good afternoon and welcome to the March 8 2023 Mesa Planning and Zoning Board public hearing we'll begin with a roll call I am board member Crockett Vice chair Ayers is absent today board member Allen here board member sarkissian here board member Peterson here board member pitcher here and board member Montez here great um we have as you heard in the introduction a consent agenda that we will go through here momentarily but one of the items we've had a request to speak which is item 4A um so we will pull that off of consent agenda and we'll we'll have we'll hear from uh a resident that wants to make public comment on that item a board member pitcher has volunteered to read our consent agenda so I will turn it over to him thank you uh consent agenda for the Wednesday March 8 2023 planning and zoning board meeting public hearing first matter is item 2A minutes of the February 22nd 2023 study session and and uh in regular meeting second matter is um item 3A z-o-n22-00717 Rio Salado fourplex District 3 within the 500 block of West Rio Salado Parkway North Side located north of Rio Salado Parkway and west of Country Club Drive site plan review this request this will allow for a multiple residence development uh the staff recommendation is continue to the April 12 2023 planning and zoning board meeting next matter is item 3B zon22-00746 Mesa Grandview district one within the 3400 to 3500 blocks of North Greenfield Road West Side and within the 4000 and 4400 blocks of East Virginia Street located north of McDowell Road on the west side of Greenfield Road site plan review and special use permit this request will allow for an industrial development staff recommendation approval with conditions next matter is item 3C zon 22-01230 Longbow Business Park Lot 7 District 5 within the 40 5400 block of East McDowell North Side located east of Higley Road on the north side of McDowell Road site plan review this request will allow for the development of an of an office warehouse building site or staff recommendation is approval with conditions item 4A as you mentioned is off consent the last matter is item 5A 0n2201207 Falcon Field executive hangers leasehold Condominiums District 5 within the 4800 block of East Falcon Drive South Side located north of McKellips Road and West of Higley Road preliminary plant for a leasehold condominium plant staff recommendation approval with conditions thank you board member pitcher before I ask for a motion do we have any blue cards on any of these items the consent agenda items picture we do that no okay awesome uh then can I have a motion to approve our consent agenda motion to approve the consent agenda as read is there a second thank you let's go ahead and vote board member Alan what is your vote I okay so by your vote of six eyes No No's and vice chair airs absent you have approved the consent agenda so I'll turn the time over now to staff for a presentation on agenda item 4A members this is zoning case con 22-00714 and it's a request to rezone the subject site from Office commercial to multiple residence District 2 with a planned area development overlay let me do that one again it's a request to rezone the subject site from Office commercial and residential multi-family District 2 to residential multi-family District 2 with a planned area development overlay it's also a request for site plan review and it would allow for the development of a residential multi-family project the site is located south of Baseline Road on the east side of Haas and it's also located north of Desert Lane the existing zoning once again is office commercial and residential multi-family District 2 and their proposing residential multi-family District 2 with a planned area development overlay the general plan character area designation is neighborhood for this site the neighborhood the purpose of the neighborhood character area is to provide for safe places for people to live in a diversity of housing types and the residential multi-family District 2 is a primary zoning District within that character area and the residential multi-family District to density is a primary land use in that area this is a photo of the site looking East from Haws Road and this is a photo of the site looking North from Desert Lane the site's planned for the project shows 58 individual units there are four single story two bedroom buildings and those are the Golden Rod or the yellow structures on the plan and there are six single story one bedroom duplexes and those are the green structures or the green buildings on the plan the rest of the buildings are two-story and have either one two or three bedroom in their duplexes the site has gated access from both Haas Road and Desert Lane there are amenity areas throughout the development the site is providing 122 parking spaces 74 which are covered and that includes some garage spaces as well and 122 parking spaces are required the landscape plan shows a landscaping around the perimeter of the site as well as the interior in the parking areas and along the foundation bases as a part of the planned area development that the applicant is requesting several deviations from the Mesa zoning ordinance development standards first along the South property line they're requesting a building well where the Mesa zoning ordinance would require a 30-foot building setback they're providing a nine foot eight inch setback and that's to a two-story building the along the east property line where the single story structures are located they're required to have a building a single story building setback of a 25 feet they're providing 20. along the north property line they're required to have a 25-foot landscape yard where the access and the amenity sites are adjacent to that North property line they're providing seven but on the to the east of that they're providing I believe they're providing 30 feet in fact which is more than what's required along the east property line once again they're required to have a 25-foot landscape yard and they're only providing 20 feet along the west property line adjacent to the church they're required to have a 15-foot landscape area they're only providing seven feet and that's the landscape area between the West property line and then their access Drive off of Desert Lane minimum Separation on the site for one story is required to be 25 feet and some of their single story locations they have as little as two feet four inches for the two-story product it's required to be 35 feet between buildings and in most of the areas it's only 10 feet 4 inches the separation between buildings and the parking canopies is required to be 20 feet they're providing 10. the open space amenity areas are required to have no Dimension less than 10 feet and that's both width and length and the applicant is requesting that the width only be 10 8 feet where the overall length would exceed the development standards as far as the open space openness or the requirement for covered open space in the single story two-bedroom product they're required to have the they're required to have a hundred feet of private open space 50 of that is required to be covered they're only covering 46 square feet of that projection into required setbacks along the east side once again that single story the covered patios are allowed to to project into required yards by three feet they're requesting to increase that to four feet but that's only for building one and building type one and building two which are along the East Elevation or the East properly throughout the site the five foot sidewalks are typically required they're requesting four foot sidewalks and the foundation bases adjacent to the public entrances which would be the entrances into the building each of the units is required to be 15 feet by code and they're requesting 10 feet another part of this request is for alternative compliance for the elevations this product this project was not required to be reviewed through design review because it did not meet the density requirements for that to require that review so they're requesting this alternative compliance through site plan review and I'll just quickly Screen through the elevations so this is building one and building two both of those are single story the rest are our two-story so building five building six and building seven this is the leasing office and this is the garage so the alternative compliance request mainly focuses around the requirement for a secondary material and that material has to cover at least 25 percent of the exterior walls and so they're requesting a 100 percent stucco along the rear elevation of the garage where the garage structure meets the adjacent screen wall or rear yard of the of the adjacent duplex or unit and that really only happens at one location is that set of that garage building that's on the west side of the of the project and then for plans five and seven they're requesting a 24 brick veneer as opposed to 25 requirement for plans one five and six they're requesting once again a reduction in that secondary material requirement plan one they're requesting 15 plan five twenty percent and plan six twenty percent the leasing office they're also requesting that same alternative compliance to allow 20 brick veneer on the right side of the elevation and 13 brick veneer on the rear elevation for all the elevations that are the rear for all rear elevations they're requesting 100 stucco and the rear yards are surrounded by masonry block walls the applicant did complete assistant participation plan for this project they held a neighborhood meeting there were there were lots of people in attendance at that meeting and a summary of the concerns and discussions that took place for that meeting are in your notes as far as transfer the comments to traffic and and those issues transportation did review these plans and they did not indicate any problems with their proposed plans other than the comment we received today to speak on this project staff has not had any emails or phone calls about this project so in summary staff finds that this project complies with the 2040 Mesa General plan it complies with the review criteria in chapter 22 for Planned area development overlay it complines with the review criteria of chapter five for alternative compliance and it complies with the review criteria for site plan review in chapter 69 of the Mesa zoning ordinance I'd be happy to answer any questions you might have about the project thank you are there questions for Charlotte on this item not seeing any so we'll invite the applicant to come forward at this time see if he would like to make a presentation or Mr Lake okay it would that would you prefer to wait till we have our public hearing let's do okay great then I will open the public hearing at this time and let's see if we have do we have Teresa and Tom landingham on the line who can tell me if they're on the line is that Mr Mrs landingham are you there we'll wait just a minute and see if we can track them down not online okay yeah I'll go ahead and read the comment into the record and then I think we'll still have you respond Mr Lake to this but this is Teresa and Tom landingham their address is 2348 South Joslin Mesa Arizona 85209 they oppose this item their comment is concerned about our privacy wall on the east side and the automatic gate our wall is separating due to poor construction and Footers done in 2001. why is the gate on Desert Lane and not on Hawes increase traffic and parking at Park on Desert Lane could be dangerous to pedestrians we are also concerned of digging Etc close to the wall exposing the Footers also the automatic gate won't support constant opening and closing if contacted to our wall also concerned of dog park next to homes on Lynch noise and odors from animals so that's the that's the comment and I'll just ask one more time Mr and Mrs lendingham are you there okay so let me go ahead and close the public hearing we'll invite Mr Lake up to provide whatever response you'd like to provide to those comments uh and would you provide your name and address for the record Sean Lake 1744 South Val Vista Mesa Arizona here on behalf of Evergreen development we appreciate the opportunity to be here to discuss this project for a some people call them Twin Homes the old days we call them duplexes but it's a a residential project that we're looking to do on this property the zoning that we're requesting is already in place for The Ballot or most of the site and really all we're asking for is to rezone the portion along Haws kind of that front acre almost a little maybe a little bit more two rm2 which is what the balance of the site is so to bring the whole site into one zoning District so this Remnant leftover infill piece of property can be developed as one piece and so that's really the request let me just address specifically the issues that were raised as opposed to going through my big presentation if that's the preference or I can go through I I can talk for 30 minutes if the board wants I mean it's a short meeting you know but I'd rather go home this is just me but I think we can avoid the 30-minute presentation and go go with the condensed version let's go with Cadets the East wall as you can see and let's see yeah you can see the cursor here so this is the east side that runs along this this site I walk the wall today it's a pretty good wall but at this bottom location right up against Haas Road right here the um the pillar up up against Haas road is starting to peel away now we won't connect or play part or attached to that wall at that location now we can certainly work with that HOA during our construction and we're doing walls to help Shore up that to kind of help resolve that issue at that location where that pillar is kind of peeling away we won't be actually that wall at that location is actually next to our open space in the entrance and that there really won't be any walls connected at that location so it won't but affecting at that point the gate off of Desert Lane and if the neighbors are listening on TV there's also an access on Haas so there's one on Haas and there's one on desert as well Desert Lane and so there will be a gate at both entrances those Gates won't have stability reinforcement from the wall they'll have their own independent stability reinforcement that we will install so the gate won't be Reliant upon that wall at all and so the opening and closing of the gates will have no bearing upon the perimeter wall of the development Desert Lane traffic we will be making improvements to the north side of Desert Lane for the most part it's it's all done in that area there's a park on the South Side so we'll be kind of finishing that off with curb Gutter and sidewalk which will help with the pedestrian traffic on there but also we won't provide a whole lot of traffic on desert it's really a collector we're going to have a really small development with a lot of access coming in and off of Haws Road that's the natural path that I think most people will take digging close to the wall if we during the course of construction have any detrimental impact to a wall we have to repair it that's our responsibility so we will take that obligation on the the dog park or the park up on the North side along our North property up here you will see you will have the main entrance off of Haws you'll come into a divided roadway and then this is kind of the main amenity area with a pool and a Turf area artificial turf area that you can take your dog every unit in this project has a rear yard so people can have their dogs in their rear yard or if they shaked it or choose to put them on a leash and walk them to the open space area or walk in the trails around they can do that we don't think there'll be a consolidation of noise like you would have at a public dog park where people are coming from a larger area and so we don't think that will be an issue but if it does become an issue they can certainly notify us and we'll work through that smell we don't want the smell nobody wants to smell so we'll clean up after that so if there's any other questions I'd be happy to address those thank you Mr Lake any questions I'm not seeing any so thank you for that thank you okay well um can I have a motion on this agenda item I'd like to move to approve Zeon 22-00714 Arena Hawes within the 2200 Block of South Hawes Road it's located south of Baseline Road on the east side of House Road free zone from Office commercial and multiple residence 2 to multiple residents two of the planned area development overlay and site plan review to allow for multiple residence development staff recommendation approved with conditions so thank you board member I would I would suck at that thank you board member Allen let's go ahead and vote board member Allen how do you vote I okay by your vote of six eyes no Nays and vice chair airs absent you have passed agenda item 4A is there anything else on the agenda that we need to cover today chair board members know that's all that's on the agenda right well as always thank you to staff for your preparation and and the presentations today it was great I will ask now for a motion to adjourn I have a motion in a second will you vote board member Allen hi okay I don't think I need to wait for the vote to come up I uh not seeing our vote is oh there it is it's on that screen okay by about six eyes no Nays you've voted to a journal meeting today thank you and we'll see you in a couple of weeks [Music]