Planning and Zoning Commission - Regular Meeting

call to order and roll call. Chair Goss present. Vice Chair Swab here. Commissioner McCoy here. Commissioner Sixa here. Commissioner Waters here. Commissioner Sarkeesian is excused. We have a quorum. Thank you. Welcome to the planning and zoning meeting of Kingman, Arizona, Wednesday, June 11th. Um today we have kind of an abbreviated agenda. We're going to learn some things and um we're going to start off with the pledge of allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. You may be seated. Um, first off, we just have the approval of minutes. These are the regular meeting minutes of the planning and zoning commission for May 14th, 2025. Do we have a motion? I move to make a motion to approve the meeting minutes of the planning and zoning commission for May 14th, 2025. I second. We have a motion in a second. Can I get a roll call vote? Yes. Chair Goss. Oh, yeah. Approve. Oh, I'm sorry. Uh, Vice Chair Swap, approve. Commissioner McCoy, approve. Commissioner Sixa, approve. Commissioner Waters, approve. It's been approved. Sorry. Thank you. No problem. I just thought you were exceedingly polite. All right. Next, we have the call to public. This is those wishing to address the commission should fill out requests 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. Comment should be limited to no longer than 3 minutes. The commission may not

respond to speakers during the call to public. The commission may direct staff to study the matter or request that the matter be placed on a future agenda. Do we have any comments? No. All right. I see none. Uh next we have action items and these are reports today exclusively actually. Uh the first is a traffic master plan and site visibility triangle report. Staff will provide an update on the city's master transportation plan. The intersection of the Halo by Mountain Road and Andy Divine and site visibility as requested by the commission. This is a staff presentation for information only. Chair Goss, Commissioners, this presentation will actually be a tag team presentation. Uh we wrapped it all into one. So we'll start off with engineering uh addressing the site visibility uh and then I'm sorry with the master plan and then a discussion regarding one of the intersections that was requested to be looked at and then we'll finish it off with the site visibility triangle. Great. Thank you, Jason. Good evening, Chair Goss and commissioners. My name is Mike Garmin. I'm the city engineer. Um, this should be a pretty brief presentation. Mostly going to talk about this map that you see on the screen. Uh this is a map that's from our transportation master plan that was adopted by council in December of 2023. Um the transportation master plan is the guide for decision making regarding transportation decisions.

Uh the the time horizon for the master plan is 2045. So that that was the uh how far they looked out. Uh this particular exhibit is a functional class classification map. It basically shows the different um street classifications for the various uh streets and roads in Kingman. Um again this is assuming a 2045 built out condition. So we're talking 20 years down the road. uh what are these street classifications going to be for the ver for these different streets? Uh it's composed of local streets, which are your residential neighborhoods that have one travel lane each way. Uh collector streets, they collect they connect residential streets to arterial streets. Uh they have one travel lane each way with a center turn lane. Uh if you'll think of Harrison between Beverly and Arrowway, that's a good example of what we currently have as a collector. Um and then there's the arterial streets. Those are the the green the green is the minor arterial and the red is the major arterial. Um these provide free flow of traffic from one point to another. Uh minor arterial street is two travel lanes each way with a center turn lane. Uh major uh arterial street the standard section the city has is three travel lanes each way with a raised median. Um if you'll think of airway between Andy Divine Stockton Hill that's a minor arterial street. Um

the transportation master plan has a list of projects with different priorities. Um obviously the traffic interchanges at um Flying Fortress and eventually Keman Crossing are the biggest priority uh roads uh for the city. Um in addition to that Flying Fortress Parkway which is the extension from the uh from the traffic interchange to airway and then uh from airway from the airway from the the parkway to Prospector is another high priority project and then there's uh Cayman crossing from airfield to southern those projects are all in our uh current CIP. Uh in the future, um priority projects are improvements to Southern and Walpai Mountain Road. Um I'm kept the presentation brief because I thinking that you guys probably have questions you want to ask specific questions. So if you have any questions, I'll take those at this time. Thank you. Do we have questions? I do. So, you said the future values are Thank you, by the way. This is really helpful and informational. Um, the future values are focused on Southern and Walapai Mountain Road. Is that did I understand that correctly? Um, Madame Chair and um, Councilwoman Swab, um, the the there are a list of priority projects. And when I said the future ones, the future ones are the ones that

are priority projects that aren't currently in the CIP. So Southern and Walapai Mountain Road, those improvements are further out in the time horizon. So they're not currently in the CIP. Okay. And then the um in the CIP currently are the two um new interchanges going in the the CIP has the um well the the previous CIP had the traffic interchange but now the the looking out for FY26 and in the future uh it would be the connector roads from the traffic interchange. which is the Parkway and Airway. Um, Keeman Crossing, I'm going to be real careful here. It's a little still a little bit up in the air. Nobody really knows exactly what the situation is with that. Um once that goes in though, there's a connector road um if I can point to it right here that goes from airfield down to Southern which would which is currently in the CIP. Um does sorry does that answer your question? I think so. So um on the map right now that that furthest Red Dotted Road and Purple Road up I40. That is the Rattlesnake Wash interchange. Or is that where you're pointing? Is that Rattlesnake Wash? Right. Right. That's that's um what we're calling Flying Fortress Parkway traffic interchange. Okay. Um this portion

that goes to the south Yeah. city's portion would stop at southern and then the rest of this is all in in unincorporated Mojave County. So for this portion to get built out, it would be something the county would have to initiate. Um so for the city's part, um we would eventually improve from the Wise to Southern. Do I remember correctly from last month that initially the plan is to build out to Louise and then after a certain number of houses then the road would get built to southern. Yes, there's there's currently there well there's an older development agreement between the city and the developer for that property that talks about exactly when that phase of the parkway is supposed to go in. And I think he talked about that last month a little. That's correct. I think the development agreement is like from 2008 or something like that. Okay. Okay. Thank you. I do have one question. Um, is I know this is a long shot, but see Slaughterhouse Canyon Road and it's listed as a blue collector even where it goes way down by the rail. Um, if you sorry if you go down Yeah, that little guy right there. I know people have consistently been complaining about Walpai Mountain Road and the traffic on there and you know and I've heard one person at a public one of these meetings we had suggest using that as a alternate way to get downtown on here it looks like it's listed as a collector but there's nothing at the end of it you know I mean is that showing it connected is that

what I'm seeing or again you have to remember this is 2020 2045 so um I I did not prepare the master plan. Jack worked on it and whenever he comes to talk about the intersection at any Divine Wall up mountain road, he could probably elaborate on that a little bit a little bit more. Just it'd be a big win if if that could actually lead people downtown. Just my opinion. Thank you. Thank you. Did you have a question too? One quick is this city funded, developer funded? uh referenced from last meeting. It's a mix. Um for example, um this segment of Keeman Crossing between Airway and Santa Rosa will primarily be uh um constructed by Engle Homes, okay, for their subdivision. um the developer that's working on a pre-plat right now over here, he will have to do the improvements for Louise out to his subdivision. So, um the the goal is to try to get as much of it done through uh development projects as we can. Obviously, that's not going to do all of it, but uh that's that's the goal. And these will be in place At what point in time in the development? Because they come in phases. Is it phase one, two, three? Well, um this one, Kean Crossing, we have um we've been working on a development agreement with Engle Homes to specify exactly when they're supposed to put that in. and we're we're we're

working it out in a way where they can only go so far with their development before they have to put that in. Um the the one that's over here for Louise, I think his pre-plat is just a little 40 acre snippet right here, but we've told him that he has to do the improvements because he owns the property on both sides. he has to do the improvements uh all the way to his uh to the first phase to get it to work. I mean he he wouldn't have any access otherwise. So Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Do we have any more questions? No. All right. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Good evening, Madame Chair, vice chair, members of the commission. My name is Jack Planty. I am uh the assistant public works director. I work over the transportation side. We're generally on the maintenance side, but uh we we work with Mike and Jason, especially on the development side as well. And so, I'll apologize up front. I'm going to show you some slides that you had not seen. I didn't have any in your packet. I told Jason I'd only have one and then changed my mind uh to make sure I give you guys enough detailed information. So, if you have any questions, obviously ask them. Again, sorry to throw those at you last minute. So, I'm going to touch on a couple pieces and and really my goal was to to narrow us down to Walpai Mountain Road and Andy Debine specifically. You had a great question that was a segue into that and so we'll we'll kind of work our way down through that. Before I leave Mike's slide here, one thing I do want to point out. Uh this slide is uh a diagrams if a diagram if you will, a future buildout of arterial and collector roads. You guys have all driven around town. Um you're talking about east west travel across the city. Uh especially between Stockton Hill and Andy Divine, that's pretty limited.

Nothing works really well or is built out, let me let me back up, is built out to function as a collector and arterial. So a lot of times you end up with residential roads that function in that form, but they're, you know, two-lane on street parking, those sorts of things. So the goal of this transportation master plan was to try and help look forward to to prevent those types of things. So when you look at this, keep in mind this is future buildout and uh some of these some of these roadway alignments don't exist currently. there they will change as development occurs and that's mainly because uh you know land ownership size of the development things like that but this is the guiding piece to make sure that we have a good network east west northwest northwest north south uh you know into the future and so this is a tool for that and so with that I'll switch over to my slides if I can do so without yanking the computer off the All right. So, Walapai Mountain Road and Andy Divine A. So, uh first one I want to touch on traffic congestion. uh the TMP, the transportation master plan, when we completed that, that was in uh 2023, but most of the information as far as traffic counts, congestion, traffic modeling was based in 2022 because that was the most uh up-to-date information we had at the time. So, I do want to point out, and I'll talk about it again a little bit later, uh when we did the transportation master plan and we prioritized projects, which we'll talk about, it was based off of uh a number of things. One of those is predictive growth. So the map again as you look at it and some of the future projects you see those priorities may change and and they may change for a number of reasons. One traffic volumes may be different than we predicted. We looked at growth areas and we tried to predict where growth would occur and then we base our

traffic modeling off of that and what the needs looking into the future would be. So the other side of that is is you have uh development that occurs that is you know maybe not traffic driven. There will be some relief from uh use the flying fortress way as an example. It will provide some relief to surface streets but generally that project was also uh heavily driven on economic development and growth of the city. So there's two factors to that. my side, what I'm normally looking at is traffic volumes, congestion, those sorts of things. So, the the slide you're looking at right now was traffic congestion. Um, it doesn't show it in here. We always talk in level of service, ABCD, you know, just like your report card, the lower you get in the alphabet, the worse it looks. So, um, I just want to point out that intersection at Walapai and Andy Divine that is showing as a moderate congestion in 2022. Uh there have been some changes to that and I don't have a a current model depiction that shows it. There's a number of things that are driving that. Some of them are short-term, some shortterm and some of them are long-term. So the long-term drivers is really downtown. You have all the development that's occurring up there. You have the existing homes and uh you know the schools, the city and county buildings that are down here, all the businesses. There's there's only one good access point into downtown right now, which is Andy Divine. So, you have the bulkier traffic that is coming off the east side of Andy Divine. Walapai is that point for uh getting into downtown. The short term of it, uh we've been seeing changes in the traffic patterns at that intersection. Uh specifically related to Eastern. So, we've got two projects. one Mike's team wrapped up which was at Airway which was the bypass or the connection to Airway for Eastern and then uh the one that's going on right now as a waterline project and so

anytime we impact the traffic on Eastern we see changes in the patterns and you know a lot of people will try and avoid the construction zone and go one direction or the other. So a lot of times that increases the traffic at one intersection or the other. Um, one thing I do want to talk about here and uh, we'll kind of dive into it a little bit more. We've done a couple of engineering analysis and so we've hired a traffic uh, traffic engineer to come out. We've done traffic counts. So, we look at volumes, turning movements, and then we try and adjust the signal and we do a timing plan. And so, we run what we call a time of day plan. and we look at the traffic volumes and say, "Okay, from 7 to 9 or 6 to 9, whatever those windows are, we see a high volume of traffic moving one way." So, we favor that phase. So, in the morning, good example, Andy Divine, you may not realize it because the congestion gets so heavy with the amount of traffic coming downtown. We actually favor and we put more time to that intersection. What that does is it sacrifices the level of service at the other phases, but because we have so much volume of traffic on that side, we really have no choice. And so we've we've made multiple changes to that intersection through traffic analysis and timing adjustments. The problem is that intersection is saturated. It has so much traffic without physical improvements to that intersection, we can't move any more traffic or we can't move more traffic efficiently. So we looked at some changes to that timing. So, uh, when you come up and you're on Andy Divine and you get a a phase that is a turn and a through movement, we call that a split phase. So, we looked at going to split phase all the way around the intersection, but it lowers a level of service and it by increasing your cycle time. So, when you pull up to a light and it turns red, the time it takes for it to come back to a green for you is that cycle time. And so we've

we've done everything we can on the um on the intersection timing itself. Like I say, now we're down to some physical improvements. So touching back on the transportation master plan a little bit, but I just really wanted to show where the the project uh specifically um the one Commissioner Waters that you had mentioned ranks in. So um just talk about the TMP for just a minute. We had a technical advisory committee which consisted of multiple departments in the city. It was planning at the time, engineering, public works and then also included uh actually PD was in that that mix but also included Maui County AOT way and um and there's one more that is slipping. Oh, the public that was the major component to that and I don't know why that would fall off my radar. The public was a major contributor to this. Uh we ran a really um I thought was unique. It was a the first thing first project that I'd had where we had received as much public input as we had and so that was for potential projects and when we did prioritization um we ran a website we ran multiple rounds of public outreach and we were really successful in that. We had a lot of good feedback from the public and so that generated 103 potential projects for traffic congestion, safety improvements. Um, and so we we can't do all of those projects. And so we listed all those projects and then we went and we sat down to prioritize them. I included this slide. Keep in mind these numbers are from 2022 and I can tell you they've changed drastically. uh we would love to do all the projects that were on that list, but as you're looking at, you know, the cost per lane mile, so that's one lane of roadway is, you know, uh pretty significant.

And so that list of projects we generated was almost $700 million worth of projects. Again, looking into 2045, and some of those were shared projects. If you look back at that last exhibit I showed you, there were projects that are in the county that are ADOT related, but we looked essentially inside of our water service boundary. So that goes outside of the city limits. Not that we're going to fund those projects, but our transportation systems in our little region function together. saw a good example I can think of is you guys have been here long enough. You can remember when they widened uh and added the bridge on 93, but part of that was still uh not up to to par through through other sections of the roadway and so you had congestion and things even though you had half the road or the remaining segment that was in good shape. So, same way we wanted to look at the transportation system as a whole, including the county to make sure that, you know, we line up our our transportation priorities. So, we talked about prioritization and especially the public. Um, we used a ranking system in there. And if you look, especially on the roadway since that's specifically what we're talking about, uh, we waited each project ranking. And so the the TAC the trans the uh technical advisory committee went through as a group and graded all the different projects and then those grades were weighted and that was to to try and give the best benefit on a project right I can have two projects I can spend the same amount of money one benefits you know say 2% of the the population or the traffic volume and I can have another one that we spend the same amount of money on but will benefit say 40% of roadway users. So that's what this was was to do or to help with. And so as you look in there, comfort sounds kind of weird, but um that's really call a

complete street when you drive down a street or you walk down a street that you're comfortable doing so you feel safe based on the geometry, the roadway, uh the speeds, those sorts of things. So um the rest of that was really based on there was some cost initiative or or weight in there. And then also uh you know a big chunk of that is safety. Oops. Sorry. So now let's get down specifically and sorry for taking the long way to get there but to the intersection of Walapai Mountain and Andy Divine. As I mentioned it is uh saturated. So we're going to have to look at physical improvements. When we go to the transportation master plan, uh if you look down there on the bottom, you'll see uh project number 45. That is Slaughterhouse Canyon Road. That was a solution that was identified uh $2022 that was that was estimated at around 10 million. Um, I can tell you just based on the the the geometry in there and then uh looking at what would probably or likely need to occur to to cross the railroad tracks because BNSF crosses down there, that number would inflate and be higher. As it is though, uh, out of the 67 projects that were ranked, this project ranked 45. Not that it's not important, but when you look at the traffic volumes and and again, if we were to go back and look at this right now based on the growth and things that have happened over the city, which I kind of skipped over that slide and oh no, I didn't talking about the growth in that that part. I apologize. I'm going to back up. So, I I skipped over this slide pretty quickly. So, this slide is showing the traffic volume increase from 2020 to 2024. And um as you can see uh you've seen moderate growth uh up to around 5,000 trips per day in that volume for that intersection. And so as you see changes

like like that where you you have maybe faster growth or larger growth than was anticipated some of those priorities would change. So where that ranked at 45 when we completed that in 2023 that could change. It's at 45. Is it going to go to number one? Not likely. um but it it would probably rank higher at this point in time. So right now this coming fiscal year starting July 1, we're looking at a interimm solution. It's not going to solve the left left-hand turn problem um directly, but there's two options we were looking at. Um, we actually have some rideway that goes behind what is a dam bar and the old smokehouse and those those apartments that are there. And uh, you know, maybe potentially that's a slip lane to get traffic moving uh, what would be eastbound on Andy Divine. And then the other option is there's a decent amount of rightway. Maybe we can add a right turn lane at the intersection. Um, both of those have pros and cons, but coming into the the new fiscal year, we have some funds set aside to where we can do an engineering analysis and and probably a low-level uh design concept report and start budgeting and trying to program in a an improvement to the intersection of physical improvement. Again, that won't that won't solve all our problems, but that'll definitely improve the situation that's there. And with that, I talked a lot and I will try and answer any questions you may have. Thank you. Do we have questions? So, I do uh well, sorry, the history of that um Slaughterhouse Canyon, correct me if I'm wrong, that used to be uh Old Trails Highway, I believe, the alignment going east out of town or back before 66 was even conceived of, if I remember right, and then it it turned and then it go down at fourth out of town. But the reason why I'm bringing that up is is maybe if that's true, like the city could kind of pitch it to the public

that yeah, let's resurrect this this old national, you know, the National Trails Highway and maybe show some pictures of cowboys on on Model T's driving down this old highway through the desert. You know, it has a strong history in in the West. Maybe get some interest or the city could at large, you know, to get people for that project. I'm not sure if there's any historic grants or something. You're resurrecting an old highway. Heck, I'd like to see the other end of Old Trails where that windmill farm crosses over where that old abandoned trailer port was there. Get that connected. That'd be a awesome way to come into town and just stop at Fourth Street and see the courthouse as the first thing when you come into town. You know, it's was beautiful. Um, the second thing I I did want to bring up is has there been any you said you had feedback from the public. Was there any interest in roundabouts? I mean, I've been through Europe and I've seen them handle some pretty high traffic, you know, without people con just stopping, sitting there and getting angry at the city. They just keep moving. You know, it it seems like a solution that maybe we've written off in the past and I'm not sure why. Yeah. So, um Madame Chair, uh Commissioner Waters, uh good questions. So, I'll go to the first one, which was the old trails alignment. I'm unaware of that being an old trails alignment. Not saying it was not a connector at some point in time. Uh to my knowledge that wasn't the case. It's never been paved. Um so I don't know that there's any grants that would go back, you know, that uh would would help us with that specifically. There may be some safety related grants and things which are very competitive and so uh fortunately we do have a grant writer and we're very active in in uh you know trying to obtain other funds. Uh the other question you had about roundabouts, the transportation master plan didn't specifically look at roundabouts. when we get down to that level, we are looking at a uh design concept report or we're going into design at the project level. Um, you know, when we're talking about moving vehicles in the master plan, it's it's large. It's 30,000 foot when we zoom in. So, I can tell you there have been a

number of areas that they've looked at at roundabouts and they do have their benefits at times and then other times they don't fit the bill. They actually looked at them for Stockton Hill at I40. uh that was a joint project with AOT or or lead agency as AOT and uh they've tried to do them the volume of traffic and things really prohibit and and don't make those efficient or safe in that in that particular environment. Um they have been looked at in other areas. Part of what we we I would say struggle with but is a challenge is the right of way. So a roundabout takes up a lot of rideway and people love them, people hate them. I'm not on either side of it at the moment, but uh they do take up a lot of rideway. And so in most of these instances, we are looking at trying to fit in existing rightway. And there's challenges like Stockton Hill. Um we're looking to do a DCR. We put in grants and and some other things. But um you know, the buildout of the facilities and the businesses and things really make that difficult when you have to obtain large pieces of right away. Yeah. Well, thank you. I appreciate the information. Yeah. Thank you. Just one question. Um, with the traffic coming west on Walpai Mountain Road during a during a school day at work time like 7:45. I I think that you already explained this, but I'm not sure that I comprehended it. Um, does it work to give um like say I don't know three, four times more time to that traffic at the stoplight than to the other three intersections stopped at the stoplight? Does that help decrease some of that traffic? Yeah, Madam Chair, Commissioner Swap. So, we actually are already doing that and we changed that in the day in the time of day plan. So in the morning time when that volume is moving west, we have a significant more amount of time for that westbound

movement uh mostly turning on to Andy Divine. So we've actually way uh increased the time for the turn and the through movement significantly. In the afternoon, we have the opposite problem about five o'clock. Then everybody's going eastbound on Andy and wanting to get, you know, either on Stockton Hill or onto Walapi. And so we actually change our time and we increase the volume of time. So to answer your question in short, yes, we are already doing that and we have a significant more amount of time on uh the the Walapai Mountain westbound phase in the mornings. So it doesn't totally solve the problem, but it it eases some of the traffic. Correct. Thank you. I have a question. You said something about crossing BNSF. Which road was that you were talking about? Uh, sorry, I got myself uh catching. Okay. So, you're talking about crossing it for Slaughterhouse Canyon specifically? I'm not sure. I was trying to get clear on what you said because we closed Louise because of BNSF. So, would that be an option? Maybe down railroad or coming down? Right now, it's closed. What? It's closed. I know it's closed. Yeah. Slaughter house is closed. Oh, Slaughterhouse is closed. Oh, so it's an option in the future. Yeah, thank you for the question. Um, Madame Chair and Commissioner Sixa, so I actually want to go back for just a minute. Okay. Uh, Commissioner Waters had mentioned the crossing down at the end of Old Trails Road on the south end. We actually had approached BNSF to try and bring that uh railroad crossing back online specifically for emergency purposes. Uh you guys have been here during a snowstorm. We've had Kingman completely isolated uh due to to traffic accidents and

everything on I4093 and on 66 and so that's always created challenges and at that time we put in a permit request with BNSF and it was denied. BNSS BNSF does not want atgrade crossings and so the crossing that I was talking about or I ant I think that you picked up on would have been at Slaughterhouse Canyon where it crosses down by Southside Park. Oh. And so likely and I can't speak definitely because we'd have to go through BNSF uh they would likely not permit a atra crossing and so you'd end up with some type of over or underpass in that location. H interesting. Thank you for your report. It's good. One quick question if I might. Have you ever thought about or has it been considered making walley at Andy two left turns in the morning? Um Madame Chair and Commissioner McCoy, we've had some of that conversation. Uh part of the problem on that is just the again width and when we do the evaluation for uh trying to improve that that intersection that'll likely be one of the items we look at. The only limitation you have there is that only gives you a protected turn. So when we're looking at a signal, you pull up to a signal and you get a green arrow and then it goes to a green ball. That's protected permissive. What that means is you make a protected turn on the green arrow. you're the only movement and then when it goes to the green ball it's permissive. So you are yielding to oncoming traffic and trying to make a dual left turn that is protected permissive is is uh doesn't really work out and so you end up with a protected only turn which actually decreases the volume of traffic that you can move assuming you have safe gaps on the other direction to do so. Um again we're going to look at a number of options opportunity. Thank you. Thank you for

the question. Thank you so much. Do we have any further questions? No. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Have a good evening. There we are. Get back to our previous presentation. See, my apologies. There we go. Well, good evening, Chair Goss Commission. My name is Heather Rasmmanson. Thank you for having us this evening. uh to I'm here to speak tonight to the site visibility triangle to give some perspective and some examples as to how that is implemented around town. The intention of the site visibility triangle is to protect uh to provide safety pro protecting pedestrians as they are traveling down the sidewalk, bicyclists, uh anyone who may be making a turn in or out of a driveway or through an intersection. And a lot of the intersections we just saw that were discussed are quite busy. Uh so the site uh visibility triangle as you can see here in the diagram is intended to come from the corner of the rideway and measure back approx to 25 ft. That is applicable to all streets, all alleys and all driveways regardless of their designation throughout the city. So it could be an arterial or a collector, a private driveway or a public driveway, public entrance. So the intention is to uh look at that from the perspective of

what are the objects or or obstructions that could be in that triangle as you sit in your vehicle or ride your bicycle down the street that prevent you from seeing around that corner to see what's coming either maybe at you or away from you or what may be who may be stepping off the curb. So that includes things such as landscaping, signage, fences, walls, um maybe parking, on street parking, and even uh buildings that may come up to the edge of the corner of the property. We took a look at several jurisdictions. We looked at our own uh site visibility requirements along with Lake Habsu, Bullhead City, and Mojave County. across the board. Everyone requires that we have a sight visibility uh triangle. Uh generally about the same distance of 25 ft. Mojave County has a slightly shorter distance of 20 ft. Uh the only differentiation based on street designation that we found in this analysis was Mojave County being applied to residential and then the height limit within the triangle. So certain things can be allowed within the sight triangle provided they're not too tall assuming you can see around them or over them. And we were largely on the same page uh us with Bullhead City being at 3 feet, Mojave County 2 and a half and then Lake Havsu at at two on the lower side. An example here as you might see it's Stockton Hill and Airway. Just giving you a visual here of what would how the triangle would align with what is there. So pulling back from that corner of the rideway back 25 ft and being able to see as you can see in this aerial there's uh mostly landscaping

that's at the corner. But as I mentioned landscaping can be an obstruction. So you also have that in residential neighborhoods. Maybe somebody wants to build a wall to the very end of their property. Maybe somebody has parked a an RV in that area. So, those are all become these these obstructions for being able to see through that that turn. Looking at it from the street angle, you can see here what that may look like. Starting at the corner, going back those 25 feet and then our regulation of up to three feet tall. If you can see that here. Don't know that I have the arrow, but right there in the middle trying to approximate what about three feet tall is. It's right about approximately where the walk button is on on the pedestrian uh walk button on the street signal. So, you can see landscaping there nice and compliant. It's low. You're able to see around it or over it. But then we have a sign there and that's obstruction is over three feet. It's also a sign in the ride ofway, which goes against a different code, but to the point of it being taller than three feet. Uh, so that would be an obstruction, hard to see around, hard to see through. And some additional examples here, as I mentioned, it can be landscaping, can be utility boxes, it could be the fencing that is there. Again, additional uh this appears to be more natural landscaping, not necessarily intentionally planted there. Uh but again, an obstruction uh in order to see who's coming down that road or should anybody be walking, bicycling, utility box, perfect example. No idea who's on the other side of that. As I sit lower in my car, some vehicles even lower than others, that makes it even more difficult to be able to see. So, as

we work at uh site plan reviews, looking for those things, you know, what are they proposing for landscaping in their landscape plan, you know, you could have a tree there, but we do have rules about how high that tree needs to be trimmed up. Uh you could have utility boxes, but now we have an obstruction. So, we need to be paying attention to that, and we do as we go through the site plan review process. again more maybe intentionally planted originally but uh has definitely become overgrown and even utility poles. Now we don't have always the uh option to move those but ensuring that say that fence can be uh the appropriate height being able to see through it or around it and then the vegetation there though is unfortunately although the the fence is see-through the vegetation is not. So, those are some additional examples there of the site visibility triangle and and some of those obstructions that come um come through incidental growth, you know, not not necessarily intentionally putting a a utility box there or a a building or or landscaping that's that large, but over 20 years, 10 years, five years, if you water it enough, it gets quite large. and and then you aren't necessarily out there keeping it trimmed to the appropriate height. So, a brief overview for you about how that's laid out and some of the the obstructions that can occur and what we're trying to keep clear there for safety. Be happy to answer any questions or comments. Thank you. Um I I do have a question. Um so great presentation especially on all the things that are wrong. Um, so what happens like you you just identified tons of problems. What what happens? It's a

great question. Thank you, Chair Goss. Um, working with our neighborhood services division. Uh, ideally would be how we go out and we make property owners aware. Uh, maybe it's through the temporary sign ordinance and that sign free zone. uh could be through contact with the property owners or the business owners and we have one uh neighborhood service division officer right now and he is running crazy. So uh he's working very hard at making sure that we have uh proper enforcement out there. Okay. Thank you. And then um if there is a problem with something um who who do people refer things to? How does changes get made? Uh those concerns can come to our office and um we'd be able to handle them appropriately and at Jason's discretion being able to prioritize them specifically based on safety concerns would be I would assume our first step. Correct me if I'm wrong, Jason. Correct. Chair Gos Commission. Uh, one thing I do want to point out though is a lot of the times with the utilities themselves, so the utility vaults, the boxes that are out there, the poles, those are all in public utility easements. Uh, so they actually would trump uh in that particular case. We try to work with them. We try to get them to be outside uh of our uh triangular line of sight requirements. However, they they have to actually be in line with where they're running their utilities. So, in most of those cases, we don't have a lot of control over those. Thank you. One other question. Um there are um like you were mentioning people building fences to the edge of their properties and things like that. Um there are a lot of places in Kingman where I feel like the stop signs are back probably where they should be, but the the housing has grown perhaps where it shouldn't be and so you can't see. So you have to, you know, stop at the stop sign and then you have to go

all the way to the edge of the street in order to be able to see to turn. Um, which is a little tricky because then when you're pulling through the stop sign and people are trying to turn, they don't expect you to be coming for, you know what I mean? Anyway, um, is there a way to re-evaluate where stop signs belong based on being able to see around changed, you know, landscaping in Kingman? Chair Goss Commission, I'll defer the stop sign to to Jack. However, I do want to bring one thing uh to light is our current ordinance both in the subdivision ordinance and the zoning ordinance does not prohibit uh current developers from having their walls within the public utility easements. And so when you look at some of the developments that are out there, they have the ability to build those walls fairly close up to the property line and that actually obstructs the vision that you're talking about. Exactly. Uh and you end up with those conflicts. as part of the revision to our zoning ordinance and the subdivision ordinance. We are taking that into consideration. I've had many discussions with some of the developers that uh that have been doing that on an ongoing basis. I anticipate that will be an ongoing battle uh when we bring that ordinance forward, but it is for safety purposes. Not to mention the fact that their the public utilities are now within the person's sideyard or rear yard, which we're trying to prohibit and okay, stop from happening. Thank you. Um yeah. So question for you. Um if if you can't see to turn where you stop at the stop sign, is is that a cause for moving stop signs so you can see or is that just uh good luck with that and make sure you inch forward enough to see before you turn? Yeah, Madam Chair, the uh the stop signs are actually set based on criteria from the manual and uniform traffic control devices. Um, typically and not in all occasions. So, keep that in mind.

Specifically where you have sidewalk, especially with uh pedestrian ramps, we actually need to set those or required to set those back assuming that there would be a crosswalk. You don't always have to stripe a crosswalk. There may not be one there, but they have us set those stop bars back to where your initial stop is assuming that somebody could be crossing in that that corridor right there. And then, per state law, yes, you are allowed to creep up. Um, we wouldn't want to push those stop bars forward into those pedestrian crossing areas. Um, again, we want that initial stop prior to the pedestrians. Make sure that's clear. Then you can creep up to make sure you can see uh oncoming traffic. So, I I guess my only other thing is too um like say for example um if you're going towards uh Gordon on Western, so you're heading like away from the the um hospital. Um, there's a stop sign there when you get to Gordon and there's a giant block wall that you can't see around. So, you stop at the stop sign and then you're inching forward to see around it, but the traffic that's coming to turn, they can't see you either, right? So, like now like you stopped and they're going to turn, but they don't know you're there and you don't know they're there. So, they're like kind of coming around and you're inching up and you're like almost in each other's So that's that's the only problem with having them set back that far with the obstruction is that people who are turning can't see you and you can't see them and nobody's actually stopping anymore. Now you're trying to go. Yeah. And and there's definitely some places uh Wall Ranch is actually a really good example. Right. It is difficult because of the the proximity of the the property line to the back of the sidewalk. And so we actually look at those areas and there's guidance given on when specifically an all-way stop would occur and site distance is one of those. So we go out and and I'd like to actually make sure I understand which intersection it is. We'll look at that. But we go out we evaluate the

intersection based on the stop sign where it is, right? And and that's when we anticip or evaluate the distance that you can see and there's minimum distances we have to to be able to see oncoming vehicles. And if it's below that threshold, uh it will generate or or warrant specifically is what that's called. Warrant and always stop. Okay. And so I can talk to you after about that particular intersection. We all could. Right. But um but yeah, it's just it's with the way the walls are right by there, it's it makes it very hard to see. Yeah, it does. Like I say, the big part is though, and I understand your your concern about want to push the stop bars or the stop signs up. If you do that and you have somebody that is not controlled, say walking, riding a bicycle, they can whiz across that intersection without stopping. They should look both ways. Does that always happen? Unfortunately, not. And so, if we put the stop zone inside of that pedestrian area, there's a potential that you're going to have an accident, vehicle versus pedestrian, you know, trying to eliminate the sight distance issue for the oncoming traffic. Okay. Thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you. All right. Don't don't you mentioned earlier that you guys work on timing the street signals. Those cabinets are pretty sizable and they're typically in the sight triangle as well, aren't they? Uh, good question. There are some that exist. When we do designs for new intersections, we pull those back out of those. We do upgrades and things. If you noticed, we've some of those some places we don't have any right ofway to move into, but we've actually relocated power pedestals and signal cabinets to try and move out of those sight distance areas. Specifically, I'm talking again on Gordon and Stockton Hill and Kino I believe in Stockton Hill. And yeah, those those two projects were done

recently. The problem we had there, the we talk about when businesses encroach close to the ride ofway, we had nowhere to push those signal cabinets out. So, those were just swapped and put back in the same location. Uh, Sycamore and uh the hospital entrance at the old Walmart, the Ross shopping center, those two are re relocated. We're actually working on another project which is grant funded to upgrade a signal. Uh, that one's at Bank and Airway. those will be re relocated when we have we have right ofway in place to go with those we move those but specifically Gordon and Kino both of those we had between utilities those are very heavy utility intersections uh underground utilities and then the limited ride ofway and the way the businesses were built we didn't have anywhere to relocate those okay and one more and I'm not sure whether who to ask utility companies with the big green boxes that we saw there they have the technology to build inground vaults for those power boxes because you see them in Scottsdale all over the place. You don't see the big boxes up in the rightways like that. Is there a reason that Unisource isn't doing that here or is it cost or are they just what what's going on with those or do you know? I would love to answer that question for you, but I don't want to stick my foot in somebody else's mouth. Okay. And so it's probably a might question. Um I know that we have struggled with the placement of the the utilities at times. Poles are more difficult because as as uh Mr. Moquin mentioned, it is difficult for them to when you have two intersecting overhead lines. They kind of need to be in a specific placement. The above ground vaults and switch gear and things that you're transformers that you're speaking of. I I can't answer that question for you at the moment. Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

Great. Do we have any more questions? One really quick um for um for staff, planning and zoning staff. Um regarding the trees, uh so so you can have the trees, but they have to be 8 foot. The trunk has to be 8 foot bare basically. Correct. So that's going to preclude like people growing their own trees, you know, which in some cases pretty economical rather than buying like a boxed tree and installing it so it's already high enough to meet that standard, right? Because a small tree is basically a bush. You're not going to allow that in your chair Goss Commissioner Waters, thank you for your question. Uh the intention is that it's the uh the mature landscaping and those mature trees. Uh so the trees are permitted when the trunk is visible between the ground and 8 feet above the ground. So let's say a young younger sapling, a younger tree, not as filled out, not as blocking of your vision. So when you can see that that trunk and you can look right through, not trying to uh discourage the planting of younger trees, but then as it grows, it it will need its annual maintenance uh to help push that growth up and then keep those those lower limbs coming up. Thank you. So there's some Sorry. Thank you. Any further questions? Okay. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. Next we have HB2447 which is subdivision legislative update. This presentation on HB2477 legislative changes to subdivision processing is information only. Chair go commissioners. Thank you. So this is just an update regarding Arizona

House Bill 2447. Uh just a real brief history. Back in 2023, the Arizona legislature adopted Senate Bill 11003 or 113 uh within the Arizona Revised Statutes. And at that point in time, this was uh one of the initial compromises uh to allow for local jurisdictions to maintain rights over its zoning. Uh back at that point in time, uh the building association, the legislature really was pushing very very hard for by zoning for local jurisdiction, stripping away local jurisdiction to govern its zoning. Um what SB10003 did at that time is it gave the cities the option uh to allow for site plans, development plans, preliminary plats and final plats to be reviewed administratively instead of going before a public hearing before the planning and zoning commission in the city council. So again the option this is this is what was given to the cities. Uh there were several cities that did take uh take the option and did implement it and they are doing it successfully today. Uh it also author authorized uh personnel to administratively review design review plans. We currently do that today without a public hearing as well as adopt self-certification programs and allow for at risk submittals which we do as well today uh via policy and allow for applicants with the history of compliance with building codes to have an expedited permit review. So again these were all options that were allowed for the cities to to implement at that time. So in March 31st of this year, uh the governor signed and approved House Bill 2447 which changed that option to shall. So all cities within Arizona are now required to administratively approve site plans, development plans and in this particular case preliminary plat. So those are two major changes that will be coming before the end of this year. uh local jurisdictions are required to

adopt uh the adopting ordinances and have uh processes in place by December 31st of this year. Again, it still does allow for the authorization of the personnel to administratively review uh review design review plans. We currently are doing that as the city of Kingman. It again allows for the atrisisk submitt. We are doing that and again it will allow for now the expedited permit review. So staff will be preparing uh some changes within its processing timelines to allow for expedited permit review should the developers be able to meet some some objective standards uh when it comes to the review itself. The one thing it did allow for the option still and that was for the self-certification program for registered architects and engineers. And in this particular case, this would allow, if we were to adopt it, it would allow for the architects engineers to prepare their plans, self-certify them as being uh approved and deemed approved by the city and meeting all city standards, and they can go straight forward into actually building the plan uh building their their project. Staff is not recommending that the city adopt this uh this particular option. We are looking that we would still want to maintain control over the review of the projects themselves to ensure compliance with our adopted codes. So we did just a little bit of research uh just showing what cities were out there that were already uh utilizing it. Uh so the city of uh Goodyear uh city of Phoenix and city of Surprise all had adopted these when it was optional. Uh they are currently have them in place. They're they are doing these through the administrative process and again is what it does is it takes away the public hearing review process for any type of plat pre-plat or final plat. So for us to comply, we'll be coming back uh with uh some adopted ordinances within our zoning code as well as our subdivision ordinance that will set objective defined standards uh for our plats to be reviewed by. Uh we'll be

looking at also expedite doing an expedited permit process uh and creating an eligibility criteria. And again, the self-certification program is the one that staff is not recommending that the city proceed with. And this was for a council presentation. So, we're giving you guys this presentation this evening. And with that, I will answer any questions that you may have. Yes, I have a question for you, Jason. Um, is this then going to put a higher workload on staff? Staff already currently has the same workload is what it does is it actually eliminates the bringing it forward to a public hearing process. So from the perspective of a staff aspect of it, it'll actually cut off about 45 days for the applicant and it actually allows us to approve the plan administratively and then move it straight into a building plan review or building plan check review. Uh which again we have some changes coming in regards to that as well. Okay. Thank you. Any more questions? Um yeah I do share. Uh, hey Jason. Uh, it I'm concerned about visibility with this. Just obviously I've gone on about this a lot, so I'm not going to waste a lot of your time, but I know our hands are tied because this is top down, but is there a way to increase the visibility like the decisions that you guys make? maybe in a rears you could recapitulate you know like basically give us a recap or an update of these subdivisions maybe even some pictures so we can see what's being produced in this community like I know it's kind of skirting the law but like just so the public or maybe a newspaper could kind of keep people up to date on what's coming you know I mean I'm in favor of the public having more visibility in these projects and input because you know properties one property affects another one subdivision affects another, you know, and to pretend. I

keep hearing council and other people in the city say that, well, this is a this is a a property ownership state or whatever, you know, the property rights or or susant or whatever. I mean, we have planning and zoning because these things affect other people. If you put mixeduse brothel um slash rentals, maybe you'll get it in Tijana, but it's an extreme example, but it does have an effect on neighboring values. That's why we have planning and zoning. just if we could find like a maybe a clever way to kind of keep people up to date on what's happening in their community, I think that'd be a win. So, I don't know if there's any plans that you maybe have in our ears for for keeping us up to date on that. Have you thought about it? I mean, we've been hearing about this last year we started hearing about this as an inevitability. We're going to basically lose control of our planning and zonings in the state at the APA. Everybody was wor worried about it. uh a little cowardly I thought in some cases some of the planners rolled over and took it you know so I'm just curious what the next step is now that we basically lost a pretty pretty big function of our our duties here on the commission you know chos commissioner waters uh I'll go back and I'll just reiterate first this was the compromise to losing our power over zoning so we still as a commission and as a city we have power over our zoning and our general plan those are still subject to public hearing processes uh I can tell you taking some of my experience from Surprise and working with the staff here, we're looking to truly develop a storyboard uh which will allow to keep the the commission appraise, the council apprised as well as the public where they will be able to go on our website ultimately be able to hover over a pin and it will give them current information for the development projects that are being reviewed or approved uh through the process. And again, that's that's going to take some work. uh it's going to be working with our GIS division uh and our new permitting system so we can you know perpetuate that type of data out there. Uh it was very successful and surprise

and getting that information out there. I I will tell you as a planner I am very much in favor of the public hearing process when it comes to subdivisions but this was uh when you look at the planning association you look at the League of Cities uh if this didn't come forward uh the likeliness of the cities losing control over zoning was likely the next step thanks Jason I know your hands are tied with a lot of this but so just just for the record and chair we still have resonings with a public hearing we have zoning code text amendments uh general plan amendments and cups that sort of permitting things. That is that is correct. Those are all applications that would still come before the the planning and zoning commission. You are a recommending body for each of those applications to the city council. It's just the design of these things. the cookie cutterness is out of our hands alto together now that yeah chair chair goss commissioner waters that that is correct and I will tell you as we are going through it on the back side we are looking to implement not more stringent but more development standards for the applicants to adhere to so that way we do get the design in those subdivisions we ensure that we have the access that that meets the minimum requirements for our fire department as well as just general livability and walkability of the community. So those are some of the things that you'll see through some development standards that we look to implement. Uh we do have a a workshop that's going to be planned in July um to to also preview this to the development community uh so they know that it's forthcoming but also to start getting their appetite with an understanding that that means there will come uh some subjective development objective development standards to adhere to. Okay. If I can leave off there's a monkey song, you know, rows of houses that are all the same and no one seems to care. we're supposed to care about that, you know, and now we we can't care about it anymore. So, it's trust on you to come up with those standards, objective standards that somehow dictate aesthetics. I don't know how you're going to do it, especially without the

public chiming in, but I wish you good luck. I'll actually pray for you. So, I hope you can accomplish it. Commissioner Goss, Chair Waters, let me just correct it real quick. the objective standards aren't with the actual architecture of the homes um because that's not part of the subdivision process. But when we're looking at the design of the subdivision, lot areas, varied setbacks, things of that nature, those are the things that we can incorporate into the subdivision ordinance. And that's what I was talking about, the fue of the neighborhood, if you will. You know, if you if you have there's the the the flats in England where they're all the same down the road, you know, it's like a tunnel effect. Just I could see that saving money. Ergo, it's good. And it's kind of a hyper libertarian environment. Just if you could please somehow put some sort of guide rails there, I would appreciate it. Anyway, all right. Any more questions, comments? All right. Thank you, Jason. Okay. Next then we have the development services department 2020 to 2024 annual report presentation recapping the development services department activities from 2020 to 2024 including department overview planning and zoning commission activity and ongoing development activity. This is also information only. Cheros. Thank you. So the annual report is supposed to be an annual report that comes before the planning and zoning commission that demonstrates uh some of the items that have been reviewed by the commission and some of the projects that have been developed in the city in the last year. Uh upon my arrival here and going back I noticed that we hadn't really had an annual report for a few years. So this is a comprehensive report that that brings us up to date through 2024. So the information that we share today I've expanded it to not just include what we see from a planning and zoning perspective but development services as a whole. So uh we are a comprehensive

division. We do we are made up of our planning uh planning and zoning division, our building division as well as neighborhood enforcement. So again this overview we will look at development services as an overview for the entire department planning and zoning commission activity as well as our ongoing development activity. So just a little bit about development services. uh in two in 2024, it really came back to being a standalone department encompassing the building department, planning division, and neighborhood services. Neighborhood services transitioned over from the police department. Uh planning and zoning kind of came out of both economic development and under fire. Um so we we're coming back to being a a standalone department uh to serve the community at large. Uh for our mission, our mission is development service department is dedicated to fostering a thriving wellplanned community by giving responsible growth and development. Guiding responsible growth and development. Our team provides exert excert support in planning, zoning, permitting, building permits, inspections, zoning compliance to ensure projects align with the city's vision, economic vitality, sustainability, and quality of life. On the right hand side, you'll just notice that uh it lists the staff members that make up our department. Uh so you have administration uh we have our building safety uh uh uh members which are our inspectors in the field planning and zoning and our neighborhood services. So just uh the table before you just demonstrates a little bit of the activity that took place that we were able to extrapolate from our permitting system from 2020 through 2024. Uh this gives the various applications that came before the planning and zoning commission. So in 2020 you had roughly 20 applications, nine of those being zone changes. In 2021 you had 14 uh with the highest one being of that of the final plat. In 2022, you had 13

applications, eight of which were CUPs. And then in 2023, 14 applications, uh, which again, CUPs being of the highest number of applications coming before the commission and again 15 in 2024 with again six of those being CUPs. This is consistent when we see change of zones that take place in 2020. Then we it does normally follow with final plats. And then as you start to build out a community and you start to add services and other types of uses, you start seeing conditional use permits for services that support the growth of the community. So this is very indicative of of natural growth within a community. So one of the big milestones everyone's aware of in 2024, we actually got the general plan, the general plan 2040 adopted and then ratified by the voters on November 5th of 2024. It was a very very close margin 51% to 41%. Um but it did pass. This map just gives uh the preliminary plat that were reviewed. Uh kind of gives uh some of the locations uh for those preliminary plat. Total of five plats uh totaling 1551 residential lots. And then 2024 we had 12 final plats which platted 630 lots. So these are lots that were actually by now at this point majority of those are under construction or have already been constructed. And this just gives again a little graph history just in regards to the plat uh with respect to the number of plats and the lots. 2024 we had two final plats and 183 lots that we added to uh to our totals. These numbers are also reported to the state on an annual basis. Uh the state looks at not just the number of plats and the number of units but they look at our review times and that's a lot of the

reason why we see legislative changes that come forth uh in which they want us to review projects uh even at a faster pace. So uh with respect to just uh planning and zoning, we implement the general plan and the zoning code design review. We oversee current and long range planning efforts and we review business license applications. Uh the graphs before you just demonstrate the number of uh both plan reviews and business license reviews that we've done uh from 2018 20 or 2019 all the way through 2024. And again, as you see the growth going up, you see the business licenses also going up. And again when we look at uh permits issued for residential, commercial and public permits. So when we go back uh we look at 2020 we had just under 800 permits issued. 2021 right around probably 850 uh 885. 2022,823 937 and 885 in 2024. Very indicative of the cycle coming out of from the COVID era. a lot of the developers were processing things, getting them ready, and then of course with the election coming forward, 2023, 2024, things kind of slow down. So, it's it's a very typical housing cycle. Overall, this just gives the number of inspections. So, up until this last year, we had three in or two inspectors. We have three inspectors that are in the field currently. Uh you can just see by the sheer volume, they are busy individuals that are in the field. uh on a daily basis brings us to our neighborhood services. So our neighborhood services enforces both our municipal code, our zoning code as well as building codes. Uh really we are a complaintbased uh division. Uh we do get a lot of complaints. Uh we we take those in the order we receive them. We follow up. We do an investigation.

That typically leads to notice of violation to the the property owner uh or resident. uh if they don't clean it up, we typically give a final notice. And if we're still having uh the the concerns that are out there, we're able to move that forward through an abatement process with the city attorney's office. It goes before the courts. Courts would then issue the the abatement order, and that allows for staff to come back and actually then hire somebody if we needed to and go out and actually do the abatement on the property if necessary. We lean the properties at that point in time, recover the funds at the time that the properties were ever sold. So just uh give you an example uh in 2023 we had uh 542 active cases. Uh in uh 2024 uh through this last year we had 627. We had two officers when we serve a a very large area that that sprawls. Uh so the fact that they were able to maintain and close those cases and work them on on a consistent basis. I'm very proud of uh my neighborhood services officers looking at ongoing development activity. So just looking at growth for the Kingman uh area. So you can see as it started uh back in 2020 30,433. We're creeping up to 34,696. I will tell you in 2024 the U-Haul incoming U-Haul rental for the city of Kingman was the highest in the nation. So that goes to show you people were coming here and kind of leads to the reason why we have so much housing uh growth stock. These are just some of the pictures of projects that were underway in the process permitted uh and that are now up and operating in fruition that took place in some of those years. Typically when you'll see this on an annual basis, you'll see something that's more relevant to just what we've you know looked at and reviewed in the last year.

And yes, El Poo Loco is coming as well as uh the tropical cafe smoothie also donuts as well. Um 2024 2020 to 24 uh development activity highlights. This kind of just shows where the the growth for especially commercial purposes is taking place. So you'll see uh quite a new new structures or new uh business opportunities along Stockton Hill and Andy Divine. That concludes my 2020 to 2024 report. I was happy to answer any questions. Thank you, Jason. Do we have questions? Go ahead. I just wanted really quick, Jason. Uh there's there's two officers, compliance officers. Is there you just restructured the department. Is there any like push to get more people hired on? I I will tell you the this next year because of the amount of growth that we have, the case load that my officers have, uh it is something that I am looking at from from a department standpoint. Uh coming into this department, we certainly saw a need uh for uh permitting uh assistance between our planners, our front tech counters. So that was my first goal. Uh we inherited the two officers that that came over to us from uh the police department. There was two that were doing neighborhood enforcement and two that were doing animal control. So, they maintained the two for animal control and we took over the two for neighborhood services. So, uh I'll be certainly looking at their volume throughout the year, looking at their case closure rates, uh the amount of time that we spend on them. We're looking at uh additional opportunities for enforcement, giving us, you know, a larger tool bag to to try and gain voluntary compliance uh but also to do utilize uh educational opportunities. Uh so although we are complaint based, we have also launched this year uh our first proactive zones which really are focusing on our commercial corridors and again the temporary signs and proliferation of those as well as just the overall property maintenance. Uh so

we'll continue to focus on that while we still continue to focus on uh the cases that do get reported to us and uh we will certainly be coming back and evaluating what those needs are. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you. Any more questions? No. All right. Thank you, Jason. Thank you. All right. Next, we have announcements by commission members. This is limited to announcements, board and commission liaison reports, availability, attendance at conferences and seminars. Do we have any? Just a reminder that I'll be gone next month. Okay. Um, also I know that um we are taking like interest levels for people that want to go to the conference. So if you do want to attend the planning conference, just make sure you let Jason know so we can figure out who needs to go. All right. Um, last we have requests for future reports and updates. Are there any um do we have any more reports from staff? Yes, Chair Gos Commissioners, thank you. Um, so first and foremost, I wanted to kind of pull the commission. Uh, we moved our meetings to 5:30 um, this last year. Uh, it's a desire to move it back to 5:00, providing that worked for the commissioners. Uh, it works for our staff. And so I wanted to put that out there before the commission. We do have a revised uh, resolution coming forward before the council dealing with another uh, board. And so if that is uh something that the commission is not opposed to, uh we would make that uh that recommendation be added to that resolution. Um I don't mind 5:00. I don't know. Um I requested it be moved back, but originally to 5:15. Um just because I I'm retired now. I'm not no longer working. Um it you we may be able to

fill one of these chairs a little easier if somebody that works a nineto-5 has 15 minutes to get here. That's just my only thought because it was tough when I was working in the office and I had to basically run here to get to to five o'clock is what I can do is to to put since we don't have a consensus uh I would have to actually put it on an agenda and bring it back for you guys to actually make a motion for it. Okay. Um, so with that being the case, I'll I'll let the the other resolution move forward and then we'll bring it back uh probably to the August meeting uh with with the commission for an actual action item. Okay. Thanks, Jason. Okay. Um, do we have any? I have a few more. Oh, okay. So, um, before you this evening, you have the planning and zoning commission handbook. So when I kind of came before you guys this last year coming on board I said I would give you guys opportunities to learn uh opportunities to to be you know the best commissioners that you possibly can and provide educational opportunities throughout. Uh so in my research we did have a commission handbook. It was antiquated at best. Um, so going out and working with Heather uh down here, uh, she was able to put this uh, guide together for the commission. We also have one that, uh, we're just now circulating through the city attorney's office and the city clerk's office for our board of zoning adjustment as well as our board of appeals. So, uh, this is not an all-incclusive guide, but it is certainly there to help guide you. um we'll have a little bit better bound copy in the future, but we knew that there was going to be some changes at the end of the year with the subdivisions. So, we didn't want to put the expenditure out there knowing that we're going to make some revisions, but we wanted to get it to you as soon as we could. Um if you have any questions as you read through the materials, please feel free to reach out. Thank you, Jason. I really appreciate this. uh with

uh respect to upcoming meetings and trainings. So we did talk a little bit about the uh APA uh Arizona chapter annual conference. So the theme this year is there is no place like home. So you can imagine it's going to be very housing based um which is just the theme for the legislature in general. APA of course supports housing and working with the League of Cities. That is going to be September 3rd through the 5th. I did make the announcement the last time uh our tenative budget has been presented. Uh so I do have room for two commissioners to to attend. That's what we set aside for budget this year. I do currently have two that are interested. If anybody else is interested, please let me know. If I can find the pennies in the piggy bank, I will certainly send a third if I possibly can. Um with my last item is uh there are no items for the July 9th meeting. So when we adjourn this meeting, we can adjourn it to the August 13th regular meeting. That's the only thing I have tonight. Thank you. Thank you. All right. You're off the hook then, Jen. All right. Do we have any requests um from you guys for future agenda items? No. All right. Then meeting is adjourned.