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TOWN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS 
SUMMARY MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF 
THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION 
   DECEMBER 8, 2025 
1. CALL TO ORDER, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE AND MOMENT OF SILENCE
Commissioner Gray called the Regular Meeting of the Fountain Hills Planning and
Zoning Commission held on December 8 2025, 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 (telephonically) Commissioner
Mathew Corrigan; Commissioner Peter Gray; Commissioner Nick Proctor;
Commissioner Phil Sveum
Staff Present: Development Services Director John Wesley, Senior Planner Farhad
Tavassoli, and Executive Assistant Paula Woodward
Commissioners Absent: Vice Chairperson Clayton Corey and Commissioner Scott
Schlossberg 
3. STATEMENT OF PARTICIPATION
4. CONSENT AGENDA
a. CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION: approving the regular meeting minutes of
the Planning and Zoning November 10, 2025.
MOVED BY Commissioner Sveum to approve the regular meeting minutes of the
Planning and Zoning Commission November 10, 2025. SECONDED BY Commissioner
Corrigan. Vote: 5/0 Unanimously
5. REGULAR AGENDA
a. PUBLIC HEARING, WITH CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION: Relating to
approval of a Special Use Permit to allow a patio cover in the front yard of the
home at 17114 E Fairway Court.
MOVED BY Chairperson Kovacevic to recommend the Town Council to approve
Special Use Permit to allow a patio cover in the front yard of the home at 17114 E
Fairway Court. SECONDED BY Commissioner Proctor Vote: 5/0
Commissioner Proctor 
Aye 
Commissioner Corrigan 
Aye 
Commissioner Gray 
Aye 
Commissioner Sveum 
Aye 
Chair Kovacevic   
Aye 
6. COMMISSION DISCUSSION/REQUEST FOR RESEARCH TO STAFF
No Action Taken

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7. SUMMARY OF COMMISSION REQUESTS FROM DEVELOPMENT SERVICES
DIRECTOR
No Action Taken
8.
REPORT FROM DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DIRECTOR
9. ADJOURNMENT
Commissioner Gray adjourned the meeting of the Fountain Hills Planning and Zoning
Commission at 6:14 p.m.

TOWN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS 
MINUTES OF THE REGULAR MEETING 
OF THE FOUNTAIN HILLS PLANNNING & ZONING COMMISSION 
DECEMBER 8, 2025 
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 (telephonically); 
Commissioner Mathew Corrigan; Commissioner Peter Gray; Commissioner 
Nick Proctor; and Commissioner Phil Sveum 
Members Absent: Vice Chairperson Clayton Corey and Commissioner  
           Scott Schlossberg 
Staff Present: Development Services Director John Wesley and Executive 
Assistant Paula Woodward.

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December 8, 2025 
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COMMISSIONER GRAY:  All right.  We'll go ahead and call this meeting to order.  This is 
the December 8th, 2025 version of the Fountain Hills Planning and Zoning Commission.   
If you would all, please, rise for 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.  
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  Thank you.   
Statement of participation, as published in the agenda.  Given that we don't have any 
speakers here this evening yet we'll jump past that.   
Paula, roll call, please? 
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Proctor? 
COMMISSIONER PROCTOR:  Here.  
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Corrigan? 
COMMISSIONER CORRIGAN:  Here. 
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Gray?  
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  Here.   
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Schlossberg is absent.   
Commissioner Sveum? 
COMMISSIONER SVEUM:  Here.  
WOODWARD:  Vice Chair Corey.   
[No audible response] 
WOODWARD:  Chairman Kovacevic? 
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Here. 
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  Good to hear you, sir.  All right.   
Consent agenda, item 4A,  consideration and possible action to approve the meeting 
minutes from November 10th, 2025.  Commissioners, any discussion or a motion, 
please?  
COMMISSIONER SVEUM:  I'll move approval.   
COMMISSIONER CORRIGAN:  Second.   
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  All in favor?

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ALL:  Aye.   
COMMISSIONER GRAY:   5-0?   
WOODWARD:  5-0.    
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  Thank you, Paula.   
Agenda item 5, regular agenda.  Our singular item here tonight, John.  Public hearing 
with consideration and possible action relating to the special use permit application to 
allow patio cover in the front yard of a home at 17114 East Fairway Court.  
WESLEY:  Okay.  Chairman, Commissioners, good evening.  Go through this quickly for 
you.  Those of you that have been around for a little while, you'll recall that maybe 
about a year ago, we amended the zoning ordinance to allow for patio covers within 
front yards.  It's in section 5.06(D)(4) of the zoning ordinance.  Basically, it does allow 
encroachment into the setbacks, providing certain conditions are met and subject to 
approval of a special use permit.  
Those criteria include that the encroachment can't be more than half the required 
setback, up to a maximum of 15 feet, a maximum height of 12 feet, must be at least 
eighty percent open, and may not be used to enclose or provide for parking or storage.   
So we do have an application that's come in from the address listed, 17114 East Fairview 
Court, for a front yard patio that will encroach into the front setback.  Here's the specific 
property.  The property owner has for a number of years had front yard patio use.  And 
you can see these two different aerials, one from 2009, and the more current era.  You 
see the area in front that has a low pony wall.  And you can see the tables and chairs 
and things they've had in that area where they've been using this as -- as their patio 
space, but subject to the -- the heat from the sun.   
So they'd like to cover that in the area shown here, about 827 square feet of area.  And 
this zoning district has a 20-foot setback.  And so per the Code, they can encroach up to 
10 feet into that 20-foot setback.  And that's what they have proposed.  At its closest 
point is that 10-foot setback distance.   
There's elevations of the patio cover.  It meets the 12-foot height limitation and fits with 
the architecture and style of the existing home.  One of the criteria is that the area of

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the columns, basically, aren't more than twenty percent of the area of the -- the patio 
frontage there.  And so when I measured this, I'm coming up slightly over at 21.7%.  And 
so that's the one area, at least by my measurements, that they don't quite meet.   
And so otherwise with the criteria listed, they do meet all the other criteria of the Code.  
And section 2.02 sets forth a review criteria of are there any detrimental impacts on the 
neighborhood or the town by approving this, and staff is not able to identify any 
detrimental items.   
Neighbors were notified with the citizen participation requirements as well as the actual 
public notice for the hearings.  Through the citizen participation, the neighbors 
responded.  They were all supportive of the requested, for this encroachment of the 
patio cover, and so staff is recommending approval subject to in the construction 
documents, they bring -- the -- the column size down or create the opening to meet the 
Code of at least eighty percent open.  
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  Commissioners, any questions for John?  
COMMISSIONER CORRIGAN:  So, John, reducing it by just the seven square feet then 
would comply with what we currently require? 
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER:  Yes.   
COMMISSIONER CORRIGAN:  And so we're giving the client or the applicant the option 
to do that with the construction drawings? 
COMMISSIONER CORRIGAN:  Correct.  Which looks from -- from the drawings I see, 
should be relatively easy to do by moving one of the -- I know might make a difference 
in the two by ten sixteen inch on-center trusses that run across, but that seems like a 
minor thing to do; am I right? 
WESLEY:  Yes.  Chair, Commissioners, yes, I believe it should be easy.  I'm not the 
architect or the engineer that did the design, and also my measurements might be 
slightly off too.  They may be able to come back with more accurate measurements and 
show -- show they meet because it's barely off.  
So either way, I think they should be able to get there.  
COMMISSIONER CORRIGAN:  Okay.  Thank you.

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COMMISSIONER GRAY:  Kind of feels like it's something that should just be left to staff 
architectural discretion, right?   
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER:  Yes. 
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  Like we're so close to the --  any thoughts, Commissioner?  
Commissioner Proctor?  No.   
Do we have any public speaking cards?  
WOODWARD:  No.  
COMMISSIONER GRAY:   Commissioner Watt -- or Councilman Watts, would you like to 
speak on the subject?   
COUNCILMAN WATTS:  No.  Not a chance, sir. 
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  All right, sir.  All right.  We'll close the public hearing.  Final 
deliberations and/or a motion.   
Dan, did you have anything?  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Yeah.  I -- I just wanted to ask John, should we require in our 
motion that this meet the ordinance, or is that a given?  
WESLEY:  Chairman, it's a given.  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Okay.  Because I would hate to approve it and then have them 
not meet the ordinance.  
WESLEY:  It certainly doesn't hurt to reiterate it to -- if you were -- the motion were to 
recommend approval as stated by staff or something along that line, because that's in 
the staff recommendation.  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Yeah.  I would like to make the motion that we approve. 
Subject to meeting the ordinance.  
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  Chair, could I -- could I ask you just for one -- one point of 
clarification there as you're making that motion?  If I understood kind of the -- the intent 
of the -- of the -- the framing diagram and as you -- as you go out and I think John had a 
picture on his slide deck, but as you -- as you go out and you actually look at the 
property, it kind of looks like those column placements aligned with existing structure 
that's out there in that front yard, that kind of little -- that little pony wall there.  I'm just

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curious if you'd be open to amending that to just allow John some discretion, just to 
get -- obtain maximum architectural intent, even if it's, you know, within a percent or 
two of the ordinance? 
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Sure.   
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  You want to do us a favor and restate your motion one time, 
and we'll look for a second.  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  A motion for approval, subject to John's review with whatever 
you said regarding architect -- 
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  [LAUGHTER]  I mean, I could have done that.  Okay.  So the -- 
the Chair has made a motion to recommend approval of the special use permit 
conditionally allowing staff some -- some latitude, some discretion in, you know, in 
meeting the actual ordinance requirements, so long as -- so long as the -- the underlying 
intent is maintained.  
COMMISSIONER PROCTOR:  I'll second that.  
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  All right.  We've got a motion and a second on the table.  Paula, 
let's roll call it for fun.  
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Proctor? 
COMMISSIONER PROCTOR:  Aye.  
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Corrigan? 
COMMISSIONER CORRIGAN:  Aye.   
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Gray? 
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  Aye. 
WOODWARD:  Commissioner Sveum? 
COMMISSIONER SVEUM:  Aye.   
WOODWARD:  Chairman Kovacevic? 
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Aye. 
WOODWARD:  5-0. 
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  Thank you, Paula.   
Agenda item six, Commission discussion, request for research to staff.  Anything,

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Commissioners?   
Commissioner Sveum?   
COMMISSIONER SVEUM:  I have a request, John.  I think -- I'm wondering where the -- 
what's the timing of starting the improvements on the business and innovation overlay 
areas, the streets that we're going to be reconstructing, widening sidewalks, et cetera? 
WESLEY:  Chair, Commissioners, I don't have the exact time frame.  I know the 
construction documents are being worked on at this time.  I'd have to get back with the 
engineer and find out more specifically what they have in terms of the timing and when 
they are now thinking the construction will begin.  They'll start with Park View -- or 
excuse me, start with Verde River, and then Park View.   
COMMISSIONER SVEUM:  Okay.   
WESLEY:  And, again, the goal is to -- the money has been provided by the counsel to 
move that forward, but I can -- I can email that out to the Commissioners.  
COMMISSIONER SVEUM:  Yeah, I'm just -- I'm just curious.  I realize you wouldn't be 
overseeing the job or anything.  So I'm wondering then on the avenue, if there's been -- 
is there some work being done on that from a design and infrastructure planning 
standpoint?  
WESLEY:  Not specifically at this time.  And -- and we can't get off too much here in any 
discussion because it's not on the agenda to do so.  But, again, we could research that 
and let you know where we are.  
COMMISSIONER SVEUM:  I guess my -- where I'm going with that is, I hope that -- that 
it's not done in a vacuum, that even if we could be somewhat involved in -- in discussion 
of the planned improvements, I think there's -- there's -- and I -- maybe -- maybe the 
next meeting you could provide if there's a schedule for that type of project going on, 
and how we can all somewhat collaborate or provide some feedback to whoever's, you 
know, planning the public infrastructure improvements or whatever they might be.  Is 
that okay?  
WESLEY:  Okay.  I'll see what we can do about that.  
COMMISSIONER SVEUM:  All right.  Great.  Thank you.

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COMMISSIONER GRAY:  Okay.  Chair, anything on agenda item 6, requests to John? 
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Not necessarily for John, but there's not a spot for it.  Now, this 
would be Vice Chairperson Corey's last meeting.  He served more than -- I believe, more 
than six years on the Planning and Zoning Commission.  And I just wanted to state 
publicly how much we appreciated his -- his effort on -- on behalf of the town and wish 
him well in his future endeavors and really appreciate the time that he's put in and just 
expertise.  
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  Well stated, Chair.  Thank you.   
All right.  John, agenda item 7, summary of commission requests from the development 
services director.  
WESLEY:  Sounds like you'd like some feedback on what's happening in the downtown 
area and the public improvement, so we'll see what we can do in providing you some of 
that information either by email and/or at a future meeting.   
And then as far as my report, happy holidays.  Happy new year.  Hope everyone has a 
good holiday season.  We won't meet again until next year, January the 12th, I believe, 
is the second Monday of January, so that's when your next meeting would be.  And at 
that time, we'll be at the point of electing officers again.  So be getting your campaign 
posters ready and -- and so forth to -- to -- 
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  Yeah.  Are there candidates out there in the queue for 
Commissioner Corey's -- 
WESLEY:  We have candidates that hopefully will be interviewed between now and then, 
but we're still setting that up.   
COMMISSIONER GRAY:  Very good.  All right.  6:14 p.m., we're adjourned.  
CHAIRMAN KOVACEVIC:  Merry Christmas.

Having no further business, Commissioner Gray adjourned the Regular Meeting of the 
Planning and Zoning Commission held on December 8, 2025, at 6:14 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 8 of December 2025. I 
further certify that the meeting was duly called and that a quorum was present. 
DATED this 12 Day of January 2026. 
_______________________________ 
Paula Woodward, Executive Assistant