A city-initiated corrective rezoning to reduce lot sizes was recently approved for 22 parcels between Ironwood and Gold drives and Roundup and Greasewood streets.
The Apache Junction City Council …
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A city-initiated corrective rezoning to reduce lot sizes was recently approved for 22 parcels between Ironwood and Gold drives and Roundup and Greasewood streets.
The Apache Junction City Council approved changing 10 acres from medium density, single-family detached residential, with 20,000-square-foot minimum lots, to medium density, single-family detached residential, with 10,000-square-foot minimum lots.
“This is one where, we, working with the residents, noted that the zoning that we have in this area --- 22 properties involved --- really isn’t working for them. So the city stepped up and said we’d like to resolve the zoning issues,” Development Services Director Larry Kirch said at the council’s Dec. 3 meeting.
“These properties had inadvertently and incorrectly been zoned to RS-20M, dating back to the city’s adoption of its new zoning ordinance in 2014,” Nicholas Leftwich, planning intern, said in a memo to the council.
“The plan is to change the zoning from RS-20M to RS-10M, which has more to do with the zoning regulations specific to those zoning designations,” Mr. Leftwich said at the council meeting. “The difference specifically is the difference in the lot sizes.”
Prior to 2014, the zoning designations for the area had been single-family residence zone/manufactured homes “CR-2MH” and trailer homesite zone “TH,” with minimum lot sizes of 11,000 square feet and 8,000 square feet respectively, according to the ordinance approved by the council.
Property owners have voiced concerns regarding the inability of developing and utilizing their properties in accordance with the former CR-2MH and TH regulations versus the current RS-20M zoning designation, the ordinance states.
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