Call to order this June 18th meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission for the City of Surprise.

Sarah may we have a roll call, please.

Commissioner Perry.

Here.

Commissioner Holland.

Commissioner Holland has an excused absence.

Commissioner Leonard.

Here.

Chair Chapman.

Chair Chapman has an excused absence.

Vice Chair Spada.

Here.

Commissioner Everett.

Here.

Commissioner Bash.

Here.

We have a quorum.

Thank you.

Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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

And to the Republic for which it seems when they should undergo individual delivery justice.

So for current events and reports, assistant director Fleeton, anything tonight?

Thank you, Vice Chair.

Nothing from me tonight.

Okay, thank you.

Then let's move on to the jadna, Sarah.

Consideration and action to approve or disapprove the May 21st, 2026 Planning and Zoning Commission meeting minute.

I move to approve.

Any questions?

Okay, vote, please.

You need to I make a motion to accept the May 21st planning and zoning uh commission regular meeting minutes.

I'll second.

Moved in second in any discussion.

Okay, please vote.

Motion passes.

Motion passes with five votes in favor.

Thank you.

Uh move on to the next item.

Consideration and action pertaining to a rezone of approximately a hundred and sixty acres from rural residential RR to residential medium density, R2, or property generally located along the southwest corner of Deer Valley Road and 231st Avenue alignment.

Thank you, Vice Chair.

I moved on you.

Uh these two projects tonight are my colleague Chris's.

Um she's unable to be here, so I am filling in for her on these.

So this item before you is a rezone application for a project known as Surprise 160.

The subject site is located at the southwest corner of Deer Valley Road and 231st Avenue.

Here you can see the various other developments in the area that are in um various stages of development with Surprise Foothills, Rancho Vista, and the southern portion of Mesquite Mountain Ranch under construction, and then the other ones further north and to the east in various stages of either zoning or plotting entitlements.

Rural residential is to the south, and then to the east of the subject site is a combination of R2 that was recently approved part of the Mesquite Mountain Ranch 5 rezone, as well as an additional portion of Surprise Foothills PAD.

The application is requesting to rezone the property from rural residential to R2 medium density residential under the LDO.

The general plan land use designation for the subject site is primarily neighborhood character area.

The request to R2 medium does density residential is in uh conformance with the general plan.

Due to the project's proximity to the Luke Auxiliary Field, it this site is subject to the Luke graduated density concept.

It is within the zero to six uh dwelling units to the acre band of the GDC.

So at uh absolute maximum based off of just the gross square the gross acreage um and that six dwelling units to the acre.

Um the the most that could conceivably be um built within this development is 960 units, but that isn't take into consideration any right-of-way dedication, any um flood areas on site um topographical restraint or typical um loting practices.

The development standards for the site would follow um the R2 zoning district of the LDO at the time of development.

This table here shows the existing development standards in the R2.

At this time, we have not received any um actual development proposals.

So um we don't have any indication as to um which lot categories would would be developed, but uh at the time of site plan or preliminary plot, uh these um development standards would be applied to uh that proposal.

The applicant provided this conceptual open space and lotting plan as uh visual reference for what the property could potentially develop as.

This shows various um trail uh developments and connectivity um in conformance with general plan and the parks and recreation master plan, as well as the LDO and the Peds, um, a variety of open space areas, parks, and amenity sites, as well as connectivity to and from with the um conceptual lotting and the conceptual open space areas.

This uh image depicts the regional uh transportation network.

So the site is located there at the southwest corner of 231st and Deer Valley Road.

Um this property um would be uh required to construct their half street improvements as well as ensure two points of um access.

And um Deer Valley Road is designated as a minor arterial and 231st is designated as a residential collector.

The applicant held a citizen outreach meeting on January 14th of this year at Willow Canyon High School.

There was one person at attendance.

Um questions uh that were received regarding uh surrounding areas, uh development in the area, transportation infrastructure, drainage, growth of the area, and zoning of the current property, and the applicant was able to answer uh all of the questions that were um posed.

Uh, this was also advertised in accordance with the LDO and state statute.

If the commission wishes to recommend approval of this rezone case FS25-0750 to the mayor and city council staff recommends that commission recommend subject to a um stipulations A and B.

Thank you.

And with that, um, I'm available for questions, and so is the applicant.

Okay.

This requires a public hearing, Sarah.

Do we have anyone who wishes to speak?

Yes, Vice Chair.

I have a rich statement from surprise.

Um is this already done in your eyes?

Please state your name.

Richard Stetsman.

Thank you.

Is this already done?

Because we keep kicking this can down the road.

I've been coming to these meetings and we keep laying it out.

It's the same two guys we always see.

One of the biggest problems, the the uh 163rd Avenue Grand and the 303.

That was a screw up.

That was a horrible mistake.

And you guys are doing the exact same thing to us.

Five lights on on a parkway.

It's a it's meant to be moving uh moving people along, not stop and go traffic.

We keep coming back and and asking that more roads put in, better roads, bigger roads, before all this construction because you throw 3,000 or 1,000 homes in there with only one way in and out.

You've created the 163rd and grand all over again.

I I don't know what else to say.

You guys keep doing this.

Learn from this mistake.

Um, we don't need another thousand homes out there right now.

There's not enough roadways.

We've already had deaths on the parkway.

You know, fix the that problem first before any of this other goes in.

All right.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Sarah, anyone else to speak?

No, Vice Chair.

Okay, thank you.

Vice Chair, this the uh the representative of the applicant, Jeff Liley.

Okay, thank you.

Hi, thank you.

Uh Jeff Bly, 701 North 44th Street here on behalf of the applicant.

Just to wanted to touch on a few things with the project, of course.

Um, there is a development agreement that's per currently been negotiated with the city, uh, and it'll go to the city council on August 4th.

Uh it does address the transportation issues that we have to to deal with, which are making sure there's adequate access into the site.

Uh we'll be extending 231st Avenue from the property down to Beardsley Road.

Uh so we'll be picking up that and completing it all the way.

We'll be uh building Deer Valley Road across the frontage, which it doesn't exist now, and taking that, that'll then extend all the way over to Surprise Foothills Boulevard, which also connects down to Sun Valley Parkway.

Um I do understand the concern with traffic signals, but traffic signals are required on Sun Valley Parkway by McDot.

Um we couldn't build a house until the the traffic signal situation was taken care of.

So this project will be contributing uh their pro router share to the traffic signals.

Um and the one other thing is that uh given the location of this property, uh it's uh the water department would like a well site in this project, and so they'll be providing a well site to the city as well uh and constructing the well transmission line.

It's the the water campus is right across the street.

Um as Trevor pointed out, it's currently rural residential.

The zoning that's being asked is R2, which is consistent with all the zoning uh surrounding it on all sides.

Uh it's consistent with the general plan that the voters adopted uh and and uh the the neighborhood character area that it's in.

Um the we're not proposing any high density residential or any you know multi- you know, that type of multifamily units.

It's basically single family across the the board with varying lot sizes you saw in the concept plan.

Um there's uh what else we have?

Um that's about it on the project.

Um we're here to asking for your recommendation for approval and happy to answer any questions you might have.

Thank you.

Thank you.

When are you guys gonna do the uh upgrades on the roads and get those set up?

I mean, all the roads are gonna go in before we can pull a build a you know, build a house.

So um, you know, Rancho Vista built 231st, um Beersley Road's been built over to 231st, and then and it goes down at 227th.

Those went in with Musquete Mountain Ranch.

So before we can even build any house, we'll have to complete 231st all the way down to Beardsley.

We'll have to complete Deer Valley Road to make it sure that it goes all the way back over to Surprise Foothills Boulevard.

And Lenar, who's building the first phase of of um surprise foothills has put in surprise foothills boulevards.

So uh before anything can be constructed on the site, uh all the roads have to be put in place.

And as you've seen, you know, this, you know, we've seen a lot of zoning cases come through recently as the properties are being entitled.

And it's kind of a you know, it for all it's kind of an infill piece to because of what's surrounding it.

Um and so it's kind of critical that we get that in there so all the roads, you don't have that scallop street situation.

Uh but you know, and this would be more evident with the next case.

You're seeing these cases, but these are still, you know, some of these are like decades away.

I mean, this development is happening out there at a at a pace now.

We've seen, I think Mesquite Mount Ranch started three, four years ago.

You know, there's some homes out there now, and it's gonna gradually go north because that's where the infrastructure is.

So you're not gonna see you typically aren't gonna see somebody want to delete frog because you'd have to build a lot of infrastructure to get there.

So um this is kind of a natural piece to fill in, as I mentioned, and uh they'll be taking care of all the infrastructure needs they you know, we have a traffic impact analysis that we have to submit and then it the city approves that before we can even get to this stage.

So we're doing everything that we're supposed to do, and we're consistent with what uh you know the city's long-range vision is for the area.

So thank you.

Thank you.

Yes.

Um you're saying a long ways away.

Can you can you give me a just a rough idea?

Um, or we talk in before you actually start building a home.

On this piece, yes.

Given if we had if we had somebody in contract today to build on it, it'd be it would be three years.

Okay.

Okay, because we still have to go through preliminary plats, then we have to go through final plats, then we have to go through home product review.

So some of those things can overlap, but you know, those processes take a good year each one.

Um, and then and then you know, all the infrastructure has to be has to go in before the homes can go in.

So it's a number of years before you'll see any homes on this.

And frankly, we don't have any.

The market's kind of slowed down right now.

So the uh the homes uh the home builders are not actively buying the property right now.

We have some other pieces, for instance, in surprise foothills phase two, it's better situated right now.

Um, and excuse me, so it's it's gonna be a number of years.

Okay, thank you.

Appreciate that.

Okay.

Commissioner Perry.

Uh thank you, Chair.

So Mr.

Bliley, I uh I know that you're here for surprise 160, but I believe that you also uh represent uh have represented in some other cases some of the surrounding uh uh parcels here.

So traffic is is always a big problem.

And I happen to live uh in Asante, so uh I'm probably more aware than most anybody else in this room with 163rd in Grand.

Uh and it is what it is, and uh it's been improved, but nevertheless, uh it's problematic.

Now Sun Valley Parkway is a different situation today, only because uh on one side you've got a regional park where there can't be any development, and of course, on the other side, that's where this is happening.

Could you take us through what's going to happen with the roads as you theoretically envision what has to be put in first and then next in order to get down to where this surprise 160 is yeah and and just to piggyback on what you think I mean I've I've been around surprise for you know two and a half decades, and I was working for surprise when you know the 1630, it's been an issue since I worked here, and the real one of the big issues is because of the Burlington Northern Railway Road.

You don't have that situation on Sun Valley Parkway, and having only the one access point has always been the big pinch point in spot two.

I mean, it just has been.

Uh it's gotten better, but there's a lot more homes in spot two and adjacent to spot to Grand Avenue on other side.

I mean, you just have a lot more traffic over there, and you have one access point, frankly.

You don't have that here, it's a different situation.

So I understand Sun Valley Parkway is going to carry a lot of traffic in the future and it will.

But um, they're also working on another another access point out of this area, the Deer Valley Road.

Uh we already, as you can all are well aware, the Desert Trails Project, which was approved a few years ago.

Uh, they've acquired from state land the right of way to build Deer Valley Road out over to Grand.

So there'll be multiple access points uh before this project ever develops.

But to answer your question, uh, as I mentioned, what's in place today is 227th from Sun Valley Park way up to Beardsley.

Beardsley is in place uh to the edge of the Rancho Vista project, and I don't know if uh we're looking at the same map I am.

Um surprise foothills road, which is the next road down that um from 227th, it kind of does that S shape.

Lenar has is building that.

I don't know what the status of it, maybe Lloyd knows, but I think it's it's it's under construction.

They are gonna take it all the way up to Deer Valley Road.

They are also gonna build a portion of Deer Valley Road over to the edge of their property, and so what'll happen is this project will pick up Deer Valley Road where it left where it leaves off, bring it over to 231st, and then take 231st down to where it leaves off, and you'll have you'll have a nice two points of of circular access to get all down to Sun Valley Parkway.

So the major ways of getting the Sun Valley Parkway once this section of this development is done, is going to be on uh on 227th.

Correct.

And then on the yet to be constructed on the uh on the purple that we see that is to the left, yeah, right there.

Yeah, and that's being constructed now.

Okay, and is that a half or a full road uh that's being put in?

That is the off-site portion, I believe, is just two travel lanes and a center turn lane, and then the portion through the project would be the full uh uh two median two through the through the project.

Uh and then Deer Valley Road on the adjacent to the project would be two travel lanes, the the south half of a minor arterial, uh, and then along our project, we would do the same thing, the south half of a minor arterial.

Um I think that was answered.

Yes, good.

So, yeah, thank you.

Sorry to put you on the spot because I know that you're specifically talking about surprise 160, but the entire traffic circulation is always of concern uh to the residents in the area, and and I I rightly understand that.

And uh and I can tell you that the city city staff, since you know what what's happened in in the 163rd area, has become much more diligent and requiring these multiple points of public access that are almost fully built out before you can build.

I mean, that wasn't a requirement years ago.

You know, it would have been one point of access and maybe an emergency access or something.

We have to have two fully functioning public access points in order to develop any property.

Understood.

Thank you, sir.

Appreciate it.

Thank you, Chair.

I'm all set.

Okay.

Comments or questions.

Okay.

Then we'll move to a vote.

So I move.

Sorry.

Uh I move to recommend approval of the rezone for surprise 160 case FS250750, subject to stipulations A and B as outlined in the staff report.

Second.

Second.

We moved and seconded.

Please vote.

Motion passes with five votes in favor.

Thank you.

Sarah, the next item, please.

Consideration and action pertaining to a rezone of a 422 acres from the Buena Vista Ranch Planned Area Development EAD and rural residential RR zoning districts to a combination of residential low density R1, residential medium density, R2, residential, high density, R3, open space conservation OS-1, and General Industrial.

I two zoning districts.

Case FS24 1191.

Thank you.

Driver, please.

Thank you, Vice Chair, Commissioners.

Yes, this item is a rezone application for a project known as Buena Vista Ranch.

The subject site is located at the northwest corner of 227th Avenue and Pinnacle Peak, just east of the CAP canal.

The subject site encompasses approximately 422 acres.

The existing zoning on the site is primarily Buena Vista Ranch planned area development with an additional rural residential parcel.

They're on the east side of 227th Avenue.

Surrounding zonings to the north, west and east are rural residential.

And then there are various um zoning districts of uh or of residential zoning districts to the south.

This exhibit shows the land use map from that existing Buena Vista Ranch PAD.

Um, you'll see that the development pattern here in the original PAD um included a higher density residential at the southwest that transitioned as it moved northeast to lower density residential, and then at the northeast corner of the overall parcel on the other side of the wash is an existing I-2 industrial parcel.

Um and I'll get into a little bit um here shortly of the the reasoning behind this development pattern.

This shows the proposed zoning district.

So um they're proposing to rezone the property from the existing planned area development to current code LDO with um associated zoning districts, as well as add in that 20-acre rural residential parcel to the east.

Um the development pattern for the most part um remains very similar with um R3 high density residential at the southwest corner, transitioning into R2 medium density in the middle, and then as you move further northeast, uh goes into R1 low density residential.

The industrial parcel um on the other side of the wash remains as I2 um general industrial, and then the wash area is being designated as open space area.

The land use designation of the property on this um per the general plan is primarily neighborhood character area.

Um there is some designated employment character areas um on the property due to the proximity to the Luke's Luke Auxiliary field as well as open space along the uh wash corridor.

Typically, we would not um support residential being uh permitted uh to be rezoned within the employment character area, but there's but because there's existing entitlements for residential within there that is uh being consistently carried over from the existing entitlements to the proposed um rezone to um residential under the LDO.

So this is the exhibit showing um the graduated density concept as well as the um noise contours for the auxiliary field.

This is um influencing the development pattern that you see in the existing PAD as well as the proposed um the density uh maximums in the three different bands of the graduated density concept um kind of create that limitation on the amount of um dwelling units that can be permitted within those within those areas and therefore influence the uh underlying land use designations of the PAD and the requested zoning districts under this rezone.

Um the northeast corner um is mostly within the 65 um LDN, which is the reason for it being designated as industrial.

The applicant provided this conceptual open space plan to show um some of the potential development parcels as well as where certain planned amenity sites and open space areas um could be located in addition to trail connectivity in compliance with the general plan and the parks master plan.

Um there's also a proposed um future school site.

Um, and then it uh also identifies some of the existing well sites that are on the property.

The applicant also provided this conceptual lotting plan to show how uh the property could potentially develop.

This is just for visualization purposes.

This is not within the rezone document, but helped to give an idea of how this property could uh be lauded and developed in the future.

And then back to the regional traffic.

So this is kind of at that northern end of um the Sun Valley Parkway area where development is currently happening.

Uh there's access to the property from that sun, that Surprise Foothills Boulevard coming up from the south, and then on the east side, 227th Avenue, continuing up through the property to the north.

The applicant held a citizen participation meeting on January 28th of last year at Willow Canyon High School.

There were 10 people in attendance.

Uh questions that were fielded included topics of zoning density of the project, access to the site, trails that would be provided, and infrastructure requirements.

This meeting was advertised in accordance with the LDL.

If the commission wishes to recommend approval of this rezone case, case FS24-1191.

Staff recommends that the commission recommend subject to stipulations A and B.

And I'm available for questions, and so is Jeff Blyley with the applicant.

Thank you, Trevor.

I received a message from one turn on the back.

I'm sorry.

I received a message from Kimberly Varosek.

I don't know if I'm saying that correct, but she's a very nice lady.

She lives in the area, and um she was concerned about the industrial and the reasoning.

So thank you for clarifying that, Trevor.

That makes a lot of sense.

Um, however, along Pinnacle Peak, that is where there they have a well and mailboxes, and they're concerned about what this project is going to do.

They her words were she is concerned about the security of our well water and mailboxes on Pinnacle Peak.

She also expresses concern as everyone with traffic, but most importantly, what I hear regularly about out here is there are a lot of horses and livestock, and we have city people moving into an area that has been rural.

And I am just suggesting on her behalf, because she's like, we need to get the message out.

Maybe we could do a social media campaign on the traffic laws when there's someone along the road on a horse.

Maybe we could do signage or something, but I'm hearing that concern a lot.

Um, I think they've had some bad experiences, it sounds like.

And so maybe we could consider that just a thought.

Thank you.

And if you can respond about the will, that's very important.

Yeah.

Did you open up public hearing?

Yeah, I'll defer that to the applicant.

Okay, thank you.

So this requires a public hearing, sir.

Do we have anyone who wishes to speak?

Yes, Vice Chair.

I have two.

The first will be Rich Stetsman.

Thank you.

Hello, I'm Richard Stutzman.

I'm gonna try this again.

The problem with this there is only one way in and out, Sun Valley Parkway.

Just because you add small roads to the parkway doesn't give you any more access into the city.

On the last uh accident that we had where there was, I believe, two casualties.

Sun Valley Parkway was shut down both directions.

Four lanes, you couldn't get into town.

You had to go, uh, in fact, they weren't even letting you go west.

But the only alternative was to try to find a way to sneak back around to get on I-10 to come back into town, hour and a half, maybe.

There when they tell you that there's another, there's other access, there is no other access.

The Sun Valley Parkway is it.

Uh 25 years ago, when we bought out here, we were told it was going to be considered rural, um, rural residential.

That's all it was going to be.

So we've put up with the dirt roads and we've put up with uh not having, you know, having to drive uh 30 minutes to get get a gallon of milk.

Um it still comes back to the point.

You're uh at 163rd and grand before those uh before any of that was built in there, there was no problem because there wasn't all those homes.

There was still 163rd Avenue, there was still a grand, and it's exactly the same thing that the Sun Valley Parkway is gonna do.

And you've all voted already, you've already agreed this is going to be done.

It doesn't matter how many times we come in and say you've got to have more access.

You've got to have another way in and out, and just up four roads and five lights going to the parkway isn't that isn't doing anything, right?

Anyone?

Anybody?

Okay.

Sarah had one more to speak.

Sir, uh, rules are that we can't engage in a conversation and open to the public.

But if you're here uh after the meeting and you want to speak after the meeting is over.

So I want you to know it's not that it's not that we're being pantrous.

No, sir.

It's uh it's opening.

It's it's one of the open meeting laws.

Yes, we're not allowed to engage on the specific item that's on the on the agenda.

So we can have discussion amongst us.

We can't have dialogue back and forth.

We can ask questions to the applicant or anybody that that has, but we can't, it's not an open discussion.

Okay, can you ask the applicant about what I just said about there only being one access?

Again, we can't this dialogue we can't have.

So yes, our next speaker is Mahalia Moonalim.

First of all, I'm very impressed with your pronunciation.

Uh that was accurate.

My name's Mahali Moonalim.

Um, I am currently living in Glendale in the Westgate Entertainment District.

Uh, but I'm out here because I grew up in surprise.

Um, I went kindergarten through 12th grade and graduated back in the good old days in 2019 from Shadow Ridge before the pandemic.

Uh yeah, and I went to school in Baltimore, and that was my first time experiencing uh non-single family housing.

And it was a row house, and it was very eye-opening to me, like the possibilities of housing.

Um, and since then, I think coming back to Arizona and coming back to surprise, there's been a lot of change, there's been a lot of development, and I think ultimately like that's something that is really hard to balance.

Um, especially hearing people like you, like it's hard to adjust to change.

Uh, I have family that live in South Dakota, very rural community.

Um, but it's happening all over the country.

People just need places to live.

I'm 25.

Uh, so people my age, like we can't afford homes.

I can barely afford rent.

Um, I was living in a single family home renting with like two other people, and we recently moved to the townhome because uh just that lease we didn't want to be in anymore, and the available leases, they were just out of our budget, and things that were in our budget were just like too far.

There was a place in surprise that we were really interested in.

We even put an application in.

And then they said, oh, the next day they called back and said, that place is gone, and there are five other people on the waiting list ahead of you.

So all that is said just because I really like this project.

I think that adding density is really important, adding different types of housing is really important, especially for people that can't afford a single family home and maybe don't need that much space.

The flexibility for young people also to kind of uh have more of those amenities taken care of.

Um, and learn how to do the home ownership practices is really uh valuable.

So yeah, just wanted to share that.

I support this project and um you know growth in in surprise because it uh helps the prosperity of all future generations.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Sarah, anyone else?

No, vice chair.

Then I'll close.

Almost closed.

Pardon.

Go ahead.

Okay, yeah, Jeff Blyley 7014.

Just me uh quickly just go over the the case.

This case, as uh Trevor pointed out, was zoned.

I actually zoned it back in 2005.

And so um everything that you see on the map today is exactly what's entitled today.

Uh we're not changing anything.

Um, as you point as Trevor point out, the industrial's there because it's under the noise contours.

Um, a few things we are changing though on this map is that we've now added an open space land use designation, an actual zoning category called open space.

It's not in the current plan.

Uh, I know council member Judd will be happy about that.

It's a wildlife corridor.

Uh it's a minimum of 300 feet wide, and it leads to the crossing.

And so that that 20-acre piece was is not designated as open space in the current plan, it is in the new plan.

Um this project is is owned by the same entities that own the surprise foothills project.

And so um, we met with the school district on this project, and uh they preferred that there be a school site located in here.

In the current plan, there is not a school site.

In the new plan, there is a school site.

And so we added that school of site per their request.

Um, this is also a good area for wells in the city, as you know, there's the the two wells that serve this area are both located in this project and were dedicated years ago and drilled.

Uh, the city has asked us for a third well site, and we would be getting that to the city as well.

Uh this project has a development agreement, just like the previous project, um, and it's pretty pretty basic.

It's again the same thing with the access points and the traffic, um, the the roads, the contribution to the traffic signals on the Sun Valley Parkway, and then of course the well site.

Um, I believe there was a question regarding Pinnacle Peak.

Um, one of the one of the things the city initially wanted us to do was build Pinnacle Peak, continue to make it that our a secondary access, and we push back because we know that the folks that live over there really don't want Pinnacle Peak.

And so we are we are gonna build Pinnacle Peak, but only to 227th.

Okay, we don't we don't extend Pinnacle Peak further.

Um, we work through the city, and our secondary access is uh surprise foothills boulevard through Surprise Foothills.

So our two points of access into the site will be Surprise Foothills Boulevard, which is the one I talked about on the previous case that runs Serpentine through Surprise Foothills, and then we'll be building Pinnacle Peak over to 227th and taking it down.

We do not extend Pinnacle Peak further across.

Okay.

I I know it is in the long-term plan for the city for Pinnacle Peak to extend across, but we won't be doing it.

Uh Desert Trails won't be doing it, so it's gonna come with some other project or with them.

So, but at this point in time it's not going.

Commissioner, may I ask please?

So you're saying that what you're doing is not going to have an impact on that well.

Correct.

We're not we're not making any improvements to Pinnacle Peak along with what we call the desert rural area.

Okay, thank you very much for that clarification.

And one of the and the reason that precipitated this change because as I mentioned, the zoning we have in place today allows everything that we're asking for.

What really precipitated it in the map that's on the on the screen is appropriate, is when it was zoned, the regional transportation plan had Deer Valley Road as the parkway that went straight across.

And Pinnacle Peak was a minor arterial or major archero, I can't remember.

Um, subsequent to zoning, the city adopted a new regional transportation plan, and you can now see Dura Valley Road heads at a northwestern angle when it gets to about two 29th or whatever it is, and then it crosses the CAP canal, and that's because of the way Surprise Festival or Sun City Festival is built.

Um so what it did is our current plan doesn't have the right roads in it, and so we needed to really amend the zoning case to remove Pinnacle make Pinnacle Peak, a collector, remove it from a portion of it because it's not being built, and then so we have just to address mainly to address the new transportation corridor.

The only addition is the 20 acres that my client did purchase at some point over the last 21 years, and we've added it to, but we've just added it as R1.

Um so uh there's um the lowest design uh residential uh again.

Everything that we we did 21 years ago and we're doing today is consistent with the general plan in the area, which is always been neighborhood.

Um, and uh we remain consistent with that plan.

So if there's any other questions, I'm happy to answer them.

Oh, and just I believe there was a second the question on the second point of access.

As I mentioned in the previous case, we are doing a second point of access.

It's Deer Valley Road.

Deer Valley Road will eventually uh when the Desert Trails Project builds, they are building Deer Valley Road from 219th over to 195th.

As I previously mentioned, they've acquired the three miles of offsite right away from state land, and before they can do their first phase, they have to build Deer Valley Road from 219th to 195th.

So that will provide.

I know it's it may not be the most it, but it provides an another access point, another public access point in the event of a tragic event where you have all four lanes of traffic blocked on Sun Valley Parkway.

So that is another access point that we'll be going with the very first phase of that project, and that project's plating, and this project is probably 10 years down the road because it's it's going to be the normal sequence of events through surprise foothills, and so there's four phases in surprise foothills.

This is kind of like phases five and six, basically.

So thank you very much.

Thank you.

Anyone else here?

Okay, then I will officially close the public hearing and invite our commissioners if they have any other comments or discussion.

Hearing none, move to have one thing.

I I really hope I'm being heard that the big concern is that people who don't currently live in the area when they move out there, do not understand the rules of the road about people on horseback.

And we've got to come up with a plan.

I don't know what we can do other than maybe just an informational campaign on social media or something like that.

But we really do need to address that.

I believe um I I hear this concern frequently.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Okay, then I'll entertain a motion.

I move to recommend approval of the rezone for Buena Vista Ranch case number uh FS 24-1191, subject to stipulations A and B as outlined in the staff report.

Second moved and seconded, please vote.

Motion passes with five votes in favor.

Okay, thank you.

That concludes our both our public hearing and non-public hearing items.

Um any newer future business commissioner Perry.

Uh Mr.

Flatham, uh, a question.

I know that there's a future agenda item at some point uh to uh and I'm not sure that about data centers, and I'm not really sure what um what that was supposed to get into.

And I'm wondering if there's been any work done on that or specifically um what what work uh development is doing on that.

Yes, thank you, Commissioner Perry.

So um on May 7th, Commissioner Bass had asked um uh for us to look into data centers and bring something back after doing some research um on our code and our development standards data centers is only mentioned twice in the in the in the zoning code.

Um so um it's it's permitted in BP and I1 zoning districts, and then the only other point within the code that it's mentioned is within the parking standards, and it just states that um these would be subject to a parking study.

So other than that, it would just follow standard processes and standard um development standards per the zoning district.

So beyond that, um there wouldn't be anything applicable.

So there wasn't really anything to provide a presentation on.

Um I really had that information to Commissioner Bash.

Um, but this is not a future agenda item.

There is just not much in our code to present on.

Thank you.

Anything else?

Yes, I do have a call to the public email.

Okay, thank you.

So we did receive an email from Mike Johnson expressing support of the battery energy storage systems.

Copies have been provided to management and the commission.

Thank you.

Anything else?

Okay, so I'll entertain a motion to adjourn.

I motion.

Second.

Moved and seconded.

All those in favor by votes will say aye.

Aye.

Opposed.

We are adjourned,