Maricopa County P&Z takes up 25-acre Love's Travel Stop near Tonopah — Oct 6–12

Maricopa County's Planning and Zoning Commission agenda for Oct. 8 included a case that would rezone about 25 acres in the Tonopah area for a Love's Travel Stop, a truck stop that would run 24 hours a day at the northwest corner of 411th Ave. and Campbell Ave., about 600 feet north of Interstate 10. County planning staff recommended approval with conditions, and the staff report listed no known support or opposition.

The request, case Z250008, comes from applicant Heather Dukes of Dukes Law, PLLC, for owners Tonopah I-10 and 411 Ave 160, LLC and The Standard Group, LLC. It would change the zoning from Rural-43 to C-3 CUPD — commercial zoning with a plan of development attached — to allow an 8,000-square-foot convenience store, 16 car fueling positions, a truck fueling island with eight stations, a truck scale, 75 car parking spaces, 94 semi-truck spaces, four RV spaces and a dog park.

The developer also wants to depart from some county rules: a 5-foot fence instead of the required 6-foot solid wall along rural boundaries, a 65-foot freestanding sign where 24 feet is the base standard, and site lighting up to 43 feet tall in the truck parking area. The county's long-range plan for this land, the Tonopah/Arlington Area Plan, calls for mixed use here, and the property sits inside the county's Rural Influence Area.