Good evening, everyone.

Thank you for coming out.

Okay, uh, I would like to call this meeting of the City of Eli Planning and Zoning Commission meeting to order.

Today is Wednesday, January 15th, 2025, and the time is six oh one p.m.

Ms.

Belinda, may I have a roll call, please?

Chairperson Stephen Poulson.

Present.

Vice Chairperson Conrad Tolson.

Commissioner Edwards Helsinki?

Here.

Commissioner Allen Crawford?

Present.

Ex officio Andy Sutton.

Here.

We have a quorum.

Okay, great.

Thank you very much.

Let's all please stand for a pledge of allegiance.

Okay, thank you.

Moving on to item four on our agenda.

I'm looking for a motion to approve the December eighteenth, twenty twenty-four meeting minutes of the Eli Planning and Zoning Commission.

I'll make a motion to approve.

Okay, I have a motion to approve.

Do you have a second?

I'd like a second, but with a uh recommended uh clarification on it.

That'd be the uh reason for my vote on item Roman number five B, Picaccio View, Poblano Solar.

I'll just the minutes only say I voted no, but I voted no because it's one, it's right across the street from residences in Arizona City and it's right on the line between our pr our boundary and Arizona City.

So the main objection was that it's just too close to residential the way it is right now.

With that, I'll make a second.

Okay.

Moving on to item five.

New business.

Possible discussion and or action on the following.

Item A, I'm gonna read that and then I've got some late breaking news.

Okay, item A, case number CSP two zero two four-zero zero one.

That's the exceptional health care hospital comprehensive sign package and master sign program.

We were gonna conduct a public hearing and make recommendations to the Eloy City Council on the applicant's request for a comprehensive sign package and master sign proposal pro uh master sign programs to be used on an approximately ten acre site zoned light industrial I one zoning district and located at three four zero east mulligan road.

Okay, we're not gonna do that tonight because we just received uh an email from the associated uh sign company saying we are requesting to continue the hearing for case CSP two zero two four-zero zero one to a later date to be determined.

The reason to continue the case is the ownership has decided to change the design of the freeway pylon sign.

So this um request to continue.

I need to have a motion uh and we need to vote on it.

Do I have a motion to continue as the associated sign company has requested?

I'll make a motion to continue.

Okay, I have a motion to uh continue.

Do I have a second?

Okay, I have a motion and I have a second to continue.

Uh this uh per the associated sign company.

Ms.

Velinda may have a roll call, please.

Chairperson Stephen Paulson.

I've Vice Chairperson Conrad Tolton.

Commissioner Edwards Joseda?

Aye.

Commissioner Alan Crocker.

Aye.

Okay, the vote being unanimous, and the uh request has been continued to a later date.

Okay.

Item B, case number RZ, PAD 2024-006, the Southwest Crossing.

We're going to conduct a public hearing and make a recommendation to the Eloy City Council on the application request to rezone approximately 122 acres located at the southwest corner of West Houser Road and North Australia Road from General Industrial I2 to General Industrial I2 with a planned area development or pad overlay.

Okay, so I'm going to open the public hearing right now.

Chair members of the commission, Dan Seimer, uh community development directors as you indicated the this case has um is for a new rezoning to allow for a PAD to accommodate a new data center or data services use, excuse me.

Uh it was continued at the last hearing so that staff can work out the uh conditions of approval.

We have reached a conclusion on that, and staff is recommending approval.

So at this time I'd be happy to hand this over to the consultant for their uh presentation.

Sounds like a plan.

Please state your name and address uh for the record, please.

Yes, sir.

Oh yeah, that really doesn't make sense.

Okay, we'll try this again, Mr.

Chairman.

Um, for your records, my name is Carolyn Oberholtzer with the law firm of Bergenfrakes Smallland Overholts are 4343 East Camelback in Phoenix.

And I'm here tonight on behalf of the property owner.

Um, and our representative Brian Rhodes is here.

He's farmer on the property or farm uh he's in agriculture all over Pinell County, and he's been working with the Ryan companies who are also here this evening to develop a data center on this property.

So I have a very brief presentation to take you through.

Would be happy to answer any questions you you have.

Um I see up on the screen here, it's the agenda on here it's the presentation.

So you see the there we go.

Okay, great.

So as Dan mentioned, the property is um at this corner of Hauser and Australia, along the railroad corridor and then Frontier Street, the CAP Canal or the Santa Rosa Canal is to the south.

Um the property is zoned industrial, and um as is all of the property around it, various levels, I2 and I1, and I'll show you that in a moment.

Um there is a well site that is currently being developed in the southeast corner of the site.

That is the Central Arizona Irrigation District well, and that well is being drilled to serve the agricultural production on the property.

Once the property is no longer in agricultural production, they will work with the city to convey that well to the city.

Um so that's in that southeast corner.

So if you've noticed anything activity on that site, that's what's going on there.

So the property is within your industrial corridor, kind of smacked out in the center of it, and again, um on the right that shows you the property just with the zoning overlays.

So as I mentioned, it's predominantly I2 in the area with some I-1 in the south.

And then across the other side of frontier, there is residentially zoned land.

So as I mentioned, we're working with the Ryan companies.

They're a data center developer among many, many other asset classes.

And this project has been structured and very tailored through the stipulations that Dan mentioned.

There's 23 of them to put guardrails on the future development.

But the use that is going to hopefully develop on this site is going to generate a tremendous amount of economic activity, very little traffic and very little intensity of use beyond the site.

So it is fundamentally a warehouse where data is stored from the cloud.

Thereabout, but then that additional height is needed for the things that need to go on top of the roof as well.

And that will all be screened as is required in the architectural guidelines.

But it is indeed only a two-story building, but that is why we're asking for the 80 feet.

So this slide details some of the financial components of the development.

I know this is a land use case, but the data center use is one that generates it demands a lot of power because it demands a lot of power.

It creates a lot of revenue for the city because there are taxes that are associated with that power consumption.

And so that is something that is unique to this type of a project.

Again, very high power.

This is a low water use facility.

It will be closed loop or better, which means that there would be only one storage tank to cool the systems.

This really has to be free-on cooled.

They're not the old systems that were water cooled that did use a very significant amount of water.

So this is going to be a low water system.

And then to ensure that staff has stipulations in this case, one of the 23 builds in water limits that we are capped at the amount of water that we could use on this facility within this zoning case.

So here are the development standards that we are proposing to adjust.

Single one is bold at the bottom, and that is again that 80 feet that I just talked to you about.

This is a conceptual layout of a three-building configuration that's it's an oddly shaped parcel.

Data centers have substations on their properties as well.

So the cross-hatched area in that southeast corner is the likely substation location for this data center complex.

And these are three buildings that are roughly 275,000 square feet apiece.

And again, we will we will be coming through the site plan process with the city after zoning, but and this is just a concept at this time, but uh it's probably a pretty good indication of how the site will lay out.

So in addition to the design guidelines I mentioned, we have some additional landscaping features that will happen around the site versus the design guidelines that apply mostly to the building.

We're gonna have a 30-foot landscape buffer along Estrella and houser roads within which there will be a 10-foot trail easement.

Um we're also going to provide for a landscape buffer along the Santa Rosa Canal.

Um these increased areas of landscape buffers are to adjust for the area that isn't going to be landscaped across the canal.

The idea is once we get to Frontier Street, uh the pedestrian and vehicle movement is going to happen at the houser intersection and not at the canal intersection because of the railroad.

The uh pretty much covers that here.

So these are just representative examples of two-story buildings of other data centers elsewhere.

Um again, you see the different uh types of equipment location.

One of the design standards that I'll take you through in a moment, limits.

Um there's no bay doors that are able to front on houser.

Um these buildings, as you can see, they don't typically have bay doors.

Um this is not a a warehouse that requires truck traffic and truck trips.

It is um mostly uh office appearance from the exterior, and then the there are generators and the storage tanks and um that are all associated with this facility typically in the back side of it.

So the design guidelines also encourage the placement of those facilities behind the buildings.

Um so those are just summarized on this slide, just detailing some of this.

There's several pages of design requirements in the PAD.

I just pulled out a few to highlight um that there's going to be building massing limitations, that there is a restriction on using the same color all over everything, and you have to um abide by these standards in addition to all of the otherwise applicable standards in the code.

We've made them more stringent um in the PAD.

And so with that, um I'm happy to answer any questions.

Uh and I I want to thank staff.

Um, Dan has done a ton of work on this case.

Um, and uh I think that we have come to a very good resolution on a lot of issues, and so we're we're happy with the recommendation of approval to council, and we hope you can agree.

Okay, thank you very much.

Colleagues, we have any questions for the young lady.

Okay, thank you.

Well, thank you, young lady.

Thank you for your presentation there.

Um the use of the freon and not the water for primary cooling.

Big thumbs up, big thumbs up.

I know it's more expensive to go that route than the old traditional route, so thank you for that, keeping the water conservation in mind.

The next thing is the generators, you plan to have those ground mounted or roof mounted.

Mr.

Chairman, Mr.

Mayor, um, it is undetermined at this time.

If they're roof mounted, they will be screened.

Okay.

If they're ground mounted, they'll be screened.

So whether it's on the ground or up high, it will be um behind screening walls.

And we're not sure what flavor generated gas or diesel at this point, I guess if you don't know if they'll be on the ground or too early.

Pardon me?

They're gonna be on the ground.

On the ground with a large diesel storage thing.

Um each one has a so each one um for because they're not speaking in my, and I could have them code.

That's all right.

I'm just curious for my own edification.

So so how it works where we are right now in the zoning is of to get the entitlement, they're working currently with the end users.

Once they determine the end user, then they'll be able to finalize the site design, and then we'll be in the city's design review process.

All of those questions will be answered then.

We just aren't at a point where we have that yet, but they've done enough work to know this is this is the direction, the three building direction.

And last I'll say thank you for choosing Eloy.

Good job.

Thank you.

Do we have any other questions?

Yes.

So the uh conditions that we have say annual calendar average of 250,000 gallons per day.

Which the average home uses about 146 gallons per day.

So that works out to roughly 1700 homes, just that's just average.

And a peak would be up to possibly 6,000 homes per day of water use.

And uh that's I understand you're using refrigerant, but it's got to reject the heat somewhere, and I guess that's where you the water comes in.

Is there still you it's maybe a cooling tower you're gonna have?

Or you so Mr.

Chairman and Commissioners, so we had to um go through the water analysis by assuming lots of different uses.

So this is because remember, this is I2.

So in the whole all of the I2 uses that are permitted, there's a lot of large water users.

Um in a large water user situation for a data center, we're talking about you know, millions of gallons per day.

So we assigned these low numbers, low for the purposes of data center industrial uses to make sure that we had plenty of room and design to be able to design up to a certain amount, but in all likelihood it's going to be a fraction of that.

Again, because we are restricted from we cannot utilize the water cooled chillers, so it's not going to be a significant water user.

In all likelihood it'll be a fraction of what those numbers were that you just recited.

And I'm not sure if the I think you mentioned the gallon per day at 46 gallons per day.

Oh, 146.

Right.

Yeah, I thought that that I thought you said 46, it said it a little low.

Got it.

So it still all right.

You're gonna have uh you said you weren't gonna be using water cooled chillers, but you're gonna use the refrigerant, but still the refrigerant has to reject the heat somewhere in July and August.

That gets difficult around here to find to be able to get enough delta T to get rid of all that heat.

So that's where I'm thinking you're gonna be using a lot more than closer maybe to the 500,000 or the 875,000 gallons.

Whereas I the I the general idea of having the warehouse down here close to all the energy that's going to be generated, that's great.

And I understand that way you don't have to transmit it up to Phoenix or somewhere else and uh do it.

But we are in a desert and uh water is scarce down here, and I'm sure the farmers the farmers are getting.

No, no, they're they're getting the short end of the stick on it because they they don't have already they're rationing them.

But uh Okay, anyway, is the Freon is not the magic solution because it still has to reject the yeat somewhere.

But uh okay, I see what you're trying to do, and uh thank you.

Okay, do we have any other input at this point in time?

Okay, thank you very much.

Thank you.

Appreciate your input.

Do I have anyone else who would like to uh say their piece?

Come on up, sir.

State your name and address.

My name is Kirk McCartell.

I reside in Casagrande, Arizona.

I'm I work for the land advisors organization.

I represent the property owners Brian Rhodes and Jake Roberts, their partners on that farm there.

That that land is currently being farmed, and they have the right to use approximately five acre feet per acre on the hundred acres they're farming, which is uh at least as much water or or probably less water than they're planning on using for the data center.

I think the actual water consumption will go down.

And I can't prove that right now, but I think that's what we'll find out.

So thank you, sir.

Appreciate your input.

Five acre feet, that's a lot.

Okay, anyone else would like to uh participate in the uh public hearing.

Okay, I'm still looking.

Anyone else?

Okay, I don't see anyone else who wants to uh say their piece, so I'm gonna close the public hearing.

Thank you very much for everyone's input and interest in this topic.

Okay.

Now I'm looking for a motion.

A motion of any sort to move this along or not to the Eloy City Council.

I'll make a motion to approve.

Okay, I have a motion to approve.

Do I have a second?

The chair will make the second.

I can do that, can't I?

I thought so.

Okay, we have a motion to approve, and we have a second.

Ms.

Belinda, may I have a roll call, please?

I vice chairperson Conrad Tolton.

No, I can't good conscience vote for the water usage on this.

Commissioner Edwards will say that.

Commissioner Allen Croffer.

Aye.

Okay, thank you very much.

The motion has been approved by a vote of three one.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Okay.

Item number six.

Moving on.

This is a non-action item.

Oh, no, you can't leave yet.

You need to sit and listen to everything.

Oh, there's more people leaving.

How do you think that makes me feel?

Okay, seriously, on to item number six.

This is non-action.

This is a presentation and possible discussion on public comment and public comments on the following.

This is an update to the airport master plan.

Thank you.

How do you think it makes me feel?

Everybody didn't want to listen to me.

I know.

The airport's a cool thing.

Okay, please state your name and address for the record.

Sure.

Good evening, Mr.

Chair and fellow commission members.

My name is Matt Quick.

I'm representing Kaufman Associates, 4835 East Cactus Road, Scottsdale, Arizona.

And I'm here to see this evening to uh give you an overview and presentation on the airport master plan update that we've been conducting with the City of Eloy regarding the Eloy Municipal Airport over the course of the past several months.

So I appreciate the opportunity to come before you this evening to provide you that update and overview.

Just real quickly, the purpose of an airport master plan.

Eloy Municipal Airport is included in what's called the National Plan of Airport Systems as dictated by the Federal Aviation Administration or the FAA.

There are over 3,000 airports within that system spanning across the country.

So as a result, the uh FAA wants to see the orderly conduct and development of the airport over time.

One of the ways that can occur is through updating the airport master plan.

So the last master plan for the airport was uh updated and finalized and approved back in the 2013 time frame.

So the FA recommends that about every seven to ten years airports update their master plan.

So this is certainly a timely uh reassessment of the facility and what's occurring at the airport.

Um the master plan provides um kind of a visioning document, a roadmap, if you will, for future growth and development opportunity at the airport over the next 20 years.

Uh the master plan is a 20-year planning document.

We're looking 20 years out into the future when it comes to forecasting and things like that, with the understanding that these documents are updated usually about every 10 years.

Uh we look at aviation demand, obviously, what's occurring at the airport.

I'll talk a little bit more about that momentarily.

Uh the master plan allows us as well as the city, being the airport sponsor to look at and address uh things that are occurring locally, regionally, nationally that could have impacts on the aviation system as it relates to the airport.

Uh the master plan helps to identify future projects uh at the airport.

This is important because every year, city and airport staff go before the FAA as well as the Arizona Department of Transportation Aeronautics Group with an updated capital improvement program.

This master plan will outline projects over the course of the next several years that the city can use to coordinate with the FAA as well as ADOT Aeronautics on an annual basis to determine what projects would be viable and justified for future growth and development opportunities.

And then also uh one of the things that the master plan does is it just allows uh public awareness of the airport, the what's going on at the airport.

Um we believe in a very transparent process and uh is allowed an opportunity to provide uh that feedback to the community as to what's happening with the goals and overall objectives of the airport.

So that's just a brief overview of what the purpose of the master plan is.

Uh the master plan process, we started this back in the fall of 2023 with a kickoff to the what was called the planning advisory committee.

This was a group of uh stakeholders and tenants and uh government officials that had an interest obviously in what's happening at the airport.

Uh we split the master plan into three phases, um, and I'll talk a little bit more about those here in a moment, but uh each one of those phases uh had specific milestones tied to those uh certain elements that we looked at, whether they be forecasts or alternatives for future growth and development opportunities, and then uh kind of bringing everything together in that third and final phase with a recommended development concept that really serves as the roadmap to the future of the airport, which I'll talk about.

Uh along the way, we um I mentioned the planning advisory committee.

We also had public information workshops.

We had four PAC meetings and three public workshops during the course of the study process.

And that brings us to where we're at today.

We conducted our our final uh planning advisory committee meeting and final public information workshop back in September of 2024, and since that time we've been working with city staff to just pull together the draft final documentation that's before you this evening.

Uh I mentioned public outreach, obviously.

Uh any master plan should not be uh confined to uh no opportunity for the general public to take part in the process.

So we did employ the planning advisory committee.

Uh it was made up of approximately 12 members that served in various roles with the city, with the FAA.

Uh there were airport stakeholders and tenants that were uh on that committee as well.

We met four times during the course of the planning process.

That was an advisory group.

We just obviously leaned on them with their expertise and information knowledge of the airport and as well as the aviation industry.

We had three public information workshops that were conducted as a part of the study process as well.

We held those here at the in the community room here at City Hall and had uh fairly good participation in each one of those public workshops.

And then we come before you this evening to uh provide an overview and update as to relates to the draft final report, and then ultimately we'll our plan is to go before city council, I believe, next month, and that will finalize the study process at that point.

Outcomes of the master plan.

I'm going to talk here in a moment about the aviation demand forecast and what we looked at with that.

Uh we evaluated not just the forecast, the numbers of operations and the types of aircraft at the airport, but also what would be defined as that critical design aircraft that helps to drive the safety area and design standards and how the airfield system needs to be built over time.

Uh that recommended development concept is obviously a key outcome, and like I mentioned, that serves as a roadmap for future growth and development opportunities.

There's an airport layout plan drawing set that's a result of the master plan, and that's what's coordinated with the FAA as well as ADOT Aeronautics Group.

The importance of that airport layout plan is any future projects that the city wants to pursue, whether it be federal or state grant funding assistance for, needs to show up on that ALP.

So this ALP is being updated as a part of the master plan.

And then the capital program, the importance of that is obviously on an annual basis.

The city goes before the FA and ADOT with an updated list of projects to consider for future development at the airport, and the master plan helps to lay out that capital program that can really be used as a living document, if you will, that they can look at on an annual basis and slot projects accordingly.

Aviation demand forecasts.

This was one of the key components of the master plan that was done in the first phase of the study process.

For an airport such as Eloy, there's two main demand segments that we look at.

We look at the number of aircraft that are based at the airport, and we look at the number of annual aircraft operations.

So an operation at the airport would be an aircraft that takes off or an aircraft that comes into land.

Each one of those instances would be considered an operation.

We used uh 2023 as the base year of the study process.

During that time, there were 42 aircraft that were based at the airport.

We did get that information directly from airport and city staff.

And then as far as operations goes, there's not an airport traffic control tower, so we don't know the specific number of operations, but there are forecasting methodologies that we can use to come up with estimates, and we estimate or estimated approximately 30,000 annual aircraft operations.

So the master plan being a 20 year planning document, we came up with a forecast for five, 10, and 20 year planning periods.

And as you can see, we're uh projecting growth in based aircraft and annual aircraft operations over the course of the next 20 years.

Uh based aircraft growing to upwards of uh just shy of 70 being forecast in the out year, and then operations increasing to just over 43,000.

Again, these are estimates.

Uh, they're used for planning purposes as they relate to the facility needs and overall alternatives development that we came up during the course of the master plan.

Uh the forecast, there's two components of the master plan that actually get approved by the FAA.

One of those is the forecast.

When we got through that first phase of the planning process, we did coordinate the forecasts with the FAA, and they have approved those forecasts actually back in August of last year.

So those forecasts have been approved.

The second piece of the master plan that goes before the FAA for approval will be that airport layout plan drawing set, which will occur during this local approval process as well.

We were obviously interested in the number of operations, but also we were interested in the type of aircraft that are operating at the airport.

And the importance of that is that helps to dictate the design standards, the safety standards, uh, runway length needs, other airfield needs, uh, the types of hangar facilities and things such as that.

So we came up with an existing aircraft and a future aircraft that we would consider critical to the airport.

These are the most demanding aircraft in terms of approach speed as they come in to land at the airport and the wing span, and that they operate at the airport at least 500 times a year.

So you're looking at aircraft that um at least operate 500 times annually, and um that are the most demanding in terms of uh speed and wing span.

So the existing uh critical design aircraft was the uh Schwartz Sky Van.

Uh actually, there's aircraft out there that are operated by Skydive Arizona, and that's where we came up with that existing aircraft operating at least 500 times a year.

And then looking into the future, just based upon the trends that are occurring within the aviation industry here locally as well as regionally, uh, and just the location of the airport in proximity to I-10 and other other factors.

We uh make an assumption that the future critical aircraft could transition to a smaller to mid-size corporate business jet over the course of the next 20 years, and that's for that Cessna citation.

That's actually a picture of that aircraft.

So something similar to that is what we would project to operate at the airport at least 500 times annually in the future, and it would help to dictate the safety design standards that are uh that we need to plan for in the future.

So we took all that information and we again went through a facility requirements analysis and alternatives analysis, and in coordination with the planning advisory committee and feedback that we got from the general public.

We came up with a recommended development concept.

And I know this is probably hard to see, and there's a lot on here, but uh this just provides kind of that snapshot of what we believe the airport should be planned and developed to over the course of the next several years.

You guys can see the runway environment.

So currently uh the runway is aligned uh northeast to southwest.

It's good it's given a designation of runway 321.

It's currently 3,900 feet long.

Based upon our analysis and looking at the types of aircraft that could operate in the future, we would uh make the recommendation or at least the planning recommendation of setting aside property to be able to extend that runway to upwards of 5,500 feet.

That would accommodate a large majority of the small to mid-sized business jets and everything below that.

Um, and we go through a lot of analysis in the master plan to help determine that particular runway length.

But uh, you can see those red areas on either side of the runway, and those would uh comprise the runway extensions.

We're actually showing we looked at alternatives to extend in one direction versus the other, and we came to uh the conclusion that it could be done on both ends to satisfy that future 5,500 feet of runway length.

This isn't a new concept to the airport.

Uh the previous master plan also uh looked at a potential runway extension and actually the currently approved ALP with the FA does show a runway extension.

There's gonna be a lot of factors at play to help justify and determine that runway extension in the future, but from a planning perspective, which is a master plan is um we certainly feel like it's something that should be considered uh based upon future activities at the airport.

There's some other uh factors that we looked at in the development concept.

Obviously, safety is of utmost importance, and the FAA has a lot of uh airfield safety and design standards.

So we're looking at the taxiway system, making sure that it's safe and efficient to accommodate those types of aircraft.

Uh, we make some recommendations to relocate certain taxiways uh from a safety perspective as well as just to be able to accommodate those runway extensions in the future.

Uh we also show some extensive landside uh development, as you can see.

Those red areas again are all tied to future airfield pavements, whether they be the runway extension and taxiway extension that I talked about earlier.

Down on the southwest side of the airport, we show the potential to extend some aircraft parking apron that could accommodate future hangar development.

Uh so we outlined several of those potential development concepts as well.

So there's a chapter five in the master plan.

If you get an opportunity, take a look at that, and we go into a lot more detail as it relates to this development concept and coming up with kind of a list of projects to support uh this overall uh development.

Uh another one that I didn't mention is on-site weather is obviously important to airports, to pilots operating at airports, and we would propose an automated weather observation system as well at the airport, uh, something that could certainly be accommodated and something that's certainly supportive through uh FAA and ADOT grant funding assistance.

So that's just the snapshot of uh the recommended development or master plan concept.

From that, we uh came up with a capital program.

And I mentioned earlier that capital improvement program being one of the key pieces to the master plan and the importance of that is just allowing the city to be able to coordinate on a regular basis with the FA and ADOT.

So we took the capital program and we came up uh with a list of projects to support that recommended concept that I just showed you.

We split these projects into three planning horizons.

The short term is the one to five year time frame, intermediate term is the six to ten year time frame, and then the long term is that 11 to 20 years.

So uh based upon that, this is the list of projects that we show for the short-term program.

These are not set in stone uh just because this master plan, you know, we're ultimately seeking uh approval or adoption of the master plan.

That does not hold the city to any of these projects, but what it does do is it just puts the city in a good position to be able to coordinate these on a regular basis with the FAA, if the justification is there, if there's a safety need, if there's a demand need, things such as that.

A lot of these projects that we have are maintenance related, making sure that uh airfield pavements are taken care of.

Those are all eligible for FA and grant funding assistance.

I mentioned that automated weather observation system.

That's actually uh a project that we would consider to be a higher priority project, something that the city should look at implementing at the airport within that five-year time frame, along with the rehabilitation of certain uh airfield pavements and other hangar facilities.

So that's a kind of a snapshot of the five-year project uh window that we're looking at in the short term.

Uh we come up with detailed cost estimates uh as it relates to these projects.

Um obviously you're gonna see some pretty hefty figures here.

Uh the majority of projects that we do list in the capital improvement program are eligible for FA and grant funding assistance within the state of Arizona, and given the classification of the airport, uh, it can receive FA grant funding up to 91.06% of the total project cost.

And then ADOT Aeronautics can also pitch in uh the half of the remaining share.

So at the end of the day, you're looking at most projects at the airport, most of the projects that we're uh proposing in the master plan to be eligible through FA and state grant funding assistance for at least 95% of the total project cost.

And we lay that out in the uh the capital program.

I will mention that we do have some projects that we show in here that you'll notice there are is no federal or state grant funding assistance for.

Most of those projects are gonna be tied to uh hangar development.

Uh, anything that's considered revenue generating on the airport, uh, such as hangar development, and an airport has a hangar, it may lease it out to a private entity to store its aircraft, something along those lines.

Those are typically a very low priority or no priority at all when it comes to being able to be funded through uh a grant program.

So we do show several projects in here related to the development and construction of hangars that aren't assigned an FA or a state grant funding assistance.

But I will say, just because they're in the CIP and talking with city staff, we included those, but there's also another mechanism that the city can pursue, and that's working with private developers to actually lease portions of the airport for the private developer to then build the hangar facility on.

That's a very common practice that we see at airports across the country that we work at.

And that could certainly be something that the city employs in the future moving forward to try to get some uh hangar development, which there is certainly need for at that airport.

So I'm not gonna go through these projects in detail.

If you guys have any questions uh or comments on those, feel free to um to let me know or jump in on this.

But again, we just split these out into uh the three planning horizons.

The intermediate term is the six to ten year time frame.

Our focus with this one was more looking at you know, how can you or how can the city accommodate some of that uh forecast potential for growth and based aircraft as well as more annual aircraft operations, and we show some hangar development in the intermediate term that could accommodate that.

We also start looking at uh what is needed adjacent to the airport to maybe prep the need for a runway extension in the future.

So we show some uh acquisition of property on the southwest side of the airport, that uh project number 22 that's listed on there to acquire some property to accommodate future safety areas that would be tied to a runway extension on a runway 321.

And then we come up with the intermediate term from the standpoint of the cost estimates that were provided.

We did utilize uh we had a subconsultant on our team, an engineering subconsultant that uh was able to provide us some of these detailed cost estimates from a planning perspective, a subconsultant that's been very familiar with working at the airport in the past.

And then the long term is the 11 to 20 year time frame, and this is where we get into some of those larger scale uh airfield projects related to the runway extension, the continued uh expansion of um land site facilities on the southwest side of the airport as well.

Um again, just because we showed some of these projects in the long term, it doesn't necessarily mean that that's where they get put.

This is something that the city will continually keep an eye on.

Uh if there was an aircraft that was going to base at the airport or a regular user of the airport that needed more runway length than what the airport provides right now, those would be conversations that that operator would want to have with the city.

And then the city could in turn be talking with the FAA and ADOT to help prime the pump, if you will, to uh start moving towards some of those bigger, larger scale projects that could happen, you know, before the long-term program.

But this is how we slotted it from the standpoint of the master plan and kind of what we see as it relates to the potential unfolding of development of the airport over the next several years.

And then here's the cost estimates that are tied to some of those projects in the long term.

At the very bottom of this, you can see that capital improvement program total.

Again, we identify about 33.5 million dollars in needs as it relates to this master plan.

Um, the federal share uh kicks in pretty heavily on that.

The reason that the airport sponsor share is as high as it is, is because of all that hangar development that we show, which it would have to be uh funded locally, whether that would be through the city or in possibly a private developer.

So that is um it gives you guys an understanding of the capital program that's in tie through the development concept.

Um just as I wrap up here, uh, one other component that I mentioned the airport layout plan drawing set or the ALP.

So again, I don't expect you guys to to read this.

It was just more to show you that this is kind of the final piece of the master plan that we're going to coordinate with the FA.

This is the second piece of the master plan that actually gets reviewed and approved by the FAA.

So in talking with city staff recently, we're in the process of packaging up this ALP, and we will be coordinating that with the FA and ADOT here in the coming days, and then they will go through that review process as well.

And what we would hope to get feedback from them and being able to finalize this ALP drawing set in the coming weeks.

And again, the importance of this ALP is all those projects that are identified on the CIP that are included on that development concept are shown as proposed projects.

Again, not meaning that the city is on the hook to build these projects, but if justification is there, if demand is there, then they need to show up in order to be eligible for grant funding assistance, which they are on this ALP.

So next steps.

I think I've kind of covered this already, but um we're obviously seeking to get the master plan um approved or adopted by the city council.

I think we're shooting for next month for that.

Uh, we will be submitting the airport layout plan drawing set to the FAA and ADOT here in the coming days, and they'll be reviewing that concurrently as the city goes through the approval process for the master plan.

Uh we have prepared some draft final master plan reports.

There's also a study website.

Um, I think it was on a previous slide.

It's Eloy Masterplan.airport study dot net.

All the information, all the reports uh and documentation that's been included in this master plan is on that study website.

So feel free to visit that if you haven't already.

But the draft final report is out there right now.

Once we get um the master plan approved through the city and the ALP approved through the FA, we will then prepare the final master plan report as well as an executive summary brochure that just outlines the highlights of the master plan process.

So and then the intention is for that master plan to be a living document.

The city continues to look at and coordinate with uh federal and state uh entities uh for the future growth and development opportunities of the airport.

Uh that is all I have.

So again, I appreciate the opportunity to come before you guys this evening and uh would be happy to help try to answer any questions or hear any comments that you may have.

So thank you for your time.

Thank you very much.

That was a very interesting presentation.

Uh I have one suggestion.

The uh uh cost estimates, drop the pennies.

Okay all those zeros scare people.

Okay, if you I mean, if you're talking about 13 million dollars, don't worry about a quarter or 50 cents.

Just probably we can make that round the revision.

Yeah, then because as soon as I see all those zeros, I get a little oh that's scary.

But then I saw oh, there's a there's a point there.

Okay.

All right.

Seriously, though, I I I would make it a little less scary.

Understood.

Okay.

Anyone else?

Any other input?

Uh why'd I know that?

Why'd you know that you've done these master plans before for other airports, right?

That's correct.

Was there any different doing Oz considering we have skydive Arizona there?

I mean, I know they're a separate entity that operates from the airport, but was any consideration given to them in these plans to continue that to allow them to continue their operations?

Yeah, absolutely.

And it is unique.

I mean, we've worked at some airports that do have some specialty aviation operators.

Uh, skydive Arizona is certainly one of the larger ones that we see, especially at an airport of this size.

Uh, they were included on the planning advisory committee, uh, so they had a voice in this.

Matter of fact, they provided a lot of comments as we moved into the draft final stage that we took into consideration and made some changes.

But at the end of the day, we factored in their aircraft, we factored in their estimated operations.

Um, and we were more focused on what's happening on airport property.

They're unique in the sense that they're a through the fence operator that are off airport, but they obviously utilize the facility.

So we we did.

We absolutely took into consideration what they have going on, and we talked to uh the the folks that uh represented them to make sure that we were incorporating concepts into the airfield program that would be able to satisfy what they're looking for moving forward.

And I think we were able to capture that based upon the conversations we had with them.

Thank you.

Okay, anyone else?

Any other input?

Conrad.

Oh, okay.

Any other input?

Okay, again, we appreciate your time.

We appreciate the thoroughness, and uh good luck moving forward.

Appreciate it.

Thank you guys for the opportunity.

Thank you.

Have a great evening.

Okay.

Moving on to item number seven.

That's the informational item.

The planning zoning commission members and staff will give updates on relevant events and activities they have attended since the last meeting in any future events, activities, and potential agenda items.

These items are for information only, and no action will be taken.

Mayor.

Just wanted to let the everyone know here.

The Poblano Sola came up at uh council and it got tabled.

It seems that they want to make some adjustments.

So I don't know if it's gonna come back here or back straight to council.

So I just wanted to make everybody aware that it got tabled to a date push to unknown, just to further date out.

Okay, that's it.

Okay, thank you.

Mr.

Simer.

Sure.

Thank you, Chair.

Just last night, and we've been giving you brief updates as we go.

The council approved the contract with Logan Simpson to start our general plan update.

We're very excited about that.

We're gonna start be meeting with staff in a couple weeks to begin that process.

We will be coming to the planning commission probably March, April on the schedules on those.

It's a very progressive schedule with considerable outreach with the potential of being completed in June of next year.

So it's a year and a half long project.

It's a total overhaul of our existing general plan.

When I went back and was preparing the report for this, I noticed that the general plan was updated.

You know, we knew it was readopted in uh 2020.

It was a uh that was a minor uh update to the 2011 and then the 2001, and essentially the plan has not changed significantly since 2001.

So as we reach into this uh next age of 25 years of growth and opportunity, this is gonna be a very important plan for our next growth uh spurts that were coming up.

We will have opportunities to meet with the planning commission as we move forward, and of course, there'll be plenty of opportunities for public outreach.

And uh we're probably gonna be start uh starting off with what's called a TED Talk, which is a group of individuals that are well known throughout the country about why it's so important to do these plans and what the value of public input is.

The general plan is the primary planning document of the city.

Everything that goes up to the council and comes back down, capital projects somehow is tied to that document, and this board is the primary voting recommendation board.

Um after that, we uh opened up a RFQ for the air park master plan building on the airport master plan, which you just saw, which will be a specific master plan.

It'll go for all the development around the air park airport.

Uh, that will be going simultaneously with the general plan update.

Uh it's offset by approximately five months, so that when the general plan gets adopted and this plan will come right up on it, and this is gonna be a further refinement to planning in that area.

Uh that could be the next uh economic hub for the city, really taking advantage of the airport and uh turning that to an economic hub, uh, both with residential multifamily industrial commercial, so it's gonna be a very in-depth plan that I envision.

And finally, uh I want to thank you all for serving on the planning commission for the last year.

My span here has been great.

You've been all wonderful.

Uh I'm not anticipating having a February meeting, which that means we'll be sitting the new planning commission in uh March.

That is our anticipated time frame.

I want to thank you all for your service.

Uh, we have four volunteers right now with four more seats to sit.

So we'll be opening up for a general call to the public to seat those.

Um the plan the city council has the ultimate decision on who they're gonna reappoint.

So I want to thank everyone who has volunteers and those who are not.

I want to thank you for your service.

And on that, I'll be pass it back to the chair.

Okay, thank you very much, sir.

Appreciate the updates.

Anyone else?

Okay, it doesn't look like it.

So moving on to item eight, our favorite motion to adjourn.

Do I have a motion to adjourn?

I'll make a motion.

Okay, I have a motion to adjourn.

Do I have a second?

Second.

Okay, I have a motion and a second.

All in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

All opposed.

Thank you very much.

This meeting is hereby adjourned.