Narrative

City of Glendale — Regular Meeting (2020-06-04)

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HUNTER  
ENGINEERING 
 
 
 
Project Narrative 
For 
New River Road Truck Parking 
Proposed Industrial Rezone 
 
SEC Orangewood Avenue and New River Road 
Glendale, Arizona 
 
 
 
 
PREPARED FOR: 
Reich Brothers 
 
 
 
 
PREPARED BY 
 
 
HUNTER ENGINEERING, INC. 
10450 N. 74th STREET, SUITE 200 
SCOTTSDALE, AZ  85258 
(480) 991-3985 
 
 
April 10th, 2020 
 
 
 
H.E. PROJECT NO. REIC001 
SR# 20-0072 
 
 
 
PLANNING, LANDSCAPE, CIVIL AND SURVEY 
ENGINEERING 
HUNTER

HUNTER  
ENGINEERING 
 
January 6, 2020 
 
Edward Vigil, Planner  
City of Glendale 
5850 West Glendale Avenue 
Glendale, Arizona 85301 
 
Re: Project Narrative for the New River Road Truck Parking Lot 
 
The proposed project will consist of developing approximately 9.49 acres with car, truck 
and tractor trailer parking. The site would include associated truck parking, auto parking 
and other on-site and off-site infrastructure improvements. 
  
The site is within the City of Glendale municipal boundary within the area referred to 
as Glen Harbor, adjacent to the New River Corridor. The existing A-1 agriculture 
zoning designation is not appropriate for the light industrial use of a truck parking lot. 
The General Plan Land Use Map designates the site as Business Park. The proposed use 
of truck parking is consistent with the intended use and is allowed in the Business Park 
category. The project seeks to correct the zoning designation to allow for truck parking. 
A rezone from Agricultural (A-1) to Light Industrial (M-1) would bring the site into 
conformance with the intended use and would be better suited due to the adjacency with 
other M-1 zoning in the area and within the Glen Harbor Business Park. 
 
As mentioned above, the general plan designation allows for light industrial uses, so the 
M-1 zoning would be consistent with the proposed general plan designation. The owner 
would like to submit at this time only for a re-zoning of the land to bring it into 
conformance with the planned use.  At a later point the developers may submit a site 
plan for review. The site will be comprised mostly of truck parking spaces for semi-
tractor trailers, trucks and other vehicles. Access to the site is from both Orangewood 
Avenue and New River Road. A concept site plan has been included with this rezoning 
submittal package. Parking spaces will include roughly 200 trailers stalls depending on 
the final site plan that moves forward. 
 
The design intent is to create an attractive, quality facility that functions as, simple, 
clean and orderly parking facility. The project will seek to correct fences, define the 
parking spaces and the associated circulation and appropriate directional signage. 
 
Any landscape material shall be minimized to allow for the free movement of the larger 
vehicle throughout the site. Any landscape required shall incorporate the use of 
flowering desert shrubs, drought tolerant trees and groundcovers that will be compatible 
with the environmental conditions of the area.  
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Surface drainage will be used for retention of the 100-year, 2-hour event and will be 
directed to retention basins located throughout the site. 
 
Our team has spent some time during the past week working on project research and 
determining the requirements for the site. The developer of this project is sincerely 
excited about this this property and looks forward to working with City staff for the 
duration of the project.  
 
 
Thank you,  
Michael S Buschbacher  
Michael S. Buschbacher II, AICP 
 
 
 
Principal Planner 
 
 
 
PLANNING, LANDSCAPE, CIVIL AND SURVEY 
ENGINEERING 
HUNTER