Something that says it's a QR code.

Yeah, that's not it.

This is uh something else with AI assistant that popped up.

There we go.

Let's see.

I don't see that.

Um six pages.

It's up maybe further in.

There, it's uh nine pages in.

Nine pages in.

Okay, so almost backwards.

So when the presenter gets to the um active participant part, uh you're gonna scan that QR code and we'll tell you, and then it will bring you to a website and to log into that.

That's so you can participate in the questions and answers.

Okay.

All righty.

Okay, now that would be on my phone.

That's okay.

Okay.

Yeah, that'll be on your phone.

Yeah.

All right.

Hello, Erica.

All right, your mic's not working.

So it was working earlier, and maybe because we got Alan on speaker on speaker, so we don't we can't hear Erica.

So you're here, Erica.

We we can't hear you, but um what you could do too is is maybe calling.

Uh um we got you here.

Are you okay with that?

You can give me a thumbs up or something.

Okay, cool.

Thank you.

Are we all ready over there?

Just about, sir.

Uh all right.

I don't know, but you get it.

Yeah, I guess it's already approved.

Okay, ready.

All right, good evening, everyone.

Uh I would like to call this uh meeting of the Elay Planning and Zoning Commission meeting to order.

Today is Wednesday, May 21st.

The time is approximately 6 02 p.m.

Uh Ms.

Cota, may I have a roll call, please?

Yes, uh Chairperson Steve Pulsing.

Present.

Commissioner Allen Crawford.

Present.

Commissioner Frank Rosettle.

Here.

Commissioner Johnny Gunn.

Commissioner uh Bakta.

Here Commissioner Gerard Whitman.

President and alternate commissioner Erica Lopez.

Here.

Okay, very good.

Thank you.

I would like to welcome all of our new uh members.

It's great to see everybody here.

We've we've been operating on a kind of a shoestring commission for a number of months, so it's good to have a number of new faces here.

So thank you for taking the time to to join our little group here.

All right, I would like to now have um everyone rise for the Pledge of Allegiance, followed by a moment of silence.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you, everyone.

Okay, moving on to item number four, public appearances.

Do we have any just general uh public appearances that are not related to any of the other agenda items?

I didn't think so.

Okay, thank you very much.

All right, item five, uh motion to approve the January 15th, 2025 meeting minutes of the planning and zoning commission.

Do I have a motion to approve?

I'll make a motion to approve.

I'll second with, but I have some condition or some questions about it before we vote on it.

Certain.

So ahead with the questions.

Yeah.

All right.

So on page two uh item Roman number five B.

Uh looks like south southwest should be southwest, but then on the third paragraph under B.

It says that uh Commissioner Crawford move to continue the case.

There is a motion uh three, four, one against.

That's me.

Uh and uh I would like to have the reason indicated as to why I voted no on that, which was that uh in my opinion it's using too much water in the desert.

And uh that I'd like to have that entered into the minutes, please.

Other than that, um, yeah, yeah, that's it.

So that's it.

I'll that's the annoying second.

Okay, we have a motion to approve and a second with a uh an amendment or two.

Okay.

Um other discussion.

Okay, Ms.

Ms.

Belinda, may I have a roll call on this, please?

Chair Person Steven Paulson.

I'm Vice Chair Person Conrad Tolson.

Aye.

Commissioner Alan Crawford.

I Commissioner Frank Rosetal?

Aye.

Commissioner Bagda.

Aye.

Commissioner Jared Whitman.

Sounds like it is unanimously approved.

Thank you very much.

I appreciate that.

Moving on to item number six, new business, possible discussion and or uh action on the following.

Item A, a request by staff to continue case number CUP two zero two five-zero zero three.

That's concerning Arizona trailers.

This application is a request for a con uh conditional use permit to allow retail as a general use on the property uh located at 1450 West Chambers Street in Eloy, Arizona, in zone general industrial I2.

Uh staff may have some input on this, please.

Certainly, Chair.

Um the applicant had been uh Ste uh let me start again, Chair members of Commission, Dan Seimer, Community Development Director.

Um the applicant had been working with us to get this item on this agenda, although due to the schedule they had a scheduling conflict with their open house meeting.

I wanted to make sure that when they had their open house meeting in time for this commission meeting.

So I have requested that this item be continued.

Uh they'll be doing their open house have been rescheduled to next week.

So it's that's the purpose why.

Okay, thank you very much.

Do I have any uh input from my uh fellow members here?

Okay, can't argue with that.

All right, so um I'm looking for a motion to uh continue case number C UP two zero two five-03 as requested by Eloy Staff to have a motion.

So move.

I'll make a motion to continue.

Okay, do I have a second?

Second.

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

Ms.

Belinda, may I have another roll call, please?

Chairperson Stephen Paulson.

Aye.

Advice for person Conrad Tolson.

Commissioner Allen Crawford.

Aye.

Commissioner Frank for Saddle.

Aye.

Commissioner Bata.

Aye.

Commissioner.

Okay, it looks like the motion uh approved unanimously.

Thank you.

Okay, moving on to item B.

Conduct a public hearing and make a recommendation to the Eli City Council on case number CSP 2024-001.

Exceptional health care.

The proposal is for a master sign program and comprehensive sign package to allow modifications to Section 21-4-3 of the zoning ordinance to allow a freeway pylon sign on a parcel is less than 20 acres and increase the size, height, and allowable sign area and the number of signs.

The property is at 340 East Mulligan Road in Eloy, Arizona.

Okay, I'd like to open the public hearing.

My name is Jared representing associated sign company.

I am the applicant for this comprehensive sign plan amendment at 340 East Mulligan Road in here in Eloy.

Let me know when you're ready.

Thank you, sir.

Does that work better?

All right.

Excellent.

Thank you.

Okay, so my name is Jared with Associated Sign Company.

We are here to present an amendment to to create a comprehensive sign plan for exceptional health care community hospital at 340 East Mulligan Road.

We are we are we propose to have a large freeway pylon as well as some four wall signs and two on site directional signs.

The signage that we are proposing does exceed what is in the current code, and the current code for the pylons.

Oh, sorry, let me click forward.

This is the locations.

We have freeway pylon, noted as number A, G and H as our directional signs, and building signage A through F.

This is our current look.

This is the current location of the proposed hospital.

Obviously, it has gotten a lot further than the pictures that I have here.

Um they are almost done with construction.

So as you can see, it's right on the corner of the kind of freeway access and East Mulligan Road, as well as you have plenty of visibility from all directions.

These are a signs that we're proposing, proposing a 50-foot pylon, building signage, and ground signage as well.

The main difference in what we are proposing from code to this proposed sign is the sign is at 50 feet tall, and it is on a parcel that does not meet the 20 acres that would normally be in the sign ordinance.

The acreage is only about five acres in this particular location.

However, the location has a very specific need, and that is this hospital and emergency room.

So we are we are proposing to exceed the code at 50 feet and to go up to 600 square feet in sign area.

This is the top section, as you can see on the pylon sign, is about nine feet tall and 42 feet wide.

This gives visibility from about a mile and a half away when driving at speeds of 60 miles an hour.

This is our matrix of our signs it for the building.

Nothing on the building exceeds anything that is within the code.

However, the signage that is on the building is proposed as on a fin.

Sorry.

And we have multiple signs on the same building.

We've exceeded the maximum height slightly by a few feet.

The total height for the building, I believe, is 35 feet, and typically in your code it is 25 feet.

Due to the building's architectural features, this finity that a hospital and emergency room should have.

So we formally a request to approve the comprehensive sign plan, followed by the signage that is also in review.

Okay, thank you very much.

Do we have any questions for the gentleman?

Yes, I do.

So uh one of the things you're requesting is on the pylon sign, and maybe the city might need to help me on this too.

Um it says that the the code is that any one panel should not exceed 150 square feet in area, and you're requesting a panels to be not more than 385 square feet, which interesting.

The uh differences I believe 235 instead of 135.

But I'm wondering, is that does anybody know why it's limited to 150 square feet in the code?

Chair members of the commission, not exactly no.

So it's typical sign ordinance, you know, they copy from other community and uh this incorporated it.

So okay, because I was wondering, you know, we get some pretty strong winds around here in the monsoon season, and I'm wondering if it has anything to do with not blowing the panels out in a strong wind.

Uh so that'd be my only concern is and I uh I think otherwise the sign is fine.

I just hope we don't end up with panels of plastic laying out in the field uh uh next August or sometime down the road.

Um but that that's the only question I've got.

Thank you.

Okay, any other input questions?

Yes, sir.

I see both of these uh these panels are lighted, is that correct?

Correct.

And they're lighted with LEDs.

Uh in your estimate in your estimate, how bright will they be?

And are there any other ancillary lightings shining at them?

Well, there should not be any exterior lighting sources shining on this light, so there will not be any lights on the ground pointing up at it.

So these panels will be internally illuminated.

The red panel that says emergency, the red part of it should not illuminate at night.

You would only see the white for the emergency room.

And then for the exceptional health care, the white would also be more of a blackout style, so it would not create a giant ball of light with red in the middle, so you wouldn't be able to see it.

The goal is to try and give the hospital and emergency room as much you know clear visibility as possible for people traveling here in emergency situations.

Okay, any other input?

So does it does that mean that the on the pylon sign again that at night all we would see is exceptional, maybe community hospital, but we wouldn't see that white background.

Is that what you're saying?

The idea is for it not to be.

Obviously, with a panel that large, there's going to be a little bit of you know a little bit of halo effect around those letters, but the idea would be to see exceptional hospital and emergency as your main things and not to see the the panel itself or the posts underneath it.

Do we yeah, do we know the surrounding uh truck stops are the same height for for their signs as this one, or do they have any in that location as well?

Uh they have not contacted us with any of their information for their signage.

Um, obviously in the area there are other large freeway pylon style signs um there for gas stations and other uh different events and things you have in this area, but uh no one has contacted us about the size of our sign as compared to other signage there.

And you're not gonna be blocking anybody else's sign, right?

No.

Uh from the pictures we have, we are basically an empty field.

Well, we were an empty field as of right now.

The only locate the only sign that is visible is a gas station sign that is on the opposite side.

Okay, any other questions.

Okay, one thing you said that kind of struck my struck me as being interesting is that you said these signs would be visible by uh anyone traveling 60 miles an hour.

So basically there's a there's a weird there's in the sign business we have a matrix on how how large we make signs, and because your visibility to this exit is miles and miles and miles long, you're gonna want to see it as much as possible.

And the time traveling basically is just you get to see it for about 45 seconds traveling at 60 miles an hour from X amount of distance away.

It's basically just uh a matrix on how large these signs can be can be for visibility.

Right, but my point is nobody travels 60 miles an hour on I 10.

So maybe they need to be a little bigger.

So I can I can send you guys the matrix of it going faster.

I typically don't go up past the 60, 65 miles an hour because let's be serious.

We're trying to be as safe as possible.

Okay, thank you very much.

I appreciate it.

Okay, anything else.

Okay, Mr.

Simer, do we have any other input from the staff?

Chair Polson, uh members of commission to answer a question about other signs in the area.

The loves that we just approved probably about a year ago is 80 feet.

A lot of them are anywhere from 50 to 80 feet in the air.

So thank you very much.

Okay.

I have a quick question about that.

What was the reason for the disapproval for the low thing?

Wasn't approved.

No, you said it was approved.

I bet it was one of our jobs last year.

Okay.

Any other input?

Okay, I'm gonna close the uh public hearing then.

And uh we'll move on.

Do we have any discussion amongst ourselves?

Any other questions?

The response is deafening.

Okay, very good.

All right, so the public hearing has been closed.

Um I would like uh motion to uh move this along either with uh uh approval, approval with conditions or whatever, but I'm looking for a motion.

I'll make a motion to approve.

Okay, I've got a motion to approve.

Do I have a motion to say second?

I second.

Okay, I've got a motion to approve, and I've got a second.

Ms.

Belinda, may I have another roll call, please?

Chairperson Steven Paulson.

Vice Chairperson Conrad Paulson.

I'll Commissioner Alan Crawford.

I Commissioner Frank for Saddle.

Commissioner Bakda.

Hi.

Commissioner Gerard Whitman.

Uh that's it.

We get another uh a unanimous approval.

Thank you very much.

We appreciate your time, sir.

Thank you very much.

Okay, moving on to item number seven.

Non-action.

What the what the devil is non-action?

I guess that means we just talk about something.

Okay, presentation possible discussion and comments on the following.

A presentation discussion, input, and comments on the general plan update.

I think that's yours, sir.

Yes, it is.

Thank you, Chair, uh, members of commission.

Um, I just need to check with our uh alternate online.

Um are you able to see the presentation, Erica?

Or are you seeing the website?

Website, thumbs up, presentation.

Something else.

All right.

So Erica, if if you would check your email, I emailed you the PowerPoint presentation for tonight.

Um on page nine of that presentation, you'll have the QR code to participate in the exercise.

Uh are you okay with that?

She's okay, she's standing, she's pulling it up.

We work we tested this at four o'clock and it worked wonderful.

I'm not seeing it on these screens.

Oh, I don't have it.

There we go.

Yeah.

We tested it at four o'clock, make sure that the Zoom could uh get it.

I see the PowerPoint.

Okay.

Did you do you see it on the screen or do you see it on the um the one that I sent you?

Okay.

Okay, she's she's on the PowerPoint that we sent her, so we're good.

Okay, so Terry's gonna walk through the PowerPoint and go a few slides.

And when it's when it changes, I'll I'll prompt you that the PowerPoint is changed to the next slide.

But the main one that you want to look at is on uh page nine of that PowerPoint when you do the QR code.

Okay.

So uh Chair Polson, members of commission, what we have here today is a presentation.

Uh we met with y'all back in October or sorry, April, to talk about the kicking off of the general plan.

Uh Terry is back here to start some more discussion with y'all on that.

And we will be having a interactive uh part of this presentation a little bit later.

And it's kind of like a doodle poll that you all be participating with your phones.

Hopefully, you got my email to bring them.

And uh we'll work it off from there.

But from here, I will hand it off to Terry.

Thank you, Dan.

Um chairman and members of the commission.

Um I am Terry Hogan.

I'm with the firm Logan Simpson.

It's good to be back in front of you.

Uh spoke to you last month in the joint session with City Council, and we gave you a kickoff there.

Uh we're not gonna repeat a lot of that, but we're gonna go through a a little bit of an overview on that as you are now seated as the general plan advisory committee.

So a committee of the planning commission.

Uh, we're gonna get you involved in uh a little bit more of the uh uh getting your hands dirty in the general plan.

So all right, with that.

This is a little high for me.

All right.

So I wanted to to for the purposes of uh members in the uh in the uh public, I'll go over some introductions and some preliminary background uh again.

Uh our firm Logan Simpson is working on behalf of the city in in coordination with a project team.

You can see the project team on the left hand side.

Uh we have other teaming consultants that work with us as well.

Uh you can see those on the screen on the right hand side.

We have Kimley Horn with us who works on our water resources, public facilities, um, and uh circulation components of the general plan.

We have Elliott D.

Pollock and company that works on our economic growth and housing, and we have Peacemaker Aviation that works on our uh military and airport compatibility uh components of the general plan.

So tonight I'm gonna talk to you a little bit about the content of the general plan.

We'll go very quickly through that, uh, give you a little bit of background about what we've been doing, talk about the schedule and where we're at in the process, give you an update on public participation, talk about the the general plan advisory committee roles and responsibilities.

Uh that's what you're seated as right now.

And then we're gonna do that um interactive uh polling uh exercise that Dan was talking about.

So typically we say don't you know put your phones away, don't get your phones out.

Um we're gonna ask you to get your phones out and participate in this exercise.

Uh it's real easy.

If I can do it, you guys can do it.

So bear with me.

Um and the next uh we'll we'll go through uh what a general plan is.

Let's see, there we go, much better.

Um and we we talked about this last time.

Um general plan, um, and I know that this this commission is aware of what a general plan is, but again, for the benefit of the of the audience here, general plan is a community vision plan.

So first and foremost, um it's it's it's a community's vision of what they want uh in their as a community as a whole uh for the future of Eloy.

So this is a general plan.

We we often call it uh 30,000 foot policy document or a road road map or a blueprint for growth.

It's comprehensive in nature.

I'll show you those topic areas.

Uh there's a variety of different topic areas that the general plan uh addresses, and it's long range in that it moves into the future.

So we're looking 10, 20 years uh into build out of Eloy, so it's long uh long range looking.

Um oftentimes the general plan uh gets confused as a zoning map.

It's not zoning, it does have a map, um, and it's not a detailed or a specific uh area plan or a capital improvement plan, but often it will drive that uh that component of your process.

So these are the topic areas.

This thing just kind of creeps up on me as I go.

So I'll try it again.

All right.

Uh so these are the topic areas that will be in your general plan.

Uh these are in your existing 2016 uh general plan as well.

Uh your general plan uh that you have right now uh was readopted in 2020 and it was I know and it and it wasn't uh it wasn't looked at uh again really in depth uh since 2011.

So uh we're gonna look at the same topic areas.

You can see that there are thresholds uh for uh for uh general plans.

As you go over those thresholds, you're required to have these topics per the Arizona revised statute.

On the left hand side, uh we have land use circulation, open space, gross area growth areas, environmental planning, and cost of development, and water resources.

Those are your required elements.

Uh but then also uh the project team would like to look at the elective elements, which are in your current general plan uh right now of public services facilities, public safety, housing, and neighborhood preservation, and economic growth.

This is just not going to cooperate with me, guys.

So I'll just I'll have to speak over it.

All right.

We have thank you.

I feel like I it's making me stand up straight.

That's good.

Thanks, McKenzie.

Appreciate it.

Possibly.

Okay.

All right.

So we've we've done a few preliminary reports before we get into the general plan.

We talked to you last time at your kickoff meeting as Planning Commission and City Council about these reports.

I'm going to give you an update on public participation.

We are in the midst of doing the existing conditions report.

You can see some of that on the screen.

I'm not going to go into that too much.

It is a snapshot of today in Eloy.

It addresses all the statutory components in terms of inventory and where we're at today.

That's being finalized right now by your technical advisory committee and your project team, and that will be posted to the website for folks to take a look at.

So this is our schedule and our process for the general plan.

It's about a year and a half schedule.

You can see by the this is where we're at STAR.

Here you are, like in the in the mall, where we're at in the process.

There are essentially five phases for the general plan process.

We've gone through our launch and our discover phases.

Those are our kickoff meetings, putting the project website, launching that website, going through that existing conditions analysis, and doing our kickoff meetings with our technical advisory committee.

We are now in our envision and soon to embark on our build uh phases.

Those will go concurrently.

So as we start to get community input into this community vision plan, we'll start building the plan, drafting the plan, and then going back and forth with getting input and getting building the plan, et cetera, et cetera.

Until we get to the end of that, that'll be about January 2026.

That's when we'll have a 60-day public draft of the plan.

That's a statutory draft.

That'll come that'll that'll basically be pencils down.

So we'll have a draft of the plan, pencils down, it will go out for public review.

At that point, we'll take public review for 60 days, bring that back to your body as the commission, and we'll go through that legislative process asking for recommendation from this commission, uh, and then you'll make a recommendation to your uh city council.

City council will have the opportunity to then approve that or adopt the general plan.

But it doesn't end there.

Um we then go into a four-month period where where the plan will sit before it goes on the ballot for voters to vote on that.

That's projected to be November of 2026.

Chairman, any questions on schedule or anything that I've said so far?

Okay.

All right.

Public participation plan.

Um I presented that to you uh at the joint session.

Uh we went into detail of that in terms of uh what are the key participants that you can see on the screen as well as the key strategies.

Uh it was adopted by city council that evening and posted to your website for folks to be able to see that general strategy of public participation.

What I'd like to do now is give you an update on public participation so you can kind of see what we've been doing to deploy that strategy, if you will.

So we did we have uh launched our website, and you can see that on the left-hand side and how to get to that.

Um we've had uh a lot of traffic on that so far, just under 500 website visits, uh, 461 uh visits.

We've um we have a uh piece on the website where people can sign up, or we can give we can input folks into the website if they want to get regular updates.

So we have uh nearly 2300 people signed up for updates, which is awesome.

Um, and we have our first questionnaire on the website.

We've had 211 uh folks respond to that.

The website, as well as anything that we put out there is in both English and in Spanish.

Um, and we are um did three days uh of the last three days doing what we call listening sessions or interviews.

We we have about 20 27 of those finished at this point.

We'll do another round of those as we go into this month and into next month.

So if any of you any of you would like to um talk to us on kind of an individual basis, or if you know folks that we should be talking to, uh please let uh Mr.

Simer know or myself know, and we'll we'll reach out to those folks.

Uh that's an update on that.

We've also been busy with doing our drop in events.

Uh last time I I gave you a slide that showed some events that were other places.

Um happy to say that we've we've held five drop-in events in Eloy, and so we have some pictures of events that we've held here.

Uh you can see those four and and the uh folks that we had engaged in those events.

These are educational booths.

You can see uh Mr.

Simer there on the right hand side, waiting for all the people to come talk to him.

Uh so we've we went out to ropes and ranch for the annual yard sale, had a hundred and uh eighteen people stop by the Easter egg hunt on Main Street, 120 people stop by Cinco de Mayo at Jones Park, 69 people came by, and the food truck um at the at City Hall, 29 folks.

So that's great.

And we're gonna keep doing those pop-up or drop-in events throughout this whole uh period.

If you guys are aware of things that we should do and and go out uh and and set up our uh event or our booth so that we can uh get people aware of what's happening, please let us know or let Mr.

Simer know that as well.

Okay, uh this body uh as planning commission with your hat as general plan advisory committee.

So what what are we what are we doing here?

Uh and there are three areas of uh that we want you to focus on.

We talked about this last time, but just to put it on the record.

Uh first and foremost, you guys are the heartbeat of of this general plan.

You're a residence, uh, you're a representative res residence appointed, um, and and we're gonna ask you to provide input and direction uh into this general plan as we go through this year and a half process.

Um we will have a variety of different uh general plan uh meetings where we'll we'll meet in this this fashion on the dais, but we'll also also take you and and go into a conference room or different parts of the city, and we're we're gonna get your hands sturdy with workshops and and a little bit different than on the dais commission work.

So different key stages of the of the projects where we'll be doing visioning, uh doing uh analysis of of uh goals and policies and implementation actions and getting your input onto that.

And then last, um, just like uh as commission members, we want you to be ambassadors to this plan, getting the word out in your circles of influence uh for events that we have coming up uh during the process, and then uh prior to and as we go through that ratification or uh citizen approval process as well.

Any questions on roles and responsibilities?

Pretty simple.

Okay.

All right, you guys ready with your phones?

Uh, we're gonna do some uh visioning.

Perfect.

Yeah, get out of your phones.

Um you guys have probably in your in your lives done SWOT analysis just by show of hands, uh, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

We've changed that just a little bit, so uh we have a SOAR, which is strengths, opportunities, aspirations, and results.

And you can see that on the screen, it's it's just a little different.

Um, but it's it's basically the same concept.

This is a vision plan.

Um so we're gonna we're gonna talk about strengths.

I have four questions.

I was I was gonna say I have 58 questions and we'll be here um until 10 o'clock tonight.

You guys are okay with that.

But I really only have four questions.

I'll be able to go real quick.

We'll talk about strengths, uh, which are you know what's going great, what do you love about Eloy?

We'll talk about opportunities, what what needs maybe needs to be improved, or what are some weaknesses that you're aware of?

Uh, what are your desires?

Um, and when you close your eyes and look into the future, 10-15 years, what do you want to see Eloy be?

Aspirations, and then results.

What can we do in this plan uh that will that will make this a success?

What what things can you think of that will that will be results for this plan in 10 years when we come back to you or Dan comes back to you and says, we've accomplished all this.

Uh so we want to get your we're gonna pick your brain tonight.

All right, so here we go.

So here are the instructions, and so want you to go ahead and take a picture or put your camera on that, get the QR code, um, and just by show of hands, let me know if you get on that.

You won't be able to advance forward until I advance forward, but you should come to a screen that has an arrow.

And if if anyone has issues with that, Blinda's gonna come around and help you uh because I'm not allowed behind now.

Perfect, yes.

And and I'm not a techie, so I wouldn't be able to help you.

Perfect.

All right.

So for those that are online, it's gonna be the slide that is green with the instructions and a QR code.

So the slides that I sent you, it should be the one that has that.

If you are a resident or stakeholder in Eloy and would like to participate, please please feel free to all right.

We ready?

Okay, is our online member good, Dan?

Erica and uh Alan, do you see it?

Good, good, good.

Yes, all good.

All good.

Okay, we're gonna move forward.

All right, talking about strengths.

So the question will be um, what's working well?

What do you love?

What's unique?

And the specific question is if you had to give Eloy a five star review, what would you rave about?

Give a minute.

So the join code is 69 63, 23, 68.

Again, the join code is 69 636.

Just give a give a minute here.

Oops, sorry, I advanced too far.

Okay.

You guys should be able to enter, and as you enter your results, they'll pop up on the screen.

Oh, here we go.

Five star review.

Want Eloy to be progressive, forward looking, leadership.

Gonna rave about that.

Dedicated staff and council that desire to move Eloy forward.

Excellent.

Just give some a few more minutes.

We got a uh major skydiving facility, spacious and pleasant place to live, about halfway between Phoenix and Tucson.

Great location.

Awesome.

Water, power, transportation, train, and space.

These are strengths, strengths of Eloy.

Awesome.

I'll give a little bit more time.

It looks like we have 11 people signed in, so I want you to to be able to make comment if you want.

If not, we'll just go ahead and move on.

All right.

As I see eyes look up at me.

Oh, the police department.

Awesome.

Got to meet the police chief.

Elo gets five stars for its people and community pride.

Its location makes accessible to rural activities and proximity to cities.

Super.

All right.

Chairman, I'm gonna move, I'm gonna advance forward.

Are we good?

Good.

Okay.

Next, we're gonna talk about opportunities.

So these are things that you um pick in your brain for things that might need to be improved.

Uh maybe what's not working well.

So I I I like to say it this way.

If you if you were well to say king or queen out here, if you were king or queen for the day, um no no constraints on resources, money, don't think about that.

We don't want to think about that right now.

What would you change?

Boom.

Anything?

Single word or phrase, whatever you can fit in there.

You're gonna see this is gonna be a it's it'll pro tr portray in a word cloud for us.

Roads.

All right, what would you change?

Businesses, schools, water.

Gym, groceries, restaurants.

What what might need to be approved?

Okay.

Groceries.

Um, as people put these in more, they get bigger if if there's multiples, add restaurants, clean blight, build amen amenities, businesses.

Awesome.

Chairman, um, if anyone wants to elaborate on your answers for either strengths or weaknesses, um, happy to listen to that as well.

Um it's it's it's fun to kind of see these word clouds and see them up, but sometimes um chairman, uh members of the GPAC may want to elaborate on that.

So uh happy to take uh take any comment that anyone has as well, or if if they want to let us know what you're thinking.

Housing needs to be improved, roads, groceries, those are the biggies.

More retail.

All right.

Well, the underlying theme to all these seems like for most of these.

We travel to Casa Gran that's a trip.

And if there are things locally, that would save us a trip and also help help out the community here.

Correct.

Yes, awesome.

Yeah, good.

Any other thoughts or elaboration, Chairman?

I'm happy to move on, but I just want to give time.

Yep.

Um Alan, do you have anything if you were king of a day?

Are you able to get on?

I am great.

Okay.

So we'll keep moving here.

All right.

Aspirations.

So hopes, goals into the future.

Think, you know, kind of close your eyes and think about 10, 15 years.

Uh, what do you want to see in Eloy?

So this question is what word or words best describe the future of Eloy you envision?

You think into the future?

All right.

Well-rounded, equity, opportunity.

Easy to move about.

Opportunity again.

Vibrant.

Hope Eloy grows thoughtful.

Thoughtfully, thank you.

New housing, welcoming industry jobs.

Minutes here.

Easy to move about, vibrant stability.

Hope Eloy grows thoughtfully.

New housing.

Any elaboration on that?

Any any thoughts or right?

And this is just the beginning of the conversation, just to kind of get you a poise for, you know, think about these things as we go through this process and workshop more.

Okay, next is oh, got a couple more things coming there.

Calm.

Vibrant.

Okay, results.

This is uh what is success look like to you?

So at the in your current plan, you have an implementation table for different things that need to happen across the different topic areas or elements.

Uh maybe uh ordinances need to be amended, maybe there needs to be coordination with different entities, maybe there needs to be some marketing.

Uh, but but this is looking at, you know, starting to look at that in terms of what are the results uh to make this plan a success.

So imagine the future, 2035.

Uh what's happening in your everyday to show that Eloy is thriving?

Or phrase another way, what would make you say, wow, this plan is a success.

Day-to-day conveniences are met.

Growing population with multiple job opportunities, no crime, no congestion.

Awesome.

Things to do.

More businesses, housing, and police.

Nature is still there, animals and plants, no congestion, more healthy activities and amenities.

Cool.

Another minute or so.

Okay.

Anyone anyone would like to share or elaborate on any answers at all?

Uh Mr.

Chair or members of the GPAC.

Any thoughts?

I'm seeing no.

Okay.

So thank you.

This is just a way to start, you know, picking your brain a little bit about these, you know, strengths and opportunities, aspirates aspirations, results.

As we go through this process and we're we work with you as the as a GPAC, we're gonna do some more activities and interaction where we'll you know we'll sit together and work through uh vision statement.

You know, you have a vision statement in your current plan.

Um how does that resonate with you?

Uh do you want that to sound a different a little bit differently?

So we'll work together and and um and create some options for vision statements.

So I'm really I'm really at the end at this point.

I wanted to talk about next steps.

Um we are going to do a drop-in event um at uh your summer kickoff uh May 23rd.

We'll have a booth there from four to seven uh at the community pool.

Uh I will show you a picture of Eloy Talks.

I think we we talked about that at the kickoff.

We are planning for that to be uh here at City Hall on uh June 21st, and then uh we are going to get into that workshop series into July and into the fall, where we'll have a series of three different uh interactive workshops we'll have in-person and virtual opportunities for folks, different areas uh within the city for folks to be able to participate in those workshops.

So here's here's a picture of um Chandler talks.

We we just did that a couple of weeks ago.

This was a panel event in Chandler.

Uh we're thinking for Eloy, we we have a speaker that um is it's gonna be more like a keynote, a keynote speaker that's gonna speak about different issues uh in Eloy and then uh do a little bit of workshopping uh with the community.

If you've had a chance to take a look at TED Talk uh on the on the internet and see those sort of things, that's that's the kind of feeling that it is.

Uh so a lot of high energy educational, we'll we'll have prizes and refreshments.

Uh we like to make it a fun night out for folks uh to to come out and and view this, and it's a kickoff really to our community engagement and our workshops.

So uh we will have it here, uh, but it will be live streamed and videotaped, so people that miss it or somewhere else if they're out of town or whatever, they'll be able to watch that or or view that later.

Um so we're really excited about that.

That'll be one of our first big events, and then we'll get into that workshop series.

So with that, I'm gonna I'm gonna kick it back to Dan for any uh final comments, and then uh Chairman, if anyone has any questions, I'd be happy to answer those.

Thank you, Terry.

I think uh what we're really doing with this input is organizing it into our future vision and input into community, which is just a piece of much more coming on.

The outreach has been great so far.

Uh we're getting close on to a tagline for what the general plan tag line would be of um if you've done any of our online surveys, the first one that talked about tagline.

But what more importantly is we're getting we are getting input.

So it's been great so far.

And with Terry's help and our consultants, we're doing very well.

Thank you, Terry.

Thank you, Dan.

Okay, thank you very much.

I appreciate your uh presentation.

Thank you, Chair.

I didn't do that.

I got a quick question.

The listening sessions and the interviews, are you reaching out to l local businesses, people in specific, or is it just anybody that we think of that we would maybe be helpful for that?

Uh chairman and and member uh for Setto?

Did I get that kind of right?

Uh we're reaching out to everyone.

So um Project Team has helped us put a list together of all sorts of stakeholders, uh, different federal um state levels, but then also community groups as well.

Businesses, uh so we have quite a list.

Uh but if you know of others or can think of others, or just just let Dan know, let Mr.

Simer know, uh, and we'll make sure we'll we'll make sure that we reach out to them.

So everybody.

Um we try to make it so that people can participate in different ways.

Some people like to do just online, some people like to come out to events, some people like to sit and talk.

Uh so we want to make make that available.

We'll be in person, or we can do it you know on the telephone or virtually, whatever's convenient for folks.

So any any way that um they want to participate, we're we're happy to do that.

Ideally, and I know this this goes on, but ideally, if we can get all uh just under 20,000 people an opportunity to participate in that process, that's that's our goal.

Uh, we're not gonna get that.

Uh I'm gonna tell you that right now, but but through the through the whole process, we'll come back to you and you'll be amazed at you know how much input we've gotten, and we want to give people that opportunity to participate.

Okay, any other questions.

Okay, okay.

Thank you very much once again.

Okay.

So is that all the non-action we're doing today?

Okay.

All right.

So we're moving on to number eight, item number eight, then informational item.

It's the planning and zoning commission members and staff will update the public on relevant events and activities that they have attended since the last meeting.

And that was way back in January.

And any future events, activities, and potential agenda items.

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

Okay.

Dan, I'm sure you've got a couple things here.

And then I'm sure Mr.

Mayer does too.

Okay.

Sure, members of the commission, Chair and Paulson.

Um, as Terry hit on a lot of the events that I've been at.

You know, we've done the sidewalk sale at Roberson Ranch to do general plan out uh output outreach.

We've done the food truck event in downtown.

We also did uh the uh Cinco de Mayo Food Truck and show event right here in the park.

Um we do have uh an event coming up on this Friday, which is the opening of the pools, which will be out again uh at that time, doing more community outreach.

Uh next month, or which is June 1st.

I'll be at the chamber event.

Uh is their guest speaker, pretending I know what I need to know.

Um talking about what the general plan is, what we're doing, community community planning in general.

Uh that's a large event.

So if you're a member of the chamber, you should you will be able to get there.

I'm gonna try and show you a side of me that you normally don't show.

I normally don't see uh that's actually more the planning side.

But uh we have been very busy as it pertains to the upcoming planning commission meeting.

We will be having a meeting on the 18th of June.

This agenda uh item uh the agenda items on this agenda are large.

Uh we're looking about six, seven, six items on the agenda.

They all are regular items.

I'm gonna look at which some ones I can do on a possible consent if there's no public comments, and then uh do a kind of a thing that we normally don't do, but many other communities do, which is they ask for public comment on any of the consent items if there is none, and then the count the commissioner will do one motion.

Uh it's not very common here in Eloy, but it is done in other communities.

But the idea is those more routine tasks, we'll just move straight through with the recommendation.

Uh also I believe it's June 6th, we're gonna be having the at least the APA is having the um law outreach discussion and webinar.

It's for us here locally, it's gonna be up in Phoenix.

So I did send out information if you're interested in going to that.

I've heard from some of you, we'll get you registered.

Um, but the event is up in Phoenix, so we will pay for your registration to attend that event.

It's amazing basically about current law items on uh urban planning and what it is going on in Arizona.

So uh chair, that's all I have.

All right, thank you, sir.

Mr.

Mayor.

Well, thank you, Mr.

Chair.

First, I'd like to say thank you to the returning members of the planning and zoning commission.

Your dedication is just fantastic.

And to the new members here, I would like to thank them also for coming down and giving up their time to help shape this community.

And if you have any questions, please lean on Mr.

Simon.

He's a wonderful asset when it comes to learning new things.

And if you're just not sure, just always ask.

It's absolutely fine.

So that's all I have on that.

And just to follow up on the comment before from the commissioner about the minutes from last meeting.

The RZPAD 2024-006, which was the Southwest data center, that was voted on.

It went to council, it was voted on and passed at the council level.

Just wanted to bring that news here.

And that's all that I have.

And once again, thank you to the new members for showing up.

Okay, thank you, Mr.

Mayor.

Anyone else?

Any other members have anything of input?

Daniel.

You already had your chance.

Okay, once more.

Let's talk some more.

Um feeding off what the mayor said about the the minutes, comments about the water.

Uh those comments were reflected in the city council report about the reasoning why the commissioner that voted against it in the reasoning.

So just to make sure that you do know that those were uh incorporated.

So okay, thank you.

Anyone else?

Did someone sneak in here?

Who might that be?

I knew that, but I was just putting you on the spot.

Okay.

All right.

Well, thank you for coming, albeit uh a few minutes late.

Okay, thank you very much.

We appreciate you signing up for this uh August body.

Okay, any other input?

Your mic's on.

Well, that's because I have to have it on for the Oh okay.

Okay, so there's nothing else.

I appreciate everyone's input.

So we'll move on to item number nine.

That's the motion to adjourn.

Do I have a motion to adjourn?

I will make a motion to adjourn.

Okay, do I have a second?

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

I think we can do a voice vote on this, can't we?

Okay, all in favor.

Aye.

All opposed.

Thank you very much.

Have a great evening, everyone.

Chairman, who's seconded?

Who seconded the motion?

Okay.

Johnny.