welcome to the planning commission meeting of march 24 2022 my name is vern crow and i'm the chairperson of the commission the planning commission is a citizen body appointed by the city council the commission is empowered to make final decisions on certain matters with those being appealable to city council on other matters the commission acts in an advisory role to the council with the council making the final decision you will have an opportunity to address the commission during the public hearing portion of the meeting your testimony is appreciated and encouraged the commission acts from a written agenda and you will need to fill out a yellow speaker card and give it to the city staff if you wish to speak on an item copies of the agenda and the speaker cards are located on the table just inside the main door to the council chambers at this time please be sure to silence your cell phones there are seven members appointed to the planning commission at this time i will ask the commissioners to introduce themselves and state the district they are representing starting from my far right jungle mayoral district tom cole barrel district gary hirsch cholla district martine nowakowski yucca district john gears agatillo district and vern crowe i represent cactus let the record show that all members of the planning commission are presence with the exception of the vacant saguaro district seat the planning commission receives staff assistance and guidance from the planning division and the city attorney's office tabitha perry would you please introduce the city staff who are present this evening yes um thank you chairperson crowe good evening commissioners to my left is jim gruber deputy city attorney across the dias is lisa wilson recording secretary this evening making the two presentations would be by city planners christina lavelle as well as alex lamar and i am tabitha perry intron planning manager thank you tabitha is there anyone in the audience that wishes to speak on an item not on tonight's agenda okay hearing none and seeing none we'll go on to the approval of the minutes do i hear a motion to approve the revised minutes of january 13 planning commission regular meeting 2022 and february 24th 2022 for both the special workshops and the planning commission regular meeting all the other gears lisa did you get that okay with with those corrections do i hear a motion chairman crow on the minutes the the workshop we're approving all three of them at once yes we are okay on the workshop if i can find it i made a comment about the comments that i made on the second page doesn't make any sense and as soon as i find it okay commissioner gears asked about would be their final inspection i think i was trying to say if there would be a check for the air flow quality in the final inspection before the occupancy permit was issued is what i would rather say okay what i think we ought to do is just uh remove february 24th 2022 special workshop and planning commission regular meeting from this agenda we can now just focus on approving the revised january 13th planning commission regular meeting minutes and bring back february 24th with all the corrections at our next meeting do i hear a motion to do that so moved so i have a motion in a second to approve the minutes of january 13 2022 planning commission regular meeting as written in the revised minutes all those in favor say aye aye opposed motion carries miss perry are there any withdrawals or continuances this evening 10 percent crow there are none okay as there are none let's move on to the public hearing is there anyone here that wishes to speak on this item thank you hearing none and seeing none the purpose of the public hearing is to provide interested parties an opportunity to present testimony for the commissioner's commission's consideration we will follow the same procedures for each item i will call the applicant number application number and the name of the applicant staff will present their report and answer questions from the commission the applicant will be given the opportunity to make a presentation and answer questions from the commission other persons who wish to testify will be asked to do so and answer questions from the commission the applicant will have an opportunity for closing comments staff will be asked for any final comments on the application and procedural guidance i will then close the public hearing and ask for a motion prior to discussion if there is any further discussion from the commissioners you will need to state your name and address for the record if you wish to speak on an item please be brief and to the point and avoid repetition i reserve the right to limit the length of your testimony all exhibits shown to the commission become part of the permanent record and must be submitted for the file large groups should designate a spokesperson which doesn't look like we're going to have that tonight applause or other disruptions which delay the hearing will not be tolerated we only have two public hearing items this evening our first agenda item is case number zon21-28 miss lavell will you present the case good evening chairperson crow and commissioners tonight i'll be presenting the sunrise apartments rezone c0n 21-28 this request is to rezone 10 gross acres from c2 general commercial to r4 multiple residents this is to allow a 120 unit multi-family development the applicant is francisco soto and he is representing h m one real estate this is a general plan map of the area as you can see the site is has a general plan designation of medium to high density 12 which means that they could get 8 to 12 dwelling units per acre as you can see across the street off of 59th avenue it is uh has a general plan designation of general commercial and to the south it has a general plan a general commercial but to the north it is high density residential 20 and to the west is going to be medium to high density 12. this is the zoning map that shows the uh general zoning around in the vicinity as you can see the property is zoned currently general commercial to the west it's zoned r4 which is multiple residents to the north it's zoned r4 which is multiple residents and then across 59th it's zoned general commercial and just directly to the south it's zoned c2 but a little bit west of that it's zoned r4 and then to the west of the mobile home site it's single family residential r16 here is a bird's-eye view of the property uh it just gives you kind of an example of what's going on in the vicinity as you can see the property is vacant it's relatively flat it's a fairly narrow long parcel and it has been vacant for a number of years to the west of the site is a mobile home park it's the fountain hills mobile home park to the north across montebello is a multi-family residential condominiums to the uh right across 59th avenue um to the east it is commercially zoned and there's commercial properties and to the south across missouri avenue it's commercial and um just a west of that it's multi-family so here are some site photos that kind of give you an idea of what the property looks like at the street this is looking north from missouri avenue at the corner of 59th and missouri as you can see to the west of the site it's fully developed as a mobile home park to the north it's kind of hard to see but you can see that there are multi-family residential units and then to the east it's commercial okay so here's another kind of bird's eye view you can see this is from this is looking west from 59th avenue this kind of just gives you an idea of you can see that the entire western or yeah the entire western portion of the property is budding a um a mobile home park with uh virtually single family residences and and you can also see the existing access the existing sidewalks and the landscaping so this is the preliminary site plan i apologize it was a big site plan it was hard to fit on this page but so the applicant is uh proposing nine between uh one and two-story buildings there um some of the buildings will be one story some will be two thirty of these units will be um one bedroom apartments 90 will be two-bedroom apartments they there is access that is can be taken off of montebello and missouri it's actually a gated and it has an exit only the access is also the main axis is taken off the 59th as you can see and this will be interior inside of the site it will be gated with a nox box with that the applicant has is proposing um a number of amenities in this each so for every three of these buildings there will be a courtyard that will have a ramada and a grassy area and centralized in the site there is not only a courtyard with a ramada and a grassy area they also have a tot lot they will be providing a pool and a spa barbecue area you can see the leasing office the leasing office will include a fitness room it will also include a clubhouse and then as you can see throughout the site they have pedestrian walkways that kind of interconnect the buildings with each other and kind of they're kind of situated as kind of their own like little communities each one of these buildings um will each one of the buildings in each unit will have a private open space which will include patio or a balcony depending on whether you're on the first floor or you're on the second floor each one of the units will have one covered parking space provided and then an additional parking space and then they also have provided for guest parking as well there will be a significant landscape buffer out along 59th avenue in missouri avenue as well as at the western portion of the property and along montebello and they will be utilizing an existing six foot tall screen wall so here's an example of the building elevations the the applicant is proposing to um have these um they're basically they're calling them luxury apartments they are um they're each set is set off by a breezeway each set of units is set up by a breezeway they have a some their neutral colors of grays and browns majority of the building will be stucco however they are going to be adding some elements of stone and they will be having metal metal railings with um inserts in them as well and as you can see uh the buildings have a variation in um in kind of the heights to kind of give um an additional interest and to kind of provide kind of more of a sophisticated look the applicant has met all of the public hearing requirements that are required by state statute and by the zoning ordinance the applicant held a virtual neighborhood meeting on january 19 2022 prior to the meeting one comment was received via phone this comment was made by a one of the residents of the mobile home park and just had some concerns about the change in use also had some concerns on just kind of traffic and some issues with that and maybe some issues with services and how those people provided the applicant actually reached out to these the neighbor answered the questions as best as they could and that those responses are in your cpp final report okay just a moment please okay so section 3.809 of the zoning ordinance states that an amendment the zoning ordinance and official zoning map of the city of glendale shall be approved only if a the amendment is consistent with the policies and objectives of the general plan so the general plan designation for this property is medium to high density residential 12 and this is 8 to 12 dwelling units per acre the general plan designation allows for a combination of either single family detached or attached and multi-family dwelling units the applicant is proposing to develop a 120 unit apartment complex over 10 gross acres and the proposed density and use is consistent with the general plan designation of medium to high density 12. b the proposed amendment furthers the public health safety and welfare of the citizens of glendale okay so to the west of this property the properties are all they're zoned are four the land use goal lu-22.4 of the general plan states that the city shall ensure that adequate buffers between residential and non-residential uses uses are included so this meets that objective that this provides a natural buffer between the [Music] mobile home park to the west and to the commercial properties to the east of the site also rezoning the property from c2 to r4 it it allows for there to be a lower density than would otherwise happen and it would and it reduces the intensive commercial uses that would not be compatible with residential units finally the housing element he 3.6 the general plan states the city shall encourage planned residential communities to provide a range of housing options and promote socioeconomic balance in the glendale housing supply this proposal meets that objective it provides for new housing and a variety of housing options in this area as we stated before this area has a mix of mobile home park it also has single family residential and it has multi-family residential and this will fit just perfectly in this neighborhood it also will um allow the applicant to develop and under utilize property to its highest and best use and this keeps in mind the surrounding neighborhood c if the amendment is made to the official zoning map the proposed change will include any conditions necessary to mitigate any adverse impacts on businesses persons or properties adjacent to the requested amendment so any adverse impacts from rezoning to uh to r4 from c2 are addressed in the development regulations of the zoning district they are also addressed in the landscape ordinance the parking ordinance and the the city's engineering and transportation finally if a finding is made that the a finding is made that there are adequate schools if the amendment to the official zoning map and if section 3.812 is applicable the applicant sent off their certificate of adequate schools to the school district they waited the allotted 30-day window to which the school district by zoning ordinance is required to respond and the school district did not respond so it has been determined that there are adequate schools for any students that would be made available to the school district staff finds that the request conforms to these standards and recommends approval subject to the following stipulations development shall be in substantial conformance with the applicant's site plan dated november 10 2021 and the applicant's narrative date stamp january 21 2022 all sidewalks on public roadways shall be placed within public right-of-way if additional right-of-way is required to accommodate sidewalk within turn lanes it will need to be dedicated as public right-of-way that concludes my presentation i will be happy to answer any questions you may have commissioners anything for miss lavelle i have a few questions commissioner gear what makes them luxury well um and i can let the the applicant um speak to that a little bit better because they will be presenting but what in um in my mind what makes them luxury apartments is that they are providing a over and above the amount of amenities that would otherwise be required of the r4 zoning district they have worked very hard with staff to achieve this really sophisticated look of these apartments but also you know it's a gated community they have ample open space they have a pool and all sorts of amenities that many of the apartments throughout the city do not they also are providing um just really significant um landscaping set and setbacks as well um i hopefully that answers your question and then i have a few more questions the traffic you didn't say anything about traffic this is a gated community i'd like to know how many gates there are for pedestrians and where are the school buses going to stop to pick up all the children from this apartment are they going to stop on 67th avenue and every morning stop traffic for 20 minutes that's my concern yes um so to answer your first question the city of glendale transportation department has reviewed this project and has has approved the preliminary site plan as far as traffic goes i cannot speak to where the school bus will be picking up and letting off children unfortunately we did not receive any comments back from the school district after repeated attempts to contact them so that would be more of a school district question but it's possible the applicant could answer that question for you i'll wait and see if the applicant can answer it yeah he's saying yes all right okay and then just for the sidewalk not the sidewalks the pedestrians i drove by the area it's not a very wide street on montebello missouri's a little bit better how many uh last applicant how many parking spaces total do you have and most apartment complexes the extra cars are parked on the street and like i said montebello is not a very wide street so i'd like to them to address that if they would of course of course thank you so much would you like me to defer to the applicant anybody else anything else for miss labelle thank you miss lebel okay with the applicant or applicants representative please come forward state your name for the record and make your presentation thank you sir i'm good yeah good evening good evening that's great okay and i think there's the way to do this my name is francisco soto with soda design studio i am the architect for the project and i am representing mr amid uh [Music] who's over there and uh do you need my address as well that'd be fine okay 68 51 south 27th place in phoenix arizona thank you sir okay you want me to answer the you want me to present do you have them you wanted to research one of the exhibits i'll be able to point out some of the some of the areas okay that you're uh looking at so uh and i'm gonna there's some exhibits here that uh christina already covered so i'm gonna try sure you can just move it along a little bit there you go not a problem uh first exhibit is really a land a land use map it's a very large plan you can see the site kind of in the middle highlighted by red really this is not denoting specific zoning but the general land use where the green areas are residential and you can see how the majority of the area to the east and to the south is mainly green which is residential again there's no differentiation here between a single family and multi-family the pink is the commercial the existing commercial areas and the yellow is industrial and other uses which i think they have to do with commerce parts or some kind of that type of views but they're higher intensity uses are the yellow just to give you a snapshot of the area uh the majority of the commercial areas are along grand avenue and then up along glendale avenue down downtown where we're at right now this is more of a zoomed area again it's a it's a zoning map overlay of the area shows a little bit of the uses the the the smaller mobile home to the west uh the commercial uses to the east the other multi-family properties directly to the north of this property and also shows some additional multi-family zone properties and those are the light green they look a little yellow here but the light they're supposed to be light green those are the higher density multi-family residential than the the light orange are the single family residential and the blue in this particular map is the commercial zoning so so there's a little bit of a mixture but the you know directly adjacent tools there is considerable multi-family that why we are requesting this extension uh this is the act the city of glendale 2040 general plan and it already shows the designation in that tan color we're just delineating the subject site and that is the you know it's already delineating the medium to high density residential 8 to 12 units per acre all right and on the site plan i went ahead and colorized it all but it's a little bit easier to read than the previous cyclin that was presented we have uh the project has been divided into three main clusters or neighbor smaller neighborhoods consisting of three buildings each uh we have uh two well one in the north one in the south and the one in the middle the one in the middle shows four buildings the fourth building is the uh the leasing office and social clubhouse we do have considerable amount of landscaping all building clusters have been arranged around central courtyards and that will have uh you know little ramada garden maybe a playground you know those particular specific areas have not been you know completely defined but the idea is that we will have enhanced landscapes so that the residents can go out directly from their from their units and enjoy the open space going back to um commissioner gear's question uh what what makes it a luxury apartment the level of quality and the finishes the units are larger than typical units are in this area um also yeah just just the the amenities as christina was describing the open space and the and the amount of amenities that will be used we have a a a very nice pool with a nice ramada and we also have some additional open space opportunities again those have not been you know completely narrowed down in terms of exactly what they're going to be but there's and i have some i have one example of a project that we've i've worked on the past it's not identical but it's at least he'll give you a flavor of what we're thinking and what we're looking at um there was a question about the bus there is a great opportunity to park it either at montebello or in missouri depending on the direction of the bus but yeah i agree with you that we that's not something that we would want to put on 59th avenue if there was an absolute need for it i think actually let me back up we did have a conversation with traffic originally they were wondering whether we needed a bus a bus stop a bus stop in this location it was determined it was not needed in this location but you know if if it needed to occur we certainly uh um you know contemplate that and consider that i'm sorry um let's see what else on the site plan um well we have the three the three clusters the the advantages of that it also breaks up the parking instead of one large you know when you get all the buildings together you end up with a large sea of parking all around it and then uh we've actually broken them up into smaller clusters as well because of the configuration of the buildings we do have a couple of one-story garage buildings that are lined along 59th avenue on the north and on the south where we have the double rows of parking that that those garages are strategically placed to screen the larger areas of parking from the street view um [Music] let me uh let me keep going here this is the plan of the clubhouse we have the front elevation it's at the bottom that's the look as we as as we as we drive up to the property we have a nice storefront entrance to the left there's a like a covered porch where the mailbox public mailboxes will be the back side has a fully an arcade or a covered walkway where there'll be ability for additional furniture and activities ping pong table you know outdoor pool table things like that seating areas the center of the clubhouse the plan is on the on there the center of the clubhouse will have the um the social club to the the right wing we'll have the right wing i'm sorry the right portion of the clubhouse will have the leasing area with a conference room a couple offices the left side of it is a fitness center with a couple of bathrooms so it's a fairly simple clubhouse but it does have all the amenities that that one would require in a project like this uh the main building this is one of the the main residential buildings they are actually broken up as christina was alluding there's breezeways exterior breezeways that divide up the the buildings into four unit clusters per floor so you know they're not all one long walk over you see everybody going walking back and for you really if you live in unit b3 you really only see the the three other neighbors there so it helps divide create that sense of of of you know more of a privacy and and also uh security uh the exteriors which christina mentioned before each breezeway creates an opportunity for an entry element that you know will contain the stairs and a little walkway upstairs [Music] it just has you know a little bit it's a little bit asymmetrical part of it to create additional articulation uh we brought that uh that it's a sonora sonora shade i believe is the name of that that orangey uh it's a burnt brown color and it's trying to keep with that sunrise name with a little bit add a little bit of brightness but it's still keeping it within a desert tone that's the smaller building uh building two which is the one that's in the middle of the courtyard or of the that creates the the smaller portion exterior elevations and then this is a sample building again it has similar colors the different main difference and i have to clarify this particular project is three stories tall our proposed project for this location is only two stories but at least it gives you the the flavor of the level of landscape the amenities the uh also the clubhouse is only one story in this particular example the clubhouse for this project uh it's two stories this project was done in chandler arizona and it was in a more tight and more condensed area but it just kind of gives you a flavor of some of the the level of finish and level of amenities that we will be uh looking for in our project that is pretty much my spiel for this evening may i are there any questions commissioners anything for mr soto there's no picture here of what it would look like with the fencing around it is it um she said a screen type we're going to have we're going to have a combination of like you see in this particular image there's there'll be some solid walls in some areas within and then some some some see-through let me go back that's i just remem remember one one of you actually that's the cyclin for this project so you can see how dense that is that's really uh packed in there but and our project is not like that but i wanted to show you you asked about the gates the pedestrian gates in the development sorry one more there we go there are gates that connect back to the public and we will have a combination like where those little courtyards are that phase 59th avenue we will probably have some vision fence for security and also to you know to help uh you know there's some security in having some visual connection but we'll also have a combination of solid walls fences we will also have some half walls with some fence on top just to create some some interest and also some variety along the street front it's a long street front it's like 1500 feet sorry it's a gated community so it's all locked up at night it is yes okay and then [Music] you have the main entrance and then there are two exits on montebello and missouri avenue that's right no more on 59th no just the one in on 59th and it's we try to place it towards the middle of the between missouri and montebello okay so my concern again about buses i live by maryland and when the school buses go by the glendale elementary school district does not allow them to drive into the complexes so they stop on the road and they do it to rush hour traffic and there's you know 40 50 kids right and if that happens on 67th on rush hour that's going to be kind of a major traffic issue there's no room for you to pull a pull out along 59th avenue so if you could look into on the exits on montebello in missouri an area where if you get 30 kids gathering they're not standing in the street and that would probably assist in keeping the buses off the 59th okay i'd appreciate that yeah of course thank you commissioners anything else thank you mr soto thank you thank you i don't have any speaker cards but are there any members of the audience that would like to speak miss lavelle are there any final comments or procedural guidance jefferson crowe uh no there aren't thank you therefore the public hearing for case number zon 21-28 is now closed do i hear a motion chairman crow vice chair i'll move that the commission recommends approval for zeo win 21-28 with the two stipulations as contained in the staff report do i have a second second are there any comments or discussion regarding case number zeon 21-28 by the commissioners commissioner nowakowski i want to thank you for presenting today i really like the concept of four unit clusters privacy and you know the luxury the larger rooms uh the one consideration i i hope you do follow up on and you know respect for commissioner gears is the bus pull out on 59th avenue if the city and you all can have that discussion that'd be great thank you commissioners anything else okay i have a motion in a second to approve case number zeon 21-28 subject to the stipulations as outlined in the staff report i will conduct a roll call vote starting from my far right commissioner crowe aye commissioner cole aye vice chair hirsch aye commissioner nowakowski aye commissioner gears aye chair votes i case number zeon 21-28 has been recommended for approval subject to the stipulations as outlined by the staff mr gruber what are the next steps in the process chair and members of the commission your action with respect to case numbers un21-28 is not final and your recommendation will be forwarded to the city council thank you mr gruber our next agenda item is case number gpa 21-11 and zon 21-27 mr lerma will present the case good evening mr chair members of the commission um before you you have two two items uh the applicant stephen anderson on behalf of gaimage and burnham has applied and is requesting um two separate requests the first one has to do with the general plan amendment the applicant is seeking to amend the the property's general plan designation from high density residential 20 units to the acre to downtown mixed use and the second request is for the entitlement process the applicant is seeking to rezone the property from multi-residential to planned area development for a project that will consist of a mixed-use project that will consist of 368 unit 368 multi-family project and limited commercial uses here's a site map showing the relation between the city hall and the project site and the project site is approximately a mile west of city hall it's located on the it's located east of the southeast corner of 67th avenue and glendale avenue again the project site is approximately 14.6 acres it's comprised of four separate parcels located east of the southeast corner of 67th avenue and glendale avenue as you see here it's a vacant site currently vacant site historically it's been used for agricultural purposes to the east you'll have a glendon manor apartments which is a multi-family project that's been there for a few years to the south you also have a multi-family use to the west again multi-family project directly to the west of the property along the south east corner 67th and in glendale is a maricopa county superior court and to the north you'll have commercial uses that deal with auto maintenance and auto repair [Applause] here's a general plan map again just showing the properties line user designation the property is designated as high density residential up to 20 units to the acre uh the property to the east has the same designation property to the south as a mid high density uh up to eight units to the acre to the west you have the same land use designation and to the north you have general commercial the zoning map showing the existing zoning classification of the property the property again is zoned r4 multi-family residential the same as could be the same to the properties to the south and to the east on the corner you'll see c3 where the medical superior court offices are at what i wanted to show here is just the comparison between the existing development standards and those that the applicant is proposing through their ped um project narrative the the proposed development standards as you look at these development standards keep in mind that the applicant is seeking urban style of design to make a note the first on the first row the densities he's proposing to increase the densities again he's asking for 360 368 sorry 360 units to the acre and that would be equivalent to 25 units to the acre which is so he's seeking a higher density than what the arizona district would allow which is 20 dwellings for the acre now again keep a note on the second on the second row the building setbacks he's uh decreasing the the setbacks in order to push the buildings further to the front to the sidewalk into the street again this is the type of design that that's what we would consider urban type of design if you see the area within the general within the general area uh site design is more of a traditional way where the the building is pushed to the back and you'll have the landscaping and the parking to the front with a driving aisle so this is going to be the opposite type of design where the buildings are pushed to the front of the street and all parking is to the back on this slide just to keep note on the um on the parking stalls uh per the r4 zoning district he would be required to provide 689 spaces he is proposing 488 keep in mind where the project is at it's located within a major corridor that for public transportation the applicant is is hoping that a lot of the those that are residing within the project are going to be supporting the public transportation within this area he is proposing in total 488 spaces to the site 482 are not going to be are going to be reserved and six spaces are going to be dedicated to the limited commercial to the site make a note on on this slide on the building heights for the r4 zoning district he would be maxed out at 30 feet based on again the density that he's proposing and the type of design the urban type of type of design he is seeking for one of the buildings to go up to 60 feet which is going to be the one that's going to be located on glendale avenue and um that the rest of the buildings will will be at three stories or 40 feet with exception of the the amenity building here's the project site again the the the safe plan the north is oriented to the to the to the east um as you see here i just want you to get an idea of access points to the site uh principal access is going to be along glendale avenue and secondary access is going to be along 67th avenue here you see the building layout as well building a that's a budding glendale avenue will be the four story building the rest of the buildings will be uh three feet uh three stories with the exception again of building e that's true to the center uh going west of the project site here within the conceptual landscaping plan you'll get a better idea of the building layout a few things to keep in mind while while looking at the site plan the applicant is proposing a variety of amenities to the project site the the building again is is going to be the amenity building internally will be a community room and other amenities to the residence directly to the south of that is going to be a play area with water features the area between building c and building b is going to be an open space area gathering area with within within that area is also going to be a dock part as far as other amenities are going to be internal pedestrian paths that are going to be connected to other project areas external project areas again building eight above england avenue will be a four-story building the the ground floor or the first floor level will be dedicated solely to the commercial uses that are going to be permitted that are identified within the the ped booklet uh the second and the fourth second third and fourth story the floors will be dedicated to residential uses the applicant is uh proposing again um units that are given to be one bedroom two bedroom and three bedroom units um that will add up to 368 units to the site here's here's a just conceptual elevations of what the buildings will look like there's they're still at the conceptual stage the applicant has not submitted a year for a design review here is a project that the applicant worked on and tempe the the building layout is completely different what i wanted to show with this project is basically for the commission to get an idea of what the urban style of design is again as you see here the buildings are pushed to the front to the sidewalk and the in the parking area and the other amenities are attracted more towards the back of the building one note that i forgot to state about some of the other site designs to the project which you'll see within the development standard table is that they are not requiring uh gated areas this will not be a gated uh multi-family project [Music] and the reason why is because they want to have more of an open welcoming area to the site so along the street front edges which is going to be along building g f and a there will not be any type of gates for uh for access to the site the applicant has come has reached out to the citizens to the surrounding property owners and has completed the citizens outreach process a virtual neighborhood meeting was held on november 3rd within that meeting there were three attendees there were no issues that since then neither the applicant or the or city staff has received any type of comments from from property owners the citizens participation final report is included within your staff report within your packet sorry with the review the staff has made the following findings the applicant or the project meets the policies and goals of the general plan specifically having to do with developing with smart growth connecting the project to existing and future transportation systems and providing a variety of housing options in this case will be multifamily in nature the project meets the intent of the of a pd which encourages a mixed-use development again this is a site that's been vacant for a substantial amount of time and the applicant has provided a valid use to the site which will accommodate or support the existing surrounding uses that are within that area again the applicant has uh provided an extensive design initiative towards the project this is something that's going to be uh different than what you see within that project area or within that that area and this will be more of a urban type of design that's going to stick out a little bit within that area based on the fact of the building layout and the way that the buildings are oriented one note that i did forget to mention is that the units that are in the bottom that are located along 67th avenue and glendale avenue on the ground floor units the axis or the the front of the units are going to be facing the street so access is going to be the the the front of the units or the the front door to the units are going to either be facing 67th avenue for those that are oriented towards 67th avenue and glendale avenue towards those that are facing lindel avenue again no perimeter walls or gates will be required along 67th avenue and glendale avenue to provide more of a welcoming feel to the development on-site traffic is adequate within your packet a tis was included the traffic traffic department has reviewed it and has agreed with the findings of the tis all of the applicable departments have also reviewed it and have a recommendation of recommended approval with that uh should the planning commission motion to recommend approval of gpa 21-11 it should be as written and should the commission recommend approval of z01 2127 it should be with the following stipulations stipulation number one development should be in substantial conformance to the pd booklet tattered line at glendale date stamp february 4th 2022 uh stipulation number two a turn a turn lane on 67th avenue northbound shall be required such lane shall be designed to a length of 150 feet turn lane plus 100 feet of taper stipulation number three a 30 foot by 30 foot right of way triangle shall be dedicated at the corner of 67th avenue and ocotillo road and stipulation number four a new sidewalk on 67th avenue shall be six feet wide and detached from the curb mr chair members of the commission this completes my presentation that lincoln is here the commission has any questions for for him or for myself commissioners anything for mr lerma mr lerma looks good oh you do commissioner nowakowski mr larima you you said there's no perimeter while on glendale 67th avenue how about ocotillo so um again the perimeter or the their vision is to not have it along street frontages right and ocotillo i believe will have a street frontage um the applicant can correct me on this but i believe they won't have a a a gate along ocotillo road the only type of perimeter wall will be towards the west which is sorry towards the east which is about in the existing development multi-family development and i want to clarify my understanding you said 10-foot setback from glendale avenue that means the building will be 10 feet away from the street it will be from the property line the setbacks are going to be measured from the property line to the front of the building okay it'll be four-story the one on glendale avenue will and then can you just let me know if there's been discussion on the limited commercial uses designated on the first floor and abiding glendale avenue yes not to go into into a lot of detail on on that but initially the the applicant wanted to have all the uses that are allowed within the uh glenda glendale center line which is a a zoning district with another one in the city uh we had substantial discussions with them to limit the type of uses that would be allowed within that that really didn't meet the needs of this area so those uses are listed within the ped narrative which is a part of your packet within there uh it details the uses that will be allowed within uh the first floor of building a which are more retail and nature office used retail uh services and then just confirming dog park and walkway connections it would that be open to the neighborhood uh that would be more of a question for for for the applicant being that this is not going to be gated i'm not sure what type of security they're going to have there but um like any type of uh multi-family project the the the amenities that that are offered are more for the the residents of the project okay i'm just saying i'm very familiar with this area and i would like to hear from the applicant in regards to how to propose to create safer neighborhoods for the residents who plan moving in there so thank you mr lerma just just with that note um going forward they will need a submit for design review uh keeping the mind of where the project is located uh there might be a lot of issues with with the security issues when you compare it to the rddm which is a residential design manual that we compare it whatever project we're getting it the rddm deals a lot and makes recommendations so security issues don't arise with any type of project to um yeah if it has to do with uh building layout building building orientation lighting those type of uh design that will limit the security issues yeah i was hoping and the applicant can speak on that is um whether they'd be receptive to septed and the police department go in there and for that stands for crime prevention through environmental design and the purpose to create safer neighborhoods through architectural design landscape design signage and and how circulation is in the the complex i think that knowing this area and what happens in the area that would be very important to me thank you gentlemen anything else for mr lerma thank you mr lerma with the applicant or applicant's representative please come forward state your name for the record and make your presentation did you want to call this up thank you if i touch your machine i'll break it that's what when you go change the slide just press down okay thanks mr chairman good evening my name is stephen anderson i'm an attorney with the law firm of gammage and burnham uh the staff report indicates that we represent the family partnership actually the family partnership's the ownership owner of the property we represent the applicant which is the gorman company and dan clockey is with me from the gorman company to make the bulk of the presentation but before i turn the podium over to dan uh dana i wanted to take a moment to thank the staff um for their work on the project obviously we're pleased to be before you this evening with a staff recommendation for approval and and obviously that's always welcome the recommendation is subject stipulations and we're comfortable with the stipulations the staffs included but i'm actually talking about process this is an affordable housing project and and so we're working closely with arizona department of housing and they have their own set of deadlines and so we've asked quite a bit of the staff at the city of glendale in the processing of this project and they have been very prompt uh and thorough in their review of this project in a way that has allowed us to be cooperative with the department of housing so i did want to note that for your record that we appreciated the staff's efforts uh procedurally to help us meet those guidelines and with that i'm going to turn over to dan hey steven oh sorry i'm ready to go good evening uh chair and members of the commission thank you very much for allowing me to speak for uh before you tonight my name is dan clockey and i serve as the senior project manager for gorman and company uh for our arizona office and before getting into the project a little bit i wanted to talk a little bit about who we are how we've built here in this community for for many years um just to give you a sense of of of who we are and the kinds of projects that we build and our track record um so i don't know if you have i'm assuming you have a tv in front of you or you can see what's up on the the screen there um but uh let me go this way so uh gorman and company uh just to give you a sense of who we are um we not only build projects but we're really focused on how do we revitalize communities and neighborhoods and how do we work with those neighborhoods to make sure that the projects we build integrate into them become part of them and then create an atmosphere where the residents of that community of that of that residential community can go and enjoy the amenities and the retail and all the different things that the community around it offers and so we've been building across the country for since 1984 when our founder gary gorman created the company in wisconsin arizona is actually our largest market the demand here for affordable housing is enormous you can't open the paper these days without reading an article about rent rates going up at astronomical uh uh uh astronomical numbers i think last year was 30 percent and so our our role here is to create good quality well-designed well-managed housing that serves our community and the workers in our community so just a little bit more about the company um the uh the the ceo of the company is brian swanton and i don't know if any of you know brian or not he's uh he's kind of upset that he's not here tonight and the reason is is because brian actually used to work for the city of glendale lived in catlin court lived in north glendale um and has recently become the the ceo of gorman and company and so he has to spend a lot of time in wisconsin where the corporate headquarters are but he wanted to be here tonight i'm sure he's listening on youtube and going to critique my my presentation here but um this is a community that we've been in for a long time already um and so we're this would be our third project in the city of glendale uh we've had wonderful experiences here so far um one of the reasons why um i chose to work for this company was because of how it's set up and as the presentation says we're a vertically integrated company we're not just developers we have an architectural firm in-house we have a construction firm in-house we have a management firm in house which means we all work together to build a project because we're going to be in it for the long haul in these kinds of projects the way that it's financed we have to own it for at least 15 years so while a lot of developers will build and flip and sell and move on we're here as your neighbor for at least 15 years and probably 30 years so i think it's really important to that you understand that we're not just coming here tonight to ask for your permission and then walk away we're here for the long haul as your neighbors just give you a sense also in terms of what we've built in arizona we've already built 1500 units we have about 500 under construction right now and 2 000 in the pipelines we're a very active company with a lot of different uh projects going on statewide so just to give you a sense of some of the other projects because i know it's difficult to look at a drawing or a site plan and say what's this going to look like i want to give you a few examples of projects that we've built here in the metro area just to give you a sense of of of what they are so a couple at the top there one in tempe and one in avondale you can see the one in tempe is a much more urban style it's right on the light rail alignment and and serves folks that are mostly working there in downtown tempe um but the bottom two are two obviously here in the city of glendale the glendale enterprise loft is literally just a couple of blocks turned around but up the street here this way to the west across from from the high school this was the first project that we built in the state of arizona um and so back in 2008 uh it was actually had the only crane as is what i'm told uh in the year 2009 the city of glendale was at that project so we build to the good times and the tough times because we know the need is great all the time um the other project that you see there ironwood village again just a few blocks away once in a while we will buy an existing apartment complex this apartment shall we say was challenged i believe it had the highest number of police calls in the entire city before we purchased it we went in we rehabilitated the entire project and obviously with our management team worked to make sure that the residents who were there were contributing to the community and doing good things in the community and so that has completely transformed that project so we're looking forward to doing another project here but just a couple others to show you just sort of styles and so forth so you have a sense of that we do a lot of three and four story product we tend to do them in infill areas when we're building in the metro area because we want to build where people have jobs where people have transportation where there are amenities that the city has already developed in infrastructure we want to use that and enhance that so these are just a few of the other projects that you can take a look at the other thing i want to point out is just real fast mr larma showed the outside of this project in tempe this graces village this is the quality of the interior of the project so this is the lobby of that project there on the light rail just to give you a sense of how we build i know you're asking questions why does one make it luxury or so forth this is affordable and this is high quality our goal is that you don't know if it's affordable or market rate because it's the same quality and that's how we build it and that's how we run it so it wasn't talked about because we're not actually using the centerline overlay district zoning district but i wanted to put this up because i don't know how familiar folks are with it it's a plan for this street that was created by the residents by the businesses about 10 or 12 years ago in fact brian swanton was part of that commission that helped put together this plan for the area and the desires of the people who put that plan together working with city staff was to create a more walkable urban environment shaded sidewalks mixed-use development more intense or dense housing and so this was really our inspiration for how to design this project we were taking it right out of what the residents and the businesses called for uh back 10 or 12 years ago um and so while we're not using the exact zoning code that's in there pretty much everything you see in the pad is allowable underneath this this zoning code that's there um so we want to celebrate the work that the people did that 10 or 12 years ago and start to build to what those goals and desires were so um why choose this site we always think through this process a lot we don't just go out looking for any piece of land to build housing on we want to make sure that our residents are served by jobs by transit by amenities by retail all the things that everybody wants to be near and so this site does just that so if you look around at what's there it was already mentioned obviously transit is a huge part of of what we try to build near we want our residents to not have to spend a lot of money on cars we want them spending their money on education on health care on things that their families need and so we almost always build near major transit and our residents tend to use that transit so that's literally on 67th avenue out the front door and on glendale avenue out the front door it's it's perfect um over to the west there's a walmart walmart market neighborhood market so the grocery is close by there are multiple schools uh mountain park health clinic is going to build a large facility just about a block and a half away and then there's other retail on the north side of glendale and of course you know downtown's a hop skip and jump down the street so all the amenities and all the work that you've done here in downtown glendale our residents will be allowed to use then as well so i know there were questions and so forth i can jump back to answering those questions but i thought i'd just pull up the site plan so if there are some more questions that that folks have happy to answer that um let me uh i jotted down a couple of them um but please interrupt me if i'm not answering the the questions um uh to your liking um so the the idea of how we're developing this site um this planning area calls for an urban feel you can create safety in a couple different ways you can create safety by building really high walls and trying to block everything out from coming in or you can build a more urban dense style development where there's a lot more eyes and a lot more people around that tend to keep bad things away from happening as somebody who's lived in downtowns my entire adult life this is how it works this is this is just how it works um so we had decided from a from a safety perspective to not wall it off the buildings tend to act as walls mostly around the perimeter and so where there are openings those openings are going to have eyes on them into this the scepted we build that into all of our developments we always talk to the police about you know is is this an okay sort of corner is it well lit um we work with folks to make sure that we're safe because the last thing in the world we want is for something to happen to one of our residents and so we will work with the glendale city police obviously if they're if they have some concerns about any design elements and so uh hopefully that that answers your question um in terms of the commercial uses the the the plan for the district calls for a mixed-use environment and so the ground floor of the building up on glendale provides an opportunity to do just that this is not going to be high intensity commercial use what we're looking at doing quite honestly is creating a commercial kitchen where small businesses can come in to use the facility to help generate product for whether it's farmers markets or their small businesses or something along those lines um and so we're we're chatting with people right now to look at potentially setting that up we're looking at the possibility of having several small i don't even want to call them not offices but just um business use areas where you could have potentially short-term leases for people who are trying out a business just to sort of to get going and see what would happen we're going to have an a pretty extensive exercise area in there for classes and so forth so we're looking to animate the building because that's what makes a great urban environment when there's things going on that you can see in the windows as you walk by on the sidewalk just like any kind of great urban area would have um what am i missing oh we always have a security camera system in in all of our developments so that we can make sure that residents are safe and if god forbid anything happens that we do have that on camera so we do that with all of our developments that's standard um okay i don't know if i answered everyone's questions i tried jotting them down but do folks have any questions commissioners commissioner gear i have a question on the commercial used first floor if you have a business there where are your customers going to park so we do have some set aside in the back uh for for that uh use so there are six or eight parking spots we're not looking to have businesses where you're going to have 30 40 50 people there at a time these are going to be more service oriented type businesses or uses where you may have one or two customers at a time so if someone's using a commercial kitchen you might have two or three people using it and so we'll be able to park them sufficiently and as far as the commercial kitchen you you're going to pre-plumb it run all the venting all the way up through the fourth floor to get it so it can be occupied without the applicant spending hundreds of thousands of dollars doing that work we were talking through this today and this is this is early on i don't want to promise that this is the definite thing we're doing but all that is already built in in terms of venting out through the rooftop you you put in all the grease traps you put in all the venting that you need all the main infrastructure because you're going back and doing that is just prohibitive thank you and then one question why is there no access off of ocotillo you have this large complex you have to get at the glendale i know i come out ocotillo and to try to turn left and head south on 67th is pretty tough and you have 50 60 people trying to get to work there's no lights there's no light on rocket teal and it's just could be a nightmare so that's why we actually don't have an egress on ocotillo we don't have any cars going out there so we're not going to load up ocotillo anymore for the neighbors that are on occasion you know that's not what the problem the problem is trying to get across 67 so the way that if you look at the site plan um drivers can only go right out of 67th onto 67th so we worked with staff it will be there's a they call it like an elongated pork chop basically preventing cars from going left out of our you can't you can go right so you get okay or you go out to glendale and try to make a left and can you make a left off of glendale i believe there's left hand here on the glendale that's that's going to be interesting what i can tell you is again why we have a reduced number of parking spaces is because we don't have as many drivers not that there aren't any drivers obviously they're drivers but we're not going to bring the flood of traffic that a different type of development would bring and so we've done this enough times in enough places that we feel pretty good about about how we've worked with staff to make sure that that the numbers aren't going to be too prohibitive the way that they egress out of the site will be protective of those residents and so i think i think we're going to be okay all right and one more question about security the apartment complex south of there on the south side of ocotillo and east are fairly high crime sites you've talked to the glendale and if you have this open architecture you have cameras but you're going to protect your cars from disappearing and how do you secure things like that in an open architecture so we have plenty of folks that will be on site working we are going to be very very cognizant of that we understand our neighbor to the east i've walked it i've driven it i know what's going on there what we're trying to do honestly is begin that change and we're not going to do it at the expense of our residents but we are going to be that change that begins to alter how that part of glendale avenue feels and then one more couple of the loss that you built in 2008 they look as new now as they did when you put them up so congratulations on that thank you sir and that's why owning it for a long time and managing it is what we want to do thank you any other questions oh just one other thing just to give you we just got this like a day or two ago so just to give you a sense of its place in the neighborhood um and and how it how it works with with the various buildings around it um the building the development to the east which is talking about um has three-story buildings so it'll be somewhat similar of height um the only really tall or taller building is up on glendale avenue but i think it slots in nicely into the community and begins that process of making glendale avenue a more walkable and kind of urban feel like that plan calls for so obviously it doesn't have a color yet but i'll let staff help us out with that a little bit so so any other questions thank you mr clocky commissioners anything else for mr glockey thank you john thank you sir i don't have any speaker cards and since there is no audience i think we're good mr lerma are there any final comments or procedural guidance mr chair members of the commission no more comments thank you mr irma the public hearing for case number gpa 21-11 and zon 21-27 is now closed i would like to take these separately so do i hear a motion for gpa 21-11 mr chair commissioner cole i would move to recommend approval of gpa 21-11 as written do i have a second so okay i have a motion in a second are there any further comments about gpa 21-11 okay hearing none i have a motion and a second to approve case number gpa 21-11 subject to the stipulations which i guess there are none so we will approve it as written i will conduct a roll call vote starting from my right commissioner crow aye commissioner cole aye vice chair hirsch aye commissioner nawakowski aye commissioner gears aye chair votes i i will now entertain a motion for z o n 21-27 chairman crowe vice george i move that the commission recommends approval of z o n 21-2-7 with the four stipulations as contained in the staff report do i have a second so move i have a motion and a second to approve case number zeon 21-27 subject to the stipulations as outlined in the staff report i will now conduct a roll call again from my far right commissioner crowe i commissioner cole mr chair to comment in my vote of course mr clark thank you for your presentation uh enterprise lofts is a great project and i think this is going to be a great addition to the neighborhood so thank you for bringing it forward i vote aye by sir hirsch aye commissioner nowakowski would like to make a comment certainly i too think this is a different type of project and i've known your reputation for for years mr clocky having worked in the city of phoenix for mayor gordon as his affordable housing rep it's counter-intuitive some of the the items you're proposing and so i i put a lot of trust in that you will follow up with sep with the septet review but that i vote on commissioner gears aye chair votes i case number gpa21-11 and zon 21-7 has been recommended for approval subject to the stipulations as outlining the staff report for z on 2127 and as written for gpa 21-11 mr gruber what are the next steps in the process chair and members of the commission your actions with respect to cases gpa 21-11 and 21-27 are not final but your recommendations will be forwarded to the city council thank you mr gruber miss perry is there any other business this evening chairperson there are none are there any commission comments or suggestions i do have one comment about uh our former vice chair ed nyberg he is making some steady but slow but steady progress and is having phone conversations with his friends and so we are delighted to hear that for those of you that are unaware of what happened to ed nyberg he was struck by a vehicle while in the crosswalk several weeks ago and was really not expected to live so we are excited about his slow recovery and it looks like he's doing well are there any other staff reports miss perry chair not at this time okay the next regular meeting of the planning commission will be held on april 28 2022 at 6 pm if there's no further business i will now entertain a motion to adjourn so to a half a second i can it's it's been moved and seconded and i have a motion all those in favor say aye aye aye we are adjourned you