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TOWN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS 
MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING 
OF THE FOUNTAIN HILLS PLANNNING & ZONING COMMISSION 
FEBRUARY 9, 2026 
A Regular Meeting of the Fountain Hills Planning & Zoning Commission was convened 
at 16705 E. Avenue of the Fountains in open and public session at 6:00 p.m. 
Members Present: Chairperson Dan Kovacevic; Vice Chair Peter Gray; 
Commissioner Mathew Corrigan;  Commissioner Nick Proctor; 
Commissioner Scott Schlossberg  and Commissioner Phil Sveum 
Staff Present: Development Services Director John Wesley, Senior 
Planner Farhad Tavassoli, and Executive Assistant Paula Woodward

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TOWN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS 
SUMMARY MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF 
THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION 
FEBRUARY 9, 2026 
1. CALL TO ORDER, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND MOMENT OF SILENCE
Chairperson Kovacevic called the Regular Meeting of the Fountain Hills Planning and
Zoning Commission held on February 9, 2026 to order at 6:00 p.m. and led the
Commission and audience in the Pledge of Allegiance and Moment of Silence
2. ROLL CALL
Commissioners Present: Chairperson Dan Kovacevic; Vice Chair Peter Gray;
Commissioner Mathew Corrigan; Commissioner Nick Proctor; Commissioner Scott
Schlossberg; Commissioner Phil Sveum
Staff Present: Development Services Director John Wesley, Senior Planner Farhad
Tavassoli and Executive Assistant Paula Woodward
:
3. STATEMENT OF PARTICIPATION
4. CONSENT AGENDA
a. CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION: approving the regular meeting minutes of
the Planning and Zoning January 12, 2026.
MOVED BY Commissioner Proctor to approve the regular meeting minutes of the
Planning and Zoning Commission January 12, 2026 with stipulations that the transcript
be corrected. SECONDED BY Commissioner Sveum. Vote: 5/1
Commissioner Sveum 
Aye 
Commissioner Schlossberg 
Aye 
Commissioner Proctor 
 
Aye 
Commissioner Corrigan  
Aye 
Vice Chair  Gray  
Nay 
Chair Kovacevic   
Aye 
5. REGULAR AGENDA
a.
PUBLIC HEARING, with CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION: Relating to
approval of a Special Use Permit to allow light assembly and storage in the C-3
Zoning District for property located at 16939 E. Colony Dr, Suite 4.
MOVED BY Commissioner Sveum to recommend the Town Council approve the
Special Use Permit to allow light assembly and storage in the C-3  Zoning District for
property located at 16939 E Colony Dr, Suite 4. SECONDED BY Commissioner
Corrigan. Vote: 6/0
Commissioner Sveum 
Aye 
Commissioner Schlossberg 
Aye 
Commissioner Proctor 
 
Aye

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Commissioner Corrigan 
Aye 
Vice Chair  Gray  
Aye 
Chair Kovacevic   
Aye 
b.
DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE DIRECTION: Regarding the draft revisions to Sec.1.13
and Chapters 5, Open Space, and 6, Single-Residence, Zoning Districts of the Zoning
Ordinance.
Discussion only.
6. COMMISSION DISCUSSION/REQUEST FOR RESEARCH TO STAFF
No Action Taken
7. SUMMARY OF COMMISSION REQUESTS FROM DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
DIRECTOR
No Action Taken
8. REPORT FROM DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DIRECTOR
No Action Taken
9.
ADJOURNMENT
Chairperson Kovacevic adjourned the meeting of the Fountain Hills Planning and Zoning
Commission at 6:30 p.m.

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CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:   I call to order of the meeting.  The regular Planning and Zoning 
Commission meeting February 9th, 2026.  We'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance.   
ALL:  I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic 
for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Thank you.  Paula, can we have the roll call, please?  
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Sveum.   
SVEUM:  Here. 
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Schlossberg.  
SCHLOSSBERG:  Here.   
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Proctor.  
PROCTOR:  Here.  
WOODWARD:  Vice Chair Gray. 
GRAY:  Here.   
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Corrigan. 
CORRIGAN:  Here.   
WOODWARD:  Chair Kovacevic.  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Here.  The statement of participation is listed up on the board.  
Everybody can read that.  Let's go to the consent agenda.  Consideration of possible 
action, approving the regular meeting minutes of the Planning and Zoning Commission 
January 12th, 2026.  Looking for a motion.  But like I said, I think there were -- I couldn't 
tell you who said what, but I think there were a number of things in the transcript that 
were attributed to the wrong person, so I'd like to suggest that we do a -- get that a 
cleaned up, if we could.  
WOODWARD:  Absolutely, Chair. 
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Okay.  Thank you.  Looking for a motion to approve the 
minutes.  
GRAY:  So are you asking for a continuance, then? 
WOODWARD:  You can do an approval with the stipulation, I guess, of having -- 
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Yeah.  Looking for a motion to approve the minutes with the

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stipulation that Paula is going to clean up the -- who was attributed to the comments.  
SVEUM:  So moved. 
CORRIGAN:  Second.  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Okay.  We get a roll call vote, please.  
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Sveum. 
SVEUM:  Aye. 
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Schlossberg. 
SCHLOSSBERG:  Aye. 
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Proctor. 
PROCTOR:  Aye. 
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Corrigan.  
CORRIGAN:  Aye. 
WOODWARD:  Vice Chair Gray. 
GRAY:  Nay. 
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Aye. 
WOODWARD:  Okay.  5-6-0 -- 6-1.  Sorry. 
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  6-1.  5-1. 
WOODWARD:  5-1. 
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Okay.  Moving on to the regular agenda.  Public hearing with 
consideration and possible action relating to approval of special use permit to allow 
light assembly and storage in the C-3 Zoning District for property located at 16939 East 
Colony Drive, Suite 4.  
WESLEY:  Chair, Commissioners.  Good evening.  Go through this fairly quickly.  So this 
request is over on Colony Drive, which is located south of the Fountain Park area in that 
commercial, almost light industrial area.  The Zoning Ordinance sets forth uses for 
different zoning districts.  This property is zoned C-3 and in Section 12.06 lists 
permitted -- uses permitted by Special Use Permit in the C-3 district, and one of those is 
light assembly.  Uses as an accessory use if it meets the criteria as stated on -- in the 
code.  So in this case, again with this suite within this address, a light assembly of

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windows business got started back last fall in that building.  When they applied for their 
business license, we identified it as a use that requires a special use permit.  And so they 
have filed that special use permit before you this evening.   
So the site plan that they have provided that shows how they divide up their business, 
shows that it does comply with less than 50 percent of the business area being used for 
the assembly process, and they have no hazardous materials.  They simply get in the 
frames, they get in the glass, and they assemble the windows per the customer's order.  
They did provide some pictures of what their assembly area looks like inside, so it looks 
like a fairly clean operation.  They contacted the various businesses around them as 
required for the citizen participation, and received no issues or concerns from any of the 
surrounding businesses.  Again, they have been operating there since sometime last fall, 
and so there's certainly been time if there are going to be any negative impacts for us to 
have heard about it, we have not heard anything.  Section 2.02 (f)(1)(d) sets forth a 
review criteria.  I didn't list them all here as we have previously, but it's basically are 
there any detrimental impacts on the neighborhood or on the community from the 
operation.  Staff has not identified any detrimental impacts.  Therefore, staff supports a 
recommendation for approval of the SUP.  The applicant is here if you have any 
questions about this business. 
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Okay.  Commissioners?  Commissioner Corrigan.  
CORRIGAN:  John.  Do they have normal operating hours?  Is it 8 to 5 or?  
WESLEY:  I'll let the applicant respond to that.  
CORRIGAN:  Yeah.  Question was for the applicant.  Are these normal operating hours 
normal?  By that, I mean, let's say, 8 to 5.  
SILVANITA:  Hello.  My name is Adrian Silvanita (phonetic).  I am one of the owners of 
the Assembly of Wind.  I'm sorry.  I have -- I'm not used to it.  So the operating hours 
are -- basically, we get there around 10 -- 9, 10 o'clock and we leave about 4, 5.  We 
don't have, like, posted hours, but that we make our own schedule.  So that's usually we 
get there around 9 or 10, and depending -- there are days when we're not even there 
because we're busy installing windows.  So I would say per week, maybe three or four

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days, we are there around that time frame and some of the staff -- and when we're 
really busy, when we have like a large project, we're all hands on that project and we're 
all installing in some days.  We're not even there per se.  
CORRIGAN:  Okay.  Thank you.  
SILVANITA:  You're welcome.  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Commissioner Sveum.  
SEAVUM:  Oh, I want to move approval. 
CORRIGAN:  Second that. 
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Okay.  We have a motion and second.   
Any public speaker cards?  
WOODWARD:  No, Chair.  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Okay.  I just want to remind the Commissioners we had -- this 
is a C-3 zoning area.  There are like plumbing and sewer companies in here that are 
banging around their pipes at two and three in the morning, and that's permitted in this. 
It's the most intense zoning use that we have.  So I just want to make sure that I made 
that point before we cast the votes.  We had a roll call vote, please.  
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Sveum.  
SVEUM:  Aye. 
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Schlossberg. 
SCHLOSSBERG:  Aye. 
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Proctor. 
PROCTOR:  Aye. 
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Corrigan. 
CORRIGAN:  Aye. 
WOODWARD:  Vice Chair Gray.   
GRAY:  Aye. 
WOODWARD:  Chair Kovacevic. 
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Aye.  
WOODWARD:  6-0.

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CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Okay.  Okay.  Moving on to Item B, discussion and possible 
direction regarding the draft revisions to Section 1.13 and Chapters 5, open space and 
six single residence zoning districts of the zoning ordinance.  
WESLEY:  Okay.  Commissioners, I know you've been excited.  Looking forward to this 
discussion this evening.  I began introducing it last month that I've been working on an 
update of the Zoning Ordinance to do a few things:  reorganize the chapters, create the 
use categories and use tables, and provide some better organization for some of the 
development standards and requirements.  The format that's in the code today is a little 
bit challenging to use.  It's not really up to date with some of the standards in the 
industry.  So trying to get that organization more up to date.  Not really proposing 
significant changes to the content or substance of the ordinance, although there will be 
a few things that we'll point out as we go along the way that we will want to change just 
to correct some things but don't want to -- I'm afraid if we really got into all the 
substantive issues, we wouldn't get the organization done.  It can be too much to handle 
at once.   
So my plan is, as we have lighter agendas like this, to bring forth a few chapters to help 
you become familiar with what those changes are, and then over the course of a few 
months, the year, whatever.  Hope we can get through all the chapters and kind of this a 
little bit more informal way.  And so that when I bring back the full document, you'll be 
familiar with it and we won't have to hopefully spend a whole lot of time on it then.  So 
this evening, do you want to talk just briefly about Section 1.13, and Chapter Chapter 5 
and Chapter 6 as they will be organized.  I had this last time and again, just to keep you 
oriented, on the left are the chapters of the Zoning Ordinance as they exist today.  On 
the right as proposed new structure.  So in particular, it's taking those ones in blue that 
are the different zoning districts that have kind of gotten scattered in the code and 
grouped them together.  And then the ones in green that are the different development 
standards requirements, get them grouped together.  It'll just help the whole code 
function a little bit better as people try to use it.   
So one of the changes is in Chapter 1 of the Zoning Ordinance, which is the introductory

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chapter provides some of the very basic things about the Zoning Ordinance and how it 
works and functions.  Section 1.12 are the definitions that we use.  And so adding to the 
end, a new section of the use categories.  The use categories are divided into these 
different categories as listed here from open space to the accessory.  And within each 
one, there are a variety of different use definitions with types of uses that fit with those.  
Just as an example, at this time of a couple of those, so within the Quasi-Public area, 
you see the community cultural activities.  That's a broad category that includes a 
variety of things such as community centers, libraries and museums all fit within that, or 
clubs and lodges is another one that covers a number of things that are similar in nature 
or under the office category.  You can see the business and professional and the types of 
things that fit there versus the detox center, outpatient or the medical type uses that 
are then grouped together. 
So I don't really -- we could bring this whole chapter in front of you and go through each 
one of these one by one.  I don't think we need to do that at this point that I think take 
too much time.  So my plan is some of these will just be brought up as we need to bring 
them up.  Otherwise, you have them.  You have the full list of these.  You can be reading 
through them.  If you have any questions about any of them, you can let me know.  But 
that's what it does is instead of, as we showed last time, the list of individual uses in a 
zoning district, you know, single-family duplex, you know, this, that, or the other 
grouping into these categories.  Within the use tables themselves, you'll see some 
different designations.  P means that the use is permitted.  SUP requires a special use 
permit.  If it's got the dashes, means that use is not allowed in that zoning district.  TUP 
requires a temporary use permit.  And an X something refers to a footnote in the table.  
So kind of that background of use categories.  Any thoughts questions comments you 
have about that piece before we move into the other chapters?  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Commissioner Sveum. 
SVEUM:  John, in looking at some of these community type residencies, inpatient 
substance abuse, et cetera, how do you classify them when it's overnight, stay here for a 
week, or are these kind of like short-term rentals that can be under that kind of

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category?  
WESLEY:  Chair, Commissioner, it's probably a little bit much to go into -- into in detail 
right now since I don't have the things to pull up here.  But as far as the community 
residencies themselves go, that was a topic that was worked on by the Commission and 
the council a couple of years ago, and those are residential facilities that mostly fall into 
two categories.  One are family residents, and those are typically going to be for seniors 
or other people with disabilities that come together in a basically a group home 
situation.  And the other the more the short-term or transitory ones.  And the most 
often example of that is the sober living home where people are coming through while 
they're going through treatment.  They're there for a matter of a few months at the 
most, and then they're gone on their treatment program.  And so those are different 
than a short-term rental, which is something that the State has allowed, basically a hotel 
room or a house serving pretty much as a hotel type setting.  And then that's different 
from the different levels of detox-type facilities and drug treatment facilities.  And there 
are four or five categories of those in the Zoning Ordinance.  I don't remember now for 
sure, and one or two of them have lodging.  So if they have people really staying there 
for their treatment stay, which again, is most likely going to be a matter of a few weeks 
to a couple of months, then they're in one category versus all the others that are more 
of an outpatient.  
SVEUM:  Assuming it's a nonprofit that is operating them, are they paying the town 
anything as like a short-term rental tax?  
WESLEY:  No, not like that.   
SVEUM:  Are they exempt from all of that?  
WESLEY:  So that's probably a question I couldn't really answer without some further 
research.  They would certainly have their business license.  Most of them are 
businesses operating in a commercial setting.  The only one that's really not that is the 
transitory community residence.   
Okay.  Anything else on the use categories as we get started?   
Okay.  So what is Chapter 9 in the Zoning Ordinance, open space, B, Chapter 5 in the

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new ordinance.  And again, you can kind of see that example.  On the left is the list of -- 
partial list of the uses in the different districts as they exist today, and then the right is 
the full list for all the different districts in one simple table.  And so if you read across 
there, you can see that the uses that are there today are covered in the new.  But 
instead of as you see, maybe on B.1, golf course, but has some exceptions with the golf 
course or down in B.6, utility services, but has some exceptions rather than breaking up 
the table itself with that information.  It's either in a footnote or under the zoning 
requirements column.  It gives you the reference to go find that same kind of 
information about how that use plays out in that zoning district.   
So you can see the ones that have the dashes aren't allowed, the SUP's or the P's or 
some things, like the trailhead under the OSP.  In some situations you can do it by right 
and some situations requires a special use permit.  So you look in the 503(a) and that 
describes those conditions about when you need it and when you don't.  As far as the 
rest of the chapter goes, the things that were in the current ordinance with regard to 
the trailhead utility services, event and reception centers and master-planned villages 
are located in Section 503 of the new ordinance.  Didn't change the wording in any of 
them just at this point, just transferred the same requirements over.  If you look in the 
current code for the open space districts, you'll see there, there's not a use table there.  
They are just listed out in more of a paragraph form.  Again, a little bit harder to follow.  
All the other chapters use this table format.  So for the new ordinance of -- put them 
into the same type of table format that we see in the other districts.  Questions?   
Commissioner Gray, you look like you're just wanting to ask one real bad.  
GRAY:  I'm just trying to wrap my head around the open space district, so.  Golf courses, 
at least in one instance.  And town has underlying zoning, which is not an open space 
zone.  They have actual residential underlying.  Does this get treated almost as an -- 
could this get treated almost as an overlay to that underlying, or would that be opening 
up a hole -- to get to an open space zoning, would that require a rezone of those 
parcels?  
WESLEY:  Yes.

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GRAY:  Okay.  
WESLEY:  So maybe we'll move on to the single-family zoning districts.  We can always 
go back.  But here, we do see in the use table for those that golf course is a permitted 
use in all the single-family zoning districts.  It has the one footnote that we'll get to, I 
believe, in a minute.  I think I included them.  But again, you'll see that they have the 
different use categories on the left and what's permitted down the middle, and the 
other zoning requirements down the right side.  And these are all the same things that 
are permitted today in these districts with one exception we'll talk about here at the 
end.  Yes.  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Commissioner Corrigan.  
CORRIGAN:  John, I just had a question that was more current, and that's the Toll 
Brothers development, which is under discussion, and as I understand it, that's R1-35A.  
Could you kind of go into detail about the differentiation, which is not I don't think is 
shown here.  
WESLEY:  Okay.  Sure.  I can -- we can use that as an example as we get maybe to the 
bottom of it. 
CORRIGAN:  Great. 
WESLEY:  The real difference there is going to be down in the standards at the end, 
because you'll see here as you go down, we just start here at the top.  All the single-
family zoning districts as far as uses are the same with this one exception for corrals.  
Otherwise, they all have the same uses allowed.  
CORRIGAN:  So what is unique about the A differentiation versus the R1-35?  
WESLEY:  We'll go back to those others here in just a minute.   
CORRIGAN:  Okay. 
WESLEY:  So here, we have the area of bulk standards.  And so here, we have the 10A 
versus the 10.  And you'll see that everything's the same except for the rear setback and 
the percent lot coverage.  And that particular property today is zoned R1-35.  And so 
you can see again, there's fairly significant differences here in terms of lot width and 
some setbacks, but that's what the A does.  There's also 8A's and 6A's, and each of those

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increase the amount of lot coverage and reduce the rear setbacks compared to the non 
A.  
CORRIGAN:  Okay. 
WESLEY:  But otherwise, it's -- 
CORRIGAN:  Great.  Thank you.  
WESLEY:  -- a district. 
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Commissioner Sveum.  
SVEUM:  John, are you familiar with smart code?  
WESLEY:  Yes.  
SVEUM:  With lots are certainly much narrower, and alleyways and so on.  Is there any -- 
I assume that that would not fall under any of the current residential zoning 
classifications?  
WESLEY:  That's correct.  We don't have that here.  As we have particularly talked about, 
you know, some of the changes to the town center, it's been in the back of my mind.  
And you know, some of the things that I've learned from that are sort of in the new 
overlay trying to achieve some of those things.  That's really where I think that code has 
its biggest use is in creating commercial areas.  
SVEUM:  Well, actually -- my familiarity with it is mainly in residential.  And it does allow 
narrower lots, some less expensive ways to build some more affordable housing, smaller 
homes, but not compromising architectural uses, and so on.  But I don't -- especially if 
there's something else that comes along here into the town that might be a larger 
opportunity, it would be maybe something to consider at least in a portion of it.  
WESLEY:  Sure.  And that would -- I would think if we did have that larger development, 
we would probably look at the opportunity for doing a PAD, a planned area 
development, and then we really can tailor those zoning standards to something that -- 
SVEUM:  Basically, treated -- 
WESLEY:  -- we're trying to accomplish there.  
SVEUM:  -- treating a zoning that type of thing. 
WESLEY:  Correct.  Um-hum.  That'd be a good place to do that.  Otherwise, throughout

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the town today, most of us -- most of the town's developed. 
SVEUM:  Yeah.   
WESLEY:  And so there's really not opportunity.  
SVEUM:  I was mainly thinking about what could come along.  
WESLEY:  Right.  Sure.  So back -- that's another questions at the moment.  Back to the 
use table within the residential districts.  Of course, the main purpose of the residential 
districts is the single-family detached.  These are other things that can happen and do 
happen occasionally within the residential districts, particularly having the churches or 
called here places of worship.  And so we do see the various footnotes at the end that 
cover all the things in the current ordinance.  And to the side are the standards that go 
with them.  The current code has a section 10.02 C, which is prohibited uses.  And so 
that's been copied now into 6.03.  That was added a couple of years ago.  You may 
recall, as we were dealing with some challenges of people making some creative uses of 
single-family homes that weren't exactly what we intended.  And so this is there to help 
stop some of those things.  So again, as we looked at in the last chapter, those different 
items, when you look through the current list of uses in Chapter 10 of the Zoning 
Ordinance, where are they in the new ordinance.  Are there in 6.04, in various sections 
or forms with just a few minor things.  In the current ordinance, it just talks about 
daycare, and it's not maybe clear if it means child or adult.  It could be either, although 
it's probably mostly done as child in the past, but in the new code, in the use categories, 
we've labeled it as child or adult daycare type facilities.  And then also one use that's 
currently listed in Chapter 10.03 B, the zoning ordinance is bed and breakfast.  Given 
what's happened with the State and short-term rentals, that seems to really cover the 
same thing as a bed and breakfast, so I've omitted that from the code.  I could be 
convinced to put it back in if we think there's a need, but at this point, it's not in there.  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Okay.  Commissioner Gray.  
GRAY:  I just have two thoughts.  One on the bed and breakfast.  I always thought that 
within the definition of bed and breakfast, there's a commercial cooking component 
that that gets flagged.  You know, if you're cooking for -- if you're cooking for resale and

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it's part of -- part of the business model, I think that's why bed and breakfast has been 
called out in the past.  That's just one thought.  The other is if we're going to introduce 
adult daycare, this would be really careful on the definition that that corresponds to 
that.  So that doesn't become a back door for other uses that we've previously 
managed.  
WESLEY:  Understood.  Let's see.  So the bed and breakfast.  I'm just going to look at the 
bed and breakfast piece real quick.  So the bed and breakfast allowed us a temporary 
use permit.  As long as no more than two bedrooms per residence, no more than two 
persons per room, and off-street parking is provided.  Those only standards associated 
with that in the current code.  And yeah, I'll look back at how I classified, but you can 
look at it too in what we've given you on Section 1.13, and that use category and what it 
is.  I think it's pretty clear and pretty limited that it is, which would most typically think 
of that again, probably primarily seniors or other disabled adults who just need to get 
out of the house to -- for care during the day.  And then we've hit this a minute ago.  But 
again, this is just the same table of standards for setbacks and lot coverages with the 
footnotes from the current code.  So again, not proposing any significant changes, just 
reorganization of the items.  The biggest change being creating the use categories to 
simplify the table.  Any questions comments on any of this at this point?  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  I just want to second Peter's comments on the adult daycare.  
WESLEY:  Okay. 
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  I think we've got to take a good look at that and make sure 
that that -- we get that right.   
WESLEY:  Okay.   
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Okay.  Anybody else?  Okay.  Let's move on to Commission 
discussion requests for research to staff.  Anybody know?  Summary of Commission 
requests from Development Services Director?  
WESLEY:  Didn't hear any other than the comments with regard to what we're looking at 
with the zoning code, and be sure and look at those as we go forward.  And then moving 
on then to 8, give you a heads up for the March meeting.  I think it'll be a little bit more

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intense than this one's been.  You may recall that at your last meeting in January, we 
were considering revisions to the downtown overlay, and that was continued to your 
March meeting, so we'll be back to further discuss that text amendment.  At this point, 
we're also expecting to be on that agenda.  The request for the rezoning by Toll Brothers 
for the property off of Aspen, the school property that they're looking at purchasing.  
And then there's a good chance we will also have at least one, maybe two other Zoning 
Ordinance text amendments.  One having to do with murals and one having to do with 
community residences.  So again, be ready.  That'll be a little bit more lengthy meeting.  
We will talk about the Zoning Ordinance.  I'm sure you're disappointed with that 
meeting.  Questions for me? 
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Commissioner Schlossberg.  
SCHLOSSBERG:  On Aspen.  How soon in advance are we going to have that info?  Even if 
it's, like, very preliminary, I mean, is it just going to come with a regular packet like it 
normally does?  
WESLEY:  As far as I know right now, that's when it would be, but I can understand your 
concern that maybe it would be good if we can get that to you any sooner, we will.  
SCHLOSSBERG:  Okay.  Thank you.  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Do you have a report?  
WESLEY:  That's it.  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Motion to adjourn? 
CORRIGAN:  Motion to adjourn.  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Looking for a second.  
PROCTOR:  Second.  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Okay.  All in favor?   
ALL:  Aye.   
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Opposed?  Hearing none.  We're adjourned.

Having no further business, Chair Kovacevic adjourned the Regular Meeting of the Planning 
and Zoning Commission held on February 9, 2026, at 6:30 p.m. 
TOWN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS 
_______________________ 
Dan Kovacevic, Chairperson 
ATTEST AND PREPARED BY: 
_______________________________ 
Paula Woodward, Executive Assistant 
CERTIFICATION 
I hereby certify that the foregoing minutes are a true and correct copy of the 
minutes of the Regular Meeting held by the Planning & Zoning Commission of 
Fountain Hills in the Town Hall Council Chambers on the 9 of February 2026. I 
further certify that the meeting was duly called and that a quorum was present. 
DATED this 9 Day of March 2026. 
_______________________________ 
Paula Woodward, Executive Assistant