Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

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e e e ready ready go uh we have Celeste she's on she's on good all right very good i' like to call the Planning and Zoning commission meeting for Thursday February 6th to order uh please rise and join me for pledge I pledge allegiance to the flag the United States of America to the

Republic for it stands one nation God indivisible liy and justice for all it doesn't let me Eric would you let the record show that all Commissioners are in in attendance any changes to the agenda they're thinking about no Mr chair okay thank you Commissioners you have one set of minutes before you chairman I'd like to make a motion thank you so much make a motion that we approve the minutes of the January 2nd 2025 meeting second got a motion and a second excuse me any discussion seeing none all in favor say I I any opposed very good okay well next is consent agenda but we have no items for the consent agenda so we'll move on to uh public comments anybody from the public that would like to speak to the commission uh about any subject besides the ones that we're dealing with tonight that are on our agenda this is a great time for you to come forward and let us know your thoughts okay seeing none I'll close the public portion of the meeting and we get to new

business first up and only up use the hold a public hearing consider forwarding a recommendation to city council for three yeah three different items uh um DSA 24 including DSA 24001 1671 168 and what's the other one DSA 2500 whole bunch of zeros three uh jacqulyn yes good evening commission uh tonight's um site is generally located at the east east and west of Thorton south of Selma and north of I8 it is part of an annexation request that will be heard by Council in conjunction with these three requests before you tonight uh the majority of these Parcels um are owned by panal county and as part of a purchase agreement with Lucid for their phase three development so the three requests before the commission tonight the first one is the minor General plan amendment to change Phase 2 growth area to phase one for approximately 1300 acres and the two zone changes are from Urban Ranch to I2 for approximately 12200 Acres and um a zone change from Urban Ranch to B4 for 110 acres here are the view criteria for the um minor General plan growth area it's covered in the staff report and staff finds that this criteria has been met I do want to note that um while this is adjacent to existing City Limits The General plan classifies any land that's not within the city's Juris jurisdiction or that cannot be easily served by the city C's infrastructure or services in phase two um however with an annexation infrastructure and service plan is reviewed and considered by Council and

that um shows how services and infrastructure can serve these sites within um 10 years so it's appropriate to be within phase one um with annexation regarding the zone change here are the three uh zone change criteria covered in the staff report I'll be going over each of these on the next slides for the I2 zone change again um the proposed I2 zone change is approximately 1,198 acres and the first review criteria is that the action is consistent with the city's Journal plan including the goals policies and other applicable elements and some of the goals and actions of manufacturing industry is to provide and expand the manufacturing industry land use areas to accommodate a variety of Industries and that action step is to identify locations where it can be beneficial to increase the manufacturing industry area within the city um another goal is to encourage appropriate responsible IND Industrial Development in appropriate locations an applicable element associated with this is land use element guiding principle number two and that Community growth should be driven by industrial Corporate Office Professional Services Financial Services research and development and other similar developments which offer opportunity for high paying quality jobs r view criteria number two is that a resoning conforms to the general plan if it proposes land uses densities or intensities within the range of of identified uses of the general plan uh the requested zoning of I2 is an appropriate zoning District in the manufacturing industry land use category per the 2030 General plan while there's not specific densities nor intensities for properties within the manufacturing industry landage Cate category that pertains to General industrial developments it does include site design standards that call for new development to minimize adverse impacts on surrounding and existing land uses through its site design so the requested Zoning for General General industrial I2 is appropriate in the manufacturing and Industry land use category and comp cability C excuse me compatibility can

be achieved through the design of the major site plan stage and finally the third is that the proposed zone change is necessary and proper at this time to meet the land use needs of the residence of the city City's current demand for General industrial land is significant and this rezone would expand that area the area to the um North does a but existing I2 however there is still rural residential development to the east and west shown in the yellow circles um so we have included some um conditions of record associated with Aesthetics and Architectural standards um as you know thoron and uh chuch Chu Road are Gateway entrances to the city so we want to make sure um that these points of points of access to the city um have architectural standards and um to be more compatible with the rural residential areas we've included that um some buffering for no conditional uses for uses involving the storage utilization or manufacturing Evol or explosive materials or products shall be allowed within 600 feet of existing or future uses um residential uses or within 600 feet of Thorton Selma or cho cho and we've worked through these with the applicant and they are okay with those um and then again at the time of major site plan additional analysis will be considered based on use moving on to the B4 zone change requests um again this is for approximately 110 acres and uh that the action is consistent with the city's joural plan including goals policies and other applicable elements um this is within the Commerce and business uh General plan land use category and one of the goals of um Commerce and business is to develop economic competitive Regional centers of commercial activity and to promote a wider range of uses than traditional commercial areas including Blended commercial and Industrial sites to prepare for changes in demand for retail and other commercial

uses applicable element associated with Commerce and business is economic development and one of those goals is to focus on attracting employers who create higher paying jobs aligned with key Industries and one of the action steps is to identify businesses that fit into the city's key industri Industries and suppliers and then develop and employ customized recruitment efforts to attract them uh review criteria number two is that award zoning conforms to the general plan if it proposes land uses densities or intensities within a range of identified uses of the general plan um within the Commerce and business land use destination it does have a maximum floor area of 35 and that retail commercial office development should provide spaces that encourage an urban sense of place including plazas and at least 10% open space is to be provided and review criteria number three is that the proposed Z changes necessary and proper at this time to meet the land use needs of the residents of the city the requested zoning of community services B4 is an appropriate and necessary Zone District to serve the this area of the city with the nearby interchange access being key a key gateway to this to the city and B4 is appropriate in the Commerce and business land use category and again uh we have also included some proposed conditions of record um again with it being an entry point to the city we want to have it some Aesthetics elevations and our AR architectural standards and these are um also laid out in the journal plan as well regarding notification efforts uh staff and the applicant uh met all the requirements notices of applications were sent by staff in December um and notifications of tonight's meeting were sent out to Property Owners within a th000 feet um the applicant posted the sites and um this was published in the dispatch for on January 21st I did receive two inquiries um one email um from a

adjacent property owner wanting to know more about the project I um sent them information and also forward it to the applicant and I did not hear back from him and I did receive another phone call from a property owner who thought her area was within the proposed zone change area and I let her know that she's adjacent to the site so with that first recommendation is to forward a recommendation of approval to city council for a minor General plan amendment to change the growth area from phase two to phase one and recommendation on I2 zone change support a recommendation of approval to city council for the zone change requests from Urban Ranch to General andal with the following conditions of approval and conditions of record do you want to note the highlighted items are um changes from the staff report uh that we've discussed with the applicant this week and um the the Zone The parcel um that's not going to be exempt from condition number two is the parcel just north of um it's already within the city limits and it's north of a already I I2 zone property so we were okay with exempting it from there and then we're just adding um language to clarify if a development agreement um is made between the developer and St for our RightWay standard and then for the B4 zone change forward the recommendation of approval to city council for the zone change request from Urban Ranch Community Services B4 with the following conditions of approval and conditions of record happen to answer any questions the commission may have all right Commissioners any questions for staff um just to be clear the the one that you Exempted from those can you show that on the map so it is got a point you see that it's this parcel right here gotcha all right very good

great thank you st anything else sta okay very good would the applicant or their representative please come forward give us your name and address for the recer Mr chairman members of the commission Nick Wood snow and wmer won Arizona Center actually it's won East Washington we moved uh and I represent Lucid um Seth King who is in-house Council for is here as well if in case you have any questions for him he's sitting close behind me in case I say something stupid he can kick me um I was here before this body back in 2018 um very excited about you know the Lucid project and um and now here we are with a potential next iteration um the idea behind this next iteration is to create development opportunity uh they don't have a plan in place right now but the idea is to make it ready um what I love about this plan is the fact that it really incorporates the mayor and the council's vision and that vision is more employment more business which of course is essential for the long-term health and viability of of the city uh and the community um I think I have a presentation I sure it's there somewhere there we go um first slide please next one um this of course is the area now we were just here in front of the city council with the first hearing regarding the annexation and we're talking about 1300 additional Acres through the entire application process you know tonight you're looking at a general plan Amendment a minor General plan Amendment uh and also with respect to the zoning of the of the property the areas that you see there in yellow um highlighted areas those are the areas that um are part of the an annexation

with the exception of that one you know piece um that Jacqueline pointed out the long you know rectangle uh and then of course uh the rezoning itself and you can see you know lucid's manufacturing facility right there you know the first general plan request that we're asking for is here we're going to move from what is phase two into phase one now the distinction in the general plan between one and two is a simple one and that is if you're in phase one that means that the city has the ability to provide all of the infrastructure needs of development whether it's sewer water streets you name it so we are now going to transition right what we're asking you to recommend approval of both the general plan as well as the zoning into that you know Zone one um we've worked very closely and by the way you've got one of the best staffs in the state um we work in cities all over the state particularly in the valley and it's always been a pleasure for us to work with them and and working with them we've made all these determin ations that in fact all these Services can be provided so again what we'll be doing is transitioning it from 2 to one uh next slide please um and here of course is H the general plan use map we're going to change it really to the manufacturing and then you know part of the business one of the other great Parts about this application especially even with the annexation is we're now extending the corporate limits all the way down to Interstate 8 right we already have a connection to 10 um especially along Selma highway but now we're going to transition and again expand the the corporate limits down to the South and this is all part of that process uh next slide please um here's another shot of the current zoning and as you can see the corporate limits now end outside of the where you see what the site is um and you know we are now going to be changing that zoning as you heard to L2 um as well as B4 uh next slide and and here's

the the transition for both of us so now we have the ability to do all of the additional industrial and over you know 1100 Acres essentially and then the business part of it obviously having commercial especially along um I8 uh generates many things for the city and it also generates things like sales tax transaction privilege tax but allows for the expansion and development of that area that area is actually owned um um by Mr Lawrence um we are not part of that development itself um but because we have decided to go forward with our project uh and speaking with him he he said would you guys mind if I kind of tag along um so Spike Lawrence owns the property that is to B4 and um so we're just including that and again it gets the extension down to I8 uh next slide please here's another shot with respect to the zoning and its relationship to the rest of the zoning in the area next slide please and that said uh with respect to the stipulations we've worked very closely with Jacqueline and staff on the stipulations so the ones that she placed up on the screen are acceptable to us um and I respectfully request a recommendation for approval the the pass on the city council and I'd be happy to answer any questions that you might have very good Commissioners any questions really nope all right thank thank you appreciate it so now I'll open the public portion of the meeting anybody from the public like to address this issue please come forward give us your name and address for the record okay seeing none I'll close the public portion of the meeting and bring it back to the commission Commissioners thoughts

actions I'll just piggy back off of uh what Mr wood was saying uh regarding the benefits of bringing all of this land into the City of cassa Grand and especially that connection to I8 uh just if when you look at the city limits currently now you'll see a big donut almost that is a bunch of land that's still in panal County but I think this will push more of those land owners and those people coming in to develop more Industrial in this area to maybe look at annexing into the city of Cass Grand and that to me means that we can provide uh more attentive service I think to those land owners and and get through processes without having to go all the way over to Florence and and meet with that staff and and go through the Board of Supervisors all of that which you know if you if you want to you definitely can but I think we can provide a much better service here in the city of c a grand and and that's where I think this is a a good way for us to kind of entice those other land owners in the area to maybe look at annexing into the city um that's and and to me I think that's a that's a good thing for our city to to get that land um so just just following off of off of what Mr wood said great no anything else okay you know what's next somebody I would like to make a motion for the recommendation of approval of the city council for a minor General plan amendment to change the growth area from phase two to phase one DSA 25000000 Z3 second I have a motion and a second any discussion on a

motion here none ER please call the role member Smith I member alret I member vanderen yes member hubard yes member Peters I Vice chair Garza I chairman Benedict yes okay motion passes and next the Z change keep it going Mr I'll thank you very much uh for a zone change from Urban Ranch to General Industry I2 for DSA 20 4167 second okay with the conditions and with yeah the condition yep conditions of record all right I got a motion in a second any discussion hearing none please call the rooll member Smith yes member aldret I member Vander Hayden yes member hubard yes member Peters I Vice chair Garza hi chairman Benedict yes and one more I'll go ahead Mr chair thank you very much zone change from uh am I the Right One yep yep uh DSA 24168 to for a zone change from Urban Ranch to community service with the um accept conditions of approval second got a motion a second just just for the record making sure that's a motion to forward a favorable recommendation favorable yes thank you thank you Mark okay real good uh any discussion seeing none please call the r member Smith yes member aldr I member Vander Hayden yes member hubard yes

member Peters hi Vice chair Garza I chairman Benedict yes all right motion's passed and thank you guys appreciate you certainly didn't take the well this isn't the whole firm never mind appreciate your interest okay where we at next Paul has reports for us I do Mr chair let's see first off on the minor site plans administratively approved we have one that many people are excited about which is the appr approval of the target site plan and so uh they now uh uh have the green light to go get their building permit to do those uh facade improvements that uh they're proposing to do y the uh the board of adjustment did deny a variance on a manufactured home park that was asking for an 8ft front yard setback where uh an 8ft rear where 10t is is required so that was denied uh city council has U made decisions on a number of your recommendations they've uh let's see they approved the zone change um on poab bomb going from multif family to B2 then they uh changed the uh zoning from i1 to I2 in the Rockwell Avenue that's in the industrial park um Airport Industrial Park they approved the zone change from Co to B2 on Cottonwood Lane they approved the zone change from R3 to

pad uh on truckle road they they approved a minor Amendment to the general plan for uh for well that's probably the mine right 3,3 3,300 Acres right and uh they also did a amend to the uh um um to the general plan for uh for the mine also to remove some of the roads uh that were passing through the mine uh they approved the Legends P to approve the mine and then they approved the zone change on the corner of eth in Olive from B1 to B3 but in doing so they did did um reimpose the 28t height limit on that property think if you recall that was originally recommended and then we talked about it and was removed and now it's back on there so those were the uh counil decisions I do have the monthly reports for you and I just want to point out a couple things about those first the building permit report um you could see that um just want to point out a multif family for the first time this year we did permit some additional multif family that's the first time well actually in the first in the last seven months that we've done that I believe um what 392 last month and I'm going to tell you where they were is those were the apartments um the Roars apartments on O'Neal and Pier it was the 55 plus uh project and then also um another a family type project both off of Neo and uh and P area if you recall

those the other thing that I uh piece of H data that I prepared recently for city council that I thought commission might be interested in it's a summary of the new apartment developments and the build to rent developments that um are kind of just either just now finishing up and getting ready for occupancy um or they're still in the construction they're in the construction stage or the permits issued or about to be issued and they're about to start construction so you can see there under uh the apartments you can see the different kind of categories ready for occupancy we have three of them ready for occupancy we have four of them that are under some level of construction and we have two of them that are uh uh building permits in either issued or under review um same thing with the build to you can see those numbers of units um so just thought I'd would share that with commission might in you might be interested and also an indication of which ones might be the low-income housing tax credit units and what which units might be market rate so I wanted to share that thank you appreciate that yeah thank you you're welcome and then some land use summary um things are a little slower in January we'll see how the rest of the year goes but uh January was was fairly small fairly slow for us so uh that's all I have to report Mr chair so um besides on the uh city council's um actions besides the the 28 30 to 28 um did did did we agree did they agree with us on all of these or several of them and I'm trying to remember how we acted on all of them and I can't so on the on the

B1 to B3 you did recommend the zone change but uh you recommended that we not impose the height limit at the zoning stage right uh to and just really evaluate it at the major site plan stage Council wanted to impose that condition so they imposed that um pardon yeah it's not on there is it is it was it on there uh the other thing they did uh they did hear uh request for um um basically a a um review of your decision on the Courtyard Apartments to reone them from B from R3 to pad to add those two additional buildings and you recommended I believe you denied that and uh the uh recommended denial and then the uh Council approved it on a think a 6 to1 vote so uh council did uh end up kind of reversing your decision if you will yeah they didn't take didn't take our recommendation that's okay once once in a while that's okay just they were going to be doing like they're going to be renovating all the apartments and like because when we were talking to them they said they weren't AR right and they are they're going to be painting and um they're going to be giving first bids to people living there to move into the new apartments so I can see why they said yes and I think they basically um I think they gear it up because we what we said no for and kind of gave more benefits of what they were doing and and there is going to be room for a playground and stuff that they didn't really explain before wasn't explained

at all so I can see why they said yes very good that was yeah I spoke about you wanted well I spoke about where the playground was going to be moved that they're keeping the same amount of Rec Space that it made sense because it would give them money to renovate the rest of them right Garrett and I were proven right again you what Garrett and I were proven right again well for you I believe it okay Paul can I ask you one thing on that 28 foot imposition that the council decided on is there a feeling that that uh property owner is going to pull that project now you know um it had got second reading of the ordinance on Monday night so uh the zoning is done the uh property owner I believe is going to be meeting with staff in the near future to talk about what his next steps are and his future plans so we're not really sure okay um what the status is going to be at this point gotcha okay Commissioners anything else for the good of the order I have one other question for um director absolutely please in regards to the rental properties you mentioned here I see here the apartment and also the rent developments and give total units that's roughly about 3,200 units where do we stand as far as the um percentage wise of hitting a Target per se of rental units within the area are we within 20% 30 60 uh well first off I have to ask my City attorney if I can answer the question because it's not on the agenda so how

how much can I talk about that point mark yeah I mean I I think the small discussion on the data is okay but if we you know we might get be getting into territory where we might have future decisions to come up on those things so you know it's probably safer to agendize something for maybe next month and we can provide a report and discussion and on that if you would like commissioner Smith here's here's what I can do a few months ago may maybe a little bit longer than that staff prepared uh what we call a housing Supply in need analysis in the community that looked at that very question uh how much Zone how much of the land have we have we zoned enough land for single family and multif family and Builder rent and manufactured homes to meet the community demand and if so uh for how long right what's our supply versus our need and so I can email you that that study that PowerPoint okay um and that will Pro and then just feel free to follow up with with me on that and any questions once you review it okay EXC and uh that that'll probably answer most your questions if not we can talk about them in more detail great thank you good good question thank you all right anything else okay we will be adjourned for five minutes de and then uh then we will uh come back to order in our next meeting very good all right very good it's not even