then I don't know if this is for you or um Mr. Earl, but so a lot of trees, a lot of green. Um we get a lot of monsoons. We get some alerts for them even, you know, in the last 10 minutes. Uh what happens if those go down?

Um, and from our standpoint as staff um the the maintenance, the upkeep of some of that greenery, not only for the internal residents, but for, um, you know, residents and passerbys, not only in Pebbrook Creek, Monty Vista, the surrounding neighborhoods, um, to keep the keep trees up. Uh, is that part of the plan? Is that part of um an enforceable plan from our standpoint? Uh, yes, Council Member Terry.

I I believe it would be up to the developer to maintain their landscaping and should anything become damaged to replace it and fix any damage as it arises. Um, should it blow into a public rideway? To be honest, I'm not sure if that falls more in the developer or the city. That's something I could find out. My question in that is say a dozen trees were knocked out um and then the place isn't as green. there isn't as much shade. Do we as a city say, "Hey, this was part of your plan.

This was part of uh your development." Um, do we have that ability to uh kind of, for lack of a better term, enforce upkeep? Uh, Katie, I don't know if that one's for you. Thank you, Mayor, Council Member Terry. Yes, we do have the authority to require them to have um conformance with the site plan basically for all times. So if there's a storm that comes through and trees go down, we would go to them um and talk about a plan to replace the trees.

And that and that includes anything on the western edge and the northern edge as well. Correct. Okay. Um at risk of filibustering the whole meeting, I will uh leave it at that. All right. than uh council member Kano.

These kind of cases are always um difficult and particularly interesting when you have a lovely community like uh Portalis that's a uh been there for a long time and you have the vacant land uh that this family has held for 16 years and now it's time to develop and although the land has been zoned it's always a big kind of scary transition when uh plans start to be made and and things have been done.

Uh I talked with Taylor Earl pretty extensively last week about his community outreach about all the things and um it it is I learned some new things. I had never heard of the Claris story windows before. That was a new concept I learned about and in my uh time on council I haven't ever seen them where we've uh uh people have agreed to uh anti-glare windows and things like that.

They are uh they're the developer is taking on significant additional expense uh that was not required of them uh including the del line uh deceleration lane the secondary access the the um moving the second stories farther away and uh making that nice buffer and plus the enhanced landscaping as well as contributing to the HOA and I I've seen developers make concessions to uh residents, but never to this extent.

And um this area, while not on the other side of the street, really is a I would call GSQ adjacent. Uh GSQ is really making an impact. And a big reason for the success we're having is because of the density to uh fill those restaurants and uh to come and support the retail as it comes. Uh I also live in a gated community in Palm Valley and I've had apartments be built by my home uh two and three stories and it is an adjustment.

Overall I have uh not found the traffic to be an issue because people come and go at different times and certainly based on my property tax there's been no uh change in my in my property values. But it it h it is an adjustment when things uh go.

the uh the the resident who had changed her mind from opposed to uh being supportive had written to mayor and city council and I sent her a note back and she responded that she it was very surprising and refreshing to have a developer so engaged and willing to work with us and I just want to commend this this uh developer for the exceptional work that they've been doing with the community. Thank you. Go ahead. Yeah, thank you as well.

I had a few questions, but yeah, just trying to address uh Rob, Jeff, and Eric's uh concerns and questions, but so going back to Council Member Terry's uh comments, it sounds like the zoning was pretty close to the time that this was zoned. So, the residents there were aware this was going to be multif family, but they should have been when they bought when they bought the house. It's been it's not a we didn't reszone it at any time between now and then. It's always a multif family.

And you said the height, could it could it be a threetory now that on the zoning? Um, thank you, um, Mayor Pasilo and Council Member Hampton. Uh, the current zoning doesn't have a specific story limit. Um, the MF18 zoning, it does have a maximum height limit of 30 ft, which I don't believe you would be able to squeeze three stories into that. So, probably two stories just by default. So, um, yeah, the new zoning would raise that to 40 ft.

So it would allow for a third story and then the PAD overlay places restrictions on where the third story buildings could go, the three-story buildings. Yeah. I mean, it sounds like it history is there that it was multif family.

It sounds like they're getting a little bit more space or away from the residents, which I think is is very very good for the residents that they thought it was going to be two and the ones that are closest to them are going to be twostory uh with some some threetory in there. But it's a graduated density where it goes from singlestory potential houses up to twotory houses and then the apartments up to threetory to then across the streets three and four stories over there. So that's true.

So um I think the density makes sense to me for that. Um I appreciate the different access points, all the concessions to the residents. There's been lots of meetings as we saw in the um the um the attorney's uh presentation here. So, I like that they did a lot of community outreach to the entire community.

Um, not just Portalis, but also south there where the resident who um sent the email to us who changed their opinion on the um on the project went from uh no to yes, and they're just south there as well. So, um I do appreciate all the extra things that have gone far be far beyond what I've ever seen any other developer or or project do. So, so yeah.

So, I'll I'll be definitely I'll be voting on this because it's already multif family and we're going to multif family of making it nicer uh with all the extra concessions because if we didn't it could they could build this tomorrow to a bunch ones that are closer closer to the residents, not the the del line, not a ticket entrance and they could slap it up tomorrow without all these extra amenities that they're providing for the community with all the extra trees that aren't even on their property.

So, um, that they're able to provide to Portalis and the surrounding community as well. So, um, yeah, with that, I'll be voting for it, but thank you for the clarification, the questions, vice mayor. Thank you. Um, is this development going to be a gated community? Um, uh, thank you, uh, Mayor Pasilo and Councilwoman, uh, Campbell. Yes, there will be gates at both the Monty Vista and the Pebble Creek entrances. Okay.

Well, to be absolutely honest with the developer and the residents, I'm really opposed to more multifamily housing in Goodyear. We have plenty. However, this zoning was done long before I ever came on council and they have a right to develop that land. And that's the problem when you're trying to plan your city out 15, 20, 30 years out, things change. And the Prales community began to be built in 2006.

And TWW Lewis built in 2000 some of the homes, but it really started taking off in 2006 because I moved in in 2000 and there weren't but one or two homes there. And then it they really started building it out in 2010. So it's almost like I live in Pebble Creek and yes 303 is coming down beside Pebble Creek. We were told that when we built our home 25 years ago, but we never dawned on us that we would even hear the noise cuz I'm far away from it.

But unfortunately, um I I think I wish there was a way that the developer could meet one more time if it is that important to those residents because we've only gotten one letter of support that I know of that I've received personally from that community. And I know that that um their concern is about the multifamily. If it had been originally zoned as single family, I don't think there would have been anything said to be honest.

And I understand what they're they're wanting to do and I sympath sympathize with them. And it's a tough decision. It really is. But I don't know if it would do any good to meet with the the residents one more time because they they're not here to tell us that they don't want us to approve this. So, thank you. That's that's it. Councilwoman uh Bonita. Okay. So, I am also new to council. This project um as council member Terry was saying was started and zone prior to us being on the council.

I also met with a developer and and looked at their changes um and thought it was very noble of them to go out to bring about these changes. My question is um for the western border, how many houses are we talking about are on that western border? I know we've done a lot of um things to buffer that area, but how many houses are we talking about on the western border? Uh yes, uh Mayor Pizzill and Council Member Beckles.

Um I believe it looks to be about 10 to 12 houses per the aerial photo in Portales along the west property line. Okay. Have there been any complaints on the northern end to that developer o to the um property over there? Uh to my knowledge no. Okay.

Um uh since this was developed was already zoned um as everyone has said way prior to as multifamily and since the developer has reached has gone over and above to satisfy and to provide buffers and um I think that Um, we could be looking at um a really nice project coming up to to be part of the city. Um, even with the concerns of the other property. That's all. Thank you, Counciloman Gills. Um, I would like to speak with Taylor, please. Okay. Hi, Taylor.

And I just want to recap a couple things so that we're all on the same p page. Things I think I heard you say, but I'm not sure. So, correct me if I'm wrong. So, what we're talking about is the original zoning for this was in 2005. Correct. That's before any of us were on on here. Um and it was for multi-level family, right? Yes ma'am. Okay. Um current zoning um was April in 22. when we first applied for this zoning. Yes, ma'am. Yes.

Because that's when I first came on council and I remember this project coming to us. Um, this is one of the original multi-level zoning projects from back in 2005. Always multilevel family from beginning updated 2005 to 2025. Am I correct on that? Yes ma'am. Okay. Um, so the first application of this particular project to come back to us was April of 22. Yes ma'am. When I first came on that I heard.

I will take your word on the second on on your record on when you got on council, but I can answer the first part. That was it. I know about that. Okay. Um, all right. So, here's my deal is that we have been um dealing with this for this long. That's a lot of years that we've been trying to get this going. This is a higherend project, which is really good actually that we're doing it now for the state of the city and where we're at because we weren't at the position where we're at back then.

Um, and the thing that we have to understand is that this project has been perfected with our staff. It's been taking our staff and you to get together to be doing all this with the developer during all this time, too. Um, I think you guys have taken great care and I give the developer a lot of credit uh for taking the the great care of the expense and all the things that you're upgrading to because I have not seen that with anybody else in a long time. I know that you have been doing that.

I've seen it come back and forth and what you've been talking about. Um, the accesses I mean that's that's a major big deal. Um, what people don't understand because I didn't even understand before I got on council was that retail and restaurants have they have to have the density. You have to have the rooftops. You have to have the people. And if you don't have it, everything stops. You don't get it. It's why we didn't get a lot of stuff in the beginning because we did not have the density.

We know businesses that wanted to come in and be a part of our our community and they backed out. So that's what you don't understand in the beginning. I think that's the issue. The other thing is is that, am I not mistaken? Now, let me know if I'm wrong because I thought you and I were actually talking on the phone during this time. Didn't you have a second meeting? I thought you did just recently. So, we had we had our we did you're only required to have a general neighborhood meeting right?

Um that got noticed and we actually reached out to staff and said before we do the general meeting, let's cancel that. We want to meet with Portalis first. They're the most impacted community. we want to have a special meeting with their HOA and then we will have the general uh meeting. And so that's what we did. We met with the HOA of Portalis and that they noticed their residents.

We had that meeting and then we also held a general neighborhood meeting in which we had residents that came from the southwest which is a different HOA and also met with those residents and then we had individual meetings and follow-up conversations with indiv. And one of those meetings was just recently, wasn't it? We had uh with several neighbors on the southwest. We had a Zoom meeting at the end of June uh and then had follow-up communications with the woman who came to planning commission.

That's what I thought. That's why I wanted to make it very clear when it was stated that you they didn't think you did that. You did do it. And so that's what I wanted. It's not like you were trying to ignore people. You were putting it out there and you did have the meeting. And so that that is what I'm talking about. I think it's something also I'm Am I correct in what I'm what I'm saying here though? Am I following the plan pretty good? Yeah, correct.

And again, I don't know what meeting was being referred to, but we did hold two neighborhood meetings and we tried to make ourselves very accessible through this entire process and put information on our website so that people could adhere to it so that there was open communication. We really wanted to make sure that people knew just because the meeting was over, it wasn't an exploding offer to talk to us. They could always reach back out, understand the plans, right? Nobody's bullying anybody.

We're trying to to be fair with everybody. Um, so here's my thing is that when this was started back in 2005 and now it's back up to 25. Um, you know, and we've been you've been trying with our staff to to perfect everything that's going on. It would be unfair not to let this go through because you've been working on this with a developer and it's been going this whole time.

We have to continue to remember when this was started and these these other developments were possibly not there at the time or they weren't in completion at the time or whatever, but this is what you guys have been doing for this long. And I guess my I'm curious maybe with staff and maybe someone could explain to me because this is some of the stuff we've been trying to talk about is why it takes 3 years from 22 to 25 for a single zoning update. Does anybody have any any answers to that?

Thank you, Mayor Councilwoman Gillis. Um, I don't have all the details on the case, but there was a time when the applicant paused and waited on the resubmitt partly and because they were working with the residents and trying to work through the site plan. How long was that pause for, Katie? I can look it up and get that to you. I can get you the full case history after this and the in out on the project and I'd be happy to follow up with all of that.

That would be great because those are the kind of things I like council um Terry was talking about. I mean it just really has to do with how long this has been in effect and who was there at the time and what was going on. We can't blame the people that have been trying to bring this in from 2005 and now all of a sudden everybody's up in the air when we actually need this uh for for the things that we're trying to bring in retail and restaurants. Thank you. Thank you, Katie. Thank I'm not done.

You're not done. Okay. Thank you, Taylor. I appreciate you answering those questions and I just wanted to be sure that we were on the same page in all this. Yes, ma'am. And if I can just say to staff, I do think that we there were times where we wanted to meet with the neighborhood. The when you have a case that's in escrow, there usually are timelines and pressures that make it sometimes difficult to have that extended period. our client.

Um, when we met with some neighbors, thank you so much for coming. And I said, I appreciate you're thanking me. The client's the one paying me. They weren't authorizing me to be here. I couldn't take the time. So, when we told say, "Hey, we're going to work with the neighbors. We're going to go through this extended period." And there was a neighbor that we worked with that got sick for a couple of months. There were several times. And so, we just the client let us say, you know what?

Let's just wait. Let's just wait. Let's just wait. So, so I want to be clear as with staff was great to work with and we we really did a lot of work together. A lot of those delays were us just saying we're going to do this the right way, right? We're going to do it the right way with the neighbors. And I do commend you for or because I know about that. I commend you for working with that with that um uh neighbor because she was sick.

And so, uh I think it was nice that you guys did that because you didn't have to do that. Just like all the extra things that you're adding to this that most developers do not, they don't have to add and some most don't actually. And so I commend the developer and you for sticking with it for this long and I commend staff for doing what they've done. But three years we've got to work on that. Thank you very much for everything. I have a question for Taylor.

Taylor, when do you plan when does the family plan to even break ground on this? It's my understanding there's no plans in the near future to do anything other than you just want to get this zoning done so that if and when it's ever ready marketwise you're going to move on it is that cor did I understand you correctly? Yeah, we don't I don't have a timeline and the developers here could speak to sort of that part of it because I I don't want to go outside of my level of knowledge and speak.

But what I can tell you is that we have talked about where the market's at and making sure that we're not just building something cuz we got the entitlements. Let's just build it. But making sure, hey, uh is the market there? So that when we build it, because after 100 years of doing business, they know to make sure they don't build something that goes vacant or that we have to depress the rents because now we got to fill it up.

And so they're going to make sure we have supply in good years as that starts to be consumed and we make sure that I think the area near downtown is going to rebound faster because you may have paper entitlements three miles away but this is the creme de la creme. This is the area. So absolutely they will be watching market. I always say zoning is first but financing is second. Nobody wants to spend money and build something unless they know it's going to be good. I understand that.

And I just wanted the the public that may be hearing this that's somewhat concerned. It's not going to be built tomorrow. It's not going to be built next week. It's not going to be probably built this year or next year. And that's why it takes so long. When these things were approved in 2005, nobody moved on it. And look, 20 years later, someone finally is going to develop that property. So, we thank you for doing that.

I just wish it was quicker, but I understand the market and I understand not wanting to spend money when it's not there. And we certainly do not want you to build it and have it stay empty. That's even worse. So, thanks very much. Council Hampton. Yeah. Just one more last quick question. So, if this gets sold, this might be for staff. If this gets sold tomorrow, you guys, we approve this, it gets sold tomorrow, these stipulations I'll carry to the next the next user. Correct.

The answer to your question is yes, but there are no plans to sell it. But but but you're saying, hey, what if crazy things happen for the resident's sake? Like, oh man, they're going to someone they can sell it tomorrow and all these things go away. These carry That's why they run with the land. Yes. Yes. If anybody wanted to come back and change the things were being stipulated to, they would have to come back through a public hearing process to do that. Yeah.

So, we're getting the upgrade no matter who who who potentially owns. This is not getting sold like you said as a private family, but it's just for just for the care of the public so they know they know this stuff carries. So, yes. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. to to me the key unfort for fortunately is already zoned residential.

Uh if you just let that go you could actually build something on here that probably would actually detract from Portellis as opposed to putting something quality on that site. That's the problem you know. So the fact that all of these improvements and amenities have been added uh I think is going to add to the area not detract as opposed to that if they just went ahead and and did the base uh you wouldn't have all these amenities around there.

So with that, can you go ahead and open it up for a vote? Passes 70. Thank you. Uh, next public hearing is to consider a use permit for a convenience store with a gas station. Open public hearing. Kyle, please introduce yourself to the public. Good evening, mayor and council. I'm Kyle Abbott, senior planner. This is a use permit request for a new terrible convenience store and gas station in Goodyear. The proposed Terrible convenience store and gas station is approximately 1.29 acres.

The project is proposed to go just north of the commercial center called Pebble Creek Plaza. The center includes a 24 hours Federico's drive-thru restaurant with a use permit approved by city council in October 2020. The applicant proposes an approximately 5200 square foot convenience store with an approximately 2700 ft fuel canopy area providing a gasoline providing four gasoline fueling pumps that can serve up to eight vehicles at a time.

The customer would have right in and right out access onto the property from Pebble Creek Parkway. Right in and right out access from Virginia Avenue, plus access onto the property from an existing Pebble Creek Plaza drive aisle. There is an active and accessible traffic light at the south end of Pebble Creek Plaza. Upon arrival at the property, customers will have the option of using one of the 27 parking spaces and entering the convenience store or heading to the fuel pump area.

The proposed build building elevations include colors and materials consistent with the colors and materials palette of Pebble Creek Plaza. And the height from ground to the highest point of the building is approximately 30.8 ft, which is well below the maximum height allowed in C2 zoning districts. Fuel canopy elevations include roof line undulation and masonry columns. Staff evaluated the proposed development with use permit and convenience use criteria provided in the zoning ordinance.

The use is similar to other uses approved in the rest of the center which include a 24-hour drive-thru restaurant. The nearest residents are Evolution at Estraa Falls Apartments which are 120 ft to the east and separated from the proposed development by the RIID canal. We had a neighborhood meeting. One member of the public attended the meeting in support of the project. One member of the public sent an email stating their concern about neon lights and bright signage.

All outdoor signage on the property is required to conform to the standards established in article 10 outdoor lighting standards as well as all signage to comply with article 7 sign regulations. On August 13, planning and zoning commission held a public hearing. One resident spoke in support of the project. Planning and Zoning Commission voted 6 to zero to recommend conditional approval of this use permit.

One member of the public sent an email following planning and zoning expressing concern about the appropriateness of the location and concern about increased eastbound traffic and U-turns as a result of the right out movement from the property on Virginia Avenue. Please note, city traffic engineers have reviewed the project's traffic impact analysis and their approval is required as a part of the use permit site plan process. Mayor and council, this concludes my presentation.

The applicant is present and available if you desire to answer your questions. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Um, does he does he want to speak now or he's going to wait to see if we got any questions from you? I think if you have questions, why don't you hold it and see if we get any questions for you. Okay. Uh, with that, any speaker cards? Yes, mayor. We have uh Jeff Levy submitted a speaker card in support of the project, but does not wish to speak. Okay. Thank you. Anything else? Okay.

Uh, anybody in the audience like to speak on this particular one? Okay, with that I'm going to close the public hearing. Uh, will the city with the council please enter a motion a second to approve the use permit request for a convenience use store with a gas station proposed on the approximately 1.29 acre property zone C2 general commercial located at the southeast corner of West Virginia Avenue and North Pebble Creek Parkway. Uh, open for council discussion. First one up is Vice Mayor.

So, Kyle, I you haven't been with us long enough, so it may be up to Katie, but is this the old KFC location? This goes back 20 years ago, do you think? Thank you, Mayor and Council. You stomped me on that one. Sorry. I'm so sorry. It's the very very top part of that triangle piece. I think that was going to be at one time KFC when I first moved into town, but it didn't happen. So, the building that they are proposing will be shorter than the Groves, which will be across the street.

Is that correct? Shorter than the what? The Groves. How do you like height? Height. Katie. Yes. Thank you. Um, mayor, council member or Vice Mayor Campbell, it is shorter than the Groves. Great. Do we know who or where the person lives that was concerned about the lighting? Because the way those lights are, those lights are going to be facing down on the ground and there's no apartments at the end of the Groves because there's no windows on Virginia Street. Yeah.

The resident lived in the single family residential neighborhood just northeast of this project. So that would be to the east of the assisted living facility. Got it. Okay. Fine. Thank you. I think it's a good use of that land and I'm looking forward to having it come into the neighborhood. Got it. Yeah. Thank you. Uh let's see. Council member Hampton. Yeah, thank you. So, yeah, I also want to verify the light.

Is it digital sign package for that area or is it going to be the signage is not approved with the use permit or the site plan itself? Um but the sign regulations would prohibit exposed light sources. So that whatever light sources are proposed as a part of the sign building permit applications will have to ensure that the light source is shielded. Okay, good. Yeah, I know my my grandma lives at the groves right there. So I was curious what that's going to look like for those residents there.

So um and then where's where's the nearest Terribles? Is this their first location in Arizona? I will open this to the applicant to address the number of locations or where they may be in Arizona. I was just curious. I mean, it's interesting name. I tried to look it up online. I couldn't find like their history or anything like that. So, real quick like, but I was just curious if Yeah, I I don't know. Maybe the applicant wants to say hi. So, about that. It is a brand from That's one question.

Las Vegas, Nevada. Is it from Vegas? Is that the closest there? I don't know. Yeah. No, if you drive through Las Vegas, you will see um their signage, their shops everywhere. Yeah. All right. Hello. My name is Brett Griffin. I'm a development manager with Terribles. Close to the microphone. Family-owned and operated convenience store company going back 65 plus years. We're based out of Las Vegas and we're making a push to open about 40 to 50 stores in the Phoenix metro. Wow.

So, this would be probably our third store if approved. Okay. Yeah. I'm just curious how how you guys were in the mix there, where your guys' product was compared to maybe some other users in the area. Yeah, if I had to compare us, it would be on par with QT in terms of the quality, the offering. The family takes a lot of pride in what they build and operate. They're long-term holders. They're not looking to flip sites or sell out in the next 10 years.

They're going to own and operate them going forward. And I saw some of the artwork that was on some of them. Is that gonna be is that the culture of the of it or is it going to be artwork like the Vegas locations like a lot like the Vegas? They are deliberately different. That's what they take pride in to differentiate themselves between Circle K and QT. So, okay. Yeah, that's what I was curious about. I just Yeah. Welcome. I mean, just the community. I just I just never I' never been to one.

I was just curious. It sound like it was a new product offering here in Arizona to be Yeah. So, our first store is under construction at 23rd A in Northern. And then our second site will be Olive and 71st A. We have sites in Santan Valley, uh, let's see, Mesa, uh, Buckeye. We're going to be far and wide. We're excited to come here. Yeah, it look like you guys are good community partners. Do a lot of things in the community as well. Absolutely. Yeah, they take a lot of pride in helping out vets.

Um, doing a lot of work for police, uh, Toys for Tots, very active in the the school communities, K through 12. So, we're excited to be partners in the community. Yeah. No, great. Thank you so much. Yeah, no problem. And my last question is really just on the traffic and trying to address the uh residents concern about the traffic there. So, they're riding right out. I think that's fine.

And you did say that say there is a path to get to the light that's near uh through that parking lot right there. So I would hope people would use that as opposed to going down. They might get a few people get stuck in the beginning where they got to go take a ride out. I don't know how far the first you can take a U-turn even to get back to Pebble Creek Parkway along that road there. I think that's the concern is that there's going to be much people just trying to take U-turns.

How far how far I need to scan out my my map here. How far down Virginia before it actually would it's like a del into the community right there, right? The people might potentially be taking I see the del starting right there. So, but the apartment was just right across the way. So, I think it's the same entrance right there. No, you're correct. Based on the location of the property, their only options were right in, right out on both Pebble Creek and Virginia.

Um the nearest functioning light is going to be south of the location shown on the screen now at the moment. Um it is actually the same intersection um that you would use to enter village at Harvard crossing. Yeah, Harvard. Is there anything we need to do for I don't know. I'm sure there's been a traffic study. I'm just trying to imagine people if they're going to use that light.

I don't want to affect the businesses that are going to be I think we just cut a ribbon for the the med spa that's right there. Things like that. Is there any I don't know if we need to put a speed bump in that area just as people back in and out of those spots there using those shops there. I don't that's I don't know if that's going to be an issue or not. I'm not sure. Hopefully they'll be hugely successful. There'll be a huge line to get in there.

But I just want to make sure that the other users down there I don't know what that would look like if there needs to be anything like that. Maybe I'm just making up a problem. Uh, but I just trying to look out for the business, all the other business owners that might be sharing cuz I know when I'm trying to get out of parking spot, if I'm there's a car, bunch of traffic coming out, it's hard to get out of that hard to get out of that spot there.

So, I make sure those businesses are going to be successful, too. So, thank you, council member. just maybe a note, maybe something to look into when we're as the project develops just to say they're good neighbors to the other users in that that same plaza. And to clarify as far as what you would like additional information on, I understand you're concerned about um getting out of the site and perhaps folks speeding going south on the drive aisle.

Just trying to get out to the to then take the right out to get to the Pebble Creek light. So that's I'm just worried about the the well the federico will be busy too, but also t those two little users that are right there before the light. Yeah, it's certainly a discussion we can something that I want staff to just keep an eye on. That's all. So it's not I'm not going to not approve it because of that. I just want staff to just keep an eye on it for me. Um I think that's it.

So that I have um yeah, I'm excited to have something something new new uh new to the city and something unique and and I think this area would definitely would like to have a a gas station there. So, thank you. Thank you, Council Member Hampton. Council J. Yes. Thank you, Mayor. Um Kyle, I have a familiar question here. Uh the C2 zoning, do we know when that was originally um put forward? or have kind of concept. Is this going to be around that same 2005 time frame that we're talking about?

You are right on the spot. The current C2 general commercial zoning was approved in 2006. Okay. 2006. So, right in the window. And um just for the public, what are some of the general things that can go in a C2? Yeah, C2 general commercial is our most permissive commercial zoning districts. Um so a wide range of uses including um restaurants, retail, office would all be permissible at this location. Okay. And um you I'm through that area quite a bit.

My I think the only other gas station there on Pebble Creek is uh right along the I 10 is that a Circle K. um you have to go, you know, couple couple miles over or so to me it makes sense. Uh 20 years ago, this could have easily been um a gas station. We've just seen the population growth since 2006. So, uh to me, it makes sense. I just always like to ask on the genesis of its zoning. So, appreciate that. Thank you, Council Member.

when we've talked about other uh convenience stores um possibility of them sighting differently like the back to the front and that's what we've done here. So, this is a pretty unique project for us. And uh if I look at the elevations, I just want to help help uh on your fifth slide. Um there's a east elevation, a west elevation. The west elevation will be facing Pebble Creek. Is that correct? The east elevation would be facing Pebble Creek.

There would also be landscaping in between the building and Pebble Creek itself. Okay. the east elevation, doesn't that face um where the canopies are? Okay, you're right. I misspoke. It is our west elevation. There will be landscaping between that west elevation and Pebble Creek as well as along the north side of the property facing Virginia. Yes, I I looked you've got a pretty extensive uh landscaping um plan. So, I'm wondering about deliveries and dock doors.

Uh, is that on the south elevation where at those doors are? Is that where that will be happening? Yeah, I will allow the applicant to speak to operations as far as how these deliveries tend to be handled at terribles. Mayor and Council, my name is Jeff Ksky. I'm with AR Archicon Architects. We're in Phoenix. Um, just to answer that question, yeah, deliveries deliveries generally go through the front door of Terribles.

Um, they just bring small products in through through the front door typically. So, there is a door on the side that will allow deliveries there too, but mostly it's through the front door. Okay. I think I just wanted to be sure we weren't running trucks in the back. No. Between uh Pebble, you know, in view of Pebble Creek. So, okay. Very good. Thank you so much. Thank you. got anything else with that? Um, let's see. Um, where we at? We got a vote now. We're ready for the vote then, right?

Go ahead and open it up. Passes 70. Thank you. Final public hearing is to consider a use permit for a car wash. Let's open the public hearing. Mayor, council, I'm Kyle Abbott, senior planner. This is a use permit request for a new Superstar Car Wash in Goodyear. The subject property is located east of the southeast corner of North 166th Avenue and West Indian School Road. The property is shown on the screen in yellow.

The property is zoned P A planned area development and has an underlying C2 general commercial zoning. It is part of the PV303 P A which was originally zoned in the year 2008. The property is also within Luke Air Force Base's 65 DNL. The proposed Superstar Car Wash site is approximately 1.26 26 acres. The project is proposed to go in a commercial center called the Triangle at PV303.

A master site plan for the center delineating the plan for circulation and services was approved by staff in February 2023. Shown in red outlined on the screen is the area covered by that master site plan. The triangle is northwest of Pebble Creek Community Pickle Ball Recreation and RV storage.

The center includes a Filibberto's drive-through restaurant with use permit approved by city council in April 2021 and a Quick Trip convenience store and gas station with use permit approved in July 2024. The applicant proposes an approximately 4,000 square foot car wash facility with three pay stations for customers to use without getting out of the vehicle. 22 queuing spaces leading up to the pay stations as well as 17 selfs serve vacuum stations.

Customers would have right in and right out access onto the property from Indian School Road and access from 166th Avenue. There is an active traffic light at the intersection intersection of 166th Avenue and Indian School Road and a drive aisle from 166th Avenue is to be constructed as a part of the quick trip development. Upon arrival at the property, customers will have the option of vacuuming the car or entering the queue for the car wash first.

After leaving the tunnel, customers can turn right at the internal driveway to exit onto West Indian School Road or turn left at the internal driveway to approach the vacuum stations or exit on North 166th Avenue. The proposed building elevations include colors and materials consistent with the colors and materials palette approved with the master site plan for the center. And the height from ground to highest point is approximately 30 ft, which is well below the maximum height allowed in C2.

Staff evaluated the proposed development with use permit and convenience use criteria provided in the zoning ordinance. The tunnel does not face the neighborhood and the proposed development is more than 500 ft from the nearest resident. We had a neighborhood meeting. Two members of the public intended the meeting. No opposition was received and one member supported the project. On August 13, the planning and zoning commission held a public hearing for the car wash use permit request.

After the staff presentation, one resident spoke in support, I'm sorry, one resident did express support but chose not to speak at the public hearing. At the conclusion of the planning and zoning public hearing, the commission voted 6 to zero to recommend approval subject to the proposed stipulations. Mayor and Council, this concludes my presentation. The applicant, Madison Leak, is in attendance and has a brief presentation if council desires. Would you like a presentation from the applicant?

Unless she wants to present it. Are you willing to wait for some questions? Okay, let's let's do that. See if we got some questions here from the council. All right, go ahead and pull up a seat there. Um with that um other any other speaker cards other than the applicant? Yes, mayor. I have one speaker card from Jeff Levy in support of the project but does not wish to speak. Okay. Thank you. Uh anybody in the audience like to speak other than the applicant? All right.

I'm going go ahead and close the public hearing with a council enter a motion and a second to approve the use permit request for a convenience used car wash proposed on approximately 1.26 26 acre property zone planned area development P A with an underlying zoning of C2 general commercial for parcel 501-2-954 generally located south of West Indian School Road and east of 166 Avenue with PV uh 303 east to phase 1 subject to stipulation open for council discussion.

Let's see who we start with here. Council member Hampton's first. Yeah, thank you for bringing this. Again, it's the Kyle show, so thank you. But, um, I had a question on, um, I appreciate the sound contour study that was done. Um, so I just verify. So, this is its own parcel. It doesn't take PL doesn't it doesn't take over the two parcels that we approved for the two restaurants. Correct. Correct.

The Filbertos and QT have their own use permits approved in 2021 and 2024 and this would not be replacing those projects. I thought there was two restaurant pads going to be there. I thought it was going to be like an Arby's or something over there. I think if there's additional pads available, there's not necessarily been a proposed project at this time. Not that not to my knowledge. Maybe I misunderstood. Yeah, maybe I missed her.

I remember being for every single one of these reszones for this. I could have swore there was a second restaurant pad, but maybe it got taken. Council member Hampton, maybe I maybe QT took it. I'm not sure. So, thank you, Mayor. Council member Hampton, there are two sites there. Um, Philbertos is still moving forward with the process, but RB's hasn't been moving forward through the process, but they still have a spot there. There's a restaurant pad there. Pad there. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Okay.

And which one's closest to is it Phil's closest to I believe Philbertos is next to the quick trip, but I'm not 100% sure. Okay. I'm just looking at the sound contours. Looks like it's 60 dB would be they roughly 60 dB is what Phil Burers would be experiencing people going in and out of there. But I'm just trying to understand what it's going to feel like to be there. Um I use 166 pretty often since I go to that that church right there. But um okay. So, just verifying that.

And then they can get in and out to 166. That's the path for the That's the path for if they want to ride out, you want to go left back to 303. You would you would go ahead and hit the go through the parking lot through QT's parking lotish to get back to uh the main road there. Is that correct? That is correct, Council Member Hampton. Okay. And then there are questions I had. Yeah, I've all the restaurants I've all the residents I've talked to are pretty excited about a car wash.

There's really nothing along Indian School there for for them, especially people in Seda and other places along the way there. Um, and we've had no complaints from Pebble Creek said we had a Pebble Creek resident attend our neighborhood meeting. They did not express opposition to the project. Okay. And then I know I dropped the sound contours, but this is is this one in the flight path. Yeah. So, it's going to be loud there. And the 303 is right there also.

So, I'm not too concerned about this the sound, but just wanted to bring it up since there was a study done. Want to give them credit for that. So, um what other questions did I have? Yeah, I think that'll be fine. So, I think I'm okay with this project, uh moving forward. Um, I'll ask you a random question later.

I have a curiosity question about water usage, but I don't know what what that would I don't know what I don't know what other car washes use, but I'm sure they're going to be using the best uh quality and water the latest the latest water saving technology. I'm sure I'm sure if she wants to bring it up, that's great. Thank you, Council Member Hampton and and Mayor Pazillo. I'm certain the applicant would like to speak to water consumption at the site. Yeah. Thank you.

I just wanted to get up here records Madison Leak with the law firm of Birch and Craolo. Um I think one really helpful statistic is that Superstar is about uses about a fourth of the water you would use when you would wash your car at home. So it's extremely efficient. They're able to reuse almost all of their water. And then depending on, you know, kind of where it is how dirty or clean that water is, they just use it at different stages in the cycle.

So the water, you know, the the water's first life, it might be kind of early on when the car is dirty and then it's reused at different times depending on where the water's at. So it's it's extremely efficient. Yeah, I figured it technology is way better. And then the last question is that there's another car wash in Goodyear that when you come out of it, it's usually wet there area. So the road is kind of gets damaged quicker there. So there's usually a pothole in some of these car washes.

So, is that I think that hopefully I think that's going to be on their property, but I'm not sure. The access points would they be responsible or would that be the plaza or that be the city to make sure that we're maintaining the road there? Yeah, through the mayor, council member. I think that's a valid concern. I do think um the the standards and the equipment for car washes has improved a lot specifically in the last 5 years. So, maybe that's an older car wash.

The blowers on this really are very powerful and get cars very dry. if it's along um one of the shared drives and that would be um the responsibility of the tenants and I think it would ultimately fall on Superstar and I also think Superstar would want to fix that and be a good neighbor but I'm not familiar. We our office has the pleasure of working with Superstar a lot and I'm not familiar with that ever happening but if it did they want to be a good neighbor.

That's only I can think of is one example is where they fixed it but that's it's common spot where just just use the water always water being on that spot and people leaving from that particular area. So I just it makes sense that they'd want to have people not get follow their have their car cars fall in potholes. So yeah. So okay that's all the questions I have. So I think it'll be a good spot. So thank you council member Kano.

Goodyear has a lot of car washes and uh I have a lot of thoughts about those but there are some that are really well done. they're they're put together uh in a way that is visually appealing and uh hides a lot of the the um the the vacuum arms and things like that. Then there's others that don't. And you and I have had multiple conversations about this and I I really want to commend you.

I know this is a very awkward parcel to deal with, but the way you've cited it um to put the vacuums uh away from the street, the queueing of the cars is not on the street. I think you've just done the best you can and uh you know in terms of where the blowers are blowing and and all that. So I just wanted to thank you personally because it is a little point of uh contention with me about how some of these car washes have actually ended up and you've done a great job. So thank you. Thank you.

We appreciate your feedback. Let's say Councilwoman Gillis. Uh I feel the same Madison. you know that I think this car wash has been really well constructed and there's been a lot of thought that's been put into it. Um you did say um just being sure that there was no negativity at your meetings and it was there was one in fact in support of what was going on and so we have no problem with that. Yeah. Through the mayor councilwoman this case has been just very positive.

It's nice to have a case that you know comes and around a very positive way. We had two attendees at the neighborhood meeting. Um, one was very positive and the other just had some general questions which is completely fair. Okay. At our uh, planning commission unanimous recommendation and one uh, neighbor spoke in support. Okay, that's all I needed. Thank you. Yes ma'am. Council member Terry. Thanks, Mayor.

Um, just to piggyback off that, I uh, impressed at uh, the support been able to generate there in the community. I do remember um when what eventually became the QT um did get quite a bit of neighborhood feedback and wasn't always smooth sailing, but it got there at the end. I know that just because I was sitting in the audience uh watching at the time before I decide to uh jump on this side. But um Kyle, I I know the filibbertos that zoning was 2000 or 2021.

Um I know from there all the way to 303 is that all C2 or I know I'm asking about um a lot there. Do we know the Genesis or when that started um or when that was originally zoned for C2? I I know when the gas station came in, there was a lot of concern about commercial activity um various hours of the day. Um sorry. Um and I I I just kind of want to know the background of that. um just because it does a butt up to the RV park or the RV storage and then we get into uh Pebble Creek from there.

So, I didn't know um does the C2 here predate 2021? Do you know? Yeah, I'll let Kyle speak to this as well, but our office also worked on the Quick Trip. So, I know a lot about this site. The site has actually been designated on Goodyear's general plan since 1998 for either commercial or industrial uses. And I think a lot of that relates to the noise contours and Luke's operations, which we all know are incredibly important because this triangle right here pretty much is the boundary.

Those pickle ball courts and the RV storage, there could not be homes be there because that's where the boundary is. So these sites have been designated for some type of commercial or industrial since, you know, almost around the time I was born. And then so even though that that PV um 303 case was 2008 and that designated this site for C2, but it's long been some type of commercial or industrial.

Okay, that that answers my question and actually gets into my next uh little point I was going to hit about the uh air traffic corridor. Uh Goodyear, we are very unique um with having two major airports uh in our immediate area. Um, one of them being the Air Force base that impacts zoning that impacts what can go certain places. Um, so yeah, it's the reason why this is a triangle is because of the um air traffic uh corridor. So that's all I got. Thank you, Vice Mayor.

Well, it's a great place to put it. I love car washes. I wash my car every week, sometimes twice a week. And I go to the superstar in Aenddale, and it just kills me to spend my money in Aenddale. But that said, we were almost going to put the superstar with the QT in Goodyear and instead we have Slim Chickens. So, I'm really tickled about this. I live in Pebble Creek. It's been on the egroup a couple of times. People are thrilled to death to have a decent car wash close by.

They're very happy with that. They'd rather see a car wash than something else in there. So, we're happy that you're here. Thank you so much for sticking with us and and coming back to put a I was afraid y'all would not come back after we said no to the other one, but thank you for sticking with Goodyear. We appreciate it. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Council member Beckles. Uh, yes. I just want to say thank you for this project. I think all my questions have been answered from everybody else.

I think this is a great project. Thank you. Thank you. Great discussion. I think it's a great place that you have there. So, I have nothing further to add. So, with that, can we open up for a vote? She's She's locked. She's locked out. She can't vote. She gave you a thumbs up. That's the good old days. There you go. Pass 70. Thank you. Uh, does the council have any comments, commendations, or reports on current events or requests? I do. I'll start. Well, let me start to the right. Anything, Ben?

Anything? Go ahead. What you got? What you got, Wally? Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were still talking about Bonita. Okay. Team Goodyear knocked it out of the park last week at the league conference and I want to commend Rosava, Janet, Lorena, Amber, Gina, and Haley. They were incredible. They got all of us where we were supposed to go cuz we didn't know where half of the meetings were. They got us there on time, which was wonderful.

And then besides that, they put our booth together cuz at this conference, all the cities that are part of it, they do a booth to showcase their their city. And ours was, of course, the best booth because it had Harkkins cups, the popcorn cups, which we thank Harkkins very much for donating that to us. And the the girls were all dressed as ushers, and it was just absolutely the best ever. and next door to us was a photo booth and that was even more fun. But I really want to thank them.

They've just been incredible and for them to pull off what they did and still take care of six of us, it was amazing. So, thank you very much that we have a great staff. Great great staff. And then this isn't this is an inquiry of the mayor. I would like to sometime have a possible work session on electric bikes and scooters. All right, hold up just for a second. Let's see if there's anything else for anybody else to add before we get to that. Anything else anybody wants to add?

No, you stole my thunder. I wanted to thank them all as well because um they did an excellent job. Uh I think it was an excellent conference. Uh a lot of networking. Uh and in fact, I want to thank we've got two of our members that now are in the civic class. Uh council member Beckals. Uh and Council McCain. Me? No. Oh no, no, excuse me. Vice Mayor Wall-E. That's right.

and uh council member Kano uh which is going to be uh just started through the league uh adds some civic experience get you some broader knowledge on how local government works and allows you to browse those skill sets and that's going to be something that I don't know how long does it run a year so it'll be open again for next year it's got a great opportunity for you guys to get in that uh and um I I I'm glad you guys signed up for it thank you and again it was it was an excellent conference S uh I always like the uh the league because we all dealing with the same issues all 92 cities.

You talk about your award, your 16 years. Well, I got 16 years, so big deal. Uh but but yeah, I got eight tonight. Yeah, you got eight. So, it is what it is. But anyway, uh thanks to staff for lining all that up. Uh usually it takes two of them to keep me in line, but that's okay. You know, they kept me where I was supposed to be, so I was happy for that.

So with that now for anybody who wants to ask the manager for anything for a meet anybody did the vice mayor yes is that where I do mine yeah I would I I just would I want to throw this out because at the league I talked to I don't know how many a million cities and and I didn't find but five or six of us that had not done an ordinance to regulate electric bikes and scooters And I want us to have a work session to talk about it. Glendale's in the middle of it right now.

They've already had two work sessions. They're getting ready for a third. Mesa has it. Chandler has it. Uh even Dewey Humbult has it. I didn't even know they had electric scooters there. So, but anyway, I just think it I want I'd like to be ahead of it rather than wait until it's too late to do something. I I think the challenge is the uh 13, 14, 15 year old kids that are are taking these things out. Uh okay. I and I'll follow up with you to get more details.

Vice Mayor, we did do something with a private provider on the scooters, but that that was a particular provider. So, I'll I'll visit with you, Vice Mayor, to get a little bit more background on that and we can bring forward a a work session on Well, there is a a there is a school in Goodyear, and I'm so sorry. I I just heard it on the news real quickly this morning or yesterday, that they have prohibited students from riding ebikes and scooters to school. No because it's too dangerous.

And and I I don't know. I don't recall if it was an elementary school or a high school. I'm sorry. Usually high school, they're driving anyway and they have a license, so they're okay. This probably was an elementary school. Okay. Well, I will follow up with you on that. Thank you. City manager, you got anything for us? I do not. Just accept thanks uh for the staff and their work last week. It it was a great success and appreciate everyone's involvement in that. Okay, with that, let's see.

Next meeting is September 8th. Uh be no further business. Meeting adjourned.