The UA Planning and Zoning Commission to order.

Today is Wednesday, January 21st, uh 2026, and the time is 6 p.m.

sharp.

Ex officio Mayor Setting?

Here.

Commissioner Lopez.

Here.

Commissioner Whitman.

Commissioner Malin Beagle?

Here.

Commissioner Johnny Gunn.

Commissioner Frasetto.

Here.

Commissioner Crawford?

Present.

Vice Chair Tolson.

Here.

In chair.

Paul.

Present.

We have a call.

Okay.

Oh, what man is excused.

Yes, we're in Europe.

Yes.

Okay.

We do have a quorum.

So I'd like everyone to stand.

Uh and we sent the pledge of the region.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America.

And it's degree on it.

Which is invisible liberty and justice for all.

Okay, thank you.

Other than that, which is on the agenda.

Okay, it doesn't look like it.

So we'll move on to item five.

So the planning zoning commission that was held last month, December 17th, 2025.

I will also move, but with uh I've got some corrections to make to it, so I don't think that was gonna happen.

Yeah, I know it uh there's one thing we're getting a little bit too abbreviated on the minutes, so I'm gonna pass out what I'm gonna propose here, pass them down, and um I think there's enough.

Is there enough for everybody there?

Looks like we're one short.

No, got it.

Okay, we've got it.

All right.

So and did uh did you get you got them down there at the end?

No.

Sorry.

Thank you.

So the uh minutes of the agenda item Roman number five A regarding December 17th meeting.

Um it just it had a quotation connections, you know, corrections were requested for items Roman number five, rumbling number four, six, and seven didn't say what those were, and I thought it'd be helpful to clarify what those are.

So that's what this thing is that I handed out.

Roman number four was I believe was Commissioner Whitman brought it up for discussion.

The JW water work in progress, uh, which the staff later determined was proceeding without a permit.

Uh for item number six, the uh discussion of GPA 2024-05.

Uh the item was heard, but no action was taken on that.

And I think it indicated that the action was taken, but it was just heard, and then the last item, item seven, hideout ranch, uh at the motion that passed with staff conditions.

Oh, and then one other thing was on item 7b, the fifth line up from the the bottom of that item.

Get to that.

It had a quotation, so the city is not looking over this.

I'm not sure what that meant.

Uh I think it might have been a typo.

Any uh clarification on that?

I don't know what you mean by a quotation that we're okay.

So the item and you go down to it says the motion pass seven zero, and then you back up one, two, three, four, fifth line back, and uh it said the first step is to get the study done.

The city is not looking over this chair.

We're gonna bring up the minutes here so we understand what's being looked at.

We're looking at the minutes, and we're looking at uh the last page of them.

So we're in Roman the minutes Roman numerals 7, new business B.

Then you go down to the bottom of that section, and it'll back up from them where it says the motion pass 7-0.

Then you go back up five lines from there.

It says uh first step is to get the study done, and then it says the city is not looking over this.

Do you see that?

Okay, do I have this?

Did we have a copy of the um December?

Yeah, the uh the December minutes, yes, uh-huh.

It's on your screen right now, it should be on your screen.

So scroll down scroll down to the bottom.

All the way to the bottom.

Yeah, all the way to the bottom.

All right, let's see.

All right, let's see.

Then go um, so we're seeing Roman number nine, Roman numeral eight, go up a little bit further.

And okay, so right up at the top of the screen there.

The city is not looking over this.

I'm thinking that something got maybe misquoted, or there's some kind of a typo there.

Or is the city not looking over?

Maybe the city's not looking over.

Just gonna read out loud.

Mayor Sutton stated that he that he petitioned A dot to perform the study in the traffic in the area.

Someone else has their mic on.

All right, so maybe it would be helpful to say that the city is not doing it.

A dot is looking at it.

Maybe that would be so it's it's a direct quote from the from the tech from the from the from the tape.

So that's that's that's a direct quote from the tape.

So we could put in there uh brackets that with this with a sick, that's indicates that the city is not looking over this, and then you you would you would put brackets around it, and uh uh and it would say the traffic study that the mayor is referring to, and because you can't you can't change the exact verbiage that's taken by quote.

So like I said, that's coming from a tape.

Um so we could add in their brackets with the with the the Latin term sick to understand what that's referring to.

Yeah, but I would not help because it was I found it kind of can be said it that way uh say nothing.

So let's see, within um the uh I guess that's all for the yeah, that's all I have for the minutes, and I will uh recommend or move that we approve them with those corrections.

Chair, before we make a motion, uh take a vote on that.

I'd like to understand the others.

So we're going up to Roman numer 5A.

Scroll up.

Keep going.

Right there.

Right, those are corrected.

Um the way I'm not disagreeing with what your statement of, but that is the way that they should be quoted.

Um is a modification to the minutes that the that you make corrections to the previous minutes.

So what you're asking for the the bracket says which staff determined later was not uh was proceeding without permits.

That's that that cannot be provided in the minutes because that's not what happened.

You could you could do for brought up a discussion on works in progress, you know.

That was the correction as it pertains to the board did not approve the item, and thus heard that that was captured.

It's it's unusual, but we can do that.

And for hideout, add the motion, staff.

Yeah, we we can do that.

It um on the last ones they said staff passed it with conditions, right?

The previous ones were corrected to say this.

Yeah, so those have been those have been integrated into the motion uh into the uh amended motions.

It's not uncommon to do it the way we have it this way, but that it won't hurt uh this won't hurt.

So but we cannot add the line that the brackets which which state um which staff later determined proceed we can't do that.

So that's okay.

Yeah, okay.

I may have suggested those corrections last week.

Right.

But they're in the other minutes that were corrected.

Right.

And it's not yeah, it is not normally caught in these, it's not that motion is not normally caught in these type of minutes.

I understand what you're saying, so you're asking for it to be just added in it.

I'm okay with that.

So it's just that's that's not normal, but I'm okay with it.

So okay, do I have a motion?

Yeah, would you please restate it?

All right, so I will move that the minutes from the December 17th meeting.

All right, is that yeah, the December 17th meeting uh with clarifications recommended that they be approved?

I'll second.

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

We have a roll call, please.

Yes.

Commissioner Lopez.

Aye.

Commissioner Mollen Thiegel.

I Commissioner Gunn.

Aye.

Commissioner Fosetto.

Aye.

Commissioner Crawford.

Aye.

Vice Chair Tolson.

Aye.

And Chairman Paulson.

Aye.

Motion changes unanimously.

Thank you.

Okay, moving on to item number six.

This is a consent agenda item.

So just in the background here, all items listed on the consent agenda may be enacted by one motion and one roll call vote of the planning and zoning commission.

Unless a commission member or member of the public so requests a separate discussion be held on any item.

The item of them be removed from the consent agenda and considering its normal sequence on the agenda.

The commission would like to conduct a public hearing and possibly take action on the following.

Uh, there's only one item here, so it's number one, case number CP 2025-010.

That's 18T wireless communication tower.

It's a request by Bill Koenig of SmartLink LLC on behalf of Romango in Esmeralda D Herez for a conditional use permit or CEP to allow a wireless facility use on a 40-acre parcel uh property located at 2365 West Hammer Road in zone single family residential.

It's R1-43.

Do we have anyone that's going to present anything to us?

Chair members of commission as it is on the consent and agenda, uh, there is no staff or applicant presentation.

You do need to open the public hearing, see if there's any viewers to speak, which probably not, and then close it, and then you do uh one vote for approval of the consent agenda.

Thank you.

Okay, so there's no formal presentation on this item.

Okay, that's fine.

All right, so I would like to open a public hearing, and uh if there's anyone in the audience here who would like to address the commission, you please feel free to step up to the podium.

Okay, no one is coming up.

So I'm gonna close the uh public hearing and uh we'll move on.

Is there any discussion amongst uh my fellow commissioners?

I'll make a motion.

Okay, it doesn't look like we have any uh discussion.

So I'm looking for a motion uh to approve the uh case number CP 2025-010.

So move.

Okay, I have a motion to have a second.

I'll second.

Okay, motion and we have a second.

Maybe we'll all call, please.

Commissioner Lopez.

Aye.

Commissioner Nollen Fiegel.

I Commissioner Gunn.

Commissioner Facetto.

Aye.

Commissioner Crawford.

Aye.

Vice Chair Tolson.

Hi.

And Chairman Paulson.

Motion carries unanimously.

Thank you.

Moving on to item number seven.

This is no business, possible discussion and our action on the following.

Just so everyone knows this is a non-action public hearing.

So the commission will not be making any uh taking any action on this.

It's just an opportunity for the public and uh for us to learn what's going on.

Okay, so I'm gonna conduct the public hearing and discuss the following.

It's case numbers GPA 2025-001.

That's TES EROI as a request by Julie Vermone.

Hello again, Julie, uh, of course and the new assault consultants on behalf of the I 10 Eloy, 11 mile corner, and Batang Drive 453 LLC for major general plan amendment from moving medium density residential and general industrial to mixed use, consisting of approximately 338 acres located at the northeast corner of West Patagonia Road and West Frontier Street.

And again, this is a non-action public hearing.

Ms.

Romania.

All right, good evening, Chairman Paulson, members of the commission.

My name is Julie Vermillion with CVL Consultants, located at 4550 North 12th Street in Phoenix.

We are the engineering and planning firm representing the property owner for this piece, the Tess EY parcel.

Can you see my screen?

All right.

All right.

Okay, as I mentioned, this is for the Tess Eloy parcel.

Um it is a major general plan amendment, which is uh, as you mentioned, introduction only this evening.

Um and we will also be following it up with a rezoning case.

I have a bit of information just for context, but tonight we're focusing on that general plan.

So here's the vicinity map.

You can see it's approximately 338 acres, located at the northwest corner of the Tagalog 11 Mile Corridor.

Uh this area actually shows you some context here.

So it's primarily surrounded by undeveloped land.

We have a little homes to the southeast corner, just caddy corner from the site.

We have a plastics uh industrial facility to the southwest, and then an existing wastewater treatment plant that the city owns uh directly in the center of the property.

So it's a bit of a challenging site to develop.

We held our neighborhood meeting uh with some posting and no notifications and to all within 300 feet of the site.

Um opposition to the proposal has been received, and we didn't receive any uh comments or feedback from the neighborhood.

So this is an existing general plan land use that we will be modifying.

You can see that uh in the center of the site is general industrial surrounded by medium density residential.

It's an odd patchwork which will be difficult to develop as shown.

Um you can see there would be no buffer between the industrial and residential use.

They bought right up against each other.

Um so it would be a bit of a challenge uh to develop it as is.

Uh especially considering general industrial permits the most intense uh industrial employment uses that the general plan has.

Uh so it would be uh a bit of a mismatch to have those right next to one another.

What we're proposing is a modification to mixed use.

That would allow us a more flexible variety of uses and the appropriate transition between the more intense general industrial use in the center of the property and to the southwest, and residential that's planned to the east.

So it'll provide a more transition between all of these uses, and it'll provide something that would be more appropriate in this area.

So the existing zoning is R112, which would require 12,000 square foot minimum lots.

Obviously, this doesn't match with the general plans, so it would necessitate an entitlement update to develop the land.

So we will be proposing at our our next hearing or when we address the zoning, we would be proposing N U P A D mixed use PED, which would be consistent with the mixed use general planned land use that we're proposing.

And then adjacent to that planned residential to the east, we're showing R3 PAD, and that would serve as more of a transition between that residential use and the wastewater treatment plant and other light industrial use plant throughout the site.

So we believe that this proposal would be a much more suitable land use and zoning for development of this challenging property.

So here's our general uh water layout.

This sketch is primarily just a concept sketch.

We just threw something out there.

We don't have any specific end users in mind at the moment, or any particular design.

We are showing intended commercial corners where they make sense.

We're showing the residential closer to that existing residential that's planned to the east.

Um, and then we have the light industrial mixed use throughout the rest of the site.

Um so you can see the water connection from the east and then the water connection from the west, and how that flows through the property.

And this just shows the proposed sewer connection from the southeast.

So we did a look at these utilities to make sure that it makes sense and to make sure that the site would be developable.

Of course, this sketches just a concept and highly subject to change.

So I wanted to go over a few benefits of this proposal that I might not have mentioned.

So there are anticipating development impact fees that would be generated from this project.

Based on the current impact fee schedule, at ultimate build-out, we would anticipate approximately 3 million in parks funding, 3.5 for roadway funding, and about 2.5 in public safety.

I believe these are fairly conservative estimates and subject to adjustment.

Some additional benefits would be commercial.

So we would be establishing zoning for commercial opportunities that would allow services to support the neighborhood, potential for retail, restaurant, office, or other commercial uses, which of course would create jobs along with the industrial and business opportunities for the remainder of the uses that we're proposing.

It'll be lower water use.

We would anticipate that it would be approximately a third the water use of a typical residential product project if we were to put residential there instead.

We would be providing new parks, new trails and new amenities throughout the property.

We're planning a trail and landscape buffers along that frontier road frontage to the southwest along all of the primary entries into the site and centrally located open space for parks and amenities.

Additionally, we would have landscape buffers as a transition between all of these uses.

So between the residential and the lighter industrial or business park uses, we would have landscape buffers with potential trails going through them and potential seating lines.

So we would make it nice.

And that's all I have.

I'm available for any questions.

Okay, thank you, Jerry.

Okay.

Do we have any questions for uh okay?

Thank you very much.

Looks like you've covered all of them.

We have no questions at this time.

Thank you.

Thank you for coming out this evening.

Okay, bringing a non-action public hearing.

I would like to close the public hearing and we'll move on.

Thank you again, Julie.

Okay, item B.

Airport Master Plan Implementation and Capital Improvements Program Udate.

This looks like the boss.

Go for it.

Thank you, Chair.

Um rebought in Christine today to do an update on the municipal airport master plan and where she's going.

She is our airport manager.

The item reason we brought it to you is you are the advisory commission committee to the public and to the city council as it pertains to the air park.

So this is one of your first separate duties.

So she's going to give you a presentation of where we're going, what we're doing.

And feel free to drill her and ask her any kind of question.

And that brief opportunity.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, and um I'm sorry, I missed your name.

My name's Christina Wazniak.

Okay, Christina, thank you very much.

Okay, the floor is yours.

Perfect.

Thank you for allowing me to come this evening.

I appreciate the opportunity to give you guys an update.

So we recently just finished the airport master plan, and uh with that goes along the airport capital improvement program.

So I'm gonna talk about uh what the master plan is and how those two items fit together and what those items look like and how it affects our airport.

Uh the airport master plan, it's a long-range planning document to uh guide development and operations and growth.

Uh, we have a consulting company that we use, Kaufman and Associates.

They've assisted us for many years.

Um we have an ongoing contract, it gets extended, and then uh this next year we'll come up for a request for qualifications and potentially have a different consultant.

But for right now, uh Kaufman has been doing a great job assisting us with all the things about the airport.

Uh they provide planning and environmental consulting services.

Uh July of 2023, Kaufman uh began the process of updating the master plan.

That last one had been done in May of 2013, so we were definitely due for a new master plan update.

Uh February 10th, 2025, council accepted the Eloy Municipal Airport Master Plan as proposed by Kaufman to serve as a strategic roadmap to ensure the airport's growth and operational efficiency and alignment with the city's economic and environmental goals for the coming decade.

So the master plan has different phases of it.

So we have uh the short term, which is usually one to five years, and then there's an intermediate term and a long term.

I'm gonna focus mainly on the short-term goals because those goals tend to change over the course of the years.

Another part of the master plan is the airport layout plan.

Uh, this is a set of official scale drawings to show the existing and planned physical layout of the airport.

Kaufman submitted and updated the ALP to the Federal Aviation Administration, and the approval was received from the Phoenix Airport's district office this past August.

So this is very hard to read because it's small.

Uh normally these are printed out very large.

So there is a whole set of these documents, and they show what is already there, and they also show what is proposed that we do to grow uh our airport.

So a lot of the I know you can see like the the blue parts, uh, those down on the bottom left-hand side, those are a lot of the things that are going to be coming up in the future.

The final print of the master plan came out in September of 25.

There is a full text master plan on the website if you would like to read it.

It is uh approximately 365 pages long.

So there's a lot of information in there.

So that leads us into the airport capital improvement program.

All these projects have been outlined with the assistance of the FAA, ADOT, and Kaufman to have projects go on and make our airport better than it is, hopefully.

It's a multi-year plan that lists and prioritizes and tentatively schedules airport construction and improvement projects, including the estimated costs and funding sources.

The 2025 ASIP meeting was held in May, and there were representatives from ADOT, FAA, Hoffman, Lochner, and the City of Eloy.

Lochner is another consulting firm that we utilize their surface services for.

They're more of the engineering and design aspect and project management.

ASIP was submitted both the ADOT and the FAA for approval.

They both were approved by both regulating agencies.

Everything's reviewed annually because, as anything else, all of our goals change annually, you know.

Anytime there's there's growth or people that want to come in, or you know, our existing skydive Arizona, we love to have them there.

So anything that might potentially affect new people coming in or our regular tenants now, we want to make sure that we keep them all in the loop and make their needs known and do the best that we can with the funding that we get.

So this is what our airport capital improvement program looks like.

These are spelled out from pretty much what's going on right now until 2035.

So, like I said, a lot of those things that are beyond five years are, you know, they're in the works, but they're they may or may not happen, or they might get moved to a different year.

This also shows what our total estimated cost is, the type of funding, how much the federal share is through grant money, and the state share, and then on the right-hand side, you can see how much uh the city share is for each of these projects.

So you can see that we get a lot of grant funding.

Um, the airport currently is not a revenue revenue generating source for us, so we do rely on those grant funds.

This year, fiscal year 2025-2026, uh, these items have been completed.

So the estimated cost for these projects was three quarters of a million dollars, and the city share was only 75,000.

So, like I said, we're very grateful for all those grants that come through.

Uh, phase two drainage improvements, uh, that was a design and construct program that had been going on for a number of years, and we were finally able to get that to come to fruition this year.

Uh, basically, they constructed a drainage channel to prevent flooding in the area.

It was on the south side of the airfield, and then there was another project that needed reconstruction that we included in on this project on the northeast side that they did some reconstruction and a tide block concrete channel.

So, like I said, those two are currently in the process of the grants being closed out, and the projects have actually been constructed.

So, you can see for this project that the base project was in the orange line at the southwest end of the airfield, and the alternate project that went along with that is in the fuchsia on the right side.

So, this is the drainage channel that was constructed off the base bin.

Uh, they did a really nice job, I think.

And Romo Construction was the company that received that bid and they were doing the work for us.

This is the alternate project.

Uh, on the top, you can see the before pictures uh that we had some riprap up there, and the weeds were becoming overgrown.

There was some washout around the fence line.

So they filled in and put the tide concrete channel lining in.

Hopefully, this will last.

Other projects that we have going on right now is another drainage project.

Uh, it's currently in the design phase, but this uh grant was for design and construct.

We're currently at 30% design.

We have regular meetings with ADOT and the FAA to make sure that everything's on track because it is grant money.

They're going to add a series of culverts and ditches to drain the southeastern terminal area adjacent to the water tower.

They would also like to improve the roadside ditch network along adjacent to the wind cone and segment and circle over to Lear Drive.

The other two projects we have going on right now are rehabilitating the tea hangers.

We've already had a site evaluation.

We had the inspection of the hangers electric, the doors, pavement concrete, and the paint.

The uh contracted architecture firm came out to do that inspection for us.

We also have an apron rehabilitation project in the works, and we've already started that.

It's in the design phase, and the topographic survey was completed just this past December.

So on the ASEP map, you can see uh the drainage improvements are in green.

So that's the general area of where those new culverts and drainage channels will be to assist with removing water from any kind of hangar space and where we don't want it to be.

The tea hangers are highlighted in blue.

If you haven't been out there, uh they're pretty much right when you you come in, you go around the the side of the water tower, and you can see the tea hangers there.

The apron rehabilitation, the portion in the yellowish gold, and that's where the apron is going to be redone.

Coming up for next year, our projects estimated cost of just over a million dollars, and the city shares just over 65,000.

We have another drainage improvement project.

I believe this is going to be the last drainage improvement project that came with the Kimley Horn uh drainage master plan project.

So this would be an improvement to the drainage channels and culverts adjacent to the taxiway on the northeast side of the airfield.

Uh also for next year, we'll continue the design and construct of the tea hangers.

Drainage improvements phase four.

You can see those are highlighted in green, and the tea hangers are still in blue.

You can see that the apron project is also on this map.

However, things have already changed.

The A dot had run out of money to actually construct the apron rehabilitation, so we're gonna have to push that back a year.

So fiscal year 2027-2028.

Uh estimated cost of projects $3.6 million city share, just under $150,000.

We plan to construct the apron rehabilitation.

Uh we also plan to acquire some land in order to relocate the fence and the wind cone and segment and circle so that we can install an automated weather observing system.

We also have a project in there to rehabilitate other airport pavements.

So we'll construct that apron rehabilitation.

That one's in gold.

And then the land acquisition, that'll be in blue.

So that's where we're going to uh talk to the neighbors and see what we can do to get us to acquire a little bit of land and relocate that fence so that we can have more things.

Uh the rehabilitate the ape the airport pavements.

That's all going to be crack seal project.

And that's all in purple.

Follow up the next year in 2029, estimated cost $650,000, city share of just under 55%.

That's when we would actually plan to design and construct the wind cone and segment and circle relocation and obstruction removal.

So we'll we'll move that fence in 20 and 29.

So those two projects you can see in the pink and the blue.

Fiscal year 2029 and 2030.

That would be when we would like to design and construct and install that automated weather observing system.

Estimated cost for that would be approximately a half a million dollars in the city share 22,000.

And that's located in the orange.

Fiscal year 2030 and 2031.

Uh, we would like to construct the taxi lane for hangar development.

So where we saw the tea hangers earlier in the presentation, we would like to expand that pavement over there so that we could get some more tea hangers and potentially some box hangers over there.

We have a huge need for hangers in the area.

Our hangar wait list is currently 65 people long, and we only have 12 tea hangers.

So we definitely have people that would like to have hangers for their planes in the area.

You can see that highlighted in blue.

And that brings us to the end of the next five years.

So like I said the plan goes out for at least 10 however we like to focus in on the next three to five that's really where we can see whether you know where things are going or the right direction.

If you have any questions I'd be glad to answer those.

Okay thank you very much appreciate that fellow commissioners any questions I'll just point a question on the um the additional tea hangers.

It sounded like they might be revenue producers and could they be moved up a bit necessarily going to produce revenue.

It potentially could be part of the issue is is that the city doesn't necessarily have funds to construct those tea hangers.

We've been looking into options of land leases so then we would have private builders come in and they would lease the land from the city so there would be some revenue generated from that but maybe not as much as if we were to construct the tea hangers ourselves but it kind of puts us in a hard spot because we don't really have the money to to build the hangers and that's not something that's usually funded by ADOT and FAA.

Okay thank you.

Any other questions okay looks like we're done thank you very much appreciate you coming out tonight.

Thank you so much.

Okay.

Okay moving into item C general plan update we're going to talk about mapping the future outreach summary gosh I'm a lot shorter than Christina.

Okay.

Chair Commission, thank you so much.

I'm Heather Garberino let's see if I can make this work.

Dan what do I need to do?

This one this one.

Thank you.

I'm Heather Garverino.

I am with Logan Simpson who is um planning consultant for you're going to hear a little bit from me tonight I'm sorry.

I'm just apologizing in advance.

I'm working on the general plan update which we'll talk about now as well as the air park area plan which comes next so I'll try to be succinct um am I too far away okay we're just gonna say yeah give me a little closer to a microphone that's it's our recording device too so thank you.

Got it I think it's funny I'm missing my village planning commission meeting to be here tonight and our agenda looked very much like this one which is sort of a weird simulation so I thought it was kind of funny.

Okay so we'll get right into this quick agenda we're gonna give you a little process update where we're at with the general plan update um who's been participating spoiler alert it's been great and then our next steps so you can see the little orange star we are coming down the home stretch although the home stretch is kind of long there's a lot ahead but we've covered so much ground already so uh you'll see there's uh we're getting into the we're coming down into the 60 day public review for the general plan draft which will give uh viewers far and wide an opportunity to comment online and then their comments will be um absorbed into the document however appropriate and um then put out to council first commission then council for um approval and then on to the vote in November so we have a pretty tight timeline ahead of us but we are we're charging through this right Dan okay so you can see we've had amazing engagement of almost 4,000 people engaged that's a you know collective number people online people at our in-person events it's been great.

So you can see we've also done 61 listening sessions this is just a brief overview of some of the folks we've connected with military the federal groups the school districts you know you name it we've we've visited with them and I'm sure some of you have also been interviewed this is just our events since September so you can see huge turnout lots of work on Dan's part and our part I've been really impressed we've been to much larger cities where we have a really difficult time engaging with even a percentage fraction of this percentage of people.

You can see the workshop um show of hands who attended the section work second workshop we we had a version at Rose and Ranch and one here I know I didn't I wasn't here actually I missed it.

Dan is there anyone else visit mayor?

Um the three we hold three different workshops for staff and two for the public, and I felt like it was a great uh response.

We had so much use useful feedback from the boards and from the questions, and it was great.

So here's what what's ahead.

Um there will be a time for me to answer questions, so I hopefully not going too quickly.

But as you can see, we're in the middle of drafting.

Uh we will head into our 60-day public review, which will then be posted on the ELI website starting on the 29th.

That is a hard date.

We have to um backed into this from the November ballot.

So this is kind of set in stone.

Um you'll see the council will get an update on the 9th.

You all will get an update on the 11th of March, and then in March we're gonna move into our mobile immersion lab, which I I'm inviting you now.

I hope you'll all attend.

It's going to be really cool.

We'll be able to take all this collective feedback we've received over this NASA process of almost 18 months by the time we're done and congeal it into some really lifelike um viewing.

So we'll have an enormous screen, 30-foot curved screen, which kind of it's augmented reality technically, and we will computer generate the reality of what people have been telling us they want to see an Eagle Rise future.

Um of course, none of this is set in stone.

It's just a way to depict what people have been telling us they want for their future.

So then from there, we'll go into the um May 20th PC, the 22nd City Council of June, and then on to the ballot.

So state law requires a we call it a rest period, 120 days from the day council adopts to the date it hits the ballot.

So that will be the rest period.

During that time, you all are welcome to visit with friends, share the news of what what the what the plan is and how you feel about it.

Um not in a quorum, of course, but individually.

Okay, can answer any questions on the general plan.

And Dan, if you would like to chime in, please do.

Okay, do I have any uh questions from my fellow commissioners?

Where are you planning to do the immersion lab here at City Hall?

It will be in City Hall, and we've um I'm pretty sure it'll be in the conference room because it's dark in there.

It's kind of almost like a movie theater that the big screen gets set up in.

And then we'll have kind of a small work workshop set up in the atrium so people can get more information.

How many days do you anticipate that it's gonna run?

We think it's gonna be two days, and we're hoping to invite school children in as well.

So it'll be probably a Friday and Saturday.

Sorry.

Maybe.

Maybe.

Yeah, we haven't set the date yet.

If I sorry, Chair.

Um we haven't set the date yet.

I we do have to reach out to the school district.

Really, what I'd like to do is open up to the public to get them in.

The kids from you all experiences, the kids love these things.

And this is their future.

So we will be having it in the in the community room.

We'll be blacking it out so they can project it.

It's gonna be a little tight to get in, but it'll it'll work.

But it'll be your opportunity to see how how the plan could emerge into the We have had a lot of great input.

You know, with Heather and her team have helped me out a lot, and uh that's what we're looking at is that last week of March, during the 60 days.

Um subjects a little bit more since I have the mic.

Uh during the 120-day rest period, uh that begins to point that we the city employees can now longer advocate for it.

So it's totally up to the planning commission and the city council to advocate for the adoption and approval by the voters.

So we look to you almost as um ushers of this plan to go out into your own communities and kind of just spread the word that this is this has happened, this general plan process.

Hopefully the folks you know have already been participating.

But if not, you can direct them to the website.

You can tell them no, this has been done well and thoroughly and over a long period of time and it's been a very open process.

So just kind of a good way to be ambassadors for the plan.

Okay, thank you.

I've got one quick question.

Do we have any idea what the actual ballot um verbage would be?

Is it gonna be is it gonna be really detailed, or is it just gonna be kind of an overview?

Do you do uh approve of the U general plan?

Yes or no?

There is some state legislative uh language which we can mildly embellish on to give a little more information, but um Logan Simpson will develop an option that you all can use and amend as you like.

But there are it's a pretty standard language.

It is pretty bland, so to speak.

It's it kind of outlines certain things as Heather said, but it is pretty bland and comes out.

Do you approve of the general plan or not?

A yes vote will be to adopt the new general plan update.

A no vote will be to retain the old vote or the old plan and you know start the process over essentially.

Great.

This one I was kind of thinking that it would probably be kind of a generic and probably like you say, kind of mandated by the state assembly and whatnot.

Okay, thank you very much.

Any other questions?

Is the feedback you've received so far available for us to preview, or is the emotion the first time we'll be able to see that?

Well, we've provided have this as the commission received the summaries.

Um those have been presented, so she's gonna get into like this summary and then the summary of the other one, but we do have the previous PowerPoints that we can give you that has all that information.

So but Heather's yeah, um Terry's provided those presentations.

So we have we've been doing engagement summaries that that give synopses of what we've been hearing so far, um kind of incrementally.

Um but so far it's been coming across as quite positive.

Um I've heard I've seen very little that wasn't positive and engaged in the process.

Thank you.

Does anyone say questions?

Yeah.

Okay, any other questions at this time.

I don't have a question that can I see that last slide with the dates and stuff in here.

Absolutely.

Thank you.

We can probably email this presentation out as well, Dan.

Perhaps can.

Yeah.

Thanks.

Okay, I'm gonna take off my general plan hat and put on my Okay, are we all done?

Everything okay?

Yeah.

Okay, great.

Thank you very much.

Appreciate it.

Now I need email airpark area plan.

That's the existing condition report and initial outreach summary.

You could do this one too.

Yes.

All right, go for it.

Thank you.

Thank you.

So I'm I hope all of you are aware that we're in the process of um creating an area plan for a future air park.

You may be saying we don't have an air park, but we will.

So um, and if you're wondering, Christina has been working closely with our team to kind of help provide all the important baseline information that we need for this.

Um the area plan is well, here's a quick agenda.

We're gonna talk about the process, what we've been doing to connect with the communities so far, and um and kind of get into our next steps.

There's gonna be a there's a little warning for you.

There's gonna be a little um a little activity that we're gonna ask for your help with.

No pressure.

I'll just be calling on you one by one.

No, just kidding, I won't do that.

Uh we will ask for some visioning feedback and some general ideas about what a future air park might look like and what you think are important features to be included.

So that's coming at the end.

So, first here's our overall schedule.

You can see we're about a half, it looks halfway, but it's closer to a third of the way through in terms of work.

We have a questionnaire coming up.

We've already completed one questionnaire.

We've done a very thorough existing conditions report, which can I think was included in your packet.

Um again, like Christina said, this is about 150 pages of really important details that if you're interested, definitely reference that, and I can answer questions as well if you like.

Um we're in the process of connecting with the community in all the ways we we can.

Um we have a website, it's connected to the general plan website.

You'll see there's a little tab.

Um people can leave feedback there just as they can on the general plan website.

So if I were doing 10 listening sessions with I think six more planned.

Yes.

So there will be quite a few uh opportunities for us to connect one-on-one with individuals that are connected to the the airport slash airpark.

So far, the listening sessions have yielded quite a bit of important information.

So we finished our first questionnaire.

This is online through the website, and we've also emailed it out to lots of recipients.

I don't know if any of you received it.

I I assume maybe you did.

We got great feedback.

We had over 114 individual comments and 335 views, as well as almost 70 people completed it, which I can tell you I just did a survey in Flagstaff with a highly dense population, and we got a grand total of 49 views after endless efforts to engage with communities.

So this is great.

This shows that people care, and that is going to get us an air park area plan that really actually can be brought to fruition.

So you can see a lot of 36 to 50-year-old people who have been living in England for a long time was the target audience, and that's who largely responded.

From the questionnaire, some key themes surfaced, strong identity around skydiving, desire for more commercial amities, airport management, safety and compliance, desire for economic development and jobs, and recognition that the airport can bring opportunities.

So I want you to think about these, hold these in your mind for our visioning portion at the end.

We're going to try and build off this and make sure we have hit all the big ideas that the community wants to put back out, or the commission and council wants to put back out to the community.

So some strengths.

This was a strengths, weaknesses analysis questionnaire, that will become very clear soon.

So the strengths, skydiving, you know, etc., proximity to transportation, good weather and visibility, available land for development, and existing airport infrastructure, while considered strengths, opportunities for more commercial amenities and visitor services, economic development jobs, and strategic growth.

Some challenges, as I'm sure we would all be able to predict, limited infrastructure and funding, noise and safety, compatibility concerns, management and operational challenges, and tension between growth and rural character.

We're all cited in the questionnaire as potential challenges.

Okay, now we'll move into what we found in the existing conditions report.

And again, I it would take me all evening to go into what you know what's contained in that report.

But overall, we we've this map is depicting the existing land uses and specifically the big orange box is the airport influence area.

So from that, we'll be using the information we've received to first try to build out a boundary of an airpark.

This is all prospective at this point, but we're going to take all the information we can and develop this boundary.

So you can see we've got questionnaire one input, uh, and then we have the existing conditions analysis input or information, all will be funneling into our first community workshop.

That will be February 11th at Total Tech Community Center.

So before we get there, um I guess is it okay?

I'm chair, it's up to you if if everyone be okay, if anyone has questions at this point.

Or if you'd rather I just forge ahead.

Forge ahead.

Any questions?

Okay.

Okay.

No, please continue.

Okay, so next is our visioning exercise.

And I know, especially on my and the commission I serve on, people get so annoyed about visioning.

Um, it seems like kind of a waste of time, and it doesn't feel very productive.

But in this case, especially, and I would advocate that in all cases, visioning is really important to kind of set up a great blueprint print for what's coming.

So the um the vision is an aspirational compass for the future of the air park, and this airpark will be a huge opportunity for the city, but it needs to be set up properly and in accordance with what the city wants.

That's what we're going to do here.

So the next round of community engagement, as I mentioned, questionnaire two and the workshop will be focused on the vision, the airport boundary, the air park boundary, and the air park land use opportunities within the airpark.

So what I need to know from you is what have we missed?

What are some big ideas that you know you want to see included in these workshops?

Things that we you want us to take back to the community and get more feedback on.

So here's what we've already heard, similar to the key themes.

They want um respondents from the questionnaire want to strengthen these ID as a skydiving aviation destination, add more visitor-oriented amenities such as hotels, restaurants, entertainment, create more local jobs and attract new businesses, preserve areas for natural open space trails or park facilities, continued airport safety management and complaints, upgrade and expand infrastructure around the air park and airport, inappropriate appropriate transitions between uses.

So better buffering, doing our best to prevent compatibility issues.

So this is the portion of the program where we engage.

So Chair, I will let you.

So I want to thank you guys for the job and the work that you do.

Absolutely.

This has been this is an exciting project for us.

We're really we're into it.

So and like we mentioned, there will be lots more opportunities to really um hone in on the air parks boundaries.

And I kind of hesitate to even say boundary.

It'll be an outer perimeter, but there's always you know options for the, you know, if our air park becomes you know, raging success we might predict, there's always opportunities.

But if you don't have feedback now, it's okay to send it to Dan and he can share that with us.

Please feel free to give me a full email with all your thoughts.

I we would love that.

Also hope that you'll come out for the um February 11th workshop where we'll be able to get into a little bit more detail of these envisioning exercise items and more opportunity to write in what you think should be included.

I do have a quick question here.

Oh yes, yes, sir.

Um would you be able to go to the previous slide?

Sorry, yes.

For the create more local jobs and attract new businesses, do we already have some ideas about how we would go about doing that?

Well, we've come up with some preliminary um land use opportunities that might be appropriate, such as you know, warehousing or you know, shipping, et cetera, et cetera, um, things that are traditional air park uses, but some even mixed use development could be appropriate on perimeter areas of the air park, entryways and and so on.

So what we hope is that it's kind of if you build it, they will come sort of thing.

So uh my experience is that air parks tend to be sort of a self-generating um ecosystem.

Once things you know arrive in the space, other things spin off of those uses.

So it's just a matter of getting the ball rolling.

So it to answer your question, or nothing specific, but there are quite a few ideas which we hope we'll get more feedback on.

So do we I don't recall receiving the first questionnaire, but could we be receive and get an email or some kind of alert when the second questionnaire comes out?

Sure, the uh members of commission chair, the I believe yeah, the the notices went out, the the links were we shared them at at the meeting.

So we'll make sure those go out again.

And I I have to go back to email to see that doesn't make a difference.

Um but yeah, we'll do that.

And that part of the notifications that we do is we we're tell you we tell you at the meetings when windows are at.

Um the first questionnaire was actually done as a joint for the commission was actually done as a joint session with council.

So is it possible to are they are you allowed to email them out to the whole group?

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, I can do yeah.

What when we when we get the the when up online I will forward them out again and and I don't remember it's been three months since we did it, I don't remember if we did it.

But yeah, that was the joint session that we did with council.

We did it with with them.

Um I don't foresee it being if you can go back to the influence area, please.

I don't foresee it being that.

Um that's an airport influence area, it's required by um state law.

Yeah, state law, thank you.

So it's a little bit different.

And the air park I do see being within that.

We've done some preliminary uh analysis where it could be um obviously we have a lot of residential, and I I think Heather hit it right on the the head when she said it's kind of a fuzzy boundary because you're gonna have a boundary, but then you can also talk about how do we address the buffering outside that boundary.

It'll be there'll be a lot of bleed, which is common for airports.

Yes, it is, yeah.

So you may have a hard line and it's gonna talk about how do we address development around it and it's we have to draw a line somewhere.

But um it won't be this, I can tell you that.

I will tell you that the questionnaire, which I'm I'm sort of jumping around now, but the next questionnaire will come out fingers crossed on Monday.

We're still working on getting our mapping um exercise um perfected, so that that will be part of the questionnaire is that you'll be able to get on that map and see the preliminary boundary and give comments on it.

This is too big, this is too small.

I think the north boundary should be here instead, or whatever you think.

That will also be a part of the workshop on the 11th as well.

Question about the boundary.

Is that dictating the specifically the development for the airport, or does it have a planning and zoning or funding or other um implication?

I I think yes, the answer is yes.

It could be I mean it could end up being all of those things.

Um there will be a likely an overlay, uh PAD that we'll yeah, we're not uh TBD, but there'll be some sort of planning overlay that will impact the way planning and zoning decisions are made within the air park boundary um and potentially even uh inform the bleed uses, the adjacent uses as well.

Yeah, it that's a really good question, and Heather's kind of hit it.

Well, the the airpark mass we're calling the air park plan, um they call it the Eloy Air Park Plan, it's a hybrid.

You have your general plan, which is your 10,000 foot level.

You have what's called in state law called a specific plan, which is the next level down, and it's for that purpose, it's specific to that area, and it can do all kinds of things.

Um you can also do other things.

I've done specific plans citywide for certain uses, but it's specific to that area, and it starts getting more into the granule uh land use patterns in that area.

You know, it gets into relationships and all kinds of good stuff.

Not that the general plan can't, but the general plans uh is more general.

It says it will say address the impacts of airport on Jason uses.

Okay, what's that mean?

Your next level down.

But where our plan is are uh what I am requesting the plan look at is your further third step down, which is your master planning, where can streets go?

Uh what are some of the infrastructure needs?

We're also doing a uh an economic study as part of this about what uses can go in there.

You know, what are the appropriate uses?

Um we plan out, you know, the one thing when you start doing this planning, a lot of times what happens we have to protect this industry or this use right now.

And you know, it may not be there 10, 20 years from now.

What are we looking at the long-range plan for that?

How do we maintain you know it could be the air tunnel?

I don't know, the fan that would have endorsed sky diet.

How do we maintain those things?

We we have no idea.

So what are our long range uses around protecting certain uses, but yet what could happen if the changes in 10 years or 15 years happen?

So as we go down to that finer grain level is where we start getting into that more.

And you mentioned about infrastructure, which Heather is absolutely correct.

This is we're actually with part of the general plan, we're modifying what we call development areas.

We haven't really talked about those.

Um the mayor is familiar with the term, and we have in the general plan growth areas where growth is going to happen.

There are big fuzzy barriers.

The development areas where council says this is where we're gonna allocate our CIP funding over the next 15, 20 years, and look at potential incentives for that.

That's actually coming in as part of the general plan, so we're remodifying a lot of that.

The air park plan, as we get into that master plan part, can start dictating what type of infrastructure is needed so we can start planning for infrastructure improvements because we don't have one right now.

We have a water master plan, we have uh we have the we don't have a streets master plan, but we have a in a general plan, we have a street kind of plan, but we don't do it.

We kind of do planning as we need right now.

So as we get growing and get closer, we start take to looking at those uses, the compatibility, um, mixed use is definitely one of those uses.

Whether and I don't personally like it, but um the term mixed use and industrial to me, that's just normal.

So they say, well, mixed use industrial.

I'm like, well, mixed use to me is residential and commercial and industrial and all this other stuff.

So we definitely will have opportunities for that, especially on the southeast side and more of the single family on the north north and west side, but there's definitely those opportunities.

So we're gonna start.

I've actually sketched out a few diagrams.

I think I share with did I share the file with all the other stuff from my predecessor?

I may not, I may have given it to there's been a lot of look at what the circulation can be around there.

A area plan doesn't always get down to that level.

They may just get down to like here's where your arterial street is.

You know, I'm going down, we're we would like to go down to the next level where your collector is and all this other stuff, so we can start plotting out and what are the inputs.

And those property owners become all more influential because they own the property.

So we're kind of driving down.

So you got the boundary, which we're gonna be looking at uh and the fuzziness around it.

So I think I talked too much, but helps.

Well, the the thing I'm trying to get an understanding of is does the designation of an air park have implications for mandatory resources?

Or is it sort of like air space where once you designate an area, there is implications to that area and the immediate surroundings.

I see your I understand your question.

Yeah.

I didn't hear, I didn't hear the first part of it.

He was asking, well, if you want to restate.

Well, uh, I'm asking if designating a section of this land as air park mandates um the need for certain resources.

So there needs to be X amount of water available or X amount of road roadways available, or there needs to be a gas station if you designate this as airport.

And like I I'm also wondering how um the air park definition is similar to the airspace definition.

Is there restrictions or like is there an implication of saying hey this must mass then is the airport now we have to abide by a different set of rules that escapes the regular platting zoning for the city?

I would first say the air park is is really just a planned area development.

It doesn't hold any like federal mandates attached to it or anything like that.

It's really just a development area that we predict will be um built into.

So that's I think that answers does that answer both of your questions.

I can't I can't remember what the first part was.

It adds as part of the question.

But um for the resourcing no I no, we're starting from scratch.

So really the the beauty of this area plan is that it can delineate what its own requirements will be.

Um nothing the generation and adoption of this air area plan slash master plan will not necessitate a certain number of new roads or anything like that.

We could set um we could set certain standards that that would require that new locators within the air park, you know, do contribute to road maintenance or road uh road uh creation, but that's kind of all for us to decide at this point.

If I can add to that, the the plan there will be certain things to make the plan function.

You know, you have your arterial where we're planning arterials, so there will be you know I don't want to say expectations, but you know, how does city in this development area and this growth area anticipates spending their money?

So as things go, it sets up the goals and policies for that area.

There were as it comes down to land uses, it'll help us predict better how much water we will need.

You know, or in our water master plan, which I know you've looked at thoroughly, it has water allocation by use.

So as we start moving our land uses around in that area and getting more finite, we can start saying, you know, this is what we anticipate the water use, and we may need a 12-inch water line or maybe a 24-inch water line to serve that.

So it gives us a greater level of certainty of what's needed to serve the area.

But as Heather said, it just sets up some guy, I don't know if you have guidelines, but um it sets up the guidelines that as development happens, you know, there's expectations that need to happen.

Because one of the things is I know the mayor's involved uh is aware of one of the things that's happened in Eloy all too often is they plan for the current service and not for the expansion.

Uh for example, going up 11 mile corner right now, that's why we're expanding the water line, the sewer line going into the plant to 36 inches.

It was never designed to serve any of the any of the area.

We have a project going on in Bataglia right now uh uh next fiscal year to expand that sewer line to accommodate not only the uses that are there right now, but the future development down the road.

So that was never anticipated in any of these plans uh in past plans, and that's why we're having to go back in right now and modify it.

I won't get into the complexities of what's the reason of why Bataglia needs to upgrade it, but I can tell you right now there's a uh a significant issue because we it can't handle what's currently there.

So and that depends on you know what time of the year it is, uh as we go forward and we get more finite for the plan, it allows us to start planning our infrastructure out for those future needs.

So that's why you do these more detailed plans.

Thanks for the detailed answer.

Um the one other thing I wanted to ask is I I don't know what the current airspace designation for the airport is, but a good example for today is the ATT tower.

That being so close to the to the runway, really.

And if we designate this as air park, and that I understand it doesn't have any federal implications, but does that affect a future tower coming to the area?

I'm gonna say I bet you Dan knows the answer because I know he reviewed that cell tower in relationship to the airport.

The nice thing is yes, it does.

It can be influenced by the what uh types of heights are allowed in there.

The air park plan itself can come in and say, you know, no but no billing is greater than its height, and then we you know it's recommended that we don't do this.

The that the biggest influencer on height restrictions is actually the FAA requirements.

Um within 20,000 feet of the runway, all building heights have to, or certain height have to be reviewed by the FAA.

Any use regardless.

So how that works out is for every foot and burning height up, that's within I'm gonna say that's wrong.

For every 20 feet from the runway that goes up one foot, the FAA has to give approval or at least review.

So for example, not at the southeast corner, um, I wish I had on my pointer, but where the gray kind of the dark gray with the southeast corner southwest corner of the air park where the gray comes to the intersection by the where the Toltuc residential is any house that are over 30 feet has to be re-reviewed by the FAA.

So in that buddy, as soon as you go about 20, I'm sorry, about a hundred feet more southwest, has to be it doesn't have to be a review by the FAA anymore.

So there's the there's the that cone, I don't want to call it a cone, but that glide slope or what do you want to call it?

FAA isn't required.

There's the 200 foot level where they get more um cautious about what goes on 200 feet, and then the approach angle.

That's dictated by FAA.

So will there be an additional review requirements?

Yes.

Is it dictated by the air park plan?

No, it's actually dictated by the FAA.

But in the event that different types of aircraft are attracted, and I know we have the airport master plan that's in process.

If the uses, you know, the airplane uses change, that may be an effect that you know needs to be accounted for, but the air park itself will not impact the it it has no bearing on airspace or on regulations at this point.

But like I said, should different types of aircraft, they expand the runway, perhaps, create a new air or a new runway, and suddenly you know huge cargo planes are coming in and out of here.

This is very, very, very hypothetical.

That might change things.

And but the airport that air park designation will have no bearing on that.

Okay, any other input questions at this time?

Okay, thank you very much.

Um there's one one last slide.

Oh, we've got one more.

Okay.

So just this quick rundown, like I mentioned, we'll be having the wish visioning workshop on February 11th.

Next questionnaire comes out on Monday, and from that we'll develop the draft boundary map, which we will discuss with you at the March 11th Planning and Zoning Commission.

So you'll see us again.

Is that wrong?

No, isn't it?

I'm sorry, it's it's right.

I I saw February 11th, but you said March 11th, and I got my brain got twisted.

So three three is March.

And three months project.

Thank you.

Okay.

Okay, any other input questions at this time.

Okay, thank you very much.

Thank you.

Okay.

We've got one more item here.

Correct.

Item E.

Eli Park Vision.

Oh, that was that was already oh it was.

Okay, so you combined DE.

Good, because it signed very similar to me.

Okay.

Well, it looks like we're done with those agenda items.

Okay, moving on to item number eight, informational item.

A planning and zoning commission members and staff will update the public on relevant events and activities that have attended since the last meeting, and any other future uh events, activities, and potential agenda items.

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

Mayor.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

The members of the uh the board.

Uh hideout, that was the big question.

Remember that?

We did that a little while back, the hideout.

You were waiting for this.

Okay, the rezone and the hideout, which was 26-996, that rezoning passed at a 7-0 at council, which we are very happy about that.

And it was that was from open space recreational to general commercial C2.

And resolution 26-1645.

That was a conditional use permit for uh commercial entertainment, and that also passed 7-0 at the council level.

So we are very happy that this project is beginning to move along.

I think it's going to be a big plus to the city of U.

We wish the Petersons very well for what they're doing.

And that's that's it for my side.

Thank you very much.

Anyone else?

Any of my uh fellow commissioners?

Anything to input?

I've got a question.

Um every time I drive by the Bluestone Motel on Sunland Gin, uh, I mean it I'm looking at it, and it it says it's a motel, but there's always one car parked in the Port Cochere.

It appears that there's maybe one family living there, and I don't think it doesn't appear to be uh a place would attract very many uh visit visitors.

But I'm wondering, is there anything that the since it's really kind of an eyesore and it's right when you come into Eloy?

It kind of gives people the idea that we're just a little uh farm town or something.

But is there anything that could be done to or in fact are they even violating the zone by not having an active motel there?

I guess that's the question.

Could the staff would they be able to look into this issue and um maybe get back to the commission like with an update on what's going on with Bluestone and next or meeting or so?

Okay, Mr.

Simon, you'd like to address this complex issue, please.

Sure.

And I can actually fill you in on all the details that are going right now.

So what's going on with the bluestone?

Uh as you may or may not know, about three years ago, between the city and uh Penell County, they were shut down for environmental issues.

Um looking into people trying to buy it.

What you may see out there right now is um they're actually in the middle of remediating the environmental issues.

There was a cesspool that was on the site, and a and its own little sewage treatment plant there.

Um they're in the process of demoing that.

And if I believe it may have been partially demo already, if not completely.

Uh the next step is to remediate the soil and then fill it in and then pack it in.

They were also in the process of um tapping new or at least constructing the new water and sewer line connections.

Uh they have not been authorized yet to connect to the city water and sewer because there's a couple of fee things they need to pay.

Uh, once they have bought the property will be eligible for uh a rehab.

Uh we McKenzie, this acting city manager has been in discussions with them currently about what we can do to start getting that read uh refat rehab uh as much as it was either Thursday or Friday last week.

Uh they're looking at what and asking the questions and what they can do without permits that uh they can do that on the on the interior rehab of the building.

So the property owner is definitely wanting to move forward.

The big key on this is getting that water and sewer connection, and that's it's not a rubbing point, it's a how do we solve point.

Um as I said, they're they've got the plans approved to connect that, and they got the okay to construct on site.

So it's a matter of the next step is working with them and on their schedule, their their challenge back that we gave the them is what is it that you need to do, and what is the time frame to start doing it?

And of course, pay the connection fees.

So that's where we're at with the blue sign.

That's a great question.

It's been out there for a long time.

Personality rehab, they're gone away and rebuilt as a new hotel, because that'd be great.

Um, but I don't know if we'll be able to do that.

Uh they're looking at their options right now.

So thank you.

For the past 17 years, I could tell you that the blue stone or whatever used to be called has never had a great uh repetition.

So anything that can be done to improve it, I'm sure will be much appreciated.

Maybe just tear it down and start again.

I don't know.

But that's just my opinion.

Okay, anyone else?

Mr.

Silver.

Thank you, Chair.

Um, members of the commission.

Uh as Heather said, we do have the upcoming workshop on February 11th.

That will only be starting out, it's coming at the Toltec Senior Center.

So I encourage you to come out and do that with us.

Um we also want to let you know that we have a lot of scheduling conflicts with a bunch of stuff in February.

I'm sorry, March.

So what we're going to be doing is later, we're going to be moving the March 18th Planning Commission back one week to March 11th.

Um, that is so that we can allow a lot of stuff to happen.

One of them is we have a lot of people on spring break, uh, but it allows us to start scheduling different activities, especially later in the month as it pertains to the general plan.

Uh Heather brought you up to speed on some of the other activities that we were planning to do, uh, the boundary map, the update on the general plan if I remember correctly.

Um in February, we are looking at definitely rolling out pretty soon.

The 6th day starts the 29th, I think.

So we'll have the 60-day plan.

Um they're waiting on me for a handful of things.

Uh the last month that's been extraordinarily busy from our point of view uh from internal operations uh planning wise.

So we have a lot of new developments coming toward your toward you.

You're obviously gonna be hearing the another major general plan amendment and a couple of subdivision plots and other stuff.

We do have some exciting projects though coming your way in the next few months uh for redevelopment, not necessarily redevelopment for housing.

So we're kind of excited.

So you're gonna be looking at some things over the next few months.

Um, but what we would be nice, you'll have a good five or six weeks offered after the spring after that March 11th.

We don't come back, I believe, until the third week in April.

So you'll have a nice break in there that you won't have to attend anything.

Okay, thank you.

Um anticipated meeting in February, sir.

Thank you.

Yes.

Uh you'll be hearing from I forgot her name.

Yeah, the general plan, the general uh yeah.

Julie, yeah, we'll be doing the general plan amendment.

We'll be also doing the zoning amendment that goes along with that.

We have a subdivision plot that you'll also be hearing.

Um else.

Okay.

So we've got the uh minutes here.

We've got the uh March meeting is uh March 11th, so put them in your calendars.

You never input yet.

Okay, one thing.

I remember no motion to adjourn.

Do we have a motion to adjourn?

I'll make your motion to adjourn.

Do we have a second?

Second.

Okay, I think we're gonna do a voice route on this.

All in favor of adjournment, please signify by seven aye.

All opposed.

This meeting is here by adjourned.