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Queen Creek extends planning area to offer fire service out of town

Posted 12/12/19

An extension of the Town of Queen Creek’s General Plan Planning Boundary will add 180 acres of land nearly 4,000 feet from the southwest corner of Gary Road and Empire Boulevard.

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Queen Creek extends planning area to offer fire service out of town

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An extension of the Town of Queen Creek’s General Plan Planning Boundary will add 180 acres of land nearly 4,000 feet from the southwest corner of Gary Road and Empire Boulevard.

The request, which came at the behest of Fulton Homes, garnered the Town Council’s approval at the Dec. 4 meeting. The site includes the Fulton Homes Promenade development and vacant land, which Florence Unified School District owns.

The purpose of the extension is to include the under-construction development in the town’s fire district service area. Town staff clarified this request doesn’t include a request for annexation, only expansion of the fire service area.

With the extension, the area will carry the classification of rural. There is a potential for the properties’ existing condition to change to neighborhood in the future. The site isn’t included in any adjacent jurisdiction’s planning area.

Queen Creek provides fire services to areas within its General Plan Planning Area, even if the land sits outside of the town boundaries. The town does do this at other places near its boundaries.

Town staff say they are in the process of expanding the Fire District Service Area to include future developments south of Empire Boulevard. As part of this process, town staff found the planning area cuts through the Promenade development site.

With the approval, the planning area will cover the entire development. Both Fulton Homes and FUSD are supportive of the extension.