Attachment B - Approval Report 200564.pdf

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Planning and Development Department  
 
 
 
 
 
CONDITIONAL APPROVAL – ABND 200564 
 
 
 
   
 
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 Maggie Dellow at (602) 262-7399 for questions and 
notification of your completion of the stipulations.  
 
Upon completion of the stipulations Alyssa Neitzel 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 21, 2022), 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 21, 2020 
Consolidated Abandonment Staff Report: ABND 200564 
Project# 99-817 
 
 
 
 
 
Location: 
Southwest corner of Georgia Avenue and 
28th Drive 
 
 
Applicant:  
James Kossler, Grand Canyon University  
 
 
Request to abandon:  
To abandon 16-foot Public Utility Easement 
bounded by parcels APN:  153-19-041, 153-
19-042, 153-19-040, 153-19-043, 153-19-
039, 153-19-044, 153-19-038 and 153-19-
045C. 
 
  
Purpose of request:  
Parcel consolidation and redevelopment.

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City Staff Comments and Recommendations 
  
PDD Civil Reviewer: No comments received.  
PDD Traffic Reviewer: “Recommend approval.” 
Street Transportation: “Recommend approval.” 
Street Transportation, Lights: “Recommend approval.” 
Street Transportation, Utility Coordination: “The Street Transportation Department Utility 
Coordination has no comments.” 
WSD Water & Sewer Reviewer: “The entire alley way shall be retained as a sewer easement 
or as may be modified by the affected utilities with 24-hour maintenance access subject to the 
following standard stipulations: 
No structure of any kind and/or block wall shall be constructed or placed within the easement 
except removable type fencing and/or paving.  No planting except grass and/or approved 
ground cover shall be placed within the easement.  It shall be further understood that the City of 
Phoenix shall not be required to replace any obstructions, paving or planting that must be 
removed during the course of required maintenance, reconstruction and/or construction. 
OR

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The applicant shall abandon all affected sewer utilities within the alleyway and install a new 
manhole at the point of disconnection abandonment, this will be abandon prior to the Resolution 
of Abandonment in accordance with plans submitted to and approved by the Planning and 
Development Department, all work is to be done by a licensed contractor at no expense to the 
City of Phoenix.  
Planning & Zoning:  No comments received. 
NSD Reviewer:  No comments received. 
Light Rail:  No comments received. 
Floodplain Management:  No comments received. 
Solid Waste: “Recommend approval.” 
Public Transit: “Public Transit Department does not have comment.”  
 
Utility Comments and Recommendations 
Cox: "Recommend approval." 
Southwest Gas: “After review, SWG has determined that there are no existing or proposed 
facilities within the area proposed and have no objection to the request as presented.” 
Arizona Public Service: “The subject property in ABND 200564 is outside of the APS service 
territory, and APS has no facilities within the abandonment area. Therefore APS has no 
objection to the abandonment.” 
CenturyLink: “Qwest Corporation d/b/a CENTURYLINK QC (“CenturyLink”) has reviewed the 
request for the subject Abandonment 200564. CenturyLink has active aerial facilities on joint 
utility poles, located within the easement and is recommending denial of abandonment at this 
time.” 
Salt River Project: “Salt River Project does not approve of the abandonment of the PUE as 
shown in your application ABND 2005614 at the SWC of 28th Drive & Georgia.  There is an 
Overhead distribution line in the area.”

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Stipulations of Conditional Approval   
 
The request of abandonment ABND 200564 is conditionally approved and the following 
stipulations will need to be met:  
 
1. All utilities shall be relocated to locations approved by each affected utility company.  All 
work is to be done by each affected utility company at no expense to the affected utility 
company.  
 
The above stipulation must be completed within two years from the conditional approval 
decision dated December 21, 2020.  
 
 
 
  
This conditional approval has been reviewed and approved. 
 
 
Signature: ____________________________________________    Date: ________________ 
 
 
 
REPORT SUBMITTED BY:  Emily Dawson, Abandonment Coordinator  
Cc:  Grand Canyon University, James Kossler 
       Christopher DePerro 
 
1/20/2021