Goodyear Reveals 22% Build-Out, 575,000-Resident Capacity in Comprehensive Development Trends Report; Council Clarifies Multifamily Surge Reflects Decade-Old Entitlements, Not Policy Shift

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Thank you. Any speaker cards? No, Mayor. Anybody in the audience like to speak? Seeing none, I'll ask Councilmember Kano, anything to pull off the agenda? No, Mayor.

Mayor Councilwoman Gillis do you want to pull anything off the agenda No thank you Okay anybody here around the guys here No thank you All right Annette do I have a motion and a second So move Second Motion here second there I have a motion by Vice Mayor Hampton and second by Councilmember Campbell Okay can we get a vote Aye All those in favor say aye Aye Aye Opposed Vote for Kano and vote for Councilwoman Gillis Councilmember Kano, how do you vote? Aye. Councilwoman Gillis, how do you vote?

Aye. Thank you all. Okay. Next up, we have all items for discussion. No action can be normally taken. We have one work session item for the agenda tonight. We'd like to remind council that staff, like my staff, will be pausing every so often to answer any questions. First item is to receive an update on the general plan and development trends. This is for information and discussion purposes only. Go ahead, please introduce yourself for the public.

Good evening Mayor Pizzillo and Goodyear City Council. My name is Christian Williams. I'm the Deputy Director of Development Services over Planning. It's my pleasure today to share a preview of our calendar year 2025 Development Trends and General Plan Annual Report. It's been quite some time since Council has received a General Plan Annual Report. The last update you all received on a General Plan update was in 2013.

So while the state law requires communities to report annually on the general plan progress, we did not find any good examples from our peers on this report and how it looked and felt for them. However, following our visioning session that we had with y'all back on February 9th, our team made a commitment to bringing you an important report update back revamped, so it is actually a useful tool for you.

So not only are we restoring Goodyear to a strong annual reporting rhythm, but we've done so while simultaneously completing a comprehensive modernization of the zoning ordinance. That work and this report reflect our dedication and the dedication of many departments to collaborate and make Goodyear's development process among one of the strongest in the region. With that, I'd like to introduce you to our report.

The title of this year's report is momentum in motion because it reflects Goodyear's shift from intense planning to visible high impact progress across the parts of our community. And tonight we'll be walking through our development trends data to show that Goodyear is not only growing, it's growing smarter, safer, and more self-sustained.

This report is designed as a visual story driven tool that clearly communicates the general plans implementation progress and the city's development activity from citywide trends and growth areas to the full hello to certificate of occupancy journey. Our goal is for this document to serve as a valuable decision making tool for the council, support your policy direction, addressing essential context and informing future budget decisions.

And finally, we are getting ready to finalize this report, working with our working group right now to cross our T's and dot our I's, and we would like to deliver you all a full report later this fall, with the goal of providing again that final report in time for your retreat. And in future years, we'll intend to be on an annual cycle where we provide you with an update by fall. With that, before we dig into some specific areas, let's look at Goodyear at a high picture.

And don't squint your eyes, we're going to zoom in and take a look at Goodyear. So our population climbed from roughly 116,000 residents to more than 122,000 residents. But the most compelling part of the story is that we're not just growing in people, we're growing in jobs too. Goodyear continued to add local employment opportunities, bringing our total job count to more than 43,500 people employed and working within the city.

Our jobs to population ratio did decrease slightly by 0.4%, but in practical terms that means that Goodyear now has about 35.5 jobs for every 100 residents. However, we want to just remind everyone that not every resident in Goodyear desires to work, so jobs available for working residents is actually much higher. The city's population grew at a faster pace than our job base this year, which is why the ratio moved slightly downward.

However, this does not mean that our employment market weakened. In fact, the number of jobs in Goodyear continues to grow, just not as quickly as our population. And when we look at this alongside our commuter data, which I'll show you on the next slide, there's actually some encouraging news. More Goodyear residents are able to work here rather than to commute outside of the city, and I'll share that here in a second. So let's take a look at our commuter shifts.

So again, despite our numbers not increasing at the same rate as our population, the share of residents leaving Goodyear decreased from 90.7 down to 89.3. That's a 1.1% drop and represents thousands of our neighbors now working locally, keeping their talents, spending their money here during lunchtime, and being able to enjoy times with their families. As this data shows, we're becoming a more self-sustained city.

The shift may be due also to new residents who are not in the workforce such as children that move here or retirees that come here to move in our great neighborhoods like Pebble Creek Those jobs are also suggest that the jobs that are attracting new residents are helping existing residents fill local vacancies A lot fewer people are driving to Phoenix Tempe and North Scottsdale for work Remote work also influences commuter shift because if you work from home, you don't leave the city.

While we don't have a formal target for reducing our outer commuting, economic development does track our annual job gaps. Economic development does track our annual job gains and the commuter trends help illustrate how those efforts are translating into real-time outcomes. And for context, when the 2035 general plan was written using 2020 census data, that ratio was at 91.3. So today's numbers are a real meaningful decrease.

We also grew our total business count by 100 new businesses in 2025, which directly contributes to our rising local employment base. And as we discussed, fewer residents leaving Goodyear to find work is great. Adding another 100 new businesses in a single year is a strong sign of economic strength and continued confidence in the Goodyear market. And the steady inflow of new businesses further reinforces our movement towards a complete and self-sustained local community.

We're really becoming a resilient city and a destination for living, working, playing, going to work, and entertaining. So in short, between calendar year 2024 and calendar year 2025, we steadily transition from being that of a bedroom suburb into a fully realized, self-sustained regional employment hub. And this diagram is featured in our storybook that you'll receive, and the data points behind it will be in the appendix of that final report.

Now let's take a little bit of a look at our population growth and where we plan to go. This chart shows Goodyear's projected population growth out to the year 2026. This is not our build out number. We'll cover that on the next slides. The dotted line to the right shows our future population projections, and the solid line to the left of the star shows where our actual population has been. Over the next 10 years, we're projected to grow by about 64,000 residents.

And I will note that on our long range planning documents used for critical infrastructure forecasting, they've been remarkably accurate. Our 2025 projection in those documents differs from today's actual population by 214 residents, which is a fraction of a percent. So the projection shows Goodyear rising to approximately 165,000 residents by the end of this decade and then climbing to about 276,000 residents by 2026.

Now you may recall a different set of numbers that were shared during the water presentation. The percentage changes you saw there are related to our water utility. That is not including areas north of McDowell Road or south of the Pecos Road alignment. Those numbers focus on water planning areas two and three. So this chart here includes Barb's numbers in it because we include everything from just north of Camelback to down near the Interstate eight. So that is the difference in those numbers.

So I want to talk a little bit about the term build out. Build out can refer to either when a city reaches a population peak or milestone or when you've run out of planned or developable land. A number you have seen in the past is probably the number somewhere around 760,000 residents. On the next slide, you're going to see a different number, and here's some of the factors that went into influencing that difference. Density.

How many people are actually living within a square mile of the city, or how many units were truly yielded from that? When you factor in washes, park lands, and roads, we often do not meet the density that we expected. Future land use assumptions. What do we assume build out of an area would look like? For example, when we designate an area as neighborhoods in the general plan, will it be single family? Will it be multifamily?

Or is it a 15 acre shopping center that reduces the amount of residential units that could have gone there? Rezonings. Changes in zonings can significantly alter our population potential. I'll use an example, Pebble Creek. When Pebble Creek was zoned, it anticipated a build out of 6,200 units, but there will be a build out of approximately 4,400 homes. That's a 30% decrease in the actual amount of units that were yielded when it was platted.

Areas around the future SR30, when that shifted to be a freeway, we made some decisions to make that more employment. Or Estrella 14, you all voted on that not too long ago. Originally that area of Estrella was going to have 8,000 units. Now we're projecting around 6,000 units. And finally, demographics.

Birth deaths and household compositions affect density, the number of children in homes, the presence of large retirement communities, and the age mix in different neighborhoods all create different persons per unit outcomes. So that will change. I gave you a little sneak peek of that bullet about two minutes ago, but in our previous 2025 general plan, at that time we assumed we were 10% of the way to build out. When we published our 2035 general plan, we assumed that we were at 14% build out.

So now let's talk about our brand new number that's not going to be 10 or 14%. So again, as previously shown, Goodyear has a population of about 122,000 residents within our annexed city limits. Beyond our city limits, we have a planning area that includes several annexed areas such as Cerebral Gardens or West Goodyear, the county islands in between there, or Rainbow Valley County Island. That broader area of influence has a population of 130,000 residents. It's about 8,000 residents that live.

Kind of surrounded by the city, but not in the city. Build out assumes that in the future we annex those areas. Again, we don't have to annex them, but when we're looking at how we project build out, it assumes we annex all the areas in our territory. And the picture on the right is a clue to what our number is. It's about, it's subdivision in Australia called Lucero, and that subdivision right there is at 22% build out. So I just want to give you a visual.

The new number is 22%, 22%, meaning that the vast majority of our community story is still ahead of us. This is the chart you just saw on the previous slide with the exception that it now shows the build out line in red on the top. So we've added roughly 3,000 to 5,000 residential units a year and we're growing towards that estimated build out and that new number we project is 575,000.

So the bottom line is this projection reflects a more realistic and refined estimate of where our future growth will lie. So staff has received questions oftentimes about the impacts of temporary national economic slowdowns or brief blips in building permits. And this slide will help reassure that our pipeline data shows a resilient rhythm of banking and harvesting of new housing.

In a development context, banking refers to securing future capacity, such as zoning approvals and planned units that can be delivered to the market when the market's ready to deliver them. Harvesting refers to advancing projects that are now ready to be converted, taking zoning lands and converting them to plan units or completed jobs or community assets. As it relates to our multifamily completes, we increased in calendar year 2025 from 1400 units up to 2400 units.

Our single family completes also adjusted upwards from 1300 units to 1500 units. In calendar year 2025, that resulted in a 61% to 39% split of weighted towards multifamily. And we've been hearing a lot about multifamily growth in Goodyear. And yes, the numbers reflect that. For the first time since the park shadow days of Goodyear, multifamily production has outpaced single family. But single family is still rapidly increasing, just multifamily even higher.

So our overall total numbers of deliveries of Goodyear units was way up in 2025. However, we know this wave, we knew this wave was coming and we want to look at the overall pipeline that we have in the city. Our overall split still remains an 80% single family city to 20% multifamily. Now on the next slide I'll talk about exactly where this temporary shift was predicted. So the image on your screen is the area of the future loop 303 in the Canyon trails area and you can see a lot of dirt.

A lot of that dirt was entitled for multi-family, but for the greater context, Goodyear experienced a major surge of single family development between the 90s and 2000s and much of the land entitled for higher density housing simply waited, sometimes for decades to be constructed. And many of those sites remain dirt fields.

So now that employment centers and rooftops are in place, multifamily and other diverse housing types are finally utilizing that longstanding entitlement or making adjustments where needed or right sizing the amount of commercial land because we know that we're now in the Amazon days and online shopping days and 15 acre shopping centers aren't needed where we thought they would. So the market needs more units and those entitled projects are now coming online. So it feels like we have arrived.

This is all arriving at once. at once. So you're seeing a lot of infill happening in those vacant fields and in 2025 development cycle is ripe for this type of construction. Infield.

So but we discussed this before and as far back as 2021 we knew Goodyear would trend in this direction When council received a presentation in 2021 we knew Goodyear would trend that direction At that time you can see the two bars from the left Goodyear was about 90 single family And council provided strategic direction to place multifamily in several key areas By 2024 we projected that Goodyear would be around 82 single family with the delta of that being multifamily which is closer to cities like Gilbert and Peoria And we're now seeing the benefits of that mix.

Our increased density played a role in us attracting key retail that the community wanted, such as Trader Joe's, because retailers look at both population and housing diversity for locates. For comparison purposes, this graph is actually relying on census data, so I want to point out one quick quirk. Those single-family bungalows where they're technically multifamily, but there's one unit in a building, those on this chart are counted as single-family.

But to compare ourselves amongst the cities, the main point I want to show you is that we are very in line with some of our other cities like Gilbert, Peoria, and we're right in line with that now. So again, in 2021, we predicted by 2025, we'd be around 82% single-family.

In 2024, we slid to 84% single family, and what came with that shift was a surge of commercial, entertainment, restaurants and gathering places because the multifamily helped create the customer base needed to support those uses. The trend isn't unique to Goodyear either. Communities across the valley are seeing long-entitled multifamily finally being constructed, and the next wave of that cycle will swing back to single family.

For comparison with our peer cities, the city on these lists all dropped in their single family counts, just as we did. So you can see Gilbert dropped, Surprise dropped, Goodyear dropped, Peoria dropped, Chandler dropped. They all gained multifamily, so we are not unique in this circumstance. And again, in 2025, the split harvested us back up to an 80% single family, 20% multifamily split. And I want to be clear, we didn't drop 4% in a year.

That's some of the nuance of comparing ourselves against other cities with the single family bunkalows. And now that we're aligned with our peers, we have that retail, that entertainment, and that employment base that we have been working to attract for years. All right, so we've talked about the 2025 numbers. The results of years of planning and banking that we have been doing means that those units have moved from entitlement to actually built product.

But alongside that, we've harvested and we're getting ready to grow our new crop of housing, which is underway. We've successfully banked a record number of 6,400 units in 2025. The split is shifting us back towards our traditional pattern of 5,100 single family units and 1,200 units of multifamily. And that represents again a return back to our normal cycle that we'll see.

The largest portion of that approval was through the Estrella 14 PAD rezone, where we modernize a 35-year-old PAD, and that's going to allow for 6,000 units in a master plan community. And through this effort, we are harvesting a high-density multifamily needs to support the workforce, while also banking a lot of single-family neighborhoods that will serve our future generations. So what does our future look like?

For future lands, a majority of the remaining areas in Goodyear are zoned AG or AU, Agricultural, Urban, or Ur, Agriculture, and also PAD. Most PADs in the city have an underlying single-family residential zoning, and both AG and AU allow for low-density single-family housing.

However, those zoning districts are largely a function of holding zones, meaning that as growth continues, we can expect that rezone requests will come in, And that will shift those one acre to five acre lots towards low, medium, and high density residential, as well as more commercial and employment districts. And I want you to consider that multifamily development requires far less land than single family, because multifamily carries higher densities.

So it uses less acreage while still leaving substantial land available for single family and other uses. So for example, on a 10 acre site, you can have 165 multifamily units, whereas that same 10 acres could yield 20 to 40 single family homes or zero homes if it turns into commercial. Additionally, we will see nearly half of our future rezonings accommodate a mix of uses, reflecting modern master plan community trends.

For context, here's what the mix will look like as we're looking at our next wave of developments. West Goodyear is approximately 10% multifamily and 90% single family. That Estrella 14 village rezone is a maximum of 14% multifamily. And the Solstice Foothills rezoning that we just saw is up to 32% multifamily. So again, we're in a pattern where we're seeing a lot of multifamily, that wave is going to shift as we move forward.

And again, these examples illustrate how future communities will continue to integrate that balance. So the next major developments coming online, the housing mix will include that for the long term.

And council will have a say in how we rezone the future ag and AU lands to make sure the mix is right for good here Our 2035 general plan also explicitly directs growth towards designated strategic hubs to concentrate employment and retail activities There are eight official growth areas which are shown in yellow stars, which I'll show on the map here for a second. And in the report, you'll see stories about all of these growth areas.

The growth areas are Goodyear Civic Square GSQ, Ballpark Village, the Bullard Tech Corridor and Redevelopment Area, the Canyon Trails Town Center Cottonflower Marketplace Area, Australia, Interstate 10 Corridor, PV303, and the SR30MC85 Corridor. We also highlight in the report a portion of our city that's not formally a growth area, but is experiencing a surge of development, and that is West Goodyear.

West Goodyear harvesting, years of council actions, years of development agreements, years of re-entitlements and substantial infrastructure agreements, and finally that those investments have been put in place, and it's finally growing into a well-designed and well-amenitized portion of the city. So the report goes further into those details and the report will also highlight all the progress by year in those areas. I'll give you a flavor of what's been happening in our growth areas.

In GSQ, our downtown came to life as a hub for both lifestyle and wellness. We celebrated the opening of Trader Joe's alongside local favorites like Bacchus Wine Bar, High Tide Seafood and Copper and Sage. And GSQ also became a healthcare destination with the grand opening of the 65,000 square foot Banner Health Center next to City Hall. Over in the Canyon Trails and Cott Lane corridors, we experienced one of our fastest growth periods in our history.

Welcome Burlington, Discount Tire, several restaurants, multi-family projects such as Senna and Australia Springs, and we finalized dozens of new buildings. And meanwhile, in Ballpark Village, it continued to transform, broke ground on multi-family projects like Verveer and Flats, and these key growth areas are where we've identified opportunities for different mixes of housing to attract the types of commercial development and businesses that we want.

An example, you see ballpark broke ground on a lot of multifamily. Well, as a result of that now Rush Funplex is located in the ballpark village growth area, and this is what the successful general plan implementation looks like on the field. So to truly understand how Goodyear manages growth, we have to look at the full continuum we call the hello to CFO or hello to certificate of occupancy process.

So project is a relay race and it starts when our economic development folks Meet and recruit for businesses. It continues through pre-apps. Then that's where we're introducing ourselves and letting a customer know what they need to do to be successful in the process. It goes through legal entitlement, for example, rezones and use permits. It then moves into plan review or technical reviews, reviewing site plans and plats.

Then permit issuance when they are ready to build, and that's rigorous, then rigorous field inspections before finally crossing the finish line and receiving a A certificate of occupancy and ribbon cutting. If we only look at one metric like building permits in step five, we miss the big picture.

When permit counts see a temporary market adjustment, it is often because our development community is intensely focused on finishing projects in step six, are preparing the next wave of development in steps three and four. So the life cycle of this is very important. Every step of the process is preparing for future developments and is really like a wave.

When one area is in process, may have less activity, it may also be because the wave of work has shifted to the next phase and ultimately arrives at a finished product. When we get finished product, that's when we get sustained sales tax and employment base and all those good things that we want. And to conclude, our primary message that you will see when you are reviewing the report is that our community is one of resilience and momentum. First, our fields are planted.

We have 3,342 residential lots finalized in plan review and more than 10,000 entitled unbuilt multifamily units ready to absorb future employment growth and employees living in the city. Finally, the impact fees are we recorded a record number of 4,220 completions, ensuring that growth continues to pay for itself, funding roads, funding parks, funding fire stations, without placing the burden of that on our current existing taxpayers.

Good, you're safe, financially stable, and is in consistent motion towards our 2035 vision. And with that, I want to sincerely thank council for your leadership and for your continued support of the development teams. We're really excited to provide you with this final report. We've been working hard on it and we think it truly reflects the momentum that we're experiencing across the city.

We also looking forward to continuing to update you annually on those update cycles and bringing you clear meaningful reports and stories for your following years And at this time open the floor to questions hear feedback on our momentum in motion theme and discuss the specific stories you like us to highlight in future years Thank you All right. First, I'm going to go to the ones on the phone. I'm going to call on council member Kano. Do you have any questions? Hi, Mayor. Yes, I do.

Christian, I want to thank you for the presentation. I found it to be very interesting. I really enjoy the title of Momentum in Motion because definitely we've been in motion for a significant amount of time. It's pretty remarkable to see the data changes that happen between 2024 and 2025. I like you reporting on the split of single family and multifamily and how that's moving. I thought I heard you say that single family bungalows count as single family. Is that correct?

They don't count as multifamily. However, when we look at our peers, the only way we're able to compare our peers is through census data. And the census has an anomaly where they look at building types. So some of those single family bungalows are counted, they're multifamily, but they count as single family when we compare ourselves. So our splits around 80-20, but if we're comparing ourselves to other cities, we're within 2% of some. Okay. That was a concept I hadn't heard before.

And then how many entitled multi-families did you say are waiting? We approximately have north of 10,000 that are entitled that are unbuilt. Okay. All right. Well, I think that's really helpful for us to know what has already been approved as we move forward. Any forecasts for the single family housing development? I know the market's been really hard with the interest rates and all. Great question. I would look to those next three communities.

When I look at West Goodyear that's actively developing right now, the new entitlement for Estrella 14 and the Solstice Foothills project, I think that gives us a good indicator that we're between 10 and 34% as we move forward. Okay, good. Lastly, I just wanted to commend development services and legal services for their work on process improvement for our whole development continuum. It's definitely paid off. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Kano.

Councilwoman Gillis, you have any questions? Yes. Christian, so what you're saying is, except for what's in the pipeline for multifamily, we're really going forward now with what looks like to be single family, correct? What I'd say is the future shows that there will be more single family built than multifamily. I could see it still coming in waves.

The market's going to definitely adjust, but the pipeline and what we have that we can draw on shows that we still have a lot of land for single family, and you'll see that come in waves as the market adjusts. That's what I wanted to hear. Thank you very much. Thanks for all the time you guys have put into this. I know it's taken a lot.

I know you've put a lot of time into it and energy, and I appreciate everything that you've done to get it to this point to fill us in and have us be aware of this. Thank you very much. Thank you, Councilwoman. Thank you, Councilwoman Gillis. Go ahead, Trey. Thank you, Mayor. I did want to expand slightly. I was going to bring it up, but Councilwoman Kano kind of drew it out. About how long on average do these projects take from entitlement to construction and occupancy?

Obviously that's an average and what forces kind of create fluctuation in that timeline? Great question. So I'll start with rezoning and entitlement. Sometimes developers are rezoning and entitling because they plan to move tomorrow. Sometimes they're rezoning and entitling so that they have a future um stock of entitled lots or developments they can draw on so the market will drive some of that.

What data you will actually find in the report though is once a permit's pulled, how long are we on average seeing before something opens? And I tell you that a trend that we've noticed is that commercial comes online right now much quicker than industrial, largely because of the scale. We're seeing large industrial, um, or employment centers that are multi-building millions of square feet. Those are taking several more than a year for certain.

Commercial you see takes less time, but an interesting fact I saw in that report was that if you have a speculative building that's built, it's getting the market much quicker. And I think one fact that you'll find interesting in the report is the square footage of speculative buildings we have in the city and how often those are being drawn down.

So there's a lot of companies moving here and they're able to get in their building much quicker because we have We have speculative buildings that they can do to us on quick and move in quickly. Okay. I wanted to bring that up just on the timeline, like the difference between entitlement and then what our residents will see out there on the street. So you had two pie graphs or pie charts up there. Um, where in the last year, more than 60% of the housing built last year was multifamily.

However, it was looks like close to 70% of the entitled units last year were single family. Correct. Um, obviously. The balance between multifamily and single family tends to be a little bit of a topic we hear from residents on. Multifamily is necessary to bring amenities. You know, people need a wide portfolio of housing. We've talked about this a long time.

I did want to draw that distinction because if somebody's watching this just saying, you know, 60% what you're building right now is multifamily. I've been on this council almost two years. I know Councilwoman Beckles and I can only speak directly in depth to that time. I think by about at least 2,000 units. Yes. Um, I do not or I am not aware of a single project that we entitled for multifamily that was not already zoned or had a pad to include multifamily.

Um, and I say this because there is a lot of concern out there about the from residents and if they see a number like 60 percent of the units that you're building, you know, because you're the one out there building these every day, I hear it as well. You're building nothing but apartments, you're building nothing but townhomes. That's not necessarily the case. That's not how it operates. There is a long delay between entitlement and actually construction and occupancy.

And I know that's not a question, but I'll give you the opportunity to comment. Yes, I have a practical example I can give you of that. Canyon Trails, the development was entitled in 1996 to 1998. That development is still approaching build out. But throughout all the late 90s into the early 2000s, they got one multifamily. The rest of it was a single family. So if you look at a percentage of canyon trails getting built, it was nearly 90% or greater single family.

And all those single family lots, the Oasis, 4S, all that got built out. And then all the multifamily along the 303 came late to the party. So we're talking about 1996, 1998 council, city manager, development services decisions that we're still seeing the results of in 2026. And all the last bit of stuff that's happening right now in this market is the multifamily. Largely that was entitled or got reshaped, but a lot of those multifamily. Yeah, you use the Canyon Trails example.

One that I was here for was, you had mentioned the Estrella 14 example. I believe that was 1988. There were, you know, five, 6,000 units of multifamily entitled. And I believe we shrugged that by around somewhere around 3,600 from what it was to what it could be.

in the future market depending obviously And again I bring this up not to say in a general sense multifamily is bad but as an acknowledgement that it is a sensitive issue in the public And I know you know if they just see oh 60 of what was built last year and there will be more And as you said there are 10 units that have been entitled across the city that have not been built And again speaking as to what I spoke of in the last at least two years I think it been three years since there been any new entitlement of it It a long process that not only takes years but in some cases takes decades Yes.

This is long range planning. This is absolutely long-range planning. Just wanted to get that out there on record and I won't make up another question. I'll just end it there. Anything, Wally? Well, Christian, when I moved here in 99, there were no spec buildings anywhere. And the only apartments I knew of was Park Shadows and that happened to used to be the military housing for the Navy base that was based at our airport. So to see where it is today, it's really exciting.

Sometimes it's overwhelming when you stop and think of where it's going and how quickly we're building. But it's just wonderful because that's what makes the city so vibrant. We need the density. We need the apartments. I'll give you an example. I'm at my dentist office and the hygienist says, I'm moving to Goodyear. And I said, oh really? She said, yeah, I'm moving into the apartments right across from Walmart. And I said, why did you choose that location?

She said, well, I have a 16 year old son that doesn't drive yet. And I want him to work at either McDonald's or one of the drive-ins. So that's why I decided to go into that apartment so he would have the ability to get a job. And I said, you know, I never thought of that. But we have so many single people and we have families that live in these apartments. And they're really, really exciting because they add such a flavor to our city. So I just love how Goodyear has built out.

Some of it I question, like you were talking about Pebble Creek. We're going to turn over from the homeowner, I mean, excuse me, from the builder, Mr. Robeson, to our homeowner in January of 2026 or 27. And that means every lot was sold. Now he had to reconfigure some of the lots because 303 came through and he couldn't put the size of the houses that had already been entitled in that area. So he had to downsize and that's why some of our numbers are lower.

But it's amazing and we're going to do the same thing with the 303 as they expand. I expect some of the land uses are going to change and we just need to be reminded as a council we need to be very flexible. And we need to take in the whole big picture. It's not what we particularly hear, but it's what we think is best for the community. But thank you so much for this plan.

I really encourage you to give it update to the council more frequently than we've had in the past, just so that they can stay abreast of how quickly things are developing. And I just say, go Goodyear. I can't wait to see what else is coming. Benita? Anita. Yeah, first of all, I do want to thank you for all the information you brought us here today. It's very encouraging to see and to see the growth.

I came here in 2013, so I obviously didn't see, I didn't know what was happening and how the growth was going on. But I met a lady, I have to tell this story. I met a lady that lived in Eagle's Nest in Pebble Creek and she was one of the first to move to Pebble Creek in Goodyear. She was just telling me this story because she thinks it's amazing.

So she called the post office to ask them where they were located and they told her, Oh we the very first building you will get to if you go down that street and look what it is now and what on that street now And it just covered with buildings So I think that it just amazing and I appreciate that But I do have a couple of questions You know this is really important and really good information And some of the key findings will they be shared with either the residents or the business community Absolutely So our plan is to continue to put the annual updates as we making them on our website So they'll be located, I'm envisioning it being located under development services where you go to see the general plan, the general plan updates will be below there.

So once we release it to y'all, we'll be posting it on the website as well. So are we actually growing the way we talked about it in the general plan? We are, and I think one point of note is that the IIP or Infrastructure Improvement Plan, it's how we're funding growth, it's how we're assessing development fees. We're neck and neck right now. We're right on line with those plans. So we're growing the way we expect it to grow. Okay.

I know some, and talking to some of the residents maybe up in Australia, They don't understand what a general plan is. And I know a lot of them have voted no on the last plan because they thought it was something that was a solid thing and we had to have the money for it right away. They don't understand that this is planning and this is planning for the future. So I certainly appreciate that when we are doing what the plan says and moving forward.

Is the population and infrastructure capacity moving at the same rate? Yes. Yes. Okay. Of the eight growth areas that we talked about, is one developing faster than any of the others or they're about the same? Great question. I would say that the total, they're all growing differently. So, for example, if you look at the total number of square footage, GSQ is growing in commercial development right now.

Similarly, Canyon Trails Town Center Canyon Trails is growing in commercial square footage, whereas PB303 and Boulder Tech, they're growing in industrial square footages. And then Ballpark Village is growing in residential. So they're all growing in their own form and fashion. And I'm hoping that that report when you're going through it, you'll be able to look at some of the growth areas and see how they're different. Awesome. Yeah.

And when you talked about the agricultural land that we have in good a year, what percentage is that? And are we looking at that land to Are we going to develop it in the future? Are we going to keep it agriculture? Is some of it like open land for deserts and parks? So currently in our city, 46% of the city is zoned AG or AU, which I would say a lot of that is a holding category. It's one acre or five acre lots because legally we have to allow them to develop. So 46% of it's AGAU.

The general plan designates about 34% of our city as open space, which can have an underlying of AGAU. A big chunk of that would be the Australia Mountain Regional Park. We have the wildlife corridor crossing part of the snowman preserves adjacent to our city. So you will see a lot. And then the river, the Gila River. So you will still see a lot of open space as Greeter develops. I know that is something that a lot of residents do talk about, wanting to maintain some of that open land.

That's all I have. Thank you. Thank you. Brandon? Thank you. Yeah, I don't have much more to add here. Yeah, I was on the general planning committee, I think, back in 2010 or something like that. So, yeah, that was one of my first entrances into government. So yeah, and I know it's all projections to your point. So this is all projections. I mean, we don't and residents hopefully understand that we don't decide what goes where the market kind of sides that as well or what's going on.

And that's why our there was such a large boom in apartment complexes because the state was kind of encouraging most of the cities to have more apartments for multifamily, more affordable housing, things like that. But I like their perspective of that it's an 80-20 mix still and that we'll probably continue to get to be stay at that kind of level, which is, I think it's nice that it's comparable too.

So I mean I only been here since 95 is when my family died here So it been a lot of growth to see the city come and grow and grow and grow and how to your point there really nothing on Australia or Dysart for that matter even too So except housing So so yeah so I think a lot of that driven by marked conditions So we see what everything does I mean we don tell the farmer to what to put on their land when they go to sell that AG and what that looks like in the future And I know that the general plan general plan has general ideas of where we want certain things to be And I mean in the future conversations maybe our strategic plan will be how we going to do land banking in the future how we going to do water banking just other things that project where we where we think as a city that we might want the next library.

Maybe we want the next annex for police, fire, all those kind of things. And those high growth areas in the future. So looking forward to those conversations in the future as well, if I'm still here at that time. And then I appreciate the annual update to updating all this stuff as well. So I appreciate that also. It's good and exciting to see how our city's grown, especially I think since when I was back in 95, maybe 20, 30, 40,000 people probably here at that time.

And we've definitely I increase significantly. It's fun to see the projections here too. So thank you. Great discussion. I'll tell you when I'm out in the public, I hear a lot of positive things about where the city is going and the planning. And it's a lot with the staff that you have there in development service, so I thank you. The only thing I would add is to piggyback a little bit on trays on the apartments.

I know they've got 10,000 units out there, but those units were zoned many, many, many years ago. And my gut tells me that a lot of them were zoned with much lower units, which means they're going to come before us asking for more. So we will still have some input on the future, I believe, on apartment complexes because they will be asked to add more so that pencils out. A lot of them won't pencil out the way they were zoned back in there because of the size on there.

So just for the council, keep that in mind. You will see some of them come before you again, even though they're zoned, wanting additional units. So with that, thank you very much. Now's the time for any commendations or reverts on current events or requests for future items. I'm going to call on Councilmember Kano first. Do you have anything you want to add? No, Mayor. Thank you. I'm going to call on Councilwoman Gillis. Do you have anything to add? No. Okay. Let me go around the bend here.

Anybody have anything to add? Go ahead. I just wanted to say that I actually picked up my sister from the airport and went right to rock the barbecue. We had a fabulous time there, but I really appreciate how they set it up and how they set it up for a lot of games for the kids. I don't remember that in the past, but it was just, you could tell the people were really, really having a good time as well as listening to the music, but it was a fabulous event. Thank you. Anybody else?

You got anything? Okay. City manager, do you have anything? I appreciate the comments on the Rock the Barbecue. Park staff, a large team made that event happen. I know they will be pleased to hear that you enjoyed the event. I also attended and saw lots of people having a great time. We are glad to see it. I don't know. I can find out. I'll find out for you. All right, with that, next meeting will be October 19, 2026.

Now a vote may be held to call an executive session for the following, Pursuant to ARS 38-431.03 A3 and 4 for legal advice and consultation to consider its position and provide instruction direction to the city attorney and city manager regarding city's position in connection with contracts that are the subject of negotiations associated with Goodyear Airpark. Can I get a motion in a second? Did you get that? You got Wally in that? Okay, so can we get a vote?

Now we got to do this manually and again you go ahead and call on the ones that are on the on the phone there. Council Member Cano, please state your vote for the record. Aye. Councilwoman Gillis, please state your vote for the record. Aye. Okay, everybody else here? All those in favor? Aye. Okay, with that, now you're going to need some time to set this room up, right? Okay. 10 minutes. All right.