Planning and Zoning Commission - Regular Meeting

Wednesday, June 10th at 5 p.m. Call to order and roll call. Chair Goss.

Present.

Vice Chair Swapp is excused. Commissioner Smabey?

Present.

Commissioner Sixta? Here. Commissioner Sprinkle?

Present.

And Commissioner McCoy and Waters are excused. Because our chair is currently via Zoom, I'm going to ask if I have any volunteers to run the meeting today here in person.

I will volunteer.

Awesome. Thank you very much. And we have a quorum.

Call to order. Pledge of Allegiance not roll call. Pledge of Allegiance. Next, we have the approval of the minutes, regular minutes of the Planning and Zoning Commission for May 13th, 2026.

I make a motion to approve. I second.

All in favor? Aye.

Aye.

Aye. Thank you. It's been approved.

Next we have the call to the public. Comments from the public. Those wishing to address the commission should fill out request forms in advance. Comments from the public will be restricted to items not on the agenda with the exception of those on the consent agenda. There will be no comments allowed that advertise for a particular person or group. Comments should be limited to no longer than three minutes. The Commission may not respond to speakers during the call to the public. The Commission may direct the staff to study the matter or request that the matter be placed on a future agenda. Item three, action items. AB 25-0005, consideration for a request to abandon right-of-way associated with Broadway Avenue. If approved, AB 25-0005 would result in the potential sale of the right-of-way and eliminate Broadway Avenue, a public road, as described from the city's maintenance system and reserve easement for the benefit of the city of Kingman for public utilities and access. Staff presentation.

Good evening, Commissioner Sixta, Commissioners Chair Goss, who's joining us remotely this evening. This application before you tonight, I'm just going to give a brief overview. We are requesting on the staff's level and at the request of the applicant to continue this item off calendar. However, I do believe that there may be some people at the audience that may want to speak on this particular item. So we're going to ask that after I give a brief presentation, we go ahead and open the public hearing. Accept comment close the public hearing and then our recommendation is to continue it off calendar So just real quick, the requested action really is to vacate a portion of a right-of-way, an existing right-of-way here within the city of Kingman, Broadway Avenue. This particular right-of-way is shown on the exhibit before you. It is just basically northeast of Stockton Hill and is bound by developments, a car dealership on one side and a portion of a car dealership on the other. And then there is also a hotel that backs up to this particular right-of-way. this particular exhibit this before you just demonstrates that uh... we have uh... joining businesses on each side of the the right of way itself and again should it be vacated uh... witness application comes back for us uh... broadway would uh... just be reserved with any public utilities uh... within its for easement for access uh... for both the city as well as for uh... the property owners themselves and again at this point in time the applicant is working uh... or is attempting to work with the one adjacent property owner, which is that of the hotel, as portion of the Broadway does front onto their property. So with that, I don't have anything further to add at this time. I'll just turn it back over to the Commission if you have any questions of myself. If not, we can move forward with the public hearing.

I do have a couple of these for you

Robert Keyes, 1967, East Andy Devine. I live right behind where they're gonna close that there, and that's like a major bus route right there. That three buses coming in there, and all these people use that. I don't know what the plans would be if they close that, where they would replace that, but yeah, we all use that bus access there, so I don't know. if it's for them to extend their parking lot or what it is exactly. But yeah, that's something where people are using that road. And I don't know what their placement's gonna be for that, what the plans would be for that, so.

That was one question that I had, because I've seen the benches there on Broadway, and I don't know if as part of that consideration, would those be moved on to Johnston or relocated someplace, or is that more of a discussion after a decision is made one way or the other?

Chair Goss, Commissioners, Commissioner Sixa, Commissioner Sprinkle, the relocation of the cart stop is something that has been looked into. It is being worked on with our Public Works Department. We do have a couple alternative locations that are within close proximity of that particular existing stop, and I believe it's both a blue line and a red line that are being served in that particular area. However, again, at this point in time, because of the fact that we're Looking to see if we can get support from the adjoining adjoining property owner We haven't proceeded any further, but we have been able to provide that information to the applicant So he's aware of where those would have to be located.

But again, they are in close proximity and then should we move to go off calendar then is that a question that would come back or would that determination be made in a future presentation

Yes, Chair Goss and Commissioner Sprinkler, yes. Basically, we would re-notice this project. It'll go back out for a public notice and public hearing again, so we'd be starting all over when it comes to that point and bringing it back. We'll actually have an exhibit that shows where those particular locations are being relocated to, if that's the case, but again, without having the other ownership involved in this process, it just wasn't prudent to move forward with all of that information at this time.

Thank you.

Okay.

This really isn't that part where you can take questions from the audience, but I'm sure that's an answer could be dealt with after this meeting.

Okay. All right, thank you.

I move to make a motion to continue off calendar.

I second.

All in favor?

Aye.

Thank you. It's passed.

Item B, CUP 260001, a conditional use permit to construct a 115,200 square foot three-story self-storage facility on 1.79 acres located west of East Andy Devine Ave and north of Horizon Boulevard. in the commercial services business C3 zoning district. Assessor parcel 320-02-050. If approved, the applicant would be permitted to develop the 1.79 acre site with 115,200 square foot, three story self storage facility as proposed. Staff presentation. Good evening.

Good evening, thank you. Commissioner Goss, commissioners, thank you this evening. My name is Heather Rasmussen. I am a planner with the Development Services Department. Here to present the CUP26-0001 Powerhouse East Storage Conditional Use Permit Application. As you can see here, this site is located, we'll call that northwest of Andy Devine as it moves at an angle there. The west side of Andy Devine, the site is approximately 1.79 acres. The zoning map shows the project site is zoned as C3, which is commercial service business. And the general plan shows that the site is labeled as regional commercial. Here you can see the proposed project initial site plan. This is showing a building. I believe this is covering up the top layer there. But the very top line of that shows that the site acreage is 1.79 acres. That is repeated there. That is being blocked by the black bar at the top. Building area the footprint totaling just over 38,000 square feet ultimately planned to be a three-story building with just over 115,000 square feet in total square footage Required parking is 20 spaces and the provided parking for the site plan is 22 The walls proposed would be on the west south and north sides Which would be a six-foot block wall? Required landscaping, 10% of the site, equals 7,800 square feet. And provided is just over 12,000 square feet, equaling almost 16% of the site. Access, as you can see here, is proposed with two points of access. They're at the yellow arrows. Coordination with ADOT will be required and is actually already underway. The proposed landscape plan, as you can see, totaling approximately 16% of the total site, you can see that landscaping is proposed on all four sides of the property. The proposed elevations, we have the northeast, the southeast, the southwest, and the northwest, respectively. Utilities include water. There is a 16 inch water transmission line adjacent to the property. However, this is not available for connection. They would be required to connect to the eight inch water line, which is located across Andy Devine Avenue. Additional ADOT coordination would be required for that connection. There is currently no sewer access to the property that would be feasible. A septic system will be required in coordination with Mojave County. Roadway access, Andy Devine Avenue is classified as a major arterial roadway with a minimum right of way of 130 feet. This portion of Andy Devine Avenue is under the jurisdiction of ADOT. The applicant, as I mentioned, is required to coordinate with and adhere to ADOT's requirements and that coordination is already well underway. Here you can see there are eight condition, recommended conditions of approval as detailed in your staff report. And I apologize, I can't read that as it is blocked. Can I move it? The other ones I could cheat because I knew what they said. I apologize for the delay. This is the findings. And so the findings would be in accordance with the zoning code chapter 2-40.030.D. The proposed CUP meets the required findings as detailed in the Planning and Zoning Commission staff report. Commentary department and external agency comments have been incorporated into the staff report. No comments have been received from the public to date This meeting was noticed via mailed notice on May 13th The site was posted on May 13th as well and it published in the Kingman minor on the same day. I Timeline and history of the project the date the application was received was April 27th 2026 it has had one staff review the number of days in review by staff was 12 and number of days held by the applicant was zero total days from application to public hearing to today is 45 days and it will be 51 to City Council meeting next week With that, staff recommends the Planning and Zoning Commission recommend approval of CUP 26-0001 to the Mayor and City Council based on the findings contained in the staff report and subject to the conditions of approval numbers one through eight. With that, we'd be happy to take any questions or comments you may have. I want to also note that we have the applicant here in the audience should you have any questions for her as well.

I just had one question of staff. This is going to be an interior storage facility without exterior storage?

That is correct. I'll go back to the site plan. As it is proposed, there would be an office entrance adjacent the parking here on the lower left corner of the building, but it is proposed to enter into the building through essentially, I describe it as a loading dock, but there would be no exterior roll-up doors like you would traditionally see.

Chair Goss, Commissioner Sixta. Commissioners, I just want to also bring it to a point. It is in your staff report that there may be some minor changes to this particular site plan. There are some ancillary uses that the applicant has also explored. There's also some discussion with ADOT that may have some minor implications on the site plan. However, those we all believe are going to be minor at the end of the day, would they be looked at through the staff review process when they move forward with their formal site plan and their building construction plans? But tonight, that's the use that's before you. Also, in regards to the presentation, you may have noticed that there's a little bit of a change in one of those last slides. We provided you a timeline as to when this application came through. I saw that. I just wanna take a moment and point out, when I came on board here back in July of, 2024 We had an extensive lengthy process to get through a development plan review To get before the Planning and Zoning Commission get before the City Council. I've worked feverishly with staff through workshops bringing back revisions to our ordinances Most of those went into effect in 2025 This is the first application that's actually had the opportunity to go through our complete new development review process and to where they could process at their own risk if they wanted to concurrently and the applicant was certainly looking to do so. They had actually gotten their team together and was actually looking to have building permit by June 30th of this year. But I just wanna say that pointing out that bringing together the applicant, their design team, they committed feverishly to bringing this project to fruition. Staff did the same thing as well. But really, more or less, I wanted to point out that the process does work when you have both parties working together. And you'll see this type of timeline in our staff reports and our presentations moving forward.

Thank you, Jason. We really appreciate your hard work.

Okay. Public hearing? The item requires a public hearing. As such, I'll open the public hearing and invite anyone from the public to speak on this matter. Sabrina? Sabrina?

welcome excuse me thank you commissioners and Jason and Heather I am the owner and I just wanted to take a minute to introduce myself my uncle Tom Grayton was a longtime resident of Kingman and so I have a 25 year history with Kingman and he left me the land when he passed away and he wanted me to do something valuable for the community that he loved And so with Jason's extraordinary help and his entire team, we brought this together really quickly. And I just want to underscore how phenomenal the city was in assisting me and my team to bring this to you today. They had a vision for really bringing together private teams with city and they expedited that exceptionally well and they helped and supported our team to bring this to you today. We are officially, as of last week, residents of Kingman. I have moved here with my partner to spearhead this project personally. I have been coming to Kingman two or three times a year to visit my uncle for the last 25 years, so I feel like I know the community really well. And I will say, even though he's no longer with us, I am the one who introduced Kingman to my uncle and told him he should move here 25 years ago, for the record. But I invite any questions that you have, and I am just exceptionally pleased, and my partner can tell you, I can't stop talking about this project. I am that excited about it. So I welcome any questions or anything you would like to ask me.

Thank you. I just wanted to make a comment. Can I do that? So I went out to the site, I read all the reporting, and it was amazing. And I drove to the site, and of all the places that this should be in Kingman, that's exactly the right place. And so kudos to Jason and Heather and the team for the timeline. I am so impressed. I know he worked very hard on this. And for you guys, the whole idea is that everybody works together. And I see in this case, that's what happened. So I'm so excited to see this happen.

So thank you to you.

Thank you. And to the team. Yep.

Yeah. Oh, excuse me. And I just wanted to add, too, and it looks like this is a climate-controlled type of facility. Yes. Which is very beneficial for, yeah, the storage type things. Yes. Yes.

OK. Thank you.

We will close public meeting at this time. Commission discussion?

Nothing to discuss.

How about you? You good? Okay. I move to make a motion to approve CUP 260001 conditional use permit to construct a 115,200 square foot three story self storage facility on 1.79 acres located west of East Andy Devine and north of Horizon Boulevard in the commercial service business C3 zoning district parcel number 320-02-050.

I second.

Thank you, all in favor?

Aye. Item C, Z026-0002, a city-initiated text amendment to the City of Kingman Zoning Code, specifically to section 3-70.030, parentheses C, parentheses one, Kingman Design Review Overlay, which is KDRO, thereby removing the additional setback requirements for properties in the C2 and C3 zone along Bank Street within the KDRO. If approved, Z0, I guess that's a zero, 260002, if approved, will eliminate the additional setback requirements imposed under the Kingman Design Review overlay for properties in the C2 and C3 zone along Bank Street. All other design requirements with respect to architecture, landscaping, and signage as prescribed by the City of Kingman Zoning Code and that of the KDRO remain in force. Staff recommends approval. Staff, presentation, Heather.

Thank you, Commissioner Goss and commissioners. It's me again. To present, as you mentioned, case number ZO26-0002, an amendment to Kingman Design Review Overlay Zone. The applicant is the City of Kingman Development Services Department. In 2024, the rezone It's initiated, and this is just gonna get me. There we go. In 2024, a city-initiated rezone was approved for approximately 16 acres of the parcels along Bank Street, south of Gordon and north of Airway. This rezone changed them from rural residential to commercial C2 in order to align with the goals of the 2040 City of Kingman Land Use General Plan and that commercial corridor. At the April 21st, 2026 City Council meeting, Council directed staff to develop an infill incentive district program focused on four commercial corridors. Airway Avenue, which is from Stockton Hill to Rainbow Drive. Bank Street, which is Airway Avenue up to Gordon Drive. Hualapai Mountain Road, which is Andy Devine Avenue to Eastern Street. And Beale Street, which is the I-40 to the western city limits. At the June 2nd, 2026 City Council meeting, Council approved the program confirming the four commercial corridors that the program would focus on. Currently, Bank Street corridor lies within the boundaries of the Kingman Design Review overlay. This zone imposes additional design standards, specifically increased setbacks for, excuse me, increased setback requirements for commercial development along Bank Street between Airway and Gordon. These increased setbacks and stringent application prevent properties from being developed in accordance with the goals of the council and the intent of the rezone and the infill incentive district. I can tell you anecdotally from having reviewed potential projects along that corridor, many of them have not been able to proceed. It's been unfortunate. There was a lot of good opportunity that could have occurred. So the requested action would be to amend section 3-70.030 of the zoning ordinance to remove specifically section 3-70.030.C.1, which requires additional setbacks in the KDRO. Staff recommendation based on the findings made in this report is a recommendation for approval. These amendments specifically of 3-70.030.C.1 is to be removed the required additional setback requirements, the purpose and intent, is that the overlay zone is intended to aid in the implementation of the general plan, to encourage sound design principles, assure the compatibility of uses, encourage attractive buildings, and to promote and enhance the health, safety, and general welfare of the residents in the community. This applies, as I mentioned, specifically to the site development standards, building design standards, building material standards in that designated area and specifically the overlay maps figures 3-70.030.A and .B. Here you can see the KDRO standards as discussed. The red strikeout would be removed from the code and line two would become line one. Here you can see the proposed amendment as it is laid out actually in the code. And here is the Table 3-30.020.A. These are our current commercial zone development standards that I wanted to bring before you, specifically the C2 and C3 zone properties that this amendment would apply to. and that the infill district applies to in the Bank Street are already covered in this development table by these standards here. These C2 and C3 properties are already required to have a 10 foot rear setback when adjacent to residential zoning, which part of Bank Street is. And section 4-60.040.C.2 requires a landscape buffer of a minimum of 10 feet along the site perimeter between any parking lot area and any street and then any parking lot area and any single family or duplex residence. So the buffering is already provided within the code. So any reduction of the KDRO 20 feet standard we are covered with a minimum of 10 feet by these standards. In conclusion, the proposed amendment updates the city zoning code to provide additional support for the development of the Bank Street commercial corridor, provides support to the city's new infill incentive district program, is supported by the findings prescribed in the city of Kingman zoning code, and as discussed in your staff report, and is supported by the goals of the city's general plan 2040. Findings in accordance with zoning code chapter 2-50.040.C.4, the proposed zone text amendment meets the required findings as detailed in your staff report. Comments received from department and external agencies have been incorporated into those staff reports, and no comments have been received from the public to date. This meeting was noticed in the Kingman Minor on May 27th. And with that, staff recommends the Planning and Zoning Commission recommend approval of Z026-0002 to Mayor and City Council based on the findings contained in the staff report. With that, we'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.

I have a question, staff. So the KDRO overlay that you're presenting basically called out for 20-foot setbacks front and rear of all properties as the last plan. And the current plan we're talking about is going to a 10-foot setback based on the zoning.

Chair Goss, commissioners maybe, the KDRO actually required 20-feet setbacks on all four sides.

Right.

So it was extraordinarily restrictive considering some of these small lot sizes that we find along Bank Street.

So we're proposing to go to 10 feet, or is there any provision for side yard setback? Go back. Not that it matters because it would be commercial to commercial. It's more concerning of the commercial backing residential.

That would be correct. The main concern is that you have spacing between on the rear side to the residential and then on the front side to the right of way. But the side on interior lots for both C2 and C3, they would be permitted to have a zero foot lot line, but that would be a commercial to commercial property.

Thank you. That's all I had.

This item requires a public hearing. As such, I'll open the public hearing and invite anyone from the public to speak on this matter. Anyone? I'll close the public hearing and open commission discussion.

I just had one. That area has been interesting. I know at one point it was residentally zoned, and then it became commercially zoned. And even I, as the county, worked at the county, we wondered what was going to happen there because the setbacks were so much, and they're not very big lots for commercial. And they do front right on Bank Street. So there was, yeah, some concern of what's going to happen. So I think, actually, this is a very good compromise of presenting more land for them to build on because I could see that it's difficult to get even small commercial into some of those lots with those setbacks.

Yes, and I remember when we put in the bigger water lines, the fiber optics and the gas lines down Bank Street, and there was still so much that was residential. It was like, how is this going to work? And so this makes a smoother transition. It invites in more commercial development in that area. So kudos to you guys. Anybody else? I move to make a motion to approve Z026-002, a city-initiated text amendment to the City of Kingman zoning code, specifically to section 3-70.030 . parentheses 1, Kingman Design Review Overlay, KDRO, thereby removing the additional setback requirements for properties in the C2 and C3 zone along Bank Street within the KDRO.

Madam Chair, I make a motion to approve. I second.

All in favor? Aye. Aye. Thank you, it's passed. If I, go ahead.

I was gonna say, I would note that the chair made the motion, so we didn't need a first, so we just go with the second.

That'll work. You just moved too fast. Yeah. Item four, reports. 2025 annual report to the Planning and Zoning Commission. Presentation on the 2025 annual report to the Planning and Zoning Commission. highlighting the development services department activity in 2025. Staff recommends take no action.

Chair Goss, Commissioner Sixta, Commissioners, thank you very much. Tonight before you is just an annual update that we provide on behalf of the Development Services Department. It recaps not just what we do in planning, but also what we've done in our building division, as well as in our code enforcement division. Basically, we're just giving you a brief overview, as I said, in regards to development services, planning and zoning commission activity, and the ongoing development activity that we are seeing within the city. With respect to our mission, the Development Service Department is dedicated to fostering a thriving and well-planned community by guiding responsible growth and development. Our team provides expert support in planning, zoning permitting, building permits, inspections, and code compliance to ensure projects align with the city's vision for economic vitality, sustainability, and quality of life. Before you is just an overview of our department. It has grown just a little bit since I've been here. We've been able to add a couple key positions, which really is bringing into the alignment for our counter staff at our front counter. So we have now dedicated building permit tech. We have a dedicated planning technician at our public counter. In addition to that, we've added an additional code enforcement officer and we are hopeful that as things continue to progress, we'll be able to build upon these services to this community and continue to improve in those areas. Real quick, just some 2025 notable updates, and you guys were all a critical part of this. Back in November of 2025, the council approved the zoning code text amendment. Granted, there's been a couple amendments since then. We've done a couple cleanups, as well as the amendment that's before you this evening. However, really the goal of that major amendment was to improve clarity, readability, and usability of our zoning code. It was some of the things that I had heard both through workshops, through the community, through council members, through the Planning and Zoning Commission, I think I even heard it from the Economic Development Commission on some levels. So we understood that there was concern there. We took on that challenge. I will tell you between my staff and working with consultants, we spent a greater of about nine to ten months working on that project before we brought it back before the Planning and Zoning Commission and Council at the end of 2025. We aligned it with all of our evolving land uses. So you notice that there's an extended land use matrix within it. We try to meet the community's expectations, compliance with state law, and we designed it to support development through clearer, more flexible standards. The zoning code is black and white. respect that it's printed however the zoning code there's a lot of gray within it as much as we like the gray we want to be able to ensure that we can provide development standards that meet the community's intentions when we hear continued feedback you know maybe something did or didn't work that is why we bring those those code amendments back before this body to to gain better clarity and to provide better service to our community The biggest part of this, we also introduced a user guide. Not everybody's in the zoning code on a daily basis unless you're in this profession or in this industry. So we created a user guide to allow for those that are not in the industry on a daily basis to be able to quickly find and locate information that they would find prudent for their particular use or their particular purpose. In addition to that, we revamped the grading ordinance as well as the subdivision ordinance. I will skip over all of this, because you were all part of that process when we brought it forward, but both of those had not been touched in quite some years, and the biggest part of the subdivision ordinance was to really bring about state changes to comply with state legislation, which is where our pre-plots and final plots were now administratively approved, as opposed to coming back for the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council. And then just some updates, some things that are kind of starting to gain some traction. You've all heard about the annexations that are being processed currently. So this started back in July of 2024. Right as I was coming on, there was already some discussion and some work that was already being done on that. Those areas expanded ultimately to include an additional area, which was the East Hualapai Mountain foothills. In March of 2025, after some going back and forth through 2026, we ultimately landed on what that boundary would look like for the Hualapai Mountain foothills. And so as we are continuing to process today, we have the annexation area for the airports, about 3,415 acres. The East Hualapai foothills is approximately 4,238 acres, and it does encompass about 3,300 acres of BLM land. This commission will see these come back because there will be some zoning requirements that come back before it that the commission will take action on. Council will ultimately take the final acceptance should they decide to do so on the annexations themselves. Where we're at in the process right now is we're getting ready to prepare those petitions to go out. Even though we are asking for these properties to annex, this is something that is solely to the control of the property owners. should they wish not to be annexed and we do not receive the number of signatures from property owners and the 50% evaluation of the value of the properties, then neither annexation would proceed forward if that's the case. So just to reiterate, this is really, even though the city is the applicant in moving this forward, it really is something that is left to the owners at the end of the day. If they choose not to be annexed and the city doesn't acquire enough signatures to move forward, the annexations fail. This just gives a kind of a high-level overview of where we're at in the annexation process. Really, we are in that, again, that petition process now where we're getting ready to send that out. We're gonna let that run through about the end of this year. In order to get those signatures back, we need to verify those signatures, verify the valuations, the property ownerships, and so forth. If that is the case, then we'll move forward with the annexations and bringing them back before this Planning and Zoning Commission and the Council. This is just an aerial exhibit showing what the proposed area would look like should it be annexed. It's currently in the unincorporated area of Mojave County. It is an area that surrounds the airport, includes a portion of the airport, but really does surround the existing industrial complex that's out there. And it would take in additional acreages along Highway 66. And then of course the annexation proposal for the eastern Hualapai Mountain Foothill area. For Planning and Zoning Commission, because of some of those state legislative changes, we've seen it as a commission. We see it as staff. We're not bringing as many items before this commission. However, it's always been my goal is to keep the commission informed. So you guys have been getting regular updates in regards to our development reports when those are coming out. But in 2025, we had one abandonment that we did take forward. We had two CUPs, two final plats, two preliminary, or five preliminary plats, three rezones, and two zone text amendments. We had a total of about 10 applications that came before this body in 2025, compared to 16 in 2024. This is just an overview showing where the preflats that we had there again there's just the one it's the small star down on the left hand side hard to read, but that was the only preflat that came before his total of 84 lots. And just to demonstrate lots platted, in 2024 we had 183 lots platted, so far in 2025 we only had 84 lots platted. Keep in mind that looks like we've had a significant decline. However, when you have a lot of lots being platted in previous years, it takes a while for that those number of lots to be consumed in the marketplace. In addition to that, Cayman Crossings is a very large subdivision. It's got multiple layers of different preliminary plots that were approved with that project, and they continue to build those out. So you're not seeing those lots come before you, but those are lots that are still in the development phase. So from a general plan, just in regards to what we've been doing from planning and zoning standpoint, plan review, business license review. In 2025, planning division conducted over 200 plan reviews and over 284 business license reviews. Building and safety, so the other division that we oversee in 2025 conducted 627 permit reviews for residential, 169 reviews for commercial. I anticipate that that will continue to increase. I believe we'll see probably more commercial permitting being reviewed over the next year or two. Again, as a lot of the lots that are already platted, they already have standard plans that are approved, so you don't see as many of the residential plan reviews coming back before you, but we are seeing an increase in the commercial, as well as we have some commercial corridors that are coming online with Flying Fortress, so we anticipate development starting to occur in that particular area. From an inspection standpoint, keeping in mind I have three inspectors, one and all three of them do plan review as well. So with that in mind, in 2025, they performed over 6,025 inspections between the three members that are out in the field. Code enforcement is the other division that is enveloped within Development Services Department. I have two full-time officers in the last year. Between the vacancies that I've had in that position, I probably only had one full-time officer for an entire year. But by the time we get someone else trained, get them up to speed and so forth, But what I want to really bring to point is there's been some major changes in regards to how we process and I'm thankful for Judge Stringer as well as the council that gave us the additional tools that allow our code enforcement to go out there and actually proactively and actively close cases a little bit faster. And that's because of the fact that we now have a community court option. So after they get their first notice, if they don't bring their property into compliance, instead of monetarily hitting them with a citation or a fine, which is options that we could explore further if that's the case. The court system has graciously opened their doors and we have several different community type courts. This is a new one and it truly is called community court. And what happens in that particular case is, Those that are in violation have an opportunity to go before the judge And I say opportunity they're required to appear before the judge And in lieu of entering into a potential guilty plea or being found guilty of a misdemeanor They are able to enter into basically a diversion program bring their property into compliance case gets dismissed as well as the the actual misdemeanor action and That has proved to be successful so far, and we continue to, with now having another code enforcement officer involved, we are looking forward to continue to bring those cases back before that community court process. Word has gotten out, so we're starting to see compliance well in advance that that is the case, which is also beneficial. in 2024 we had 542 open cases 627 cases we closed we're seeing a decline in that 459 that was opened in 2025 and 465 closed these span across different calendar years or fiscal years. So just keep in mind these numbers will continuously fluctuate. I could have, you know, 459 cases closed today and tomorrow morning I could, you know, open up an email to another 450 that get submitted to us. And so I talked a little bit about the court process. This is really just an overview slide that we've already discussed, but we had six that were referred to the courts, resolved before we even got to court with four or one, and then we had four that had been resolved since then. And we have one that is in a continuous, they go back every month and demonstrate that they're trying to bring their property into compliance. So ongoing development activity just I think as everyone knows, Kingman has become popular. They still continue to move here. So we've still seen a slight increase in our population. So we're up to 36,005 based on the estimates for 2025. And then just some things that we closed out through the development process. We had Tropical Smoothie on Stockton Hill that closed out and opened to the public this last year. We also had the, and I want to say it's kind of like a gym, but it's also a rehabilitation type facility here on Andy Devine. As you drive away from Stockton Hill and coming back towards City Hall, it's on the right hand side. That project was also completed this year. Flame broiler, and then we also have a Starbucks building that was completed, and they're out there doing some work on it still to this day, getting some landscaping, and we'll wait to see who actually opens in that particular building, because I know Starbucks is currently kind of deciding where they want to go with that. coming forward and everyone's talking about it, which is the BOSA Donuts, the Hobby Lobby. They have been in process. BOSA Donuts, that particular individual that is running that project, him and I have worked together in surprise on multiple projects. They have been feverishly working and trying to get this through. I know there was a period of time where a sign went up, sign came down, everyone thought, oh my gosh, you know, BOSA Donuts isn't coming. That wasn't the case. They put a sign up that did not meet the sign criteria, and so we said, you need to take your sign down. They went back, they fixed it, they put it back up on the property, and so yeah, they are moving forward. Bosa Donuts is anticipated to open, I believe, when I last checked, they're hoping to be open middle of this month, middle of June. Hobby Lobby's another one that's been talked about. They've been doing facade improvements out there for the center itself. Hobby Lobby's been doing the tenant improvements inside. They too are moving forward, and I believe they are anticipating a mid to late July opening. So just a brief overview of the map. These are some of the projects that we talked about. A couple that I didn't talk about, Copper Hay Company came in down on Beale Street. They did some improvements on the facade, painted the building, added their signage and so forth. Apex Real Estate took one of the smaller buildings just up here on 4th Street and turned it into a really nice kind of eclectic real estate office for themselves. And in addition to that, again, we talked about the Hobby Lobby. We've had Mojave Storage, Hawaiian Barbecue. So, again, there still continues to be development that's ongoing and occurring within the city's limits. With that, that concludes my presentation, and I'm available for any questions that you may have.

I just want to say thank you for a great job. Thank you. Absolutely. Thank you.

I just wanted to comment also it's nice to see the progress and hear that from staff because a lot of times we don't get to see these projects and stuff.

And it's good to see also that the streamlined process with the going through the commission and having things that fall back into the development services for approval I think is working very well.

Thank you.

It's actually, go ahead.

I just had a question. On the development review process, when they're submitting in and going through a development process, are they being able to submit billing permits in concurrently?

They can. Chair Gosch, Commissioner Sixta, Commissioner Smitty, they can. At their risk, they can certainly submit concurrently. We suggest that they get through development plan review first. It's an informal process. As soon as they get through that process, they get all the comments from staff, then they can come back. And what we do now do concurrent is site plan and their building plan check review. So all of their structural, we understand it's a risk to them when they do so, however, It provides us with all of the information that we need to see one time as opposed to having two separate processes reviewing the same thing multiple times over and then ultimately end up conditioning a building permit which then now it has to get caught in the field, get caught in inspection and so forth. We've eliminated all of that. We require that no later than second check. They have to have the deferred submittals in. They have to have their fire plans in. So we're not waiting for these things any longer. They're not getting caught way down the line. And I will tell you, one of our own fire stations fell victim to that. As they're moving through the process, they went out and they cover up the drywall, and here they don't have the lines in for their alarm system and so forth. These are all small pitfalls, and when you leave it upon the GC, and the GC's managing many aspects of a project, for those that are familiar with it. These are just fun things that we can take away, we can get it up front, and again, allows for staff to keep moving through projects, and we're not having to go back and revisit them time and time again.

I have heard good comments from the construction community on the process, that it's a lot more smooth, a lot more open, thank you.

Appreciate it, thank you.

You turn it on that the rippling effect of having a smooth transition I mean i've done commercial here for far too long, probably, and but the 45 days for this this project, I am the word phenomenal comes to mind because I i've never experienced that so thank you.

Thank you and I have to say it's it's it's part of the process, however, it's part of my staff it's part of coordinating with their engineering department part of coordinating with their fire to our fire reviewers. A dot in this particular case the applicant brought on a team that is superb and dealt with that team out of the valley. Previously, so when when the applicants bring on design professionals that that truly are committed to a project and working it through, working with staff, it makes it a lot easier for both parties. In addition to just coordinating with staff, the applicant also has been coordinating with ADOT. They started that process early on. We had some hurdles to get over in regards to the building itself, the location, the size, access, fire department requirements and so forth. All of these things were something that both parties committed to working it through. And I give credit to Sabrina because she had no problem coordinating with every one of those meetings while she was in another country. So fortunately I don't sleep a lot. So normally by the time her emails were coming in I was already up and was able to respond to them so we could keep things moving even though we're on two different continents just about so nice.

Great job. Thank you. Any next item five is announcements by commission members limited to announcements, board and commission, liaison reports, availability, attendance at conferences and seminars.

Hey, this is Elizabeth Goss, just piping into you guys. I just want to say thank you for Deborah taking over and running the meeting and the fellow commissioners, the ones that could be there. Thank you, Jason. Thank you. You guys are the ones who keep things rolling smoothly. And I appreciate you guys picking up the slack for the rest of us that couldn't be around. So good job.

Nice. I just had one question.

I just had a question of staff. I know, Jason, you had mentioned that there were some projects coming up with some timelines. Is there anything on that that we need to be aware of coming up with summer? But not today.

Not today.

No discussion. Sorry.

Okay. All right. Requests for future reports and updates?

If there are none, the meeting is adjourned.

Thank you.