Goodyear planners recommend rezoning approval for multifamily housing community

A multifamily housing community proposed for Goodyear is one step closer to fruition after the city Planning and Zoning Commission voted Aug. 12 to recommend the City Council approve the developer’s rezoning request.

Greenlight Communities LLC of Scottsdale is asking the city to rezone 10.25 acres at the northwest corner of Van Buren Street and Bullard Avenue from Planned Area Development to Multifamily 24 with a planned-area development overlay so it can build Cabana on Bullard.

The community would feature 334 studio, one- and two-bedroom apartments in five three-story buildings built around a series of courtyards. Proposed amenities include a fitness center, pool, community barbeque area, outdoor fitness, zen and hammock gardens, bike storage and laundry facility.

If the City Council approves the project, Cabana on Bullard will be Greenlight’s second multifamily community in the city.

Construction is scheduled to beging this month on Cabana on Encanto, a $45 million, 286-unit apartment community on 8.8 acres on the southeast corner of 150th Avenue and Encanto Boulevard near Goodyear’s proposed multiuse Civic Square.

Greenlight, which bills itself as a builder of “attainable” housing with rents starting around $900, recently completed its first two Cabana communities in Phoenix and has projects under way in Glendale, Scottsdale, Mesa and Chandler.

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