Attachment B -- Approval Report 200512.pdf

City of Phoenix — Formal (2020-11-18)

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Planning and Development Department 
CONDITIONAL APPROVAL – ABND 200512 
Your abandonment request was granted CONDITIONAL APPROVAL. 
This request will NOT be completed until it is formally adopted by City Council. Please contact Robert G. 
Martinez at (602) 495-0806 for questions regarding this report.  
Upon receipt of the legal description from our Real Estate division, Robert G. Martinez will schedule your request 
for City Council formal approval. You will receive a copy of the resolution from the City Clerk after Council 
adoption. 
Attachment B - Approval Report

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Planning and Development Department  
 
June 8, 2020 
Consolidated Abandonment Staff Report: ABND 200512 
Project# 19-1670 
 
 
 
 
 
Location: 
NWC of Thunderbird Trl and 7th Street 
  
Applicant:  
Chris Moore; Sunrise Engineering 
 
Request to abandon:  
To abandon 8’ public utility easements adjacent to APN’s 
300-64-008, 300-64-009, 300-64-010, 300-64-011, 300-64-
012, 300-64-013, 300-64-014, 300-64-015, 300-64-15-16, 
300-64-017, 300-64-018, 300-64-019, and 300-64-020; per 
subdivision final plat “Thunderbird Country Club Estates 
Unit Three”; Book 71, Page 21.    
  
Purpose of request:  
The applicant states:  To remove the unnecessary 
easements from the property.  The property will include 
private accessways with 10’ public utility easements on 
each side of parcels for utilities.

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City Staff Comments and Recommendations 
  
PDD Civil Reviewer: " Recommend approval." 
PDD Planner: "Recommend approval." 
PDD Traffic Reviewer:  "Recommend approval." 
Street Transportation: "I do not have any comments for this case." 
Street Transportation, Lights:  "Recommend approval." 
Street Transportation, PDP: No comments received. 
WSD Water Reviewer: "No Conflict with any utilities." 
WSD Sewer Reviewer: "No Conflict with any utilities." 
Public Transit:  "Public Transit Department does not have comment." 
Solid Waste:  "Recommend approval." 
NSD:  "NSD recommends approval with community consent." 
 
Utility Comments 
The request was also routed to outside utility companies for their input. Listed below are the responses from 
each utility. 
 
Cox – Kenny Hensman 
"Recommend approval." 
 
Southwest Gas – Nancy Almanzan 
"After reviewing the plans for the above-referenced project, it has been determined that there are no apparent 
conflicts between the Southwest Gas system and your proposed abandonment of the public utility easement. 
Southwest Gas would like to recommend abandonment of the public utility easement located at the above-
referenced location." 
 
Arizona Public Service – James Generoso 
"The subject properties are not within APS service territory, and APS has no facilities within the abandonment 
area. Therefore, APS has no objection to the PUE abandonments in ABND 200512." 
 
CenturyLink – Tommy Sassone 
"QWEST CORPORATION d/b/a CENTURYLINK (“CenturyLink”) has reviewed the request for the subject 
vacation and has determined that it has no objections with respect to the areas proposed for vacation as 
shown and/or described on Attachment “A”, said Attachment “A” attached hereto and incorporated by this 
reference." 
 
Salt River Project – Sherry Wagner  
"Salt River Project has no objection to the abandonment of the 8’ PUE’s at the rear of APNs 300-64-008 
through 020.  There are no facilities in the PUE’s they are all in the street at the front of the lots."

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Planning and Development Department 
Stipulation of Conditional Approval  
The request of abandonment ABND 200512 is conditionally approved and the following stipulations will need 
to be met: 
1. Any utilities within the abandoned easement 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.
2. This abandonment shall be recorded concurrently with PLAT 200511.
3. The above stipulations must be completed within one year from the conditional approval decision 
dated June 8th, 2020.
This conditional approval has been reviewed and approved. 
Signature: ____________________________________________  
Date: 6.16.2020 
REPORT SUBMITTED BY: Robert G. Martinez, Senior Engineering Technician 
Cc:  Chris Moore; Sunrise Engineering 
ABND number corrected - 6.17.20 per CMES