PHOENIX — There will be no planning and zoning hearings on the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors’ agenda for Wednesday’s meeting.
However, there could still be enough development items approved to affect the look of some parts of the county with a single vote.
There are 11 items on the board’s planning and zoning consent agenda, including industrial items, commercial rezones and three freeway billboard permit approvals.
Consent agendas often are approved by boards and councils without discussion. Occasionally, a supervisor has asked for a consent agenda item to be broken out for discussion and public input or for it to be removed from the agenda completely.
Last year, the supervisors approved a code amendment allowing off-site advertising billboards on select highways.
There would have been one planning and zoning hearing item on the agenda. After the agenda was created, a rezoning request for a proposed 80-unit townhome development along Thunderbird Road east of 75th Avenue on an island that Peoria could soon annex was postponed to Nov. 16 at staff’s and developer Gregory Living Trust’s request.
A proposed business along Mesa’s Main Street, on a county island in the Mesa/Apache Junction area, is one of the items on the planning and zoning consent agenda. The owner/applicant wants a change to C-3 with a plan of development for an auto repair business between Glenmar Road and Loop 202.
The owner of 7 acres near the northwest corner of El Mirage Road and Southern Avenue, in the Avondale area, seeks a special-use permit for a cottage industry to accommodate the manufacture of water tanks for vehicles in a Rural-43 zone.
Envirotech Group seeks a zoning change with overlay from rural to industrial use for industrial buildings on about 12 acres in the Tonopah-Arlington Area. Like many other items on Wednesday’s planning and zoning consent agenda, the rezoning received an 8-0 approval at a recent Maricopa County Planning and Zoning Commission meeting.
The owner of about 11 acres in the Mesa area, near the intersection of 222nd Street and Williams Field Road and Mesa Gateway Airport, wants a permit for a recreational vehicle and boat storage facility.
The ownership company of an existing marijuana establishment seeks a major special-use permit amendment in a C-2 zone. The group wants to expand onto an adjacent parcel and to include the sale of extracted product to a third-party, off-site licensed dispensaries on the adjacent parcel.
That site is near Elliot Road and Interstate 10 in the Phoenix area.
Owners of land at Apache Boulevard and Loop 202 in the Mesa area seek a rezoning for digital billboards. Owners of land at 59th Avenue and Watkins Street in the Phoenix area and Mary Street and Gilbert Drive in the Tempe area only need special-use permits for digital billboards.
The owner of about 10 acres at Power and Riggs roads in the Queen Creek area seeks a commercial rezone to accommodate a RV, boat and self-storage facility.
Jason W. Brooks is a News editor for the Daily Independent and the Chandler Independent.
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Born in Washington, D.C. and raised there and in suburban Los Angeles, he has covered community news in California, New Mexico, Arkansas, Iowa, Nebraska and northern Arizona.
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