Attachment B - Approval Report 230060.pdf

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Planning and Development Department 
CONDITIONAL APPROVAL – ABND 230060 
Your abandonment request was granted CONDITIONAL APPROVAL. 
This request will NOT be completed until all the stipulations have been met and this request is 
formally adopted by City Council. It is the APPLICANT’S RESPONSIBILITY to ensure that all 
stipulations are satisfied. Please contact Dru Maynus at (602) 262-7403 for questions and 
notification of your completion of the stipulations.  
Upon completion of the stipulations Dru Maynus will schedule your request for City Council formal 
approval. You will receive a copy of the abandonment document after it has been recorded with 
Maricopa County. 
If the stipulations of abandonment are not completed within two years from the date of your 
conditional approval (your expiration date is December 18, 2025), this request will then expire. 
At that time a new submittal will be required along with the required payment for the abandonment 
process.  
ATTACHMENT B

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Planning and Development Department  
 
December 18, 2023 
Consolidated Abandonment Staff Report: ABND 230060 
Project# 02-930 
District: 1 
 
 
 
 
 
Location: 
South of Desert Dawn Drive and West of 
33rd Avenue 
 
 
Applicant:  
Jeffrey L. Williams 
 
 
Request to abandon:  
8-foot public utility easement (PUE) located 
at on Lots 6-9 and Tract C within the Desert 
Dawn Estates Plat. 
  
Purpose of request:  
The applicant states there is already an 8-
foot PUE to north that traverses through lots 
6-9 and Tract 6; therefore, the 8-foot PUE 
that is located to the south is no longer 
needed.

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City Staff Comments 
 
Water Services Department – Donald Reynolds 
WSD has no stipulations for the 8-foot PUE abandonment request. 
 
PDD Traffic – Derek Fancon 
Recommend approval. 
 
PDD Site Planning – Dru Maynus 
Approval recommended. 
 
PDD Civil Engineering – Marcos J. Cartagena 
Approval recommended. 
 
Public Transit Department – Jorie Bresnahan 
No comments received. 
 
Streetlights – Jason Fernandez 
No comments received. 
 
8-foot PUE to 
be abandoned

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Street Transportation Department Utility Coordination – Rozanna Brown 
No comment. 
 
 
Utility Company Comments 
 
Arizona Public Service (APS) – Kim Paxon 
Arizona Public Service does not have facilities located within the 8 foot PUE as shown on the 
attached Exhibit, APS has no objection to the abandonment of the 8-foot PUE per your request. 
 
Lumen/CenturyLink – Tori Jacoby 
CenturyLink of Arizona, Inc. d/b/a CENTURYLINK (“CenturyLink”) has reviewed the request for 
the subject vacation and has determined that it has no objections with respect to the areas 
proposed for vacation as shown and/or described on Exhibit “A”, said Exhibit “A” attached 
hereto and incorporated by this reference. 
 
It is the intent and understanding of CenturyLink that this Vacation shall not reduce our rights to 
any other existing easement or rights we have on this site or in the area. 
 
This vacation response is submitted WITH THE STIPULATION that if CenturyLink facilities are 
found and/or damaged within the vacated area as described, the Applicant will bear the cost of 
relocation and repair of said facilities. 
 
Cox Communications – Zach Lawson 
I have reviewed the abandonment request at ABND 230060 DESERT DAWN DR in Phoenix, 
{Maricopa County}, AZ.  Based upon the supplied drawings/exhibits that you’ve submitted it has 
been determined that COX has no facilities within the easement and therefore we approve your 
request to abandon.   
 
Please note that although Cox Communications approves this abandonment, we do so with the 
understanding that we will not assume any construction, relocation and/or repairs costs 
associated or in result of this abandonment. 
 
Southwest Gas Corporation – Susan R. Mulanax 
After reviewing the plans for the above-referenced project, it has been determined that there are 
no apparent conflicts between the Southwest Gas system and your proposed abandonment of 
the public utility easements. Southwest Gas would like to recommend abandonment of the 
public utility easements located at the above-referenced location. 
 
Salt River Project (SRP) – Michael Laguna 
SRP has no objection to the abandonment request of the 8-foot public utility easement as 
shown on the abandonment application. This is in an Arizona Public Service serving area. 
 
 
Stipulations of Conditional Approval   
 
The request of abandonment ABND 230060 is conditionally approved and the following 
stipulations will need to be met:  
 
1. All utilities within the subject PUEs shall be relocated to locations approved by each

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affected utility company.  All work is to be done by each affected utility company at no 
expense to the affected utility company. An appropriate performance agreement, in an 
approved form and cost amount, must be posted with the Planning and Development 
Department to guarantee the improvements. 
 
2. The above stipulations must be completed within two years from the conditional approval 
decision dated December 18, 2023.  
 
  
This conditional approval has been reviewed and approved. 
 
 
Signature: _______________________________________    Date: December 18, 2023         
 
 
 
REPORT SUBMITTED BY: Dru Maynus, Abandonment Coordinator/Site Planner 
 
cc: 
Applicant/Representative, Jeffrey L. Williams