Attachment C - VPC Summary - Z-39-21-6.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-39-21-6 Date of VPC Meeting Request From Request To Proposed Use Location VPC Recommendation VPC Vote September 7, 2021 R1-10 (Single-Family Residence District) R-O (Residential Office – Restricted Commercial District) Office Approximately 180 feet south of the southeast corner of 44th Street and Clarendon Avenue Approval 14-0 VPC DISCUSSION & RECOMMENDED STIPULATIONS: Sofia Mastikhina, staff, provided an overview of the request, including its location, current and surrounding zoning, and relationship to the 44th Street Corridor Residential Office Study. She explained that this study recommended this site for appropriate conversion to residential office if either combined with an adjacent parcel or if accessed via a shared driveway. The applicant has proposed the latter. She explained that the proposal is to demolish the existing structure on the site and build a new, two-story office building of modern design. She presented the proposed site plan and elevations, highlighted staff’s findings, recommendation for approval, and listed the recommended stipulations of approval. Rod Jarvis, representative with Earl & Curley, P.C., provided contextual information on the site, outlining its location on a major arterial street, noting nearby two-story developments, as well as surrounding commercial and office zoning. He presented the site plan, explaining that the new building will have a larger separation from the adjacent single-family homes to the east than the current structure. Additionally, the applicant has agreed to neighbors’ requests to plan tall bamboo plants along the eastern property line to better shield the development. He then presented the elevations as well as an exhibit showing the separation from the building, notably the second story, from the eastern property line. He discussed the neighborhood outreach conducted, adding that members of the Arcadia Osborn Neighborhood Association are supportive, with only one remaining concern relating stormwater drainage on the property to the north. Attachment C City of Phoenix • Planning & Development Department 200 West Washington Street, 3rd Floor • Phoenix, Arizona 85003-1611 • (602) 262-6882 PUBLIC COMMENT Wally Graham expressed his support for the architectural design and praised the applicant. He then outlined his concerns regarding the grading of the subject site in relation to the property to the north, and shared photos that show the difference in grade between the two properties. He stated that a shared driveway along this shared property line where this difference exists could further exacerbate drainage problems. He then explained that the property owner to the north has made commercial improvements to the site and has started operating a business without the proper entitlements and, as such, without a required grading and drainage plan. He thanked the applicant’s representative for working with him on communicating with the property owner to the north to come to a solution. Jarvis stated that the property owner to the north has already approached him to pursue a rezoning and all appropriate permits for his site. MOTION Vic Grace made a motion to approve the request per the staff recommendation. Barry Paceley seconded the motion. VOTE 13-0: Motion passes with committee members Swart, Fischbach, Bair, Bayless, Beckerleg Thraen, Eichelkraut, Grace, McKee, Miller, Nye, Paceley, Rush, and Tribken in favor. STAFF COMMENTS REGARDING VPC RECOMMENDATION & STIPULATIONS: Staff has no comments.