Planning Commission - Regular Meeting

County Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. It is Thursday, 05/07/2026 at 09:32 in the morning. We'll begin with a roll call, please.

Commissioner Dan Zeissen. Commissioner Layton. Commissioner Lindblom. Chair Melhaven. Here. Commissioner Rockwallak. Commissioner Toma? And Commissioner Whitney?

Here.

Commissioner Layton, can you hear us? Commissioner Tomah?

Yes, I'm here. I can hear you.

Thank you. We have a quorum if Commissioner Layton is on the phone.

She can't hear her or she can't hear us.

Does she want me to call her and I can put her on the phone?

Will you let her know that, Darren?

Commissioner Rock Wallach. Chair we have a quorum.

Thank you. This meeting has been noticed in accordance with open meeting law ARS 30 eight-four 31. Agendas are available within twenty four hours of each meeting in the Maricopa County Planning and Development Office and are also available on the planning and development website one week prior to hearing at www.maricopa.gov/planning. Staff reports prepared for each agenda item shall become a part of the permanent record for each case. With respect to a hearing process, cases will be considered in the order they appear on the agenda unless otherwise agreed to by the commission.

For each case, the applicant will be given a set time to present. Anyone wishing to speak on a particular case shall fill out a speaker's card for in person attendance or raise your hand within GoToWebinar. The amount of time allowed for speaking shall be at the direction of the commission chair. Staff will provide the chair with the names of persons who have registered and noted desire to comment and those registered participants who have raised their hand. The chair will call on each named participant one at a time.

The chair will conduct a hybrid in person and virtual public meeting according to the bylaws and according to the rules established by the chair regarding public comment. Votes will be done by roll call vote only. The chair will verbally identify the specific members responsible for all motions and seconds. So we will move on to first item is the minutes of 04/09/2026. Any comments or questions on the minutes?

Hearing none, we accept the minutes. We'll move on to the consent agenda and two items. Is anyone here to speak on case number 12? Case number 12 is HVRB Hundred And 15th Avenue storage item number 12 on the agenda. Is anyone online to speak on that item?

Nobody online indicating they'd like to speak.

In that case, we'll move that case to the consent agenda. Yes, sir. You are here for 115th W. Okay, then we'll leave that on the regular agenda. Thank you, sir. You'll need to submit a comment card. Can staff get him a card so he could speak? Elon Green. All right. And then we do have folks who've requested to speak on item number seven on the consent agenda. So that will be moved to the regular agenda. So staff can present items one through 10 on consent absent case on item number seven.

Yes. Madam chair, commissioners, we have, nine items remaining on consent. They are CPA twenty five zero eleven and z twenty five zero zero three four, known as Wintersburg 313 in District 4. They are associated comprehensive plan amendment to the Tonopah Arlington area plan to designate 370 316 acres as industrial and, an industrial three IEP rezoning of the same acreage at the Northwest Corner Of Encanto Boulevard in Winnersburg Road in Tonopah. There's no known opposition.

The recommendation is for approval of the CPA in paragraph 17 and approval of the zoning in pair in paragraph 18, subject conditions a through k. The third item is z twenty five zero zero two six known as Arlington Valley Storage Energy three or AVSE three. In District 4, this is an industrial two IUPD rezoning of 20 acres east of the Southeast Corner of Narrowmore Road and 387th Avenue in the Arlington area. There's no known opposition. The recommendation of paragraph 13 is for approval.

Subject conditions a through l. Case s u 250036 known as Crown Castle 802250 in District 5 is a modification of conditions for a special use permit for a 100 foot 102 foot high monopole wireless communication facility in the rural 43 zoning district. The modification will add twenty five years to the SUP period. This is a 10,000 square foot SUP on a one and a half acre parcel located Northwest of Northwest corner of A Hundred And 33rd Avenue and Indiasco Road in the Goodyear area. There's no known opposition.

The recommendation is for approval. Subject conditions a through n and paragraph 11, and I'll note we're carried, these conditions are carried forward from case the 02/5138. The fifth item is PD two fifty thousand and thirty nine all things metal. It's the phase two plan of development. I'll note plans of development in the military airbase overlay zoning district requires legislative approval, and that's why that's before you, not a a process administratively.

This is 27 acres in District 4 at the Southwest corner of 195th Avenue in Joe Max and Whitman. Again, it's a planned development for fabricated metal in the rural 43 M A A M F zoning district. No known opposition. The recommendation of paragraph 14 is for approval. Subject conditions a through h. Next case is Z 250039 known as Atlas disposal dispatch yard in District 5. This is an industrial two IUPD rezoning of 3.2 acres at the Southeast corner of Sunland Avenue and 47th Avenue in the South Phoenix area. There's no known opposition. The recommendation is for approval subject to conditions a through k in paragraph 15. Item seven was pulled from consent.

Item eight is z twenty five zero zero four one known as M and H equipment storage in District 5. This is an industrial two IUPD rezoning for approximate half acre site East of 43rd Avenue between Rozier Road and Hidalgo Avenue in the Levine area. There are two letters of support. No known opposition. The recommendation in paragraph 15 is for approval of subject conditions a through I.

Next case is Z 260003 known as the Martinez Village shops in District 4. This zone change to c two for 3.4 acres north of the Northwest corner of Salome Highway in Wintersburg Road in the Tonopah area. There's no known opposition. One letter of support. The recommendation of paragraph 11 is for approval subject to conditions a through f, and miss Layton is on my phone.

We have, item nine is s u two twenty six zero zero one zero known as Crown 827302 San Tan irrigation in District 1. A special use permit modification of conditions to a 63 foot high monopole wireless communication facility in the rural 43 zoning district, again, adding additional twenty five years of validity to this existing monopole. North this is a 600 square foot SUP area on a one acre site approximate located Northwest Corner of Chandler Heights Road and 180th Street in the Chandler Heights area. There's no known opposition. Recommendations for approval subject to conditions a through n and paragraph 13.

These also were are carried forward from previous case c two thousand six zero zero eight. And added to the consent agenda is not I'm sorry. We did not add a call. That concludes the consent agenda. I hope it's still clear, and I'm happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thank

you. Commissioners have any questions? In case I'll entertain a motion. This is Vice Chair Hernandez.

I'll make a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented by staff.

Second. Motion made by Vice Chair Hernandez and seconded by Commissioner Rockwalla. We'll have a roll call.

Commissioner Finter?

Yes.

Vice Chair Hernandez?

Yes.

Commissioner Layton? Chairman Mulhavn? Yes. Commissioner Rockwallick? Yes. Commissioner Toma? Yes. Commissioner Whitney?

Yes.

Madam Chair, we have a motion recommending approval by a vote of seven to zero. Thank you. Next item on the agenda is item number seven, Dutch Automobile Repair.

Thank you, Madam Chair and members of the Commission. SU250040 is a special use permit request for a home based automotive repair operation in the Peoria area. The parcel is approximately one acre in size and is currently zoned Rural 43. The owner is the sole employee and operates the facility from the garage of the home during daylight hours. The parcel received a two year TUP temporary use permit in 2023, which has since expired. The request is for a ten year SUP term. The application has received three letters in support and has received no known opposition. Staff recommends approval with the adherence to conditions A through I. At this point, I'll be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you. Would the applicant like to present?

Good morning Chair Millhaven, members of the Planning Commission, Ashley Marsh, 40 North Central for your records at Gamage And Burnham. We appreciate staff's work and some short summary presentation. This is a use that's been going on for a while. We were trying to do a a rezoning for the whole area that didn't quite work. We do have one neighbor here that came to share some concerns.

We'd like an opportunity to work with him on those. Those are new to us as of ten minutes ago. So at this time, I would just ask for a one month continuance. Actually, he's got some concerns I think we can work through and a stipulation or two to craft. So if the chair would entertain it, I'd actually ask for a continuance just so we can have some opportunity to chat with him since we just met ten minutes ago.

Certainly, thank you. Would someone like to make a motion to continue this item? June 11 or June 25. You want that in the motion?

Yes, please.

Which date would you prefer?

We would prefer June 11. I think we can work out our issues and come back to you.

Okay. Thank you. Alright. I'll make

a motion to continue case number seven to

the June 11 planning and zoning hearing. Second. A motion made by Vice Chair Hernandez and seconded by Commissioner Rockwell.

Commissioner Finter?

Yes.

Madam Chair, we have a motion recommending continuance by a vote of seven to zero.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Next item is item number No, I'm sorry. Item number twelve, eleven, Saguaro Blossom Pet Spot.

Thank you, madam chair. Members of the commission, case SU 250022 is a special use permit for a home based cottage industry expansion to include a full service, pet grooming, daycare, and boarding in the rural 43 zoning district at the southern one and a quarter acre of the two two point three acre parcel. The site is located at the Southwest corner of Dale Lane and 172nd Street in the Rio Verde area. Property owner currently operates a permitted home occupation for pet grooming out of the existing resident's garage at the northern end of the property. This request seeks to expand the current operation to full service, which would include a 4,000 square foot 25 foot 25 foot four inch high two story premanufactured metal barn with site improvements that include dedicated on-site parking, landscaping, and other site improvements at the Hundred And 72nd, entrance at the southern end of the parcel.

The request also includes fenced outdoor spaces for canines at the west and north side, at the west and south sides of the property. In response to public concerns regarding noise, the applicant intends to hire staff and train staff to limit excessive barking and outdoor access for canines is controlled by staff, and outdoor time will always be attended by staff to limit, barking. Business operations are reservation based with up to five clients at the most, after the first phase. Clients typically remain on-site no more than five to fifteen minutes for drop off and pick up. The site falls under the rural residential agricultural land use category, which allows for large lot residential and agricultural uses.

The plan allows complimentary uses such as tax stores, arenas, and kennels as special uses subject to the approval by the board of supervisors. Despite neighboring opposition, staff considers the use appropriately located and to be consistent with the area land use and development patterns. The applicant has proposed measures to mitigate adverse impacts. In addition, staff recommends the SEP be limited to a ten year term. This will allow the applicant to prove that the use is a good neighbor and the SEP can be revisited at that time. Happy to answer any questions. Thank you.

Thank you. Any questions for staff? No, do the applicant like to present? Yes, Well,

welcome, thank you for

your time. I'm Amanda Bickerdyke. And I'm Brittany Fuller.

Saguaro Blossom was started in 2016, and we are sisters. We have been running this business. It actually that photo started in my house and has since expanded into her house or moved to her house. So we are part of the community. We take exceptional care of of our clients, our dogs.

We've grown only because word-of-mouth. We love what we do, and we love our clients. Not only that, there have been multiple dogs that have come to us that people have brought to us not knowing who they belong to, and we've been able to reunite that dog to that owner just because we see so many clients out here. So it's it's quite an honor. Why expand?

So we we've just reached the limits of working out of my garage and home, and we have just had so much wonderful feedback and growth that we wanna continue serving the community, and we would love this opportunity to expand and offer more services for them.

I think having an upgraded grooming room would be better for the dogs as well, better for our clients. Just it it is tight, but I I love it. So this expansion would allow just for a newer updated facility. So for the overview, we can only grow as much as the community grows. I wanted to make a point that yes, we want this building, but it's not like today we can double the clientele.

We're we're gonna keep who we have and grow as that community grows, which is partly why it's broken into phases. But we are going to make sure that we have landscaping. We're going to be building a metal building, which is similar to a lot of horse barns around the area. It really matches the feel of Rio Verde.

Yeah. And we intend to keep the business hours the same, Monday through Friday, eight to five. We wanna be respectful of our neighbors and not cause extra traffic when we're trying to relax at home for the evening. So on the weekends with by appointment for pickup and drop off boarding, and that's it. And grooming and day care services are Monday through Friday.

With that being said, I know we have on file 77 positive supports. And then I actually have a letter here that I wanted to read. Dear members of the planning zone zoning and commission, I'm writing to express my strong support for Saguaro Blossom Pet Spa's application for a special use permit. Although I am unable to attend the hearing as I will be out of town for the season, I wanted to share how important this business is to those of us who live in Rio Verde. Our community is somewhat remote, and while there may be other facilities about twenty minutes away, having this level of care, commitment, and professional grooming right here among us is incredibly valuable.

Saguaro Blossom Pet Spa provides a level of trust, consistency, and quality that is not easily replaced. Their presence in our community makes a meaningful difference for the pet owners who rely on safe, dependable care close to home. I wholeheartedly support their request and hope you will give their application your full consideration. Thank you for your time and services to our community. Sincerely, Cheryl, John, and Cooper Prescott. I know that we do have oh, yeah. Can you sorry. Yeah. I know that we do have oppositions and some concerns, and that's valid. So we want to address them.

Noise and odor. Right now, we are an in home permit. However, that limits the staff we can have. So with a special use permit, we're gonna be able to have more staff that stay with the dogs twenty four seven if they are outside.

We're gonna have a we'll be able to have a higher staff to pet ratio to ensure the safe care and prevent excessive noises.

As for odor, we're gonna use a bio or an enzyme based product that breaks down the urine, eliminating the smell. We're gonna be doing that regularly. We already use that, and

we will continue to.

Thank you. Thank you.

Yes. We we clean daily to keep everything clean.

Traffic and parking. So we both worked with a traffic engineer, and their findings were that it would not show impact to requiring changes on the roadways because we're appointment based. So we have to stagger our dogs throughout the entire day. So the parking and it's in this picture. It's hard to see because it's small, but the parking is calculated based on the square footage of the building. There are 32 total parking spaces, and clients should only be there for like five to ten minutes. They're just dropping off their dog, telling us what they want done and then leaving.

And I would like for everyone to please note the trees on that top. South and west side of the property. We've added in that extra landscaping trying to make the view more pleasurable for our neighbors that have concerns over the metal building.

Another part is this lighting and landscaping. So the trees from that previous picture definitely to help block view. But this lighting was picked by our engineer, and it forces the light down towards the ground so that we are still keeping that dark sky. We live in this neighborhood. I love looking at the stars. I don't wanna impact that at all.

We will have very minimal outdoor lighting. We don't intend to have the dogs out there at night. So it's just a few safety lights that will all be dark sky. So

for environmental and infrastructure, we all septic it's gonna be a septic system for our water. The drainage, it's, and fire safety have been reviewed and approved. We've made sure that this expansion is compliant. We have we're gonna be using products that are septic safe, so it should not impact any other person's water system.

So we truly believe that this would be a great fit with the community, that it would enhance Rio Verde. You know, I feel like I've become a we've become a vital part of Rio Verde over the ten years. I can't go to the grocery store without someone recognizing me and getting to say hi to them, and I feel very thankful to to have gotten this far and to be such a wonderful part of the community, and I think growing with the community would just continue to enhance the life for everyone.

Piggybacking on that, I'm so proud of what we do. I'm proud of our staff who is here today. Our whole staff is here today. We are here because we love what we do, and we wanna continue doing that. And we need a little bit more space to do so. So we wanted to thank you for your time and and just we ask that you truly consider this. Thank you so much.

Thank you very much. Well done, ladies.

Thank you.

Okay. We have some public comment. We'll start with Tracy Kane. And Ms. Kane, you'll have two minutes if you'll start with your name and address for the record, please.

You bet. Good morning. My name is Tracy Kane. I live within 300 feet of the proposed SUP. My address is 28142 North Summit Springs Road.

Today, you will hear from a handful of our neighbors that represent the surrounding community within 300 feet and slightly beyond, and that we believe that Maricopa County should not grant approval to this extended site. This is a zoned residential community, and it will turn it into a larger scale commercial for profit business right in our backyards. There are several reasons why we're opposed but not limited to. This is a zoned residential community in our beautiful Rio Verde Foothills, which drew us all to invest and reside within because of the deep restrictions. The scale and context of the facility upwards of 8,000 square feet to the commercial building is not fitting for the area, let alone the traffic access and safety concerns it will burden the neighborhood with.

There's bus stop drops morning and afternoon right at the end of the street. There are noise concerns beyond what already exists today from the surrounding neighbors along with the operational and lighting concerns surrounding our Dark Sky community. The multiphase extended timeline and infrastructure for such a large scale for profit business would be disruptive to our residential community for an estimated seven plus years based on the proposal submitted by the applicants. We strongly believe that the proposed SUP is not fitting or compatible for our zoned community period. The second slide that we have, I don't know if it's up, but we provided that as a leave behind packet.

I want to bring attention to the petitions within the neighboring households that have signed an opposition. The signatures embody 49 households in the media area representing over 100 individuals that live within 300 feet or slightly beyond. The household chart that we haven't closed in the packet

Go ahead.

Okay. The household chart that is closed in the packet is highlighted with yellow of those homes in opposition. 82% of the homes within 300 feet are opposed. That's 18 of 22. 90% of the households are opposed within slightly beyond 300 feet. 8% were not reachable. That was four households. 2% were neutral. That was one household. And then homes indicated with an asterisk on our chart received a mailer note or did not receive a mailer notification that are within or on the edge of the 300 feet. We all purchase our homes because this is a residential area with no commercial zoning. Enclosing the vast majority of the people that live in the impacted neighborhood are opposed to the expansion, and we respectfully ask you to deny. Thank you. Thank you.

Next speaker is Michael Jackson.

Good morning. My name is Mike Jackson, 28412 North Summit Springs Road. I also reside within 300 feet of the proposed change. I wanna talk about credibility representation scale in context because in reviewing the applicant's own materials, they raise several concerns. First, there are internal inconsistencies.

The proposal is described as a low impact appointment only business with one to five clients at a time. However, if you look at the application, it projects up to 55 clients per day and 15 employees. This is not a small scale operation. This is a high volume commercial use proposal. Secondly, the proposal includes 32 parking spaces with fur which further indicates a level of activity far beyond what is being presented.

There are also concerns with the representation of use. The application states that the existing residents will will remain as a residence despite the property already operating as a business. This raises concerns about how the use is being characterized. From a scale standpoint, the proposed structure is significantly larger than the surrounding homes, approximately 8,000 square feet, compared to homes that typically under 2,000 square feet to 4,200 square feet. There are also important differences in character and and design.

Excuse me. The surrounding homes are predominantly single story stucco residences, while the proposed structure is a two story metal building, which is not consistent with the existing residential development pattern. From a context perspective, there are no warehouse style buildings along Hundred And 72nd Street from this site to Dixleta, and that's approximately one mile. The only larger structure in the area is located on the nonprofit Raining Grace property, which is set back more than 500 feet from the road and situated on a large acreage parcel, which is not comparable to this location. And importantly, there are no comparable for profit commercial businesses in this area, which further underscores how out of place this proposal would be within our existing neighborhood.

Taken together, these inconsistency scale differences and incompatibility with the surrounding development make it difficult to rely on the application as a accurate representation of the project's true impacts. For that reason, the application does not provide a sufficient basis for approval from my perspective.

Thank you, mister Jack.

Thank you.

Lee Hockenot. I'm sure I butchered that.

Sorry. That's fine. Good morning. I'm Lee Hockenot. I live at 28420 North Summit Springs Road, just across the street from the proposed commercial building. I wanted to bring some attention to the safety concerns that are presented by bringing this commercial operation in the community. The road that this will reside on is 172nd. It's a rural residential road. It's got pedestrian, bicycle and horse traffic pretty regularly along the road. The speed limit is technically 30 miles per hour, but that's more of a suggestion by my observation.

And there are no sidewalks. So people traversing this road are walking on the side of the road. Bringing a commercial business into this area presents safety issues because according to the goals, the plans of the business, the last phase will result in 64 suites, dog suites, plus 32 plus parking spaces. That's gonna while the first phase seems to be only a fraction of that, that's gonna represent well over 100 traffic events daily. The final concern we have is that between the main road, which access 172nd, and the commercial operation, there's a school bus stop.

So that stop has kids waiting, walking back and forth. And based on increased traffic that operation will result in, we'll see a higher density of traffic and that'll result in higher risk to the schoolchildren, to the pedestrians, and to bicyclists. So with that, we respectfully ask to deny this applicant. Thank you.

Thank you. If you just wait a minute, Commissioner Rockwalla

Sir, have a quick question. You said you live on Summit Springs Road? Yes, sir. Does 172nd Avenue connect to Summit Springs Road or connect into your neighborhood at all?

It is backed up. So no, I can jump over my wall to get to 1 72nd.

But you don't use 1 72nd to access your neighborhood?

I do not. No. Okay.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Anne Marie Cadcodian.

We are not giving you easy names, are we? Good morning. Anne Marie Cadcodian. I live within 300 feet and my address is 28516 North Summit Springs Road. Today I'd like to address some of the concerns around noise and lighting.

I'll start with noise, or excuse me, I'll start with lighting. It was mentioned that we live in a community that has dark sky ordinance which is section one one twelve. And we also have a concern around the fact that in this special use permit application, specifically item Y, I don't have it in front of me, but item y specifically states that there should be a lighting plan that details the height, the type and the location of all lights that is in accordance with ordinance section eight twelve. And that has to be delivered at the time this application was delivered to you. So there is no full plan that is in accordance with section eight twelve.

So I'd like the commission to take that into consideration as the lighting plan is incomplete. Moving over to noise. I am concerned with the fact that there's an ordinance p 23, which is the noise ordinance that states that any property cannot emit over 500 feet. I might not be saying this, but you cannot emit noise up to 500 feet that can be heard inside somebody else's home. Right?

So the number of us that are within 300 feet, even more that are in 500 feet. So I'm concerned with the fact that there will be noise that will emit more than 500 feet. But then there's also another ordinance p six which says it's an unlawful custody. You cannot have custody of a dog that has excessive barking. And I just want to point out that dogs bark, especially a couple of dogs running around a yard. They're going to make noise. They bark. It's what they do. So my concern is more with the operations. It was brought up that the mitigation for the operations was landscaping.

You can put bushes and trees and walls and berms, but that is a line of sight that gets blocked. I currently live with a bunch of bushes. You couldn't put more bushes or trees or walls in my yard. And right now with the limited operations, not the commercial site but the limited operations, I still hear a couple four dogs barking. And this is set to hold 64 dogs at some point in time.

So I'm very concerned with the fact that between HVAC and dogs barking and the fact that really in the application only shows that phase two was going to have an outside play yard. Well if you're doing standard care for dog day care, grooming and so forth, these dogs need to be out day one, in phase one. And the plan doesn't show for that in phase one. So I'm concerned that we don't have the full picture here. We don't have the full lighting plan. We don't have an acoustic survey that was done. We're just being told that the landscaping was going to mitigate this. So with that, I would ask you as commission to consider denying the application. Thank you.

Next speaker, Shauna Hogunnett.

Good morning. My name is Shauna Hogunnett. I live at 28004 And 20 North Summit Springs Road within the 300 feet of the proposed expansion. And I wanted to address on the next slide the phase nature of the project. The application proposes three phases over an extended period of time.

And while phase one is set to begin and end within eighteen to twenty four months, no estimate of the development time is given for phases two and three. Additionally, phase two will not even begin until one to two years after completion of phase one, and phase three will then not begin until two to three years after phase two is complete. So this means the entire construction could be spread over up to a decade because developmental time is unknown according to the applicant's plan. The most impactful element, the full operational capacity, which is shown in phase three on the table with a second floor build out, will not even begin for approximately five years based on the applicant's estimation. This approach effectively defers the intensity of the project.

So by the time all phases are implemented, the use will be far beyond the initial scope. And this does not allow for a complete assessment of compatibility with the surrounding area. The timeline of the entire project is basically unknown because each subsequent phase does not begin until an approximate period of time after completion of the prior phase. Thus the county is being asked to approve the project without fully understanding the timeline of the phases and the impacted residents will have to endure years of build out with no identifiable completion date. Therefore we respectfully ask that you deny this SUP. Thank you.

Thank you. The final, then Tom Braun.

Aren't you glad I have an easy name to pronounce?

Yes sir, thank you. Can

we please get the correct slide up here? I want the slide with all the yellow squares on it. There you go. Right there. Now the point I want to make to you is we're talking about the Rio Verde Foothills and we're talking about this impacted neighborhood. The Rio Vortie Foothills is a horse community. It's almost from 1 36th Street all the way over to the Tonto National Forest. In that area, it's a horse community. So there's horses. There's barns.

There's arenas, all those things. But the difference between those ranches and this application is the size of the parcel. A parcel for these ranches can be 20 acres like Rainy Grace Ranch, which is the one shown right at the very top of this chart, or it could be 50 acres, a 100 acres. You can put a structure like that, a barn like structure, and not affect your neighbors. In this particular situation, we're trying to shoehorn in an 8,000 square foot warehouse building, two stories high in a residential community.

Right? That is the residential community we're concerned about. There are 50 houses in that community. We have talked to 45 of them. 45 of them have signed a petition not in support of this monstrosity being put into our neighborhood.

The other five, we didn't speak to because they weren't home. They were probably gone back up north like snowbirds. So 90% of the neighborhood doesn't want this pet spa, I call it warehouse, in our neighborhood. Now the safety issue is really a large concern of mine. If you look at that map, and you can't see it because I can't see it, but that bottom gray line is East Desert Vista Trail.

It intersects with 1 72nd Street. That's where the bus drops off kids from Cave Creek School District. Now we got kids being dropped off there. A lot of them have picked up their moms, dads. Some of them walk. They walk north on 1 72nd Street to get home. Now they're gonna walk right past this spa. And if, according to projections, they're going to do 70 dogs a day, People have to bring the dog in. They leave. They come back to get it. They leave. That's 280 cars are gonna transit in front of these kids. Now what are these kids doing? They're dropped off. They've been locked up in school all day.

They've been on the bus for thirty to forty five minutes getting there. They get off the bus. What do they do first? What are the kids they got their device in front of them. They're walking down 1 72nd Street, and these cars are going in and out.

And don't forget, like was pointed out earlier, the cars on the street, it's zoned 30 miles an hour, but the cars are going a hell of a lot faster than that. I walked my dog on that street, and I'll tell you, I walked my dog for six years, and I don't think I've seen one car going 30 miles an hour. So now we got cars trying to merge into traffic that could be, who knows, fifty, sixty miles an hour. They just turned off of Rio Verde Drive, which is a 50 mile an hour street. They're heading up north, and one seventy second gets a lot more traffic than others because it's a paved street.

It's a one mile stretch paved flat street. So everybody gets on it, and they're hauling. Now I know that the people from Secorba Spa stood up here and said they're gonna control the dogs barking. How do you control 70 dogs barking? You can't. I mean, say you let out five five at a time to go to the bathroom. Great. They start barking. What do dogs do when they first come out? They bark. So they're gonna bark. Then they take them back in. They bring the next five out. That's a four hour project. Just get all the dogs out to the bathroom.

And then what happens? The first dogs have to go back out again. So this is gonna be perpetual barking. And they show they don't show on the plan. They're gonna have dog runs. Where are the dog runs gonna be? You know, that's just gonna be more barking.

Mister Brunn, I've given you some extra time if you wouldn't mind taking a few moments to just wrap up your comments.

Pardon me?

I said I've given you some extra time over the two minutes. If you don't mind, just take a moment and wrap up your comments.

I will do that. Thank you. So noise is an issue. Safety is a huge issue. This is not consistent with the neighborhood. There's so many reasons why you should deny this application. Number one and foremost is there is no commercial business in that neighborhood. None. They're trying to put a commercial business with 20 people, 70 dogs in in a in a residential community. Most of the people bought in that community, if not all of them, because they felt protected. They felt that Maricopa County would protect them from commercial development. That's why we're there. We don't want commercial development there.

So Thank you, sir.

I still got thirty five seconds, ma'am. Please.

Actually, you've taken five minutes altogether.

Alright. I

think when you exceeded your time, they reset.

Alright. Well, I thank you for that. I obviously would ask you to please not approve this application. Thank you, sir.

Sorry for the confusion about the time. Do we have anybody online who'd like to speak? Nobody online. Thank you. Sir, did you also do we have other folks who want to speak? All right. If we can get the gentleman a card. There's a couple of hands of other folks who'd like to speak. If you could come to the podium and share your name and address, and you can fill out a card when you're finished.

Okay. I'll be short and sweet. I agree with everyone in opposition.

Your name and address, please, sir.

I'm sorry. My name is Greg Nelson. 17045 East Dale Lane. I live five lots down from the current business location. Got nothing against the current business. Had two of my dogs groomed by them, but everything that they said is true. We moved out there to be rural, not commercial. In fact, I called you folks in the traffic division to get a street sign put at the end of the street because Amazon couldn't find my house. But, anyway, they said that they're not gonna take dogs out at night. I'm wondering where 70 dogs are gonna go to the restroom in at night because dogs don't care what time it is.

So everything they said, I agree with, and I would ask you to deny this application. Thank you.

Thank you, sir. Was there there was another hand raised. Did someone else wanna speak? Sir, if you'll come to the podium, give us your name and address.

My name is John Proctor. I live about a quarter mile away. I actually have a 7,000 square foot building, metal building behind my house. It's two stories high. It's 24, 23 feet high.

Haven't gotten no complaints from anybody. Another thing that I do notice is the county has put lines on dictated how many people and what's going on and how many cars and how many parking spots that isn't really reality. So all these people are seeing all these parking spots and all this stuff in that business will never create that much in there. So by the county and the road dictating them pathways, and it's just tremendous. This job has grown from being small to unbelievable by the county's rules and changing of things, of what she really wants.

I've been a contractor in business for over thirty seven years, and I've gone over with, Britney Fuller. And this is it's just amazing how much has changed from the time she started the business to all the rules that have been listed. So now it's giving this huge idea of the huge business, and it's not. That's all I've got to say. It just really got out of hand.

Thank you, sir.

Thanks. Thank

you. Anyone else? Okay. And we still have no one online. No, still no one online. Would the applicant like to respond?

There are a lot of concerns that were addressed. And thank you for bringing them up. It keeps us honest. It keeps us diligent and makes sure that we are able to meet the needs of the community. I think, it wasn't mentioned, but there will be soundproofing in this building. 8,000 square feet is four downstairs and four upstairs. So it is a standard size of a house in the

neighborhood. Smaller footprint, you know, because it's 4,000 square foot footprint.

I as for the lighting, we did have an engineer draw that up. There's minimal lighting out and that was on our slide. The light forces is forced down from covers. So that was

Those in the the plan submitted during the SUP process.

It's hot in Phoenix. We plan on keeping I mean, a lot of time inside is our plan. That's why we have playrooms inside this building. We are not planning, especially if you look at dogs, pugs, bulldogs, anything with a shorter face, they overheat in less than seven minutes outside. Our goal is to let them run around in the building with us, with staff.

Yes. We will take them outside, not in groups of five, but that's why we will have staff is they're they're going to be diligently working with treats in pocket, obligating the dogs to listen. If they're not listening, they're going inside. As for restrooms, there's piddle pads. There's zones that they can use.

You see those take them outside too, but we're trying to accommodate indoor and outdoor Yeah. Function. So

There there were a lot of wonderful concerns, and we are doing our best to meet every one of them. As for the timeline, the reason that I don't have a specific timeline on these phases is because I don't have the clientele to build

A 100% right now.

Right. I have to only grow as the community grows. So we are we applied for our dream. However, we

are only able to reach those goals as the community grows. You know, it's just like Trilogy was nonexistent when we first came out to Rio Verde. And over the last ten years, we've watched it slowly grow and build. We wanna slowly grow and build just like that to keep up with the demand.

Which is why it is a ten year SUP permit, and then it will have to be reassessed. So this isn't a permanent forever.

This is a ten year To show that we do respect the community. We do wanna be considerate of of all of the concerns, but also offer a safe, loving place for your your furry family member.

I continue to love what we do. Yeah. So in closing, I just wanna say that I appreciate your time. I appreciate everyone coming here with their concerns, and I hope that this puts you guys at ease. And I hope we get to move forward. Thank you. Thank you.

I do have a question for you. Oh yes. We heard the speakers talked about 55 dogs, 64 dogs, and 70 dogs. Could you share more detail around how many dogs, how many dogs boarding, grooming, and by phase?

So right now, our max is 20 dogs a day in grooming and six for boarding. That's what are we are doing right now. In phase one, I mean, I would love to be able to do 40 grooming dogs in a day, double what we're grooming. And

I think it's 12 luxury suites on the planet, if I'm remembering correctly. Yeah.

And 12 boarding. Yeah. On the downstairs. So our our first four, five years will be 40 grooming, 12 boarding max.

Say that again. The the first what did you say? How many

The first phase.

Phase, which will be around four to five years is what I'm thinking will be And

then phase two?

Phase two is where we we add the outdoor fencing. So we have instead of walking them on a leash to go potty, we'll be able to to let them out for potty breaks, do short play sessions that are monitored. It's not really gonna enhance the volume of dog, it's just gonna give us a different kind of space to work with the dogs. And then as the community grows, we then can work on building out the 2nd Floor. And instead of doing the luxury suites, we chose to do prefabricated kennels up there. So that way we can put tin up if that's all we need. So it can just, again, grow with the community.

So in phase three, we are not looking to change grooming. I don't think that we will be able it will still be around 40 a day, but the boarding would expand because upstairs is where the kennels will be located. So phase three would be additional boarding. How many suites would be

in there total or kennels?

I don't remember off the top of my head. 50? 50. So max We mapped it out to where that's the max space, but again, we might start with 20, we might start with five. It's just the demand is gonna determine how many we bring in at a time. And like Amanda said, we presented you our dream, and we're trying to slowly get there. Okay.

So if I understand what you're saying is phase one would be 40 grooming and 12 suites. Phase two would add a play space, but no additional dogs. Correct. And phase three could add up to a maximum of 10 additional suites.

Up to 50 additional suites.

50 more.

Five-zero, yes.

Glad I restated it. Thank you. Any commissioner And then I'm sorry. Oh I'm sorry, one

more thing. The traffic engineer that we worked with calculated the traffic that we will create based on like, they have their own records, and there's not there wasn't really one for pet grooming specifically, so they did it off of veterinarians because they are also appointment based with a similar schedule. So, again, the traffic engineer did all the reports and studies which have been submitted and says that it should not make that great of an impact on one seventy second and no additional stop sign, turn lanes or safety things are needed.

But apparently we need to get a

police officer out there for the speed limit for that.

I'm sorry, did you want to

say something? I could, how would I go about getting an officer to monitor that road better? We can chat with you about that. Okay.

Thank you. Commissioners any comments or questions? Madam Chair I've got some questions for Staff

we heard from members of the community that this neighborhood, at least what they kept, continue to reference as this neighborhood, is not zoned for commercial and that there are deed restrictions. Could you please inform me about whether or not outside of the Trilogy community, is this usage compatible? And then can you tell me inside the Trilogy community, are there deed restrictions?

Madam chair, commissioner Rockwallak, I wouldn't be able to say for certain within Trilogy, but I I do have an understanding that there are deed restrictions. Although the county wouldn't be able to enforce that, that's actually typically full enforced with the homeowners association. The, commune the community outside of Trilogy within this area is zoned a rural 43, but certain special uses can be approved by the BOS that wouldn't specifically be residential uses or rural uses. But it's

not uncommon for there to be home based businesses in RU 43,

is that correct? That's correct.

Okay. And so then just again to reiterate, and while it would be up to the HOA to enforce within Trilogy, but just to reiterate my understanding is the requirements inside Trilogy are separate of the requirements within RU 43 zoning. Correct. Thank you.

Madam Chair and Commissioner Rockwallak, there are also just to be aware there is on the South Side Of Rio Verde, there is future phases of Tonto Verde that's gonna be built, so it's not rural. And to the west extreme to the eastern edge of that is a 20 acre commercial zone that's going to be in a shopping center at some point in the

near term.

Yes, appreciate you informing me of the commercial that is coming. I did note the many commercial uses that are inside the Trilogy community. Thank you for informing me of the 20 acres of commercial coming.

You can sit down if we have any more questions.

Thank you.

Any other questions for commissioners? I do have a couple of questions. One of the speakers said that the lighting plan was required and not provided. Could staff respond to that?

Madam chair, we require a photo schematic for commercial developments. We don't usually bring those into these cottage industries. We do have lighting shown on the plans. It's it's to be shielded and consistent with rural with rural residential lighting that we see.

Thank you. And then the parking, the 32 parking spots, the comment was made that that's based on the size of the building rather than the use. Could you could staff comment on that?

That's correct, madam chair. The ordinance gives a specific amount of parking per commercial uses. So staff used a commercial one per two hundred fifty two hundred fifty square foot for commercial uses of the fourth using the 4,000 building footprint.

It seems like a lot of dogs. And so what I'm sort of wrestling with in my mind is, is there a way to break up phases and maybe approve phase one and two and get some history with it then ask the applicant to come back for phase three? What would that entail?

Madam Chair, Commissioners, I believe we would likely need them to quantify that a little better in the narrative. So if that's the case, would suggest a continuance to allow them to to have their narrative speak to just the initial phase. And and then we could have we could add a condition limiting the maximum number of dogs on-site at any given time.

Well, if we were to do that and then because I also don't understand right then they if if down the road they want to add the 50 dogs, they certainly would have a right to request that in the future. What would be the process for them to do that? Would it be a full CUP the way they presented today? Or what would the process be? I'm trying to get a sense of how big a burden it would be on the applicant to split this up.

Madam Chair, it depends on how we do that. If you were to just add a condition today for a maximum number of dogs, they could still proceed with build out however they see fit and come in for a request to modify that condition to change the maximum number of dogs. So there's a couple ways that could be done. That would be the easiest method for the applicant. But if you if if at this time you wanna limit it, the development a little more, then perhaps we should continue it and allow them to change their narrative.

Let me ask the applicant, would you be agreeable to us modifying this to say that you would be restricted to 52, maximum of 52 dogs, and that you would come forward for a modification for additional dogs in the future? Did they go? Oh, that would be agreeable? Okay.

Madam chair, that would be we could add a condition J. There should be no more than 52 dogs on-site at any given time.

Okay. That's agreeable to the applicant. Alright. I'll make a motion to approve our SU-two fifty-twenty two Swirl Blossom Pet Spa expansion with the change to the conditions that not to allow not more than 52 dogs. Second.

And who is that Commissioner Finter?

Yes.

Okay. So motion made by Chairman and seconded by Commissioner Finter.

Madam chairman, this is the commissioner Toma. Just a question. Is that how many dogs does that allow for boarding overnight?

So that's what they said was 40 grooming and 12 boarding was what they shared. And they're nodding. Yes. That's correct.

K. I just wanted to make sure that's clear because I would support that. But if it's if so it's 52 total, 12 boarding, 40 grooming.

Correct.

Thank you.

Thank you. Any other comments or questions from commissioners? Madam chair. Yes. Commissioner Rockwallak.

Just some comments. I'm very familiar with the Rio Verde area, having grown up with family out there and having watched the Rio Verde region massively change over that time, and that change actually create many problems, nonetheless being water issues. But knowing that area out there and how it's developed and how it's grown and how it's predominantly been RU43 and people have had to create home based businesses to be able to provide for what the market demands out there. And having just done a quick look on Google Maps and seeing only two pet spas in the entire Rio Verde region, I think that this is going to bring a wonderful addition to the community and I look forward to supporting it.

Thank you, So we'll have a roll call.

Commissioner Finter?

Yes.

Commissioner Toma?

Yes.

Commissioner Whitney?

Yes.

Madam Chair, we have a motion recommending approval by a vote of six to one.

Thank you. We will move on now to case number 12, HVRB. Oh no, we moved that. No, we didn't move that. HVRB 115th Avenue Storage.

Thank you Madam Chair and members of the Commission. KC 20 five-twenty is a request for a zone change from Rural 43 to C3 CUPD to entitle a proposed indoor RV and boat storage facility on approximately six acres. The site is located along 1 15th Avenue, approximately 1,100 feet south of the Southeast Corner of 1 15th Avenue in Happy Valley Parkway in the Peoria area. The proposals for a 184 enclosed storage units within three separate buildings, which would be oriented in a linear direction parallel to the north and south lot lines and would be separated by interior drive aisles measuring about 60 feet wide. These units would provide a cumulative storage area of approximately a 124,000 square feet.

The proposal also includes an RV wash bay and dump station as well as a 1,200 square foot office. Buildings did not exceed 20 feet in height, and lighting would be compliant with the outdoor lighting standards established in the zoning ordinance. All buildings on-site would conform to required front and side setbacks. The CUPD does propose to reduce the required rear setback. Generally, the purpose of the rear setbacks provide adequate buffer between commercial uses and adjacent residential uses.

For this project, however, the lack of a neighbor to the rear of the property arguably negates the need for a large setback. Additionally, the adjacent land is owned by the BLM and is encumbered by floodway, further rendering it unlikely that it will be developed in the foreseeable future. The CPD also proposes south and east facing walls of the storage buildings to fulfill portions of the required screening adjacent to existing rural zoning, where buildings would not parallel the lot lines, an eight foot wall would provide continuous screening. Staff supports the applicant's request, which is consistent with adjacent commercial zoning and development further north along 115th Avenue. Storage facilities are generally low traffic generators, which will reduce its impact on nearby rural residences and existing roadway infrastructure.

Furthermore, keeping the facility entirely indoors with storage unit doors faced toward the interior of the property will reduce its impact on neighboring residences and facilitate an appropriate land use transition between the rural land uses to the South and the more intense commercial uses being developed to the North. To ensure that transition and land uses remains appropriate, staff offers an additional COPD development standard that would limit the allowed uses on-site to indoor storage facilities. Staff recommends the commission adopt a motion recommending that the board approves the twenty five zero zero two zero subject conditions a a through h as outlined in the staff report at this time I'd be happy to answer any questions

thank you commissioners any questions would the applicant like to present

Good morning, Madam Chair, members of the Commission. Shane Allaman with Tiffany Imbasco. I almost said my old address. We moved 1850 Central Avenue, Central Arts Plaza in Phoenix. Grateful to be here, and thank you, Mr.

Schlim, for the presentation and giving us some background on the property. I did want to give a little bit of context and just talk about a little the work that we've done on this the project. We actually have been working on this for over a year, submitted the formal application a year ago in May for a rezone to C3, and we also included a plan of development with that. And of course, as you know, with a plan of development, when you're providing that, it provides some specificity knowing what's going to go into the site. And so as you look at the site here, the current zoning is r 43.

It's about six acres. The requested zoning is is the c three with the CUPD to allow for indoor enclosed storage. This is going to be marketed a little bit differently than what's going on to the north of us. We have had discussions with Guardian Storage. They have no issues with our project that that we're going forward with. As you see, they do have storage as well. However, their indoor storage, condition storage, as well as outdoor RV storage. What we're providing is is strictly enclosed RV spaces. There's nothing like this around this area. And as we know, there's lot of growth with residential, and they have RVs that cannot sit in their HOAs, and they need a place to store them.

This provides a little bit higher end option for people that don't want to store them outdoors, such as going to the North Of Us, and have them indoor to take care of their expensive asset that they have. One of the things I'll also say as we look at this, there's been a lot of growth that's occurring around here. Actually, Peoria has annexed to the West Of us, and state land has also rezoned that property for a mixture of industrial, heavy, and light commercial as well as multifamily higher density residential. And what you can see is happening is this is becoming a commercial hub here at 117th And Happy Valley with the QT and other future commercial development that's planned for this area. One of the things that we did early on is we had a pre application with the city of Peoria.

They reviewed the site. They had no issues with it. They thought that the uses that we're proposing for the storage is compatible with this area. We've also had discussions with state land, and we've also noticed neighbors directly to the south of us at the beginning, had two conversations, which I'll talk about here in a little bit, and have had no other opposition for the case. So we've done a lot of work with this site.

You can see the zoning here, state land to the west of us. Of course, the zoning, as I mentioned, is industrial, commercial, as well as higher density residential and then commercial, mostly to the North of us, and that multifamily development to the North and East of us. The site plan here depicts those three enclosed buildings on the site with a loop road that is accessed. It's fully enclosed, gated, 184 enclosed garage type storage units. There's a wash bay and a dump station, of course.

There'll be twenty four hour surveillance and on-site caretaker that is in the office during the day, and then it will be monitored completely always by surveillance, video surveillance, twenty four seven. Nick mentioned the setbacks. We are increasing our front yard setback from 10 to 25 to set that back from the current roadway that's there. And then on the south, we're asking for a modification that we can utilize the wall, as you see on this picture here, as that screen wall. And so this depicts that 10 foot setback with the landscaping, with the wall.

When we spoke to the two neighbors to the south, they really appreciated this. One of the neighbors mentioned that the RV and mini storage to the north of us is just has a lot lots of lights. We are not going to be doing that. All of our lights will be downspouted, and it's they will be blocked by this eight foot building wall as well that you see, and so they were very happy with that. They're also the other neighbor to the south of us was happy that we're improving this road because it is a dirt road that's actually kind of on our property, and so we've worked with them so that we can improve it with landscaping and then have this green wall here.

So overall, we've mailed two separate letters out to the neighbors, had two conversations with mister Davis as well as mister Cook to the south of us. At the end of those conversations, there were no issues. In fact, Mr. Cook expressed verbal support for the project and had no further issues and appreciated us improving that area. So we agree with all of the stipulations on this site.

The other thing that I'll mention too is we've had lots of discussions over the last few months. The reason why this took a little bit long to get to hearing is we had discussions with McDot about the property and trying to figure out the access. What we discovered is when you look at this access point right here, the neighbors to the south of us are utilizing state land, probably not legally. We could not find a right of way agreement for them to be using that. So what we've been doing working with McDott is we are going to actually have a private drive aisle that we've been working with Guardian Storage to the north of us that will go north at the West side of our property within a patent easement and accessing A Hundred And 17th Avenue.

So the details of that are still being worked out, but we have it to a place right now enough for the rezone knowing that that will be a private drive access improved. So overall, we believe that this use is compatible with the area. There will not be we're actually improving a situation for dust because right now I know the dust is blowing to the south under the neighbors from our property. That will be taken care of. The light will be taken care of with dark sky ordinances as well as our wall on the south.

There will be no smoke. Traffic was deemed by McDott to be very low. We have two peak hour trips in the morning, four peak hour trips in the PM hours, So the traffic generation on these uses are very low. Any traffic that comes to the site will be going north. It cannot go south because it'll be a private drive, so it'll be accessing to the north to 117th Avenue. So we believe that this is compatible with the area. We appreciate the discussions we've had with the city of Peoria, with state land, with McDot, as well as county staff. Everyone's been great to work with, and we believe we've worked out all the kinks and the issues for us to move forward with the development. So with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you. Any questions? All right. We have one public comment. Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

From Benjamin Tunduk.

Good morning, everybody. This is the first time that I hear about the representative for the RV project that they have plans. They have talked with their neighbors. They never contact me. They never talk with me. I built my house in 2018. I started my life over there with three kids. I'm opposing this because the first thing my wife said is gonna block our mountain view when you are in the first of the in the front of the house, and that's what we lot of traffic. That's residential area. I spoke with other representative when they're talking to expand the 117.

Probably, you guys have that in the fire. And they said it would be a nice park view in front of your house. And right now it would be a big block stone in front of my house. So I'm not agree with that. Nobody was talking with me about this before.

Thank you, sir. Sir, could you can you explain to us more clearly where your where your home is?

Yeah. I'm sorry. My address is 24703 North 115th Avenue, Sun City, Arizona 85373 ZIP code. So the way how the representative for the RV project says, my house, it's exactly probably in the middle of the building, which I'm gonna open my garage door and go in front of my house. I'm gonna see a big piece of stone. I'm not gonna see the mantlets anymore.

All right. Thank you, sir.

Thank you.

Would the applicant like to respond?

Madam Chair, members of the Commission, I also just this is the first I've met Mr. Tundu and we spoke a little bit outside before we got up with this item. Some of the issues that were raised, and he mentioned some of those, was traffic. And as mentioned, we are a very low generator of traffic. We have none of our our vehicles that will be coming to the site go south to the site or to the through the neighborhood.

It's all going to be north. It's going to be a private drive aisle. Second of all, as far as traffic for any of them going north, they probably don't realize this, but they're driving illegally on state land, they shouldn't be doing that. And so they really shouldn't there shouldn't be any conflicts going north. They have access to the road to the south that they can they can utilize. So there really shouldn't be any any traffic issues with that, which is the the big one that I heard mister Tunduk said. So, again, we believe that there will be no traffic issues as well as no dust or smoke or lighting or any of those other uses, and this uses is compatible with the area. But happy to answer any questions you might have.

Thank you, sir. Commissioners, have any comments or questions? No? Have a question about 115. Go right ahead, Commissioner. Is is it it my understanding you keep saying Private Drive. Now is 115th Avenue going to be improved, or is it just going to be improved to the south end of your building?

Commissioner Layton, this is planner Nick Schlemm. To my understanding, one fifteenth, the patent easement portion is going to be improved up to the south lot line of the subject property, no further south to the rural residences, but it would be improved from the subject property up to the main arterial.

Okay. Thank

you. And not to confuse matters, 115th Avenue as it intersects Happy Valley Parkway, when it gets down to this immediate vicinity, kinda meanders southwestward and becomes 117th Avenue. And that's a collector route or a minor arterial that will tie in with some more moderate density development to the Southwest.

Yep. I live at Happy Valley and 101st, I'm very familiar with the area. Thank you. Thank you Commissioner Layton. There are no other comments or questions, I'll entertain a motion.

Is Vice Chair Hernandez. I'll make a motion to recommend approval of Z250020 as presented by staff.

Motion by Vice Chair Hernandez and second by Commissioner Rockwalla.

Commissioner Finter?

Yes.

Vice Chair Hernandez?

Yes.

Commissioner Layton?

Yes.

Chair Millhaven? Yes. Commissioner Rockwallick?

Yes.

Commissioner Thoma? Commissioner Thoma? Commissioner Whitney?

Yes.

Madam Chair, we have a motion recommending approval by a vote of six to zero.

Thank you very much. Moving on to item 13, Neonela residents.

Good morning, Chair and Commissioners. This is a request for a temporary use permit to allow the placement of an RV on a parcel while construction is occurring. Section one thousand and two point two point one of the Maricopa County zoning ordinance gives the property owners this option, specifically temporary housing on the same lot of a permanent dwelling or use shall be authorized only in the following situations. The owner of the property is reconstructing or constructing his or her own permanent dwelling. This use is limited to maximum of two years provided the building permit for the placement or for the construction remains active on the site.

This kind of application can be approved administratively by staff except if we receive objections or opposition to the application after a notice of application sign has been posted for a ten day period on the property. In this case, we did receive opposition, so that's why we put it on the council's or the commission's agenda. There is specific approval criteria in zoning ordinance for these kinds of temporary uses to make sure that they do not create adverse impacts on surrounding properties and that the use is limited to a limited duration. The current application is for an RV for residing on property and also storage to be located on the parcel 202 Dash 20 Dash 447 R with an address of 1904 East Circle Mountain Road in the rural 43 Zoning District in the New River area. A building permit was issued for a new residence and an accessory structure.

The applicant requested the RV on the property during the construction as the zoning ordinance intended. The letter of opposition or the letters of opposition from the adjacent neighbors indicated opposition to the RV as inappropriate based on code violations that have happened in the past for storage of trailers, trucks, etcetera, on the property. However, the violation was closed by the county after the building permits were issued for the residents and accessory structure. As we stated in our staff report the building permits issued for the new residents will establish a permanent primary use on the property and allow the owner to continue to address some of the past violations and comply with the zoning ordinance. We are recommending approval of this request for the temporary housing for two years or until the CEO is issued, whichever is first.

The owner has provided a site plan that shows the temporary RV out of any flood hazard area and not on the same location as the accessory structure. If approved, we will continue to work with the applicant on the finalization of the site plan. With that, that concludes staff's presentation. I'll be glad to answer any questions. We are recommending approval based on the conditions in the report and the applicant is in attendance.

Okay. And I have no comment cards here for anyone present who wants to speak.

Madam Chair, just in case the opposition is listening and and, for the applicant's benefit, the two year period for the temporary use permit is only to allow residency in the The RV can be stored on the property once there's an established primary use of the single family residence as long as it's not occupied.

Thank you for that clarification. And do we have anybody online who'd like to comment? Nobody online. Just commissioner Whitney has his hand raised. So remember Commissioner Whitney?

Yes. I just wanted to clarify a question for the staff. Are there current activities on the site that are in violation, or is everything proper at this point in time?

Madam Chair, Commissioner Whitney, this is Darren. The violations have been closed because of the issued permit. If a permit fails to get issued and finaled in a timely manner, we can reopen violation for having an occupied RV on-site.

Okay. That's all I had. Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner. All right. So we have no public comment. Would the applicant like to say anything?

Thank you for taking the time to look at my issue today, chair and commissioners. I think I have kind of scared my neighbors, and I'm just trying to build a house, and I'm just trying to store my personal things on my property while I do it. I need to have a storage container so I can put some building materials and windows and things like that in it. And then I need a place to store my RV. And since I do have the the provision by the county to actually use the RV, I thought I would ask for that privilege because I may at the end of construction, my lease may be may be ending in my rental, and I might have six weeks or two months left.

And I may want to live on the property while I wait to get the final certificate of occupancy. So I just thought I would get this permit so I can do that. But, really, I wanna build a house. That's all. Thank you, sir.

Alright. If there's no other comments or questions, I'll entertain a motion.

I have motion to approve t u twenty five zero zero four eight.

I second that.

Okay. We have a motion by Commissioner Rockwallak and a second by Vice Chair Hernandez.

Commissioner Finter?

Yes.

Vice Chair Hernandez?

Yes.

Commissioner Layton?

Yes.

Chair Mulhaven? Yes. Commissioner Rockwallak?

Yes.

Commissioner Whitney?

Yes.

Madam Chair, we have a motion for an approval by a vote of six to zero.

Thank you very much. Thank you, sir. Any other business?

No, Madam Chair. And I do believe that was the Commission's first temporary use permit. They've been they've been reoriented to the this body instead of the board of adjustment with the MCZO update last January.

There you go. Alright, since there's no additional business, the meeting is adjourned. Thank you.