Planning and Zoning - Regular Meeting

and zoning commission for the city of Apache Junction. Today's date is May 27th, 2025, and the time is 700 p.m. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the standice. Rudy, can I get a roll call, please? Chairman Hansen, here. Vice Chair Barker, here. Commissioner Gage, here. Commissioner Star here. Commissioner Bigalow. Commissioner Mikeund here. Commissioner Kalen. I am here. We have six present. We have a quorum. Mr. Chairman, thank you, Rudy. Uh, do we have a motion to approve the agenda and minutes? Mr. Chair Mr. I move that the planning and zoning commission accept the agenda as pre presented and approve the minutes from May 13, 2025 regular meeting. Do we have a second? Second. Rudy, I have a motion and a second. Can I please get a roll call? Commissioner Ken, yes. Chairman Nanchie, yes. Vice Chair Barker, yes. Commissioner Gage, yes. Commissioner Star, yes. Commissioner Mikeland, yes. So move, Mr. Chairman. Thank you, Rudy. There's one public hearing this evening, consideration of resolution 25-18 to approve the conditional use permit case P-24-106-c for an outdoor storage yard located within the Baseline Industrial

Park. Erica I can do it. I got it. I got good commission members. My name is Erica Hernandez, a planner on staff. This presentation is to to discuss a conditional use permit request by Timothy Booth for Gold Meadow Landscape Management for a outdoor storage yard. So, we can see that the property is generally located west of 36th Avenue along Colt Road within the best baseline industrial subdivision. It's currently zoned industrial B5. Um, and is currently surrounded by B5 to the north, to the east, to the west, and B5 PD to the I'm sorry, to the south and B5 PD to the west. Okay. And here's the proposed site plan and landscape plan. Uh they will be doing a lot combination and um doing uh dust proofing along for the whole property here. There will be a decorative 8 foot wall here along Colt and a three-foot decorative wall here for the parking screen wall and a six foot wall along the perimeter on the sides in the rear. There will be two entrances off Colt here and here and a 25 foot landscape strip here along Colt. I will note that there will be no buildings proposed at this time. Okay, as a reminder, this is for an outdoor storage yard. Um, so this is for uh utility trailers, um, heavy duty

trucks, and things of that nature. As far as public input, a sign was posted at the site. Notices were sent out to property owners within 500 ft of the subject site. The case was advertised in the newspaper. Um there was a neighborhood meeting held on March 18th. One neighbor attended and was generally supportive of this project. Um outside of that, um there were no questions for staff or comments. With that, staff recommends approval of P-24-106-CU subject to the conditions of approval found in the staff report. Um, I will note that the applicant does have a presentation as well and be happy to take questions afterwards. Let me bring up his presentation here for you. Okay, Timothy. Okay, so she pretty much covered everything. This is our site plan here uh that you just saw and the landscape plan. This here is our current uh yard in Mesa and this is kind of what we're trying to mimic. So you can see the aerial view of it there from the top and we have the trucks parked there in the middle with the trailers and then along the side wall uh is where all the employees park over on the uh the empty spaces there. And then the opposite side we have extra trailers and like that. We currently store um debris at this yard. We won't at our yard because of the the dump that's close by. Um so nothing will be coming back to this yard other than equipment. Um and like she said, no office either. But you see it's set up

exactly like we propose in our in our site plan other than this has asphalt and this new place will not. with the um CAB. Um our landscape plan, which you saw already, um we planned plan on getting the utilities uh the power sewer just stubbed out there because we won't have a building. We won't have a need for it um right now, but I want to put it inside the wall for later. It actually stubs out right under where we want to put an entryway, so we'll need to move that in. Um, and then we'll need power for gates and outlets, um, and and lighting there. And then water obviously for our landscaping and hose bibs and and stuff like that on on the property. And that's it. That's all I have. I do have the one question that I talked about you previously, the pole lighting. Yeah, the pole. So, you have like now you have proposed four. Um, there's like four. They're hard to see on here. Um, so they're the little asterisks. Yep. And there's four in the middle and then there are two one at either gate. Okay. And then two more two additional along the uh employee parking along the wall there basically. So uh what is that? Eight I think. Yeah. Okay. And as we discussed those would be dark sky compliance. Dark sky. and whatever whatever height you require. And we don't have anything picked out yet, so we'll just do whatever you require for us to put in there. It's really just for just for us to see at night and we don't need anything. Okay, good. Thank you. Do you have any kind of time frame on

possible buildings on site? No, we originally we thought when we bought this property that we may want to put a building on it and we have kind of moved away from that to probably not having a building on it. So, it'll it'll probably just be a satellite yard for us for at least unless something big changes. Anyone else any questions? Right. Thank you. [Music] Okay. So, at this time, I'm going to open it up to the public. Christmas. Anybody from the public like to speak after you hit that hammer that hard? I don't think I was making sure you were awake. There's no dog park, so I'm keeping your attention again. Anybody from the public? Going once. Going twice. Closed. All right. finding effects. All right, I guess I'll do it. Number one, adequacy of roadway, off- streetet parking, public facilities, and service to accommodate the proposed use. It's not applicable to this particular Well, it it'll meet it because they're just going to basically be parking vehicles and there's already roads in

there, right? Uh number two, negative impacts arising from the emissions of odor, dust, gas, noise, lighting, vibration, smoke, heat, or glare. I see none. No, they're doing proper dust control for the lot and stuff, so it should be okay. Um contribution to the deterioration of neighborhood or the negative impact on neighborhood property values. Do not see none arising. Compatibility with surrounding uses and structures. Yes, it's industrial area. Uh conformance with the general plan and city policies. Yeah. Yes, it does confirm. Screening and buffering of uses. Yes, the landscaping, walls, everything conforms. Let's see. Number seven, unique nature of property, use or developments of physical characteristics. Um, it'll blend in. It's there's no unique nature. All right. Any further discussions or anything? Anybody want to make a motion? Sure. I move that the planning and zoning commission approve CUP case P-24-106- CUP, a request by Timothy Booth of Gold Medal Landscape Management for an outdoor storage yard located within the Baseline Industrial Park on lots 14 and 15 subject to four um conditions be approved. Do we have a second? I'll second. Rudy,

I have a motion in a second. Can I get a roll call? Commissioner Callen, yes. Chairman Henshi, yes. Vice Chair Barker, yes. Commissioner Gage, yes. Commissioner Star, yes. Commissioner Mikeland, yes. So move, Mr. Chairman, this conditional use permit is approved. Uh, as always, unless somebody protest or appeals your decision within 20 days, then it would be decided by council. If nobody appeals, your decision stands. Thank you, Rudy. Uh, old business, there is none. New business, there is none. No, sir. Uh, information reports, none. Uh, director's report, do you have anything? Uh just uh u kind of a heads up at I'm not either the next meeting or the meeting after. Uh a couple of meetings ago, Commissioner Gage had asked for um uh kind of a rundown on on our parking guest parking regulations in light of the uh Wolf project. And you had also asked about uh status on the effectiveness of traffic reports and how they relate to the real world, that kind of thing. So, we've talked to our city engineer and uh as soon as we get his confirmation, we'll come back with a couple of information items for you. Thank you, Rudy. Um, selection of meeting dates, times, and location. Somebody want to do a motion on that? Okay. I move that the planning and zoning commission hold a special meeting on June 10th, 2025 at 700 p.m. in the boardroom of the Superstition Fire and Medical. Am I reading this correctly? Yes. Fire and medical district located at 565 North Idaho Road. In the event there are no items to be brought forward to the

commission, these meetings may be cancelled. Notification of cancellation properly posted and commission notified by staff. I'll second. Rudy, we have a motion in the second. Commissioner Mikeland, yes. Commissioner Kalen, yes. Chairman Hy, yes. Vice Chair Barker, yes. Commissioner Gage, yes. Commissioner Star, yes. Very quickly, Mr. Chairman, the reason for that change of venue is that your next uh meeting will have a a general plan amendment case for you. Oh, okay. All right. General plan. General plan. Then we're going to have to do like two different have to have two meetings. One at two different Yes. Right. I now adjourn the meeting at 7:14 p.m.