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Call to order this June 18th meeting of
the planning and zoning commission for
the city of Surprise. Sarah, may we have
a roll call, please?
Commissioner Perry,
here.
Commissioner Holland.
Commissioner Holland has an excused
absence.
Commissioner Leonard
here.
Chair Chapman.
Chair Chapman has an excused absence.
Vice Chair Spot
here.
Commissioner Everett
here.
Commissioner Bash
here.
We have a quorum.
Thank you. Uh, please join me in 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.
So for current events and reports,
assistant director Fleeten, anything
tonight?
Thank you, Vice Chair. Nothing for me
tonight.
Okay, thank you. Then let's move on to
the agenda. Sarah
Consideration and action to approve or
disapprove the May 21st, 2026 planning
and zoning commission meeting minutes.
I move to approve.
Any questions?
Okay. Vote, please.
You need a motion. I I make a motion to
accept the May 21st Planning and Zoning
uh Commission regular meeting minutes.
I'll second.
Moved and seconded. Any discussion?
Okay. Please vote.
Motion passes.
Motion passes with five votes in favor.
Thank you. Uh move on to the next item.
consideration and action
pertaining to a reszone of approximately
160 acres from rural residential RR to
residential medium density R2 for
property generally located along the
southwest corner of Deer Valley Road and
231st Avenue alignment.
Thank you, vice chair. I moved on you.
Uh the these two projects tonight um are
my colleague Chris's. Um she's unable to
be here, so I am filling in for her on
these. So this item before you is a
resone application for a project known
as Surprise 160.
The subject site is located at the
southwest corner of Deer Valley Road and
231st Avenue. Here you can see the
various other developments in the area
that are in um various stages of
development with Surprise Foothills,
Rancho Vista, and the southern portion
of Mosquite Mountain Ranch under
construction. and then the other ones
further north and to the east um in
various stages of either zoning or
platting entitlements.
The subject site is approximately 160
acres and encompasses multiple parcels.
The existing zoning on the site is rural
residential. Surrounding zonings include
Surprise Foothills Pad to the north and
the west. Rural residential is to the
south and then to the east of the
subject site is a combination of R2 that
was recently improved part of the
Mosquite Mountain Ranch um 5 reszone as
well as an additional portion of
Surprise Foothills Pad.
The application is requesting to reszone
the property from rural residential to R
to medium density residential under the
LDO.
The general plan land use designation
for the subject site is primarily
neighborhood character area. There is a
wash corridor at the northwest portion
of the site that is designated open
space character area. The request to R2
medium density residential is in
conformance with the general plan.
Due to the project's proximity to the
Luke auxiliary field, it this site is
subject to the Luke graduated density
concept. It is within the 0 to6 uh
dwelling units to the acre band of the
GDC. So, at at absolute maximum based
off of just the gross the the gross
acreage um and that six dwelling units
to the acre um the the most that could
conceivably be um built within this
development is 960 units. But that
doesn't take into consideration any
rightway dedication, any um flood areas
on site um topographical restraints or
typical um loting practices.
The development standards for the site
would follow um the R2 zoning district
of the LDO at the time of development.
This table here shows the existing
development standards in the R2. At this
time we have not received any um actual
development proposals. So um we don't
have any indication as to u which lot
categories would would be developed but
uh at the time the site plan or
preliminary plat uh these um development
standards would be applied to uh that
proposal.
The applicant provided this conceptual
open space and loting plan as a visual
reference for what the property could
potentially develop as. This shows
various um trail uh developments and
connectivity um in conformance with
general plan and the parks and
recreation master plan as well as the
LDO and the peds. Um a variety of open
space areas, parks and amenity sites as
well as connectivity to and from with
the um conceptual loting and the
conceptual open space areas.
This uh image depicts the regional tra
uh transportation network. So the site
is located there at the southwest corner
of 231st and deer valley road. Um this
property um would be required to
construct their half streetet
improvements as well as ensure two
points of um access. And um Deer Valley
Road is designated as a minor arterial
and 231st is designated as a residential
collector.
The applicant held a citizen outreach
meeting on January 14th of this year at
Willow Canyon High School. There was one
person in attendance. um questions uh
that were received regarding uh
surrounding areas uh development in the
area, transportation, infrastructure,
drainage, growth of the area, and zoning
of the current property. And the
applicant was able to answer uh all of
the questions that were um posed. Uh
this was also advertised in accordance
with the LDO and state statute.
If the commission wishes to recommend
approval of this reszone case FS25-0750
to the mayor and city council staff
recommends that commission recommend
subject to um stipulations A and B.
Thank you.
And with that um I'm available for
questions and so is the applicant.
Okay.
This requires a public hearing. Sarah,
do we have anyone who wishes to speak?
Yes, vice chair. I have Rich Stman from
Surprise.
Is this already done in your eyes?
Would you please state your name?
Richard Stzman.
Thank you.
Is this already done? Because we keep
kicking this can down the road. I've
been coming to these meetings and we
keep laying it out. It's the same two
guys we always see.
One of the biggest problems, the the
163rd Avenue Grand and the 303, that was
a screw up. That was a horrible mistake.
And you guys are doing the exact same
thing to us. Five lights on on a
parkway. It's a it's meant to be moving
uh moving people along, not stop
traffic. We keep coming back and and and
asking that more roads put in, better
roads, bigger roads before all this
construction because you throw 3,000 or
a thousand homes in there with only one
way in and out, you've created the 163rd
and grand all over again. I I don't know
what else to say. You guys keep doing
this. Learn from this mistake. Um, we
don't need another thousand homes out
there right now. There's not enough
roadways. We've already had deaths on
the Parkway. It, you know, fix the that
problem first before any of this other
goes in. All right. Thank you. Thank
you.
Thank you,
Sarah. Anyone else to speak?
No, vice chair.
Okay. Thank you. And
vice chair. This the uh the
representative of the applicant, Jeff
Lightly.
Okay. Thank you. Hi, thank you Jeff Bley
71 North 44th Street here on behalf of
the applicant. Just wanted to touch on a
few things with the project of course.
Um there is a development agreement
that's currently been negotiated with
the city. Uh and it'll go to the city
council on August 4th. Uh it does
address the transportation issues that
we have to to deal with which are making
sure there's adequate access into the
site. Uh we'll be extending 231st Avenue
from the property down to Beersley Road.
Uh so we'll be picking up that and
completing it all the way. We'll be
building Deer Valley Road across the
frontage, which it doesn't exist now,
and taking that that'll then extend all
the way out to Surprise Foothills
Boulevard, which also connects down to
Sun Valley Parkway. Um, I do understand
the concern with traffic signals, but
traffic signals are required on Sun
Valley Parkway by McDot. Um, we couldn't
build a house until the the traffic
signal situation was taken care of. So,
um, this project will be contributing uh
their provider share to the traffic
signals. Um and one other thing is that
uh given the location of this property
uh it's u the water department would
like a well site in this project and so
they'll be providing a well site to the
city as well uh and constructing the
well transmission line. It's the water
campus is right across the street. Um as
Trevor pointed out, it's currently rural
residential. The zoning that's being
asked is R2, which is consistent with
all the zoning uh surrounding it on all
sides. Uh it's consistent with the
general plan that the voters adopted uh
and and uh the the neighborhood
character area that it's in. Um the
we're not proposing any highdensity
residential or any you know multi you
know that type of multif family units.
It's basically single family across the
board with varying lot sizes you saw in
the concept plan. Um
there's
what else we have? That's about it on
the project. Um we're here to asking for
your recommendation for approval and if
happy to answer any questions you might
have. Thank you.
Thank you.
When are you guys going to do the uh
upgrades on the roads and get those set
up?
I mean, all the roads are going to go in
before we can pull build a, you know,
build a house. So, um, you know, Rancho
Vista built 231st. Um, Beersley Road has
been built over to 231st and and it goes
down at 227th. Those went in with
Mosquite Mountain Ranch. So, before we
can even build any house, we'll have to
complete 231st all the way down to
Beardsley. will have to complete Dear
Valley Road to make it sure that it goes
all the way back over to Surprise
Foothills Boulevard and Lenar who's
building the first phase of of of um
Surprise Foothills has put in Surprise
Foothills Boulevard. So uh before
anything can be constructed on the site
uh all the roads have to be put in place
and as you've seen you know this you
know we've seen a lot of zoning cases
come through recently as the properties
are being entitled and this kind of you
know from it's kind of an infill piece
to because of what's surrounding it. Um
and so it's kind of critical that we get
that in there so all the roads you don't
have that scallop street situation. Uh
but you know and and this will be more
evident with the next case. You're
seeing these cases but these are still
you know some of these are like decades
away. I mean this development is
happening out there at a at a pace now
we've seen I think Mosquite Mount Ranch
started three four years ago. You know
there's some homes out there now and
it's going to gradually go north because
that's where the infrastructure is. So
you're not going to see you typically
aren't going to see somebody want to
leaprog because you'd have to build a
lot of infrastructure to get there. So,
um, this is kind of a natural piece to
fill in as I mentioned and, uh, they'll
be taking care of all the infrastructure
needs. They, you know, we have a traffic
impact analysis that we have to submit
and the city proves that before we can
even get to this stage. So, we're doing
everything that we're supposed to do and
we're consistent with what uh, you know,
the city's long-range vision is for the
area. So, thank you. Thank you.
Yes.
Um, you're saying a long ways away. Can
you can you give me just a rough idea?
Um are we talking before you actually
start building a home
on this piece?
Yes.
Given if we had if we had somebody in
contract today to build on it, it'd be
it would be three years.
Okay. Because we still have to go
through preliminary plats, then we have
to go through final plats, then we have
to go through home product review. So
some of those things can overlap, but
you know, those processes take a a good
year each one. Um and then and then you
know all the infrastructure has to be
has to go in before the homes can go in.
So it's a number of years before you'll
see any homes on this and frankly we
don't have any the market's kind of
slowed down right now. So the uh the
homes uh the home builders are not
actively buying the property right now.
We have some other pieces for instance
in Surprise Foothills phase two is that
are situated right now. Um and excuse
me. So it's it's going to be a number of
years.
Okay. Thank you. appreciate that,
Commissioner Perry.
Uh, thank you, Chair. So, M Mr. Blly, I
uh I know that you're here for Surprise
160, but I believe that you also u
represent uh have represented in some
other cases some of the surrounding uh
uh parcels here. So
traffic is is always a big problem and I
happen to live uh in Asante. So uh I'm
probably more aware than most anybody
else in this room with 163rd and Grant.
Uh and it is what it is and it's been
improved but nevertheless uh it's
problematic. Now, Sun Valley Parkway is
a different situation today only because
uh on one side you've got a regional
park where there can't be any
development and of course on the other
side that's where this is happening.
Could you take us through
what's going to happen with the roads as
you theoretically envision? What has to
be put in first and then next in order
to get down to where this surprise 160
is.
Yeah. And just to piggyback on what you
I mean I've I've been around Surprise
for you know two and a half decades and
I was working for Surprise when you know
the 163 it's been an issue since I
worked here and the real one of the big
issues is because of the Burlington
Northern Rail Railroad. You don't have
that situation on Sunbelly Parkway and
having only the one access point has
always been the big pin pinch point in
spot 2. I mean it just has been uh it's
gotten better but there's a lot more
homes in spot two and adjacent to spot
to Grand Avenue on the other side. I
mean, you just have a lot more traffic
over there and you have one access
point. Frankly, you don't have that
here. It's a different situation. So, um
I I understand Sun Valley Parkway is
going to carry a lot of traffic in the
future and it will. But, um they're also
working on another another access point
out of this area, the Deer Valley Road.
We already, as you all are well aware,
that Desert Trails project, which was
approved a few years ago, uh they've
acquired from state land the rightway to
build Deer Valley Road out over to the
Grand. So there'll be multiple access
points uh before this project ever ever
develops. But to answer your question,
uh as I mentioned, what's in place today
is 227th from Sun Valley Parkway up to
Beardsley. Beardsley is in place uh to
the edge of the Rancho Vista project.
And I don't know if you're looking at
the same map I am. Um Surprise Foothills
Road, which is the next road down that
um from 227th that kind of does that S
shape. Lenar has is building that. I
don't know what the status of it. Maybe
Lloyd knows, but I think it's it's it's
under construction. They are going to
take it all the way up to Deer Valley
Road. They are also going to build a
portion of Deer Valley Road over to the
edge of their property. And so what'll
happen is this project will pick up Deer
Valley Road where it left where it
leaves off, bring it over to 231st, and
then take 231st down to where it leaves
off. and you'll have you'll have a nice
two points of of circular access to get
all down to Sun Valley Parkway.
So, the major ways of getting to Sun
Valley Parkway once this section of this
development is done is going to be on on
uh on 227th.
Correct. And then on the yettobe
constructed
uh on the uh on the purple that we see
that is to the left. Yeah. Right. Right
there.
Yeah. And that's being constructed now.
Okay. And is that a half or a full road
uh that's being put in? that is the
off-site portion I believe is just two
travel lanes and a center turn lane and
then the portion through the project
would be the full uh two median two
through the through the project. Uh and
then Deer Valley Road on the adjacent to
the project would be two travel lanes
the south half of a minor arterial
uh and then along our project we would
do the same thing the south half of a
minor arterial. Um,
I think that was entered.
Yes. Good. So, yeah, thank you. Sorry to
put you on the spot because I know that
you're specifically talking about
Surprise 160, but the entire traffic
circulation is always of concern uh to
the residents in the area and and I I
rightly understand that and uh
and I can tell you that the city staff
since you know what what's happened in
in the 163rd area has become much more
diligent in requiring these multiple
points of public access that are almost
fully built out before you can build. I
mean, that wasn't a requirement years
ago. You know, it would have been one
point of access and maybe an emergency
access or something. We have to have two
fully functioning public access points
in order to develop any property.
Understood. Thank you, sir. Appreciate
it.
Thank you, chair. I'm all set.
Okay. Comments or questions? Okay.
Then we'll move to a vote.
So, um
I move
sorry uh I move to recommend approval of
the reszone for surprise 160 case FS25
0750
subject to stipulations A and B as
outlined in the staff report.
Second.
Second. It's been moved and seconded.
Please vote.
Motion passes with five votes in favor.
Thank you. Uh Sarah, the next item,
please. consideration and action
pertaining to a reszoning of 422 acres
from the Buena Vista Ranch planned area
development EAD and rural residential RR
zoning districts to a combination of
residential low density R1 residential
medium density R2 residential high
density R3 open space conservation OS-1
and general industrial
I-2 zoning district case FS241191.
Thank you Trevor please.
Thank you vice chair commissioners. Yes.
This item is a reszone application for a
project known as Buenav Vista Ranch.
The subject site is located at the
northwest corner of 227th Avenue in
Pinnacle Peak um just east of the CAP
canal.
The subject site encompasses
approximately 422 acres.
The existing zoning on the site is
primarily Buenov Vista Ranch planned
area development um with an additional
rural residential parcel. They're on the
east side of 227th Avenue. Surrounding
zonings to the north, west and east are
rural residential. And then there are
various um zoning districts of uh or of
residential zoning districts to the
south.
This exhibit shows the land use map from
that existing Buenav Vista Ranch P A. Um
you'll see that the development pattern
here in the original P A um included
higher density residential at the
southwest that transitioned as it moved
northeast to lower density residential
and then at the northeast corner of the
overall parcel on the other side of the
wash is an existing I2 industrial
parcel. Um and I'll get into a little
bit um here shortly of the the reasoning
behind this development pattern.
This shows the proposed zoning district.
So, um they are proposing to reszone the
property from the existing planned area
development to current code LDO with um
associated zoning districts as well as
add in that 20 acre rural residential
parcel to the east. Um the development
pattern for the most part um remains
very similar with um R3 highdensity
residential at the southwest corner
transitioning into R2 medium density in
the middle and then as you move further
northeast uh goes into R1 lowdensity
residential. The industrial parcel um on
the other side of the wash remains as I2
um general industrial and then the wash
area is being designated as open space
area.
The land use designation of the property
on this um part of the general plan is
primarily neighborhood character area.
Um there is some designated employment
character areas um on the property due
to the proximity to the Luke's Luke
auxiliary field as well as open space
along the wash corridor. Typically, we
would not um support residential being
uh permitted uh or to be reszoned within
the employment character area, but
there's but because there's existing
entitlements for residential within
there, um that is uh being consistently
carried over from the existing
entitlements to the proposed u reason to
um residential under the LDO.
So this is the exhibit showing um the
graduated density concept as well as the
u noise contours for the auxiliary
field. This is um influencing the
development pattern that you see in the
existing pad as well as the proposed um
the density maximums in the three
different bands of the graduated density
concept. um kind of create that
limitation on the amount of um dwelling
units that can be permitted within those
within those areas and therefore
influence the uh underlying land use
designations of the P A and the
requested zoning districts under this
resone. Um the northeast corner um is
mostly within the 65 um LDN which is the
reason for it being designated as
industrial.
The applicant provided this conceptual
open space plan to show um some of the
potential development parcels as well as
where certain planned amenity sites and
open space areas um could be located in
addition to trail connectivity in
compliance with the general plan and the
parks master plan. Um there's also a
proposed um future school site. Um and
then it uh also identifies some of the
existing well sites that are on the
property.
The applicant also provided this
conceptual loting plan to show how uh
the property could potentially develop.
This is just for visualization purposes.
This is not within the resone document
but help to give an idea of how this
property could uh be lauded and
developed in the future.
And then back to the regional traffic.
So this is kind of at that northern end
of um the Sun Valley Parkway area where
development is currently happening. Uh
there's access to the property from that
Sun that Surprise Foothills Boulevard
coming up from the south and then on the
east side 227th Avenue continuing up um
through the property to the north.
The applicant held a citizen
participation meeting on January 28th of
last year at Willow Canyon High School.
There were 10 people in attendance.
Questions that were fielded included
topics of zoning, density of the pro
project, access to the site, trails that
would be provided, and infrastructure
requirements. This meeting was
advertised in accordance with the LDL.
If the commission wishes to recommend
approval of this reszone case, case
FS24-1191,
staff recommends that the commission
recommend subject to stipulations A and
B
and I'm available for questions and so
is Jeff Blightley with the applicant.
Thank you, Trevor.
I received a message from
I'm sorry. I received a message from
Kimberly Verosek. I don't know if I'm
saying that correct, but she's a very
nice lady. She lives in the area and um
she was concerned about the industrial
and the reasoning. So, thank you for
clarifying that, Trevor. That makes a
lot of sense. Um however along Pinnacle
Peak that is where they're they have a
well and mailboxes
and they're concerned
about what this project is going to do.
They her words were
she is concerned about the security of
our wellwater and mailboxes on Pinnacle
Peak. She also expresses concern as
everyone with traffic. But most
importantly, what I hear regularly about
out here is there are a lot of horses
and livestock and we have
city people moving into an area that has
been rural. And
I am just suggesting on her behalf
because she's like, "We need to get the
message out. Maybe we could do a social
media campaign on on the traffic laws
when there's someone along the road on a
horse. Maybe we could do signage or
something. But I'm hearing that concern
a lot. Um I think they've had some bad
experiences. It sounds like and so maybe
we could consider that.
Just a thought.
Thank you.
And if you can respond about the will,
that's very important.
Yeah.
Did you open up?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah. I'll defer that to the
applicant.
Okay. Thank. So, this requires a public
hearing. Sarah, do we have anyone who
wishes to speak?
Yes, vice chair. I have two. The first
will be Rich Stman.
Thank you.
Hello. I'm Richard Stzman. Gonna try
this again.
the the problem with this um there is
only one way in and out, Sun Valley
Parkway. Just because you add small
roads to the parkway doesn't doesn't
give you any more access into into the
city. on the last uh accident that we
had where there was I believe two
casualties, Sun Valley Parkway was shut
down both directions, four lanes. You
couldn't get into town. You had to go uh
in fact, they weren't even letting you
go west, but the only alternative was to
try to find a way to sneak back around
to get on I 10 to come back into town.
Hour and a half maybe. that when they
tell you that there's another there's
other access, there is no other access.
The Sunbelly Parkway is it. Uh 25 years
ago when we bought out here, we were
told it was going to be considered rural
um rural residential. That's all it was
going to be. So, we've put up with the
dirt roads and we've put up with uh not
having, you know, having to drive uh 30
minutes to get get a gallon of milk. Um,
it still comes back to the point you're
uh at 163rd and Grand before those uh
before any of that was built in there,
there was no problem because there
wasn't all those homes. There was still
163rd Avenue. There was still a grand
and it's exactly the same thing that the
Sun Valley Parkway is going to do. And
you've all voted already. You've already
agreed this is going to be done. It
doesn't matter how many times we come in
and say, "You've got to have more
access. You've got to have another way
in and out." And just up four roads and
five lights going to the parkway isn't
isn't doing anything, right?
Anybody? Anybody
both understand?
Sir, I don't have one more to speak.
Sir, uh rules are that we can't engage
in a conversation and open to the
public, but if you're here, uh after the
meeting and you want to speak after the
meeting is over, so I want you to know
it's not that it's not that we're being
tankerous.
No, sir. It's uh it's it's one of the
open meeting laws.
Yeah. So, we're not allowed to engage on
the specific item that's on the on the
agenda. So we can have discussion
amongst us. We can't have dialogue back
and forth. We can ask questions to the
applicant or anybody that that has but
we can't it's not an open discussion.
Okay. Can you ask the applicant about
what I just said about there only being
one access
again? We can't this dialogue we can't
have. So
sir,
yes. Our next speaker is Mahalia
Munolim.
First of all, I'm very impressed with
your pronunciation. Uh, that was
accurate. My name is Mahali Munim. Um, I
am currently living in Glendel in the
Westgate Entertainment District. Uh, but
I'm out here because I grew up in
Surprise. Um, I went kindergarten
through 12th grade and graduated back in
the good old days in 2019 from Shadow
Ridge before the pandemic. Uh, yeah. and
I went to school in Baltimore and that
was my first time experiencing uh non-s
single family housing and it was a row
house and it was very eye opening to me
like the possibilities of housing. Um
and since then I think coming back to
Arizona and coming back to Surprise
there's been a lot of change. there's
been a lot of development and I think
ultimately like that's something that is
really hard to balance. Um especially
hearing people like you like it's hard
to adjust to change. Uh I have family
that live in South Dakota, very rural
community. Um but it's happening all
over the country. People just need
places to live. I'm 25. Uh so people my
age like we can't afford homes. I can
barely afford rent. Um, I was living in
a single family home, renting with like
two other people and we recently moved
to a town home because uh just that
lease we didn't want to be in anymore
and the available leases, they were just
out of our budget and things that were
in our budget were just like too far.
Um, there was a place in Surprise that
we were really interested in. We even
put an application in and then they
said, "Oh, the next day they called back
and said that place is gone and there
were five other people on the waiting
list ahead of you." Um, so all that is
said, just because uh I really like this
project. I think that um adding density
is really important, adding different
types of housing is really important,
especially for people that can't afford
a single family home and maybe don't
need that much space. um the flexibility
for young people also to kind of uh have
more of those amenities taken care of um
and learn how to do the home ownership
practices is really uh valuable. So
yeah, just wanted to share that I
support this project and um you know
growth in in surprise because it uh
helps the prosperity of all future
generations. Thank you.
Thank you Sarah. Anyone else?
No, vice chair. Then then I'll close.
I was closed.
Pardon?
Go ahead.
Okay. Yeah. Jeff BL 714 just me quickly
just go over the the case. This case as
Trevor point out was zoned I actually
zoned it back in 2005. And so um
everything you see on the map today is
exactly what's entitled today. Uh we're
not changing anything. Um as you point
as Trevor point out the industrial is
there because it's under the noise
contours. Um, a few things we are
changing though on this map is that
we've now added an open space land use
designation, an actual zoning category
called open space. It's not in the
current plan. Uh, I know council member
Jud will be happy about that. It's a
wildlife corridor. Uh, it's a minimum of
300 feet wide and it leads to the
crossing. And so that that 20 acre piece
was is not designated as open space in
the current plan. It is in the the new
plan. Um, this project is is owned by
the same entities that own the Surprise
Foothills project. And so, uh, we met
with the school district on this project
and, uh, they preferred that there be a
school site located in here. In the
current plan, there is not a school
site. In the new plan, there is a school
site and so we added that school site
per their request. Um, this is also a
good area for wells in the city. As you
know, there's the two wells that serve
this area are both located in this
project and were dedicated years ago and
drilled. Uh, the city has asked us for a
third well site and we will be getting
that to the city as well. Uh this
project has a development agreement just
like the previous project. Um and it's
pretty pretty basic. It's again the same
thing with the access points and the
traffic um the roads the cont
contribution to the traffic signals of
Sun Valley Parkway and then of course
the well site. Um I believe there was a
question regarding Pinnacle Peak. Um,
one of the one of the things the city
initially wanted us to do was build
Pinnacle Peak, continue to make it that
our a secondary access. And we push back
because we know that the folks that live
over there really don't want Pinnacle
Peak. And so we are we are going to
build Pinnacle Peak, but only to 227th.
Okay. We don't we don't extend Pinnacle
Peak further. Um, we work through the
city and our secondary access is
Surprise Foothills Boulevard through
Surprise Foothills. So, our two points
of access into the site will be Surprise
Foothills Boulevard, which is the one I
talked about on the previous case, that
runs Serpentine through Surprise
Foothills, and then we'll be building
Pinnacle Peak over to 227th and taking
it down. We do not extend Pinnacle Peak
further across. Okay. I I know it is in
the long-term plan for the city for
Pinnacle Peak to extend across, but we
won't be doing it. Uh Desert Trails
won't be doing it. So, it's going to
come with some other project or with
them. So, but at this point in time,
it's not going
Commissioner, may I ask please?
So, you're saying that what you're doing
is not going to have an impact on that?
Well,
correct. We're not we're not making any
improvements to Pinnacle Peak along with
what we'd call the desert rural area.
Okay. Thank you very much for that
clarification.
And one of and the reason that
precipitated this change because as I
mentioned, the zoning we have in place
today allows everything that we're
asking for. What really precipitated and
the map that's on the on the screen is
appropriate is when it was zoned the
regional transportation plan had Deer
Valley Road as the parkway that went
straight across and Pinnacle Peak was a
minor arterial or major art I can't
remember. Um, subsequent to zoning, the
city adopted a new regional
transportation plan and you can now see
Deer Valley Road heads at a northwestern
angle when it gets to about 229th or
whatever it is and then it crosses the
cap canal and that's because of the way
Surprise F or Sun City Festival is
built. Um, so what it did is our current
plan doesn't have the right roads in it
and so we needed to really amend the
zoning case to remove Pinn make Pinnacle
Peak a collector, remove it from a
portion of it because it's not being
built. And then so we have just to
address mainly to address the new
transportation corridor. The only
addition is the 20 acres that my client
did purchase at some point over the last
21 years and we've added it to but we've
just added it as R1. Um, so, uh, there's
the lowest resident residential. Again,
everything that we we did 21 years ago
and we're doing today is consistent with
the general plan in the area, which has
always been neighborhood. Um, and uh, we
remain consistent with that plan. So,
there's any other questions, I'm happy
to answer them. Oh, and just I believe
there was a second the question on the
second point of access, as I mentioned
in the previous case, we are doing a
second point of access is Deer Valley
Road. Deer Valley Road will eventually
uh when the Desert Trails project
builds, they are building Deer Valley
Road from 219th over to 195th.
As I previously mentioned, they've
acquired the three miles of off-site
rideway from state land. And before they
can do their first phase, they have to
build Deer Valley Road from 219th to
195th. So that will provide I know it's
it may not be the most it but it
provides another access point another
public access point in the event of a
tragic event where you have all four
lanes of traffic blocked on Sun Valley
Parkway. So that is another access point
that will be going with the very first
phase of that project and that project's
platting and this project is probably 10
years down the road because it's it's
going to be the normal sequence of
events through Surprise Foothills and so
there's four phases in Surprise
Foothills. This is kind of like phases
five and six basically.
So
thank you very much.
Thank you.
Anyone else here? Okay, then I will
officially close the public hearing and
invite our commissioners if they have
any other comments or discussion.
Hearing none, move to Oops. One thing
I I really
I really hope I'm being heard that the
big concern is
that people who don't currently live in
the area when they move out there do not
understand the rules of the road about
people on horseback. And
we've got to come up with a plan. I
don't know what we can do other than
maybe just anformational campaign on
social media or something like that, but
we really do need to address that. I
believe um I hear this concern
frequently.
Thank you.
Anyone else? Okay, then I'll entertain a
motion.
I move to recommend approval of the
reszone for Buena Vista Ranch case
number uh FS24-1191
subject to stipulations A and B as
outlined in the staff report.
Second.
Moved and seconded. Please vote.
Motion passes with five votes in favor.
Okay. Thank you. I believe that
concludes our both our public hearing
and non-public hearing items. Any new or
future business?
Commissioner Perry.
Uh
Mr. Flem. Uh a question. I know that
there's a future agenda item at some
point uh to uh and I'm not sure that
about data centers and I'm not really
sure what
uh
what that was supposed to get into and
I'm wondering if there's been any work
done on that or specifically
uh what what work uh development is
doing on that.
Yes. Thank you, Commissioner Perry. So,
um on May 7th, Commissioner Bass had
asked, um uh for us to look into data
centers and bring something back. Um
after doing some research, um on our
code and our development standards, data
centers is only mentioned twice in the
in the in the zoning code. Um so,
um it's it's permitted in BP and I1
zoning districts. And then the only
other point within the code that it's
mentioned is within the parking
standards and it just states that um
these would be subject to a parking
study. So other than that it would just
follow standard processes and standard
um development standards per the zoning
district. So beyond that um there
wouldn't be anything applicable. So
there wasn't really anything to provide
a presentation on. Um I relayed that
information to Commissioner Bash. Um but
this is not a future agenda item. there
there is just not much in our code to
present on.
Thank you.
Anything else?
Yes, I do have a call to the public
email.
Okay, thank you.
So, we did receive an email from Mike
Johnson expressing support of the
battery energy storage systems. Copies
have been provided to management and the
commission.
Thank you.
Anything else?
That case I'll entertain a motion to
adjurnn.
I motion
second.
Moved and seconded. All those in favor
by votes vote say I.
I.
Opposed.
We are adjourned.