Attachment C - VPC Summary - Z-46-22-4.pdf

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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-46-22-4
Date of VPC Meeting 
September 12, 2022 
Request From 
R-5
Request To 
WU Code T5:2 MT 
Proposed Use 
Restaurant, Office, and Retail 
Location 
Northwest corner of the 5th Street alignment and Thomas 
Road 
VPC Recommendation 
Approval, per staff recommendation 
VPC Vote 
11-0
VPC DISCUSSION: 
One member of the public registered to speak, in opposition. 
STAFF PRESENTATION 
Mr. Klimek, staff, provided an overview of the site including its physical and policy 
contexts, the applicant’s proposal, and the staff recommendation.  
APPLICANT PRESENTATION 
Mr. Benjamin Graff, of Quarles and Brady, introduced himself as representing the 
applicant, Mr. David Chamberlain, and Associates. He presented the site, the proposal, 
and offered to answer questions from the committee. The proposal is to rezone the 
subject site to allow the adaptive reuse of three existing structures to restaurant, retail, 
and offices uses. The restaurant model is currently focused on breakfast and lunch and 
the patios have been situated toward Thomas Road for greater compatibility with the 
historic neighborhood to the north of the subject site. The local real estate development 
team has successfully developed several well-known local restaurants. The proposal 
will not increase the height of the existing structures and the footprints will be mostly 
unchanged aside from modest expansions and dining patios. He then provided an 
overview of how the site plan evolved from originally showing an attached sidewalk to 
now showing a new six-foot-wide sidewalk that is separated from the back of curb by an 
11 foot-wide landscape area that will be planted with trees.  
The easternmost building is proposed as a restaurant and is depicted in the renderings 
as being wrapped with a semi-permeable aluminum membrane that will allow vegetation 
ATTACHMENT C

Encanto Village Planning Committee Meeting Summary 
September 12, 2022 
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City of Phoenix • Planning & Development Department 
200 West Washington Street, 3rd Floor • Phoenix, Arizona 85003-1611 • (602) 262-6882 
to grow upon it and the building will include rooftop solar panels. The adaptive reuse of 
the buildings will divert waste from the landfill. If the zoning is approved, several 
variances will be required to allow maneuvering in the alley, the dining patios, and 
outdoor alcohol consumption. The development team conducted door-to-door outreach. 
The President of the La Hacienda Historic District, Robert Warnicke, asked for the 
restaurant to be equipped with odor mitigation; the development team will include odor 
mitigation, but city staff does not feel an odor mitigation stipulation would be 
enforceable.  He concluded by stating that the development team is in full agreement 
with the stipulations as proposed by staff and by offering to answer any questions.  
 
QUESTIONS FROM COMMITTEE 
Committee Member Searles thanked the development team for the attention to 
detached sidewalks and sustainability. He asked for clarification that the development 
would include shade trees rather than palms. He asked if the development will include 
recycling. Mr. Graff responded that the development plan includes shade trees but no 
palms and that the refuse enclosures would allow for recycling and trash collection, but 
they have not confirmed if recycling would be viable at this point. 
 
Vice Chair Rodriguez and Committee Member Katie Coates asked several questions 
regarding the vegetation planned for the site including the type of shade trees, the type 
of grasses, and the type of vines intended for the semi-permeable membrane. Mr. Graff 
responded that the shade trees will likely be Evergreen Elm, that ornamental trees will 
likely be Chitalpa, that the grasses will likely be Regal Mist, and that the vines will likely 
be Hacienda Creeper.  
 
Committee Member Bryck asked for clarification on where the bicycle parking will be 
located and if the detached sidewalk is a requirement specific to this property. Mr. Graff 
responded that the bicycle parking is scattered throughout the site and that the 
detached sidewalk requirement aligns with the cross section contained in the Street 
Classification Map but that the development team was planning for the minimum five-
foot-wide landscape detachment contained in the WU Code. 
 
PUBLIC COMMENTS 
Mr. Robert Warnicke expressed his support for this small scale adaptive reuse project 
that is consistent with the neighborhood. He stated that the site plan situates dining 
patios toward Thomas Road rather than the north toward the neighborhood which would 
have been incompatible. He stated that he wanted a stipulation requiring odor mitigation 
because entitlements are forever but understands that it may not be enforceable. He 
expressed concern that vehicles may access the development from 3rd Street which 
would be incompatible with the area. 
 
APPLICANT RESPONSE 
Mr. Graff responded that there will not be any signage promoting access from 3rd 
Street but clarified that the alley access is permitted by-right and that the variance to 
allow vehicular maneuvering is unrelated to access.

Encanto Village Planning Committee Meeting Summary 
September 12, 2022 
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City of Phoenix • Planning & Development Department 
200 West Washington Street, 3rd Floor • Phoenix, Arizona 85003-1611 • (602) 262-6882 
FLOOR/PUBLIC DISCUSSION CLOSED: MOTION, DISCUSSION, AND VOTE 
 
MOTION  
Vice Chair Rodriguez made a motion to approve the request per the staff 
recommendation. Committee Member Procaccini provided a second to the motion.  
 
DISCUSSION 
Several Committee Members thanked Mr. Graff for the presentation and expressed 
support for the proposal. 
 
VOTE 
11-0; motion to approve per the staff recommendation with Committee Members Bryck, 
Coates, George, Jewett, Mahrle, Matthews, Procaccini, Searles, Wagner, Vice Chair 
Rodriguez, and Chair Kleinman in support, none in dissent, and none in abstention.