Attachment B - Approval Report 200529.pdf

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Planning and Development Department 
CONDITIONAL APPROVAL – ABND 200529 
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 Robert G. Martinez at (602) 495-0806 for questions 
and notification of your completion of the stipulations.  
Upon completion of the stipulations Robert G. Martinez 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 one year from the date of your 
conditional approval (your expiration date is August 13, 2021), this request will then expire.  At 
that time a new submittal will be required along with the required payment for the abandonment 
process. A one time, one year extension can be requested prior to the expiration date, with 
applicable extension fee due. 
Attachment B - Approval Report

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Planning and Development Department  
 
August 13, 2020 
Abandonment Staff Report: ABND 200529 
Project# 04-4082 
 
 
 
 
 
Location: 
Southwest Corner of City North Drive & 56th 
Street 
 
  
Applicant:  
Nicholas Maxwell 
 
 
Request to abandon:  
To abandon a portion of drainage 
easement; recorded with Maricopa County 
Recorder, per Map of Dedication, Book 556, 
Page 13. 
 
  
Purpose of request:  
The easement is no longer needed. The 
easement used to allow a large retention 
basin which is being removed.

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City Staff Comments and Recommendations 
  
PDD Civil Reviewer:   
"No comment." 
 
PDD Planner:  
"No comments."  
 
PDD Traffic Reviewer:   
"Recommend approval." 
 
Street Transportation:  
"The applicant shall provide a drainage study to the Planning and Development Department to 
determine if a drainage easement is necessary and/or if it could be relocated if possible." 
 
Street Transportation, Lights:   
"Recommend approval." 
 
Street Transportation, PDP:  
No comments received. 
 
WSD Water & Sewer Reviewer:  
"WSD has no utilities within the drainage easement. No conflicts."

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Public Transit:   
"Public Transit Department does not have comment." 
Solid Waste:   
"Recommend approval." 
NSD:   
No comment received. 
Stipulations of Conditional Approval  
The request of abandonment ABND 200529 is conditionally approved and the following 
stipulations will need to be met:  
1. Provide a drainage study to the Planning and Development Department to determine if a
drainage easement is necessary and/or requires relocation.
2. Abandonment 200529 and Abandonment 190096 shall be completed concurrently.
The above stipulations must be completed within one year from the conditional approval 
decision dated August 13, 2021.  
This conditional approval has been reviewed and approved. 
Signature: ____________________________________________     
Date: 8/28/2020 
REPORT SUBMITTED BY: Wendy Turner, Abandonment Coordinator. 
cc: 
Applicant/Representative, Nicholas Maxwell 
Christopher DePerro, Team Leader, Site Planning