Apache Junction approves Superstition Vistas rezoning 6-0, 8,100 acres

september 14th 2021 and the time is now 7 p.m i invite you to stand with me and recite the pledge of allegiance 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 roll call rudy commissioner barker here commissioner begaman here commissioner cantwell is excused this evening mr chairman vice chair hanchey here chairman heck here commissioner cross here commissioner gage here sixth president we have a quorum mr chairman very good thank you all right next item on the agenda is consideration of approval for this evening's agenda uh do i hear a motion commissioner i move that the planning and zoning commission accept the agenda as presented very good thank you one second okay i have a motion and a second uh roll call rooney commissioner gage yes commissioner barker yes commissioner began yes vice chair hinchey yes chairman heck yes commissioner cross yes so move mr chairman very good thank you right there are two public hearings scheduled for this evening the first is item 21-448 presentation discussion public hearing and consideration of proposed rezoning p-21-50-mpc the auction property at superstition vistas request by dr horton inc to rezone approximately 2 783 acres from rsgr that's general rural low density single-family detached residential to mpc master plan community to facilitate the development of two development units consisting of residential and commercial uses for a maximum of 10 940 new residential units and a maximum of 443 400 square feet of non-residential development the auction property is bounded by elliott avenue to ray avenue and from meridian drive to the idaho road alignment mr chair if i may you could read the other one also and you could have one public hearing but we will have separate votes on these items oh so i could you can combine one now yeah that you can combine it into one public hearing correct all right okay well then let's let us do that all right so the second public hearing is item 21-449 presentation discussion public hearing and consideration of proposed rezoning p-21-51 mpc that's retained property at superstition vistas a request by the arizona state land develop department to rezone approximately 5 307 acres from rstr to mpc master plan community to facilitate the development of six development units consisting of residential commercial and industrial uses retained property is generally bounded by baseline avenue to the fry road alignment and from meridian drive to the central arizona project canal so we will address the the auction property first commission i will be uh covering both items in my rotation okay commission for the record my name's sydney rice i'm one of the planners on staff we cover both the auction and the retained properties uh noted in the agenda uh just a bit of context of how we got here tonight um the arizona state land department held an auction on november 4th of 2020 for approximately 2800 acres dr horton was deemed a successful bidder as part of that award they were deemed the responsibility to rezone approximately 8 100 acres known as the site the site is made up of course of two parcels the original 2800 acres and then the remainder of the 5300 acres known as the retained property at the time of the auction portions of the auction property and the retained property were located in panel county dr horton has requested to annex those portions of those parcels into the city the annexation process started on december 22nd of 2020 at a later date dr horn partnered with brookfield residential properties to develop half of the auction property the submittal and review of the mpc plans started and on in april of this past year this exhibit notes the site uh as as mentioned in the uh agenda the the site is located and uh bounded by baseline to the sr-24 and from meridian to the cap canal the first phase of development is the auction property in the center there uh with the hatched gray mark and then the new annexation limits or the new city limits through the annexation um are are from elliot to the sr24 you may have noticed in your packets that the mpc is different size the reason for that is because the auction npc has a development unit plan is the second level of the planning effort there is more of a detailed plan the retained property does not have a development unit plan development unit plans will come at a later date when future auctions happen through the arizona state land department uh you could really think of the both of these mpc plans as new zoning ordinances that will replace our existing zoning ordinance so we'll have two separate and two new zoning ordinances for this area of the city covers a range of topics everything from land use budgets to permitted uses to references to master infrastructure plans development standards street sections engineering standards and everything of the like both the development team and city staff sent out approximately 950 neighborhood notices for residents that reside within 300 feet of the site area three neighborhood meetings were held one on june 14th june 23rd and on august 4th empty at the mgc there's also a virtual meeting held on june 16th approximately 60 people attended total for all meetings mostly people on the mesa side and questions really consisted of infrastructure improvements the timing of the sr-24 proposed amenities uh home prices and where other public facilities were were to be located staff only received one phone call from resident mesa and they expressed support for the project and they asked really when homes are going to be starting to be sold we have upcoming dates with the city council we have a work session on 9 20 and on 10-4 and a consideration of this project both of these items on your agenda on 10.5 that is all my presentation uh the applicant is also here and has a presentation as well if you'd like them to give a presentation um are there any questions at this point from the commission i would say no so let's have the applicant come up please chair heck members of the commission patrick brown vp of land with dr horton the address is 20410 north 19th avenue first want to thank sydney for his presentation tonight we had a work session with the commission on june 7th and we've been working tirelessly with city staff ever since that date um this is as we say this takes an army to bring this future city and in front of the commission in future hopefully in front of the city council for approval uh that's what we are doing here tonight is creating the next city in east valley and it's going to be right here in apache junction which i can't be more thrilled to be a part of it's probably going to be the highlight of my career to be honest with you but there's a lot of people involved in this this is a team of folks behind you neighbors that have come to the various different uh open houses to learn about the project and also get excited we've received nothing but very big support and just wanting to make sure this still feels very much like apache junction so i think the planning staff and your city staff has made sure that that's paramount in in our design and thought process is so that we don't lose what apache junction is so i want to let you guys know that as well with that being said i've got to take a few seconds just to mainly thank a few folks the commission for your consideration and hopeful approval tonight the city staff bryant matt joel they've been working very tirelessly on a number of complicated development agreements with the water district the sewer district cfds so it there's been a number of documents going back and forth uh larry as uh development director he's been pushing us every step of the way as well as sydney i don't know if anyone's slept less than sydney over the past a few months as he's tirelessly made sure that every single dot is cros dot is i is dotted t is crossed and even today we had a last second change that just that to make sure that it's perfect so we appreciate his thoroughness rudy liz leslie emil mike weaver mike loggins in the water district and darren england and the sewer district they've all been amazing partners in and couldn't have asked for a better team i also want to thank our two other main partners that the first is the state of arizona uh this is a unique auction that we've mentioned to you guys about uh in our work session is the state of arizona the land department is our partners there are partners in the deal there are partners with the future retained property that'll be exciting stuff for apache junction for various employments and future growth in years to come so they've been amazing mark edelman has led the charge for them jim perry who's the deputy director and lisa atkins without her support we wouldn't be here today and last but not least i've got to thank our friends over at brookfield residential they've been amazing john bradley d bob eric they've got a world-class team and they're one of the best in the business is what they're doing is creating places and and uh and karen taylor robeson who's helped shepherd this the whole way we wouldn't be here if they didn't work tirelessly with the state land department to create a unique opportunity for the state to partner with a world-class developer like dr horton and brookfield residential to make sure that we're not here just to show pretty pictures but to actually get the city built so we do have a presentation it's the same one that you've seen before happy to run through it really quick for a refresher and for the neighbors here if you would give such a pleasure andy barron who we also have to thank who's created these documents in in this zoning and so i'll turn it over to him but appreciate everything thank you thank you patrick uh chairman members of the commission i'm sure you remember me andy barron with abla my address for the record is 310 east rio salado parkway tempe so i will go through this a little bit quicker than the last time unless you all have some questions along the way please feel free to interrupt me but for those in the audience that aren't familiar i'll start with the slide that's up so superstition vista is approximately 275 square miles of property which is all held in state trust land if you think about that it's great to say it's comparable in size to the city of mesa chandler and tempe and gilbert combined it's a significant land area also important to note mark element has been great making sure that we say this over and over again but this is state trust land that is not uh you know blm or private property this is held in trust obviously to benefit mostly primary schools but other trust beneficiaries within the state and certainly the development of a project of this scale has significant impact for the state itself important to note that this project obviously been underway and you know in development and design for about 15 years now 15 to 20 years and it takes an army many of these slides you'll see are all the different various organizations that have been involved through the way obviously a lot of apache junction the sewer district water district fire district the unified school district and certainly uli panel partnership east valley partnership srp just to name a few these are significant specific holdings with a significant amount of interest in the area so large scale as you can see within superstition vistas and this mouse does work uh sydney how do i go to full is that this button here we go i got it um this works so again the boundary of super student vision as you can see is kind of that black line on the outside the property that we're talking about today is the first portion of that sort of at that northeast corn or northwest corner patrick has kind of already introduced the developers of the team so dr horton and brookfield obviously behind that i'm just a small part of that team that's actually been working as patrick said tirelessly to bring forward this very complex but very comprehensive package that you have in front of you this evening was just a portion obviously there's master studies behind it as well and other materials as patrick had indicated with the other agreements dr horton america's builder i don't think they need much introduction there significant master developer significant home builder in the united states proper done very significant projects throughout arizona as well and brookfield residential again a significant master plan developer in all of north america with significant global holdings across the world in terms of asset management development and soon to be a residential housing building here even in arizona so as we jump into this we'll talk both properties much like sydney did we'll talk auction property and retain property so the local context i think we all understand the area at this point north of the plan sr-24 south of baseline avenue east of meridian and west of the cap canal the two colors there we'll get into in a second as sydney indicated the site approximately 8090 acres we'll call it 8 100 acres to keep the math easy kind of outline in the orange there the auction property is the the middle of that space about 2783 acres and then the remainder property uh thoughtfully named the retained property at 5307 acres so together that equals the 8090.

um with the developer obligation and the participation agreement dr horton is responsible for the entitlements of that so that is partly the annexation the development agreements the master plan zoning and then the formation of the cfd districts that were mentioned previously as it is planned at the moment here dr horton is on the west side of ironwood and brookfield is on the east side of ironwood respectively the acreages are divided generally in half we have in this a land use plan and this is actually in the npc documents i think this may be slightly different than what we showed you last time this is part of the back and forth that we worked hand in glove with staff to provide that level of detail and this generally shows the location of residential generally shows the location of parks networks street networks potential for commercial and similarly on the brookfield residential side you'll see the same general locations of planned facilities and each of us are well underway in through the pre-planning process based on these concepts with that in order for us to regulate this we have a land use budget and the land use budget allocates residential density and non-residential intensity between each development unit the 10 940 units that were allocated or divided equally between each development unit and likewise the commercial non-residential gross floor area is divided equally between the two land areas with that the master planned community plan lays out a framework that talks about the development units and how the land use budget is allocated what the permitted uses are within each of those and then breaks down the development unit plan in more detail that gets into the elements of transportation trails parks networks and then in even further detail on the development standards and design guidelines relative to architecture landscape walls fencing things of that nature so that's that extra layer of detail that sydney had mentioned earlier in the presentation so with that these are graphics that are from the mpcs themselves that start to rea show the elements that are planned and fixed at this point collector alignments arterial alignments that are specific to trails general kind of thought process on open space and how that might be allocated throughout with some major trail corridors identified and obviously transportation framework that's based on the traffic impact analysis with that everything has to be supported by master studies so the 10 940 units and the 443 000 square feet of non-residential gross floor area is supported by these master studies so to do that we have a master water plan this also supports the development proposed within the retained property so all of the master studies not only cover the auction property but the retained in totality so you'll see there's a wastewater master plan a non-potable water plaster plan a drainage master plan that all sort of support the proposed development as we get into the retained property again location kind of the horseshoe out of the middle there would be the auction the retained portion being the 5300 acres that is divided up into its own separate development units starting on the south developing units one and two stay in sequence and then three starts here and then goes kind of counterclockwise around to development unit eight um in that there are again land use budgets i won't go through that level of detail here and explain each one but logically they are allocated based on transition and land use so as we get closer to the freeway we get more intense with density of residential more intense with intensity of non-residential growth floor area and similarly as we go to the north and the land use plan you'll see that the allocation of non-residential growth floor area for those things that may be more complementary to industrial development non-residential office things of that nature would happen further to the north so this land use plan was also added to the retained property npc in that very similar structure in the sense that we have the mpc plan that regulates us through land use budget development units and permitted uses the development unit plan here is actually a framework so that framework tells a future planner like myself as they buy a piece of property from the state what they have to provide is in in a level of detail to ensure that there's enough criteria established for proper development within that development unit itself so that framework is outlined in detail through a narrative that then provides that criteria for them to develop that information one of the big elements within the documents that you've probably seen is all of the different practices we're implementing for sustainability and you'll see that through the onewater concepts and the master studies you'll see that through our stormwater management policies that we have integrated into the mpcs themselves trails and open space major significant place making elements all of those things have been integrated the goal here is to create you know the first project of superstition vistas setting the bar for future development along the way uh obviously and again this is from the police previous presentation some character what we're looking at from a landscape perspective understanding that water is a valuable asset in the market that where we have turf elements that we're using them for park and program and we're using that landscape to create place shade and character within the communities and then obviously parks networks are important for us within the neighborhoods to make sure that there's a quality of life for residents that they have active recreation components accessible within their neighborhoods so i did go through that very fast that is the last slide i think last time i probably took about 45 minutes so i'm happy to answer any questions that you may have so feel free questions from the commission comment comment commissioner barker yes i am um absolutely awesome by the work that city staff you folks have put into this project when it first began and we got that first coffee and there were all these things in there and and all of us said what about this the this is part of us this is a city policy you're saying maybe no we want yes and you've gone back through all of that and you have brought it up to the level that we were looking for and i applaud that effort i'm i'm in awe chairman commissioner barker again team effort and i have to again acknowledge larry's team and staff in general for everything it's been a highly collaborative exercise that we fully acknowledged is a lot of back and forth to kind of get to a place where we have something that we all feel very comfortable with and very proud of to move forward with i think i need to add just one more thing um patrick when you were speaking you talked of creating a city you quickly changed that and i commend you for the quick change this is not the creation of a new city this is an addition to a city that exists and will enhance that existing city thank you it's a lot of pressure up here there's a lot of people staring at you you have to understand that well at least i'm not on the council anymore telling you though well thank you very much for your comments um andy i guess i have one comment i had a conversation earlier with sydney and i asked the question how well dr horton and and brookfield were working together i i know these are two big players and you often wonder sometimes can the can the can two big players work together and make it happen and he said that you guys have been very good and i i appreciate that for the in the best interest of this city i am grateful that you're able to to work together to make this a a you know extraordinary project so thank you to all i'd say you got two of the best and i've been doing this for 27 years so this is this is significant thank you thank you there are no other questions this is an open hearing i'll actually do it on both of the both the auction property and the retained property members of the public have the opportunity to speak on these two cases clarify statements from the public must be related to this case and this case only when recognized by the chair please come down to the podium state your name and address for the record and then present your statement uh please make certain to speak into the microphone and you would have a five limb five minute time limit for each speaker so do i have any individuals who would like to make comments i think i saw a hand back there please come on down my name is tanya holland i'm with providence homes on signal button elliott how are you guys doing tonight well thank you we got smiles from everybody okay so i have a question okay so let me just tell you where i live so you know exactly where i am okay so you have signal button elliott and then i bump up against meridian you know meridian is right i've lived there for 19 years so right there in meridian is that state trust land that is what's being developed right now correct and so how many um developments are going to be there like is there going to be a lot of developments like meritage like richmond american is that what they're trying to do kind of like they've done with eastmark is that the same type of deal that you're trying to create is that what it is and not able to we're not able to answer that question yeah if you can write in your comments and they can answer after everybody has made comments oh okay so we're not doing questions just comments right now right you can ask a question but we cannot answer it at this point we can later on we could bring the the applicant back up oh okay and then we can ask for questions then or no well you can ask a question now okay and then they will we will ask them to come back up and provide okay so just tell me a little bit more when you do come back up here what it's going to look like how many developments how many parks you know um how many residents do you think how many homes i know you don't know how many residents but just a little bit more detail um and that would be great thank you one last thing can you just i don't believe you gave us your address one you ready i'm ready here we go i'm not gonna write it down we'll get it oh you're not gonna write it down okay it's one one five zero four east rutledge avenue r-u-t-l-e-d-g-e mesa arizona eight five two one two okay thank you else wish to speak yes please come on down my name is scott bergman i reside at 4944 south calderon in mesa my property is within the 300 foot notification limit i have a couple of questions for the developer especially because this land will be immediately adjacent to our property so if i remember correctly all of meridian or meridian road is split in half half of it is pinal county and half of it is maricopa county if i remember correctly if that is the case then i would like to know how the developer plans to manage or mitigate the traffic flow on the east side of meridian does he have a plan to work with the city of mesa and maricopa county for the west side of meridian and if so what do those easements improvements in d-cell lanes actually look like is it is there a plan to close meridian for a while the other questions i'd like to ask are what streets will penetrate from meridian to the east specifically uh elliott warner and ray what do those look like the other part to that too is right now in pinal county the land the swales and the drainage on that land are very unfavorable to maricopa county and when it rains hard like it just did a couple of months ago we're the recipient of a whole lot of mud and water that comes from that state trust land right across into our property which is the providence area that's immediately to the west so i'd like to know how the developer plans to mitigate or self-contain those runoff waters especially because the area that's being proposed for for first construction is the area immediately adjacent to our property because the presentation was kind of quick also immediately adjacent so in this area the the auctioned area uh the we're talking about master plan communities so we're probably talking about a slightly higher density of living than single family detached homes these are probably detached homes that i think that her point are probably more like eastmark so i'd like to get a feel for in that area of of elliott to ray what are we talking about are we talking about commercial properties that will abut meridian i don't think that's what we're talking about based on the presentation but i'd like to know and i'd also like to know those the the npcs appear to be a higher density living so what is his plan the property immediately west of meridian is uh those houses are of a significant size and of a significant value and so i am concerned i don't care if the property gets more dense and smaller as it moves to the east but i would be concerned if it immediately abuts meridian with homes that are many thousands of square feet immediately to the west so i'd like the developer to answer those when he comes back up very good okay that's all i have very good thank you so any anyone else wish to make comment please go on there you'll have just one at a time please my name is penny nielsen my address is east caldwell's way queen creek arizona 85214 i own property uh the industrial property off of penal drive in guadalupe and i'm curious to know if it's going to stay pinal county if my taxes will go up i'm curious to know if we'll have access to city water and city sewer i'm just curious to know if it's going to affect that because it's industrial at all thank you thank you ma'am please i'm no sorry the other person that was yeah he was mr come up excuse me ma'am do you do you wish to speak then to her well fine okay very good thank you for anyone else that wishes to speak all right that's the case i need to close this ask one more time ask one more time since we doubled the hearing okay all right anybody else anyone else anyone else wish to give comment to these these two cases for this evening well okay my name is holly rowley i'm at 11536 east sheridan avenue mesa eight five two one two um so we're kind of gonna be sandwiched between this and eastmark and a big concern a big complaint that i've heard is we don't have a lot of shopping in the area eastmark put in all of these homes and very little shopping so just curious as to what the plans are shopping wise and commercial versus the ratio of commercial to residential okay thank you again is there anyone else that wishes to give comment okay that being said i will i will close the public hearing and i guess then i will reopen the public hearing to have our applicant to have representatives come up and i i'm hoping that you wrote down some of those questions because i have yeah i can do my best okay some of them are fairly detailed questions so let me uh andy you want me to do the full screen for you you know larry if i didn't know you could drive from there that's pretty impressive all right cooking with gasoline all right so let me hit this let's use this graphic so one of the questions was about the industrial property whether or not that would be in pinal county still just to be clear the only property that we're annexing is the property that is in yellow and in orange so if that's existing property that is already within the county that will remain within the county so there will be no changes to that property i think that answers that question with respect to the number of developments so let's kind of go through i'm going to have to scroll quickly one of the questions was how many developments will be here is it meritage is it kb is it dr horton so dr horton is developing generally development unit one is there potential that they may sell to another builder it's there's potential but brookfield uh residential typically does do land development and sells to multiple builders uh so there is you know definitely going to be multiple builders within this area proper and i think i want to make sure that that's clear is that between the two development units we will have multiple home builders i don't know exactly how to answer the question of how many developments because essentially what we're looking at is 2 800 acres of a mix of housing and non-residential uses so the number of developments is in context correlated to the types of products that will be developed so it will be residential and with some level of commercial with respect to the number of parks planned and how that's done i think what i can do is show you on this graphic that in the brookfield portion these circles represent areas that could have parks these smaller circles also represent areas that could be parks there's also a linear park planned in this location as well and where you see the same concept on this plan every little green circle uh we're pretty far along on this this is generally what we're building there'll be parks in these locations larger facilities here you know and these benefit the residents within this neighborhood so at the same time i'm going to answer the question about the retail uh there is commercial planned within this property at the intersection of ironwood and ray potentially at the intersection of elliott and ironwood and similarly on the opposite side brookfield has similar plans what that looks like it's market driven depends on demand you know 443 000 square feet of floor area could translate into you know roughly 40 acres it depends on far that's something that we won't know until there's a site plan developed what those services are again is really based on the market and the demand ironwood's a highly traveled roadway with a whole lot of trips planned per day connecting north and south between the u.s 60 and the sr-24 i think i can paint a picture there that there's probably some demand for some retail i believe that that will happen it's just a question of timing with respect to question on what's going to happen overall in the development between the two properties the retain and the auction is probably the best graphic but it's the quickest one i can see there is a roughly 27 000 units planned in residential and those will generally occur you know basically from this area all the way around to the south down to the sr-24 and there's also about nine and a half million square feet of non-residential growth floor area planned so that could be translated into commercial could be translated into office or employment industrial or other types of non-residential uses and that will be based on future development unit plans that would come through based on the retained property auctions in the future with respect to roadways let me see if i can find a better graphic oh this is a good one uh with respect to meridian road obviously the gentleman was correct we do have two municipalities we will be improving the half street of meridian road to the east based on our traffic impact analysis so that existing street would be improved to a four lane arterial the tia will address further improvements based on the impacts of development through the retained property in the future elliott and ray would be improved to six lane arterials again this development specifically the auction property would be responsible for half street improvements so from the section line to the north railroad would be improved half of the full build out similarly with elliott ultimately when that occurs maybe the only difference here would be ironwood since both properties border that that would be fully improved as development occurs all the way up to elliott so i believe that answers the questions on the traffic drainage the good news is because we are doing a two-hour hundred year storm event retention and our drainage master plan shows this any of the downstream flows we'll be retaining all that stuff on our property so as the development occurs all the issues that the gentleman was speaking of would be negated that's going to be as a result of us doing improvements on the property itself and with respect to housing the density those items are are really kind of a broad brush as you all know if you've read the mpc uh the different types of products that we're permitted to do range from an attached housing all the way up to a large lot and that really is a function of you know the master plan itself and the type of demand and housing that's needed for the area so that density is blended over the entire property is about 4.8 units the acre i believe on the auction property and it varies on the development of the retained property based on its adjacency to freeway corridors or other transitions in land use so the density will vary based on the type of housing that that is planned for the area so i believe i got everything joel i think let me know if i if you feel i missed something or if you want some more explanation i'm happy to jump into that i think you're good um i had a question sure right yes um it's not going to impact any of the county island with water because they're not part of the city and the way the utilities are set up everything from what i could see goes around that property so therefore it won't change correct water and sewer stays as it is the only property taxes i mean we're not changing it we can't annex property that we don't own so right i just wanted to clarify that absolutely because they were asking if it would bring any additional water service to that county island and it really won't that's correct and it would be quite some time unless they become unless they want to annex sand and that will be up to the people who live on that property sure keep in mind too that it's really undetermined at this point at what development unit and when the state would auction another property so if i was a bet man i would imagine the stuff on the sr 24 would probably be uh first so i would imagine we probably see something there sooner than we would further to the north okay any other questions from the commission yeah another question we don't have any slides for the roads that you've proposed how they're going to look not in this particular place just within the mpc maybe you could show the public after the meeting or something kind of give them a better idea of how they're actually going to look since we have an unfair advantage over the public but we got a thick book with all the details and everything in it so you have 60 a lot more you have 600 pages of uh information yeah yeah yeah typically we don't get that level detail in presentations because it gets fairly complicated on a screen so yeah i was just asking agenda fair yes and i i think it's also worthy noting that that you have shown so many of those specific slides someone that he's asking about at past meetings we have so this is not something that we just walked in got a book and said oh yeah okay i mean we've been at this since april so yes that that information was part of our public outreach at all of our neighborhood meetings and open houses now i have the previous draft that we had before this and then we even had a raw version before this so you guys have seen all the blood sweat and tears right i agree i just want the public to know that this has been looked at quite thoroughly not only by us but staff way more and you guys weigh more than us sydney both of these books are online on our website correct okay oh okay even better yeah so i can show when we're done here that people find tonight's agenda just like the upcoming meetings these all are attached on the city public website okay good that's helpful thank you good all right um so any other questions from the commission if not thank you andy so again this this is a this is still the uh public hearing so if we have anyone else that wishes to you know you can't answer i guess you have to wait and see i think you already closed the floor so well mr chair this is an important decision so of course you may want to reopen the public hearing in case anybody else has any questions as a result of oh it i thought it was still open i thought the public hearing was still open well i'm saying you can ask the public to speak again if you would like sure okay okay all right well thank you yeah so um yeah i will open up again now for the public if anyone wishes to uh give comment um all right uh i will i'll offer up one more okay yes ma'am do i need to state my name again yeah please just oh snap okay tanya holland 11504 east rutledge avenue mesa arizona eight five two one two okay so this is 8 100 acres of land correct i'm not allowed to ask them right oh snap okay i wanted to ask also about the freeway now as i understand it meridian if you go south past warner it will connect to the 24.

i need to know exactly where the freeway the roads are going to go because literally i'm really hoping to have grandchildren soon and that is a major road right there a meridian is super close to my house so i kind of want to know where those major freeways are going to go and how close they're going to be um i just want to make sure too he said that he thought possibly 27 000 units 8 100 acres and commercial not so sure about how much commercial property will be there too so those are my questions all right thank you thank you anyone else that wishes to give comment one more time i'll ask anyone else wish to give comment all right so i'll close the public hearing uh and then i will so can we just answer those questions without having andy come up and then have another public hearing yes okay yeah i guess let's so there is a so the arizona state department of transportation has a web page for the state route 24 project so there is an interchange future interchange at meridian and the 24.

so i think that answers that question commercial i think andy showed the site i believe the first mpc one and two has about 40 acres of commercial located uh ironwood and ray and then the grandchildren question i can't answer that one and um but there will be much more commercial i think as that table indicated about overtime 27 000 housing units on the 8 000 acres industrial really north around the existing county island closer to baseline and then mostly housing i think the other gentleman had a question a long meridian there in this particular 2 700 acres there's really no commercial along meridian at all and if i missed anything joel from your notes okay sure larry meridian isn't changing we're just improving the east side well we are working with mesa mesa has a plan a long-range transportation plan as well so meridian will be improved there will be an eventual connection to the 60.

right but i'm saying as of right what this deals with this developer will be working on the east half of meridian and ultimately when all this land gets auctioned and developed there will be then a connection and a realignment if you will of meridian so it connects with the 60 with the interchange so again that's two counties and two cities and adot all working together ultimately chairman heck yes down here my understanding too is regarding commercial industrial there's in the neighborhood of nine million square feet of available property for commercial and or industrial uses so that's a substantial amount of square footage that's a substantial amount of of property that can be developed so that's that's really encouraging and again just for everyone's reference on the agenda if you go to the city's webpage and you go to the section on government and then agendas and minutes you can click on these on the agenda for tonight and those are the items related to the auction parcel and the retained property the other 5000 acres roughly that is that thinner document that so all these documents are available online right now as as of last thursday really okay thank you any other comments from the commission all right then we will proceed to uh look for in motion uh before that however we do have to we have to review the findings of fact um joel i presume we have to take each each case individually we're not going to vote on them you vote on them separately and you go through a process um i don't think it has to be as detailed as the cup findings but it's at your discretion very good all right so then we will look first the findings of fact for the first uh for the first case which is the auction property so um as required by the city apache junction zoning an ordinance a master plan community request may be approved by the city council after consideration has been given to the criteria outlined below 0.1 the development proposed is in conformance with the general plan applicant response to the city of apache junction general plan land use map has designated the auction property as master plan community 20 development units per acre this area was designated as master plan community to provide general guidance for the development of vacant state trust land master plan community designation ensures that variety of uses are planned and developed in comprehensive manner to facilitate a high qual high quality of life and vibrant local community in conformance with the general plan policies do we agree i agree i agree and i don't think we have to i don't think we have to read every right just number two the streets and thoroughfares proposed in are in harmony and conformance with the general plan do we agree any objections no the proposed development will be compatible with the character of the surrounding area many objections okay the conceptual site locations proposed for the public facility such as schools fire protection law enforcement water wastewater streets public services and parks are adequate to serve the anticipated population within the mpc district great objection nope okay i move that the planning and zoning commission recommend to this apache junction city council the approval of mpc rezoning request case p-21-50-npc a request by patrick brown of dr horton owner and applicant to facilitate the construction of a maximum of 10 940 new residential units and a maximum of 400 square feet of non-residential development for the property known as the auction property which is generally bounded by elliott avenue on the north ray avenue on the south and from meridian drive on the west to idaho road alignment on the east from rs-gr general rural low density single-family detached residential to mpc master plan community subject to the following conditions of approval one the auction property shall be developed in accordance with the mpc development unit plan infrastructure master plans and the corresponding development agreement two street improvements include but are not necessarily limited to the construction of new streets and street networks extension of pavement and provision of sidewalks curb gutter traffic signals street lights underground utilities fire hydrants landscaping and shall be required as part of this plan development project and subject to review and approval by the city engineer three all applicable permits shall be applied for and plan shall be designed to current city codes inclusively all applicable development fees shall be paid at the time of permits issuance for all common areas amenity areas and tracks within and immediately adjacent to the proposed development including perimeter walls and fences and interior and exterior common area landscaping shall be owned and maintained in good conditions at all time by the whole homeowners association five the developers engineer shall meet the civil engineering improvement plans and document requirements as outlined in the mpc plan and in accordance with the city's approved engineering standards that are in effect at the time of the planned submittal very good thank you okay so i have a motion do i have a second second all right have a second uh roll call rudy commissioner cross yes commissioner gage yes commissioner barker yes commissioner begman yes vice chair hinchey yes chairman heck yes so move mr chairman this will move on to the city council with a recommendation of approval with all conditions as stated very good thank you okay and then we will we will consider the second case here p dash 21-51-mpc the retained property and the findings of fact chair as required by the apache junction zoning ordinance a master plan community request may be approved by the city council after consideration has been given to the criteria outlined below the develop number one the development process is in conformance with the general plan do we agree any concern nope okay number two streets and thoroughfares proposed are in harmony in conformance with the general plan number three the proposed development will be compatible with the character of the surrounding area do we agree yep i'm concerned okay number four the conceptual site locations proposed for the public facility such as schools fire protection law enforcement water wastewater streets public services and parks are adequate to serve the anticipated population within the mpc district that's it very good thank you so we've covered the findings of facts so i look for a motion mr chair yes commissioner barker i move that the planning and zoning commission recommend to the apache junction city council the approval of the retained property mpc rezoning request case p-21-51 a request by arizona state land department owner and applicant to facilitate the future development of six development units known as the retained property generally bounded by baseline avenue to the frye road alignment and from meridian drive to the central arizona project canal from rs-gr general rural low density single family detached residential to mpc master plan community subject to the following conditions of approval one the auction property shall be developed in accordance with the mpc future development unit plans infrastructure master plans and the corresponding development agreement two street improvements include but not necessarily limited to the construction of new streets the street networks extension of pavement and the provision of sidewalks curb gutter traffic signals street lights underground utilities fire hydrants landscaping and shall be required as part of this planned development project and subject to review and approval by the city engineer three all applicable permits shall be applied for and plans shall be designed to current city codes inclusively all applicable development fees shall be paid at the time of permits issuance for all common areas amenity areas and tracks within and immediately adjacent to the proposed development including perimeter walls and fences and interior and exterior common area landscape shall be owned and maintained in good condition at all times by the homeowners association five the developers engineers shall meet with the civil engineer improvement plans and document requirements as outlined in the mpc plan in accordance with the city's approved engineering standards that are in effect at the time of the plants submittal very good thank you i have a motion do i hear a second mr chair we could change the condition number one yes it says the auction property it should say the retained property the retained price that's a typo on our fault we didn't catch it thank you second so so we have a motion with that correction to item number or two condition number one so we have a motion and a second second we have a second roll call rudy chairman heck yes commissioner cross yes commissioner gage yes commissioner barker yes commissioner begeman yes vice chair hinchey yes so mr chairman this will also move on to council with a recommendation of approval very good thank you okay at this point we have uh old business is there any old business i don't believe so there's no old business scheduled new business i don't think we have any new business scheduled either information reports uh the chair has no informational reports for the commission this evening uh director's report uh rudy has about a two hour report if your guys are here all right we don't have anything tonight i think this was enough for tonight very good okay all right then uh lastly selection of meeting dates times locations and purpose chair i moved the planning and zoning commission hold regular meeting on september 28th at 7 pm in the city council chambers located at 300 east superstition boulevard in the event there is no items to be brought forward to the commission this meeting may be cancelled notification of cancellation properly posted and the commission notified by staff thank you i have a motion do i have a second second very good i have a second roll call rudy vice chair hinchey yes german heck yes commissioner cross yes commissioner gage yes commissioner barker yes commissioner begeman yes so move mr chairman very good thank you motion passed meeting adjourned thank you you