Attachment B - Approval Report 240003.pdf

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Planning and Development Department 
CONDITIONAL APPROVAL – ABND 240003 
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 the Abandonment Coordinator at (602) 262-7403 
for questions and notification of your completion of the stipulations.  
Upon completion of the stipulations your request will be scheduled 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 February 29, 2026), this request will then expire. 
At that time a new submittal will be required along with the required payment for the 
abandonment process. A one time, one year extension can be requested prior to the expiration 
date, with applicable extension fee due. 
Attachment B

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Planning and Development Department  
 
 
February 29, 2024 
Abandonment Staff Report: ABND 240003 
Project# 23-366 
Council District: 4 
 
 
 
 
 
Location: 
2020 Grand Avenue 
 
 
Applicant:  
Habitat for Humanity Arizona 
 
 
Request to abandon:  
To abandon a 10-foot temporary public 
utility easement, 12-foot-wide water 
easement, 1-foot vehicular non-access 
easement, and a 10-foot easement for 
natural gas lines. All easements are located 
within vacant land, APN 110-54-116. 
  
 
Purpose of request:  
The applicant states the four abandonments 
were in conjunction with a previous 
development that never was constructed. 
The site is planned as a new development 
that doesn’t require the four easements.

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City Staff Comments and Recommendations: 
 
PDD Civil Reviewer – Travis Tomich 
Recommend approval with no stipulations.  
 
PDD Traffic – Derek Fancon 
Recommend approval.  
 
Water Services Department – Donald Reynolds 
WSD has One stipulation for this Abandonment. There is an existing fire hydrant within the 
water easement being requested to be abandoned. 
1. The existing fire hydrants shall be relocated onto the public right of way in accordance 
with plans submitted to and approved by the Planning and Development Department. All 
work is to be done by licensed contractor at no expense to the City of Phoenix. 
 
PDD Site Planner – Dru Maynus 
Recommend approval. 
 
Street Transportation Department Utility – Rozanna Brown 
No comments on this abandonment.

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Street Transportation Streetlight Section – Jason Fernandez 
Recommend Approval with the following stipulation. 
 
1. Any future development will require new Downtown Brown Streetlghts to be installed 
along Grand Ave frontage. 
 
Public Works Solid Waste– Robert Lopez 
Recommend approval. The proposed abandonment will have no impact on PW Solid Waste 
Services. 
 
 
Utility Comments 
The request was also routed to outside utility companies for their input. Listed below are the 
responses from each utility. 
Cox – Zach Lawson 
I have reviewed the abandonment request at ABND 240003 APN 110-54-116 in Phoenix, 
{Maricopa County}, AZ. Based upon the supplied drawings/exhibits that you’ve submitted it has 
been determined that COX has no facilities within the easement and therefore we approve your 
request to abandon.   
 
 
Please note that although Cox Communications approves this abandonment, we do so with the 
understanding that we will not assume any construction, relocation and/or repairs costs 
associated or in result of this abandonment.  
 
Southwest Gas – Susan R. Mulanax 
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. However, it should be noted that there is a gas line running through 
the property. It is recommended. 
 
Arizona Public Service – Kimberly Paxson 
APS has no objection to this/these abandonment(s). 
 
CenturyLink – Tori Jacoby 
CenturyLink of Arizona, Inc. 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 Exhibit “A”, said Exhibit “A” attached 
hereto and incorporated by this reference. 
 
It is the intent and understanding of CenturyLink that this Vacation shall not reduce our rights to 
any other existing easement or rights we have on this site or in the area. 
 
This vacation response is submitted WITH THE STIPULATION that if CenturyLink facilities are 
found and/or damaged within the vacated area as described, the Applicant will bear the cost of 
relocation and repair of said facilities.

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Salt River Project – Michael Laguna 
Salt River Project has no objection to the abandonment of the 10' Temporary Public Utility 
Easement, 12' wide Water Easement, 1' Vehicular Non-Access Easement. All easements are 
located within vacant land, APN 110-54-116. 
 
 
Stipulations of Conditional Approval   
 
The request of abandonment ABND 240003 is conditionally approved, and the following 
stipulation will need to be met:  
 
1. All utilities within the subject PUEs 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. An appropriate performance agreement, in an 
approved form and cost amount, must be posted with the Planning and Development 
Department to guarantee the improvements. 
 
2. The above stipulations must be completed within two years from the conditional 
approval decision dated February 29, 2024.  
 
 
This conditional approval has been reviewed and approved. 
 
 
 
 
Signature: ____________________________________________    Date: ________________ 
 
 
 
REPORT SUBMITTED BY: Dru Maynus, Abandonment Coordinator 
 
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Habitat for Humanity Arizona, Applicant/Representative  
 
Tana Nichols, Applicant/Representative 
 
Miguel Victor, Deputy Director of PDD 
 
Aracely Herrera, Site Planning Supervisor, Planner lll 
 
3..18.24
Stipulations no longer apply. 
No conflicts or existing utility 
services exist within the 
easement to be abandoned. 
C. Messer 5.24.24