Attachment C - VPC Summary - Z-31-20-7.pdf

City of Phoenix • Planning & Development Department 
200 West Washington Street, 3rd Floor • Phoenix, Arizona 85003-1611 • (602) 262-6882 
Village Planning Committee Meeting Summary 
Z-31-20-7 
Date of VPC Meeting 
August 3, 2020 
Request From 
A-2 (Industrial District) 
Request To 
A-2 HP (Industrial District, Historic Preservation Overlay) 
Proposed Use 
Historic Preservation Overlay 
Location 
Northwest corner of 22nd Avenue and McDowell Road 
VPC Recommendation 
Approve per staff recommendation 
VPC Vote 
11-0; motion passed with members Benjamin, Kleinman, 
George, Matthews, Procaccini, Searles, Rodriguez, Coates, 
Jewett, Cothron, and Adams in favor; none in dissent or 
abstention. 
 VPC DISCUSSION & RECOMMENDED STIPULATIONS: 
No members of the public indicated a desire to speak in support or opposition to 
this item per the emergency policy. 
Z-31-20-7: Presentation, discussion and possible recommendation regarding a 
request to rezone 0.86 acres located at the northwest corner of 22nd Avenue and 
McDowell Road from A-2 (Industrial District) to A-2 HP (Industrial District, 
Historic Preservation Overlay) to establish a Historic Preservation Overlay. 
STAFF / APPLICANT PRESENTATION: 
Kevin Weight, of the City of Phoenix Historic Preservation Office, provided an 
overview on the request to place a historic preservation overlay on Produce 
Center Building at 2202 West McDowell. Agriculture was the primary economic 
driver of early Phoenix and the Santa Fe Railroad line from Phoenix to Ash Fork 
was its conduit for national shipping with early packing sheds constructed along 
Jackson Street. The rapid growth of the industry resulted in a new railyard, the 
Mobest Yard, west of 19th Avenue and south of “Six Points” in 1927. By the late 
1930s, a group of 30 growers came together to form the Central Arizona Grower-
Shipper Association and in 1945 five of the association companies decided to 
expand their infrastructure north of the Mobest Yard. In 1953, Ralph Eaton 
contracted the construction of a two-story office building to support 
Attachment C

Encanto Village Planning Committee Meeting Summary 
August 3, 2020 
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City of Phoenix • Planning & Development Department 
200 West Washington Street, 3rd Floor • Phoenix, Arizona 85003-1611 • (602) 262-6882 
grower/shipper operations near the Mobest Yard. Upon its completion, the 
building served as the headquarters of the vegetable and melon growing and 
shipping industry and also housed the Agricultural Marketing New Service and 
Arizona Vegetable Standardization and Inspection Service. Beginning around 
1960, trucking companies began locating at the building and by 1975 there were 
no agricultural firms in the building reflecting a broader decline in the region’s 
agriculture. 
 
For a property to be eligible for the Historic Preservation Overlay, it must meet 
one of the following criteria:  
 
1. Significance 
a. Associated with events or patterns of events significant in Phoenix 
history 
b. Associated with persons significant in Phoenix history 
c. Represents a type, period or method of construction; represents the 
work of a master; or has high artistic values 
d. Has yielded or has the potential to yield information about Phoenix 
history or prehistory 
2. Age (at least 50 years old or exceptionally significant) 
3. Integrity (location, setting, design, materials, workmanship, feeling, 
association) 
 
The subject property is eligible under Criterion A for its association with 
Commerce at the local level, specifically the marketing and distribution of 
agricultural products from 1954 to 1970. The subject property also meets the 
minimum age requirement and minimum requirements for integrity. 
 
QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMITTEE: 
 
G.G. George stated that it is wonderful to add another mid-century property to 
the Phoenix Register. 
 
Steve Procaccini stated that he is supportive of the request. 
 
MOTION: 
 
Motion 
G.G. George motioned to approve the request per the staff recommendation and 
Steve Procaccini seconded.  
 
Vote 
11-0; motion passed with members Benjamin, Kleinman, George, Matthews, 
Procaccini, Searles, Rodriguez, Coates, Jewett, Cothron, and Adams in favor; none 
in dissent or abstention.

Encanto Village Planning Committee Meeting Summary 
August 3, 2020 
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City of Phoenix • Planning & Development Department 
200 West Washington Street, 3rd Floor • Phoenix, Arizona 85003-1611 • (602) 262-6882 
VPC RECOMMENDED STIPULATIONS & STAFF COMMENTS 
 
None.