Buckeye approves 160-acre Verrado Way mixed-use development with unanimous vote

We'll call this meeting to order. This is the city of Buckeye regular council meeting for April 15, 2025. We'll begin with the invocation led by Susan Cheetum of Susan Cheetum Ministries, followed by the pledge led by Vice Mayor Hustus. Would you all please stand? Thank you, Mayor Council members. Let's pray. Father God, we take this moment to honor you, to honor your son, Jesus. Thank you for the amazing blessed season that we are in in this holy week.

God, may the fear of the Lord enter our hearts and enter this room where major decisions are made. Thank you for the blood of Jesus that was shed on the cross for the forgiveness of our sin and the and the free access that we have to all the benefits that you came to give us. God, thank you, Father, for the hope that we have because of the resurrection of Christ Jesus. God, fill the city of Buckeye with the spirit of convict conviction to turn to you to know how good you truly are.

We call this city blessed and prosperous. We call in your agenda for Buckeye. Protect us from any nefarious plan of the enemy. God, in Jesus mighty name, we call in your kingdom rule. Thank you for our mayor who loves you and stands for the people. Bless him. Bless this council members, their families, the staff, the first responders. Father, give them all courage and strength to stand for those of us who live here, God.

Father God, be glorified in everything that's done and said here tonight in the matchless name of Jesus. Amen. Would you join me please in our pledge of allegiance? I pledge algiance 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. Thank you Susan. Thank you vice mayor. Okay. Uh we will have the uh roll call next please. Council member Yoner here. Barry here. Council member Goodman present.

Council member Hegestad here. Council member Beard here. Vice Mayor Hustus here. Mayor Osborne present. Thank you very much. Item number two is comments from the public. Members of the audience may comment on any non-aggenda item of interest. Do we have any speaker request cards tonight? Speaker requests. Okay. We will move on to uh item number three, awards, presentations and proclamations.

And we are going to take first uh 3B, the Buckeye Youth Council report on their senior projects and committee projects. Please come forward. Good evening, mayor and council members. Uh, first I want to thank you for this opportunity to share um the work that the youth council has done this year. This really means a lot to us because on top of participating in clubs, sports, volunteering, and then you know there's that little priority called school.

they actually put in uh countless hours to create and execute these projects that had basically one requirement and that was um they had to benefit and engage the community. So before I get started and turn it over, I just wanted to introduce some of my amazing youth council members. So over here, this is Maline Okamezo. She is um this is our first her first year in the youth council.

After this year, she's going to graduate and she is going to go to Estray Mount Community College and then on to Midwestern where she will be a pharmacist one day. Cool. This young lady is Maddie Guy. She is in her fifth year with the BYC. She is the chair of our civic engagement committee. She will be moving on to ASU next year where she will pursue a career as a constitutional lawyer. Wow. And last but not least, we have Malia Davis.

Malia is also in her fifth year as um a youth council member. Last year, she was on the executive team as the secretary and this year she leads the youth council as their chair. Next year she is moving on to Embry Riddle so that she can pursue a career in aerospace engineering. And without further ado, I am going to turn it over so that she can talk about we're going to talk about our senior project which was 100% volunteer by the way, voluntary. I didn't make him do it.

And then we will share um a little bit about the committee work that they did. Okay. All right. Good evening, Mayor and Council. As you know, I'm Malia. Um, I decided to do my project Rock the Block. It's a very cute creative name. It fits the project. Um, so first up in my time as youth council, I learned a lot about project planning and the importance of goal setting, not only for myself, but basically anything I involve myself in.

So, when I was going into making this project, I set a few goals for myself to make sure that I could achieve them. Um, so I wanted to create an impactful senior project that the community would notice. I didn't want it to be something small and insignificant. I wanted it to be something important that someone would walk by and notice. Um, I wanted a project that would in include different age groups and promote connection.

So, as a teenager in our community, I've noticed a lot of our age generations can be a little divided between the older and the younger. There is a really big disconnect and I really wanted to promote um them communicating with each other and something that could be across every group. Um, and then I wanted something that would challenge my project planning skills. I wanted something that was personal to me.

While I am about professional growth, personal growth is always a big initiative for me that I'm always focusing on. And I definitely needed to focus on my project skills because I'll be doing a lot of that in college. So, when you're making a project, there are some important steps that need to happen. For my timeline, the project needed to be finished by late March, right around spring, which was the perfect time for a pop of color.

This project was creative, so I had community members paint rocks about the size of your palm. And they could essentially paint whatever they wanted on it as long as they felt seen and excited to do it. So, I wanted it to be done by spring because that's the perfect time. Flowers are blooming, the weather's nice, people are out, they're excited. So, with doing an artistic project, I needed materials. Um, so I needed to come up with a way to get materials at low cost since I had no funding.

Um, I was coming from a place where I knew art supplies was really expensive. I did my research and if I were to have a budget, it would have been $300. Um, which can be a lot out of my personal pocket. So, the next step comes in, which is connection. I needed to find places I could get the rocks painted by community members while also gaining those materials for low costs. So, I wanted to show you my process, my timeline of how I went about completing this project throughout the year.

So, in October, I met with the arts and culture director, Alana. I would like to thank her as well as Candy Yoner. um and Sarah Silk and my art teacher, Mr. Jay Cox. This project was largely built by their support and I don't think I could have honestly done it without them. So, in October, I met with her to make sure I had approval to do a somewhat art installation. We also discussed where we would put these rocks.

So, she put me in connection with Candy Yoner and another local business representative, which gave me approval to put these rocks in our community. I also had to be mindful of the Main Street project that was coming up to make sure that these rocks had a permanent place and they weren't just going to get forgotten after like five years because they are something people made. Um, so I wanted them to be important. In November, I picked up paints and brushes from Tara at Cotton Blessings.

She was so amazing and so kind. She was like, "Come here for any materials you need." She gave me whole buckets of paint. She gave me um paint brushes and I was really grateful for her help. Um, and I was really excited to just share with her this cool project. And then in December, I attended Cottonfest. I had my first round of painters. So, I set up a table by the community services. Um, I had a lot of little kids come and it was very like a really cute experience.

Um, because they were excited. They were like, I can paint a rock. Um, the hardest part of that was explaining to them that no, they didn't get to keep it because it was going to be put somewhere. Um, and so it was really fun to actually when they'd bring over their parent were like, "Look, I painted this rock. Isn't it cool? And I got to explain my project all over again to someone and they were super excited.

Um, and gave me a lot of public feedback that made me realize how important this project actually was to people. In February, I hosted a rock painting session at the senior center. Sean is incredible and I'm actually very familiar with him, likely due to my connection through youth council. But he was more than excited when I called him to set up a date. So, we did late February.

I came in, he got about 20 seniors to sign up and they all painted rocks and it was a really exciting time to connect with an older age group and they're very fun and really kind people. And then in March I had BYC members paint rocks during our meeting. That was kind of my last round of painters and then I dispersed them early April. Um, so yeah. So what comes next in my timeline is where did the rocks go? I needed a place that would be respectful to the community.

I actually reached out to Alana even after I had the rocks painted to make sure I had approval to disperse them still. Um that picture is a bucket of some of the rocks I had. I had way more, but that was when I was running low. But um the Rockford Place along Main Street, Fourth Street, and Sixth Street. Uh she was really sweet. Alana actually offered to go with me.

She was like, "Why don't I go with you?" And I actually told her no thank you because I wanted to talk to local business reps because another personal goal of mine was confidence. I really wanted to make sure that I was expressing myself in a confident way. So, I got the courage and I talked to all these local people and I was like, "Hey, can I put like five rocks in front of your business? Why don't you choose?

Can I take pictures?" And they were really excited to talk to me and I got to explain to them my mission, what the Bucket Youth Council was, and kind of give them a new perspective. And then community members are excited to seek out the rocks that they painted and see a piece of themselves in their community. This is a piece I'll talk about a little bit later. Um, but what I learned, I learned that some projects take longer than others, and that's all right for them to be drawn out.

This is a long-scale project that took multiple months, so I was really nervous about it. Um, the follow through, making sure everything worked right, what if I missed something, what if I ran out of time? Um, so this was a really big learning experience for me about planning a project because there's a lot that goes into it. I learned to that communication is important, even if it's scary, and the connections you can't make can be very helpful later on.

Um, going into my senior year, I really wanted to work on my networking skills because they were pretty bad. Um, so learning that I had connections and a good support system and could communicate with people effectively through email, um, phone calls, lots of personal conversations really helped me to learn from and grow from those experiences. And then lastly was something that was the biggest part of this project was I learned how happy it makes people to see themselves in their community.

And it truly does to bring a smile to not only my face but their face. Um people were so excited to be able to be like I can go find a rock that someone like I painted and it's just spread out and they were like let's go check it out. Let's go look downtown. And that was really cool to see that people love participating and they love seeing themselves in a little piece of themselves because it helps them feel recognized.

It helps them know that they're a part of their community every single day and what they do does have an impact. So lastly, I wanted to show some pictures of where I put the rocks and what they kind of looked like. Some of these places you might recognize just from the corner. I'm sorry. Um from the corners, but people were so excited to see them. And you can see there's a lot of really creative designs that some people made, especially out of the rock shapes.

So like someone made a little whale out of a funky shaped rock, and I thought that was really cute. Um so people got really creative with it. But honestly, this project was a big learning experience for me. So, I thank the council for their time and I really thank my Buckeye Youth Council for all the experiences that I learned to help me prepare me or help prepare me for this. So, thank [Applause] you council. So, as Sarah mentioned, my name is Maline Guy.

So, first I'm going to share about my senior project and then I will go into our committee project. So, I'm currently a senior at Fra High School right now and I have been a proud member of the Buckeye Youth Council for 5 years. So, a BYC senior project as Sarah explained is it's a personal project that you embark on, something that you are passionate about. And while you do have help from your fellow Buckeye Youth Council members, you are doing the project by yourself.

you are planning everything by yourself and you are doing all the networking by yourself so that you can fulfill your passion. So I chose to do a treats for troops drive where I sent care packages to the military. Now I chose to do veterans for a lot of different reasons. The first one I'm a huge history geek and so I have learned a lot about the things that our troops have to face during wartime.

In the picture, you can see when I was in elementary school, I was part of the Girl Scouts and I did a coat drive for some homeless veterans and went to a homeless veterans camp. And ever since then, I just think I've had that little tug on my heartstrings. And then lastly, I just am proud to have many family members and loved ones who are in the military who I know would benefit from something like this.

So, for the initial stages of my planning, I was very proud to go to the Veterans Memorial at Sundance Park. I was able to network and get some help because while I knew that I wanted to do this for veterans, I needed to figure out what specifically I was going to do and my plan of action for this.

So, after I was able to connect with some amazing people from the Blueest Star Moms and the American Legion Post, I decided to build care packages for the military, I made flyers and I was ready to start getting some donations. So, I sent out the flyers to my school and I worked closely with my school. I'm in student government, so they were able to advertise and help me get donations through the school. I also posted flyers in city hall with a donation box.

You might have seen it, but I think the thing that really helped me the most was I sent out a personalized email to all the city employees. Some of you might have gotten it. And I was just explaining what the project was, my purpose, and what I wanted from it. And I gained amazing support from that. I got a $500 monetary donation from the Buckeye Police Foundation, which I used for shipping.

I also received some support from Westmech and just some other city members who were really willing to help. So, the main partnership that I would say I had was with the Blueest Star Moms. If you don't know who they are, they are a nonprofit organization composed of moms and grandmothers who have uh family members, sons, and daughters in the military. They have a lot of experience with sending out care packages.

They have contacts who they want to send them to, and they really just have a lot of experience and knowledge. So, I partner with them. They were super happy to help. And we set up a time and date for my packing party. What the packing party is, it's exactly how it sounds. It's a little party where you bring all your donations and you pack them all up. You put them all in the boxes. The boxes are about 15 pounds. And then they put labels on them and they're ready to get shipped out.

So, what worked best for me because I had a lot more donations than I thought I would. So, I organized everything into an assembly line and everyone would just grab their box and put things in there. I had helps from the city, my student government, and my friends and family. But the thing is, the Blueest Star moms are very, very particular. They want it to be organized in a very specific way because why are we shipping air?

So we would have to literally put our elbows on the boxes and try and get the tape on because we had them so stuffed full of donations. So that was just really amazing to see. So as you can see, I was able to send out 25 boxes to troops, which was huge because my personal goal was 19 boxes. Like I said before, these are 15 pound boxes and they are full of so much stuff. So to have that overflow of six boxes is huge. I was really proud of that.

We also were able to send two of the big boxes, which are the brown boxes. They're about double the size. So, we sent those to the border and we loaded those full of gloves and uh shoes, socks, kind of things to just keep them warm and on their feet because the blue star moms are telling us that the border has gained some new staff and they just don't have as many supplies. So, that was really amazing to be able to send some boxes to them. So, lastly, I want to talk about my reflection.

So, it was amazing to kind of see who was on the other side of the boxes. I had u a family friend who was at the event. He came up to me after the event almost in tears saying, you know, I've been on the other side of this box. I know how much it means. And that just really puts in perspective how helpful it is, especially seeing the list they had of their sons and daughters, their family members that these packages were going to.

And so it was just really heartfelt to see that these boxes were going to make an amazing impact. Blue star moms were also an amazing connection to have and I hope to stay connected with them. They really helped to while this was a solo project, they helped to really understand what I wanted and just kind of followed the initiatives that I set forth which was great. I was also able to network and plan a lot. So I actually had cards written.

And I had about 300 cards from all of the local elementary schools. They wrote personalized letters to the members of the military. So in the care boxes, there was like 30 cards per box. Some of them were from kindergarteners just saying, "Thank you." One of them said, "Thank you, Dad." Which was really heartfelt. And then some of them were from middle schoolers who wrote big long paragraphs. I just really learned how to network by myself instead of depending on adults who would do it for me.

I also just learned how to plan and organize myself. Like I said, I have to follow a specific timeline to get this done. So, that was really helpful. Lastly, I just want to talk about how we as a city can build on this connection. So, we obviously have the veterans liftup event, which is amazing, but I really think that we could take it the next level by having donations there.

Me and Janine Vanloon talked about this about maybe bringing a military vehicle and filling the vehicle with items because we can be doing so much more to show awareness for the people that are always giving service to us. So I hope that this project can continue for Buckeye Youth Council but also for the city. So that is my senior project. I'm now going to move on to our civic engagement project in our committee.

So in Bucka youth council we have two separate committees and we work on a committee to complete initiatives based on what they're outlined as. So for the civic engagement commun committee we needed to conduct a project where we address a need uh for our youth. So when we were brainstorming this, we thought of toiletries drive, something with the animal shelter, educating middle schoolers, having the youth government day, trying to get some recruitment.

But overall, we decided that we didn't necessarily want it to be something that would benefit the BYC, such as recruitment or educating middle schoolers. So we decided to make kindness kits, which is essentially a toiletry drive full of things for homeless people. and we later decided for homeless teens. So, we have meetings every single month and that was kind of where we started for this project.

We would have time allotted for each meeting to talk about the things that we need to get done and just to brainstorm. It wasn't until about January that we finally decided this is what we wanted to do and we needed to take steps because we wanted to be able to make these kits in our March meeting. So in the February meeting, we created actionable items that each and every one of us would have to follow.

We would meet up on Zoom, communicate in our group chat to make sure that we were reaching out to our school organizations and that we were getting the best help that we could need. We also had to advertise. So we made flyers, posted these out all over our schools so that way we could get as many donations as possible. So, the actual kits are ziplockc bags full of essential items, shampoo, mouthwash toothbrushes feminine products, razors, the list goes on.

We also had a card to showcase who we were, who these were from, and also some also some numbers in case they ever needed contact information on who else to get help from. We had so many donations, a lot more than we expected. Uh, I'll show you in these pictures. The tables were full of donations and it was really amazing. We were able to make 75 bags and these bags were stuffed full. Like I genuinely think they could last someone more than a month. We stuffed them full.

Honestly, from what I learned from the Blue Star moms who were telling us to put our elbows on those boxes, I kind of had that mindset. So, we did the assembly line also for these bags. And then our committee members, also just BYC members, and then Chief Sanders showed up to help and build these kits so that we could send them off. Moving forward, we uh brought the bags to some local school nurses. We're doing this so that we can really connect with our youth.

We want to bridge that gap and we want to make sure that these bags are being sent to someone we know they're going to help. And that's the whole point of our project, to connect with our youth and address a need. So we want to continue to work hard on this and partner with local shelters which is why we had the contact information of all faith and we hope to continue this throughout the years or even just be a strong partner for them that they can depend on.

We also just want to continue to spread awareness and importance. I had a personal friend of mine who actually got kicked out of her house at the time of this. And so it was really important to me to see that insight and see we are really doing something to help and we need to bring awareness because this is something that is a lot more common than we think and until it happens to someone close to us we don't realize it.

So what we learned we learned how to work together as a team specifically in times where it wasn't the easiest. Sometimes we had to be a little bit hard on each other that we weren't finishing our actionable items, but we had to do that in order to have a successful project. We learned how to network. We learned how to communicate. And again, we learned how to do those things on our own.

We also learned the power of our impact, being able to send these bags away, being able to see how many bags were on that table and just understand that we were doing something special. So, we hope to continue this on, but it's also important because in the past, our committee projects have fallen through a little bit. They haven't been as strong as we want, and we made sure that this project was very solid.

So, I think that sets a very high expectation for the rest of the Buckeye Youth Council so that we can have many more successful projects. So, thank you, council, for your time on both my projects. I really appreciate it. [Applause] Mine get confusing. Um, so as part of the community outreach, basically what we did was we were trying to find an event that event that like connect us all like all ages and all decided to go. It's called a club. So we uh partnered with the 26 another part of it.

It's like a culture Native American, Africaname, Asian, and it's going to have all different types of like from those cultures to kind different. Basically, for the planning, we surveyed our peers to find out what they would like. We decided on an event many cultures represented in an American history and started working with Lana from the art walk and thank you to Lana for all the support and help So basically some of the delegated tasks was the cultural crafts.

We had to come up with like ideas and which ones were probably like we had to like lay out like all the stuff and create with the music. We had to get like the music and all different types which is like then we had to advertise which we social media and like getting the word out and then we also made sure to get volunteers because this is a pretty big event. So, the event going to be the community art walk. It'll be April 26th from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Sundance Park Newer Park.

There'll be culturally inspired appetizers by Fresh Fitness, Make to see you guys there. [Applause] All right. Thank you so much for allowing us to share all these wonderful things. If you wouldn't mind if you if we could come down and take a picture with uh the ladies really quick. Then uh [Applause] Just so you know, everyone but Tony. He was supposed to go out and we were going to talk about him, but he's sticking around, so we can't do that.

Uh, next on the agenda is the Buckeye Civic Institute graduation event. Janine Vanluan will introduce and call names on certificates and, uh, we're going to hang out here and hand out RMOs and certificates, tell stories. I forgot to tell you that part. Right. Let's here first. Good evening everybody. Mayor, council, community members. I just want to say as a as a former teacher as I was listening to them, I I watch and we used to say getting the youth ready, you know, so important.

They're our retirement plan. So Sarah Silk, way to way to get those guys going. And the other thing is I listened to them and I realized 5 10 15 20 years from now they're going to be our civic leaders as well. And I thought about you all sitting here at civic institute. You were them at one point guaranteed out in their community doing a lot of good. So um tonight we're proud to recognize a group of 25 dedicated residents who took part in the Buckeye Civic Institute.

It's a 12-week journey into the heart of the city. These individuals committed their time and energy to learning how Buckeye truly works. From our infrastructure and public safety to community programs and long-term planning, the Civic Institute isn't just about gaining knowledge. It's about developing local leaders who are ready to inform, engage, connect, and make a difference in their community.

Our participants explored the challenges and opportunities facing Buckeye and built lasting relationships with each other and with many of the city staff who guided them, several in this room tonight. This program wouldn't be possible without the incredible support from our sponsors, including APS, who we have Anna in the house tonight. We thank you very much. Absolutely. Great example of community partnerships and civic engagement.

And then also an immense support from our departments, our divisions who opened their doors and shared their expertise, shared their staff and made a lot uh made for a lot of late nights. But to all of you, we thank you very much as well. From roasting s'mores under the stars at our parks to touring the water and waste uh water facilities, touring public works, fire and police, sitting in our courtrooms. Nobody was arrested, so we're good there.

Learning about economic growth uh and education, learning ice cream. Dave is apparently what it takes to build a city, right? Love that video. Um, they also got to meet with the nonprofits serving our community uh and development services, how we plan, how we grow. They even learned about budgets. I think Bill, did I see Bill here tonight? Yeah. No, don't shake your head.

Bill did an amazing job educating our community on how these budgets are done and how we are good stewards of the people's tax monies. Uh they also learned from the wonderful uh summer stewart over there uh who was helping us out teaching them what a the city clerk and really all the power is right there. Right. That's what she told her. No, that's what I said. I said that. Not her. Not her. No, they get to sign. They're like they have to submit till you do that. Like we're we're there.

Um they even got to meet our mayor and count and several of our council members. The experiences brought the city uh to life in unforgettable ways. The word Adam used the other night. and I loved it. It was transformative. A heartfelt thank you to every department that took uh the time to serve as teachers and hosts. Your passion and professionalism truly made an impact and we say thank you to you. To our graduates, you are now part of something bigger.

You've seen how much heart goes into serving this community and we challenge you to carry that spirit forward. You're like, I didn't read that in the fine print. I thought this was it. But no, there's more to come and we can't thank you enough. Congratulations on completing the Buckeye Civic Institute and we welcome you welcome you to the next chapter of your civic journey as one Buckeye, a community of limitless possibilities.

So, I'm proud to share already too, these guys already uh I was going to say there's 13 people already on the wait list for next year, but another one came in tonight. Somebody out here probably like, "Hey, go go go sign up." Uh, we're at 14. So, we know that we build this city based on the people we serve. And, uh, I thank you for the opportunity to do that with these great people tonight. And now, I would love to be able to welcome up to you, sir, uh, with certificate.

And to the, uh, participants, you don't know this yet. Um, along with your cool free Jersey mic. My Matt, I have to try to up you on that one. Uh, we did get you a fun uh, new thing. It's a challenge coin uh, for Buckeye Civic Institute 2025. Okay. So, I'm going to read your names. We'll have you come up and uh mayor's going or are you reading the names or Okay. Uh you're handing the certificate. Sure. I think that's how that's working. Perfect. We'll leave it there so I can read the names.

My apologies. Um we'll uh have you come up, shake hands. You got a welcoming committee here. Then you're going to stay over here. The wonderful Christine Grundy who brought this program back to us last year. Thank you Christine. and coach me. I thank you for this opportunity to tonight, my friend. Um, she will wrangle you in for the final group photo. So, here we go. And then it's off to Kasa de Le for big celebration. Um, unfortunately, Shauna Bailey is not here.

She's actually doing civic engagement in her community. The water's out, so we're still clapping for her. She She's the one in tonal pop, but she's there helping her people. Uh, Kathleen Camp [Applause] Laura Kellen [Applause] Tony. I'm not sure if he snuck in yet. If he didn't, we're still going to clap for him. Charlie Cooper III. [Applause] Bill, you can clap for him when he comes to the office. Jeremy Dyke, come on down. The community engagement of [Applause] good. Carl Goyne.

I think almost every class we had, somebody from the city would come like, I know that man. I've seen that man. I've known him for 10 years. He's been on every committee. avoided him. Representing the great area of Tartesa, we got Adam Gonzalez. Come on down, Miss Marty Hammond. Best sugar cookies in town. [Applause] You're the cookie lady. She always asked me permission to bring cookies. I'm like, do we really need to ask permission? Thank you. Thank you. And this gentleman drove the cookies.

Mike Hammond. [Applause] [Laughter] Miss Kathleen Harris. [Applause] Always with good questions, my friend. Yes. Oh, look with her own paparazzi. Way to go, Kathleen. She's a civic leader. She's running for some office. I'm sure Vanessa Kins or author of the Buckny Buzz. He's not making subs. He's learning about his city. Matthew Lince. [Applause] [Laughter] He's been crying. Live on YouTube tonight. It's good. And she's not teaching water aerobics.

We got Miranda Merchant helping do our social media here at Buckeye Civic. Love the conversations I got to have with the wonderful Miss Deanna Marino. [Applause] And Aisha Morris who is already making a difference community through the WOW program still wants to learn more. We appreciate that.

Next person may never take my phone calls again, but I'm really glad she took the one where I said, "Hey, Fran, do you want to come hang out and learn about your city, Franzinski, thanks to you, Matthew got a teapot. I don't know what that means. Congratulations. The wonderful Geese Sohi originally from Belgium but here in Buckeye man. Nice having you my friend. One of our final candidates we got into the program this year. Andrew Texador. And I'm so glad that he asked his mom join us.

His mom is an ex Helen Texador. Come on down, Helen. [Applause] Thank you. There you go. Another lady I got to have wonderful conversation with, Miss Tanya Vanam. Come on [Applause] down. This person gets the most miles traveled. Represent the great uh community in Buckeye Festival, Miss Carolyn Whitehead. Thanks, Carolyn takes away any excuse for any of this to traveler festival and back. You did it. And another great community leader out there in different areas, Moren Wilson.

And representing the great area of West Park, the wonderful Russell Wimbley. And if you know him, you get to call him Rusty right? [Applause] Oh, which part? Sundance in villages. Villages of Sundance. Forgive me. It's It's near a park. Who is West Park? Debbie. Debbie was West Park. And Debbie unfortunately could not be here tonight to defend herself on that. Yeah. So again uh mayor council community members, this is our community.

To our our directors and staff in the room, I get a I I had the chance to work with him and it was a reminder every day. And I cannot thank you enough. You're why we go to work. You're the reason why we get to serve this big city. It's the reason we get to say we want to grow the biggest city. If it's not for our residents, then who is it for? So, thank you so very much to you all for this opportunity uh to work with you. And again, we're just getting started. So, one big group photo, please.

Practice slow. How are you? Good. That was you. Got the family paparazzi. Well done. [Applause] Thank you very much. Yes. Yes. Is that okay for us? Just one minute. Oh, one minute. Yeah. Okay. Did you need No, drips out of it. Have a bunch of food left over. So, you need to take a strip in heaven. Hey, the uh before you all leave, let's hang tight just one minute. Have a seat. And we have a a real quick special presentation. Thank you. Well, appreciate you, mayor. Appreciate your council.

Um, I was kind of asked to come up here and say a few words about the Buckeye Civic Institute and uh my experience with that and and uh what I thought was what I really got out of it, you know. And I tell you what, after watching that uh man, those young ladies earlier, man, I'm I'm just like blown away. I'm so intimidated. I'm like, man, I don't know how I'm going to follow that. And then after Janine was up here, I'm like, man, there goes all my notes.

That was all the stuff I was going to share, all the fun facts and all that stuff. like what am I going to say? But but the truth is is um I joined this uh I joined this course because I don't know somebody recommended it to me and I don't know if it was um because I wanted to grow the business that I operate in Buckeye or if I wanted to launch my political career but whatever it was I joined for a selfish reason really you know but what I got out of this was uh was truly mindblowing man.

I mean, it really was transformative for me and that's why I use that word because it really helped me to understand how the city actually functions and what it takes to make things happen within the city because you know I used to be one of those people who would get upset about something and and you think you know what the problem is and if they would only do that then everything would be okay. So why don't they just do that? You know what I mean?

like looking at the symptoms and not the problem is is really what I was and then I started to think about it. I was like, man, you know, I remind myself a lot of my dad, you know, or maybe Carl, where's Carl? You know, like, you know, when when when they're when they're working when they're working with technology and technology doesn't seem to be doing what they want it to. So, they think if they just yell at it harder or hit it harder, like it's going to do what it's supposed to do.

And uh and that never works, right? But if they just understood how it functioned then maybe there would be a better solution and I think that that's what this course has done for me. It has helped me to understand the function of the different departments and how they work together synergistically where they all support each other and they're all just different facets of the same organism.

And I tell you what, man, it is it has truly changed my view of the city and and and what it means to be a part of the city. And man, uh let me see. Let's see what did I say here. I said I said uh yeah um man that's what it was and the one thing that I really took away man was the uh just the just the sheer commitment of all the employees and the leadership within the departments that has led to so many national accreditations across all the different departments like that is phenomenal.

That is something that you should be proud of as a citizen of Buckeye. That man that each of these departments in their own way has so has stood out in our in our nation as a whole. And that just speaks to the leadership and the individual commitment of the individual employees that gave up their time to sit there and share with us what they do and why that's important to their and man that was phenomenal. But that but you know all that pales in comparison to what Janine did for our class.

I mean, she truly she truly was she truly was the the heart and soul of our class. She was I mean, if anybody knows anything about, you know, a volunteer like a volunteer army or volunteer organization, I mean, just getting people to show up is is tough, right? But being able to herd cats, like that's a whole another thing. and and for her to do that with just the enthusiasm and grace and just uh and just the passion she had for what she was sharing, you just know she's an educator.

You just know she come from an education background because she just instilled in us that desire for that information, man. And I don't think that man that I would have got in as much out of this program as I did because she's a part of it.

She took care of us and she helped me through that trans transitional process for myself, you know, to from from becoming from being a citizen here in Buckeye to being a civically minded, you know, um civically engaged advocate for my city, you know, like that's really what I do now.

When I see my like when people start complaining me, I'm like, "Hey, look, you need to go talk to these people, right?" Like I don't just take complaints and just, you know, just just breed it up or or gaslight it any, you know? I'm like, "Hey, look, there's a solution to this." Well, and then when you tell people that, they don't ever want to get to the solution. But anyways, that's what I wanted to share with you guys.

Man, I'm so grateful because I know sometimes when you have these untangible things like this where you can't quantify it on a on a spreadsheet to say, well, this is the value of what this course is doing and us dedicating our time and our resources. we don't really see the the return on that and I'm telling you it is priceless and I'm so grateful for Thank you. Okay, one last thing and then we're kicking you all out of here. Uh actually two. First off, there's no crying in Civic Institute.

Okay. Second, you should have him show you his notes and the font that he uses. That is ridiculous. I don't know how you could follow that. Uh but it it is so incredibly important that all of you and have over um having you come in and the behind the curtain look at disagree, but you have a much hope that you go out and just are ambassadors for the or voices coming back to Right. I know what you're public. What's going this talk it up in your community.

Talk it up with neighbors on that are the most come and be a part of of what you all have experienced here. Uh, and it's it's eyeopening. It's now here. [Applause] I don't know the date. Amen. Okay, we'll continue with the agenda. Item number four is consent agenda items. Approval of items on the consent agenda, all items with an asterct, are considered to be routine matters, will be enacted by one motion and vote of the city council.

There will be no separate discussion of these items unless a council member requests. This section may include the approval of minutes from previous meetings. Council on uh the consent agenda. What is your pleasure? Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion that we approve consent agenda items 4 A as in Adam through 4 K as in King. Second. I have a motion for approval of four alpha through 4 kilo. All in favor say I. I. I. and opposed. Consent agenda passes.

Uh public hearings and non-consent new business. Item 5 a council to hold a public hearing and take action on ordinance number 10-25 extending and increasing the corporate uh corporate limits of the city of Buckeye, Maricopa County, state of Arizona pursuant to the provisions title 9, chapter 4, article 7, Arizona revised statutes and amended thereto by annexing approximately 5 acres located approximately 1,000 ft west of the south Apache Road along the south frontage of Balote Road.

It's Andrea. Hello. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Andrea Marquez with Development Services senior planner. As mentioned, uh, tonight is the second public hearing for the Zho property annexation. Up on your screen, this slide, uh, provides and shows a vicinity map of the proposed annex um, area, which is outlined in red. This is within our downtown area just south of East Below Road and between First Street and 10th Street. The property is currently undeveloped.

Now, the goal for this area is to allow for future improvements to be managed and permitted through the city, ensuring alignment with the city planning and development standards. Currently, the property is under Maricopa County RU43 zoning, which stands for rule 43. This zoning typically allows for rural or residential development with large lot sizes, 43,000 square feet per lot, typically your 1acre lot development.

The request is for annexation, meaning that the property is being proposed for inclusion into the city of the city limits, which will then allow city level regulations and services to apply. Now the proposed zoning once annexed um the property will be reszoned to residential 43 which is our um R1-43 which is compatible with the zoning with the county. The zoning change aligns with the city future development plans.

The size of the property is um five acres providing enough space for the planned improvements while meeting zoning and development guidelines. One of the things that the planners check for this slide outlines just the current statuses and the compliance that um the city and the applicant has to comply with the subject site with the state return u requirements and also just the annexation process.

The site meets all the necessary size, dimension and contiguity requirements as set by the state statute. This ensures that the property is eligible for annexation and uh development as it adheres to all the legal criteria. To start the process, uh you're required to record a blank petition that was officially recorded in February. Um it's an important milestone that triggers the uh first public hearing which we heard um approximately a month ago.

And then all public notices um have been posted um regarding the annexation and they've been completed. More importantly, there have been no public comments specific to this annexation uh received so far. This just indicates that the community has not raised any concerns or object objections about the proposed annexation and also all reviewing departments have assessed the proposal and there are no outstanding issues from any of them.

So suggest that the annexation request is in good standing with the city's various departments for tonight. Um this is a second public hearing um which will uh staff is asking the council consideration of approval of ordinance 10-25 approving the annexation request and that concludes my presentation. Is there any questions? Okay, before we go to that we will uh open a public hearing and um do we have any speaker request cards? There are no speaker requests.

We have no speaker request cards on 5A. Anybody from the public wishing to speak? I'm seeing none. So, we will close the public hearing and any questions from council on 5A. Seeing none, council 5A. What's your pleasure? Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion that we approve item number 5A on our on our agenda. Thank you. Geez, I was going to give duck over write up for numbers. Uh, I have a motion um for approval of 5A and a second. All in favor say I. I. And opposed. 5A passes unanimous. 5B.

Thank you. uh council to hold a public hearing and take action on ordinance number 12-25 extending and increasing the corporate limits of the city of Buckeye, Maropa County, state of Arizona pursuant to the provisions of title 9, chapter 4, article 7, Arizona revised statutes and amendments there too by annexing approximately 167.8 acres generally located at the southwest corner of Rodaway and Yuma. This Mandy Woods. Good evening, mayor and members of the council.

Uh my name is Mandy Woods and I'm planner with development services. I am going to be presenting um case number PLCM24-00006 um which is annexation located at the southwest corner of Verado Way in Yuma Road. And this is the second of two required public hearings for this request. Just a brief overview. Um the exhibit on the following page is going to provide a little more context um as to the the area that's being included with this annexation.

It's a total of 167.8 acres in size and it includes eight parcels um as well as um adjacent rightway. And the rightway and city-owned parcels actually began this process separately.

um city's requests were combined this private land owners application just for simplicity moving forward and in red on this this context slide you can see this is the annexation boundary that is being considered so it does include um a good portion of what's remaining on Yuma leading down um cutting off right at the the northern edge of the RI canal there. Um for some adjacent um context, the to the north there's a vacant auxiliary field which is owned by the the state land department.

To the south is agricultural land. Um east is an educational institution. Um and to the west is um a single family residential. Um and then the property itself is a a vacant or a former dairy farm. the general plan land use of the the subject property is neighborhood. Um however, there is a concurrent minor general plan amendment request um that that will um actually follow this case tonight. Um it will be heard after this one.

Um and that was for almost 46 acres um along Verado Way um requesting to change to business commerce. The existing zoning is Maricopa County Rule 43. Um and then upon um approval of an annexation, it would be assigned an initial zoning of City of Buckeye single family residential 43 or our R143 district as that's the the closest equivalent.

Um but there is a concurrent resoning to planned area development that is also being heard tonight um following this case and that minor general plan amendment request. This request does meet the eligibility requirements pertaining to size, mentions, contiguity, um all of those things established by state statute. Um the blank petition was recorded on January 7th of 2025 and then um the first hearing was held within the last 10 days of that 30-day waiting period as required by by statute.

Um there were no speakers during the first council public hearing which was held on February 4th, 2025. Um following that, the petition was signed and recorded um at the end of the the waiting period. Um all notices have been completed in accordance with um development code and and statute requirements. There has been no public comment received to date um regarding the annexation request specifically um and no um outstanding issues from reviewing departments.

So with that um as stated, this is the second of two required public hearings. So tonight, um, the recommendation is to go ahead and conduct a public hearing. Um, and then staff recommends adoption of ordinance number 12-25 approving the annexation. I did want to note the applicant is here. Um, and I am of course available for questions. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. Uh, first we'll open a public hearing. Is there any speaker request cards for item 5B? Speaker requests.

We have no speaker request cards for 5B. Any from the public wishing to speak? Seeing none, we will close the public hearing. Item 5B. Council, any questions? Yes, sir. Yes, Vice Mayor. I'm not sure whether this question or these questions are going to pertain to this one item or any one of the next two, but um has anyone talked to the school and talked to them about the issues of the traffic and the issues that this may create on Verado Way?

Um I the there was coordination that occurred with um both school districts regarding the proposed um land use plan that will be part of the the next two cases. Um and then traffic considerations are are also really a consideration of the the next two cases as well. And what's going to happen to the bridge on Verado Way? Who's taking Pardon me, mayor, vice mayor. Um there are two more presentations. This is just the annexation, sir.

Okay, we're a little bit off the agenda item which one I want to ask it on. If you could hold that question to the next presentation, sir. Thank you. Fantastic. Thank you, Mr. Mr. Attorney. May I clarify though that um the bridge is not included within the annexation boundary. So that's this one, correct? Okay. Thank you, Vice Mayor. You got to let us catch up to you. You you typically work way ahead of us. Uh any other questions from from council? All right. Council 5 Bravo.

What's your pleasure? Mr. Mayor, I make a motion we approve agenda item 5B is in boy. Second. I have a motion for approval of 5B and a second. All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed. 5B passes unanimous. 5 C.

council to hold a public hearing to take action on resolution number 14-25 approving a minor general plan amendment to the imagined Buckeye general plan 2024 to change the land use designation of approximately 45.9 acres located approximately 1200 feet south of the southwest corner of Roaway and Yuma Road from neighborhood to business commerce you're still up yes um and this is going to be a combined presentation um for both I don't know if he needs to 5C and 5D D. Correct.

But we still take them individually on the votes. Correct, mayor. And the public hearings. That's correct. Okay. Got it. Thank you. Okay. Excellent. Um so again, my name is Mandy Woods, uh principal planner with development services, presenting um this minor general plan amendment and planned area development case. Um the numbers are PLCU24-00004 um and PLZ24005. Um and on the slide, these are the the request summaries.

The the general plan amendment request is to modify the land use designation from neighborhood to business commerce. Um and that is totaling just under 46 acres in size. Um and then the reszone um impacts the entire property approximately 168 160 acres in size. Um and that would reszone it from R143 um to planned area development if approved. won't spend too much time since I gave the the context already. Um but the subject property um I did want to note in red is the P a boundary.

So that is the entire property that's being considered. Um but in blue um is the the minor general plan amendment boundary. So it's only a portion of the property approximately 46 acres. Um before I get into details on um the specifics of land use and zoning and the requests, I wanted to start with a project overview so it's clear why both um the GPA and the PAD requests are needed for this this project.

So on the screen here is the proposed land use plan for the project um that's included in the PAD. This is really a master plan community. Um it's 160 acres intended to develop with a mix of residential, commercial, and business park uses. Um and so we have the kind of lesser intense lower density single family residential development units um which are parcels D and parcels E and those are located um west westward within this land use plan.

Um so more internal to the site and that forms a logical land use transition um from the existing Sundance community. Um and then as you move eastward um all these other uses, we have a neighborhood supporting commercial um development unit at the hard corner and then that's surrounded by anticipated multifamily uses um and then it transitions south to um some business park uses and these are um located as appropriately um along major roads and at the periphery of the site.

Um, and I did want to note that um, for business park, the business park parcel, this is intended to be smaller uses. So, um, a a good comparable area honestly could be where our city hall east is and that actually is zoned um, business park as it stands today and those are smaller scale business park buildings.

Um this is not intended to be something that is um much much larger in scale like um Ross distribution or um five below which are um more industrial more um industrial based zoning as well. Moving into um the actual requests tonight. Um the the existing land use of the property is neighborhood. And so the request tonight is to to change a portion of that um to um business commerce, just the 46 acres shown in red on the second half of the slide there.

Um neighborhood allows for um a broad range of residential um different types and densities. Um it can include attached detached products, multif family, but it can also include um a lot of neighborhood scale shops or other supporting neighborhood uses like office, anything that kind of fits the category of supporting a neighborhood.

But um and this area is also um I wanted to point out adjacent to our landing specific area plan area which is ongoing and this is intended to be really an employment or educational and entertainment hub. and then explain in greater detail that this this is going to be um the 46 acres is going to be business commerce and um that category is really intended for um community and regional serving um commercial development professional offices, business parks.

It needs access to major roads and encourages walkability connections to adjoining neighborhoods. Um but emphasis on no larger scale or heavier heavier industrial in this land use category. And that lack of larger scale or heavier industrial is really what separates business commerce from our employment category which is more of an industrial land use category.

Um, as I stated, the applicant's intention is to develop the portion of the site, parcel F in blue on the screen, um, with a business park setting that could include light industrial office, um, some light manufacturing, um, and limited retail uses. Um, and parcel F is the only development unit within this proposed land use plan that is not compatible with the existing land use designation of neighborhood. U, moving into the zoning request.

So the existing zoning of the property um since the annexation has been approved is um R143 and um the proposed zoning for the entirety of the property is uh planned area development which is designed to accommodate the land use plan that I had previously shown on screen.

the proposed P A um all of the the different development units, they can vary up to 10% in size, but otherwise they're going to follow standard development code procedures in terms of um whether or not amendments are required in the future and what criteria minor or major amendments have to follow. Um uses and development standards are prescribed by each development unit.

um using the city's existing zoning districts as kind of a starting point um with modified standards and then um all future design reviews are um will have to follow all development code requirements um standards and guidelines. There was some representative imagery that was provided within the PAD um but this is intended only to asssure quality. It's not binding in terms of architectural style moving forward.

So I'll give a a highlevel overview of the the permitted uses that are part of this PA AD. As I stated, they kind of use the existing zoning districts in the city, the base districts as a starting point. Um but they tailor them a little bit more narrowly. Um the staff report points out a lot of those differences, but um and I wanted to state that the PAD does expressly list all um permitted and conditional uses for each parcel, even though the this comparison is up on the screen here.

Um so parcel A the intent is is neighborhood serving commercial with intensive uses removed. Um parcels B and C is intended for for multif family. It's most comparable to um one of our multif family districts. Um parcels D and E are are based off of kind of our lower or smaller um lot residential districts. And I wanted to point out that um they some of the uses that have been added are single family attached and town homes.

Um these are not actually expressly listed in our development code today. Um and we consider these to be sort of missing middle housing types that are really important for for kind of filling in some gaps in housing product types within the city and it's something that we would anticipate adding to um the use table in the development code update as well. So that is a change. Um but that feels very appropriate for kind of the the housing climate.

Continuing on the permitted uses discussion, parcel F um is based pretty much entirely on the the business park zoning district base zoning district um except um it adds these limitations. Um so crosstock warehousing is specifically prohibited by this PA and then warehouse buildings are limited to a maximum size of 150,000 square feet. um they can go up to 200,000 square feet, but that's only through an approved conditional use permit. Um development standards similar to uses.

It's kind of using the the base zoning districts in the city as a starting point um but with some minor modifications that result in more predictability of development character about what might occur on this on these properties. And again, these are just for comparison. the the PAD does expressly expressly list the development standards for each each parcel. The asterisk is just to indicate that there's some minor modifications that were in more detail summarized in the staff report.

Um but I'll call attention to parcels B and C. Um it's loosely based off of multif family 2, but whereas multif family 2 um doesn't have a density maximum or a height maximum. Um the P A does put in kind of those those guard rails and and limit the density to 8 to 25 dwelling units per acre and then provides a maximum height as well. Um, let's see.

Parcel D, um, is unique in that it separates the the standards based on either an attached single family product type or a detached single family product type. So that way there's there's clear standards depending on what might develop in the future. Um, and then parcel C largely follows the the detached standards that parcel D. Parcel Follows our business park based zoning district standards. for public participation for both the GPA and PD cases.

Um due to size, uh this one did follow the larger 500 foot mailing requirement for um both the neighborhood meeting mailing notices and the hearing notices. Um the neighborhood meeting was held on November 13th, 2024 um at the Buckeye Library, the Coyote branch. So nice and close to the the project site. Um all noticing has been um compliant with development code requirements. There were no attendees at the neighborhood meeting um except for of course the applicant um city staff.

And then the planning and zoning commission did recommend approval for both cases um the PAD subject to the conditions that are that are listed on March 25th, 2025 for future development and infrastructure. So submittal and approval of future site plans and subdivision plat applications are going to be required.

Um as this this property eventually develops um at the time of each site plan or subdivision plat submitt staff is going to ensure that the proposed development is consistent with the the PAD um and features high quality design that meets our code requirements. Um especially for parcel F. um this that that would be the opportunity to ensure that any proposal is consistent with the intent of the business commerce land use designation.

Um as well there is no phasing um necessarily specified by um the PD single family might develop first just based on market conditions. um but would require a cause um per ADWR requirements if that were the case um a certificate of assured water supply. Um and then the developer will um be responsible for completing all water, sewer, transportation, half street infrastructure improvements um which would be further clarified um by um the site plan and preliminary plat approvals.

I did want to note that a master traffic impact analysis is going to be required with the first site plan or preliminary plat that's proposed for the subject property. And then carrying on with um kind of that last bullet there on the subject of traffic. This is a very high level kind of rough exhibit just to paint a picture here. Um but these are um the transportation improvements that would be um affected by this P A or be um expected in the future.

So red is actually um intersection improvements via um a future CIP project. Um the precise limits are to be determined. So that's why this is a rough graphic and not a more precise image for your viewing pleasure. Um and then the kind of yellow yellow orange um it would be the street improvements that the developer would be responsible for. Um there's half streets on Verado and Yuma and then um the internal collector roadways that are identified within P A.

And I did want to call attention to there is a stipulation or a condition of approval that is within um the PAD staff report um and that's W and that requires a very specific phasing schedule of half streetet improvements um and that ensures that no matter which development unit in this P A develops first um the roadway improvements it it spells out a schedule for how these roadway improvements have to be um done.

That way um we ensure that the improvements are adequate depending on how the timing of all of this works out. Um and that's really one of the the main benefits of taking this master planned approach um to this project area is that you can look at things more holistically like that for um emergency services and schools. Uh the property will of course be serviced by city police and fire.

Um they did go through um an adequate school facilities process as required by um because it is a land use change and um so notices were sent to the the high school district and elementary school district um and they did get feedback that um adequate facilities do exist or are planned to be constructed um in time to accommodate the projected number of students from the project. Um and then just to end on some analysis highle points here.

Um so staff does believe that both um these cases combine the further goals of the Buckeye general plan. Um provided of course that the minor GPA is approved. Um it conforms to the Buckeye development code and or it proposes alternate standards that results in um very high quality development. Kind of emphasis on the second point there. Um staff does believe the modified standards proposed offer more predictability of the site development and while balancing the flexibility that um this needs.

Um and it truly meets the intent of what a PAD is supposed to do in terms of assuring quality. Um and then there is no there are no outstanding issues from reviewing departments. So with that um the recommendations for both cases are listed on the slide there. They must be considered in the order that are that is listed um and considered separately as far as hearings and motions. The applicant is here. Great. Thank you. Okay. Great job, Miss Woods. Done. Yeah.

Uh okay, we will start with item 5C and open a public hearing. Uh been no speaker request cards for 5C. None. Anybody from the public wishing to speak? Seeing none, we will close the public hearing. Council, any questions on 5C? Yes, sir. Vice Mayor, you want 5C? You want it now or you want it on 5D? I I believe that because this was a joint presentation, sir. You can ask any question relating to development general plan amendment or the reasonzoning. Thank you for checking, Vice May. Okay.

All right. Here goes the bridge. Somebody explained to me who's going to put up the money since we I don't think we collected all the money we were supposed to from the school if I'm correct. And so we are going to have to do something on the bridge. And while you're up there, I've got several other questions also. Hello, Mayor and Council. My name is uh Dr. Anisa Gerard. I am the acting city traffic engineer here for John Willlet.

Um I have not met some of you, so it's very nice to meet the some of you that I haven't met. Um, regarding the bridge, sir, it is a fee and loose situation. I believe that they're not responsible for constructing the bridge over the canal, but they will be responsible for paying their quarter portion of it, and then the other quarters will be paid by the surrounding uh properties that surround the other three sites.

What process are we in to get the rest of our money from the school from Odyssey? Because considering I don't believe they paid us the full amount, I don't know if we've lost that issue. You you just made the attorney turn on his microphone. You again, vice mayor, for giving me the opportunity to urge you to stay on the agenda item. We don't want to talk about the bridge tonight, sir. That's a separate matter. Um we have resolved that issue with the school. Okay.

And so I appreciate you bringing that up. That's what I wanted to hear. But they are going to pay for their quarter of that bridge. Is that correct? Um, we we we should talk about that at another time, sir. I'd be happy to do that. Okay. Another question then. The big red X that was on the map. Yes. Who's going to help pay for that intersection being raised? I understand two feet and that whole intersection having to be reworked at Yuma and Verado Way. That is currently in our CIP project.

Oh, that I believe is being done by the city. So, we the city are going to pay that whole bill on that intersection. What I I can't totally speak to the finances about this, but this development will pay for their portion of the improvements that are required by our code regarding half street improvements, which would be their portion of that intersection as well. Okay. Thank you, mayor, vice mayor, members of the council. Thank you. Jim Shanno, PMO director.

Um, as far as that intersection goes, it is in our capital program currently. That intersection, we do have Fee and Lou from the southeast corner of that intersection and the rest of the intersection is ours to build and then the southwest piece is coming through now and we'll be working with them to hopefully get their piece in conjunction with what we're building on the intersection. Very good. Thank you, sir. Another question.

Considering the location, do you know how many mailings actually went out when we got 300 feet? Is that correct or is it 500 on this? This one was 500 ft. 500 ft. I don't have the exact number in front of me. I don't know if Okay. There's a significant portion of um the adjacent Sundance community that would have been um included in the 500 ft. I don't think you got about two farm houses. Am I correct? It would be to the to the west. Go back to the You might have part of the new Sundancer. Okay.

All right. Um Oh, one last question. What's going to be the height on the businesses there in uh section F as in Frank? Will there be a height on those buildings, those businesses? The building height is limited to 50 feet in um parcel F because it is following the base district, the closest equivalent base district, which is our business park zoning district. 50 ft. Thank you very much. You're welcome. That's all I have, Mr. Mayor. Okay. Thank you, Vice Mayor. Any other questions from council?

I'm seeing none. Council 5C, what is your pleasure? Mayor, I make a motion we approve agenda item 5C is in Charles. Second. I have a motion for approval of 5C and a second. All in favor say I. I. I. Opposed? 5C passes unanimous. 5D.

council to hold a public hearing and take action on ordinance number 15-25 amending the zoning map of the city of Buckeye for approximately 160 acres located at the southwest corner of Broadway and Yuma Road from single family residential 43r1-43 to planned area development pad we've already had the presentation on this we will open a public hearing any speaker request cards speaker requests no speaker requests anybody from the public wishing to speak on this one seeing none we will close the public hearing any Questions from council on 5D.

Council, what's your pleasure on 5D? Mr. Mayor, I'd like to make a motion on item 5D is in David to approve. Second. Have a motion to approve and a second on 5D. All in favor say I. I. Opposed. 5D passes unanimous. Thank you very much, Miss Woods. Go fast. Faster than that. I've seen the fastest you can and it's not good. It's We need to have a conversation about that after this. Tell Uncle Todd to hurry up on Roosevelt. Uh item number six, comments from mayor and council.

Any comments tonight from mayor council? Councilman Yoner. Yeah. Uh last week uh was able to go to Philly uh to the National Main Street Conference and represent the city of Buckeye. uh talk about different mainstreams of what they're doing around the country, get some input from what their successes are and failures and it was a good week. Uh we got to go out there with uh Mr. Beer and Mr. Barry.

It was kind of a good experience for the three of us to go and uh represent the city and for our staff that was there as well. Lots of us. I think there was 13 people in the at the uh conference representing Buckeye. It's a good week. Awesome. Thank you. Any other comments from council? All right. Seeing none, item number seven, city manager report and summary of current events. Thank you, mayor. Uh, a couple good news pieces to start.

Uh, the Miller Road construction project is well underway now. You see it out there going by this fall. We will have six lanes from I 10 South to lower Buckeye. So, that should help with some of the traffic issues. Uh, another project, uh, it was just completed this weekend. Uh, public works installed the new pedestrian crossing at 9inth and Monroe. uh that this is a phase one of the project. Phase two will be a full hawk uh type intersection there which will be done next year.

Uh so we're looking forward to that. Um pleased to report uh on on the water side the city received notice of an award of $12 million from the state for uh development of a new uh recovery well in the white tanks area. So that's uh very positive. Um kudos to the city clerk's office. Uh their passport uh area has been uh seeing an average of around 60 70 uh uh passports uh a month uh until now. And now with the new focus they did 458 passports in the month of March.

So pretty incredible and uh it's a wonderful service to the community. Um, on the development side, uh, we had a pre-application meeting last week on the development of a new four-story all suite hotel in the Sundance neighborhood, um, Yuma and Sundance Parkway. So, that hopefully will be going soon. And then finally, just wanted to remind everyone, uh, there is a downtown streetscape meeting scheduled here at city hall, uh, 5:30 on April 23rd. and we encourage you all to attend that.

We have sent out mailers to over 2,000 people in the downtown area to talk further about the Monroe Street improvement. So, I encourage you to be there. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Rodrik. Uh item number eight, proposal for future agenda items. Any from council? Seeing none, item number nine is adjournment. With nothing else on the agenda, we are adjourned.