Chandler · 2023-06-07 · planning
City of Chandler Planning and Zoning Meeting 6-07-23
Summary
Summary of Decisions, Votes, and Discussions
- The Planning and Zoning Commission held a regular meeting on June 7th, during which they discussed various items including a significant rezoning proposal.
- A motion to approve the consent agenda was made and passed unanimously, including a condition for additional trees on item eight.
- A proposal for the Honeysuckle Trail project to rezone from single-family residential (SF-33) to planned area development was presented, which included plans for a 48-lot subdivision and a city park with retention basins.
- Concerns were raised about traffic impact, density, and the management of a retention basin, with a traffic study indicating no need for additional traffic signals at nearby intersections.
- The commission voted to recommend approval of the Honeysuckle Trail project to the city council, with a stipulation to ensure architectural diversity in homes adjacent to Warner Road.
Overview
The Planning and Zoning Commission met to discuss various agenda items, focusing primarily on the proposal for the Honeysuckle Trail development. The proposal involves rezoning a parcel from SF-33 to a planned area development that would support a 48-lot single-family residential subdivision and a public park. While the commission acknowledged the potential benefits of the project, such as addressing neighborhood flooding issues and providing a park for residents, concerns about increased traffic and the overall density of the development were voiced by community members. Ultimately, the commission voted unanimously to recommend the proposal to the city council, ensuring architectural variety on homes adjacent to Warner Road.
Follow-Up Actions or Deadlines
- The Honeysuckle Trail proposal will be presented to the city council on June 29th for final approval.
- Community members are encouraged to attend the council meeting to express their views on the development.
Transcript
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information um assistant foreign Stephen Curry thank you um get my account foreign foreign foreign thank you foreign probably be careful well I know the 100. okay thank you foreign um thank you guys thank you episode foreign good evening and welcome to the Planning and Zoning commission regular meeting at regular meeting for June 7th can I have a roll call please here ice commissioner Morgan here commissioner Quinn here commissioner Velasquez here commissioner Barry kello here commissioner Lopez here thank you very much first next item is the Pledge of Allegiance led by the Vice chair pledge allegiance kitchen stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you for that okay so I do have a few speaker a few cards for items that are not part of the the honey cycle group so um on item number three which is the Wayne I um Ty Schumann do you wish to speak on that item or you're just opposed to it okay thank you okay um item number five there's a question will that I have a question from Dede I apologize for butchering your last name here but um will the change the Zoning for other properties just east of the parcel and Chandler Boulevard staff will you address that on number five yes Mr chairman the request is to rezone the subject's site only it will not affect any surrounding properties okay thank you very much and then item number nine Amos Vance I do not want more music in the neighborhood uh Amos do you want to speak on the item or just want to State your opposition foreign if you want to talk about if you want to come up and state your name and address for the record up on the dice right here please I'm here I think I'm representing the neighborhood the people in our neighborhood just they think that they complain or stand up for something that they may be going against the city so they depend on the city to make decisions I live about 30 feet and the perch and music is loud enough there I have foam on my bedroom on the walls and I have your plugs but having more music in the neighborhood I don't think this is a necessity this this entertainment uh permit is just right next to the perch I don't know how you'd have such loud music right next to each other for one houses that cross the street and right now on the next lot so I want you to consider because I never did see the site map and thought I'd see it on TV so we don't want any more music in our neighborhood I appreciate it okay thank you thank you staff for you addressed the question I had earlier on the type of music especially early in the morning on this particular case and he stated that the music that would be playing um 10 a.m in the morning would just be speakers which are a part of this application so it would be um speakers and it would not be unreasonably loud to disturb area residents okay thank you what do you mean by speakers it would be music over the speakers and not live bands what would what is meant by just speakers somebody speaking no it would just be music over the speakers not live bands coming through the speakers at 10 am in the morning some more like just CDs being played or background music going on okay cool thank you okay I know we had additional stipulation then on number foreign number eight do you want to read that into the record please yes so the following condition of a pool will be added to um item number eight which is uh Crown Chevron it's going to be uh condition number five the application will work with staff uh to provide additional trees on site okay thank you thank you I want to address number nine for a second um to Mr Vance um this couple different things that we put in there um into this there's a one-year time step so if there is a problem there is also a phone number for um to be able to uh address it where you can call but again it has a one-year time step so if the applicant is not being a good neighbor and the music's above what's supposed to be you know they're gonna have to come back here in a year and in that case the permanent might be be issued so I specifically asked what type of music was going to be played especially in the early mornings and I hope these guys are going to be good neighbors they you know the restaurants are fairly successful um it's part of our whole you know downtown entertainment area but I do hear you and I think they they need to be aware of that that they're trying not to disturb the neighbors that's why I was questioning early morning music um in terms of that as well and stuff so um to the audience we have a study session prior to this where we've discussed items one through 10. um is there anybody in the audience other than the cards that I got that want to talk on any of those items okay see none okay what's the council I'm sorry commission's pleasure sure I'll move to approve the consent agenda with the additional conditions number five to item eight okay okay I'm not sure who got the second but staffy Julia which one okay we'll give it to you we'll give it to the new Visa yeah so anyway okay any further discussion all those in favor of the motion say aye aye aye closed motion carries unanimously okay thank you very much all right the next item is item number 11. uh staff do you want to make a presentation for the audience what we'll do is Staff will make a presentation we'll go to the applicant to make their presentation and then I'll go to the speaker cards if anybody besides what I have up here if there's anybody who'd like us to speak please fill out a speaker card and give it to our Clerk Lauren you're up good evening Planning and Zoning Commissioners tonight on your action agenda we have item 11 plh 2218 and PLT 2217 honeysuckle Trail the request before you this evening there's there's a couple of requests as part of this request so I'm going to walk you through it a couple of times through this PowerPoint but the request before you is a rezoning from sf33 single family to planned area development for single family residential and a city park a preliminary development plan for subdivision layout and housing product as well as a preliminary plant for a 48 lot single-family subdivision in city park with retention the subject site is located at the North West corner of Warner and bull moose it's approximately a quarter of a mile from Dobson and Warner the subject site uh fronts onto Warner Road and an existing church or a dilapidated Church exist on site with existing retention along the north side of the property to the east of the subject site is a collector Street Bull Moose drive and east of that is a single family subdivision zoned SF 8.5 the Orange Tree Subdivision of lots averaging 7 000 square foot Lots to the north we have El Alba Way and single-family Zone properties sf-18 and then to the west of the property all of that land is unincorporated and currently located within Maricopa County along Warner Road at the South West corner of the the of the proposed site there is a school the foundation for the School for the Blind there's two single-family homes that are zoned uh rural agrarian within the county uh and then we have a a city operated Water Production facility as well as a additional unincorporated rural Residential Properties north of that to give you a little bit of background on the property the subject property located on the left side of the screen was annexed into the city in 1979. it was zoned with the property indicated in the blue with the larger subdivision around the proposed property was zoned sf-33 which would allow for one single family home per a lot minimum lot size would be 33 000 square feet the properties to the east were given a zoning of sf7 which were single family homes that average 7 000 square feet and north of the property those lots were given sf-18 it was one zoning case with the three different land classifications in that case there was a preliminary plot that or there was a plot that was established and the north side of this property was identified as a track for retention it was privately owned but it was retention for the entire subdivision to the east at that time the property was uh owned by a church a year later in 1980 because a church isn't permitted by right on an sf-33 property they acquired a use permit to allow for a church so the picture on the right side of the screen uh is from 1986 so you can see you know seven years after being being annexed you can see the subdivision filled in and developed with the church developing as well in the circle you'll see the church with the north side of the property being used as retention the church has operated for for decades but at one point the pastor became ill and at that time from what we understand the retention Basin was not being maintained and so it was building up into the areas fast forward to 2014 September 2014 there was a large storm that occurred here in Chandler the picture in front of you shows you uh standing in or standing on the north side of the Basin looking East into the community water inundated the retention Basin going up over the street and onto the single family driveways just reaching their garage doors retention basins are required to hold a hundred year two hour storm and if I understand that correctly it's 2.2 inches this storm dropped about three times that amount and being not built to current standards and not being maintained throughout the years it flooded the entire neighborhood as part of my packet that was sent to you one of the attachments one of the neighbors provided a packet of pictures from many angles throughout that neighborhood fast forward even more we get to 2018. there's a home builder New Village Homes they submitted a zoning application to rezone the property to allow for 57 single-family homes they were going to keep the retention Basin as the city at the time said they had no desire to maintain or take over responsibility of the of the basin under this proposal there was going to be private amenities in between the subdivision and the retention basin we later found out in reviewing the plans that at that time the the calculations were Incorrect and it wouldn't be able to suffice the correct amount of retention required and due to the amount of opposition the case was withdrawn in July of 2019. so we come before you today with a request the request before you is a rezoning to rezone the property from sf-33 to planned area development for a single-family residential and a city park there's an Associated preliminary development plan for a subdivision layout and includes the housing product for the subdivision as well as a preliminary plot for the 48 lot single-family subdivision and city park with retention I'm going to break this up into two portions we're going to talk about the subdivision and then we'll move north to the park so on the south [Music] kahov is a homebuilder here in the valley and they are proposing to rezone the property to planned area development for single-family homes they're proposing 48 Lots within eight Acres that those acres are only outlined in green they were unable to use any of the Acres from the park or the retention Basin to the north to equate towards their density so with those eight acres and the 48 single family lots they're coming in at eight units per acre the standard lot sizes are 4 000 to 6859 square feet the smallest lot is 40 by 100 feet the subdivision is providing public streets within the subdivision which would allow for parking on both sides of the street traffic has reviewed this plan as well as fire and you know have signed off on the design of it each property or each home pardon me will have a two-car garage as well as a driveway to allow for two vehicles to park all of the 48 homes being proposed are two-story with a maximum height of 30 feet the perimeter wall along Warner Road varies and at some points it's 10 feet but at certain points it meanders from 10 to 15 feet and at the southwest corner it gets as deep as 58 feet to allow for plantings of trees out along Warner Road and to break up the wall Lauren I don't interrupt but you want to clarify something you talked about the eight Acres only can include where the homes are in a normal development where the open space would be included as part of the density correct that is correct chair so if you throw that in it would be a lot less than six per acre but because it's being deeded to the city or there's a development agreement that changes why the density seems to be high okay I just want to clarify that as part of this request there's a preliminary development plan for housing product the home builder is providing four separate floor plans with three architectural themes including Spanish Spanish modern Farmhouse and contemporary the homes being proposed are range from 1979 square feet to 2640 square foot the building setbacks for these homes on each individual lot the front setback would be 20 feet from back a sidewalk to front of the garage to allow for vehicles to park and not overhang the sidewalk and then 13 feet in the front for any livable or front patios side yards for this they would be required to maintain five feet on each side of the home and rear yard setbacks are 10 feet with the ability to reduce that setback to five feet for any accessory buildings now moving to the north the request is to rezone this property from sf-33 to pad for a city park with retention there was a preliminary development plan submitted and it has been evaluated by City engineers and we can confirm that the Basin can retain that Acquire the required volume calculations between the park and the retention Basin it's totaling approximately 4.5 Acres now let me break that down for you so on the south portion of it which would be between the subdivision and the retention basin the home builders is providing they're going out there and re-grading the entire site to accommodate retention for all surrounding properties including theirs and they plan on building a park the park will be 1.7 Acres large and it will include a Tot Lot a shaded Ramada with seating and a barbecue area uh it will be turf with sidewalks leading down into the area north of that in order to get a usable public park open to the public the retention Basin had to be uh deep in order to accumulate all that water so the retention Basin is 2.8 Acres large and it's secured with view fencing due to the depth of it it's proposed at five feet Maricopa County requires anything over 3.4 feet deep to be secured because it could pool upon completion the city will own and maintain both the retention Basin and the park this is being processed through a development agreement which would be heard before city council um as well with the zoning case it's tied to the zoning case one of the residents years ago brought it to my attention that in this area there's no park within their square mile this exhibit is taken from our existing city parks within our general plan the circle is the square mile between Warner to Elliott from Dobson to price in this area there's no no public park for the neighbors to attend foreign so as for neighborhood Outreach you know one of the reasons we requested this Beyond action is we've heard a lot from residents in the surrounding neighborhood they had uh they were only required to have one neighborhood meeting but due to the amount of attendees from the first we requested that a second neighborhood meeting be held the first was held in on January 10th and the second April 12th of this year the notification was posted on Nextdoor app as well as posted on site uh two weeks prior to the meeting then the applicant actually went out of their way to actually notify and invite all of the residents of orange tree when you look at the exhibit on on on the screen the zoning code code only requires that residents with property owners within 600 feet of The Proposal be notified of any neighborhood meetings the applicant and homebuilder went out and invited everybody from orange tree and so both meetings were well attended standing room only um as of today staff is aware of opposition to the request as well as support to clean up the property neighborhood minutes meeting minutes were attached as an exhibit so you could understand some of the questions that were asked but what we hear is an increase in traffic from the 48 lots and then residents wanting to drive to the park the exhibit before you shows the proposed subdivision in park in its proposed location and we've heard concerns about the intersection of bull moose and Warner um after talking with our city traffic engineer you know there was a traffic study done one year ago and there were numbers the numbers did not warrant a traffic signal further and more when we look at this exhibit there's a blue square that's bull moose on the other side because they were built offset it makes uh it it does not set up a good um it's it's not a good area to set up a traffic signal because of the offset of bull moose and the median turn lane residents were concerned with the amount of traffic I've circled all of the exits from the subdivision the purple hatched area on this exhibit are County Islands we've heard from a lot of County County Island residents the concern of residents from this proposal going through their subdivision to get to Elliott um other concerns that we've heard is you know the the request for two-story product the property the subdivision adjacent it's zoned SF 8.5 although there are no two-story homes in that subdivision they do have the ability to increase to a two-story as permitted by right in their zoning we've we've heard that it is too dense when we look at the proposal it's in compliance with our general plan as it sits along an arterial this is a true infill development it sits between two different intensities of you know rural large acre lots to homes that are approximately averaging 7 000 square foot Lots um it's in close proximity to a highway and you know staff feels that it is a compatible land use as designed the other concern we've heard uh the yellow line indicated on here is an irrigation ditch located within the county properties and just wondering how that would be maintained from um from what we understand in the exhibits provided to the city it seems that that ditch is completely within the Maricopa County Properties so as I was citing our general plan designates this site as neighborhoods which staff does find to be in compliance this request with the general plan as a infill development in between different intensities it's located along an arterial within a half mile of a freeway it provides a variety of housing within the neighborhood and it's a compatible land use it provides a park for the surrounding neighborhoods within that square mile and it resolves a retention issue for the for the region staff has provided standard stipulations as well a couple of stipulation PDP stipulation number 10 was also included as requested by a resident stating that Lots 1 in 42 which are the lots immediately adjacent to Bull Moose be limited to the two smaller floor plans as to you know since they are closer those two side homes are closer than any of the others to help create a better buffer for the existing community and with that staff recommends approval and I'd be happy to answer any questions Lauren did you work there was a stipulation I talked about in the pre-meeting about articulation along Warner do you work up a step on that chair human I was able to follow up with the applicant and so the way that the step is currently written we have a step that says PDP step number two that the same elevation should not be built side by side or directly across the street they've agreed to add an additional stipulation that would limit Lots one through eight from being the same elevation and or floor plan um for Lots one through eight which back up to Warner Road so if this gets approved tonight and goes to council at least there's some articulation there okay thank you Lauren can you answer a question on a land use if a charter school bought this land by right could they just come in without the city really having any control over it chair human uh if the charter school was publicly funded they would not be required to meet any of the city city standards with regards to zoning they would just have to meet life safety and fire they're not even required to meet traffic standards and so if a publicly funded charter school was to acquire this property um you know they they could go and buy right and possibly secure that retention Basin and fence it off because schools generally don't allow non-school users to be on site and if another church wanted to buy this sites since it already has a church on there could that just be done without any other than maybe a PVP for the city well it would probably need a new use permit just to ensure because it's not permitted by right under an sf33 but a use permit would possibly be required if not like for like questions of Staff Jeff thank you Lauren I have four questions actually fire them off at you um can you go back to the the previous slide I think it was resident concerns slide yeah neighborhood concerns number one question is there currently a traffic signal at Mesquite at Dobson uh through the chair commissioner Vasquez no it's only a stop sign Dobson is uh there's no stop sign there no signal just a stop sign at Mesquite okay second question are all of the product two-story that is correct all of it is two-story thank you third question um are there existing dry wells in the the fenced off proposed Basin to the north through their engineered drywalls in their existing or proposed with this development to drain within 36 hours okay through through the chair commissioner Vasquez um there's two art knowledge I don't believe there's any in there today with the request before you there are no um and I'll confirm with the applicant maybe when they come up but I I believe that they're not requesting drywalls to be undergrounded okay and then the last question um at the 1.7 acre park is there any retention other than just sidewalks within the park going to that Park site the improved Park or is it all going to the northern basin um chair uh through the chair commissioner vasque is a great question so the exhibit before you you know you'll see that green line so a portion of the subdivision retains along Bull Moose within that green area and then a little bit spills over which the city Engineers signed off on but everything in the park would drain towards the retention Basin okay thank you and to add on that a portion of the subdivisions retention would flow towards Warner in that southwest corner stock pass yeah so the uh the new retention Basin talking about having to go down to the uh was it an additional two and a half feet or two two and a half feet down jobs it's a total of five feet deep so yeah okay so probably additional two and a half um and that is a bird even though it has to be fenced it's a bird retention Basin I'm assuming it's not a wall to drop off is that correct did you understand running commissioner Lopez uh can you explain bird as in it's it's a it's b-e-r-m burned thank you um yes um there will be berms out along um if you Park plan oh yeah so in this plan um you see that they're actually they're keeping some of the trees they're keeping some of those mature trees they're adding some trees out along Bull Moose there and then they will have some birming in order to try to break up those views and and as part of that the new calculations because I mean the way it was before uh bigger but not as deep was not designed correctly or was it just not designed for the Thousand Year flood that we got and the new one is what are the design standards for that one to what volume great question uh I believe from the time it was designed in 1978 1979 uh our standards have changed since okay and the new that calculation is it still based on a hundred year flood or 100 Year rain or a different okay so still saying just a different calculation okay thank you other questions Lauren and the diagram you have here it appears that the park is still also a basin is that just a leftover um drawing but there appears to be topography lines that would indicate that the turf area in the park is also a retention area through the chair commissioner Quinn uh of course it is more of a little a basin for the turf area it will retain some water but it's not taking on a majority of the water it does appear to be three feet deep chairman if I could jump in real quick so the entire city parcel effectively retains water anything deeper than 3.49 feet deep needs to be fenced off from Maricopa County so the uh the park side of the of the city parcel to be owned will be that that depth that doesn't require fencing but it will be a basin so it the 100 year two hour event storm the retention Basin will be full and the water will fill up above that and then go over all the way to the uh to the city park normal storms will all go to the retention Basin and not keep the parking needed but the whole thing serves as a basin so that means the roughly that's between 28 and 30 acre feet of water storage yep it's a lot yeah okay thank you the exception that the Tot Lot will be high and dry up for code okay um Mr chair just one question excuse me as it relates to the overall Ambitions of water conservation just curious on the amount of turf shown there since this isn't likely to be an activated park with soccer fields and all those other things just curious on um the immense amount of turf there and if there was any thoughts on reducing that just out of curiosity through the chair uh commissioner um there were a lot of conversations had we've been looking at this for over a year there's been discussions with our parks department um civil Trump it's been an ongoing conversation at one point it was said to just DG the entire thing but the the Tot Lot but I who would really want to use that would you feel comfortable walking a dog in it letting your child play in it so we expected that a portion of it be turfed okay I think that the new buzzwords are functional versus non-functional this would still this will be functional Turf versus just being our decorative any other questions okay if the applicant would like to come up state your name and address to the record sir and this one oh okay yeah yeah there we go there yeah that's it good evening Mr chairman members of the commission my name is Ralph Pugh My office address is in Mesa it's a pleasure to be here this afternoon on behalf of K hobnanian homes and with me here today is Mr Chuck Chisholm and also Francisco Castell from K hobnanian uh members of the commission this has been a long and arduous task to bring this parcel to you today you are seeing the tip of the proverbial iceberg in the best description possible a full two years has taken to get to this point and many thanks to the staff let me just say that we've had practically every discipline at the city and every Department involved in one way or another in this particular plan and how it could be rehabilitated and how it can work today so thank you to not only your planning and Engineering but other departments the legal department and everybody has been great to work with to get this to this point today so I certainly don't intend to reiterate everything that Ms Schumann had to say today her her presentation was comprehensive and complete let me just highlight a few things that I heard from commissioners before I forget them with respect to the density if you take the 48 Lots into 12 full Acres we would be at four units to the acre I think that was a question or comment that one of you had made earlier if you do the math that's what it really amounts to the other thing having to do with the development agreement we are working with the city's attorney's office and appreciate their help that will be reviewed and looked at by the city council in conjunction with this case and that document will Define all the parameters within which the retention Basin gets built the Park area gets built when and how does that land get conveyed and transferred to the city all that technical business is handled in that development agreement there are and will be planned for this project dry Wells clearly to make the retention Basin uh function and with respect to Turf commissioner uh the main Basin that's five feet deep and that is protected with the fence will not have turf in the bottom of it it will be a very uh functional for lack of a better word Basin but the other portion of the park will have turf for the playground area so what caused the confusion someone else asked that question how did we get to this point right this is a highly unusual spot to be in it all started in 1978 with an ambiguous language a paragraph in a plat for the Orange Tree Subdivision and what responsibility lied where with respect to retention that situation just existed and I can't take the fault for it I started practicing law in 1979 so this was done at about that time but I didn't do it I don't know who did and nobody in Chandler frankly none of the staff had anything to do with it so we're living today with what happened then and we're trying to structure it in a way that works now so the benefits to the city are clearly as follows one a retention Basin that's designed to be utilitarian five feet deep protected with fencing to serve the neighborhood and the community so we don't have what happened in 2014. that's number one to the city and we would hope to hear from our neighbors that it's important to them right and so this the second item here is not only that but now a public park so just slightly less than two acres of this land will indeed be a public park with amenities fully accessible to members of the community that's the second major benefit then we also have here an unoccupied structure with unattended to Landscaping both of those issues combine to not create a very pleasant spot so we're going to rehabilitate that at our expense and then convey it to the city so those are things you just don't see in projects and most projects don't have to deal with coming in on a pure infill I mean Lauren hit it right on the head describing infield this is a picture-perfect example of that um the other thing I think is important to note that this has a full recommendation from the staff coming to you for approval we've done a lot in reaching out to the neighborhood two neighborhood meetings and admittedly in both meetings there were pros and cons but we did reach out and I think you'll hear probably from both sides of that issue here this evening the other thing to keep in mind is that this is bringing to the area a new design subdivision with fresh Landscaping the streets are City standard you can park on both sides of the street two car garages parking in the driveway this is a real subdivision it's admittedly on lots that are smaller than our neighbors but when you take the density as a whole and could factor into the land that's being deeded to the city it gets to be pretty close to the same questions have come up that have been answered by the staff with respect to traffic your traffic department along with our traffic uh study has indicated that these 48 homes are not going to move the dial on any additional traffic congestion or need I should say need to rehabilitate or improve roadways and traffic signals can't go here on Warner for the reasons mentioned by staff parking people were concerned about parking I've already explained there's plenty of parking on the site on the streets in the driveways in the garages Landscaping fresh new Landscaping will agree and did tell the neighbors that we would not allow our construction trucks during construction to come through the County Properties to our West so you may hear from folks that live in the county this evening we've agreed to that and we also understand and came to the conclusion the other night in a neighborhood meeting this project will not touch interfere with or do anything with the irrigation system that lies to the the owners to our West so we don't want to touch that or impede the delivery of that water in any way so again thank you to everyone for the hard work getting here today we urge your recommendation of approval we agree with all the stipulations and conditions including the one that was just added in the presentation from the staff so with that Mr chairman I'll be quite unless there are any questions Commissioners have questions of the applicant okay thank you Mr Pew I could reserve a moment for rebuttal absolutely absolutely thank you absolutely thank you okay so we're calling the speakers these are no particular order than the way they came to me from staff um Michael Barron uh wish to speak on the item Michael Bear if you can come up state your name and address to the record please you have three minutes the light will start with green it'll go to yellow with about 30 seconds ago and then red you just need to finish up please so good evening my name is Michael Barron my wife Karen and I own property directly across the street on Baltimore and we are here to say that we fully support the project we uh have seen the other project that came forward and we were hopeful then and this is a far superior project we we're both full-time real estate agents we know K hoopnanians product or familiar with the the Builder we have no affiliation with them we just wholeheartedly endorse this we we had water actually come up within about eight feet of the front door of our property on that event happened we've owned the property of about 11 years I believe but um we're looking forward to it it's um an eyesore and we appreciate there's one of the neighbors Dwayne lidman I don't know if Dwayne is here but he's a gentleman who lives in Orange Tree who's done an enormous amount of work with the city trying to get a park for the neighborhood there's no park at all and so thank you to the city the staff the developer everyone we're just we're looking forward to it it'll be much prettier too so thank you yeah thank you very much okay thank you any questions for the speakers thank you appreciate it okay um Valerie looks like milkov does not want to speak but um is an opposition of the project prefer something other than gravel and the retention basin one of the landscape with plant life so um staff could you address the the retention area the big one is just going to be graveled they'll be Landscaping on the street or not Lauren chair human uh yes there'll be some shade trees up along the street but as for the bottom of the Basin there's no plans yet but the longest streetscape when you're driving down you'll be it'll be landscape great thank you okay okay next person Roy Pinkerton uh wish to speak on the item if you come up and state your name and address for the record you come up to the dice state your name and address for the record Mr Pinkerton and you have three minutes good evening my name is with 1918 North Bull Moose Drive I'm opposed to the project for two reasons one is the traffic it's not just gonna affect little moose and Warner it's going to affect Alice and Coronado they won't be able to get out to the freeway that be lines backed up that's just one thing the study was taken on their traffic I don't know two years ago or three since that time we've had triple the traffic on one they need to look at that again real hard we voted down not having a traffic light there before we sure don't want one again the other reason it's kind of dear to my heart I'm third generation water well driller in this state I've seen water go from 35 feet deep to 55 feet deep if you don't stop building these condos and apartments and houses you're gonna run out of water period that's all I got to say any questions any questions thank you sir I appreciate your coming up okay next speaker Scott sorry I can't pronounce the last name so it starts with an M cool if you can come up to the diet state your name and address of the record hi my name is Scott Mullins I live at 2317 West Mesquite Street I do oppose this project on a number of reasons um one that's already been touched on is traffic there is going to be a problem at Bull Moose and Warner because like they said Bull Moose is offset when it hits Warner and staggered so you can't put a light there or anything like that um right now there's delays getting in and out of that particular intersection anyway of bull moose and Warner um it's going to be even more backed up with the uh high density of the property that's going in right now um the numbers that have been mentioned for the density don't quite seem right um the least dense you're good the least dense uh area of orange tree right now has 1400 square foot houses on 7 000 square feet of land these houses that are being proposed are going to be 50 percent larger than that on a lot that's four thousand square feet it's it's a lot higher density it doesn't really fit in with the plan of orange tree in general um plus there aren't any two-story buildings in orange tree and I don't really see that anybody's going to build a second floor Edition on there um and parking as far as parking is concerned I know they offer two-car garage and spaces in the driveway for two more cars but they basically said that they're gonna make sure that everyone parks in their garage and I don't know that you can really enforce that and it doesn't seem like there's going to be adequate parking for it and when they were going through the plans in previous meetings it didn't seem like they were really the streets were wide enough to even park on the the street in front of your house really and have like an emergency vehicle be able to make it through so I do oppose this and if you have any questions uh question Mr Mullins staff here you want to address the the parking on the street and the fire I mean our traffic department or Engineers have already looked at this correct uh chair human that is correct we do have a standard detail for Water Street would look like to allow for parking on both sides one side no side and per the exhibit provided and per the plans submitted under the preliminary plot it showed that parking was permitted on both sides of Road and we wouldn't allow anything to be built unless it could have a fire truck go through things like that correct that is correct thank you thank you sir appreciate it thank you next speaker is Brian Campanella you want to come up and state your name and address for the record hi Brian Campanella 2100 block of Mariposa it's a real short road well completely opposed to this whole thing basically in my opinion the city has been colluding with a non-constituent to change something without telling the public as we just learned for two years unacceptable the city council needs to Zone everything get rid of this whole working with developers thing and have a plan check build to what the property is zoned to plan check it and then approve it you obviously have a relationship with the attorney from Pew law because when he walked in he had a little joke with each other another indication of what I consider to be collusion with a non-constituent and if even one constituent opposes this it should not go through also Rick and I'm not trying to beat you up here but trying to add in well really if you consider all of the property the density is not that high well they're not allowed to consider that property for their density so why did you bring that up again another indication that we have this relationship with a non-constituent okay and it's very obvious that this is going to get pushed through okay it's wrong it doesn't com it doesn't fit with the neighborhood it's I believe in free enterprise and and uh uh except there's no such thing in America anymore because of all the regulations but capitalism is a wonderful thing but not at the expense of this neighborhood the only reason that the number is 48 is because that's the absolute largest number they can squeeze in here okay if if you change the zoning the other thing is when we showed the uh the page with all the parks around here we didn't show the size of the park that this is going to have you know why because it's minuscule the original Park for the orange tree was supposed to be that whole area the other thing nobody seems to understand is I have seen that property irrigated so that Canal is also property of the landowner and to abandon it you have to put it back into full use or you know if it can't have any cracks and breaks in it that's the responsibility of the people who abandon it which would be okay Hove so this just this whole thing just disgusts me sir could you wrap up your statement please why because it's uncomfortable no because you have three minutes or three minutes huh okay well it's an absolute ridiculous number of homes and it is the density that it is and the park should have been the whole event the whole basin and now we get this little minuscule one that we didn't put on the map because it's going to show how small it is relative to the other parks that we so uh proudly showed that's it I mean I go on forever but thank you sir sir I'm just going to address one thing accusing me of conclusion with an attorney I've been on this diet for many years and most learning attorneys will tell you that I put against a lot of their projects and I voted for some of the projects so I appreciate your comments in terms of density things like that but to accuse this diet or myself of conclusion I think is very irrelevant so yeah okay the next speaker I have is Denise Campanella if you want to state your name and address for the record hi my name is Denise Campanella and I'm a resident of the orange tree neighborhood um I am uh in favor of this uh cleaning up of this property I'm just not in favor of the density that is proposed in changing the zoning you've got 48 homes that you've identified that have the potential of having as many as four of their own cars these are big big homes for families that have more than one car two cars all of them have to leave this subdivision off of bull moose due to opposition there originally was only one exit onto Bull Moose which is only approximately two car lengths before you hit Warner the first exit the second exit now has been opened up uh for more cars to come out you know to be able to exit the development the density along Warner Road in the early mornings when people are going to work um I used to take that route to go to work I went I left my home just depending on what my schedule was for the day anytime between 5 a.m and 8 o'clock and I can tell you that there were times that I would have to sit for almost five minutes waiting for the traffic to come down Warner and I have seen the traffic to get onto the 101 backed up as far as the school for the deaf okay which is the the develop the building to the west of this property in in the early morning so all that traffic tonight because I was here for the early part of the meeting we learned that there is a another potential pad development one quarter mile south of Warner and Dobson with a hundred I thought maybe it was 110 properties any of those people are going to come the quarter of a mile up to the turn at Warner and to come on over to the uh 101 as well so the density along Warner is going to be incredible between the 48 homes here and the 110 that are just one quarter mile south of uh Warner that is that is my concern I drove down Bull Moose today Bull Moose is 25 mile an hour uh speed limit on on bull moves the person behind me was in my trunk and I glanced at my speed speedometer and I was going 28 miles an hour and he was trying to push me down the street we had a horrible accident at the corner of El Alba and bull moose because somebody was speeding injuries in the whole thing that's in the middle of the neighborhood so we already have a problem with speeding along Bull Moose with this all this additional traffic um it I I think it's untenable for the neighborhood okay if you can wrap up please thank you and that's what I have to say thank you for your comments I appreciate it you're welcome okay Nicholas Wist at least okay thank you state your name and address for the record be great okay uh my name is Nicholas Wiest I live at 2212 West Los Arboles place and uh well I we moved there in 1983 so we're original people over there at uh orange three one I'd just like to speak to the quality of the homes I work for a company that um surveys new developments in the East Valley um ASA at Gilbert Chandler and um in the capacity of what I've done I've surveyed of all the builders Sultan um polti all those guys and and hovenian uh kahoe and their products are always really really good and neighborhoods are great the houses look great and so I'm just here to just say that I've really been impressed with their product I have no association with those tags other than just that I uh surveyed all these properties all over the place uh thank you thank you Mr any questions thank you sir appreciate it you're welcome okay Kenneth Marx we can state your name and address for the record my name is Kenneth marks 2533 West El Alba Way uh I'm in the county portion of it and uh there were two things I wanted to talk about I started off wanting to talk about traffic only but the issue I'm glad the commissioner brought up the issue of the dry Wells because that points out something too the retention Basin not only has to be of a size to contain the water during a certain storm but it has to get rid of it in a certain period of time too and that's what the drywalls are for so hopefully the city will keep an eye on that sort of thing so that we don't have a big Mosquito Lake there like we have had in the past it's amazing how many can breed in there in a very short length of time my other issue is uh traffic on El Alba Let's see we don't really have a map to point to maybe you have a map you can look at there El Alba is uh an East-West Street uh which is the first street you would come to on the west side of uh uh Bull Moose as you're going north from uh Warner and uh that whole street there and uh it dead ends into 91st which then turns South and gets on to Warner and we have a certain amount of cut through traffic now because bull moose that intersection of bull moose and Warner like so many people have said is a tough intersection there and if people find it difficult to get in and out there they like to go up 91st and cut down El Alba so in a nutshell that's my concern that we get shortcutting traffic coming through there if that intersection of bull moose gets worse which I believe it will and uh uh in terms of the development itself uh I think the applicants uh have good reputations I think they've been around a while I think they've been responsive to the uh questions that we've had and I don't have any problem with that but they're these two issues are issues that I uh would appreciate you folks looking at okay thank you thank you um to staff L Alva once the subdivision is built we'll allow we'll go through anymore or Lauren can you address that you're human say it three times fast uh chair human uh elbow way is the street directly north of the retention Basin um the so so I was just curious that's that's just nor it's not part of this project really it's north of it okay it's the street directly north of what's going to be the retention basis okay I just want to clarify and the drywalls I think that's already been addressed by by you guys the staff so okay thank you sir appreciate you coming for the plans being reviewed uh they're required to drain within 36 hours all right um and hopefully we'll never have another five and a half inches in two hours like we did um Vicki marks you want to come up and state your name and address for the record good evening my name is Vicki marks I live at on L Alba also and uh that is a County area and and so it is a difficult area to to try to assimilate with the city my concern is basically um the retention the wall along the whole project on the west side we have our irrigation dishes that come down we have some traffic on them now of people that shouldn't be there not many and I am concerned that there will not I would like to know if there's going to be enough interest in a wall high enough that we don't have people from the park we don't have people from the other area coming over into our area we're beginning to not us but this the church has begun to have some um campers there and I don't want them to be more interested in coming down those canals we also have animals we have chickens stolen we have a lot of issues with people coming over so the project is probably going to be okay I am also concerned about traffic but it's just going to have to work out somehow we're worried about El Abba because it's a very small street with wise we have a lot of joggers a lot of kids a lot of people riding horses up and down the street so we would and that's early in the morning they do that so we're a little concerned about the problems that will ensue from people wanting to come down al-aba go across go out 91st or come in so that's just my concerns I hope the developer will also get back to us on a wall there because we don't want to be liable for people falling in the ditch or climbing over a five foot high fence into the dish so thank you for your consideration on this so let me ask staff Laura in terms of the irrigation ditch or in terms of the wall and stuff and the irrigation just we're not blocking that because it's still a functioning dish the dish just not a problem okay it's it's it's mainly on the homeowner's concern okay and we just don't want people from this side coming over in to all this property and possibly cause it problems because right now so it's out like can't they do it right now it's open now isn't it it has about a five foot high fence chicken wire fence to dress the campers just you know we have a department in our city that you have that situation come up feel free to call um it's Leah Powell's office I don't know the phone number or anything but staff can get that for you so when you do have that we do have issues around the city where where I live on the west side so but staff may even get you that number too so if you do have that happen please feel free to call the staff so they can deal with that stuff for you thank you okay is there anybody else in the audience that's all the speaker cards I have anybody else in the audience want to address this issue okay I have somebody in the back there if you want to come up and state your name and address for the record it'd be great and make sure I don't miss anybody hi my name is Noel Coates I live on Marlborough Estates off 91st so I'm just south of Elliott um north of the property you're talking about um just a couple things that came up we are prop we are in County property so our property has um backed up to the new development that's on price I don't know if you know it's a rental department development that you guys approved couple years ago that's finally completed lots of water used to build homes we were amazed at how much water is used to to build homes to address the the water issue that came up um we are concerned about traffic on 91st because already people from south of us across 91st that live south of Mesquite come through our neighborhood they don't follow the speed limit a lot of there's no sidewalks so if you're walking riding your bike your kids are out there's no um there you really have to pay attention and some people don't um because we've dealt with this property that's being built they don't take care of the ditch I believe they're supposed to when they were building that property they're the diggers the heavy equipment came right up to the ditch they didn't pay attention there's a lot of cracks in it and now it's all over ground and I'm a matter of fact I'm totally surprised that the city of Chandler hasn't notified the residents in that area that the ditch needs to be taken care of because um we've got we've we've got the that part new property and then the condo property and then the the um nursing home that are there so none of them use the ditch so it's all the responsibility of those of us in the in the county property to make maintain the ditches and make sure and that the water flow is is good and and we get no help or assistance from that side um and then there was one more thing um the ditch oh the fire trucks if you I do you guys go and look at these properties before before you have these meetings there's no way a fire truck can go down that that road that of of the um that new property that they built it is so narrow so they what they did is they built an uh an entrance that's locked to the condo that's just south of them so that if there is an emergency that they will um they'll go through the condos to get to that street because you can barely drive down that street and we have friends in Marble um a state which is like which is the pro the neighborhood on sorry I know neighborhood on that's on price and Elliott the corner there and so now people from that new development are parking in their neighborhood because there isn't enough parking on that street so those are just some of the issues that we might encounter with this new Department thank you thank you um to staff on a couple things ma'am on the on the water on the just so you're aware when you build the the Maricopa County has very strict rules about dust control so that's why there's a lot of water used just to keep the dust down just to be aware of that um staff on the ditch issue I think we're talking about the Reed Porter project I'm guessing on on Price Road will you get with our our you guys take a look at that make sure that if they damage that that's fixed it should be their responsibility and also on parking that's a rental that they're supposed to be responsible keeping their parking on their site so if you could take a look at that as well the speed thing is the speed thing's a problem in every neighborhood in every city all through Chandler that um and your 91st streets in the county so it have to be the sheriff's department but if it's even in in the orange tree neighborhood and you have problems with speeder is the best thing to do is get a hold of the beat Sergeant it's a problem throughout City people think they 35 or 45 doesn't mean 35 or 45 it means 60. so um but I do appreciate the comments and we'll have staff take a look at some of those things you brought up though so thank you anybody else Mr Pugh if you'd like then to any rebuttal or are you good okay all right great with that I am going to close the floor and any comments from the commission commissioner Lopez yeah I'll go first and dress some um so some of you may know this I am new to Planning and Zoning but I did serve I just finished up my uh eight years on the Chandler city council so there's a few things in here too wanna you know elaborate more on um some here on the dice and maybe some afterwards so I'll address water first again a lot of concerns were brought up about water um I can talk to you a lot afterwards but Chandler is good with water when we talk about the growth this is all planned for we've got 100 Year water assured water supply for Chandler so all of this at 100 build up is part of that calculation so our growth is already built into that plus we have I think it's 15 above and beyond even at 100 Year build out so Water Wise were good but we always have concerns so if you want to learn more about it on how Chandler deals with it I can speak with you afterwards um traffic as uh chair said about speeding in and we all deal with it especially around schools there's also a way not just counting to police BB contact Channel Tropic they can set up traffic counters so they can see speeding they can see counts and this is how a lot of studies are done to determine whether stop signs and or street lights or other things would be I need to altered in order to alter traffic flow so if you do feel there's a lot again a big problem with the Speaking of boldness please contact our traffic department and they can get some meters out there and start tracking that and I think it does speed also look for staff nods if I don't know if it does speeding it done no it does count but I'm seeing nods that they also do check speed so um and then that way if the numbers are bad in one of our neighborhoods by an elementary school is real bad we want to uh posting a police officer there consistently so that it kind of slowed the traffic down so one there uh and I don't know if the applicant will not answer this or or somebody from staff on the traffic also timing of the study my assumption is that since it was again this was different than all the other previously proposed um uh recommendations are for the for the build out here because those were larger units I think there was more count higher count the last time when it came through Council on didn't go um that this was smaller so my assumption is that it was a new traffic study for this count that was done not one from two or three years ago chairman uh commissioner yes so uh not only do we we had a reporters group submit a traffic impact analysis uh we had this group submit one as well um we don't simply take their accounts and then their estimations um our traffic engineered then looks at we we've been counting that I think we've recently counted that road as well and so she goes and looks at what they said this will project to provide and then measure that against what we measured out in the field today so Bull Moose we've honestly truly been looking at this site for about four years and it's been measured probably eight times in that four years okay thank you so I just want to make sure we had up-to-date study um and then irrigation ditch you know we talked about maintenance and again I remember some previous ones that come through uh are you anyone who owns the ditch who maintains the ditch um again this seems to be out of the purview of this case so ditch is supposed to be maintained as it was from previous owners nothing City and and the uh the applicant are doing nothing to maintain or modify the ditch is that correct okay so just wanted to clarify that so as it was yesterday it is to be tomorrow with the ditch okay um last bit uh again I want to thank you all for coming out we had some Pro some against uh I try to tell this to other people that do come and spend take time out of your own day to come out and deal with city government so I understand it can be frustrating um but we do listen everybody on the diocese we all live in these neighborhoods we're going to be living uh next door or even you know maybe even down the street and use these streets ourselves um so we do consider your input we may not agree with you on on where it may end up or what in what side of the fence it may land but don't please don't take it as we are not listening and we don't care but that we are having to evaluate it from different perspectives as a whole and as part of that again we're just a recommending body to the council the staff recommends to us we recommend to the council and again this all ends with the city council so uh if you feel it doesn't go anywhere if you do feel it goes your way and you don't want it to change please do engage with the council in next week when it comes before them that's all I am thank you any other comments okay like that um do we have a motion on the motion on this case I have to look it up now hold on I'll I'll move for approval okay thank you I get the right number yeah that's why I made it I have it on presentation right now so this is uh yeah so I move for approval of the rezoning preliminary development plan and predominantly plot of plh22-0018 and pl222-0017 honeysuckle trail located at the northwest corner of Warner Road and bull news Drive approximately one half mile west west of Dobson Road okay do I have a second I can't remember a second any further comments on this I I do want to uh commissioner Lopez I almost said councilmember we serve together uh commissioner Lopez's comments um this is we are just recommending body number one I I do want to commend the applicant and staff I mean this has been a long process this is an eyesore in the area um you know the challenges and you know on traffic as we build out our city I've been here 50 years you know when there was no traffic I moved into I lived in heatherbrook north of you guys um back in the 80s when there was wasn't a lot of traffic it's unfortunate that people want to live in Phoenix I guess it's a good and the bad um traffic happens I think the impact on this is 48 units it's pretty minimal but it does clean up a situation that is an eyesore um we have another flood you know we could have homes being damaged and things like that so um the reason I asked the question about Charter Schools Charter Schools could buy this property and there's not much we could do and if you go by some of the charter schools around the city you want to see traffic it's insane so I think this is a good use I think the Builder has done a good job working with us this is not something that happened the meetings the two meetings versus one I know there's been a lot uh Duane's in the audience I know he's been in every commission meeting and council meeting forever working on this to make it a better thing it's and we're not always going to agree on stuff there's give us and takes on all this kind of stuff but I do support the project so with that I'll share if I could sorry to hear about um I don't recall I'm drawn in blank did we have additional stipulations read in so we did have a stipulation that was tweaked so if so I think the motion needs to reference commissioner Lopez in the second if you want to allow him to just do that staff do you want to just read read that and that's the best way yeah so if I can then just add that uh why don't we have staff read read it in we'll do it that way so it's an additional stipulation so PDP stipulation number 11 the same elevation and or floor plan shall not be built side by side on Lots one through eight backing to Warner Road okay so yeah so uh motion 11 with Reddit stipulations the second okay with that right okay cool City attorney thank you very much I appreciate that any other comments okay all those in favor of the project say aye aye aye any opposed motion carries financially again we're recommending body to the city council let's go uh staff one is this going to council for human uh this will be on the uh June Thursday June 29th uh city council meeting okay so to the audience you will have an opportunity that time to go back and from a council they make the final decision on this we're just recommending Bobby on it so thank you very much okay any comments from staff a couple things chairs so one of the residents had brought up uh homeless and there is actually a a hotline on the city's website we've got a fantastic Community Navigator group led by Missy geffsison um and they're great at linking people experiencing homelessness with the services needed to get out of that just wanted to out to the public what the phone number is so it's 480-782-4302 is that Chandler cares line I mean that will if you see somebody if you see a group you see something that's the number to call um and then they're on it okay thank you very much I'm in the uh the second thing I want to mention uh a lot of people know and some people don't but in the audience tonight we've got Derek Horn uh and tonight is actually going to be his last pz meeting here as our director since we have we won't be having the next pz meeting before he formally retires from the city of Chandler so he was a development services director for five years we've had the pleasure working with him for five years uh when he entered we didn't have anything regarding historic preservation and in that time he created the historic preservation ordinance and he had the two items that went on the on the agenda tonight uh that went for the agenda item that went for tonight so I just wanted to recognize Derek thank him for five years uh I I want to reiterate what Kevin said Derek thank you very much um you worked really hard a lot for the city Your Love of uh historic stuff is also great um and next time you have to help make sure staff knows it's Williams Field it wasn't General Lord but thank you Joe for your service I really do appreciate it enjoy your retirement as well so um we will not meet again until the middle of July so wish everybody a very happy Fourth of July celebration be be safe and everybody have a great rest of your night