City of Chandler Planning & Zoning 5/21/2025

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Everybody. Everybody
ready? Call the planning and zoning
hearing to to
order. Can I have a roll call, please?
Chair Hume here. Vice Chair Koshell,
Commissioner Quinn, Commissioner Barello
here, Commissioner Gala here,
Commissioner Schwarzer here,
Commissioner Bilstein here. We have quum
and the two commissioners that are not
here do have an excused absence. Okay.
Um, we had a study session prior to this
and I do have a speaker card on the item
number
three. So, Juliet, if you'd like to come
up and state your name and address for
the record and your concerns about this
project, please. Chair, were you going
to do the pledge before? Oh, I'm so
sorry. Hold on. Let's do the pledge.
Thank you. I even had Tom already and
I'm all geared up now. He's like
thinking I need to get out of it.
I aliance to the flag of the United
States of America and to the republic
for which it stands. One nation under
God, indivisible, with liberty and
justice for all. Thank you, Mr.
Bilstein. I do appreciate
it.
Okay. Julia, if you can state your name
and address for the record and and your
concerns, please. Juliet Spence, 220
South Dakota Street, Chandler, Arizona
85225. I walked here. I live really
close here. It's my first time attending
um your commission's
meetings. I'm a new resident. I love
living in downtown Chandler. I would
live nowhere else. and I have including
internationally.
However, I live in Pueblo VJO. As its
name
suggests, it has historical
significance to this community, to the
city in
general. It is, if not the one of the
oldest communities in Chandler. Once
again, I walked here. It is at the heart
of downtown Shandler. It has begun to
change recently, very recently, since I
bought my
property. Um, we have within the last
year and a half
had a duplex be built. Once again, love
having new neighbors. I moved here. I
want to encourage other people to move
to Chandler.
However, the duplex is very tall. It
takes up nearly the entire
property. It fits
in neither in
its structure nor its size nor its
feeling with the rest of the
neighborhood. It towers over
everything you have voted on or will
tonight I'm sorry I didn't look at your
agenda just got
here. You are going to vote on a new
duplex to be
built right in the same area very close.
It is going to be of a similar
size,
structure, and feel for our
neighborhood.
One, it was just bad luck for me. Its
location, it's right across the street
from me.
another one in that short of
time, that
size in a in a phrase. I can just say to
you, if you have not considered this,
this is the first stage of
gentrification of of all
neighborhoods, Pueblo
VJO. and we know what
gentrification does to a neighborhood.
Thank you very much for your
consideration when you vote for this
dune plex peace.
Any questions for the speaker? Okay. All
right. Um so any comments on before we
vote on the the consent agenda from
anybody?
Okay. I I do have a couple of comments.
Um, and I I appreciate the speaker. This
is an unusual parcel because this was
MF2 switched to single family back to
MF2. And it's really interesting how
this got done. And David, you've been
here for 47 years or something like that
now. But, um, how this neighborhood was
zoned MF2. Um, and I I don't disagree
with the fact
that it's a very large building in this
area, but by right it could be done. I'm
a little concerned about the 50% lot
coverage. I'd like to see it reduced
down to like maybe 42 to
45 because normally on a duplex we allow
at 45. Do you David, do you know why the
reasoning to go to the 50s should just
make more money or is it just what?
So, Mr. Mr. Chairman, the uh proposal is
would cover
47% law coverage and uh staff proposed
to have the maximum be 50% in case they
wanted to add an outdoor patio cover
because any when you when you calculate
the lot coverage, anything that's under
a roof um gets calculated towards that
lot coverage. And so if if they wanted
to add a patio cover in their outdoor
court area, um that would increase the
lot coverage. And so that's why we we
gave them, you know, another 3% to go to
50% so that they could add that patio
roof in the future if they wanted to.
But the normal standard would be 45.
Correct. The normal the So I guess my
question is why are we exempting them?
Why are we allowing what are they giving
us for the extra 5%. I mean normally
when we do people ask for a reduced
setback different things we usually
there's some reason and there's some
give and take.
It
is u through the chair. It is it is
making the uh the lot developable and u
and providing more housing. Um
that that would be my only response to
that. Okay. Thank
you, Commissioner.
So for lot coverage then the two covered
parking spaces are included in
that for 50% lot coverage as well. So,
we have the 47% which includes the two
covered spaces and then we put it up to
50 in case they want to do their covered
patio. That is correct. Okay. Thank you
for the clarification.
Any other comments for
anybody? Okay. We have a motion on this
consent agenda.
Mr. Sure. Commissioner, I'll make a
motion to approve the consent agenda
items one, two, and three as the
stipulations are currently there. Do I
have a second? Second.
Any further discussion?
Um, I do want to make a comment like I
just said, I this is a tough challenge.
Again, this was zone MF2, switch back to
single family. Um, I would just like to
direct staff that when we're looking at
these things that we're looking at the
massiveness of this and don't let this
set the president's the next step is
52%, it's 54%, it's 58%. And, you know,
we're building zero lot line stuff that
was not designed for a neighborhood to
be zero lot line. Um, so I think that's
super important. I also want to make
sure that when stuff comes to this
commission, if there emails from
citizens, I want to make sure it's on
our dis. I think that's needs to be
taken care of as well and stuff. So with
that, all those in favor say I. I. I. I.
Any opposed? Motion carries. Ma'am, this
is a a recommending body to the city
council June 12th. This will go to the
city council. So I think that's a great
time to express your concerns as well.
So um any other comments comments,
David?
Um yes, we have a couple comments for
I'll start and then I'll hand it over to
um to Lauren. Um, first the I'd like to
welcome Danielle Smei, our new
management assistant who will be um
being the clerk. Um, she'll be uh
switching with with Taylor off and on.
So, I'd like to welcome her. And then
also um I'd like to um give you a heads
up that we do have uh two meetings
planned in June, June 4th and then June
18th, I believe. So, we expect the um
the downtown region area plan to be to
to come before the the the planning
zoning commission on June 18th and uh
you'll probably be seeing an email from
Danielle shortly to make sure that we
have a quorum for that meeting.
Okay. I will be calling in for that
meeting. Sure. So, okay. Any other
comments from commissioners?
Commissioner Bilstein? Uh I would just
like to wish Commissioner Gala a happy
birthday. Oo, wait.
We're not going to embarrass her too
much. So, uh, beep.
I think you guys should do that. That
would be more embarrassing for you.
Yeah,
they they would actually probably ban us
from the life if we started singing
happy birthday to you. So, anyway, how's
it feel to be 30? Oh, look at you.
Mr. Chairman, Lauren did have a Oh, I'm
sorry. I'm sorry. No, no, thank you. Uh,
you're gonna sing happy birthday. Of
course. No, I just wanted to give you I
wanted to let you guys know about some
of the feedback we've been receiving
regarding the general plan update. Uh
two Saturdays ago, we had an event at
the Center for the Arts, Chandler Talks,
where we had experts from outside the
city come and talk about housing and
water. Uh it was Mother's Day weekend
and graduations, but we did have a
really uh good turnout. I want to say
there was about 65 people in attendance.
We did record it so I am going to follow
up with an email to you guys uh with the
link so you guys could watch it. Uh it
was it was a really good event and a lot
of uh thought came out of it. Uh the
week following that we also then did uh
Chandler listens where residents came
out and started talking through housing
types and land use types uh for our next
public meeting which will be uh end of
July. uh the consultant is going to take
those land use maps that were made uh
last week through the Chandler listens
and start modeling them to show uh
residents, you know, what what that
could look like. Uh so I just wanted you
to be on the lookout. I'll follow up
with an email so you guys can watch that
and uh keep you informed of all events
that we have planned. So, thank you.
Thanks, Lauren. Anything from anybody
else? Everybody wish everybody a happy
Memorial Day and be safe.