Buckeye Commission Clears Three Major Rezonings Including 1,950-Acre West Park Industrial Consolidation and $62.8M Annual Tax Benefit

You The regular agenda item, 3A, Copper Falls Community Master Plan Major Amendment, case number PLZZ-23-0011. It's a public hearing and request that the Planning and Zoning Commission recommend the approval to the City Council of a major amendment of approximately 17.0 acres subject to conditions A through R. Ms. Mandy is here to present. Thank you. Plan are here with development services. And tonight I am presenting Copper Falls CMP Major Amendment, case PLZZ-23-0011.

Just for a quick project overview, the applicant on this is Don Fortuna with Bowman Consultant on behalf of the property owner, Jeff Abbey, with Melcord Development Arizona. The location is the northwest corner of Miller Road and Southern Avenue in that particular APN on the screen. The request is to amend the Copper Falls CMP to allow multi-family residential within the commercial land use designation of parcel 1. So this only affects just one parcel within the CMP.

And I just want to preface the presentation. This may feel familiar to some of you because this was presented in 2024 and was recommended approval by PNZ to council at that time. I'll get into details later on in my presentation as to why we're hearing it again tonight, but just go into it with that in mind. For some site context, the existing parcel is vacant. There's single-family residential to the north, to the south and the east and the west.

And then there's some vacant commercial parcels to the east and south as well. The general plan land use of the subject property is master plan community, which is a land use designation that is consistent with the fact that this is in a community master plan. And then the existing zoning of the property is planned community or PC with that Copper Falls CMP overlay. So for the existing CMP Copper Falls is about 267 acres of single-family, multi-family, commercial education and open space uses.

This is just a composite map on the screen showing the existing CMP, including the most recent amendment to the north, I believe, was approved in 2024. And then the subject request that we're talking about tonight only affects just that parcel one that is on the southeast corner of this, this CMP there. And I will zoom in a little bit on this next slide so you can see that we're talking just about parcel one there.

It is a red color on the map and that designates that this is a commercial land use designation within the Copper Falls CMP. I've proposed CMPA tonight. They are adding multi-family residential as an allowed use within that commercial land use designation just for parcel one. Multi-family would become an option. The commercial uses would still remain. There would be a development option as well.

So the request is really about flexibility, not a guarantee that the site is going to develop with multi-family residential. And I wanted to note that there is a density cap for parcel one at either 24 dwelling units per acre or up to 468 units if it were to develop with multi-family. And then the kind of second half of this proposed CMPA is development standards that help transition between this parcel and the existing single-family, which I will show on this next slide here.

So that chart up top, the commercial option, roughly is the existing standards in the Copper Falls CMP and or the development code standards that apply to the property. And then the multi-family column was added because this is a new use that's going to be added for parcel one. The main thing to highlight here is the chart at the bottom, which is the step back provisions that would be in place to protect the single-family residential from taller and multi-family residential building heights.

And that is better illustrated on this next slide and this lovely section view. So the first 20 feet is just the set back, the standard set back. And then basically once you get into that 30-foot range, set back range, 25 building feet, 25 feet of building height is allowed between 30 and 40 feet then you're looking at up to 35 feet in building height and then buildings could reach their full height if they're 45 or 40 foot or greater from that single-family residential property line.

So it just translates to greater building heights, require greater setbacks just to help with buffering and compatibility of uses. For the public participation, this project was a little unique and had a few more neighborhood meetings than average. The initial neighborhood meeting was held all the way back in 2023 and this proceeded to planning and zoning commission in 2024 with a couple hearings and got to the stage where it was recommended for approval to council.

There was a pause as the applicant was gathering up everything for the development agreement and when we were getting ready to get ready for council again, staff asked that they conduct another neighborhood meeting just to have a courtesy to the neighborhood residents since it had been about 18 months since they had heard about the application.

So that's the reason for the second neighborhood meeting and then it was at that time that staff realized that the previous neighborhood meetings as well as the previous planning and zoning commission hearing were notified using the 300 foot radius. And so we realized that development code requires for all CMPs and major CMP amendments 500 feet of radius.

So to ensure that this is meeting development code provisions and all of our procedures, we required that they hold another neighborhood meeting which is the most recent one that was held in June. And then that is why we are back tonight. So that is the, it comes for a circle as to why that happened. There were no members of the public that attended any of the three neighborhood meetings in spite of the increased radius and the last one.

And there were no speakers from the public during any of the prior planning and zoning commission hearings as well. And then the notification for tonight, of course, use the 500 foot radius and legal noticing and site postings were all in accordance with our development code requirements. I just wanted to highlight since it has been about two years, just the few differences that are between now and when it was last before this group.

There were just the additional neighborhood meetings as I've already highlighted some very minor non substantive updates to the project narrative updated dates of the inclusion of the most recent CMPA and copper falls to the north just because that was approved in the meantime.

So that way it's a more complete project history within the narrative and then some updated water and wastewater demand calcs that was to reflect current city standards in accordance with coordination with water resources. So minor things that otherwise the content of the narrative stayed the same and the content of the request is the same. And then condition a is just updated to reflect that revised narrative date.

Otherwise, everything has stayed the same and I wanted to note that adequate school facilities coordination also has recently occurred with both of the school districts. And there's a draft donation agreement provided. With that the final analysis here, staff does believe this further schools of the Buckeye general plan.

It does conform to our development code provisions or proposes alternate standards that would result in high quality development and there are no outstanding issues from reviewing departments. And so the recommendation is to conduct a public hearing and then recommend approval of this case to city council subject to conditions a through R. I wanted to note that the applicant team is present tonight and they do have slides if that is your pleasure.

If they feel the need to go over any items that I didn't touch on enough so and I'm available to answer questions of course. Thank you. Thank you Miss Woods. Would the applicants like to make their presentation? Thank you chairman and commissioners Ed Bull 1850 North Central. I'm here with Don Portuna. Don's officially the applicant on pitch hitting with Don and for others tonight. We appreciate staff's recommendation for approval. We have a PowerPoint which we can get into if you want us to.

We appreciate staff's analysis. We agree with stipulations a through R. I agree with everything that that Mandy just said. If you want us to go through our PowerPoint or provide additional detail we can but the essence of it as she explained is adding a use that can be provided. If appropriate or when appropriate under the CMP. We agree that it further some goals of the general plan some of you may recall this being here a couple years ago others may not be that as it may.

If you want a presentation please tell me but if you're good we're good and I'll go sit down. You know normally I would say something funny right through there but I'm not I'm going to refrain. Okay. You can make your presentation if you like. I can only speak for myself. I'm good with Mandy's presentation if you are sir. I'm perfectly good with Mandy's presentation. Thank you but don't go far just in case my colleagues may have questions all right. I'll stay right here. All right. Cool.

All right. Commission starting with you Sebastian. This is make me put on my memory cap here going back to 2024. But at the time it was I think it was proposed this was going to be a mixture of resident residential high like apartments and commercial. The way I'm reading it today is this is going to be either the option of commercial or the option of the multifamily or is it still possible that it can be a mixture of both.

Chairman commissioner it could be either all commercial all multifamily or mixed use. So it is a prominent corner and buck out here so it was talking again this is going to put my memory cap on. Of him like commercial front and maybe the stuff and back but if that's still part of the that allowed from this plan I'm looking at with that. It is allowed. If this amendment is approved. It could be all of one or the other or mix.

The other one we got the site plan whatever when it comes to that point but as long as it's allowed the mixture I'm good with that. Thank you. Thank you Mr. Basler. Is it my understanding that before anything can be done on this piece of property. If we approve tonight it will need to come back before this committee. Because you're talking about all residential or all commercial. You can go either way and I don't know that.

I'm ready to approve something that can go all commercial or all residential on this piece of property without seeing it again. Mr. Chairman commissioner I don't know if that's a question for me or for staff. I know how I'd answer it but I'll defer to. To Mandy if she wants to answer it and I'll probably agree with what she says you can you can supplement.

So this would be the zoning approval that well not tonight this would be the recommendation for zoning approval that would then go to council for final consideration. After this a site plan could be submitted that would have to be in conformance with the zoning for the property and that is something that would be approved by staff rather than this this body. Okay so if we approve this the night he can go 100% commercial or 100% residential and it doesn't come back to us. Correct.

I also did not find in the documentation anything from the school district. I look for it I did not find it I'm not saying it's not there but I didn't find it. And I don't know how the school approve something when you don't know how many residential units are going to be there so I have some concern with that. As you know I am concerned about residential and apartments being built and our inadequate school system and our inability to provide housing for students.

And I'm not seeing anything in this documentation from the school district that says there's adequate schooling so if it's there fine but I did not find it. Commissioner it was not included in the citizen participation report because it's a separate procedural process but it is in the case file the efforts that the applicant team took to reach out to both school districts and the correspondence that they received back. Okay thank you.

And just really quickly to elaborate on how the district could evaluate this without knowing exactly what's proposed it's my the way I understand it is there's a draft donation agreement and in progress. That is based on the number of units a certain you know per unit fee would be paid to the district so whether it's 100 or 400.

The amount would increase between between those two allowing for the district then to utilize the additional money for enhanced facilities so that's the understanding that I have of how that would work. Thank you. Let's test it. No questions. Thank you sir. Scott? I understand it could be all multifamily all commercial or a little of both.

I still would prefer that hard corner to be something retail or some kind of you know if it's all surrounded by apartments that's fine multifamily but I still think our hard corners on those major intersections need to be retail. That's just my opinion. Thank you. Stracks there. No questions. Thank you. Miss Puppie. No questions. Thank you. Thank you sir. Do you want me to respond to any of that or sit down? If you have a response, certainly please. Yeah, we need to switch over to your slides.

It seemed to be advancing. Yes, if we can wait a moment. So. There we go. Here we go. I'm going to skip through most of these but a particular slide that I'd like to show you is this one which talks about some of the site challenges because I hear everything you're saying and I understand the desire to have a commercial pad on the corner and I'm not saying that can't or won't happen.

Because importantly, multi-family is being added as a potential use but it's not required to be the exclusive use or a use at all. Part of the challenge is that are on this particular corner of the intersection and Melcor by the way owns another corner right across the street. But with the future drainage channel with medians with access limitation. This to me is reminiscent of some other corners in the valley where you can see it but it's not easy to get there if you're a potential shopper.

For example, there as this indicates there are no left turns out on to either Miller or Southern. That can be very challenging. It's deja vu to me of a corner not in Buckeye but in Phoenix, the northwest quarter of Tatum and Che. It has been challenged forever because of access difficulties at that corner. You can see it but you can't get there from here. Now, site planning can deal with some of that. There's a TIA requirement that comes along with it as well.

But because of the medians, the limited access, the future drainage channel which would push buildings back off the corner, there are challenges here. Doesn't mean some of those challenges don't apply to multi-family as well. But it's easier to deal with when you have residents and they know how to get to and from their home. So I hear loud and clear that some would like to see some retail occur on at least a portion of this site. I'm not saying that won't happen.

I'm just saying that's not going to be easy. And this change doesn't preclude retail from occurring. It simply allows multi-family to occur. The rest of the slides I can go through but I think you've managed to discover it. Thank you, sir. Thank you. And you can take your seat now. Thank you. All right. Thank you, sir. All right. Following this time, I will open it up for public hearing. Madam Secretary, do we have any requests to speak? We do not, Chair. I will close it. Oh.

Before I close it, is there anyone from the audience that would like to speak on this? Now I close it. All right. Commissioners. What is your pleasure? I like to have a motion to recommend the approval to Council of Case Number PLZZ-23-0010011. Subject to conditions A through R. I'll move to recommend approval for PLZZ-23-0011 to City Council with conditions A through R. To have a second. Second. Thank you. It's been moved and second. Motion passes. I'm sorry. I do. I do. I'd like to call.

For a vote. All those in favor? All right. Any opposed? Motion passes. Thank you. Thank you. We do need to have more meetings, Chair. All right. Item agenda 3B. West Park. Minor General Plan amendment. Case number PLZU-25-0005. Public hearing and request that the Planning and Zoning Commission recommend approval to the City Council of a minor general plat amendment from business commerce to master plan community. community, Mr. King Galica. Yes, Chair, good evening. Good to see you again.

Yes, we have had a couple cancellations, but we'll try to keep you more busy and well-practiced. I think you're doing great, Tom. So yes, the first item that you reference the minor general planning amendment is just one of three items I'm going to be touching on in this presentation. This presentation actually covers the remainder of tonight's agenda.

So the first being the minor general planning amendment, second being a major amendment to the West Park Community Master Plan, and the third being a major amendment to the Silver Rock Community Master Plan. I'll tell you what all that means in just a second. The applicant tonight is here. Rob Goobser, Collier's Engineering and Design, former manager of mine. So we go well back at the city of Avondale.

So request, the first request tonight, minor general planning amendment for approximately 125.4 non-contiguous acres. I'll show you what that looks like, two master plan community. The second request, a major amendment for West Park, applicable to about 1950, little less acres, and then lastly, an amendment to Silver Rock for removing 741 acres. The location, I'll show you in just a second, south of I-10, west of State Route 85, down to Palavirty with the Roosevelt Canal on the South.

So this map shows you the boundaries of everything that we're doing tonight. And I'll kind of walk you through it. So the first request I mentioned is the general plan amendment. That's applicable to these two dashed areas on the screen with the yellow dashing. So currently, both of those areas are designated in the general plan as business commerce, which is a commercial category. The request tonight would change the land-east designation to master plan community.

And all that means is it allows for the CMP, the West Park CMP, in this case, to control the development of the property with terms of uses and development standards. The second request is to amend the West Park CMP and the portions that are affected are shown in this blue color. So you can see a segment over here. Some land up against SR-85 here. And then a whole lot of land, including this dashed area, and I'll explain why it's dashed in just a second.

And the property going north all the way up to I-10. This yellow area is the current Silver Rock community master plan. This dashed portion is proposed to be removed from the Silver Rock CMP and added to this new in large West Park CMP. So that's why it's kind of got the two colors on. The reason for that is all the blue area or what would be the blue area if this is approved is under common ownership by Garrett Development Corporation. Lastly, a couple of last things on this slide.

The green areas, those are part of West Park CMP, but those areas are not impacted at all by this proposal. Nothing that's currently approved for these parcels would be subject to any change as a part of this. That's all of the developed residential, as well as some portions currently under development or planned for development. And then the last thing I want to point out is this red kind of hole in the donut. This is APS owned.

Their APS is planning on building a regional substation to provide power to matches this property. But basically this region, because currently there is a huge power demand before development can occur on most of these agricultural properties. Very, I'm not going to spend too much time on this map, but this shows the boundaries again. You can see the general plan.

Currently the entire site is master playing community, which is this brown color with the exception of those two areas that will propose tonight to convert to the brown color. So everything is that same color. The zoning is a mix of residential in this property, currently, but most of the surrounding properties, particularly to the south, have converted to industrial zoning over the last few years as part of the city's push in this area for employment generating uses.

Now that the overview is done, I'll dive into each of the components a little bit more detail. The first, again, the minor general plan amendment applicable to those 125.4 acres total, two separate properties, one, 76 acres, up north of Lower Buckeye, and Wilson Avenue. So a future freeway off ramp here, just if you were curious. I'm an off ramp, I should say.

The second property being what we call the Power Ozz property, because that was the previous ownership, about 49.4 is under 50 acres off of south of Lower Buckeye and 269 to Avenue. The proposed designation of master plan community does not establish any permissions for any types of uses. It simply allows the next step in the process, which is the zoning, or in this case, the CMP, to have 100% precedence as far as guiding what can develop here.

The second request, which is by far the most impactful or the most has the most to it. So I'll spend the most time on this one is the major CMPA for West Park. The yellow boundary here just highlights the areas that would be impacted. It doesn't impact, or it doesn't highlight the existing portions of West Park. Those would stay in West Park, but they wouldn't have anything modified as far as what people could do with their properties.

This proposal expands the CMP by about just under 1700 acres, 1673 acres by adding in what is currently called the Silver Rock CMP, which is most of this area right here. Adding in almost all of the West Wind CMP, which is the northern portion here, I say almost all because technically the APS substation is within that still. But they're sort of exempt from zoning, so we're kind of letting the hole in the domain there.

And then lastly, the 125 acres subject to the general climate of the north here and this little corner here, this little triangular shaped piece. This also changes or amends the requirements for 275-ish acres within West Park CMP. Again, that's these areas. That's these couple of areas. East of SR-85, and then this portion between Turner and SR-85. So you're asking, OK, well, we're consolidating all this in the West Park CMPA. What's the purpose of that?

Let me show you first what is currently permitted. So this is an amalgamation of the various different CMPs that currently exist in their land use plans. Generally speaking, in planning terms, yellow, orange, brown, type of colors are residential, usually the lighter the yellow, the lower density, going up to orange and brown, being higher density residential. You can see the majority of property, West of Turner. In fact, even East of Turner, being yellow colors.

So these were CMPs that were approved back in the early 2000s. The vision was pretty traditional master plan communities along the lines of blue horizons or Sundance, or any of the various master plan communities we have, primarily residential with some outline kind of commercial parcels on the fringes, school sites, parks, and those types of things. West Park was amended back in 2022 for the portion west of the freeway.

And you can see very early, see these little purple circles in this purple rectangle. It was amended in 2022 to allow for industrial development on these properties or residential or commercial. So it was either or type of situation. So this kind of, this portion already has that entitlement, which is why you, if you've driven by there recently, you might have seen the first stages of a nearly 2 million square foot warehouse for Burlington under construction.

But the rest of this property from Turner West, so from this point west, is currently entitled only for residential, some supported commercial uses in parks and schools. This is a huge vision shift. What is proposed tonight, the map on your screen now is what is actually proposed. And the purple color, which is the predominant color, obviously, on this map, would shift this property to light industrial, west of SR85. That there are a few exceptions to that, and I'll highlight those.

The frontage along Palo Verde Road, because the city's airport is to the west. And we want to present a very high quality image to the airport, to anybody visiting in the future. We expect it to grow and really be more of a regional airport than its little kind of sleepy airport status today. That's a business part category that would limit building size to 200,000 square feet. It would also prohibit crosstalk.

So the frontage, the forward-facing portion of the project up against the airport would present like an office type of development, essentially. Similarly, at the corner of Lower Buckeye, this is Lower Buckeye, and Palo Verde, we do reserve a commercial corner, not only to accommodate the needs of anybody working within all the purple area here, but also visitors to the airport, employees at the airport, anybody else within the vicinity of this site.

Up against I-10, or at least as close as the project gets. There's actually property within this triangle here that's not owned by this developer. But this would preserve some flexibility either to do regional commercial, meaning a shopping center along the lines of what you see with the Costco and Home Depot, regional commercial types of uses, big box, retail, or business parks.

So that's what I just described that blue, where the building size are limited, and it appears to be a more of an office type of development. That's the reason that that's provided up top is really because that's the project's primary point of visibility from the freeway. We want to really have a really nice front door for people driving down the tent. There's a lot of traffic on that roadway, and we'd prefer not to have sea of semi-parking be the first thing that somebody sees.

And then there's very little being done east of SR-85, the most significant change are these two parcels right here that are currently identified for, I believe, low and medium density residential that the applicant is proposing to shift to a higher density, which would allow for things like apartments. Typically, that is a pretty normal transition between single-family lots. Then you shift to multifamily before having commercial up against the freeway.

It's kind of your normal transect as you get closer to the noise light sound, I guess noise and sound are the same, but associated with the freeway. And in the future, when I-11 likely comes through here, that'll become an even more intense street. There are also some elements of this request that don't change the uses, but impact kind of what development will look like. The biggest one, I want to point attention to and very thankful to the developer, GDC, and his team for providing this.

They're accounting for enhanced landscape buffers along Lower Buckeye and Palaburti. So again, you're probably sick of me using this, but Lower Buckeye is this East West street Palaburti here, also Wilson right here, since this will be a future freeway interchange. Our normal requirement is a 25-foot landscape buffer, which is a fairly significant, nice looking landscape buffer. They've agreed to provide 50 feet.

So a double that normal landscape buffer to really create a very thoughtfully designed project. It won't be the storage of semi- and whatnot right up against the street. There'll be pretty significant landscaping screening and space for other types of elements. There's a thought to provide enhanced gateway features like monument signage entering the development as well to really create that overall feel of a master plan type of development.

This plan does provide for a parks and a master plan compliant trail network. That's something that the current CMP doesn't do. So this gets us a step further toward implementing the recently approved PRMP. And in my opinion, provides for high quality design standards. You see some just examples of the types of buildings that would be expected within this project. Request number three is super simple. It's a Silver Rock major CMPA. The only point of this is to remove this area in blue.

So it can be included in what we were just looking at. So that area in blue currently in Silver Rock is right over here. And because we're adding it to this West Park CMP equal and opposite reaction is we need to remove it from what it's currently in, which is the Silver Rock CMP. The red portion is essentially 500 acres south of the RID canal that is under separate ownership. And that would remain part of the Silver Rock CMP. So the Silver Rock CMP would not go away.

It would just get downsized pretty significantly over half, but make no other changes to what was previously approved back in, I want to say, 2005. The maximum dwelling units would be reduced correspondingly to the acreage, so the density stays the same. Originally, there was just under 5,400 dwelling units approved for the entirety of this, because we're cutting the acreage down, the same percentage that we're cutting the acreage down, the total number of dwelling units also drops.

So that's how we get to the 2,817 units. In the future, this is very possible conceivable due to the proximity to the airport and all those types of things that we might see something back in for the site to do other uses. But that's not today.

All the typical requirements for the developer to complete street improvements and turn over to the project cap streets on the perimeter, as well as any, obviously, utility infrastructure needed for development of this site will be the developers responsible, the city, of course, will provide police and fire service, and this would, it's a big project, would certainly allow for phasing. There was a neighborhood meeting that was held just under two weeks ago.

June 11, only one, a 10D outside of the applicant, adjacent property owner, concerns, who did not have any concerns or at least didn't share any concerns with this request.

To boil down the analysis, we believe that this type of request on this property in proximity to the airport in proximity to I-10 and SR-85, kind of in that surrounded by all three of those major transportation elements, if you will, is the best solution to reduce potential incompatibilities in uses as the city looks to grow its airport. You see all the time neighborhoods in your airports are not a good mix. Most of the time, they end up going away.

Entirely, they get scraped to the ground, but in the case where they do kind of exist, it's nothing but neighbor complaints about noise. So this does give us a step forward in that regard, as far as reducing those incompatibilities. We also think this is a great site because it gives us a lot of contiguous land in proximity to that airport to make it more of a logistics cargo airport in the future. So this is a great project for that.

The design elements that I talked about, the landscape setbacks, the entry features will certainly enhance the visual character. We believe this also provides for good transitions between different plant uses in the area. And multiple general playing goals, especially those talking about job creation, employment development is supported by these requests. One second. So there are, again, the three items tonight.

All of these items require separate public hearings, separate motions, separate votes of the commission. The West Park Minor GPA, we do recommend approval, subject to no conditions on that one. The West Park Major CMPA, subject to conditions A through GG, but, and this is a big but, I would do want to highlight that we're still working through the final stipulation language with the project owner, developer, applicant. So we do plan on continuing to refine that language before council.

We're trying to get to council on July 7th because council's going on break for a couple of months and time is of the essence. And then lastly, Silver Rock Major CMPA, subject to conditions A through GG, we recommend approval of that. So with that here, I'm available for questions. I know Rob and his team have a PowerPoint presentation of their own. That'd be fine. Just take that, put that clicker down. I'm dizzy. Applicants, if you would like to come up, please. Can I pick it up?

How long are you going to do that circle for you, man? Good evening, Mr. Chair, members of the Commission Rob Hoopser with Collier's Engineering Design 4742 North 24th Street. Please be here on behalf of my client, client, my client, Jeff Garrett with Garrett Development Corporation here for the West Park project. It's going to be difficult for me to follow up Ken's presentations always because he does such a thorough and detailed analysis and presentation. I'm going to run through a few.

Try not to wave this too much. But it's going to be a little bit of a repeat of what he's already said. But then I'd like to invite Jeff up and he'll give a little bit more of a detailed kind of presentation on the support for and why we need these changes out in this area. So with that, I will do. All right, as Ken already alluded to, we're here for a larger change to the West Park CMP as mentioned. It was about 2,000 acres south of the I-10 east and west of SR 85.

We have multiple across this evening. We have the minor general plan amendment on about 125 acres. We have a major CMP amendment for both the Silver Rock CMP as well as the West Park CMP. And also, we have an annexation that's moving for not a request this evening, but it did go to council last week for the first of two public hearings. And so that's on the 50 acre power Oz piece. You saw this exhibit already, but I just want to reiterate some of the changes that we're looking at doing.

The first is the West Park CMP, very colorful on this one. I am going to press the button here again and kind of see where our outline is. The project outline that we're working on is in the dark blue. The West Park CMP that was approved initially in 2000 is highlighted in red. I don't even know how to move this thing around. So I'm not going to make you dizzy. So it's highlighted red.

We do come back and do a revision and a amendment to West Park in 2022, which was primarily on the west side of 85, where we introduced industrial zoning categories. And as you can see, that's already coming to fruition with the construction of the Burlington warehouse there. In addition to that, the West Park, the Westwind CMP, which is up on the northern side of the project area, was approved in 2005.

We're looking at taking in the majority of that site, outside of that area where APS has purchased about 160 acre sites, not the whole end of donut because he already used that term. I'll say the whole end of the inner tube. So I was going to say done it, Ken. So thank you. Also, the Silver Hawk CMP, we're going to be taking the north, kind of the north two-thirds of that project that are area north of the RID canal and incorporating that into the overall West Park CMP now.

We have the two additional various out parcels, both one up on the north, that starred and then the power-os piece, which is, I mentioned, the 50 acre annexations are moving forward. And also the dashed area is the new project boundary. This is what we're getting. A revised CMP.

It's now a cohesive, overall master plan that allows and supports for primarily, more of an industrial employment generating types of uses, primarily West of 85, and kind of playing within the needs and the desires of what the city is seeing for the airport expansion. So we're taking those three CMPs, creating one, overall, cohesive CMP. We're creating an abundance of employment generating land uses.

We're factoring in that area where APS is located just West of Turner, and then also the Burlington site as well. We're kind of pulling in from that changing vernacular for this area. We're looking at realigning the roadways in this area, primarily West of 85, because if you looked at the go-back real quick, because I like that colorful map, a lot of the roadways in this were very curvilinear. That doesn't fit within the desire of an industrial or employment type uses.

They want more of the straight roadway network in there. And so that's what we're proposing as a realignment of the project roadways. And then we're also looking at incorporating the commercial and the business park land uses, both at the entrance coming off of the traffic interchange on Wilson, off of I-10, and then also along Palo Verde, so protecting that front edge adjacent to the airport.

And as Ken mentioned too, we're also looking at incorporating and enhanced landscaping buffer along Palo Verde, along Lower Buckeye, and along Wilson North of Lower Buckeye. Again, trying to create more of an inviting environment when you're coming into this master plan. East of 85, we've introduced some high-density residential land uses that are along the East connector there. And then also looking at changing some of the low-density residential land uses.

And I see it on Parcel 23, 24 and 25, kind of up in that north-east portion of that, the lighter area, the lighter beige area. We're incorporating some changing, I would say, incorporating some flexibility in the development, adding some different development standards to allow for a continuation of what's occurring right now in West Park, which is more of a for lease type of subdivision. Not a subdivision by term, but it looks like, acts like, feels like, but it's a lease community.

I think it looks really good. I'm really pleased with that, the way that turned out. So we're looking at having the opportunity to create that flexibility with those parcels as well. Not saying we're going to, but it does allow that flexibility to continue. So with that, I'm going to invite Jeff to come up and just give a little bit more of an overview of why the support for this project and what we're changing. Hi there, I'm Jeff Garrett. I'm with GDC, Garrett Development Corporation.

6,900 East Camelback, Suite 240, Scottsdale, Arizona. I appreciate the time. I've been doing this for 33 years. Some of you know me when I was 30 and I started doing this. 20-something. So I really appreciate it. And I really like doing the Pledge of Allegiance. And this is what the United States is all about. So thank you for your time, you know, that you guys have volunteered to do this. I really appreciate it. Makes a difference. It's good to be involved in the community and everything.

So we bought this out of the great recession all these pieces of property. I started buying them when I was 38 and 55. So it's been some time. But we really liked the location between SR-85 and Paloverty Road, South I-10. We, you know, I-10 is an asset that you guys have that could never be duplicated again, takes the federal government to build something. It's so nice and so good for all of us. And it runs, you know, from California all the way to the east coast, goes through Houston area.

It's a really, really great piece of infrastructure for you guys. So really, our play was, let's buy that because we like that. We underwrote it as residential communities. But we always thought that those were not the highest and best uses for that because you have SR-85. You have Paloverty with its on-off ramp. You have the future Wilson on-off ramp. And then Interstate 11 is supposed to come up and then you have your airport. So this has kind of been a project in the works for a long time.

As you guys know, Buckeye has had, you know, water problems and stuff like that. So we've really spent the past 10 years working on those water problems and solving them. And we've spent $30 million doing that. We're up, brought away. We've drilled a well and we're adding onto that water campus. We put a big pipe in from the Ford dealership on Yuma, all the way down into West Park, so we could serve all of this property. So we're really committed to the community.

We've already spent the money before we have the zoning in place. And we've worked on assembling probably about, about there's 10 different owners in there that we've assembled over the past 15 years. So that's kind of that slide. You know, it shows the different ports and everything that it goes to. All right, I didn't know that was going to work. This just shows where Interstate 11, where it is going to work and how that works. The town talks about the interchanges.

The interchanges that we're going to have access to right now are at SR85 and Broadway. And you know, that's right now. Those will be your future frontage roads. And then down the middle will be the state route. But right now, A.DOT and the city are working on signalizing that starting construction next summer and finishing the following summer. It's under design right now. And then another big, and so that's kind of the regional infrastructure. You can see the airport up on there.

And then we have this nice RID canal that kind of buffers the land to from the rest of the community and can isolate like a nice big industrial business park. And so then the other project that we have worked on and we have done with Ken and Adam and the city worked really closely with us on where to place a 120 acre substation. Because this part of Buckeye and up at the airport really does not have a substation and power as a problem. And so that substation's 120 acres.

It'll be the largest substation in APS's portfolio. It'll have a 500 KV substation in it and seven lines coming into it. It'll have a 230 KV substation and 11 lines coming in and out of it. And it'll have a 69 KV substation with another 11 lines. And then it'll have a 12 KV substation in it too for underground power and serving the more local community. So this is a very important part of infrastructure for APS and for Buckeye.

And there's been a lot of mayor conversations with the CEO of APS and us involved and trying to locate this and where it would go. And we worked hard with finding out like kind of the best place. The city wasn't excited about having it up on the Buckeye door at 9.10. And we took us about a year, right? Ken to get APS and everybody kind of find a spot for it to go.

So that piece of infrastructure is going to be a piece of infrastructure that can help you attract large power users and for manufacturing tech. If you, if I had this zone 10 years ago with you guys and we had that substation in planning, maybe a TSMC would land here. But big, big regional type of jobs, big regional type of infrastructure here. And so what we're trying to do is put it the zoning in place now to take advantage of this infrastructure.

It's obviously with the substation and the airport and some other things, it's really no longer conducive to do in a master plan residential community. And so that's really the strategy in what we've been working on with the city. This just kind of to go fast of this skip through part of us, but we've invested about 240 million in our next project will be like the next sale we have in there, we probably have another 50 million in infrastructure to put in.

Our first project was the Burlington that you see under construction. That'll be a $650 million facility. It's two million square feet single story. So I've never seen a pad that big. We just finished moving 650,000 yards of dirt probably a month ago. And the pads right now, you'll see it's cut. It's about four feet in the air because there's bays on all four side. And it's 50 acres of pad in the air. So there's a big investments coming.

That project will have 270 trucks today coming in and out of it. And it'll have three shifts of the max employee count of 850 per shift. So lots of infrastructure coming in with that. Two signals, we've worked really well with the traffic group doing our traffic impact analysis on that. And we have that all teed up in this program too and approved.

So, you know, and then we did have Elliott Pollock do a conservative analysis on how much this would generate in annual taxes, be it property taxes, personal taxes and stuff to the community of Buckeye. And he's at 62.8 million. But that's back in the day when we were talking about maybe putting some apartments in there and doing some more retail in there and stuff. It'll shoot up from that. So that's a conservative number.

We do, you know, the other projects, we won't need certificates of assured water supply. You've heard about those. But really, because we're doing bigger buildings and bigger kind of regional type of projects and stuff. You know, and I put this on. I asked my friends at JLL, the brokerage firm that specializes in industrial development and representations. And this is a existing under construction and vacancy. And you can see the blue is the existing. You can see the gray's under construction.

And then you'll notice the smaller buildings, it's pretty competitive right in there on that slide. You can see there's a lot of under construction and there's a lot of vacant buildings, existing buildings. As you move across to the right, you can see the building sizes increase. This is a really good, good opportunity for Bakai to grab the big users, those big anchors, and land them in the community.

And what you'll see really is that you land those big people, you'll start to get the smaller companies that serve those industries.

Like we've done four Amazon deals and we've probably done $5 million, I mean, $5 million square feet of Amazon deals and Albuquerque, you have a friend that owns a bunch of smaller 150,000 square foot buildings and he's like every time you land one, I love it, because like we landed a temperpidic mattress manufacturer and then he has the phone, the guy that makes the phone for temperpidic right down in his facility.

So it'll start to backfill with those other projects that you guys see that come across with those 200,000 foot users and stuff. So this will help anchor that community and help. And we need these big people to help kind of build this infrastructure to get it up out of the project. But you'll see there's a big hole here in the marketplace that for the 750,000 square foot buildings up.

Right now we probably have, I probably could get 10 people offers tomorrow to build, spec build a million square footer. So we're really excited about it. This gets back into that supply chain and stuff like that. This is from our TIA, just kind of shows traffic and how the traffic moves through the community. I didn't know if there was going to be a question about any of that, but that's why it's in there.

This is the sheet that shows where the 62.8 million is coming from, then from Elliot Pollock's Economic Benefit Study. And then back to this one's basically the same plan that Kins presented to you and Rob shared with you, but showing kind of Burlington a little better and then showing where the APS substation is. I guess that's really it. I'll stand here if you guys have questions. I'm always happy to answer. Thank you. Thank you, sir. At this time, commissioners, any questions? Sebastian? Yes.

Yes, I got a question regarding the State Route 85 corridor. Right now, throughout area, it's kind of narrow, and the run that you're going out have. It has eight out of already taken the easements away because I hate to see someone build something and then eight out come in and tear it down. No, no, no, no, good question. That, when it was old was B, that they condemned it in 2008 and they took the full right away. So what you see now road-wise, those will be frontage roads.

And then you'll notice when you come off the sweep of the I-10 and you're going south on SR-85, you'll notice the road kind of goes and curves out a little bit and you'll see some concrete paving going down the middle. That will be the state route. And eventually, what we're driving on today will be the frontage roads. But yes, they've taken all the way.

Yeah, and I'm glad you showed that last TI-A slide because at first, it looked like on the earlier slides, it looked like there was going to be a cross in that warner. I was like, I'm coming out of the apartments. No, no, yeah, no crossings. But there was, the original plan was that during that condemnation case, we built the city.

The money was taken that A.Pade for the right away and was given to the city and the city built Broadway road and then those two collector roads that go up alongside SR-85 when you drive by. And then the state was supposed to build a bridge at warner road to connect the residential communities on both sides. But when we're now with this project, we decided, hey, with industrial over here, we do not want to connect the industrial part to the residential. So we isolated it.

Why not having that bridge? There are questions I have with this belt. Wilson Avenue, he said there's going to be a future interchange there with I-10. That's what's on A.Pade. It's on A.Pade's plan. And A.D. and Mag are going to do the money and a lot of stuff there. Not the city. Right. OK. If the city's doing it, we need a Dean Road intersection because that's going to be my second point.

Because I right now live in Seattle Hills and we're basically blocked in because there's no way out other than Broadway. So I just want to make sure that we're looking forward to the future. Not blocking. Even though this is industrial compared to residential, I just hate the idea of doing where limited access is because now only is it bad for the fire department it's bad for people working there residents and adjacent areas.

We just got to make sure we're not making a narrative large call to stock or anything like that. Yeah. I agree with our first project with Burlington. We're building some improvements on Broadway, West. We're going up 269th and we're going to build from the RID Canal up 269th to Warner, the full ride away. And then we're going to put a signal there with dual laughs. And then we're going to build the full ride away on Warner all the way over to Turner.

And then we're going to build two lanes on Turner on the east side up to Lower Buckeye. And then we're building two miles of Lower Buckeye, the two South lanes out to Paloverti Road. And those construction drawings are in the third round of reviews. So and I'm financially committed to Burlington to build that. So we agree with you. We want two points of access in that on-off ramp at Paloverti's a great access point. And it's not a full capacity here.

I'm glad to hear that we're only putting the lights up the stop lights up along in SR-85. Because again, if I was in, where's the downstriker area coming out on the SR-85, is it dangerous? Very dangerous, no. We agree with you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. Commissioner, if I could just, just for the record, none of the interchanges, well, I guess there's only one. The Wilson Avenue interchanges not currently funded by the state. So funding will need to be found for that.

Usually, that's a combination of ADOT, state funding, and city funding. But we're not nearly to that point yet. And to get it funded, you usually need to start making progress in the area. Thank you, Mr. Basler. This looks like an excellent use of land. I'm happy to see that you're moving away from the residential and into commercial. Makes a lot more sense to have that by the airport. So it'll ease problems down the road for people complaining about the airport. So it's a good move.

Looks like a great plan. Thanks. Thank you, sir. Mr. Hester. No questions, Mr. John. Ms. Cupsack. Thank you, Jeff. It looks like a great project. And as a resident of West Park, I do have to say that that leasing community is beautiful. And I can see why you would want to extend that, because it's really, I've lived there for, since 2009, and they built it and did all that. And I had no idea it was a leasing community, so it's very cool. Thank you. You did a very nice job.

Those are Helen's her first class. Yeah, they are. Nice. So good project. Thank you. Thanks. Straksdale. Looks good. Thank you. Ms. Puppy. I'm just going to reiterate. I think it has a potential to be a great economic base for the city of Becci. So I think this is a great use of that land. Thank you. Yeah, we're very excited. We're very excited. And we've worked well with the city staff that went great. They're really helpful with the Burlington project and all that. So it's very good.

Very good relationship. Thank you. And thank you for your time, sir. Thank you. All right. At this time, I'd like to open up a public hearing, Madam Secretary. And Chair, if I may, we can clarify for the record, this public hearing is on item 3B, the minor general plan amendment. We will need to hold three separate public hearings and have a vote after each one. Don't use that again. Thank you. It's open for public hearing. Are there, there's no request? Anyone from the audience like to speak?

I will close the hearing. At this time, I'd like to call for a motion to recommend approval to council of case number PLZU-25-005. I make a motion that we recommend to the board, West Park Minor, GPAP, LZU-25-005. Second. It's been moved in second. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Next, I'd like to open up another public hearing for case number PLZZ-25-0010. And request that the planning is only commissioned, recommend approval to the city council.

Chair, we do need to open the public hearing and then ask if there are any speaker comment or cards. We call it. At this time, I'd like to open up the public hearing. Are there any speaker requests? We do not have any chair. Thank you. I'd like to close the hearing. And now I ask for the motion correct. All right. I move that we approve the community master plan amendment PLZZ-25-0010. I'll second that. Any opposed? Passes. I'd like to open it up for public hearing.

Are there any speaker requests? We have none chair. Closing the public hearing. We have a motion. I make the motion to recommend for approval Silver Rock major CMPA PLZZ-25-0011 subject to conditions A through J. I second. It's been moved in second. All those in favor? Aye. holders opposed? Opposed? Motion passes. Good job. Oh no. Oh. Okay. At this time. Yep. Uh... I'm lost and chair at this time.

The next item on the agenda is item four comments from the public Any comments from the public Good all right You Planning manager, please Good evening, good evening chair Again, great to see you all again this evening. I want to wish you all happy fourth. It's coming up our nation's 256th birthday, so it's awesome We will have a meeting on July 14th, so count on that as of now.

It's I believe a five o'clock workshop I'll work with Carrie to finalize the details on that, but I think we'll be doing the work.

It's a workshop on the arts and culture master plan that our community services department is working on so I think we'll do it most likely at five probably have some food for you too But until then enjoy the fourth be safe out there That's all I have Thank you, kid Any my colleagues have anything about current events current events Yeah, there are day I attended the Buckeye open house to the Buckeye open house or at the landings It was good getting good to see all the people over there My kids had fun looking at the public utilities trucks and everything so it was good and I want to also take this time Do you say something personal As some of you guys may know, I've been out I'm video calls and doing this for a couple months now Reason is because I had to get a double one-crans plan and I want to publicly thank my donors families.

We're all out on that to happen. I was told I had two weeks to live and If it wasn't for the donor, I want to be here to send here today make me able to talk to you guys So I encourage everyone to check out donate life a AZ dot com and if possible become an organ donor because Again, I want to be here today if wasn't born organ donor on thank you for your time Yeah Mr. Baster Mr. Esther What's that?

We're happy for you Sebastian Congratulations and And Buckeye has a very good fourth of July celebration planned out for the airport So if you don't if you're in town, I'm going to go out there then do that and happy birthday, USA Thank you, Mr.

Ragsdale and the daughters of the American Revolution Volunteer to put up our flags on main street for all the major National holidays, however because of all the construction for a flag day We were unable to put them up, but we will be flying them all the way down both sides of the street for fourth of July 60 flags Looks very nice Thank you miss puppy happy birthday, America Mr. Burden says good night Thank you You