hello everybody Welcome to our March 22nd 2023 city of Mesa Planning and Zoning public hearing we'll Begin by taking a roll call for the board tonight so chair Crockett is absent and I am Vice chair Ayers board member Allen here board member sarkisian here board member Peterson here board member pitcher here and board member Montez here thank you so as part of today's agenda we have a consent agenda that will be right into the wrecked record and acted on in one motion and thankfully Jessica has agreed to read that consent agenda for me oh actually we're going to start by reading comments public comments that we've received on item 3A actually before we read the consent agenda and Troy person is going to read those comments for us the following citizen comments were received for item 3A case zon 22-01174 from Patrick Benedict 4548 South axis I opposed the development of this property and personally believe this citizen participation Outreach by the applicant was insufficient the Outreach area failed to include the primary target market of this development residents of these Mark development beyond that I don't believe that the traffic impacts of a site was seven drive-through Outlets have been adequately contemplated lastly I don't believe this aligns with the city's desire to limit the concentration of drive-through restaurants second comment from Micah Ramos 9558 East thornbush district 6 does not need more fast food and we definitely do not need nine fast food places at this one intersection please reject this until the proposed site plan that has more sit-down restaurants a third comment from Sam Delgadillo no address provided Eastmark and our surrounding communities are tired of the city of Mesa flooding our Corners with drive-through eateries time and time again we have asked for sit-down restaurants to take our business yet we are forced to drive to Queen Creek to spend money we should be able to spend in Mesa nine drive-through eateries on Elliott and Ellsworth or any corner is absolutely ridiculous and goes against what we are asking for and telling you we will spend to eat in our own City no reasonable person would support this development plan unless its appeal is monetary only comment number four from Lauren tebanov 10552 East Sebring Avenue this community needs less drive-through fast food type eateries we need more family-friendly restaurants and establishments in order for this part of Mesa to become more of a destination and the final comment number five from Kathleen Segar 4659 South Romano I am a 13-year resident Abella via here in Mesa we have repeatedly asked not to have so much congestion in small spaces and especially just fast food drive-through restaurants my husband and I are in our mid-60s and do not enjoy this kind of food so we're forced to go to Gilbert Chandler or Scottsdale for dinner or even a decent lunch I don't think that you have visited the corner of Signal Butte and Guadalupe to see the absolute nightmare of traffic and accidents that have occurred since this site opened up it has no aesthetic appeal and that include that concludes the public comments received thank you appreciate that Jessica's going to be reading our consent agile the consent agenda for the planning and zoning board for March 22nd 2023 minutes from the March 8 2023 study session and regular meeting item 3A zon 22-01174 Elliot and ellsworth's type plan modification within the 3400 to 3600 blocks of South Ellsworth Road within the 9 200 and 9 400 blocks of East Elliott Road and with the 9200 to 9 400 blocks of East Peterson Avenue located east of Ellsworth Road and North of Elliott Road 17 acres for site plan review and special use permit to allow for commercial development staff recommendation is approval with conditions and 4A zon 20 chair board members could you read in the block range for East Elliott again there was a mistake there within the 92 to 9400 blocks of East Elliott Road a staff recommendation was approved with conditions you guys are behind zon 21-01072 Villas on Baseline within the 1800 block of East Baseline Road located north of Baseline Road and West of Gilbert Road two acres rezone from agricultural to multiple residents four within a planned area development overlay rm4pid and site plan review to allow for a townhouse development staff recommendation is approved with conditions item 4C zon22-01015 Cannon Beach pad Amendment within The 4400 to 4 600 blocks of South Power Road and within the 6800 to 7100 blocks of East Warner Road located east of Power Road and south of Warner Road 44 Acres rezone 1.6 acres from agricultural to General commercial with a pad overlay modification of an existing pad development on the entire 44 acres and site plan modification this request will allow for commercial development staff recommendation is approval conditions item 4D 01 22-01157 Higley 202 industrial Commerce within the 3800 block of North Higley Road and the 3800 block 3800 block of North 54th Street located east of Higley Road and North of Thomas Road 10 acres reason from light industrial to light industrial with a plant area development overlay and site plan review this request will offer Industrial Development staff recommendation has continued to the April 12 2023 planning and zoning board meeting and in four easy on 22-01244 Chick-fil-A within the 1200 to 1300 blocks of West Southern Avenue within the 1100 block of South Stewart and finally let one thousand to Eleven Hundred blocks of South Alma School Road located west of Alma School Road on the north side of Southern Avenue 16 Acres site plan review will allow for the restaurant for a restaurant with a drive-through staff recommendation is approved with conditions item 4G zon 22-01278 the brick guards on Ellsworth within the 9200 and 9 600 blocks of East Willis Road located north of Germain Road and East of Ellsworth Road 63 Acres plan review this request will allow for industrial park staff recommendation is approval conditions the following preliminary Flats 5A Elliott and Ellsworth commercial center within 3 400 or 3 600 blocks of South Ellsworth Road within the 9200 and tonight 400 blocks of East Elliott Road and within the 92 to 9400 blocks of East Peterson Avenue located east of Ellsworth Road and North of Elliott Road 17 Acres preliminary flat to allow for commercial development staff recommendation is approval conditions item 5B Cannon Beach within The 4400 to 4600 blocks of South Road and within the 6800 7100 blocks of East Warner Road located east of power and south of Warner Road 44 Acres primary flat to allow for commercial development staff recommendation is approved with conditions item 5c Haley 202 industrial Commerce within the 3800 block of North Higley Road within the 3800 block of North 54th Street located east of Higley Road north of Thomas Road 10 acres pretty flat to allow for the development of an industrial development staff recommendation is continued to April 12 2023 planning and zoning board meeting and item 5D the Brickyard the brickyards in Ellsworth with a 9 200 and 9 600 blocks at East Willis Road located north of your main road and east of Ellsworth Road 63 Acres primary flat this request will offer Industrial Park staff Foundation its approval conditions and that is the Kentucky data very nice Jessica thank you any blue cards that we've received yes no chair or vice chair no blue cards okay with that I'll uh any is there a motion to approve the consent agenda as read I would move that we approve the extent agendas right in for the record on March 22nd 2023. second thank you all in favor aye thank you all right with a uh 6-0 with a chair crocodile here the consent agenda passes thank you everybody and with that one um this we're gonna hear our first case um I personally will be recusing myself from the discussion on this case and Jessica's going to take over his chair for this part of the presentation thank you all right item 4b0n 22-01008 Gateway East within the 5300 to 6200 blocks of east of South Ellsworth Road in the 8200 to 8800 blocks of East Ray Road South of Ray Road and West of Ellsworth Road 23 Acres it's a rezone from light industrial with a planned area development overlay to light industrial the planet area development overlay with a council use permit and a special use permit to allow for commercial Industrial Development chair and board members staff is requesting that we continue this item to the April 12 2023 hearing we don't have any staff comment and public comments out anyway so with that um I need a recommendation or motion to continue was it April 12th yeah correct to continue zon 22-01008 to the April 12th planning and zoning board meeting do we have a second second all right about first motion in a second all in favor aye motion carries with five yeses chairman Crockett absent and and vice chair air is abstaining and handing it back over thank you we're gonna move on to the next case right Rachel yep so item 4f so um which is the on 22-01271 so we did a presentation downstairs board would it be a preference that we do the presentation up here as well anybody want to hear the presentation again or do you want to go ready I don't think we I don't need to hear it okay right to the applicants I'll go right to the applicant based on our conversation kid Cassie a little break here [Music] good evening members of the board management team with Whitney Morris 525 Easter is in a Biltmore circle on behalf of Avalon development the applicant in this case I'm hopeful we can actually clear up the concerns about the the parking sup fairly quickly here because based on the conversation downstairs it sounds like that was a primary issue so from the top what I'll say is that the the other EOS location that the board was referring to on Gilbert Road that's currently parked at a 1 to 101 space per 180 square foot ratio we based our parking reduction and in fact if you look at our parking study we reference that approval from the city of Mesa for that parking reduction in our parking study a little bit of background on where these uh I guess the Merit behind the parking reductions for these types of Fitness facilities it's largely because uh unlike the city of Mesa there are other cities in the valley who look at Fitness facilities particularly as they get larger the the attendance to square foot ratio is not one to one that as you increase the size of a fitness facility it accommodates the ability for amenities that take up a lot of floor area but don't necessarily have a one-to-one increase in the amount of people for example a basketball court or a pool or a tennis court it may take up a lot of floor space as you get into a larger facility but that doesn't equate to a sort of a straight a straight line ratio and the increase in the number of people uh so now with that said we are currently requesting per our request the same uh parking reduction that the other EOS facility got which is one space per 180 square feet City Mesa requires typically one per 100. um we did some math downstairs and at least from from and the board can correct me if I'm wrong here but it sounded like the concern was that we were going to follow the same actual parking provided as that other EOS location that is actually parked at a one per 180. having looked at our site plan and done the math downstairs for our fitness facility we are actually currently parked at a one per 114 square foot ratio so we are actually almost at the ordinance requirement so if if the board would prefer we can reduce the amount of our request we really just followed the other one for the for the ratio we don't actually need that much of a reduction so if it would satisfy the board we are more than happy to drop that request to a one per 125 square foot ratio to give ourselves a little bit of flexibility but still adding considerably more parking than the other EOS has parked at and also it's worth noting that other EOS is 10 000 square feet larger than the one that we are proposing here and this would actually get a little bit smaller because the EOS is actually considering removing the pool from this location start removing the pool in general or with more space be same footprint if if I understood correctly it would likely be reduced from forty two thousand to forty to forty thousand square feet but but that being said um since it sounds like the main concern was that we were at there was a concern we were actually going to provide parking at a one per 180 that's not what we're doing yeah and so we are more than happy to reduce that request uh if that satisfies the concerns of the board any questions comments for the applicant on the board no okay can I ask a question um so I think I'm the one that asked this to be removed from the consent agenda so if you reduce it to uh what what what would your how many let me back up just kind of do the math for me how many spaces um parking spaces are we talking about providing as opposed to what you're requesting so let me do the math really quick so at 42 000 so we would be required to have 420 spaces per the ordinance and right now on our parking uh on our actual site plan we are providing 366 spaces which would be one space per 114 square feet and again in order to give ourselves at least a little flexibility because we still have to go through you know design review and a few other things on this if we could drop that down to one per 125 that's what we would prefer if if that's not enough for the board we can drop it additionally but we would be asking for at least a little bit of flexibility here which is still considerably more parking than the other EOS is providing but I I think that was the concern that that some of us had is that some of the other sites that we're aware of are under parked or appear to be under parked and so even if this is a smaller site than some of the other uh locations that you have it throughout the valley I think that was the concern is just that that they're severely under parked some of the other ones are as well we're doing the math on our side understood because yeah as we're looking at it it's based on what you're saying if you kept it at 42 000 and you're at 180 and then you're going 125 it's close to about 100 stall difference which is huge right and and I would point out that I I think and I think and uh board members Sarkis and I think you were actually the one who pointed this out downstairs uh that the one sort of big difference between this site and the other one is that the other one does have what we would call inline retail where they've got sort of suited retail and a lot of that if you go to that Center is largely food and beverage and it's not drive through food and beverage so people are actually parking going Etc this is a grocery store a fitness center a service station and then four drive-throughs those four drive-throughs are going to circulate a lot more and create a lot fewer parked cars than the other Center would causing a modification to the site plan in front of us today to add those additional parking spaces no so it wouldn't be a change to the site plan because we're still over parked even if we were to reduce the requested so I think all we would be asking to do because a number of actual parking spaces provided wouldn't change would be to reduce our request on the sup ratio to one per 125. yeah it's just so they're asked of the special use per 180 to 1 to 125. total number of spaces yeah the site plan stays the same it's just their request on the East permit approval changes is that something that work or because your board members I just wanted that clarification if that was going to entail a change to the site plan but I'm Gonna Leave This up to your discussion and I think the reading through the parking State I didn't realize that you were overparked on the site by that much personally um so I didn't pick that up so I think I think it certainly helps the case moving forward to just kind of feel a little bit more comfortable with the parking situation as it is knowing that there's that 100 extra within that I I have no issue with that I think it actually would be very helpful so any more comments or questions from the board okay yeah can you so so that so specifically how many spaces are so I see on the site blend the total is 526 26 spaces provided 366 of that is currently provided for the EOS because we are parking all the other uses at their ordinance requirements so if you add up all of those and subtract that from the total 366 or left but then on your summary for Eos Fitness where you have one per 100 it says 420 are required that's what would be required if we were not requesting a reduction so if we parked it at the ordinance requirement 420 would be required yeah and that's why they go another 120 125 at this point okay gotcha oh you're still about what 60 70 spaces difference is that the request yeah so yes that's about it yeah four members if I'm doing my calculations it's about 54 spaces less but more than the other location all right with that I think any more discussion I am shell you good yeah okay I had a question I don't I don't know if it's for the is this still a road that is planning to go wider well it's the Elliott right so this is Elliot here yes this one is this in the works of because isn't this it's not too late right now is it isn't it one-on-one this is that where all the drive-throughs would be yeah they're headquarters is to the east of us yeah we'd be doing our Full House rate Improvement right okay that was my the right-of-way is the right okay I mean that's what I I was just clarified yeah thank you good all right I think we can close the presentation and close the public meeting thank you and I think we'll be willing to take a motion for money on the board all right I'll make a motion thank you um Zealand I moved to approve Zeon 22-01271 power Elliott commercial within the 3800 to 36 6800 to 6900 blocks of East Elliott Road and within the 3600 to 3 700 blocks of South Pearl Road located south of Elliott Road and East of Power Road for 12 acres rezone from commercial with a plan area development overlay and bonus intensity Zone overlay two limited commercials with site plan review and special use permit to allow for commercial development that with the approval for with the conditions and the modification of the special use permit to change to one install per 125 square feet for the or it's gymnasium whatever you guys call it in the ordinance facility I would suck at that all right we all take a vote ready Shelley hi hi okay with a five to one vote uh this passes with uh board member Peterson vote no and uh chair Crockett not here today thank you for the cases correct okay any other items discuss Rachel four no not anymore okay so this concludes our board meeting today I appreciate everybody coming so I will take a motion to adjourn the meeting thank you second all right all in favor all right we're adjourned thank you everybody thank you thank you close it [Music] [Music] thank you [Music]